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>That's because Microsoft isn't a technology company. Microsoft is a marketing and sales company that happens to sell technology.

As someone who worked at Microsoft in a technical role, I know that's the truth.

You can lie to yourself if you want, but it's still true
In fairness, I doubt you ever switched jobs with billions in the bank. I assume as a Palintir founder, Joe has.
That's a pre-nup
We know modern induced antibodies last longer than Pfizer ones. This is most likely dose response function. The pfizer trio will put folks at 90mcg the three modernas will be 250mcg. The pfizer triple is less than 1 moderna. Side effects may increase though at the higher dose though.
> The fact that this guy was willing to be a shill for Zuckerberg should show you that his ultimate wet-dream is to be close to these sorts of people, rather than coldly analyze whether the things they do make any sense whatsoever.

You must not know this blog then, because ben has been a well reasoned voice for years, and his bullishness on VR/Metaverse should not be confused as a shill. He has been critical of FB the company. If you read his other works (even posted today!) about fb nee meta and their social products he's less of a kind persona.

> There were no limitations on the interview; it was my choice to focus on the company’s new vision and not the current controversies about Facebook.

That's how he opens the interview.
That US news sites find their EU visitors of such low value that they'd rather block them than spend to be compliant (& thus still get some aggregate or opt-in data) is a pretty strong refutation of the idea they're "addicted to all this data".

What's the tangible harm of this supposed "indiscriminate tracking" - especially as compared to other burgeoning EU initiatives like demanding law-enforcement backdoors into e2e chat sessions?

The consent-dialog-blindness is created by the regulatory demands for their constant re-display, for negligible benefit. If not even asking for cookies was 'viable', major sites – who have far better understanding of the relative tradeoffs than the regulators – would've gone that way. Can you name any that chose that 'viable' path? Are they winning their categories with that 'viability'?

You know what else is 'viable'? User self help. Clearing/disabling cookies. Running a privacy-protecting browser, like say Brave.

The EU could've protected a lot more privacy, without wasting the world's time & burning-out people's attention, if it had coached people into self-protection, rather than threatening businesses worldwide with fines. But hey, haughty mega-super-state's gotta do mega-super-stating.
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Man comments like yours really shows how out of touch the typical HN users are.

The reality is that globally, mobile now surpasses desktop in terms of times spent: https://www.perficient.com/insights/research-hub/mobile-vs-d....

And it's about 50/50 for the U.S.
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TLDR: this guy has finally noticed that working-age population is declining and asserts that automation will be along to fix everything.

To me the most notable thing about automation is the sheer amount of labour required to create it. The sceond most notable thing is how limited the effects are.

I've been reading about efforts to produce self-driving vehicles for at least a decade, and in that time probably millions to tens of millions of working years have been invested in developing them.

The article talks about "flexible robots" that can stack warehouse shelves, or weld steel, or pick fruit, or make salads.

Disappointingly, there is no such thing. A robot that can harvest apples cannot be redeployed to harvest grapes, or even to prune apple trees correctly, let alone to stack shelves or make salads.

Every single task requires its own labour-intensive automation program. Multiply that by tens or hundreds of millions of tasks in a modern economy. We'll be here a while.
Nope, one of them is Instragram
About half of the bog-standard IT gear I normally buy is months+ lead time if I need that specific part. I can usually find a workaround, but it's often ugly. Don't look at the man behind the curtain swearing in the racks.

I had hoped that by now things would have eased up, but if anything it is worse than the start of the year.
You almost got me. ;-) I remembered the timeless advice, though: "XcQ - link stays blue" (or in this case, "black").
It's the only place in the world that makes the chip.

Back then we had second-source agreements. What happened to that concept?
Explain how Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook lost mobile?
As an aside, it would be fun to see a programming challenge website focused on performance and optimizations, rather than code golf (shortest program) or edge case correctness (interview type sites). I took a course like this in uni where we learned low-level optimization and got to compete with other classmates to see who had the fastest program - a fun experience that I don't really see much of online.
I did not realize that VRChat is still around. I only ever heard of it in the context of Ugandan Knuckles, a meme that was short lived but extremely hilarious and also offensive to some. If you don’t know what I am talking about, you can search for it on YouTube (example: https://youtu.be/eix7fLsS058). I have never used VRChat but as an outsider it reminds me a bit of the old Internet before Web 2.0 and before everything became political.
Not trying to be crass here but if more people knew how good VR porn is they would be much more popular.

I would legitimately say its 5x better using VR, even with the current underwhelming FOV/resolution.

To the point where I'm worried there's going to be a plight of people addicted to it once the mainstream catches on.
I didn't know Twitter was around in 1931 (⊙_⊙)？
Again, it all boils down to expectation of future profit.

