skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in a similar position to you (minus the murder part). The only thing that pulled me out of it was Prozac. I wrote up my experiences here: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1392213804684038150

I have sex on a regular basis, and it's not nearly as bad as these side effects make it sound. It's different, sure, but you can definitely have enjoyable sex.

You need to take antidepressants every single day for at least 30 days before you'll notice any effect whatsoever. Every day, without fail. If you haven't tried that yet, I urge you to; it was nothing short of miraculous, and there was no reason for me to live so many years in misery.
This doesn't sound quite right, what's one of the names?

The London Dungeon is near the Eye and has been around since the 70s, albeit in different forms and location. They moved closer to the Eye due to rail station construction in 2013, I believe? Down the street from the old London Dungeons location is the London Bridge Experience, which generally gets better reviews and doesn't appear to be owned by Merlin Entertainment. I'd avoid both, but neither appear to match your description.
Odd to see CNN and Democrats change their focus from Russia to China.
That was my first thought.

With all those gaps you'll need to push fans harder to get the same cooling and keep dust out.
How long until I get a "Come join Meta!" recruiting email?
>If it were an actual instinct, I would possess it as would essentially all people. I do not possess that instinct what-so-ever.

I don't think it's necessarily valid to expect that all peoples have evolved the same set of instincts. Particularly given adaptation to vastly different environments over the last 200k or so years after leaving africa. This particular instinct would not likely be a prerequisite for survival and may not have occured even among all members of a given tribe.
No, that question is wrong, because that answer rounds up to 100%.

Maybe a vocal minority like us HN-folk, but I don't think that by ourselves we really matter in terms of numbers.
More fluid collaborative remote work environments.

I haven't kept up with or tried any of the AR/VR products but I could see huge usage if someone can nail the remote work VR experience.

Assume there will be reasonably priced hardware with good performance when thinking about the space. This bit is inevitable if the demand exists.
Can someone PLEASE tell me why the metaverse will succeed when things like Second Life and oh so many other immersive realities have failed. Is it because of the VR? Honestly why is this a thing?
European Parliament votes to strengthen EU-wide cybersecurity rules
Producing a bunch of units is a small part of the system cost. Starships will need to be inspected and refurbished between flights (high personnel cost). Launch sites need infrastructure to support that launch cadence as well. That means clean room storage, fuel production/storage, housing, and adequate roads/rail/ports for surface transport. Launches also have regulatory requirements like clearing of airspace and potential downrange landing areas.

Their own deliveries of fuel and client payloads will be delayed from the airspace and downrange surface exclusion zones.

Once you've got vehicles in space you'll need 24/7 monitoring and management. Even if mission control teams are relatively small the only way you'll be able to safely manage a large number of missions will be with a large number of teams.

The personnel and infrastructure costs will put a cap on the number of Starship launches SpaceX will ever be able to manage. The costs of those will push up the costs beyond Musk's low-ball fantasy promises.
I am not looking forward to all the people who get C&Ds for using the words 'meta' or 'metaverse'.
Awesome, thank you so much! Unfortunate that registration and payment is required for a government portal, but the Daily Mail's embedded images look to have a decent chunk of the arguments there.
Main thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29029317
Or that he just watched/read "Ready Player One" and was like "yes. that. now"
This is the sad reality. Our society is simply not structured to protect the end-users of any such service in any meaningful way. Our political and ethical leaders are simply too embedded with selfish interests. The Metaverse will be a fleece the customer engine, with the rate and manner it is developing.
If you haven't had the chance, I'd suggest watching the FB Connect keyboard. It couldn't really be more explicitly spelled out in terms of the long term vision and the road to get there.
I don't think he was referring to rich "normal" people. The types of problems you can only have if you have a lot of money. Most people can't afford to be on 2 week drug binges. And you probably need a job to pay for your drug habit and most of those jobs like being a forklift operator come with mandatory drug testing.

