skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waaay back in the .com boom days of the late 90s I was working at a place where the CTO did something like:

UPDATE users SET password = '23r23r23rdsf';

Somehow he missed the "WHERE email = 'someone';" I forget exactly how many users had their password changed that day. For some reason (maybe MySQL didn't let you cancel an UPDATE like that way back in the old days?) to stop that query he ran into the other room and unplugged the MySQL server. The PROD server. It's funny to look back on that now, but at the time... oh boy, total panic.
They don't really cancel out. I don't know what the appeal is, other than getting really fucked up.
I enjoy reading self-help books. Usually on airplane trips when I'm on my way to a business meeting. Makes me feel good and empowered for a few hours.

In the past, I'd never read books like this. What changed? E-readers! I can now read these books without being embarrassed because other people will see the covers. (I'm old -- 58 -- so eBooks are still fairly "new" )
Learning Graph Cellular Automata
It's because some minority of truckers will trash the bathrooms ruining it for everyone else.

These guys eat a lot of junk food and a lot of them are from countries with different default bathroom practices so if your facility takes truck deliveries it's going to be an occurrence in proportion to the number of truck deliveries.
Yeah, that money should go to the government instead! Because the government never wastes resources right?
A Government Practitioner’s Guide to Countering Online Foreign Covert Influence
The judge’s selection is the conflict of interest, not the prosecution itself. Selecting a private firm that’s financially entangled with the aggrieved party to discharge the duties of the Department of Justice is extremely unusual and concerning.
Strongly disagree that because someone is rich or has a fancy title that their opinion matters.

I mean look at the occasional bizarre tweets from Elon Musk.

It’s ok to look at a tweet and say “thats fucking stupid” and move on.
In The Netherlands we have had our own "enemy of the state" Volkert van der Graaf. He killed upcoming right-of-center politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002, some feared he might pull it off to become our prime minister.

Plenty of death threats were written as comments to news articles and on forums. "We'll eventually get him", "If he ever gets out of prison I am out to get him". Etc.

Nothing has come of it so far ( he is out of prison for some years ).
They don't have a consumer division but many of these OSS projects that constitute Linux desktop have/had significant contributions from IBM/Redhat engineers..

and for a company that badly needs to repair a brand, consumer devices are the best option IMHO.

Again, IBM was only an example that came to my mind. I'm sure there are other companies that would benefit from making a Linux laptop.
It sounds to me like you have a problem with the concept of conglomerates utilizing their capital.
Another explanation for that would be that the conditions under which life could arise were only temporary: it had to arise then, or it wouldn't arise at all. For example, possibly life arose in one of a very large number of wet planetesimals that were still warm enough (due to decay of short lived isotopes like 26Al) for the water to be liquid. Or perhaps phosphides in infalling meteorites were necessary to provide some necessary form of chemical energy.
> what could possibly go wrong? /s

I wish we had FDA approved computers so that we would have stayed in the glorious 8 bits era for another century.
Is a company with tens of thousands of employees really one man's project?
off-topic: Why does 'white' increasingly get used as a pejorative?
> X is deprecated by the community and largely abandoned

Old and functional does not mean deprecated. In most distros and for most users X is not deprecated.

It sounds like you've been living on the bleeding edge for a long time and have lost touch with the reality of linux for most users. The GUI toolkits like Gtk and Qt fully support X. They do not fully support Wayland. When this changes you can call X deprecated.
Worcester in MA is pronounced "wusta"
Zuckerspy wants to follow your ass in all verses!
VR is a very small niche market, and even though I am a regular PC gamer, I don't see myself buying into VR any time soon.
I have played multiple games, including HL Alyx in VR on different headsets and after about an hour I just want to take that thing off and do something else. It is not exciting or very engaging. It could be used as a tool for training or something like that, but I don't see it becoming mainstream, at least not in the state it is in currently.

