skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he is talking about tech founders. I think he is talking about mom and pop businesses of all types.

Tech founders are a different breed.
Maybe but I'd be surprised. How many (both tech folks or news articles) really associate Fitbit/Waymo/DeepMind primarily with Alphabet instead of Google? Even clicking a recent story which refers to it as an Alphabet subsidy they reference it as "DeepMind, which is owned by Google parent Alphabet,".
No, you're not being paranoid.

This is the only way. And beware, they might still be connecting to some public wifi hotspot behind your back.
The thing with cooking meth is that you don't have to be comfortable putting it in your body. You just have to be comfortable selling it to someone else who will put it in their body! Unfortunately, for many meth producers/dealers that bar is not very high.
My point in, uh, scolding you for that take is that the circumstantial evidence is _massive_ for each of them, and I ... have a feeling... that you do not appreciate that fact. (well! not for dark energy, but also nobody would disagree with you that dark energy isn't much of a theory. It's the other two that are well-founded in detailed experimental evidence).

For my part I don't think the evidence for dark matter is any more 'circumstantial' than the evidence for massive neutrinos or the Higgs. Both are well indicated in extensive data .. by their byproducts and effects on other matter. But neither has been 'seen directly'; indeed it's not even clear what it would mean to see them directly, given that they apparently don't interact via the forces we can directly detect.
You can't reason about poor people receiving modest sums from lottery winners response to huge windfalls because it's 2 different populations reacting to 2 different scenarios.

People budget poorly in response to an instant massive change in wealth because much of America not just the poor are living financial lives with very short horizons. They make decisions based on gut feelings of can I afford that not mathematical projections. Having a balance of millions feels perceptively like unlimited money so many find the limits of their funds.

Likewise because say a tax refund is too little money to change their lives and not needed to pay bills poor people "fritter" them away on things that they want. This might be unwise compared to saving for a rainy day but it's not a cause of poverty it's a gut decision. Giving people money in a savings account over time with incentive for delaying withdrawal would be likely to produce a different gut decision.

It is deeply ironic that anyone who gets a 6 dollar coffee or 5000 on a vacation probably wastes more than Jane poor did on the TV while declaring the virtues of austerity.
WoW used to work. A bunch of people at my (IPv6 friendly) ISP used to play it and made a big deal about the fact that WoW was actually IPv6-enabled. At some point they broke it

[Edited to clarify: Blizzard broke it, not my ISP]
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29025058
> The offenders can also mostly be fixed using clatd.

I had not heard of https://github.com/toreanderson/clatd before, might be new to others as well:

" It allows an IPv6-only host to have IPv4 connectivity that is translated to IPv6 before being routed to an upstream PLAT (which is typically a Stateful NAT64 operated by the ISP) and there translated back to IPv4 before being routed to the IPv4 internet. "
Anecdotally, After my one and only use of Psilocybin where I cried for about 5 hours straight, I did not feel the desire to do it again.
That’s really interesting - could you say anything about real world design process for a modern state of the art CPU? Is that all done in lower-level RTL?
And yet they destabilized things by adding the deprecation/trying to get rid of it. And what even was the point of that?
I got good results from paying attention to what topics are particularly sensitive in the HN community and just not commenting on them.
The endpoint is to deliver new and targeted ads. And firmware updates.

Tracking won’t work without a phone home though. But that’s a solved problem. We’ve been delivering ads for a while without 100% knowing which are watched.
Considering the history of rocket development can be pretty fairly summarized as '[intelligently] breaking things' that seems a counter-productive design philosophy.
I am bored of life, what should I do?
Hey how do you reconcile your beliefs about Jesus with your stance on welfare for non-christians?

