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Everything we have learnt about companies in the past decade or century makes me doubt this. One recent standard is Google's AMP, which was marketed as a standard to improve the web. It was shown in the recent court filings to be used as a way to impede header bidding and they added 1 second delays to non-AMP ads to give AMP a boost. Like we have clearly defined and enshrined in law the #1 law of all companies - maximize shareholder value. The second shareholder value conflicts with public good, there can only be one winner. Why is anyone surprised?

Comparing themselves to W3C is a nice trick but they are not at all alike. W3C is a non-profit funded by its members. Facebook is a shareholder-controlled corporation.
At its core, creating a closed system for an open community is destructive. Even the fact that a "blurred" frequently used concept - meta - is chosen does not make him a leader. It seems to me that Mark missed this time.

In 2017, I analyzed a lot of startups based on blockchain technologies. I saw that most of them publicly declare decentralization, in fact leaving the management of the "main algorithm" to the owner of the idea. This is inadequate to the existing demand of a free society!
I'm gonna give a not so popular opinion:
Facebook may have a future beyond social media, or at least beyond what we know as social media. Back when Google was absolutely not this huge, they were a company whose main products were a search engine, a web mail client (which wasn't even the most popular), and a video content provider. They had to fight against powerful and big Microsoft, who controlled all the spectrum of computing (back in 2007, even IIS was popular) in a closed and proprietary manner, who applied the rules of EEE as a means of survival and who made sure nobody ate its cake.

But then, Google built a platform based on open source software that was beyond what anybody had to offer back then (except for the iPhone, which was better but restricted to Apple), and now we know how the story goes (Alphabet has significantly higher revenue than Microsoft, and controls the web, the majority of phone devices and is gaining substantial market share in Microsoft's territory, the PC).

However, there's a platform nobody has conquered yet, because it's inmature: AR. This is an opportunity for Facebook (Meta). They know about social (Google doesn't that much, and for sure the rage nowadays is social interaction with the people, there you see Twitch's success), and they know about AR and VR. I can't say they've any significant advantage over Google, but I believe they can be competitive.

Recent news is they're working on a Microkernel-based OS (I think it's been managed by a top Windows NT co-developer, so serious people that know their stuff), with a small footprint to conquer AR, as the current software simply doesn't cut it. We don't know its status vs. Google's Fuchsia, which is the other contender, but if they can pull it off, it's a substantial improvement and a solid foundation for the future. The idea is to repeat Android's road to success: open but controlled ecosystem that many OEMs can take advantage of. I'm all in for that, and I hope it's either them or Fuchsia the ones that get us to the future (because I honestly don't believe Linux will be). Of course, I'd say Fuchsia seems much more ready, and they're not ready at all.

Plus, they're working on a smartwatch. Let's see how it is, because Google has tried for long, but they simply are not competitive vs. Apple. Facebook could do something different.

Again, it's not my intention to bash Linux, or to say I like Facebook. I absolutely hate FB's social practices, but they know how to engage people, how to do social, and their work on Open Source, crypto, the internet as a whole and VR/AR is absolutely splendid, and for that, they deserve credit.
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The point the OP is making is VR isn’t a domain where you test drive practical family cars. Sure you have racing games but how many people can afford, let alone justify, high ended performance cars for their family? And how many racing games do you see where people are driving boring (relatively speaking) family cars?

The point about VR games are that they’re an unrealistic escape. If you wanted a 1:1 with actual reality then you wouldn’t need Virtual Reality in the first place.
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How do you with prime real estate markets like NYC, Bay Area, LA, etc? I would assume similar highly coveted areas will be exception to the rule.
What about the Japan housing model? Apparently they don't have these property bubbles anymore.
That's a bit harsh on the Nissan Cube!
>Any kind of white supremacist behavior is not something to be treasured as freedom, because that enables their harmful behavior against other citizens.

But inciting on harmful behavior against white people is somehow the right thing to do?

I believe all people should be treated against the same set of rules.
They dealt it with quickly in China now too, for the same reasons.
The metaverse for me is minecraft roblox reddit any multiplayer computer game.

Even hacker news.
They have one in Russia! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Lomonosov
I was trying to get an idea of what Japanese house prices are, but I couldn't find much beyond the cost of a new house. Which is less than in the US, but not by much more than 10-20%. I understand houses in Japan don't typically appreciate in value like they do in the US though. They like to buy new and don't see it as an investment.