Who knows, maybe at some point some big company comes around with a fresh look at it and manages to make this thing cool, but I doubt it will be Facebook/Meta.
“The 64-Square Madhouse” by Fritz Leiber (Chess Sci-Fi, 1962)
“the rich white kid of technology”

what does race have to do with this?
Question for greybeards – would something like LambdaMOO nowadays be described as a metaverse?
Guess everyone has forgotten about Conversnitch, the RaspberryPi based microphone disguised as a lamp: http://vimeo.com/87564506
By this logic Facebook never would have gotten funded in the first place. What makes you so sure the metaverse concept will fail?
Omnizuck will hunt you down in other universes
Nice marketing fluff piece for Battery ventures. But there is no insight on specifics or mechanics. Just a bunch of "pointers" stating the obvious of building a channel can be good for your bottomline. If you then want that reach out to Battery ventures for the real help.

Edit:
And lo and behold the post is from one of Battery Ventures portfolio companies.
>It's hard to follow through on the right to a speedy and fair public trial when the defendant cries asylum and holes up in an embassy for years.

you got this backwards
Benzos are probably a better come down from speed than either alcohol or opiates.
It isn't just the self-cleaning toilet that's important but the whole restroom. For that objective, the self-cleaning restrooms I've seen reposted often is this one that also washes the floor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CCI-ysfFr8

But the whole 360-degree spinning mechanism is too big to be retrofitted at existing restrooms in warehouses and offices.

The "robot" I was envisioning was something like Boston Dynamics robots with articulating arms that could clean like a human janitor. This would work at all existing restrooms.

Until that future tech happens, it's the office workers themselves who are stuck cleaning the restrooms because unlike busy airports, they don't have janitors constantly standing next to the restroom door to keep them clean.
Well, good for you.

Are you telling us this for some reason other than to make yourself feel better about yourself? Because it comes off as sanctimonious and self-serving.

Different parents. Different families. Different cultures. They will all make different decisions. Your choice for your children is likely not the right choice for other people and their children. So I'm not sure what it is that you're trying to brag about.
Let's be serious. He wasn't going to get a fair trial by any means whatsoever, absolutely zero chance of that happening. Yes if things were as they should be he shouldn't have fled and he would have had a fair trial with the guarantees it implies etc etc. But that wasn't going to happen.
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And the reason the Public Bathroom disappeared from America is because we wouldn't want any place for the homeless to feel human either.
I believe EU laws are the main driver for this change.

As an aside, the Quest 2 would have been a break away hit, if they didn’t make the FB login a requirement last year though
I wonder who will win. The big players all have special strengths, but which one will wind up being most important?

* Google -- interior navigation

* Facebook -- face recognition, posts

* Apple -- style and cool factor

That said, the obnoxious complaining attitude of the article reeeally grates on my ears. Lots of companies are trying very hard -- on their own dime -- to make this happen, knowing that most of them will almost certainly fail, and this guy wants to whine about it? What an ass.

Technology clunks until it doesn't. That's just how progress works. The same article could have been written about any of the last big technologies before they were mature: personal computers, the internet, smart phones, social networks. Nobody knows if or when AR will click, and the only thing to do is keep trying.

Also, he could have done without making it a race thing.
One key characteristic of natural languages is that when they don't work, people invent and share new words.

kili sike loje isn't enough to distinguish cherries from cherry tomatoes, red grapes, cranberries, red currants, red plums or red apples -- every one of which is a perfectly reasonable thing for me to put on a shopping list.

And so you'll note that we have the words tomato, grape, cranberry, currant, plum and apple.

Now, French has a language academy to decree what is proper, and English --

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James Davis Nicoll

A language which isn't useful will either change or be abandoned. Natural languages almost always change.
Very sad story, I feel awful for the family and friends of the man who was murdered in such an incomprehensible way... I understand defending your property and loved ones, but to shoot down a non-threatening, unarmed man, who was not even trespassing?
Never underestimate the US crackpot population, we have cornered the market on nuts.
Very surprised by this.

