skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The core idea of having a universal layer on top of reality that is owned by any company, at all, is utterly repulsive to me. I'm not sure I have the words to describe it.

The type of world Facebook is describing is always -- 100% of the time -- a dystopia if it is a privatized, corporate-controlled AR/VR layer where ordinary people need permission and contracts to interact with each-other. Anything any single company or coordinated group of FAANG companies make will be awful when scaled up to the level Mark is talking about. There's no promise they can make to me, there's no strategy they can pursue to ease my worries. Purely by virtue of a single company (or a group of FAANG companies) being in charge of it, it's already garbage.

Having said that, of all of the companies to try and assert control over a "metaverse", Facebook is probably amongst the least suited and most dangerous companies to do so. If they can't even run the Oculus platform competently, how can they possibly claim they're competent enough to run a giant industry-wide platform on top of Oculus?

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> The metaverse will be a collective project that goes beyond a single company. It will be created by people all over the world, and open to everyone.

And this stuff is just complete nonsense. No platform that Facebook has ever been involved with has ever even remotely come close to being "collective" or "open" to everyone worldwide, and it's just wildly insulting to pretend that anything about that is going to change now.

Facebook can't even launch this announcement article without making a bunch of XHR requests and falling over if Javascript isn't enabled. So sure, let's all close our eyes and pretend that they're magically capable of building an accessible, open VR platform that respects user privacy/agency. What has Facebook ever done in its entire history as a company that would make us believe that they are in any way trustworthy or qualified enough to try and build a consumer platform/medium of this scale?
Bad in terms of "public health" or bad in terms of "I sold the rest of my drugs"?
There’s some memorabilia and artifacts from the flight, including one of the engine valves, at the flight museum in the pre security area at LAS airport.
> That's not true. From what I understand, sessions are coded e.g. "Intake" or "Meds check" when billed to insurance. They know roughly what you're talking about.

You are correct that CPT codes give some insight into what was provided, but you are wrong about what codes providers use in this case.

To check myself, I pulled my insurance provider's EOBs for my last two visit to a psychiatrist and my last visit to a psychotherapist. The codes were as follows:

Psychiatrist - CPT 99214 and 90833. Those are "office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, which requires at least two of these three key components: a detailed history, a detailed examination and medical decision making of moderate complexity", and "Individual psychotherapy, insight oriented, behavior modifying and/or supportive, 30 minutes" respectively.

So I don't think from these you can assume "this person was prescribed meds", necessarily. These are very similar to a standard doctor's visit billing code, or a therapy billing code (as below).

Psychologist - CPT 90837, which is "60 Minute Individual Therapy"

Both of these EOBs indicate the insurance paid the provider for the codes as billed. This is one example, but I'd be surprised to find it wasn't representative (that is, that my providers are not billing in generally accepted ways).

> You can't bill a meds check with no meds.

As you can see above, there isn't necessarily such a thing as a "meds check" CPT code. The codes don't give the kind of information you're imagining.

> And those sessions were probably billed as "intake", "evaluation" or the like. A psychiatrist cannot keep billing intakes and evaluations forever. Talk therapy is coded in its own way, and generally paid at a lower rate.

It is true talk therapy is a separate CPT code; it isn't true that it's always paid at a lower rate. The negotiated rate depends on the insurance company and provider's agreement.
I wear ear plugs basically turning my ears 'off', that's the only thing that makes me productive.
An esports revolution is sweeping through Brazil’s favelas
> A rise in one price due to lack of supply implies a fall in other price

This makes no sense. Price rises beget price rises. Oil, computer chips, labor, whatever.
I also like the 3 A+ for an inbetween Zero 2 W and 3/4. Don't need a USB OTG adapter you'd need for a Zero, and not as big as the 4.
Nothing new under the sun, I guess :P

That's interesting, though. The attack would require the collusion of many parties. That's very feasible if you consider how easy it is to create email addresses today.

One could imagine the system requires a one-time registration fee orders of magnitude greater than the spam penalty. That wouldn't be a solution on it's own, but pair that with delays in applying penalties and an arbitrage system and I think we're looking at an increasingly stable system but with ballooning complexity.

