skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While their mission of connecting people sounds nice on paper, they have shown over and over that they place profit first, which is not necessarily wrong for a corporation, but this incentives engagement over connection.

We've seen that as Facebook grew bigger and the engagement algorithms took over, that the worst of humanity is brought out. Despite there being genuine connection and overall improvement to people's lives happening on FB; if not people wouldn't be using it, but extremism, addiction and hate have become staples of the platform at large.

Frankly, I don't trust FB to fix these issues so I am immediately pessimistic about Meta, but the reality very well may be that us humans enjoy extremism content, don't mind digital addictions, and feed off hate and FB just brings out the raw truth in us.

Overall, I think FB needs a different business model other than advertising off engagement if they want to turn the page and appeal to the better parts of people.
>What about them?

who's going to own them? are they not property?
> Federate it a bit more than they are comfortable with, to at least give it a chance.

I have yet to see a single federated system that has demonstrated commercial success. There's no reason to believe that strategy would result in greater success than Facebook's usual playbook, which is proven.
Wait what

macOS has an executable called `command`? Does any other OS?
Agreed, I'm pro multimetaverse. I'm also pro democratic-representation metaverse.
It's certainly far less common than it used to be. Ditto for Christmas cards; I think maybe I get them from three people who aren't businesses that get money from me and often don't get around to sending any myself.
Sorry, for someone who knows next to nothing about drugs can you clarify? I’m assuming “glass” is the meth and the “M30” pills are fentanyl? Or maybe the other way around? And, if you don’t mind, can you explain what you mean by “counterbalance”? I’m assuming it’s like drinking a red bull with vodka? Does it actually “counterbalance” chemically so someone could “safely” (for lack of a better word) take more fentanyl without overdosing if they took meth along side it? Or does it create the sensation of counterbalancing to make users take less fentanyl in the first place?

I guess what I’m asking is, is taking meth + fentanyl marginally safer than taking just fentanyl? I know neither is safe. I’m just curious how the two interact and what you mean by counterbalance.

I’m also curious if, somewhat counter-intuitively, fentanyl addicts could be “treated“ with adderall to make their drug use safer? At the very least adderall has to be safer than street meth?

The entirety of my knowledge of street drugs came from D.A.R.E. and Breaking Bad so apologies if these are ridiculous questions.
I was curious what meta.com looked like before FB took control of the domain. Recent snapshots aren't loading for me, but post-2015 it looks like it was taken over by an AI company — the page titles include "Meta — Science Discovered" [0] and "Meta — AI for Science".

Prior to that, since around 2012 it was an unused Wordpress site [1] that redirected to meta.compgu.com (which is now "tekman.cc", a consulting firm or something.

And its earliest owner (at least as captured by wayback) was a California events company "Meta Productions: Producers of Meet, Mix and Match. Promoting awareness through metamorphosis" [2]

edit: out of curiosity, I just noticed that one of the most famous domains that refused to sell out [3] — steam.com — is now apparently for sale?

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160110141037/http://meta.com/

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150228180854/http://meta.compg...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20081002050002/http://www.meta.c...

https://web.archive.org/web/20100425061122/http://meta.com/

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20161023041828/http://steam.com/
Don't question it, just drink your Kool-Aid.
VRChat seems to have landed on something close to the right balance of whatever it takes to make it happen. It's apparently easy enough for someone to make a whole meme world for an event in the news in time for it to be relevant: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2020/11/9/21557029/four-season...

The video in the initial tweet is up to 2.1 million views: https://twitter.com/thecoopertom/status/1325710953305026560?...

VRChat or someone building on their proof of concept is likely to make it happen. It won't be Facebook with its VR Slack.
That was a fine position to have prior to say 2000 when we didn't have a lot of good data and ways to analyze it. We now have data and incredible analysis tools, that outcome is not representative of what actually happens.
Stick it to the MAAAN!
Looks like it's still up? https://www.meta.org/
If they really wanted to do something useful for the world, they could eliminate comments on local media outlet stories. The people there, as Obi-Wan Kenobi put it, are a "hive of scum and villainy".
Renaming Files with Node JavaScript
"He still has PTSD from his tour in NAAAM"
> Just rainy season, and less rainy season :-)

Calling it British Columbia certainly tracks then!
If you're parsing the output of `command -v`, you're doing it wrong:

if command -v foo >/dev/null; then
foo ...
else
bar
fi

From shell scripts it doesn't matter if foo is an alias because if it is an alias, it's one that the script created itself.

For interactive use, just go ahead and use which if that's what you like. Most people will be using bash or z-shell or whatever, and portability isn't a concern.