I'm just curious and I don't know any conservative catholics in real life.
I think your generalizations are very wrong. Ketamine may be bad when abused, but when used correctly for depression, it can be extremely effective and good. It changed my life greatly, for the better. And I wouldn’t say that psilocybin is unequivocally good either. The worst trip I ever had was on mushrooms. It was extremely traumatic in a way that had lasting effects. It changed my life greatly, for the worse.
I'm curious what you mean by phasing these in slowly. I've seen the issue crop up in every Georgist or valuation-based tax proposal I've seen, but I'd love to learn more if there are reasonable ways around these bad incentive structures.
Changing one bit on a texture or shifting a vertex by one bit changes the hash. NFT is useless for implementing IP without some other legal enforcement.
Meta is as anodyne as Altria.
First one thing, and then the next.

The spiral is in its early innings right now. Hold on tight!
Kinda, yes. You can have a opinion that is classist/racist without being a classist/racist. This is one of the points of systemic racism/classism. You have this opinion because it's been informed via the zeitgeist of American rhetoric.

The question is, given this new information, do you update your priors and your opinion?
I think there are some small form factor 3060s and 3060 Tis that will fit in this case. If you want to fit a 3080 you're gonna have to look at bigger cases like the NR200 or Meshlicious.
Without "-data" meta struck me as corporate appropriation of slang. 'Hella' would be more entertaining.
Is this bet on VR making the goggles a hardware requirement? So this new world will only be available to those who can afford gaming hardware and a high speed internet connection?
I'd never heard that, but off the top of my head, it seems exceedingly unlikely.
What?!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3817840
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7266618

Unless you're an extremely successful businessman yourself, calling those acquisitions no-brainers is just completely dishonest.
an interesting idea but the technology just isn't there.

even if the technology were here, ultimately the things people enjoy involve reality - eating, vacations, traveling, etc.

I'd go the other extreme actually and make some sort of "superreality"

if you ask a million people "what brings you joy" - the vast majority of the answers will involve spending time with other people in person. video games, social media, etc. only serve as a gateway to reality. a "metaverse" would ultimately be at odds with this.
Borrow is used like this some times in working class England too. But this form is frowned upon in more ‘educated’ circles.
There's a world of difference between sharing cat/dinner/vacation photos with friends and family and living in some kind of fantasy animated cartoon world.

The social dynamics are completely different. Second Life showed that very clearly.

The three biggest things in Second Life were fantasy consumerism, fantasy entrepreneurship, and fantasy sex.

Unless FB is getting into those markets it's going to find the metaverse a tough sell.

Not least because the whole point of fantasy is that it's not really you. So that immediately conflicts with FB's only-real-identities dogma.
I didn't see any pedantry, and nobody here needs saving (except from themselves).
Here in Russia our local social networks are more popular than FB but I'd say they're way more toxic than FB. Some years ago it was very easy to find child porn with a few clicks. At least there's some conversation in the US going on the harmful effects of social networks; here no one cares. People in countries where FB is the only option simply don't have anything to compare it to; they can't know it's a pretty decent social network, compared to some.
This brought back memories, thank you :')
I don't know if I agree. Most of my job is typing text into various boxes - web-apps, text-editors, terminals. Fundamentally, long-term productivity in this task is about ergonomics. Wearing something on my head for 8+ hours is like anti-ergonomics, and the benefits are dubious. I could have a bunch of virtual displays in a meta-space, or I could just area bunch of real monitors. And the latter solution is generally simpler.

But even if using a VR rig to simulate a bunch of displays would be more efficient, that's not a "metaverse". It's just a VR display. To me a metaverse implies virtual interaction with other people - otherwise what's the point? I find I'm more effective when I have uninterrupted quiet time to work so why would I want to work in a meta-verse where I can be interrupted at any time in a more invasive way than Slack or email can manage? It's like an open-office from hell. Saying it's the future of work is extremely premature.

