skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Metaverse is not bullshit. It's a sign of desperation.

Facebook has _nothing_ for the future.

* Blue app is already on it's death bed.

* Instagram is already seeing a massive decline in quality and engagement as its getting close to the end of its lifecycle.

* They managed to survive Snapchat, but I think that made them think Instagram is too big to fail. Thus, they didn't go after TikTok. It was a mistake.

* What's App is not monetizable.

* Oculus is not becoming the next PS4/Xbox like they hoped.

Facebook is usually being compared to the likes of Apple, Google and Amazon. It's nothing compared to them. It's not even gonna be able to do a Microsoft/IBM pivot as it has no monetizable developer ecosystem.

I personally think they should've acquired TikTok last year when TikTok was looking to be acquired by Microsoft. They probably would've extended their survival for another 10-ish years (lifecycle of a social media)
Out of interest, do you find yourself writing actual software with CDK stacks integrated, or is it more accurate to say the CDK is just a stand-alone bit of code purely for deploying infrastructure?

I'm definitely in the latter camp, which is something I find frustrating. I get that for a developer the syntax familiarity might make CDK easier, but for me as a non-developer the pain of groping around the terrible documentation and learning how classes are supposed to be used far outweighs the annoyance of fixing YAML indentation.

Ultimately I worry people are jumping on the "true IaC" bandwagon without acknowledging that if their infrastructure is supposed to be somewhat static and immutable, a declarative language might actually be better.
Of course, they did not prevent access with merely regulating access in a high security prison. They prevented access to his lawyer by physically restraining and locking up the suspect IN A COURTROOM. And when they did find a VERY inconvenient way to have basic communication, the state immediately dragged the suspect out, without even the judge's permission.

We are NOT talking here about regulating access to a lawyer because of security issues. That is NOT it. They prevented him from seeing a lawyer at all before the case starts, and before he faced the courtroom. This is explicitly forbidden.

And look the question is very simple. The law, both in the UK and the US, so pick whichever one you like, CLEARLY states that

IF anyone in the government physicially prevents contact between a suspect and a lawyer before trial (which means any individual courtroom hearing), the state LOSES the case AND the suspect goes free for whatever crime he was accused.

And let's not pretend this is the only issue. The state denied medical care to a prisoner. The state locked him up in solitary more than is legally allowed. The state denied medical care again, as a punishment. EACH OF THESE will get the suspect to go free, whatever the crime. And the list goes on.

At this point it's painfully obvious: it does not matter, at all, what Assange has done for the prosecution. And because of what the state did to him, it no longer matters for the defense either. This is no longer what is being discussed.

The case is mostly about whether the state gets to do whatever they want, including things defined in the law as torture (e.g. refusing medical care, refusing medical care as a punishment) in order to get a conviction?

The law's answer to this question is VERY clear: NO THEY DON'T, in fact they (the state) should be punished for trying it in the first place. Frankly the laws state the state should be punished for getting into a situation where they're even suspected of doing so. First by being forced to let the suspect go, and there's punishments on top of that (such as getting the individuals involved barred from government service). The judge refuses to acknowledge this, despite accepting that the state did indeed torture him.

Obviously at this point, the position of anyone is clear: we should be cheering for the defense. Unless you want allpowerfull police just beating up people, locking them up for years, for whatever reason they see fit. And your position on what Assange did, does not really matter.
Nikola Tesla was a man and had both names ending in -a.
> we found ... zero correlation with fitness, which I must say was disappointing ...” Grossman [3.091 - Solid-State Chemistry, who initially promoted the study to find this other correlation] says

> it’s the sleep you get during the days when learning is happening that matter most

> there appears to be a certain cutoff for bedtimes, such that going to bed later results in poorer performance, even if the total amount of sleep is the same ... if you go to bed after 2, your performance starts to go down even if you get the same seven hours

> those who got relatively consistent amounts of sleep each night did better

> The overall course grades for students averaging 6.5 hours of sleep were down 50% from other students who averaged just one hour more sleep. Similarly, those who had just a half-hour more night-to-night variation in their total sleep time had grades that dropped 45 percent below others with less variation.
I don't think the etymological origins of the words really impact the current conversation. The meaning of words depends on how they are used, and "gender" today have quite a different meaning when talking about human gender identity than when talking about grammar.
You misunderstand.

Of course they're addicted to screens, like all kids these days.

It's just that they want a quick and easy fix, and certainly not to wear one around their heads.

Addictive screen technology has no "wow" factor for people that had them from birth. Screens are about as exciting and cool as daytime television was in the pre-Internet era. (And similarly, we somehow can't stop wasting hours a day on them still.)
Having watched Zuckerberg’s keynote, I get the feeling he wants to feel excited again by building something new. Maintenance is a bit thankless and boring.

