skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My worry is that they are not thinking about how many ways this can go wrong. There are already iPhone apps that allows you to put on avatar and meet people in a 3D virtual world. According to DoJ these apps are haven for pedophiles. Nothing good happens in these apps. People with severe mental issues show up, try to hit up others and eventually end up destructing real lives. Initially, everything looks safe because it's all virtual, anonymous and no body is touching you but that sense of safety goes away very fast as you meet wierdos and divulge more and more information. Some of these apps have rules like no nudity but people finds out various ways to be provocative even more than if they were nude. As things are "virtual" everybody wants to push towards extremes of everything. These apps are places worse than Medusa's head.
What would you recommend reading?
That'll make as much difference as Google's parent company being called Alphabet.
> If the other people in the room are also knowledgeable, you will come to an even better conclusion much faster face-to-face.

> In my experience, having "group reasoning" is faster and with better results.

Why is face-to-face required for "group reasoning"?
Workers fired for refusing the vaccine are not eligible for unemployment in most cases.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance/vaccine-mand...
I think you could sell that as a book full of white pages. The lesson would be that the title drives the sales.
Had mixed results.

I've felt like "group reasoning" in person is more like getting people on the same page to execute on an idea, which doesn't equate with the merit of that idea.

Once that discussion kicks off in a large-ish group, I've found it hard to pivot the direction of that conversation - if you think there's a better, independent solution that's not aligned with the group train of thought.
I actually disagree, at least about huddles. Huddles are a direct response to the low-friction nature of Discord voice channels (and arguably Teamspeak/Mumble/etc before Discord, although nothing else married text and voice channels quite as well before Discord.) It's almost silly how small of a difference there is between starting a huddle and a channel-wide "call" - the only difference is that it doesn't start out by "ringing" for everyone in the channel. But that tiny difference completely shifts the feeling from "this is a formal communication" to "we're all just hanging out and you can join if you want but no pressure."

IMO huddles happened because the pandemic moved so many more people remote that the need for a water-cooler replacement became much more obvious.
you can sometimes just tap enter, inside a model or another file (in a framework like Laravel for example), and it'll literally guess the entire function. at the most If you just make a comment about what the function should do, or name the function something sensible it'll get the whole function maybe 58% of the time, and when it's wrong there's other options to choose from and one might get you 90% to the end goal, and just need a few modifications.

I've used kite, and tabnine and loved tabnine, but this is something different and way more like magic. I can't explain how, it just feels like it's reading my brain as I type..
There is, unfortunately, a common pathology amongst white-collar workers, and especially the "managerial class". Of which I am a member, so I get to see this first-hand quite often.

It is incredibly common that my economic peers and betters treat blue-collar workers as filthy meat-robots, tolerated purely out of necessity. Because, after all, if they were worthwhile human beings, they'd have a college degree.

I find this mindset abhorrent. Anybody that works a job well deserves respect, regardless of the job.
Sure, waiting is an option. But I wonder which other options are available in the long term. We talked about stockpiling. But how about rearranging the supply chains? Distribute the production of products? Shortening the supply chains? Estabilishing multiple cheap transport routes? etc.
I prefer to just return a 404 if I know for sure that it is a bot to try to cheat them
what usually worked best for me is to listen to trance music. the usual rhythms worked best for the brain.
Sure, but that’s not where their high-paying engineering jobs are at. HHVM itself is in C++.
Dogs can look up?
More technical details can be found here: https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/hcert-spec/issues/103
That’s not a conflict of interest - the prosecution is supposed to be “against” the defendant.
I went to high school from 2006-2010 and masks of any kind were absolutely forbidden.
My kid plays Roblox. We have all kinds of devices here: xbox, Pc, tablet and mobile phones. Guess where he plays it on... yeah, on his mobile phone.

And how he communicates with his friends, no video, no calls, but just chat text.

I honestly don't see this generation move to intense communication/experience, when they now prefer the most casual tech.
You are confusing precision with accuracy
I got my open source WebXR app running pretty well on the Quest browser. I honestly think that WebXR is going to be the metaverse especially with seamlessly walking between worlds.

https://vox.run if you want to check it out. Supports any WebXR browser and the dev tools are built in.
Eh, Nonviolent Communication is a lot more than that. It's a set of skills you have to practice, so having a book that breaks down each skill with lots of worked examples and scenarios is quite useful.
I think the answer is the same reason the male brain is larger than the female brain on average. The part of the brain that handles fighting. It's a pretty large part of our brains.