Interactive shell usage and shell scripting are quite distinct. Yes, there's a huge overlap, but as in any other language, when you're writing a properly structured program (not a one-off or hack), you're expected (for good reasons) to follow more consistent rules and conventions.
My understanding from following reports on these experiments (including this article) is that the simplest version of sterile neutrinos, where instead of three kinds of neutrinos there are four, and one interacts only gravitationally, has been ruled out, but maybe some more complex version is still possible.
Google is the AT&T of the internet. Meta is the AT&T of the metaverse. In modern times, there is no CERN. Just AT&T.
I don't think it's particularly sudden, although I am also confused by the laser focus.
I hope they have serious plans for changing how VR works today. VR quickly loses it's appeal after a few hours. The isolation it brings with it is a huge issue. AR holds more promise in terms of mass appeal but I'm not sure we have that one quite figured out yet technically and from a UX perspective.
If Google hadn't become Alphabet, we could have had MANGA.
App to access files over the network. I think Infuse is pretty good. It supports NAS and if your files are well named then pulls in meta/artwork. Can also be a front-end for Ember/Jellyfin/Plex, but for my LAN media I’m currently going with DLNA.
"That awkward moment when Zuck takes your company's name: meta.inc"
https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1453790072701001728?s=...
I agree, I always love sending postcards when I travel. Its a shame that 99% of the physical mail any of us receive is trash.

Particularly traveling internationally there will always be something awesome about being able to mail a postcard and give the recipient a little piece of the place where you're visiting.
Hahaha! Opened the about page and Zuckerberg's face is right on the top :D This doesn't look like a good rebranding! Young people don't want Zuckerberg's social networks. They need something new.
It also puts downward pressure on landlords, since as they increase the rent, there's less and less people who can be tenants.

Sadly it might not help around here, because right now, it is very profitable to just buy property and leave it empty, since the prices are perpetually rising.
It is strange that it doesn't use any type of animated transition so it does look like a typical FOUC issue even though it probably isn't.
FB being the biggest and the one most likely to shape our society, they deserve the spotlight.
r/sffpc is solid with a spreadsheet covering parts, cases, etc for compatibility and more. I just moved into a Lian Li Q58 from an SG05, bigger but cooler.
Sure, but I understand why the C spec does not define this - because not all processors can trap these events, at all times and in all situations, without added costs. And C is very much of the opinion that it doesn't want added costs - but it lets you pick and choose what you want, hence the compiler options.

I don't think there's an obvious 'good' and 'bad' choice here.
> People with that make for excellent teammates.

I agree, sort of. All things being equal, you want someone who has that sparkle, that enthusiasm.

But things often aren't equal and people are really prone to hiring who they like, over who will get the job done and it's a real problem.

It's tough, really. There are many highly disagreeable software developers I've met who are good at their job, but you just want to get away from, and then there are starry eyed social people who are fun but terrible at their job.

A software dev that's good and still has some sparkle in them after being in the industry for a decade is like a unicorn in my experience. I don't know what it means but it does make me sad.
If you own two properties, rent one out, and live in the other you own one property in which you reside and one property in which you do not reside

Owning one property in which you do not reside is completely reasonable when the rule is "you may not own more than one property in which you do not reside"

I'll edit this clarification into my original post.
> And regardless, why bother building with a fancy box with this when the CPUs and GPUs available for the mini-ITX are going to be 10,000 times slower than the M1 and 100,000 time slower than the M1 Max?

The benchmarks I can find seem to put M1 family at maybe 2-3 times faster than x86. Except for the benchmarks that are slower, of course. The new versions might be even better, but they're not that much better.
Meta or Facebook makes no difference. Nothing is going to change with this company until they are forced to publish their algorithms.
Does this accommodation provide any utilitarian value? Why would anyone that would need to process a passport care about what you identify as. It's something that exists in your head and cannot be verified.
Can you expand on how those repositories are written and how you use them for unit testing?
The whole "Metaverse" thing reads like E. M. Forster's, The Machine Stops.

Now we'll never need to leave our houses. All thanks to Facebo... Uh, Meta.
Agreed. The experience over the last year and the cost of college in the US makes me think that, in absence of some sort of regulation to the contrary, UBI will simply lead to comparable cost increases. This is very similar to what happened with the cost of college in the US: the government gave students free money (they were called student loans, but basically the same), and colleges ate them up through tuition increases. Why wouldn't the exact same happen with UBI?
I'm gonna miss FAGMAN.
Facebook will try to buy VRChat.
Appreciate the feedback and I don't disagree! I definitely would love to work more on the design and general "smooth-ness" of the app. I've been focused on functionality and driving towards something that works. Time to tighten some screws!