That’s the vibe that I got.
> 1 square foot of housing is approximately the same price - adjusted for inflation - as it was in the 1970s, on average.

Average over what, though? I'd assume that 1sq in a dense metropolitan quarter in high demand goes for a lot more than 1sq in a poor neighborhood or in the middle of nowhere.

The global average doesn't really mean anything except "somewhere in the US there is still affordable housing".

Most critics of rising housing prices that I know of aren't arguing that housing is becoming unaffordable everywhere but that it's becoming unaffordable in high-density places where housing would be needed.

You acknowledge this in:

> This pushes the price per square foot inside metros up way above what they would otherwise be.

Also shouldn't actions include at least having a look at building speculation in high-density areas?
Great pointer, thanks for that. Now I'm trying to piece together what happened to that project :)

The plan is to integrate with the different registries to support private images and in parallel to expand what contains.dev can do for individual images.
Right it’s a communication problem because calling code simple conjures different ideas in people heads. Code that is simple for computers (principle of least work) is not necessarily simple (principle of comprehension?) for humans.
Even if it was bred in a lab, it must have been bred from something. That version of the virus can't be massively different from Cov-19.
Rare Roman statues dating back 2k years found underneath a church
Why We Need a Good Villain: From Ancient Lore to Pandemic Finger-Pointing
The stain was probably from spit and dirt. I lived in an apartment with a similar elevator. Nothing happened in 30 years that I know of. Just the dirt was never removed.
AT+GW something something if my memory serves me well :-)
And sometimes it's enough to simulate on the level of api's to get same results
> A “non-binary” “gender” is just a noise with no idea attached to it.

Are you talking about grammar here? Because in many (most?) languages gender is not binary.
Between this post and the one about the Yugoslav art movement, calvertjournal is really getting the HN hug of death right now.
How do we describe the "meta" phenomnom anymore, we need a new word for "meta" and I've been struggling but can't figure it out. What replaces the word "meta" if someone takes it, "gist"!?
Yeah here in the UK I’d be very reluctant to buy a new build. They tend to have terrible build quality relative to the price and often look very dull and “boxy” in my opinion.
Tried it. Hated it. "Most"? Get a bigger sample size, then we'll talk.
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This is a huge ignorant rant and expresses the anger of the unknown that is coming and anger for missing out. For every new technology there are always articles condemning them. People are resistent to change and that has been proven.
This really depends on the willingness of the local police force to review and use the footage. Sometimes, the insurance companies conduct their own investigation too, if they suspect insurance fraud or if the stolen items were extra expensive.

Anyway, after I wrote my first comment, I started recalling all the burglary incidents in my surroundings and among my friends. There were like 20 of them in this century, so approximately one a year, not supercommon, but not too rare either. And their common denominator was poor home security.

No one with a good door and closed windows got successfully broken into (there were failed attempts). People with subpar door/locks or leaving ground floor windows open at night OTOH definitely attracted successful criminal attention, even in better neighbourhoods.

The country I live in is fairly safe otherwise, but theft of all kinds is depressingly common.

Funnily, a friend of mine described me his own "security setup" in his old car. Two visible red LEDs on the dashboard, blinking, one of them starts to blink a little faster from time to time. Nothing else. Total cost like 2 USD. No one ever tried to steal his car. Good psychology.
I can't find it, but NASA concluded that piston engine reliability is generally a mystery.
Well, you're both right. Just because Germany is the richest country in the EU doesn't mean it's citizens are the richest. In fact average wages in Germany are very low when you account for stuff like housing prices.
I think Portugal's per capita GDP exceeds that of any former Yugoslav republic by a factor of 2 or more. Are you referring to something else?
Yeah, and it has absolutely nothing to do with loose monetary policy/low interest due to rampant public spending and both people and pension funds bringing their money to the housing market due to everything else depreciating; no, not at all.
Nothing. Meta is meta. Facebook can go find another name, they dont own language or the internet. Metaface or metabook sound good, they are free to steal them from me.
Because of policies like this? Please explain.
The data presented by Prof. Patrick Winston in one lesson of 6.034 at the MIT, including the slide "[if you skip sleep to study] you might as well get drunk", with the examples of the studies made on Marines, must come to mind.

The slides, are, I see, available, at http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034f/sleep.pdf

The lesson is https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... (the part warning the students about this potential pitfall in their method is at the end of the lesson).
I like ambi in its meaning of around and less seriously I can pretend that ambiverse means I’m ambivalent about your ‘verse.
All we really need to collectively build up a metaverse is the HTML of VR, where experiences can be linked together. Web browsers can already launch 3D experiences in VR its just clunky and I switch it off because ads on some sites start VR for some reason. We already have quite a few 2D into VR desktops too and they work. Seamless transition and placement appears to be a bit lacking but it doesn't feel all that far away.

