skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Canada you can still buy that over the counter. You get id-ed and they keep a record of your purchases, but since it's now generic pills it is now much cheaper than it was before
This is the beginning of the end. Read this comment in 10 years please.
Market forces tend to reward efficiency rather than resilience through redundancy. But super-efficient systems can be fragile ones too. So dude has a point. But seems like a mistake to say that its the only relevant factor.
People working from home increased demand for microphones, web cameras, office chairs.
Also true of Also true of Lynch's version. Also true of Jodorowsky's abortive attempt.

Is it that Dune books seem slow-moving? Is it the concepts being difficult to visualize?

Also, are Dune and Don Quixote both cursed to never quite make satisfying films?
Fun story, I once tried to convince a new friend of mine that his startup that I'd landed a small consulting gig with should focus on how it could make the world better, not just go after profits, because I could clearly see that what they had was just so useful and adaptable and that pharmaceutical companies would easily want to scoop them up.

Back then they were in the midst of rebranding, but they ultimately changed their domain to meta.com and were acquired by the Chan Zuck initiative. I was happy. It seemed like one of the most pro-social uses of their software.

It's kinda funny to see Facebook rebrand to what was a fledgling startup out of Toronto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(academic_company)
Advanced MessagePack: how to halve the size of msgpack data
MMOs live or die based on constant new content and even new mechanics, not persistent worlds.

There are some niche products with stable worlds, but those are a minority of a minority.
He's right to point out that the obsession with RoE is a big part of the problem.

He's wrong to suggest that the billionaire class and founders will solve the problem if we only trust them and let them keep their money. Founders have just as much incentive to optimize the excess out of the system, they just call it "disruptive innovation" by which they mean tweaking how the system works so that they can squeeze out profit for themselves.

I think economists call it rent-seeking.
"I've come to the insight that there really aren't any bad ideas at all. Only ideas at the wrong time.[not quite verbatim]" - Marc Andreesen
People don't have to pay for VR avatars when playing VRChat.

Forced monetization of all that, is a bad thing, not a good thing.
I think we have fared relatively well from a purely economic point of view.

There's no reason to think this is over yet. We might just be getting started.
Oh of course HN has a ton of problems and problematic solutions (greying out people outside of group think - shouldn't it be the opposite?) but it's way better than FB. Paradoxically, I don't remember when I used HN main page, I'm using alternative interfaces displaying censored posts etc. - one of the many things you can't do with FB.
My mom isnt on twatter
The Chan-zuckerberg foundation has a scientific paper search engine called Meta as well.
You can't just make space equipment less reliable because launching it is cheaper. Equipment failures will kill people and ruin missions. Things that might work fine on Earth's surface will not work the same way in space. Even seemingly mundane failures can damage important components.
Let the containers on the streets piss people off to build pressure to align incentives, rather than prolonging the problem with a temporary stacking improvement. This is just a tool in our toolbox that we should not ignore, I'm not saying it's the right tool. But there is a cost of papering over the root cause, that's not free.

BTW I don't live in LA/Long Beach. I recognize that LA doesn't deserve the quality of life degradation, that's an externality. We have tools to resolve externalities. I could imagine living in an affected neighborhood in LA and being super grateful for the container stacking "quick fix".
I think he is very perceptive when it comes to the logic and desires behind social interaction, like making personal attributes such as relationship status in Facebook explicitly public early on, and this because he could see and consider these things from the outside. He's different, but he should be proud of it, because without being different, he wouldn't have achieved what he did. The Trump network will show what happens when a different kind of personality has centralized control over a social network, in many a sense, it could be much worse.
>We were trying to "flatten the curve"

Not were, are.

The entire lockdown/restriction/mask mandate set of policies has been based on managing hospital capacity. State and local governments are still using hospital capacity to decide when to lift or reimpose restrictions.

The wave of explainers we got last year about flattening the curve were wrong about how long it would take, but the fundamental strategy and the reasoning behind it never actually changed.
Im excited for this too, Meta seems to be his passion project that he wants to be remembered for, and if he sticks to his word of opening up Oculus for easier development and letting you sign in without FB this will really take off. The comments here remind me of slashdot comments saying the iPod sucked because it had less storage than a zen nano and was overpriced, or the iphone would flop because business users needed a keyboard.
It's pretty easy to generate new accounts here
I would imagine the Switch gyro controller must be pretty close to the tech needed to make VR games?
You're describing situational depression. Very different than major depressive disorder or dysthymia for which these drugs are often prescribed. Common mistake.
Back in early 00's I listened to a Spanish radio programme with biographies and historical battles and facts. It was full of sound fxs, truly amazing, 1000x times better than reading a book.