Edit:

On the topic of this:

> it's too good, and productivity is enhanced on the level of "bicycle for the mind"

If that's true, Facebook will never crack it. Facebook's products are the opposite of "a bicycle for the mind" - they push experiences and content on you instead of putting you in control. I have serious doubts they could develop something that requires giving the user power over their own experience - the condescending attitude of "we know what's best for you" is too ingrained.
Is that what we call to "Advertisement Company" now?
My point was that Google's rebrand DIDN'T work. Very few people know Google as Alphabet. They still know it as Google (the people on the street that is). So, will Facebook's rebrand have the effect of Bell Atlantic + GTE's rebrand as Verizon, or will it have the effect Google's rebrand as Alphabet?

I hope (and feel) like the ruse will not work.
I agree that the gin->mean, whisky->emotional, etc, is all bunk. But I'm still convinced there's a link between alcohol and violence. If nothing else, the lowered cognitive function and reduced inhibition would mean more opportunity to be angry, and less self control.

Like, a drunk person might misinterpret someone accidentally bumping into them as aggression. And would be less likely to suppress the urge to respond in kind.
It is good design, now it looks like a mistake so people react and talk about it rather than just ignore it.
Depends on the kind of application. The advantage of X compared to RDP/VNC/whatever remote desktop protocol is that you transfer only drawing commands, meaning that if you are seeing a static screen no data is transmitted, if only a part of the screen updates only that data is transmitted. The load on the network is lower.

Nowadays with modern video compressing protocols also sending the video like RDP doesn't require a lot of bandwidth either and has an acceptable latency to be fair, but with X it would be even better (and it is, if you ever used X over ssh it works great)
This is how we think about testing for the most part - if a test is 'flaky', it gets looked at very quickly, and if it's not urgent (e.g. the behavior is fine and it's actually a flake), it's skipped in code.

Once the test is skipped, a domain expert can come back and take a look and figure out why it was flaky, and fix it.

If it's urgently broken (e.g. there is real impact), we treat it like an incident and gather people with the right context to fix it quickly.

As long as everyone agrees to these norms, it's not a huge burden to keep this up with thousands of tests. People generally write their tests to be more resilient when they know they're on the hook for them not being flaky, and nobody stays blocked for long when they are permitted to skip a flaky test.
Worked for Xfinity
VR becoming the new TV is highly unlikely because many people multitask while watching TV. this is very difficult to do with VR.
How to Develop Debt
There's a concept I find really useful: Acquired Situational Narcissism. If somebody spends enough time in an environment where everything is about them, they can easily come to believe everything is about them.

Another thing I think is at play is people confusing luck with genius. Zuckerberg is clearly smart, but Facebook was also a right-time, right-place thing. As FaceMash and Facebook showed, he understood his audience because he was his audience. But now, nearly 20 years later, Zuckerberg-the-billionaire has very little in common with the audience he needs if he is going to make the metaverse happen.

I mean, I too read and like Snow Crash, so I get the emotional appeal. But a middle-aged guy's favorite dystopian novel from 30 years ago may not be a useful blueprint today.
Agriculture has been aware of this for a while. It is more complex than that. Loaded containers need to consider balance of this ship, and grain is typically denser/heavier than what came over (most goods come over with a lot of air), so ships need to be carefully loaded, while only empty containers are easier to load because it is easier to balance the ship.

Making the above worse, even though containers are worth more in Asia, and containers of grain are worth a lot: to ship owners they get paid more for the Asia to US trip than the return trip, a ship that leaves the US unloaded (taking on ballast while unloading) and rushes back to Asia makes more money at the end of the year than a ship that waits around in LA to be reloaded with containers.
If I were close to him, I would have had him kidnapped and put on a remote island, far away from all these leeches.
But you don't. You get a vote. That is the point of representative democracy.
You can go check out a demo room at this website (Home Exercise Demo). Inside the room, you can move around with wasd keys, mouse, or the joystick on the left-bottom side.

