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> Google, Apple, Airbnb, Stripe, none became the giants they are because they spent billions on a grand vision.

Google set out to catalog the entire internet on day one. If that's not a grand vision that they spent billions on, what is?

AirBNB set out to disrupt the entire vacation rental market.

Stripe set out to disrupt the entire POS payment market.

Apple is the only one who fits your narrative: they set out to make a hobby PC then Jobs wanted to ... oh right, disrupt the entire PC market with Mac, but that came 7 years later so OK.
That's because you are comparing Facebook to startups when you should be comparing Facebook to AT&T. AT&T spent billions on Bell Labs and gave us the transistor among other things like modern day switching networks. AT&T was a government sanctioned monopoly, and for that privileged they spent billions on research.

Keep in mind that billions were already spent on the technology behind the metaverse in research institutions and government labs. Think internet, computers, AI tech, VR tech, all had billions of investment from the public sector already.

What you are seeing with the metaverse is a privatization of the technology that already had substantial public investment.

And even your startups are just piggy backing off billions spent in research. Google itself was started by a government grant for example.

In other words when you look at spend at starups, you are just looking at the tip of an iceberg. Where under the water there was billions spent already by the public.
It's been going for well over a decade, and it's intensifying.
Everyone should try harvesting a pine nut from a local pine. They all have them they just might not be of a size worth the effort. It is a good learning experience though!

In summer, pick up fallen green pine cones.
Wait til they start opening up.
Start at the bottom and relish every one you manage to free.
They've been bleeding young people to Tiktok fairly heavily; it's in all their internal reports.
Facebook's current market position is almost entirely based on being there at the start. Mark knows this and is terrified of missing out on the start of another big thing.
In that case, the data compilation itself would be protected, not the individual data points. If I used a scraper to copy everything verbatim, then yes, it would be a violation.
The wrong position at the wrong company is a waste of time and potential learning, which is quite worse than a blemish on the CV.
I am still playing it on a weekly basis.
The upside is to become a person who has done that kind of thing.

That gets you paid about 5x of someone who can just operate in an environment that's good to begin with.
Are they, though? It has zero bids, and the sale ends in 7 hours. The reserve price is over $200k.
> The surge in plant growth is a result of increased amount of CO2 in the air as a result of anthropogenic activity. Quirky systems we have on the planet.

That's not quirky, it's why global warming is less of a risk than people care to admit. If CO2 is the primary cause of global warming then organisms that need / utilize CO2 will flourish. A byproduct of this is often oxygen, so it'll likely stabilize itself given enough time.
Does anyone want to explain why this is an interesting story?
I'm kind of an idiot with anything terribly elaborate in the financial world, so forgive a bit of a dumb question: what are the downsides to bonds instead of using something like a CD?
Am I wrong, but doesn't that seem EXPENSIVE? 69 per user for a year for what seems like 1 feature or am I missing something?
If you haven't seen it yet, you might appreciate this slide deck about how organizations are like slime mold.

Slide 57 main image "0.60=0.95^10", text "And thanks to that non-linearity, even a small decline in individual likelihood [of success] leads to a much lower overall decline in the likelihood of success."

https://komoroske.com/slime-mold/
Are you talking about the Sahara? They mention that white means barren.
That is exactly how the ruling class sees the situation. Gallon of milk $10? Chump change, maybe once it hits $100 it will make for a bit of faux concern table chatter at our $10k/seat fundraising dinner next week. The plebes agitating for $15/hour? Catastrophe.
No, you won't have trouble using your Mac at native resolutions with an 1920x1200 display, you don't need BetterDummy for that! :)
More Gen Z use TikTok than Instagram, and it's shifting even more that way.
This. and also, they’ve run out of countries to grow users from.

All the 3rd world countries now have internet and smartphones, there is no billions of unconnected people remaining who Facebook can give free internet access to.

The only way for them is downwards unless they radically change things. The metaverse is kinda a hail mary
There's a ton of money and there's a ton of money. Facebook has a ton of money to spend. Whether they succeed or fail is anybody's guess but this kind of investment can't help but move the needle on AR/VR tech.
Leaving is never unprofessional. How you leave is what can be unprofessional. Conduct yourself in a manner you can live with and make the decision for your own happiness.
> What is your evidence? It’s entirely possible the state threatened the university’s funding. And some politicians do seem to be conspiring to prevent certain classes of US citizens from voting.

I already showed you a link. The same professor has already testified against the state when under control by the same government about the same issue (voting rights).

If you have proof showing there's a conspiracy I'd love to see.
Once upon a time I was sitting in a chemistry class at Rose-Hulman, and the professor proceeded to use all the formulae we had learned through the trimester to explain how a semiconductor diode worked, then proceeded to explain transistors, from a purely chemical reaction rate basis.

I was in awe... and for a while after that, I thought I understood the basics of electronics.

Last year I learned how tubes work, especially when slightly gassy, and thus ignitrons, etc... turns out I didn't know how all electronics worked.

There is always another layer to learn about. The ARP address layer of the network stack, for instance.