In the 60's people could get the GEP equivalent for Spain (Actually in The Canaries) thanks to a radio broadcast.

EDIT: Holy sh|t, it's still alive!! (Spanish): http://www3.radioecca.org/
That’s not a good argument. 1: damage done by shutdowns is still going on so we don’t even know the full cost. 2: the winter storm is not self inflicted. 3: I am not sure you are right that said winter storm did more damage. Would like a source though.
I don't believe humanity or any civilization could survive. It's pure hedonism, really. How does reproduction even occur? And if everyone in the first world is plugged in, what keeps a third world nation from just taking everything? Or killing off the power grid? It would take a massive scale of agreement to even allow that to work.

Outside of that, I am a big believer in, well I don't know the name for it. But you must experience sadness to feel happy. And bad times to realize good times. Anyone in a virtual world would likely never choose scenarios that cause such things. So there'd be no real true joy in this virtual life. Life is fleeting.

From a health standpoint, I don't believe a human body could exist long in a pure virtual world(thinking of something like, The Matrix). Still people tend to get disease, blood clots, stroke, and more. And bones and muscle too weak to even walk when the grid goes down. Am I thinking about the scenario wrong?

Sorry I don't have all(or any) of the answers to that question, mostly just rambling, but the thought makes me really sad.
What about Sweden?

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
> The tribe and I are not friends

Then they aren't "chatter and hub-bub of relaxed tribemates", rather to you it is "the whispers and noises of your enemies". Of course that wont get you relaxed. The effect comes from hearing people you are comfortable around talking, if you have a distrustful personality then likely you aren't comfortable around many people but the effect is still there, just that you lack another link.
Thanks! And do you have suggestions about how to think about extracting relatively pure sound from that point? It seems intuitive to me that it's doable, and I'm sure there must be a lot of work already done, but I'm clearly not googling the right terms.
It that causation held, then the opposite would also hold, that is, removing the UI subsidies would have a large effect on the employment participation rates. That turns out to not be the case:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/22/cuts-to-unemployment-benefit...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/business/economy/unemploy...

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm
visiting a friend at a facebook office a few years ago, we walked by a small room near the bar cordoned off with caution tape. "oh, they're replacing the TV again, people keep using the oculus and smashing it by accident, has happened a few times" -- i can't help but picture that small, broken room today. #meta
It's the same in the US; you can buy it without a prescription, but you have to have your ID logged.
Queue dynamics.

Late entrants to a backed up queue take exponentially longer to service.
Tadayuki Watanabe disproved a major conjecture about spheres
What happened to Lilly? I was always curious about that.

(Side note while I have you: if your real name isn't SashaShulgin can you please email hn@ycombinator.com with a different username we can rename you to? It's distracting to use a username like that if it's communicating the wrong thing.)
What are the traditional tools we can use to get ourselves out of depression? Exercise probably?
Since a bottleneck implies a vessel with fluid passing through, I'll stay with that analogy. There's actually no bottleneck; the pipe is basically the same size as ever. (Actually just slightly smaller because of capacity that was destroyed, rather than taken temporarily offline, during the slowdown.[0]) But the pipe in the first place was only exactly as big as it needed to be, because of the "maximizing ROE" stuff he mentions early in the thread. So when the fluid volume suddenly expands (slingshot effect following the slowdown), the whole system becomes a bottleneck.

[0] Capacity destruction: "Nobody's buying our stuff, we can't afford to keep this one ship/plant/facility/machine running anymore or we'll go out of business." But since every other player in their industry who might've bought it is in the same boat, maybe they're forced to sell to a scrapper, who promptly disassembles the ship/plant/facility/machine. I got my house this way. It was a rental property owned by a company that could no longer afford to keep it, so I bought it, took it off the rental market, and thereby slightly reduced rental capacity in this town. Compare this to an airline temporarily parking a slew of their planes in a densely-packed parking pattern at an un-busy airfield near a nice runway.
Yeah, scroll ~75% down their product page and you'll see the flat sheets they ship you. You have to bend it at the perforated-looking lines to assemble the case.
New Data Set Quantifies Energy Use Across All US Building Types and Climates
I've never heard of this argument. Can you point to any reputable scientist making this argument?
The simple explanation is that humans are 40K orks.
Nothin worse than a facebook meta verse.
I think this is reversed. A currency can be devalued a number of times before it stops being used as the reserve currency. Reserve currency status does not prevent devaluation, it allows devaluation. Think of the Roman Empire debasing the coinage for hundreds of years before people gave up on it. The post Bretton-Woods system goes back to the 70s -- we are just on decade number 5. Lots of devaluations are ahead.
NASA’s Juno: First 3D View of Jupiter Atmosphere
More than stories. He put $350m into it and it's still going. https://dtplv.com/
I'm not familiar with Italy, but NY was sending elderly patients back to nursing homes when they had covid.