PS, did you interview me last year at Codecademy? ;)
Is the sandbox the same thing as "new"? I've literally never visited there and had no idea that it had any role in things moving to the front page.
You avoid JavaScript, except the worst usage of it? Very bizarre choice...
Oh I understand that. I just meant the recent mass buys that have been happening.
(this may just be a feeling based on my news readings and not a reflection of reality)
Fuck dude, me and my son had COVID, I am vaccinated and still got it, he is still a child and I esitated to vaccinate, let me tell you I was afraid for our health and live and who knows how much will it take for our bodies to recover.

The only reason not to fear is if you have no family and maybe you already had COVID and feel invulnerable or if you are a retard ad think COVID is just like the flu.
FYI - the house I’m renting, if it got reassessed at market rates, would go from $3600/yr in property taxes to $23000/yr in property taxes. Which for all but the most lavish upgrades would swamp the cost of the upgrades pretty quickly.

California Prop 13 causes some serious market distortions.
Why NFT? Why can't we just "import jpeg" instead of "link NFT"?
> Sounds like a Yudkowskyists wet dream to me.

How so? Searching for "metaverse" on LW yields 9 results, most of them are irrelevant.
Subverse? Universe within a universe, a sub universe.
I wish he'd just present as his awkward true self, instead of this prerecorded, fake cringefest, something Musk doesn't shy away from
I think jump-based consistent hashing also requires less memory, O(1), than rendezvous hashing.

From my limited perspective and the paper linked in the article it sounds like consistent hashing is best for numbered sharding (disk storage systems and databases) and rendezvous hashing is best for arbitrarily distributed storage where nodes can't be consecutively numbered.

My best attempt at explaining jump consistent hashing is that it's possible to determine how likely a given key will be to move to a nearby bucket (small hash values make it less likely, large hash values make it more likely) and use that likelihood to choose a next bucket candidate for each key. About half of keys are likely to move from 1 bucket to 2, but only a third are likely to move from 2 buckets to 3, etc. and in general 1/n of keys are likely to move to bucket n.
Remove Netflix and we've got MAGA.
Maybe they'll try to make it so you can spend time with AI, VR avatars of your dead loved ones (like in Caprica, the prequel to the remake of Battlestar Galactica).
Yea, watching some of the demo made me think of how deeply involved people got with The Sims. A platform where people could actually be their own Sim?

Maybe Second Life and those didn't take off as much because the technology wasn't yet there.

That being said, I still don't want Zuckerberg to be the king of it, but there are plenty of possibilities with high-definition VR/AR tech.
11:45ish they will put a banner up saying it's going to be shutdown end of May next year

Unfortunately archive.org is capturing the SVG logo from the site not the actual site so I can't prove the current state of the website but you can look at the last valid capture from 10/22:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211022094334/https://www.meta....
Is that a bootleg G-shock?
I 100% agree, but that doesn't mean we can't still administer placebos:

I've read elsewhere that you don't have to lie to the person to still have a successful placebo effect- they can still receive a benefit even knowing it's not a real drug.
I think it's because we aren't talking about some exotic, rare, or weakly interacting particle. We are talking about either an extremely common or extremely strongly interacting (or both) variant of matter which we somehow can't observe or produce in a lab despite observing much less common phenomena. It reeks of failures in other models.
If you ignore Netflix, you can get a pretty close approximation what this is all about.
The behavior of which on different machines has a meaningful enough common subset that I would argue most people have absolutely no idea that there are this many different implementations. It’s possible this would lead to an undesirable standard that specifies less behavior than it should, but on the other hand, I believe that is easier to improve incrementally rather than all in one bandaid rip.
This is more or less how I feel about it - I refuse to touch anything VR-related that is associated with Facebook as an entity.
Job recruiters to prospect: Lets take a look at your meta data
Weird that meta.com doesn't redirect to fb.

It redirects to meta DOT org which is:

> Meta, a Chan Zuckerberg Initiative project, is a biomedical research discovery tool that analyzes & connects millions of scientific outputs to give you a comprehensive view into science. You can easily explore research and follow developments by searching for specific terms or creating customizable feeds of papers and preprints.

EDIT: Fixed automatically now.
Meta and the metaverse looks like a huge attack on Apple. In a metaverse world, iPhones don't make any sense. Those that own the platform will make all the money. Apple owned a very lucrative App platform that would go away if FB is successful. I'm wondering how Apple will respond.
What's the learning curve on a tool like this. I find I invest so much in learning things that are supposed to speed me up. Then find out they're too niche to use in my day to day.
I do wonder if there's a culture-wide bug/meme with regards to mental health (and beyond) that makes it hard to push for lifestyle changes at scale.

I think one such meme is around agency, with the underlying meme being that humans have no control over their circumstances or mental state. They have anxiety or they have depression. It's part of their identity, and these seem to be thought of as immutable diseases.

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. In our culture now, that gets translated as 'blaming the victim', because with a victim mindset, such a suggestion implies that it's the fault of the person.