But if you have 200 million to play with then that is a whole nother ball game.
Based on limited conversation with researchers, they are constrained by budget for experimental subjects and other resources (equipment, drugs, staff, etc.).
Thank you for in-depth explanation. Is there a book or some website where all this knowledge of ADHD medication usage nuances is collected in one place? Like a missing ADHD manual?
Ok, rename me to NotSashaShulgin if you must.

John C. Lilly's later books are a beautiful example of ketamine delusions and loss of contact with reality.

Quoting Wikipedia:

In 1974, Lilly's research using various psychoactive drugs led him to believe in the existence of a certain hierarchical group of cosmic entities, the lowest of which he later dubbed Earth Coincidence Control Office (E.C.C.O.) in an autobiography published jointly with his wife Antonietta (often called Toni). Lilly states that "[t]here exists a Cosmic Coincidence Control Center (CCCC) with a Galactic substation called Galactic Coincidence Control (GCC). Within GCC is the Solar System Control Unit (SSCU), within which is the Earth Coincidence Control Office (ECCO)."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly
This actually just makes it worse if (plausible) Zuck is a sadist.
I was where you are for about 10 years. Don't give up hope, it can end.

Also have you tried websites for "sugar babies" instead of an actual prostitute. Someone who is willing to get tested, and sleep with you regularly but doesn't have the same risk profile as a prostitute?
MDMA/"Ecstasy" was quite popular in the 80s ("mollie" today), as well as Amyl Nitrite/"poppers"/"rush". The club drugs.
Google tells me researches at York University research indicates that humans can remember "10,000 faces over the course of a lifetime. The average person can recall around 5000" - and that's on lifetime scale - so it's not surprising that systems that are pushing past that would be uncomfortable/anxiety inducing. Brains are not wired to deal with huge numbers of humans (although I'm sure evolution will eventually have a thing or two to say about that).
That's not a fair comparison. Most covid deaths are from those already past the average life expectancy. There's a very good chance they were going to die soon anyways. Not to mention you have to account for cancer patient + covid, etc.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe...
That's quite emotional response to something quite unrelated to your life.

You don't like a company X, you don't use its products, that's it.

Hate is destructive.
It's only fitting to now call it The Meta Data company.
No they don’t, except maybe in Michigan (Dodge v. Ford is a Michigan Supreme Court ruling from 1919, applying Michigan state law; as your own article states: “In the 1950s and 1960s, states rejected Dodge repeatedly”, so assuming that Dodge v. Ford represents anything other than a quirk of Michigan law [and potentially an outdated one even there] is...unfounded on the evidence you have provided.)
Facebook (the company) is being renamed, not Facebook (the product).

Many articles including the one linked above do not even mention that fact which seems weird. The guardian’s title is also pretty misleading but the mention the following down the line:

> The new holding company Meta will encompass Facebook, its largest subsidiary, as well as apps such as Instagram, WhatsApp and the virtual reality brand Oculus.

Which is much more accurate. This is what Google did with Alphabet so I’m amazed it comes to a surprise considering how many people want the brands to be more well split.
Yep, the capital owning class just doesn't care if their businesses go into shock because they already have their cash in hand. They'll never go back to pre-ROE days because they'd have to live with less money and worse less control. While they still have personal reserves in the billions they can decide the fate of their ventures but if say 20% of their current cash was on the balance sheets of corporations with boards that don't vote their way most of the time then they're forced in the medium to long term acceptance of their policies. This isn't an argument for a return to traditional corporate power because they bungled so many things (GM and the rest of Detroit got their rear ends handed to them by the Japanese and their application of JIT).