The reptilian hindbrain that handles violence isn't needed nearly as much now that we have society and civilization. It's shrinking.
What I do is install Xrdp on a recent Ubuntu LTS and use Jump Desktop to do RDP over SSH. It is much more flexible than trying to jump through hoops with Safari keyboard and selection handling.
See also:

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/10/27/steven_donziger_judi...
No, you are not wrong: https://akka.io/team/
(check the Honorary Members section)
Yes, and if it's needed, they can just sit and move their head to up to 90°.
Have you actually read the book? Or are you responding to the title and the hype that's grown up around the book? Because the book itself is full of specific, actionable advice.
11. Hostile environment. Well done Boris /s
You raise some good points about IP theft and credibility. It indeed makes things harder when wanting to recruit in 2nd world countries like India or Russia where rule of law is lacking.
Relevant http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html
If I look up to someone because I like the music, art or their general achievements, I don't care much how they look like or more specifically that they are similar to me. On the contrary, it may be advantageous to see people your are on the line with that are completely different to you. Good lesson on how looks can be deceiving.
(checks if it's April 1. No?)

I am slightly stunned. The word Facebook must have billions of name recognition.

I think the final analysis part hints at the underlying driver - Zukerberg no longer cares about running an advertising business with global moderation problems (I mean who would - this is only solvable with national legislation about what is and is not acceptable to publish. Then the issue is not facebooks)

The problem is for Facebook - if the CEO / controlling shareholder is not interested in anything but the side research project, who is running the show / how do the investors judge the inevitable internal politics this throws up.

It's not going to be a good few years for Facebook
Something is disrupting the software industry and might cause a drop in salaries, and some people on HN are acting like the sky is falling. This is how taxi drivers felt when Uber and Lyft came for their wages. Or how booksellers felt when Amazon ate their industry. Or how so many other people felt when we cheer for the startups that disrupt lots of other industries. HN is all about this sort of industry-shifting change.

This is not a bad thing. It's just a change that you are potentially on the wrong side of. Work out how to capitalize on it. Figure out an angle, start a company, and profit from it.

I used the shift to remote work to move company and net myself a better, fully remote role and a ~50% raise. And that's the lazy, low risk way to take advantage of it. There is a whole world of opportunity here.
Your theory is interesting but what about the studies that link noise to stress and health issues?[0] Maybe background noises of voices have a different effect?

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5898791/
What about the international courts who came to the same conclusion? Are they all bought by chevron too? I am so fucking sick of people excusing bad behavior because they have drunk so much kool-aid they can't accept that the world is not black and white.
Hey I’m a MMO dev vet, they’re not viable as the unique aspects were adopted widely by the industry.

You’re going to see more games like Genshin Impact and the phantasy star online update. Open world multiplayer games without the massively part.

Roblox largely is the modern source mod scene but monetized.
LeetCode – Remove Element
The tldr of his book:

1. Build a highly profitable and cashflow rich business (no tips on how to do that)

2. Instead of doing all the work yourself, hire people.

He realised that most of readers probably have a job so he chucked in something for the wagies:

Find someone in Philippines to do your job and pocket the difference!

Ha ha! Guess he has never had a job? They mostly pay you to communicate not work! Also IP issues!
There are countless discussions on HN and elsewhere about the "evils" of Facebook, Google or corporation X. But people who talk about these "evils" are in minority.

The general public finds the products of Google, Facebook and corporation X as being convenient, not evil.

There are many alternative social networks, search engines, chat apps, operating systems which for some reason don't have so much success. If they don't start being more convenient and more tempting to the public, we are still stuck with the products of "evil" corporations.

The governments of the world won't do anything to change the situation so the situation will only change if alternative products become more desirable by the public.
> Sort of like how humans might be evolving towards color blindness because being able to tell the difference between red and green doesn't necessarily increase our ability to have children.

Doesn't this hold true for "dumbness" as well? Being dumb is no longer an obstacle in having a reproductive success.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was a peak in the reproduction rate bell curve around IQ 80-90.
It has nothing to do with spending. This whole problem stems from shutting countries down. Now it's all stacked up ready to go back into the economy, but we can't move fast enough. In time it will iron itself out, but high oil prices don't help, empty shipping containers stacked up don't help, the ports only working 8 hours don't help. It's a bunch of little stuff that added up to make a major problem.
Depends how you consider what is your life. If your life is work, yeah, stepping down from some VP-role looks pretty terrible. When your life doesn't revolve around work, you have enough money, etc... Better to fuck off from that VP position.

Personally how I view myself destroying my life is by trying to climb the corporate career ladder. There is nothing in there except for money. Your morals, your values, everything that makes you "you" goes out of the whack when you are selling your soul to a corporation.

No, thank you.
It’s very rare for a disbarred lawyer to spend 7 years ignoring court orders. Kaplan is really pissed off and wants consequences.
The rise and fall of 4HWW’s popularity seems to correlate with the number of “passive income” posts on HN. Haven’t seen any of those for a while.
I’ve been doing this for a long, long time, and RDP over SSH ato a recent build of Xrdp (with Openbox and a minimal DE) has been very productive.