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-andrew-cuomo-us-news-cor...
Their COVID death rate is 10x their neighbors, per capita. [1]

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-covid-no-lockdown-str...
Fuck Uckerberg and anything that is related to thus human waste
It makes a lot more sense for Facebook to change the name of the parent company — given the actual and potential proportion of their revenues from Instagram and WhatsApp — than it did for Google to change to Alphabet given that Alphabet is still mostly Google in terms of making money.

However, the timing makes it look like a ploy to distract from current controversies (although I don't think it is a ploy), and the name Meta is going to look really stupid if their whole Metaverse thing doesn't work out.
Every societies security model relies on people simply not wishing to act violently. Literally followed by a police team and still stabbed people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Auckland_supermarket_stab...
And we keep reinventing mostly broadcast forms of instruction--which are fine as far as they go and are very useful for many purposes. But, especially for classroom-type lectures, it's largely incrementally polishing up the part of education (big lectures) that mostly works and for which we've had the tools to listen/watch remotely for decades.
For articulated analyses of complex phenomena a Twitter thread is completely inadequate. For simplistic explanations whose objective is to promote an opinion it is great, because it makes it easy to re-share morsels of the argument.
In New Zealand 'borrow' can be used to mean lend (transitively).

'I will borrow you that book' means I will lend it to you, just to give an example of a word changing to its opposite meaning.
Later caselaw (note that that case was from 1919) gives directors widespread latitude to decide what "benefiting the corporation" means.

The second paragraph gives two such cases: AP Smith Manufacturing Co v. Barlow and Shlensky v. Wrigley.
Why? I have 64 GB of RAM. Linux is using most of it to cache file system pages. I already do that kind of stuff anyway when I download videos to tmpfs. The browser should just use the memory.
I think him being rejected by most people drove him to do what he does
It's a policy problem. Truth is hard to determine because the delays are the effect of upstream decisions. There were internet anecdotes about California port policy preventing drivers from picking up loads (allegedly the owner operator law changes that hit Uber also hit truck drivers as well), federal policy changes reducing the time drivers can spend at the ports and number of loads they can take each day, but it was hard to separate these from partisan criticisms, even if the problems seem to have appeared overnight. Covid was around all last year, and between the availability of vaccines and the number of cases in cities being in the low hundreds, it's not like people working on supply chains are suddenly home sick with it.

It's getting more challenging to not interpret the destruction of independent business (such as owner operators of trucks, retail, restaurants and bars, and other policies) as an intentional soft-dekulakization of western economies, which is a necessary step in an old playbook. It would be helpful toward demonstrating a better explanation if there were some other economic factor that has appeared in the last year that was not just clumsy application of policy.
Tesla's California factory was shut down for 2 months.
Facebook Renames Itself Meta
I don't think it's a minor effect and without quite a bit of active fiddling, the front page would be full of meta, dupes and pitchfork-fetching-exhortations. This even comes up in a mod comment in this very thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29028421
I bet this will be generally effective at shielding their other properties from bad news about Facebook.

For ordinary people, "WhatsApp is owned by Meta" is going to feel really different from "WhatsApp is owned by Facebook".
Oh I was just chiming in really, not trying to say anything about copilot
Recreational doses are 10x-30x that of medical doses and those effects are quite a bit less at medical doses

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/drug-users-use-a-lot-o...
Thanks! It was not clear from https://www.sumologic.com/pricing/
The buried lede is an assertion that a tax on unrealized capital gains will cause reduced private ownership of large companies, resulting in a reduced ability to handle 100-year flood events.

Along the way, there are a bunch of other assertions that serve as prerequisites, like the idea that these companies can cultivate better employee loyalty and plan for longer horizons.

How much do we know about how true that is, though? Do privately-owned companies disproportionately survive these sorts of events historically?
How to get on HN front page unlimited times:

1. Make a Show HN intersecting coding with something uncommon

2. Write an article about how you got on front page with Show HN

3. Write an article about how you got on the front page twice

4. Write an article about how you got on the front page n+1 times
I can't speak for VR, but AR definitively has a future.

You already see practical use of this technology with HUD-tech (Heads up display) in cars, but beyond that you'll find great applications for it within medicine/operations, transportation (directions), marketing (product information, authenticity verification), and the list goes on and on...
This kind of comment is extremely unproductive.

The idea of Sweden has no connection at all to the topic at hand. You are using the word "Sweden" to make an argument because you believe the connection between Sweden and conversations about lockdowns is so clear that the mere mention of the word is enough to bring the entire argument into someone else's mind.