My pihole indicates it's about 3x ipv4 for each 2x ipv6 resolved.

This list suggest much weaker stats...and that's in the top sites that can afford techies to sort it out?
For older audiences there's VR Chat or Second Life.

The thing about the whole "metaverse" thing is that it's not a novel concept; it's actually a crowded market. We just didn't notice it because the market really isn't that large. Generally speaking when people want a game world to screw around in, they'll usually play a competitive multiplayer game rather than an open sandbox.
Comparative Basic and Clinical Pharmacology of Molnupiravir and Ivermectin [pdf]
> Microsoft act as a Certification Authority (CA) for SB

That's going to be a hard no.
It's one thing to run a small research lab - it's an other to bet your entire company future on something that doesn't exist yet.
You joke but that's literally what I expect.
> We can split hairs about what constitutes "long-term" and what doesn't,

Pretty easy to define. Long-term = chronic illness. There are tons of such conditions around. Rheumatoid Arthritis, Psoriasis, or even viral infections with flares that never go away for the lack of good cures. 1 year is nothing.

> too many people still refuse to follow that can spare many people from having to wonder if they will ever be able to smell again (or worse).

What a ridiculous position to have. You also have a simple way to avoid STDs, is to never have sex in your life ever again. If you want to avoid risks at all costs, you don't have a life anymore.
Is this large US pharma ludicrously profitable like many pharmaceutical companies? Why can’t they just hire employees closer to home base and pay them a better salary?
Hmm... I had this working, but then it stopped. I think I have that variable set all over the place, but I must not... or something. Must investigate! (I'm on Wayland/Sway)
Well, TIL.

And here I was thinking those facilities are popular with truckers because they have the cheapest diesel/petrol.
Membrane.io Demo
The Self-Isolation of the American Left
> upcoming right-of-center politician Pim Fortuyn

Fortuyn was far-right.

"Fortuyn's beliefs began to shift to the right in the 1990s, especially related to the immigration policies of the Netherlands. Fortuyn criticised multiculturalism, immigration and Islam in the Netherlands. He called Islam "a backward culture", and was quoted as saying that if it were legally possible, he would close the borders for Muslim immigrants."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pim_Fortuyn
I'm confused. If they sell above cost, surely they make money?
I just waiting for the first TVs out there that use something like Amazon Sidewalk for metrics and/or ads.
It's really hard for us as a species to accept that in sufficiently complex systems, seemingly small issues can cascade into serious issues.

In the tech sector it's well known that sometimes something as innocent as a particular server failing can expose an emerging property that ends up taking down major networks such as Google, Cloudflare, Facebook or similar. This is companies with millions on the line in the case of downtimes and they spend millions ensuring that it does not happen.
It's lovely.

Some elaboration: Waypipe takes a completely different approach from X forwarding. X forwarding entails shipping a bunch of X drawing commands across the network. This is incredibly inefficient for modern use-cases, where local rendering would be done through direct rendering instead (more details here: https://superuser.com/a/1217295/58251). Waypipe takes a step back and instead just renders a low-latency H264 video stream that it ships across the network. It won't be pixel-perfect, but a lot snappier! (In principle there's no obstacle to doing it pixel-perfect either, at the expense of bandwidth)
> poorly written software will crash a lot more often on OpenBSD than elsewhere

The above quote is what sold me on OpenBSD as a Devl Platform. I work with AIX and decided to test the objects I wrote for an interface to a proprietary application. Testing them on OpenBSD identified memory leaks and things like that in 2 of them. So now I always test on OpenBSD when I am able to.

To do that on Linux would have required 1 or 2 third party applications I know nothing about, so I took the easy route :)
If your kids are using your card info without you authorizing first, you should use privacy.com and give them a card number from there, with the proper restrictions on it.
Interesting, I didn't expect mine to unbrick itself.
Can’t imagine a large amount of the data scientists that worked for Meta would like to work for Facebook
> I don’t think “creepy weirdo” is meaningless. It may not be precisely defined, but that applies to lots of things that are still meaningful.