(As an aside, the blog post is… disconcerting. I was expecting long form and not what my brain initially believed to be a mass of banners interrupting the actual text. Extremely hard to end until the end, reminded me of TikTok).
Mark thinks hes James Halliday
> His modus operandi is to take few clever counter-intutive bits and expand into 100s of pages of book

I felt like that reading “the subtle art of not giving a fuck”. Great first chapter, and the rest feels like fillers. Is tim ferris book like that? I was really looking forward to read it.
If Google required end to end encryption else people's messages go to spam, email administrators would go and update their systems.
Outsourcing already happened without salaries equalising. To the extent that it can be done, it has been done. For instance, I have a constant stream of people on LinkedIn wanting to sell me projects in eastern Europe and India.

I think the thing to think about is how negotiating positions change. On the face of it you'd think it's bad for Western devs because there's more competition. But it's also bad for hiring managers because there's more of them competing too. I recently had a remote offer gazumped by another one, which would not have happened in the days of "all finance jobs are in a London office".

For people in the low income countries, they have the double edged sword of low cost of living. OTOH they can live like princes on a western salary. OTOH they have to give up some of that because anyone bargaining with them knows they will share a large chunk of the excess in the form of a lower salary. You can cry "same work same pay" all you like, they will agree a lower salary themselves.

There's also a eye of the needle effect. If someone had been a FAANG or similarly hard to get role, people are going to want to pay them more, just because. Similarly if someone hasn't worked in the west and gotten paid in the west, people will negotiate lower pay for them. This is really awesome if you were a FAANG guy whose family is Indian, you'd get a top % of the world income in a middle income country. But for most of the unanointed, it's good but not great.
Looks like that won't be in the bill.

But it's critical to note that the proposal has different rules for privately held stock & real estate. So the tweet author's buried argument doesn't hold water.

I believe those assets would mostly be treated the same as they currently are, e.g. sold or death.

For the 700 or so people who are targeted it basically creates a tax on the collateralized loans they get to avoid selling stock/cap gains in the first place. While not doing that directly, that's the effect of it.

And they get 5 years to pay the initial bill. 23.8% / 5 = 4.7% growth a year to be even (well something like 6 or 7 adding the new annual 23%). Most of these guys will likely generate more on paper profit than and they get deductions for any losses if they don't

It's what pisses me off most about the proposed Purdue Sackler settlement. Giving billionaires such long lead times to pay off fines and taxes allows them make more money than they owe.

The last graph on the WSJ article though says “Smart investment bankers and asset managers are already thinking about how to financially engineer products that will emulate existing stocks but be hard to value”

Check out the 2nd link for Pandora Paper reporting showing one egregious example of how they take advantage of this.

The owner of Nike puts millions of nike stock into a GRAT, which is privately held, and then the government gives that grat a 15% discount before it's passed along to his children.

Shouldn't get tax benefits for something that you claim is harder to sell (privately held stock) when in actuality the assets are 100% publicly traded nike stock.

The Wyden tax bill is a 100 pages long so maybe it goes after some of that crud, but there will always a scheme to lower your taxes.

https://archive.md/W2074
https://archive.md/yN7M7
I certainly hope you're right in your implied statement about climate change.
My peers in Chennai earn now in USD what I earned in 2008 (with reasonable schedules for the most part). My salary has since doubled but the gap is closing.
Those emotions are controlled. You feel sad because something sad happened, but not to you. This is basic empathy. But it's not the same. And the only reason you feel empathy, typically, is because you can relate. But you wouldn't be able to relate if you had no sadness yourself. Because you never allow bad things to happen in your little metaverse.

How does your mother die in VR? How does your best friend die in a car crash? How do you learn your Grandpa doesn't recognize you anymore? Or to learn you have a terminal illness? How do you get so nervous to meet a person your face feels like it's on fire, work up nerve, get rejected, and go home wanting to die? Those are real feelings entertainment cannot reproduce.

Nothing virtual is real. No movies are real. Not yet, at least.
I don't know. I imagine it takes a lot longer than that to cool down though, ans perhaps you can't run the machinery without glass in it to take the heat away?
Programming is a metaphor of life.
> There are people in the governments of every nuclear power would use their weapons aggressively given the chance.

You're right so far. North Korea and Iran are ideologically opposed to the West, and both have ICBM capabilities. China also, but they have mixed goals (dominate the world, while parasiting off the US financially and technologically, without killing too many only-childs in war, while importing 50% of their energy and food without interruption.)

Chinese politicians have suggested publicly sending two warships for every Western one in the South China Sea, and ramming and sinking each Western one with one of theirs.