The Unicode layer they added between my days as a Turbo Pascal programmer in MS-DOS, and the present. (Which apparently can be used to hide trojan horses)

Always, always, always another layer.

The best we can do is to try to understand all the layers that definitely affect us, and a layer or two more as insurance (or just because it's cool to know)
It’s about as safe an investment you can make and it’s a super high yield.
Why currency volatility could make a comeback
Why? Even if you don't take part, it would arguably create advantages for many, especially those in the developing world.
In the UK we did discover some postal voting fraud in a 2014 local election in an area of London called Tower Hamlets. We did not ban postal voting as a result.

We have, however, imported a voter ID law from the US which was recently passed by the Johnson government, despite no voter impersonation occurring in Tower Hamlets (or anywhere else really). Previously, no ID was required.
The valuation of Apple on a P/E basis is attractive and constant stock buybacks make it a safe bet. At the current scale you can’t expect startup-level growth but it is still attractive as a stock.

Likewise, look at the valuation per customer; it is around $1500, which is attractive, too.
For those interested in a more formal explanation of dogs behaviours, and as nicely summarized in this article, the apparent difference with every other mamals, recent research seem to indicate that dogs have a specific genetic defect, Wlliams syndrome. The sydrome causes extreme sociability.

Humans can also also have this disease and it leads to extraordinarily empathetics individuals with caracteristics facial features.

https://www.insidescience.org/news/rare-human-syndrome-may-e...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_syndrome
> Facebook wants to build something so fundamental to the metaverse that they can capture that iPhone moment. And if they succeed, the billions they’ve invested will look like pennies.

Precisely and that is going to be the smart glasses. Take this for example: [0] Magic Leap is simply General Magic for the smart glasses and the talent is going to the big tech giants.

Whoever executes the hardware and software ecosystem for the smart glasses wins. Probably it will be a race between Meta, Apple, Google or Microsoft.

Unsurprisingly, the Metaverse is 'Meta's' and several other metaverse-related companies's 'App Store' for their smart glasses.

[0] https://www.protocol.com/who-is-hiring-magic-leap-employees
If you do not want those features, that means that the OS is not intended to be used on a personal computer, but only on an embedded computer.

For dedicated embedded computers, the purpose for an OS becomes completely different and compatibility with anything does not matter any more.

Not only personal computers cannot be used without a huge amount of device drivers, but even for a very simple server, e.g. an Internet gateway/router/firewall or a NAS server, the amount of work for writing the device drivers, the file systems and the networking part would be much more work than writing the core of a new OS.

Only for embedded computers the work needed for device drivers can be smaller than for the base operating system.
There seems to be wildly different perspectives on "bad actors means we can't have nice things" -- one group says that this is a fact of life, and the other says that this is an affront to freedom. A non-tech example is I've had guys on Tinder get legit angry at me for insisting that our first few dates have to be in public places where we drive separate -- "oh so you think I'm some creepy stalker?" And like I am totally empathetic to their hurt because I'm sure that they know they're good but I don't and there's now way for me to tell in advance. Malicious actors don't exactly announce themselves and actively try to hide their intent.

The solution to the automation problem is to do what most companies do and have registered API integrations.
Can anyone confirm if the new M1 Max (or Monterey) can output HiDPI at higher resolutions than the 1st gen M1 13" MacBook pro? Using a 6k Pro Display XDR on the M1 with 3k scaling is brutal. The interface is way too big.

An iMac pro with an eGPU was able to accomplish this perfectly.

--edit

The Display Dummy app resolves this problem perfectly. In the Display Dummy menu, select 16:9 ratio, then go to displays in system preferences and choose 3840x2160. Curious if it will be able to work with dual Pro Display XDRs on M1.
Well, it depends. Let's say this was 1990 and IBM instead of Facebook deciding that the internet is clearly the future and invest billions into it. Could have been the right move. They're betting on AR and VR as a medium, and I wouldn't bet against that long term. The question is if they can actually make something useful. Even if you know something will be successful it's still hard to find a way to capitalize on that. Your timing could also be years off. It was hard to foresee a search engine being the most valuable internet company.
The whole Meta thing is just a 1-2 year distraction to keep the stock price up while Facebook figures out its real existential problems. Maybe it sells some more VR units great, but it keeps Facebook at the forefront of "hard technical innovation" "new age social media" and has other tech giants rushing to "keep up".

Solid distraction, 7/10.
I feel like this is moving in the opposite direction! I think the issue is that most of the time the "something else" people write with poor algorithms is actually an application of the correct, efficient algorithms from formal papers written by academics, but they don't know it and thus don't use it.
A few days ago I was trying to understand the State Monad in Haskell because the book I was reading didn't explain it well. So I Googled it and the the first couple of links also didn't satisfy, including the Haskell wiki book that many articles link to. However further down the search results list I found an blog post that seamed like somebody had written directly to what was confusing me. The author had obviously put a bunch of effort into making a clear and understandable exposition. I was so impressed by the article that I had to write to the author letting them know how much I appreciated the effort they had put into the article. But when I looked at the blog post date it was from 2012!! Which in internet time seems like ages ago!