So, this demonstrates that you believe everybody reading this comment knows what you mean. Which in turn means you know your comment is adding nothing at all to the conversation.

To belabor the point, if the connection between Sweden and lockdowns was an entirely convincing argument then everybody reading your comment would already agree with you, and there would be no reason for you to remind people of the connection with this comment. Since that doesn't appear to be true, you believe your peers need to be reminded of this argument, some elaboration on your part seems to be in order!

Hacker News is a lovely community where you can learn from a large variety of people, each knowledgeable in their own particular domain. The more thoughtful and substantial we make our comments, the nicer a place it becomes for everybody else.
I got one. My honest opinion is that it's potential is immense, but I wouldn't suggest anyone to get one atm.

Professional headsets will likely become more widespread over the coming years and I fully expect that most desk jobs will replace their displays with a headset... But that's still at least 10 yrs off, likely longer. A prerequisite would be that it's not as stuffy/heavy to wear, but that's already happening at a surprising rate.

It also makes remote contacts (i.e. remote work, family calls etc) very different, as oculus just added face tracking to their newest headsets... So your avatars face mirrors your real face.

The presence you feel in these contexts is hard to explain and has to be experienced imo.
IMHO, the relevant ones are 3B+, 4B+ and zero. The zero comes on many forms, but if you are using it, their difference should be clear enough.

For random stuff you do once, if you need a powerful computer (weak-desktop-like) with great IO, you go with 4. If you need great IO on a weak normal computer, you go with the 3. If you need a powerful-desktop-like computer, you go with AMD64, and if you only need great IO and not much of a computer, an Arduino.

The zero goes on things that you will do many times or that have very specific constraints.
That is true; I remember, early on, the lab leak theory (of which I am a proponent) received substantial and fair discussion with significant technical detail, long before it became a partisan thing.
It's already a thing in a lot / most places in the US. If your established income is less than something like 1/3 or 1/4, you'll need a guarantor who can pay that.
Like the pre-1956 Neutrino!
Babelfish, SQL Server compatibility for Postgres created by AWS, is open-sourced
Microsoft could change their name to Azure, and Facebook — or Meta — could be ejected.
The case is docketed in Nevada State Court (District Court, County of Clark). A portal for various Nevada courts can be found at:

https://www.clarkcountycourts.us/Portal/Home/WorkspaceMode?p...

Searching is enabled at the bottom of the page. The index number of the case is: A-21-828090-B (the case caption is: Baby Monster LLC, Plaintiff(s) vs. PCVI LLC, Defendant(s)). Unfortunately, you have to register on the site and pay for a copy of the requested documents.

The Daily Mail printed a story with more detail - some of the individuals named in the original post really come off as horrible - in which they've embedded some of the pleadings:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10116643/Late-billi...
At this point I'm confident I don't want there to be "a metaverse" at all, because under our current social and cultural systems, I am confident it will be very very bad no matter who owns it.
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Responding to all of the responses here: this is not correct. Banks explicitly do not 'need money' to lend. They need equity to maintain their capital adequacy ratio to be able to lend. Banks literally beget money and are governed only by regulation. Non-bank institutions cannot do so. Deposits are merely a less-expensive-than-'fed-funds' liability. Here to understand this popular misconception: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28473807
I guess I'm confused on how it's decentralized. don't you have to go through storj to buy/sell space?

Isn't that still vendor lock in?
> And it's a social faux pas to suggest to someone with anxiety (particularly someone you are not super close with) that if they altered their behavior and consciously tried to work on their thought patterns, that they could get better.

We seem more attuned to emotional distress. And illnesses like anxiety present as acute distress, usually. We naturally want to assuage the person. And a person with anxiety naturally learns all sorts of avoidant coping mechanisms.

We seem to have entered some sort of negative feedback cycle there. Medications do help some, but it goes best with therapy, and the mainstay is basically exposure therapy. Face your fears, and struggle through something uncomfortable, until you learn to tolerate it. People should be gently nudged in that direction, not encouraged to lean into their withdrawal from the negative triggers.
Do you not get sick of this being repeated constantly?

Every year someone repeats that Facebooks doom is imminent, and every year their revenue and user base gets larger and larger

When does this opinion just become pasé?
Roku, I believe, would be something to look at.
I just saw some ads about Meta. They are beyond cringey. Facebook and Zuckerberg are out of touch.
Someone predicted 10 years ago in HN that this would happen.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2561810
Facebook is the worst place to have a metaverse. The metaverse to me is where you get your freak on. Just look at VRChat or Second Life, it's full of people in highly sexualized outfits doing sexual things. I don't want Facebook (or any company) associating my sexual persona with a real name account.
An update of 455 new words
Except that one of the Starship's big new things is refuelling in orbit.