The metaverse is the internet we just need a bit of linking it all together, one company building it top down isn't going to beat out the obvious open internet approach.
I have started reading this with the assumption "incorrect or absent registry key" and it paid off.

What a pain in the bosom were those registry keys. Can you imagine that for some time, The Registry was considered a Good Thing. GNOME tried to roll out its own before defecting to Mac ways.
The risk of getting hit by a plane whose engine has failed is probably the bigger externality.
> They own the land but not actually the minerals or gas - they still have to get a permit from the government to to extract.

Other way around.

They bought gas rights - specifically they were interested in natural gas, but evidently the rights extend to any gas (I suppose there's an 'at room temperature' caveat in there, or this kind of right may set up some unexpected and highly unpleasant incentives).

It sounds like this was a highly speculative purchase, on land not considered hugely viable for extracting natural gas. There is, after all, the non-trivial problems & expenses around actually extracting, processing, shipping, and selling the gas(es).
Moving (a growing subset of) people into The Matrix is the end goal of the global elites. The agenda is to automate everything and reduce the need for humans. How can you reduce humans and keep the existing ones pacified?

- Promote LGBTQIA+ to reduce overpopulation.

- Give the remaining useless (from the POV of the techno fascists) humans virtual reality toys and a tiny basic income. They'll become fat, lethargic and won't reproduce as well.

- For the tasks that cannot be automated, import poor immigrants who will work in agriculture.
I'm a software developer and i pass literraly 80% of my time working to make my family survive to this world, and honestly the only thing that i have in mind it's to flippin go in the forest for a walk, i don't understand the thing of wanting so much to be isolated and wear a fucking VR mask, this world is fucked up !
There are worse things incredibly rich people could do to have fun. Why not just build a metaverse?
I'd point out that one of the biggest advantages of Terraform isn't managing cloud infrastructure (though I certainly like it for this), but for providing a common language for integrating vendors and other 3rd parties into my own cloud infrastructure.

I've worked in a couple organizations that had a lot of success managing things like cloud access security brokers, web application firewall appliances, ticketing systems, identity providers (with and without multi-IdP federation) and more.

Doing this without Terraform is incredibly manual and requires even more manual process to keep these systems in sync with your cloud. Having a common automation framework that can manage this is indispensable--and useful even if you're not using Terraform to manage your core infrastructure.
As mentioned elsewhere Munger has already built one of these things and it has proved pretty popular.
Housing is an investment only if you own more than one. Also you have to find a way to derive some monetary value from owning it.

Also buying anything can be or not an investment. If you buy some bananas expecting to sell them for profit, then it is an investment.

Should countries also stop buying and selling bananas for profit? After all, eating is a basic need, more so than housing.
Still more intrusive than phones. People don't wear glasses if they dont have to. the glasses would have to provide a lot of value to force people to wear them often. And while we see a lot of cool AR demos for specialized things like learning to cook, i m struggling to think what would be the use of glasses to me, right here sitting on my desk right now. Attention is limited and i could either watch the glasses or my screen. We are not robots (unlike zuck)
The article mentions that he was directly responsible for it:

> his blueprints be followed exactly.

No sane architect would have come up with this abomination, hence why the sane architect who is the main subject of this article has just resigned.
It'd be less than a $0.01 worth of fuel. You should still put it back in the tank but for environmental reasons not for the cost.
1F or 1pF ?
I wish that people will be more creative when choosing names for their pet projects. It really helps when searching.
Interesting question - What replaced the word Apple ?
> In the end, the metaverse will be the internet, but mostly experienced through the medium of VR/AR.

Depends on who gives the smart glasses it's 'killer app' and the ecosystem it needs to take off and who ever executes that properly, will win. The games are going to come first.

Probably will come from either Meta, Apple, Google or Microsoft. Most likely from Meta with the support of the Web and PWA's first.

> In the meantime, all we can do is make sure that Facebook’s cut of VR social networks stays as small as possible.

I don't see anything out there right now to counter what Meta is about to do, unless Mastodon or something else is planning to persuade the masses to not make money on the metaverse and stay on the fediverse.

Either way, this decade is going to introduce the smart glasses and it will come from Big Tech again as it did with smartwatches. Sorry.
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I still have a bunch of proper modems in a box (including some USRs). What I've been planning, is to put up a real live dial-up BBS on a spare land-line I have, so that retro-people can actually play with the built-in modems in old machines.

I've done a cursory Google search, and I don't think there are any UK based dial-up-only BBSs still running, so I think it would be a good thing to do.