Compared to "legally blind" or "Type 1 diabetic", it's virtually meaningless, on the level on "a person I don't like" -- quite literally. No, seriously, I don't see how it means anything more than that.
because its woke. racism and sexism are so hot right now </mugatu>

The real problem is class. Always has been.
Yes and no. Obviously other people are involved. But it's driven by one man. One man gets to decide the direction and has ultimate control.

This is clearly a very different situation to for example the case of 2 companies with 5000 employees or 4 companies with 2500 employees, or even 2000 companies with 5 employees. Those cases would all allow for much more variation in approach, and this in turn would allow much greater scope for market feedback from consumers to affect the development of the products offered.
>because covid will stay with us, just like flu, so you'll probably contract it several times.

Yea this is essentially what I was talking about. Coronoviruses do not go away, exactly.
So it is a giant crisis if people don't take an experimental vaccine (it is different than previous vaccines and you know this, so don't lump all of them into one group) that will have very limited effectiveness and then they'll still get covid. Are you going to keep getting boosters for the rest of your life? This is silly.

I'm in my 30's. But I'd really love to see where you've found a CFR rate near 1 for 40s that, again, aren't overweight, which I and many people aren't. A majority of covid deaths included comorbitities especially overweight/obese.

My point is, for people of a specific group of characteristics, covid is a non-issue. For these people, whether they get the vaccine or not is not important, and crushing our economy by firing people and inducing political and social conflict is such an unforced error. Even China doesn't mandate the vaccine.

Even given everything you just said, I'd bet you'd still advocate the vaccine for kids yes? Which is just absurd. People are listening to some so-called experts (there are plenty that have different opinions than the main-stream consensus) and like a social contagion going crazy over something that isn't that big of a deal for so many people.
Apparently it should read Zuckerberg is so bored of Facebook that he jumped to meta.
Even if they had a new killer device, unless it's as a small as a phone and has cellular functionality it will compete with phones for space in a pocket, bag or purse. Either way, it will be destroyed by the intense phone competition.

Look at the Gameboy/DS/3DS/PSP/Vita. By far the most popular set of non-phone handheld devices in existence. Obliterated by phones.

Together all of Nintendo's and Sony's handhelds have probably sold over a billion, several orders of magnitude more than all VR devices combined and in 2 generations they were wiped out.

The only way Meta can win here is if there's some sort of neural link that completely surpasses phones. I don't bet on it.
Just take Postgres. In 90% of the cases you are fine. In the other 10% you will migrate later to something better suited for the job.
I tried to paint a short, coherent, neutral picture of the affair as not to derail the discussion. You are entitled to your opinions.

edit: also, the murder was silently condoned by a large fraction on the left.
That is not correct. Something like the bottom 50%(?) of earners, including all of the truly poor, do not pay taxes at all, but they benefit from the spending done on their behalf -- in some cases through directed programs, and in other cases just like all citizens.

There is a stratum of taxpayers who do not benefit directly (i.e. loan repayments) from government debt because they do not hold bonds. And as you say, in the upper economic strata, bond holding is more common.

So the strata that are least-benefitted are somewhere in the middle to upper middle class (such as it is). But these people are mostly OK -- their needs are met, most of their wants are met, but they could optimize better. NBD.

AND: If those strata did optimize better (move some income/savings into govt bonds), then the govt could borrow more and everyone would be even happier except the folks who obsess over the number for political reasons (when political party "not-mine" is in office).

Of course there is a "donut hole" in the middle where the social benefits available (programs) are inadequate, and the economic benefits (bond holding) are unreachable.

But the proposed programs which are running into this wall of discussion are in many cases designed to address this gap. There are good arguments about how best (effectively, cost-effectively, etc) to address the gap, how to design the programs.