It makes no difference (except for tax purposes) if the dividends are paid to shareholders, or if they are retained and the stock price goes up by the amount of the dividend. As the differing tax treatment of capital gains and dividends changes, companies change their dividend payouts to match.

> But it can also (and demonstrably has) happen(ed) that the price rises because derivative beliefs about the likely future price. And that's precisely what happened in the case of amzn

The future price reflects expectation of profit. Amazon actually creates quite a bit of profit, they just plow it back into the business.
I'm old enough to realize most of my prognostications about where tech are headed are wrong, but I can't emphasize how much I hate this entire fucking idea. It makes me viscerally angry. I mean, it's like someone sat around and said "Gee, you know what the world needs more of? Replacing real, physical human connection with 3D cartoon avatars with no legs."

It's like someone watched Wall-E and thought it looked like a utopia. I've been in tech for over 20 years and, at least in my mind, it really "peaked" in the late mid-late 2000s, before everyone became a phone addict. At that point most of the tech giants still believed in their own benevolence, instead of today where it's hard to even convince their own workers of their benevolence despite dumping boatloads of cash on them.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but every year I have a stronger desire to just chuck my phone and laptop out the window and go full Walden Pond.
It's very easy to enable. But yeah, I will admit it's not 'production-ready'.
Sounds like they don't have the capability to deal with bad actors.
Oh right, how could I forget the string-only command line version of Instagram?
That stuff almost seems like toil these days
Not all O(1) functions have the same cost. Suppose we have a container that stores its data on the heap, and has a null pointer and no heap object when it is empty. Then Container::empty() const just needs to check that pointer, where Container::size() const has to read the size out of the heap object, so c.size() == 0 has to cost more, as the compiler is unlikely to be able to optimize away the extra accesses.
Can't wait for the butlerian jihad.
Maybe I am not a enough of a functional programmer, but I don't see what's impossible here? Any symbolic algebra system (like Wolfram Mathematica) can do such derivations, and much more.

Sure, this is interesting, but in the sense of "look at this emergent behavior -- such a simple system can do unusually complex result", rather than "wow! no one could do such things with computer before"
> but practically speaking require an OS that wastes a lot of the available resources

They don't actually require that, but that's what we usually end up doing. That's a choice though, and there are alternatives, they're just a lot of work.
Video is private now.
Au contraire, a man who is able to take 6 months of paternity—in the US at least—has already won.

A man in an important position (as if any other would have the choice) who is able to but chooses not to for fear of being seen as a loser is a chump, though.
Cache however is not
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Maybe you were using the wayland backend, you might have to force X11 with the environment variable "GDK_BACKEND=x11".

Though part of this weirdness is due to the clunkiness of the way X forwarding is implemented, I wish there was a way to do it that didn't involve kludging around with environment variables. But that is what we are stuck with.
I'm not talking about desktop vs. mobile. I'm talking about counting bytes traversed vs. time spent.
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I think you're still describing a cultural cause here.

Responding to perceived aggression with your own aggression is not a given. It's a culturally decided response, not an instinctive one.

A good christian is supposed to respond to aggression by "turning the other cheek" and not responding at all. A strict, honor based society might say the only way to respond to aggression is by killing that person.

Western culture falls in between these two. Reduced inhibition simply makes your judgement of the consequences worse so people usually make the choice they want to make (shaped by their culture) and just don't think though what it could mean.
Literal 10x programmer moment
Is it just me or do the potatoes look unusually hairy?

I’m not Russian but we used to make similar characters and animals out of chestnuts.
Alright then, why is it then that the people around me are getting covid when I'm unvaccinated when I was in direct physical contact with them but I am not? Why do you think sirens are blaring in my town and yours with such high vaccination rates? You can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool them when they die. ICUs are being stuffed with people suffering from unknown causes. How long do you think your masters can keep this illusion alive? How long do you think the ministry of truth can keep this up? Maybe some of the shills got the saline. But eventually the record keeping will fail and they will get the real deal. 4 vaccine shots in 10 months? What did Einstein say about insanity again?
The overall harm or benefit to the community is certainly related to how many and likely those bad decisions are that result in a specific harm/benefit.
You're missing the point. VR is an escape for people whose meatspace social lives are miserable, like computer networks were in the past.
Debt is not different. How can you honestly say this? German WWI debt is widely recognized behind many of the lead ups into WWII.
If you have talented staff then you'd be surprised how far you can get just buy giving someone who already does that particular application as a hobby an unlimited supply of coffee.