Don't know if it's practical, and as you've mentioned I'm sure many people have gone down that road, but I'll be daydreaming about it for the next little bit :)
I think they do mean inventory, just not sitting around in a forgotten storage room. To try other computer analogies, it might be increasing the queue size or using a capacitor.
I think the same analogy can be made for social media. We had Myspace and Friendster, but social networks didn't become a problem until we had so much of it - always internet connected little computers with us every waking hour.
Blogs just aren't that popular anymore, so maybe he doesn't keep one and Twitter is his main outlet?
>It's costly to hoard property and leave it unproductive

Not when property is a speculative/investment asset (and when you can leverage it to get credit).
It's not too hard to scrape https://www.merriam-webster.com/browse/dictionary/a and friends, but sadly it appears the wayback machine doesn't have a recent crawl of all of the pages from one day, so comparing to a historical scrape is complicated.
>Mark Zuckerberg could not make his salary $800 billion

This would be an interesting test case. The limits on what he can or cannot do are remarkably ill-defined.
The UK test and trace program cost £37 billion, which was handed solely over to a company that has a long history of delivering projects poorly. By all good measures it wasn't effective in tracking COVID or preventing cases. In my opinion the government were rightly attacked over this issue.
No, obesity puts a huge load on the hospital system and therefore deprive others of health care. This is one of the arguments used to bully people who don't want to be vaccinated.
Isn't sort of foolish to expect companies to do anything but play by the rules of the game which are defined by their stakeholders(customers, partners, suppliers) and the government? You can rant all you want about things companies should do, but if they're rewarded or incentivized towards bad behavior then that's what you'll get.

Companies may increase their buffers for a while, but the market will punish them and they'll move back towards their pre-covid behavior in short order. You can write all the blog posts you want about it, but without incentives and rules nothing changes.
Although I think bots should be free to access the same content as humans do, I have a suggestion for your fuzzer anti-bot-spray:

It won't work on the more sturdy samples, but maybe try a GZIP bomb on https streams: https://www.infosecmatter.com/metasploit-module-library/?mm=...
Looking it up, 2khz is about C7 (c note at 7th octave), which most music is below, but you'd miss a lot of additional harmonics that could have context.

So, well into the speculative here, if binaural beats are indeed a real thing, e.g. that by offsetting a tone between two ears and frequencies it produces a third epiphenomanal artifact that is not explicitly "heard," but processed outside the range of what the ear can distinguish by the brain, it does imply we could take any sound and then modulate it so that it appeared or was realized in this meta effect range where the brain automatically processes it.

If binaural beats are not real, then there's a lot of speculative woo that automatically gets debunked. But if they are real, and there were a way to take a frequency or sound, and modulate it so that the effect could be processed by the brain as an artifact of its own processing and not as the actual physical "sound," that could be interesting. Maybe the way hearing aids EQ sounds also shifts frequencies and folds them into the range the listener can physically hear already. If there were a meta sound that binaural beats in effect claim to be, there would also be an FFT that would take a given sound input and transform it through stereo headphones to produce it at the frequency one could "hear" as an artifact of the brain reconstructing it.

I'm well into the territory of "dare to be stupid" speculation here, but the premise of creating a binaural beat to create this super-audible artifact, then modulating the artifact effect to transmit the information would be pretty interesting (probably even an ffmpeg one liner). I like cuban cigars and american whiskey if someone reading this becomes a billionare as a result of implementing it, but if it doesn't make a difference, there's a whole subculture of binaural beat internet woo that needs to know it isn't a thing. :)
I did some research into this a couple years ago. There is an interesting theory that we didn't domesticate wolves, but that wolves domesticated us. For one, wolves naturally are very intelligent and pack hunters, so they could have used humans as a hunting partner. For another point, we domesticated wolves way before anything else (atleast 20000 years ago) and that makes no sense since every other animal we domesticated (goat, horse, chicken, etc) will eat pretty much anything and is only of very limited threat to us, whereas wolves are carnivores (very expensive to maintain) and extremely dangerous.

However, if wolves domesticated us as hunting partners, then this starts to make a lot more sense. We didn't need to first learn domestication on easier species, the danger was limited and our hunting would be so much more effective that it was worth the premium.

It also explains why we have the concept of werewolf and why some people have been charged with turning into wolves to be successful in hunting, but never any other animal (there are no cases of ware eagles/falcons). There is something primeval deep inside us that associates wolves with successful hunters.

I find the theory neat, I am not convinced it is true.
I guess, but I'm curious what culture has no aggression at all.
Did it really happen though? I still see stuff with Comcast on it. Like technician trucks, random web pages, postal mailings, etc. It seems to me that they just came up with the term Xfinity and then slowly associated it back with the Comcast name, so now both Comcast and Xfinity can be thought of as terrible companies.
> Security-wise, your devices are addressable on the Internet

Nope. By default home routers (e.g., Asus) will block incoming connections just like with IPv4. It may allow pings (ICMP) in, but that's usually it.