I assume a huge factor has to simply be that Japan's GDP and population growth has been basically flat for ~25 years.
Same with manual transmissions. But watching my gf obsess over yeast cultures, I would say same about baking bread. Some people love a challenge; other people don't get it.
Oh cool, I didn't know about this. I guess they tend to publish more infrastructure-oriented papers, which is understandable, but I wish there was more in general about the developer APIs that they enable and how they benefit productivity from a product engineer's point of view.
The parent comment's point is not that there is no good cooking advice out there, but instead that there are enough variables that it can't be taken at face value.

I've used a recipe that have worked very well for me but then gave radically different results when I used a different casserole dish. I managed to fix it by taking the lid off later in the process and adjusting the oven temperature by 30°C. Not many recipes mention that amount of temperature variation depending on what cooking equipment you're using.
Richest country in Europe? GDP per Capita is much higher in Switzerland. In fact, it is almost double.

But houses there are also very expensive. Basically unaffordable if you don't get help from either a second high income or money from parents etc.
> bullshit because tech moguls missed the part where cyberpunk is dystopian

This blog "missed the part" too. I hate how this site has no <noscript> warning for a JS-required blog entry and then also wants you to connect to Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Syndication, and Taboola. Facebook deserves all the criticism and then some, but if behind the scenes you're selling out your readers, you're not much better IMO. Outline wants to "empower readers" and their ToS page doesn't even work (https://www.outline.com/terms.html).
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I don't know, that just sounds like pitching a TV show without writers. Even a reality TV show or a cooking show needs writers to keep things entertaining. Otherwise, you sort of just have nothing to look at.

> You can code your own physical spaces and code your own avatar's abilities

I ask again: why can't I code my avatar to be the most OP avatar that ever exists? I will create a weapon that kills people if they look at me. What's the incentive to purchase new things if everyone can just code the most OP version and undercut the person next door? I will have the best cars, the funniest T-shirts, and the strongest potions, and you cannot stop me. Because I write Lua scripts.

There's some element of cooperation that is usually assumed when people talk about the metaverse but I don't see any incentive to maintain it that way. Garry's Mod and Roblox are platforms that do what you're talking about, today. The way they maintain this cooperation is that they prevent users from having strong autonomy in games that others make. In Roblox, your avatar is limited to a few cosmetic choices for customization, and in Garry's Mod, you don't really have any customization at all in most game modes.
Not a topologist, but my understanding is that high dimensions can be handled by one set of methods because there's so much freedom, while low dimensions can be handled by another set of methods because they're so constrained. And so there ends up being a nasty point in the middle that isn't constrained enough to be handled by low-dimensional techniques or free enough to be handled by high-dimensional techniques. Not being much of a topologist, though, I couldn't possibly say why that middle point occurs where it does.
I for one am waiting for GT 10: Metaverse. So I can get stuck in virtual traffic, and be late for a virtual meeting.
So, I have a meta question: how does one go doing writeups like this? I mean, I kinda tried once post-factum, but I feel details are already starting to get blurry at that point in my memory (esp. of all the failed paths, but also byte offsets, checked fields, Google searches, etc.), as well as the order of events. OTOH, I can hardly imagine doing even such detailed screenshots on every step while actually hacking, as I assume it would slow me down like crazy and most probably break my flow. So, what's the trick??
A creator is also a user, no?
I do think the potential around VR is greatly oversold however there are still benefits outside of gaming: concerts, remote conferences, having kick ass multi-screen home office for those who don’t have the space for one.
>Finding sections of the file where data can be different is not only potentially hard but depends on the type of data. So can't be made generic

I agree, and a cousin comment of mine suggests user-specifiable sampling which can always be a full sample in the "hard case". Often, once one has identified true duplicate candidates, a full compare is desirable to not trust any hash, and that full compare uses a lot of IO. That depends on the user, too.

>Comparing files based on size is trivial and I presume people will always do it first before attempting to use a hash or even CRC.

It is unclear the meow guys did this since they seemed to motivate hash performance based on dedup and they unlikely had IO > 10GB/s in 2018, but it's hard to know for sure.
> Which race?

Are you actually serious? You don’t know which race the US discriminated against in the past 100 years?

The answer is black people aka African-Americans (as well as Chinese but that’s just outside the 100 years) [1]

You do realise that black people did not have freedom of speech for almost all of America’s history?

The idea that America is some bastion of free speech is utter nonsense, when you consider that a significant portion of its population was denied this (and much more) based only on the colour of their skin.

I mean if you think about for most of America’s history it’s been a literal fascist state.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
They do this every time.
I like a similar joke that goes:

Give a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day.

Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Less similar, but another classic of dark humor, is the poster of Stalin captioned:

Dark humor is like food.

Not everyone gets it.
`Sparse` generated 50643 16-bit values, hashed them, and found 2 collisions in the high 32 bits of the output

This test has a 3.6% chance of producing two or more collisions. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=probability+x%3E%3D2+p...