Rather, it seems like to me the reliance of having a few owners or a few institutions with consolidated power in the form of money or assets is a recipe for disaster. If anything, it's time to disperse the wealth and responsibility of production to as many firms as reasonably as possible. I'd rather have 20 smaller companies making the same thing than 3 big ones that supposedly make them cheaper due to scales of economy which imo is wrong and that most big firms are in diseconomy of said scales now (prices imo reflect this). Basically, we need to both economically and politically Switzerfy the economy (more dispersed institutions, less central control where reasonably possible).
In particle physics, interaction with forces make roughly independent parameters. For example in a world with only electromagnetism, we would think neutrons were undetectable. The idea that there is a particle that only interactions gravitationally is hardly at odds with all of the other neutral particles we know.
Yes, AR has some potential as an industrial or otherwise specialized technology. It won't be revolutionary or change the world in any way, but it will probably improve several kinds of processes, a background tech.

VR is much more likely to either become the new TV or to die an obscure death, like 3D movies.
I think NIFO applies only to variable costs. Fixed costs are fundamentally different.

Also, low-volume items like aircraft carriers are probably a bad example. Aircraft carriers are ordered and built in small, specific quantities; I think it makes more sense to account for building a single aircraft carrier as a construction project rather than as a unit of mass production. Almost like you were building a small airport, thousands of units of housing, and a nuclear power plant.
sorry I should have said 'sales tax', a consumption tax.
Oh, you don’t want to be rude? Really? Why just come in here to shit on the devs project? I saw your previous “constructive” criticism. Do you know how hard it is? How many fine details are involved in launching something? Please display some of your solo work, so we can see the merits of your valuable “feedback”
What's the deal with writing 20+ consecutive tweets instead of a blog post and tweeting the link to the blog post?
Of course HN is better than Facebook. It's moderated, limited in discussion topics and the user base skews heavily towards higher educated, older professional types.

It's like being at a professional work event and truly shocked that everyone is well behaved.
I'm not exactly fond of Facebook but I think this could go in the right direction of improving their image
It's an assumption. You can skim the details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_formulation_of_th...

The standard model in its normal form assumes neutrinos to be massless (and that right-handed neutrinos don't exist). Neutrino oscillation implies that they have mass (because to oscillate, they must have an 'internal clock', meaning that they experience proper time, thus are not massless). In light of the fact that they are not massless, some sort of additional term needs to be added to the standard model, but experiment has not provided a way to distinguish between (or invalidate) the candidate theories... yet.

The standard model has two parts -- a general schema for theory building (Lagrangians with terms corresponding to each symmetry field and each coupling between fields, plus symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism for conferring mass to (some of) the gauge bosons) -- and a particular set of choices within this schema, which is the specific Lagrangian + choices of constants that predict essentially all of the physics we've seen in particle colliders.

As far as I know, massive Neutrinos can be solved 'within' the SM schema, although additional Lagrangian terms are required. What's unclear is whether dark matter, gravity, fermionic masses, etc can be resolved within the same framework. But massive neutrinos don't _necessarily_ challenge it (although if the existing theories are ruled out, they might start to). Everyone is pretty much on board that the exact choice of Lagrangian terms can't completely describe reality, and needing to add terms doesn't mean invalidating the theory.
Xylene episode shook me to my core
Sadly, I think you’re right, given a long enough time frame.

It’s probably a smart move on Facebook’s part. Doesn’t stop them being terrible though.
What happened to external graphics cards? That seems to be the way forward to me.
I don't think they monetize telemetry directly, it's more valuable for them if they control access to it tightly.

But the original post was complaining about ads, too :-)
That's not how it works.

Your medical record is private, but if a job has a requirement they can ask for proof of vaccine. It is up to you to provide it, and it is up to them to how to interpret it if you don't provide and how to handle it.

For example even before the pandemic it was a job requirement of you were in a medical field.
Also reminds me of all the skepticism surrounding the iPhone launch. I remember those joke ad spoofs making fun of the actual phone feature. Yet here we are and who uses actual voice calls anymore?
Will this work, or will this just be like Google's Alphabet, which the general person-on-the-street doesn't know or care about?
It sounds like someone just watched Breaking Bad.
I don't think there is a measurement who'd satisfy the requirement of statistical evidence.