Obviously finding talented staff is very hard, but once you have your tribe you can go a very long way i.e. I look at apps made by some people I work with (fast, lightweight etc.) then compare with crap pumped out by startups with literal billions in capital. I think it's a question of confidence more than competence.
Drugs destroy your ability to make good decisions. They are essentially hot wiring the brain's reward circuits which directly feed back into the brain's decision making processes. Most obviously, it's almost never the case that addicts consciously choose to become addicted.
We have general purpose databases. They're called filesystems. You can literally store anything and everything you like, and hardware is ever-shrinking in cost and performance.

The problem you're dedscribing is political: How to get everyone across cultural and language barriers agree upon what the bits mean?

There is no technical obstacle to everyone accepting a universal API. In many ways, we're on our way there already. The Internet is full of standards and protocols. Yet it shunts knowledge around the world caring only of a few numbers.

It might be something fundamental, like that each aspect of reality has to be attended to by a sentience. Like every person is responsible for maintaining some part of the universal standard. Maybe general-purpose-anything is flawed as a concept, and we must come to understand that what we seek cannot be automated in a meaningful way.

Maybe in the age of Turing et al there was so little knowledge it all seemed computable. Now we're drowning in it.
That doesn't mean that humans are dumber now, though, nor does it mean that dogs were bred to be dumb, nor does it mean that dumb animals are easier to control. Humans with intellectual disability can in fact be extremely hard to control in my understanding!
> something like three quarters of all Internet traffic is in walled gardens now. Privately owned communication spaces are some of the biggest businesses in the world today.

100% of traffic goes to a space owned by someone. The fact that big companies can dominate profits, and still companies like TikTok can rise from no where is crazy.

Just because the internet is not decentralized IRC channels hosted in university dark corner offices doesn't mean that its a true walled garden in the typical sense.

I slack my coworkers, and imessaage my family, and facetime my partner, and discord my gamer friends, and use tiktok for entertainment, and use whatapp for my international friends.

Last week, i used teams for my coworkers and zoom for my family, and signal for my friends and ... and ... and ...

Apps come and go. TikTok is replacing youtube and Disney+ is replacing netflix and signal is (hopefully!) replacing something... While i wish that we actually owned our own servers, knowing that i can quickly change accounts and apps and "gardens" makes it better.
But we wouldn't say that Japan is more of a Christian culture than the U.S., or that the U.S. is more of an honor culture than Japan.

I understand the sociological theories you are referring to, but I'm not sure how useful they are.
Benchmarking reliably and fairly for minimal cost is really hard in a cloud environment.
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One of the authors of this work apparently now works on supercompilers at Meta and open sourced some nice tools for equivalence checking based on graph rewriting [1] and constructive type theory [2]. If you're interested in that kind of thing I would recommend checking out his work:

[1]: https://github.com/ilya-klyuchnikov/mrsc

[2]: https://github.com/ilya-klyuchnikov/ttlite
If Apple were to start doing their own fab they would likely start with some of the simpler support chips and work their way up in complexity through networking before getting to the CPU. This fits their historical pattern of quiet experimentation with new technologies well ahead of large investments. Bringing PMIC and Bluetooth fully in-house, for example, could yield benefits in supply predictability and give them more design freedom for low power wearables. Later they might do the cell modem. Main CPU is a harder sell, letting an external partner like TSMC handle it allows them to move on quickly while the partner sells the older process capacity to AMD, Intel, etc.

Not the most likely scenario in my opinion, but it's how they would do it.
Tech bro who could never handle a real manual labor job and provide for a family with that job explains masculinity to other tech bros you couldn't do it either. Story at 11.
From my vantage point, Facebook hasn't had a next move for a decade. Zuckerberg years ago decided VR was the future and has stuck to it.

Now he's decided to make it even more of a bet. To me, it seems painfully clear that until the tech gets to a point where people don't need low res and heavy VR googles it will stay a niche.

Maybe it happens, eventually, I guess it will. But the future is rarely laid by the first movers. It's cemented by the first correct to market.
More like a codified collection of what the default pre-nup is if you don't have one customized. Probably more than 80% of the married people I know fell into it without a whole lot of intention and planning, and it shows. "Marriage, because baby" is like compound interest, except it's compound stupid.
No, my point about Switzerfy is to mean that we need to distribute power and assets more evenly just as the Swiss distribute power more evenly politically. We've left too much to float to the top of the economy where those who have enough wealth which they can roll over interest with little effort on their part.
a clinically ignored case of endometriosis

That's exactly what I mean (and the sibling posting is more of the same). If you need more than six doses in a row then you should see a physician for a thorough workup because loperamide is just for the symptoms. The package will say as much. It's really hard to find fault with the FDA coming down on the extended-family size packaging.
Ah, I'm not advocating complacency or inaction, but I agree, things can change even in a flawed democracy, just much slower, and also this can disenfranchise voters. In completely dysfunctional and corrupt government, I think the only option would be to hit the streets en masse, but I don't think NJ is at that point
The maintainer wanted to no longer support a part of their package. In almost every single situation this would have a natural result with the maintainer stopping to support the thing they don't want to spend their volunteer time on and any other developer who want to support it could pick it up.