While the demo is a recording, it is a real-time streaming app. You can try streaming yourself if you have an iphone XR or above (this app requires a depth camera).
If you want to phrase it in programming terms, there's a pretty obvious comparison to semaphores and deadlocks. We've deadlocked. As a workaround we've increased a bunch of our semaphore limits. But we also had those limits for a reason (various balances of safety, efficiency, and available amount of other ancillary resources). Maybe now we'll run out of some other resource, or hit contention somewhere else - we don't really know, the system is big and hasn't been operated in this state before. And on top of that, we didn't solve the fundamental deadlock - if the underlying conditions persist, there's hard limits to how often we can do this before we deadlock permanently.
I think Android includes it too, because some services bind to clat-like ipv4s. But I have not investigated this further so far.
Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
Screw that guy.
I think you have it flipped around.

We still think of Alphabet as Google. So while Facebook may effectively become Meta, people will still say "Facebook does X" when they should technically mean "Meta does X".
NFTs let you own a link to a digital asset... which isn't very useful for an infinitely reproducible asset. With a central entity (eg Meta) there's no need for distributed ownership.
Not the parent, but I hate Facebook because of the negative impact it had on my psychology, feeding my depression and anxiety for years before I broke free and stopped using it. That was about 10 years ago.

They seem to have only gotten worse since then in many ways. And I was an adult when I started using it. I can’t imagine what some of these intrusive social media products are doing to kids.

So I dislike and no longer use Facebook. And also, I do hate it.

I’m usually a pretty positive person and would rarely use the word “hate” in respect of another person. I reserve that word for very few scenarios. But I have to say that in this case it’s perfectly fitting.
> How much would it cost to just send every one of them an Oculus headset for free?

About 0.6-1 trillion dollars, give or take.
HN has its own brand of toxicity and cynicism for sure, but the existence of HN doesn't depend on that. It doesn't need you to be angry to survive, it doesn't need to know about you as a person. If you like the content that surfaces on HN and you get on well in the community then you're good. HN doesn't give a shit if create an account to comment on one or two interesting posts and then never return.

HN can live without you.

FB, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, etc. etc. cannot survive without trying to actively engage you. They are working tirelessly to find ways to rope you back in.

They cannot live without you.
I know that feeling. It's a godlike feeling. We start with literally nothing and we create whole a universe inside the computer. A personal virtual universe that reflects our minds and our understanding. We are the gods of these realms.
Looks like one of the old Visual Studios logos to me.
Meta (previously Facebook) is the ultimate social manipulator.

Your site is losing popularity to a new social media app for phones? Buy that app. Make it basically the same as your version of social media.

Your previously purchased app is losing popularity to an app devoted to ephemeral videos and pictures? Shamelessly copy that app's functionality in every app you own, and even make an exact duplicate app to commodify that feature. Run the competitor into the ground when they refuse to sell to you.

Your collection of almost-the-same-social-media-sites is threatened by a foreign competitor? Lobby for that foreign competitor to be banned from one of the largest single-country markets in the world. That doesn't work? Spread FUD about the foreign competitor's evil. That's doesn't work? Lobby for intense regulation in the social media space to prevent any competitor from ever showing up again.

A series of scandals, leaks, and general scummy profit-seeking behaviour sullies your name even among tech illiterate folks? Change your name so those people can't keep track of what's going on and launder your reputation.

I can't stand Meta. I think Zuckerburg might just be the antichrist (mostly kidding on this one). But I have to hand it to him: he is very savvy at this whole business thing.
Why not? It worked last time.
Does it invalidate the message, if you tell it well?
> Shopify and Stripe are successful with Rails!

Shopify and Github are successful with Rails.

Stripe uses Ruby only.
Hrm, so FAANG becomes MAANG. Add in Microsoft and Uber, MANGA MU. "Yeah, I have been shopping my resume around to the other MANGA MUs."
Well, publicly owned companies have, in the last 20+ years, been very bad at keeping spare capacity around. Lots of "rationalizations" and "rightsizing" and so on have cut all the reserves.