Also, Xi has recently threatened to use nuclear weapons against Guam and Japan. It's one thing to own them, but quite another to make specific threats to use them.

> That's why policies of disarmament are so necessary.

Not gonna happen with rogue actors like NK and Iran, or countries like China that won't take no for an answer.

In addition, the US can't disarm since most of the world is under our defense umbrella. Sadly, the weaker that umbrealla gets (ie. Scarborough Shoals scandal), the bigger the arms race in the Indo-Pacific region, as seen in the news currently. Very likely Japan will announce their own bomb in the next year (they've had ICBMs for decades aka NASDA.)

> Nuclear war is the single biggest existential threat humanity faces.

After the Cuban missile crisis, 2021 is the most dangerous time in history.

Note there was a second Cuban missile crisis, as the USSR left behind half of their nuclear missiles under the control of Castro, who the Kremlin slowly realized wanted to actually use them. The USSR used diplomacy to quietly get them back with the precept that it was required under a treaty that Castro had signed (Gromyko engineered that.)
Companies that make huge bets and succeed don't need to boast about how courageous they are. Gelsinger must feel desperate to parade himself in public this way before he has actually accomplished anything. He strikes me as another John Scully type.
> That's not a real court. That's one of those joke courts...

Right. It's not like the courts in Ecuador, which are "real" courts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Ecuador
What, I guess you never tried VR
> The only advantage I can see is that dash is a bit faster than bash or zsh, but it's not that much of a difference in real scripts.

It also consumes quite a bit less memory, which can be relevant for shell wrappers or other long running scripts. That's the primary reason I started writing my scripts for dash rather than bash. The other advantages (portability, lack of cognitive overload caused by bash's infinitely long list of features and quirks) were an unforeseen bonus.
Facebook’s Metaverse Will Change the World
Agreed. I work for a large US pharma. We tried outsourcing 10-15 years back and learned two things: 1) you will lose IP by the bucketsful if you outsource to certain countries, and 2) you will have a tough time retaining any kind of institutional memory from outsourcers since their staff moves around onto tasks for other companies or change jobs too fast to even build basic memory of your company's needs or infrastructure.

In the end, we opened offices of our own in less expensive parts pf the US and the world where wages were lower. But since then, wages have risen substantially in several of those sites, making even this strategy largely pointless. Not to mention other challenges like distributing workgroups and communications across 5 time zones, some of which are 12 hours apart from our HQ.

I'm not sure where we go next, since outsourcing and out-officing have both failed to live up to expectations. Regardless, I don't see remote work as solving these problems. Unless those wages are dirt cheap, remoting more staff will only make our past problems worse.
I'm this old
With Apple recent moves of blocking tracking he can’t properly monetize his assets anymore. He’s subject to the whims of the platforms. He wants to be that platform.
I'm imagining the author of this being called in an interview and writing this on the whiteboard. Followed by the CTO offering his job to him.
What damage though?
That is true, perhaps its a difference in drivers and operating systems?. it hard to tell if the benchmark is bad without having the same setup to test against because anything could impact it really.
I am not sure what you see as past failures, in the last decade I've already seen first hand long term outsourced projects with Romanian teams and Vietnamese team, and we weren't even their main clients.

I don't think engineers in France or London (and I assume the US) are getting paid big bucks for actual basic work, that ship has long sailed IMO.
Why did his appeal fail? Shouldnt the trial judge have recused himself from this case?
It's still functional website in Ukraine. There is even an email service.
Being able to use a toilet and properly wash your hands is one of the most important things in a job, and in any place. The fact that there is prctically no plague or cholera in developed countries (among other illnesses) is due exactly to that.
Here's from the Wikipedia article on the judge (Kaplan).

> Kaplan has been accused of displaying a pro-corporate bias in the case.[12] At the hearing, Alberto Guerra, a former Ecuadorian judge, testified for Chevron, claiming Donziger bribed him and others to win the case by fraud. Guerra's testimony was cited by Kaplan as a key factor in his decision. In 2015, Guerra claimed his testimony against Donziger had been largely a lie.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_A._Kaplan#Chevron_vs_Don...
I have been a dog trainer for about 16 years now and see this behaviour countless time. Most commonly on shepherd typed dog. But some hunting dog do it too.

It's always linked to how focus the dog is something. It's also when you repeat multiple time the same command that you trigger this behaviour. Like they focus on it.
Add How to Win Friends and Influence People to the list. It's easily distilled down to a few notecards at most.

That said, I tried an experiment - I read half the book, and read a summary of the second half. After all, it was getting repetitive. I remember the first half of the book, but not the second. (I should probably go back and read it at some point now.) That repetition, the stories and examples, really helped drive the points home, even if they felt excessive at the time.
File-Scoped Namespaces – A Look at New Language Features in C# 10
And look how far it has gone while those other companies failed.