In a few years time, the whole of the UK will be fully switched over to VoIP on the back-end (invisible to the end-user) for all land-lines, which as I understand it will limit modem speeds to about 2,400 baud due to the VoIP compression. So this might be the last chance for [UK] people to experience dial-up at full speeds.
Fascinating article, previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27521984
Simulacrum?
Hurting how? The real estate market in Easter Europe is better than in Western Europe as the communist governments built many high density housing in the cities so reas estate remains affordable for young people with skilled jobs even today. Compare that to Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and you can't afford anything as a young professional without a FAANG job or help from parents and a 30 year bank loan.

Eastern Europe is hurting in many ways due to corruption and political incompetence but the real estate market remains mostly affordable compared to the west.
Same here. I pay a premium to live in NYC even though I work remote. I love the vibe and culture.
Removing Apple's "unable to verify genuine battery" warning [video]
I think there’s prior questions of what does interoperability actually add and why doesn’t it already exist?

For example with the web the interoperability is really between the browser and websites rather than between websites. Although a few do interoperate. This is more similar to how Roblox or Steam works where one program lets you join lots of different games and maintains some common state than common ideas of interoperability in the metaverse.
The post mentions using the system monitor to track some events (including registry queries). There's apparently other ways for that (but which the author failed to compile, including the official Microsoft tool), and the monitor can only see 32 XOR 64 bits events, not both.
>> the middle of nowhere.

So as a tech worker who's lived in the "middle of nowhere" and worked remotely for 20 years, why the hell is anyone paying a premium to live in San Francisco now?
Why can't you design sites that degrades gracefully? Keep in mind that font loading in low-bandwidth areas can be atrociously slow. You may have to wait minutes before all the assets have loaded. Vanilla HTML has no such accessibility or compatibility problems and can be viewed in all browsers on any network. Whatever issues your sites have are issues you have added to them.

I know you're thinking "well I don't see any of that in my analytics so this seems unlikely". Consider then that your analytics needs to actually load before the visitor bounces for them to show up in the statistics.
So we have the worst of social media making a push to create "Second Life" part 2. Which from many accounts, was just as toxic a playground.

But they really do seem to want to push replacing the web with VR and a VR environment they have complete control, and the only open aspect being you can play by their whimsical rules.

With that, am I allowed to call the FB metaverse - Trump Towers 2.0?
I dont wish to come off as unsympathetic because no one should have to experience violent crime. But dont you consider the danger of weakening encryption through law? Facebook and google are giants that have earned all their money because they are able to read everything people say on their platforms in plaintext. Once you weaken encryption for police, you weaken it for everyone with a motive like the police or the state.
When you reach the point at which the buying/selling of bananas becomes more important than eating bananas, that may be the time at which to consider that something's gone wrong in the economy.
Like building nuclear bunkers that ate significant portions of its GDP and nowadays can be used as tourist attractions or mushroom production grounds.
I was just about to mention Belgrade, imo it has the best brutalist buildings outside of the former Soviet Union countries, that's (also) why it is on my to-visit-soon list.
Thanks, Carmack's video looks a lot more human than the other one with blond Mr. Data pretending to talk to photorealistic avatars.
>If it is an investment, it has to be competitive by definition.

No, it just has to yield profits higher than the inflation rate. Not all investments have the same return.
Apple also praised the virtues of the open web and web apps when they introduced the iPhone, but that didn't last too long.
> What's App is not monetizable

It is, they talked about introducing ads to the status tab before. I agree on the rest though
Yes that's true and there's a good reason for it. The hundred year old buildings are in, or close to touristic and historical areas that due to preservation laws and NIMBYISM, nothing extra is being built there and will never be built, so supply is fixed forever but demand is ever increasing. Basically they're more valuable assets than gold.

Those areas are also very close to all amenities like top public transport connections, quiet green spaces, entertainment, good doctors, top companies, good schools, lawyers so walkability is top noch, you don't even need to use public transportation, let alone own a car.

Buildings in those areas are also typically much more spacious and more solid than the current matchboxes being built.
There's even active HoMM3 PvP streamer community with several thousands live audience on Youtube and Twitch. There are also addons, and community, for Heroes 4 and 5, but two magnitudes smaller.
What's the Mac way you're talking about? How is it different from Windows registry? I'm not so familiar with Windows, but the way i understood it was that the registry was just a very limited and inefficient file storage like we have on libre systems.
A long time resident of Prague.

I hate this shit. All of it. If there ever was an architecture designed to squeeze the soul out of you, spit on it, curb-stomp it AND, to add insult to injury, age like milk in absence of proper maintenance, this is it.

The modern glass-and-steel architecture is "only" soulless in comparison.
I feel exactly the same way about Memojis, yet people use them and apparently don’t find them as cringy as I do.
Whole aspect these forums have flourished without the need for GIF's, emotions and all other forms of media encapsulation, is textament(sic) too content over packaging.