Considering the number of tests and hash functions, the failed tests will simply be noise. The default config should use a much higher significance threshold, testing for a number of seeds and looking at the combined statistics would be one way of achieving that.

> The MD5 row shows no failure; only the function that truncates to the low 32 bit has failures.

Truncated MD5 should behave like an ideal 32-bit hash function.

> it's a bit like the PRNG wars: you can always come up with a test that makes a function look bad, but a ton of failure is definitely a bad sign.

For a CSPRNG you shouldn't be able to come up with any test that'll fail more often that you'd statistically expect from truly random numbers (averaging over random enough random seeds).
I don't believe in headgears, even though facebook will try hard to monetize their investment in oculus. Phones were successful because they adopt the unintrusive form factor of a book: you don't need to make time and space away from reality for it. VR/AR requires the time and space to be alone and it wears out over time as the bandwidth of communication is low, probably even lower than in video chat.

But turning every game to a social 3d world you can use on a laptop and (minimally use) in a phone is something that might work. I mean simple social gaming like farmville is already bridging those form factors.
It isn't faster than the L1 memory system which is the most relevant thing to measure to compare hash algos, as already explained.
Much as I hate FB, as a piano player I loved their little graphic showing how mixed reality would send the notes down to your hand positions on the piano as an endless Star Wars kind of scroll thing. I would do that just to exercise my mind with some classical or jazz pieces. I can think of a slew of other ways VR is useful. Training doctors for surgery. Training pilots. Mechanical engineering and prototyping. None of that means we should live in VR. Just that it's a powerful tool.
The problem isn’t the “hack”. They’re too dumb to notice. The problem is thinking they’re smart enough to be worth telling.
If you actually care about privacy a better place to start would be the fact that chrome logs you in on the browser level whenever you login to anything with a Google password.

Google is not the only company that has no respect for privacy. Privacy protection needs to go further, and stop privacy invasion completely.

There is a reasonable balance to strike between privacy, design and usability though. That's why I said 2 or 3 fonts. Maybe 4 at a push. If a site is using more than that then either the developers aren't very good, or the designers aren't very good, or it's trying to attack the user's privacy. Whichever one it is, it should be stopped.
How about not wanting to move away?
I would assume Erlang is doing some type of heartbeat at the runtime level. You can always do this in your protocol if you absolutely need to. I know that in Akka Cluster, you configure this to set the rules for a node to be considered alive in the cluster, and if it's dead, all the actors hosted on it will be considered dead, too.

In a distributed system, I'm pretty certain you cannot guarantee receipt of an expected message, no matter what you try to do.
>Quite the opposite of what some comments here suggest, encouraging home ownership keeps life affordable. It is one way to stave off an oligarchy of property owners.

A better way would be to ensure that supply can continue to increase with demand, rather than encourage speculative buying and holding of land off the market in the hopes of making a fortune flipping it to the next generation and slowing down any attempt to redevelop. "Oh at least you're locked in" is at best a patch.

>See, for example, Fannie Mae's mission,

Yes, that's what they say but that translates into making housing an investment, which (see the several other comments on this point) goes directly contrary to it being affordable. I don't see what's better about mom-and-pops milking the next generation rather than a big conglomerate -- the result is the same.

>Finance people who make loans take issue with this since they have to match prices with a "government-backed" business, although it's only a charter which isn't the same as govt-backed. Plus, tons of businesses were supported by government in 2008 and 2020-2021 so that point is moot.

Wait, what? Finance people love Fannie Mae and the like because it means they can dump mortgages on a government agency merely because they meet some ossified standard rather than being legitimately below risk thresholds by a realistic assessment. And then not have to worry about fixing a rate that's too low for 30 years.
I wonder how many hard drives is that
The metaverse goes against consumer trends in web browsing. People want to consume their information on the go while doing other things, this is why mobile presently dominates the web.

Who wants to context switch from reality into a virtual world just so they can see what the new Ford pickup looks like? Nobody, thats who.

This whole concept reads to make like a Facebook exec went into a coma just as Second Life was taking off and woke up recently demanding that Facebook cease on what they believe will clearly be the future of online interaction.
A user of another creator. There is a hieararchy of creators and at the top sits Great Architect Zuck
Owning a house is not a basic need by any definition I’ve ever seen. This premise that having access to housing and owning a house are the same thing is just so plainly wrong, that it undermines the credibility of most housing reform arguments.
> True inflation has likely been ~4% since 2008. The S&P average is ~7.25% per year. So half of the "capital gains" the ordinary index fund investor would pay are just inflation.

How does one measure "true inflation?" I am sympathetic to the idea that inflation is nearly unmeasurable, but not the idea that "true inflation" was happening when it clearly, obviously was not.