You have to manually go in and tell the router to allow new connections in (either generally, or per service/port), just like the "DMZ" functionality with IPv4 many routers have.
Well, to be fair, San Francisco Bay is one of the best natural harbors on the West Coast, and very close to some of the most productive agricultural land in the world. It's a great place for a port, or it was until the NIMBYs showed up. I don't know LA, but I bet it's similar.
Are you sure you aren't living in a techie bubble? Oculus consistently tops the best selling headsets list at amazon cnet, PCMag, etc.. The only non-developers I know with headsets all have Oculus or more rarely PSVR. Maybe they aren't cutting edge, but everyday people can't afford cutting edge anyway.

They burned a lot of developer cred. by going back on the promise not to require Facebook login with Oculus, but the public at large has no knowledge of that. All the public knows is that it's decent hardware for a super low price compared to the competitors, it doesn't require a PC, and it's what most of their friends with a headset are using.

Can't really call having the most popular headset not succeeding, even if it is probably subsidized with their massive ads money making machine.
It sounds like he found something and left the rat race. Was his life destroyed?
While extremely significant, I don't think that's the only reason. It is possibly even worse and the blame sometimes even falls outside of US borders.

We live in a world largely run by multinational corporations who would prefer to continue operating in a world devoid of multinational jurisprudence.
Indeed there is! https://developer.oxforddictionaries.com/
I'm sure some are aware but in case you are not, Lex Friedman podcast recently had an episode with Richard Wrangham [1] where they discuss this. Wrangham is a primatologist that studied alongside Jane Goodall. His theory suggests human's show signs similar to what we see in other species that have been domesticated. This includes smaller face/jaws and smaller brains.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJF01_ztxwY
> unix time is non-monotonic and discontinuous at random

Well, depends on your definition of unix time; if you use time() as the definition then it is actually monotonic because the integral part only repeats on leap seconds?
Isaac Newton's Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble
I didn't think the bar was to describe something that was true for everyone. I suspect what I described is true for many, across many cultures. I've also seen people I would have characterized as mild-mannered act much differently with alcohol in them. I don't think it's just strictly amplifying existing traits.
I've experienced the sexual side effects. For me they lessened over time (going from mostly not being able to achieve climax to that rarely happening) and taking a lower dose helps. For those that are not at risk of seizures they can take bupropion as well to decrease the dose of the other SSRI further.

But honestly sex is mostly in the brain and not finishing every time is only a drag if you think that it is. Personally I find it liberating, sex becomes a fun intimate pass time without an end goal. And certainly the benefits to my depression and anxiety out weigh the negatives for me.
He is claimed to have said ‘[he could] calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people’, and supposedly could not bear to hear of the South Sea affair to the end of his life.
When's the last time you had to use your brain to survive? Wild animals do it all the time. Domesticated animals just wait for their next meal.
I don't understand why people even care about POSIX in 2021. It's not like Linux distributions are POSIX certified. So many things can't be good because it's not in POSIX or because POSIX requires something else. People actually force themselves to write scripts in some mythical POSIX shell that nobody uses.
The global interconnected supply chain is a relatively recent phenomenon. It's far too early to make any claims about its ability to prevent physical war and so far seems to have created the necessity for fiscal and cyber war.
No one is buying 172s new except flight schools.

Airplane values drop like rocks.

Used 172s generally go for $60k-$120k... and there are plenty of planes just as capable that go for less...
Facebook is changing its name to Meta as it focuses on the virtual world
Where is the actual “central planning”? Have our government officials dictated that 1M Teslas will be built in Fremont, CA this year, or that 5M bushels of wheat will be purchased by Florida?

If I squint, it seems more a complaint that there were pandemic shutdowns that disrupted the flow, but that’s about all I can see.
Hypnotic INTEROCEPTION, application of deeper states of mind
I like how it has a

FizzBuzzOutputGenerationContextVisitorFactory.java

file.
> I also don't see which generation would actually be into this.

Roblox has more than 200 million daily active users; 67% of them are under 16 [1]. Where will they go when hormones hit and blocky avatars no longer seem all that compelling?

[1] https://backlinko.com/roblox-users
>or, what's even worse, changes the config files and silently moves the previous ones to another file.

I run Debian on my servers because I like not having to wrestle with Yast2 or deal with the constant churn for churn's sake of certain RPM-based distros.

The above quote hasn't really been a thing since at least Debian 8, and possibly 7. Certainly when it came time to upgrade to 11, if package configs were being overwritten I was presented with a diff and asked what I wanted to do.
arguably because of too much leetcode practice
Except POSIX has historically always been the intersection of the major Unix vendors. Which is why its always been the lowest common denominator, and is largely crap as a result.

Of course to a certain extend all non defacto-standards suffer from this because invariably one group or the other doesn't want to rework their system to fit the standard so they NAK it.
You don't even need to do division. There are only 3 patterns that repeat for every set of 10 numbers. You just need to track which one you're on.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29029317
> it's just next to no one gets to see it.