But the argument that "we can't afford it" is short, pithy, and easily-comprehended, but much too simplistic to be honest. "We don't want to" is more correct.
I don't know if the Quest 1 really had the hardware to support wifi game streaming. I thought it really required a cable to tether to a PC.

I have a Quest 1, but don't have a PC to have ever tested tethering... so I've only used it to play games on the device itself.
MZ is attempting to ensure higher engagement with the users. Currently FB engagement is relegated to said user's spare time.
The goal is to ensure that while on FB or in the metaverse if you will. The user is fully immersed and can "exist" there without any middle people.
Squeezing out maximum engagement. FB's version of "The Matrix" with almost everything it implies.
If the table or field name contains "PASS" or "PWD" all updates and deletes should require a WHERE clause, even if it's WHERE key=key or something
I have a problem with them having so much capital in the first place because I think on average they don't tend to use it very well compared to smaller companies.
What if you hard reset it ?
Racism.
This isn't quite up there with the "billion dollar" NULL mistake, but in hindsight it would have saved a lot of people a lot of trouble if the SQL grammar for UPDATE and DELETE required a WHERE clause.
I get what you're saying. This is all true, but even so you will almost certainly be better off in an oceanic climate than elsewhere, even if there are unprecedented effects such as the BC heat wave.
Zillow’s Zeal to Outbid for Homes Backfires in Flipping Fumble
You apparently haven't had to run junkies out of fast food or pharmacy restrooms, as part of your minimum wage job duties before.

Go work a CVS in an urban environment and you'll have to deal with people nodding off with needles in their arms. These same people are highly likely to be thieves as well

Public restrooms have also historically been gay hookup spots, and spots for hookers too.

Bathrooms open to the public always attract garbage humans.
Always SELECT before making changes. Or don't if you like feeling the adrenaline rush when executing a query in prod.
The reason it works is because consciousness is fundamental to reality as shown by double slit experiments. The viewer creates their reality. A tree doesn’t fall in the woods if no one is there to see it.
Synchronization in PT-symmetric optomechanical resonators
> I’m not sure on the root cause of my burnout as I work a fairly regular 40 hour work week

The forty-hour work week measures how long people spend at work, not the time they spend working.

I bill the latter. The clock stops if I take a break, however brief. That means eight hours in a day don’t contain eight hours of billable work, but it does give me flexibility over my time: I work when it’s productive—which can vary with the day—not when the clock dictates. You may be doing the same.

Even if you charge differently, the typical forty hours (which companies and countries are experimenting with shortening[1]) don’t take you into consideration. It may be that you need fewer working hours to function, and that’s OK. The people who brag about sleeping less or working more than average are not worthy of admiration.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-hour_day
>No charges against him

cf. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-sup...
25 minutes is a pretty short commute though. Especially if you can just walk to the train station.

If I were to go into our city office, I'd only have about a 5 minute drive to the train station. But between leaving some slack to park and pay, the train ride, and either the subway or a longish walk on the other end, I'm still more than 90 minutes door to door--and that's with good transport links.
Using data to understand the effects of a 4 day working week
I'll pay the extra money and get the valve index just to avoid doing business with FB
How can I get full access to this article? It's sad that people discuss it so much and it's featured on HN but I'm seeing just the first paragraph

I mean, is it okay to feature and discuss paywalled information here and everybody good with it? To me it feels like an ad for medium.com
If popular usage of a word drifts and the new usage is widely and unambiguously understood by most speakers in a target linguistic community, it is the folks writing articles in objection who do not understand its meaning.
I completely agree. I've been saying that and I thought it was fairly obvious too.
Facebook account will become meta account. Oculus will transition to meta account. There will be no difference.
> I'm new to steno. This article in their wiki is great: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-...

I don't get why that page doesn't call it stenotypy (as in, on a machine) instead of stenography (as in Pitman, Gregg, Teeline, etc.).

Also, I take it that "CAT software" does not refer to computer-aided translation here?