> And what's worst - the Fed is causing so much of that inflation.

The Fed causes all inflation (at least in the US – Europeans have the EU central bank and Britishers have the Bank of England). Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
Note that hydrogen fluoride was the first thing featured on that column, even before the name of the series settled down: https://archive.md/gX3xF

> HF has actually been used right out of the cylinder for a long time in Merrifield peptide synthesizers. It’s the traditional way to cleave the peptide off the resin at the final step, so there are actually a lot of people who’ve used the stuff. But it’s in a dedicated apparatus that is (that had better be) well sealed, and people treat it with due respect. At a former employer of mine, there was an accident with one of these machines right before I joined the company. The shout “HF LEAK!” went out into the halls, and I’m told that the whole area set a never-to-be-equaled evacuation record.

By the fire diamond metric, HF is relatively tame, at 4 0 1, except that anything with a health rating of 4 ("very short exposure could cause death or major residual injury") is unsuitable for most purposes. So you can't set it on fire. Doesn't matter.
That's really my question with almost everything related to crypto, "what is decentralization actually adding here?" It's cool, I guess, but it's wasteful.
This is not correct. Almost all old ngram references are not to do with the current terms usage.

That's because the term is wrong.

It's not social distancing it should be physical distancing. Even then it should be more abstract and more about restricting shared air.

This has been a PR failure.

Contagion used it in 2011 (Not Outbreak). So it is a old term that might be interesting to trace. One might guess SARS? Or maybe Contagion even made it famous.

(And bees can't social distance, you'd have to be brain dead to believe this. No animal can. Humans couldn't for most of their time on Earth. Animals can avoid diseased animals and perhaps emergent behaviour of a hive might seem like bees social distance, but the bee isn't. But it's a stupid name anyway, so it's kinda obvious the paper is crap)
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The metaverse is already here, it's called the internet
Yeah I was thinking he could have just flipped the KEY_WOW64_64KEY or the KEY_WOW64_32KEY on where ever it opened the registry in the installer Or use compatibility mode?
I am still glad he got it working in the end.
don't need progressively larger files (like images)

SVGs are vectors so they aren't larger at larger sizes, and they can be responsive so you don't always have to display the same image at every size.
You're forgetting about the need for closeness and connection. Suicide rates among youth are at an all-time high. Crime and murder rates have gone up tremendously since the beginning of the pandemic. Saving 30,000 from the flu sounds great, but there are serious impacts from the extreme mask mandates and social distancing and the ones I mentioned are just what are immediately obvious. I imagine when you see the educational impact that many low income students actually end up suffering the most during the pandemic. Many teachers simply don't care if students aren't in school anymore. After all, if a student has the sniffles they'll get quarantined from school for 10+ days with no supplemental education.

I find what you're proposing might actually say more about your mental state than that of the people you think are endangering others by existing and wanting human connection.
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Sex preppers, preparing indefinitely for something that's unlikely to happen;)
What’s the Windows equivalent of strace for open calls? I enjoyed the write up but curious about the tools.

Also, funny thing but 90% of the time I am 8x as motivated to solve a problem for a loved one as I am for myself.

For me, this would have been a “do something else” or “pirate it” moment.
> improves to 80%.

Sounds interesting. If you happen to have links to any articles about that, it'd be interesting to read
I don't know when it began but AirBNB weaponized it to a ridiculous degree. The ability to basically automate the process of renting out your house at absurdly inflated prices is actively removing inventory from the housing market in addition to removing customers from the hotel industry.

I've never found agreement when speaking out against renting on HN. Empty houses outnumber the homeless 6 to 1 [0] and yet somehow it's more important that we ensure landlords can protect their effortless investments and waste more and more land on non-dense, temporary housing.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/CapitalismVSocialism/comments/agbo4...
The most important thing in the metaverse will be figuring out ways to make payment methods readily available.
An army of analysts is working on this problem right now. Things that are expected to be fun or novel in the metaverse are just proxies to payment methods. Facebook is building a 3D version of Amazon.
roku, go all in on it, show them your teeth. but seriously, when the brand came out, it actually become a huge part of my family right away, everyone was talking about it. this was like the first year, fond memories
If I’m living my life with my head stuffed into a doohicky then why do I need a car at all?

How much extra do I pay to get wired up to feeding and waste tubes for 24/7 access?

I’ve seen the Matrix, so I assume I need a big pod full of pink gloop in my bathroom too?
> Your app should include features, content, and UI that elevate it beyond a repackaged website.

Isn't this just a definition that agrees with useful PWAs? Offline support using service workers and client side storage, notifications, mobile first ui, etc.