That said, this does read like someone with a personal axe to grind, leading to motivated reasoning.
That's my experience, too. I know a lot of people who are very into tech, across the entire age range. I don't know a single person who owns one of these. But I think they're mostly used by the hardcore gamer crowd, and I only know a couple of those (and neither have a VR headset).
> The US has now outsourced most of the production of goods to places in other countries.

I think that is the point (or one of the points): it's not just logistics and spare capacity - it's a much more complex set of issues.

This isn't something accounting practices or "less greed" would solve, as seems to be implied in the Twitter thread.

Would you have voted for a party that spent $1b annually on mask manufacturing subsidies for masks nobody even bought? Who could have foreseen that demand spike?
https://www.nintendo.com/products/detail/labo-vr-kit/

In a similar vein to phone based VR that we’ve had since Google Cardboard. Modern headsets fuse gyro, accelerometer and camera feature tracking together to stably track the position of the headset and hands/controllers.
> I mean, that is also how the Web Canvas API works. If you want to control this with some messages on a TCP-ish socket then you can use websockets. The web browser already appears to be a superset of all the networked functionality of X.

Yes, in a very inefficient way, you end up using 1Gb of RAM to do something that could have been done with 1Mb. Not important for desktops, but for embedded applications?

> Wayland still is a userspace application too. The protocol itself is what is at a lower level of userspace than X was, of course the compositor can also implement high level features as it sees fit.

Wayland is based on KMS that indeed is a graphic implementation in the kernel itself.
The reason the person-on-the-street doesn't care about Alphabet is that people don't interact with any Alphabet company except Google. Waymo? Calico? Loon? Wing? Hardly any ordinary people think about those. (Maybe some day, but not today.)

By contrast, lots of ordinary people interact with WhatsApp and Instagram. It will be/feel different when they're "owned by Meta" vs. "owned by Facebook."
Whataboutism is not a good defense for FB. All social media companies profiting from hate and addiction are evil.
It disabled my fucking back button. What a perfect encapsulation of what they are about.
That's because all of Google's main consumer properties didn't get branding changes and are still all "Google Maps" or "Google Photos", etc...

WhatsApp and Instagram are much stronger brands, and are not already branded "Facebook WhatsApp" or "WhatsApp by Facebook".
Human species who lived 500k years ago named as Homo bodoensis
Unlike now, where no one makes a living building anything digitally.

Sorry if your post was sarcasm, NFTs have hit some kind of milestone where I can't tell the difference between the jokes and sincere posts.
I didn't, I never heard of the company before this.
It's basically The Matrix but without the cool martial arts moves.

I suppose the ultimate goal is compulsory participation, for more or less overt values of "compulsory."
Meth could have been more fitting.
What things would those be? As far as I know his successes are a) 1 idea he had as a 19-year-old plus b) some other things that he bought with the money from that.
Hate might be strong, but this is kind of like naming your tech company "computer." "Meta" is used across so many industries in the tech sector, and outside. Now it's tied to the stink of "facebook."
Facebook continues its transformation from a website to a video game. They created React to turn the static web into a real-time experience. They realized the browser isn't meant to be a game engine, so they are developing another "web" called the Metaverse, which is really just a big distributed video game. It will be successful i.e. addict hundreds of millions of people.

If you thought Facebook proper had negative social effects, wait for the Metaverse to fully roll out... "Optimizing" the human experience has its limits.
Both Glass and Spectacles were sold only to the "chosen ones".
MAAMA

(Google is now Alphabet)
Remember this AR Demo from Apple way back with the iPhone 8?

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/12/16272904/apple-arkit-demo...

And what commercial applications of this have we seen in the last 4 years?
How many trillions does the US government owe? Is anyone even counting at this point? Just add it to the pile.
They're not really comparable. It mostly comes down to dosage, if you have a beer I don't think you'll be much worse than if you were sober.
I'd like to see less research about how we turn ourselves into optimal work machines and more research about how we reach a maximum vividness of conscious experience.