It's not quite that bad, but our standards of success have changed.

If your garage band threw a couple concerts and across them got and attendance of 1000 people that would have been a smashing success.

Put your music on youtube and get 1000 listeners and it's a failure.
> The attack would require the collusion of many parties.

Not sure what parties you have in mind here. As far as I'm aware, it would only require the involvement of a single party entering a bunch of fake or scraped email addresses into a registration form. The malicious party wouldn't receive any benefit, but the web site operator would have their funds drained.

> One could imagine the system requires a one-time registration fee orders of magnitude greater than the spam penalty.

Requiring every online service which sends emails to charge users to register would be disastrous. It would make entire classes of web sites (like hobbyist forums, or even free trials of paid services) infeasible to operate.
Ya, I also don't know if it's true or not. I was just making the point that an animal can domesticate itself by changing its environment and then adapting to the new environment in a way that ends up being essentially a self imposed domestication process.
I've recently been in the market for a display and had good luck with Sony's professional displays. I ended up going for this one: https://pro.sony/en_GB/products/pro-displays/fw-65bz40h which was very competitive on price with consumer-grade models of similar spec despite being a professional display.

It's just got a stock Android TV, a Sony privacy policy popup which you can decline (no idea what I'm missing out on - declining skips some steps during set up) and some professional apps such as Crestron screen sharing, Airplay, etc.

It's not a TV and doesn't have any consumer-grade apps preinstalled, but there is a Google Play store icon so I'm pretty sure you can install Netflix on it if you wanted to.
I wonder if our work involves different type of thinking? I advise early stage startups, most of my time is reviewing go to market strategy, reading companies docs generally, and then writing emails asking lots of questions. If I'm reviewing a 150 page board deck, it can take me 4/5 hours to do it properly + notes, and I have to think pretty deeply about the deck, but I couldn't imagine doing it in silence, I'd go nuts.
Probably depends on how specific you get with the term aggression
That's magnificent! Thanks! So it looks as if you can draw anything with epicycles.

But is that appearance correct? I mean, has anyone ever looked into it? Can it be proved that you can draw anything with epicycles?

Relatedly: Is that elephant-drawing machine capable of drawing anything?

And relatedly-relatedly, is the idea of a Turing-complete spirograph totally off-the-wall? (Don't worry, I already take loads of medication!)
I have trouble with procrastination, but since watching Arnie's take on this I cannot get it out of my head and I have actually found it helpful (yet here I am on HN again :()

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_ktRTWMX3M
Stock market valuations
Tech starting to show real spine. (twitter thread)
False, we expect people to be depressed when depressing things happen, this is normal and called "situational depression," you've confused it with a disorder.

Depression has been a problem in Ethiopia for much longer than the conflict in Tigray, despite the abundance of "community, shared culture, shared religion." Looks like it takes more than that...
How big of a spike and a spike in what? Consider the size of the import market in its entirety and how much of a spike would be needed to disrupt it. Don't think more PPE is clogging up ports.
Threshold? Say a billion. To be revised as inflation does it's thing.

I never mentioned the government taking it.

I want them to enjoy the wealth they have! Not as a big number, but as use of that number to buy/experience/do things. Bezos can buy 5 Ferraris a day for the rest of his life if he wants to for all I care. Just use the stuff.

Bezos is indeed rich, and no doubt worked long hours. But it wasn't the hours he did.

#1 Median wealth american = $121,760
Bezos wealth = 196.1 billion

If it was just the hours then
(median wealth american work hours) x 1.6million = bezos work hours.

If the median american worked a mere 1 hour a week, then Bezos is working 1.6 million hours a week. Seems kinda tough to fit into the schedule...

No, he has leverage. And in this thread I am not even questioning whether he should have that leverage. Just saying, he's got money, he should spend it.

And I do try to avoid Amazon as best I can. But it is embedded in computing/supply chains and there's only so much anyone can do.

#1 https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/average-net-worth/
Not the original poster, but I'm guessing they live somewhere other than California or New York. The nearest Tesla supercharging station to myself is a two-hour drive away, for example. While I could use one to drive to and from work or to businesses in the area, I won't be using it to go almost anywhere else any time soon. At least, not without planning my routes around that availability. As a contrast, the small town I live in has six gas stations.

I'm looking forward to the day that the infrastructure is ubiquitous enough that I can buy a fully electric vehicle, but that day isn't here yet.
Mark Zuckerberg couldn't donate Facebook the corporation to charity, but he absolutely could donate all of his personal Facebook shares to charity. If he did that then the charity would have a controlling stake.
Amazon’s Holiday-Quarter Sales Forecast Suggests Pandemic Boom Is Over