Empirically it seems to me that people nowadays are more scared of death than they are euphoric about life.

All sorts of problems happen when this condition presents itself in vast pockets of the population.

The fact that nobody makes a quality vs. quantity analysis is further proof of this
The metaverse isn't for us who've already spend 30+ years in tech and realize what tech-obsession steals from you.

It's for the kids who grow up addicted to it and don't realize until their 30s that they've had depresonalization disorders their entire lives.

This will succeed with them.
That comment came from a Windows 10 machine, but ok :-))
Behind every big corp is a well armed government and police apparatus

Given how many Fortune 500 companies have died even in prosperous times since the list started, I’m gonna file this away as “manufacturing consent to maintain the status quo.”

Corporations are not literal machines or organisms. They’re a social acquiescence given the reality of biological need at scale. The logistics are necessary; the behavior is necessary; the ownership angle is propaganda.
Sandisk makes high endurance microSDXC cards, e.g. SDSQQNR-064G-GN6IA, which are inexpensive. Beyond that, they also make industrial SLC microSDXC cards with very specific longevity guarantees, e.g. SDSDQED-064G-XI, but those are rather expensive.
Agreed. The article seeks to vilify conspiracy thinking, which it seems to only see on one side of the political aisle. This is in keeping with the author's partisan take on political polarization.[1]

[1] https://www.routledge.com/The-Psychology-of-Political-Polari...
Hook NPR up with some people to interview and some B-roll crane and diesel noses. They have been discussing this and might appreciate.
Googling [ayahuasca experience reports] should provide a better mix of writeups (including both rigorously-reported mainstream articles & deep-forum anecdotes) than any number of responses inline here could.
Well if I contribute 0.000001% or whatever to the federal budget, then I'd say I contribute 0.000001% to whatever welfare payment anyone receives. Money may be fungible, but when you pool money and decide to spend it, everyone from whom it's pooled gets a say.
On Twitter as everywhere else, approximately nobody clicks the link. But there's some chance they’ll read through a chain of tweets.
Exactly. You could assume that it's likely that something like 2.75B (out of the est 2.89B) FB users would happily wear (free) physical spyware in this scenario.
I'm thinking more about how this seems like a template for people to integrate their personal lives into an actual simulation and give a justification for a 'friendly AI' to determine what's best for us.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/k3823vuarnmL5Pqin/quantum-no...

https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/coherent-extrapolated-volition
> Patents are one of the primary ways that incumbents are able to rent seek on their inventions for decades. These large companies hoard patents, and are legally granted monopoly on a given technology, making direct competition on their invention illegal.

Totally agreed, and the solution there is (in my opinion) to reduce the duration of such patents to the point where newcomers have a reasonable chance to bootstrap a business based on that patent, but not so long that patents bar competitors from coming to market down the line.

Value-based taxation will always favor those with deep pockets who can afford to pay top dollar to scrape the cream off of small businesses.
Is anyone honestly surprised? Seeking short term gains has been the story of the last decades.
Trivia: the model wearing the "radio hat" is Academy and Emmy Award winning actress Hope Lange, at the age of 15.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Lange
Community, shared culture, shared religion. Exercise happens when you do those three things.
> 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.

Wouldn't that be fitting because the word comes from a bad sci-fi pulp story?
Thank you for your question. Currently data is stored on a decentralized network of >13,000 storage nodes. Below is a great read on the path to true decentralization.

https://www.storj.io/blog/applying-lessons-from-the-electric...

A quote from the blog...
"However, the purists in the community (and in Storj as well) will correctly point out that we’re not 100% decentralized with regard to Satellites. While Satellites are highly distributed and highly redundant, they’re not fully decentralized within the Storj network. We intend to make them fully decentralized over time, but this was a conscientious choice to go to market with this intermediate stage first."
Yes and no. I am not a data scientist but there are quite a few python scripts where we use pandas. Initially, I thought it was really nice and convenient but the more I have used it the more I think it's bloated, a pain to use, and dumping the data into sqlite would be easier for a lot of my tasks.
I don't understand what exactly this rename/rebrand entails.