It's an unfortunate state of affairs. It feels like we are increasingly leaning into concepts such as an 'external locus of control' and 'learned helplessness' as a society. I don't know how we can push back on these ideas at scale, but if we don't, it's hard not seeing mental health issues and the externalities of the easy pharmacological solutions expand.
I want off this ride.
What's cheaper than a tent? 1/2 or 1/3rd of a tent. That's enough if shelter is the only issue. If there is a need for the poorest to have solitude, there's going to be a proliferation in the number of tents.
I've already said that physics and cosmology are not my game. I'm just interested.

But perhaps it's worth noting: a cosmologist that wants to argue against e.g. DM is putting his career at risk.

If your career is cosmology or physics, and you want to rock the boat, you had better have some pretty surprising research, or you're going to have trouble. Look at the trouble Roger Pensose stirred up for himself; he's a big fish, but got seriously trashed over OR.

An interested bystander like me doesn't face those problems (except here).
This picture is sad and disturbing. I also fear something like this could happen to a lot of people in the tech industry. Take care of your friends.
This is really cool. I imagine this infrastructure could provide a two-way channel, for example the hospital could send critical / time sensitive supplies (like refrigerated drugs) back to the community, based on samples previously submitted.
See this recent article on the thermocline of truth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27977056
MAANG just doesn't roll off the tongue as well
The design is fine, it’s totally functional, perfect for a developer focused site and quite refreshing actually.

Great that you’ve pointed out a couple of bugs but I’ve seen “senior” developers who couldn’t conceive of, build and deploy anything close to this.

There’s enough here to build a SaaS business out, and the OP can be CEO, CTO or whatever title they want
If Meta really does a good job of separating the open standards from their close products then this could actually be an exciting development, as unfashionable as it may be right now to be excited about anything Facebook is doing.
Our version of a persistent virtual space was never going to be like fiction. There will be 3 or more competing metaverses, none of which have any interoperability.
> "but it's non-standard!" can be fixed by making it a standard.

But which which do you make standard?

When one says it's non-standard, it normally means that you don't know if the way you are using it will work on other places.
I really is an excellent design aesthetic. I would love to see what these folks would do with the notion of designing a modular home 'rack' system for in-home services.
Even their presentation showed that with a solid mix of different ways of communicating and I'm pretty sure that wasn't just accidental. On one level its nice to see a much more expansive definition of metaverse (which IMO already exists) but on another terrifying that FB wants to be part of basically every human interaction.
I don't want to speak for them, but I think they were agreeing with you and elaborating on their perspective. I do too; UBI as a replacement worries me.
I had the same problem with Venlafaxine (Effexor XR). My psychiatrist had me switch to Duloxetine (Cymbalta) and my problems went away (but it worked as well as Venlafaxine for GAD and depression). FWIW I'm in my mid-40's but I had this problem about 10 years ago (when I switched).
Most of the arguments here boil down to the same belabored point, that you shouldn't expect Copilot to actually write the code for you at the end of the day.

My take is it's what you make of it. Copilot is only equivalent to copy-and-pasting from stack overflow if that's how you choose to field its suggestions.

As an example, I've enjoyed typing "const one_day_in_ms" and letting it finish it out with "1000 * 24 * 60 * 60". I already knew how to do that, but having GCP finish it for me and verifying on my own didn't make me feel stupider, it made me more efficient. I have more interesting problems to tackle.

On the other hand, another coder could have not known this calculation and thrown their trust into GCP. That's bad practice and it's on them, not on the tool.

Sometimes GCP gives me code that it learned from bad coding patterns. I know how GCP works and I know to look out for that, so I ignore those suggestions.

Of course, sometimes I don't know if what looks like a good idea from GCP is actually not. I take that on as my responsibility to trust but verify. If it's writing some function to slugify a string for a URL, I check it against what people are discussing online. Does it defeat the purpose of GCP in this case if I have to check it on my own? Probably, but it's only in these specific instances when I'm doing something I'm not familiar with.
There are a ton of problems that need to be solved in that space: graphics/geometry algorithms, image processing, hardware, interface/IO,

...advertising, spying, tracking, tabulating, monetizing, engaging, profiting, controlling...
You're right, "Fei Si Bu Ke" in Chinese, "非死不可", which literally means "have to die".
A better question would be whether housing prices are increasing the same everywhere.
It's also why other people in the C++ community are opposed to ABIs themselves.
Tony was probably the smartest person I have ever met. Such a sad and tragic story.
Not a chance. I've been wrong about a lot of things tech, probably even most things, but this isn't something I think most people want.

Metaverses have always been niche. Most people don't like things attached to their head. Remember 3D TVs?

But, perhaps you and they are right. For the first time in my life, I honestly feel like 'if this is the future, I want no part in it.' Please don't take this as like, suicidal or anything, more maybe going off grid or moving to another country.