It is actually a bit insane that the committee is forcing a developer to support something against their will in a project based on volunteers. It is basically an artifact of the concept of essential packages and an situation where multiple different versions could cause instability, and so until the program can be moved to a different essential package the best move for the project was to keep things as they were.
> "And I remembered another nice trick which someone else came up with, zip bomb the bots :-)"

Just curious, is it legal to host a zip bomb on your website? I would think it would be classified under some kind of Cyber crime....
There is a significant likelihood that this metaverse concept will flop. To stake the company’s namesake on it is unwise. It really seems like this is combination of committee think + a knee jerk reaction to its recent public spanking.
Facebook is truly the heir of the 90s' Microsoft.

It is hard for me to take what Zuck said on its face value any more. Every F8, Facebook announced new things that was going to work for the next ten years, and mostly nothing happened.

Every year since 1990s, Microsoft was talking about new paradigms of computing, in the living room, smart devices, voice controls. Things shipped, and fell on the side ways.

Products are built one after another. They are not willed into existence through a vision announced to the world beforehand.

We may as well just hold a World's Fair and let these mega-corps to host "Metaverses of Tomorrow". At least it is going to be fun to visit.
You can either switch to the "scripting" tab or just add/change any window to the "Scripting > Info" window. I personally change the animation timeline window to the info window on the main "Layout" tab since I don't do animations.
It seems obvious to me that covid-19 had a much greater impact than any of those previous pandemics, even more severe ones, because it’s the first one for which we even attempted to implement such disruptive mitigations. Working from home was not feasible for most people in 1968-1970 for example, and nobody would have seriously suggested a major economic shutdown to deal with it.
Don't forget their weird crypto thing....
not going to argue about core crypto primitives - i have no idea what it takes to be able to contribute meaningfully there.

but I have no formal education. and when I started there were no gatekeepers. I mean there were, the MIT grads got to work on much cooler stuff than everyone else.

since then I've collaborated on chip designs and written a metric shitton of low level software - including microcode and alot of parallel synchronization primitives. and when I work with new grads (incl phds), I don't expect them to know any of that really - and we teach them. some of them get it and some of them don't.

not only do I find your emphasis on the 'proper training' misguided - I think its counter productive. unless you're working with a very rare professor, they aren't going to really have a very adequate notion of what new designs are like at all. most of them have had only the most casual experience with industry. your utility to me as a future systems programmer has alot more to do with your general level of talent and your interest in the topic than whether or not someone made you do dining philosophers.
It would be nice if these exceptions would be made permanent instead of having to be renewed every few years. Or the DRM provisions just get repealed.
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Ugandan Knuckles was most users' introduction to VRChat. It's been a dead meme for a while, but that doesn't stop 9-year-old kids from running up to strangers in VR yelling, "Do you kno dae wae?"

Aside from the risk to the children themselves, their presence in VRChat is a constant annoyance to adults. They tend to be loud and lack manners or social skills. If you meet an interesting stranger and strike up a conversation, some kid'll run up in your face mid-sentence to shout lines from Ugandan Knuckles or a TikTok meme. Ever since the great "Quest-mas" of December 2020, VRChat public lobbies have felt more and more like an unsupervised daycare.

VRChat's Terms of Service specificy a minimum age of 13 for COPPA compliance, but in practice it seems this is never enforced, and I'm not even sure how it could be. It's really a shame, as aside from the kids and "crashers," VRChat's total creative freedom is a breath of fresh air. If you can model something in Blender and export it as Unity project, you can upload it to VRChat. There's a huge range of beautiful and immersive custom worlds, and all sort of hilarious or impressive custom avatars. It's a new digital Wild West, with all the good and bad that metaphor entails.
Yeah and AI will be big too one day, but that doesn’t mean IBM Watson's going to corner the market.
If you're paying much attention, they're using "endemic to refer to a managed, "steady state" of the disease, comparable to other infectious diseases, as opposed to the current, crisis level it's at.

The claim about the vaccines "wearing off" does not seem to be true. Compelling immunization also does not, in my view, constitute "assault," and I don't care if it makes people upset, something you could say about almost any policy imaginable.