Is it restructuring FB like Google became Alphabet? So, under the "Meta" umbrella, you have all of the individual FB assets, and www.facebook.com just becomes one of those assets?

Some outlets are reporting that, yes, it's something like this:

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/28/1049813246/facebook-new-name-...

This landing page, however, does a terrible job of explaining this. There's this "news" page:

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/10/facebook-company-is-now-me...

But even that is similarly lacking in details. Looking at this page you'd think Oculus is now Meta for how much they emphasize VR/AR and literally nothing about FB and the other apps.

What weird, mixed messaging.
The logo is an Infinity Pringle. Cannot unsee.
Same with Security Keys, there are a bunch of technologies like this, where you can literally write documentation explaining "This is what we did at our multi-billion dollar business to successfully solve the problem" and people will walk past, fingers stuffed in their ears, hoping that some day the problem will be solved somehow, but, like, magically without them having to change or learn. Just keep doing what they're doing and then, somehow magically it'll be fine. See also: Climate change.
Does anyone have DIY designs (shapes to mill/laser cut) for something similar to this? I refuse to pay more than 50€ for a case, yet would like something somewhat compact and able to hold my 4 3,5” and 2 2,5” drives (cooling requirements are not very high).
All three in C#, not Java (Java has properties, but they aren't the same kind of thing as C# properties.)
Im so bored of this universe, time to jump into the next one via meta.
If you’ve never tried any drugs/alcohol then I would strongly recommend not do it. I’ve tried plenty of drugs but ayahuesca is still something that I would have to think about before trying it.
This. Whether it's linked with your other social media or not isn't the issue. And whether it's a "Facebook" account, "Meta" account, an "Oculus" account, or whatever, it's all still an account with Facebook and can be expected to have all of the baggage that comes with an account with Facebook.
Pedantry ain’t gonna save anyone from anything

Neither a prejudice against “emotions”
'Major depressive disorder' is just situational depression applied to every situation. Common mistake. Many psychiatrists and psychologists make the same mistake. Many psychiatrists, by virtue of their education, are part of a class of people who are themselves more prone to depression and anxiety, so we probably shouldn't be looking to them for great advice.
Ok, now it's clear. So yes I agree that controlling false discovery rate is an unsolved problem that p-value doesn't address. Yes of course applied stats are a kind of 'soft science', at least regarding the interpretation of results. Statistical theory on the other hand, is very well defined.

So that doesn't justify considering assumptions made from erroneous conceptual understanding. This is where we disagree, I guess.
>They can probably make the Metaverse an open standard like the web

Thanks I needed the laugh.
First Covid raised the murder rate. Now it’s changing the politics of crime
It's not that simple. Modern (just-in-time) practices have created a situation where a single change in customer demand leads to widespread supply shocks.
Take a look at the beer game[0] for a smaller version of real life.

That's what happened here - lockdowns led to a single change in customer demand for a wide variety of goods both on the personal side(more people at home -> snacks, food, toiletpaper that would have been used up at work started being needed at home), and on the commercial side (no people in the office: no ongoing bulk papertowels/toiletpaper/vending machines/office supplies).

[0] https://www.shmula.com/the-bullwhip-effect/310/
There's a shortage of many things that aren't on boats off California as well.
Bats-Core: Bash Automated Testing System
Having people on the street not know or care about who owns WhatsApp and Instagram seems like it might be the point.
Does facebook still have a real-name policy? interacting with people in the metaverse with my real name is the last thing I want (we all saw ready player one, no? does zuck understand the importance of anonymity?)
> Thankfully, we don’t need to be beholden to history.

That was kind of the point of my comment. I think my snark went over your head.