My point with this long winded reply is that I think the primary motivation should be to help people. Obviously if you're spending a whole lot of effort to make an explainer for the contest and Grant changes the format next year then there is little utility to that effort. But for these contestants and their submissions I plan to bookmark this page and this will be my daily breakfast viewing for many days to come! (I was so excited to see such a long list of submissions for my consumption!)
I think the effort people put into their submissions over time will be significantly greater (if not absolutely greater) than what 1:1 tutoring might achieve.
Is their site right that the maximum yearly purchase is $5k/$10k paper/electronic? That's... not very much.
Is it available to non-US citizens?
The bond usually has a much lower yield because it is safer.
I don't really have an opinion on the topic but I think the general argument is that the appropriate comparison would be domestic, not abroad. Meaning, the system is used to depress wages compared to the wages of a domestic worker. Wages matter in a relative sense, or employers in Manhattan could pay the same as those in Oklahoma. In the absolute sense, many, many American wages (skilled and unskilled) would be considered high.

I think part of the argument (and where your home building analogy may not be quite appropriate past the superficial level) is that much of the work is done using U.S. tax dollars, meaning Americans are funding a system that simultaneously depresses their own wages.

>Go and look at the local auto mechanics, electricians, carpenters in your area and count how many have been born overseas. Because where would you learn those skills as an American?

I've been lucky enough to be able to live multiple culturally distinct areas in the U.S. and found this to be very different depending on location. In some areas, like the Rust Belt, that have a history of blue-collar work, I don't know that I saw many non-native workers in the skilled trades (albeit there was probably still a higher percentage in the unskilled labor market). These areas also have a larger union presence and with that comes apprenticeship programs where they aren't forced to learn those skills at their own expense; in fact, they're paid to do so. Other areas that have a larger immigrant population, I'd concede your point that most of the skilled trades were immigrants but they didn't seem to have the same systems in place. It's possible your conclusions might be an artifact of sampling bias. But I would also agree that, culturally, blue-collar career tracks may be disparaged in the U.S. to the point where fewer Americans are willing to pursue them.
But the rate is only for 6 months and limited to $10000 per SSN per year, which does not make it terribly useful.
Wow, the concept of "Vitamin D Resistance" is truly fascinating. Thanks for sharing this.
A very well written cousin comment addresses your objections[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29063869
The point is he's getting paid and is free to quit, it's not slave labor.
Thanks, so that's 2.5% of 0.04%, right?

Has it been proven that a gas comprising 0.04% of Earth's atmosphere is the main factor which affects Earth's climate(s)?

I'm asking, because 0.04% of something seems like a particularly small fraction to have such a dramatic effect on a whole planet's weather and climate. Especially in a non-linear dynamic and chaotic - hence very difficult to predict - system like Earth's weather and climate system.

In my opinion it is important to ask these questions because some extremely huge decisions ride on them.
Nice to see this as the first comment. Not working in VR currently. But as one of the creators of A-Frame and formerly was in YC doing a VR + Metaverse attempt, AMA.
Because you aren't done with it. You need to re-learn it every year to get a raise. So about 20% of my time in this field is spent doing stuff exclusively for interviewing purposes.
My experience with dogsheep (healthkit-to-sqlite in particular) is there are multiple (two, in my case) show-stopping issues around usage, that have open pull requests with fixes the author is not merging despite doing occasional releases.

I ended up using it briefly but hand patched the python PIP installed to get it running. It's difficult to recommend after that.
Muslim Prayer Times Around the World During a Period of 24 Hours [OC]
Proof that the inflation we are experiencing is structural not transient.
Rust is C++ for OCaml developers.
> Has it yet been absolutely proven 100% that a gas comprising 0.04% of Earth's atmosphere is the main culprit/control knob which controls climate(s) around the Earth?

Yes and no. It has been proven (for more than 200 years) that CO2 increases heat retention, even when present in small amounts.

It has also been proven that CO2 is not the only one doing that (methane has an effect even far greater than CO2, for the same amount).
I think C++ coroutines is best understood not as something you'd use directly, but as plumbing that makes existing async libraries interoperable and easier to use.

For example, Facebook's Folly has been updated to use coroutines and is being widely adopted at FB:

https://github.com/facebook/folly/tree/main/folly/experiment...
Thanks for the feedback! Our primary use-case when deciding on it was to flag these up in a code-review situation, to prevent malicious content being submitted in merge requests to unsuspecting projects. We found this made it stand out enough to the reviewer when performing code reviews. I also try to not be too quick to add new alerts or sections to the GUI as we sometimes get criticised for having too much clutter D:

GitHub by comparison went down the alert banner route, from what I can see. I'm not opposed to adding something to that effect as well though - especially for inexperienced reviewers, it would be nice to include some more information about the potential exploit. That could be something we revisit when we add the homoglyph highlighting.
Yes. It's settled science. CO2 is not the only gas that matters, but it's the major one and most of the feedback loops are not in our favour. Read some of the technical reports, they're not that hard to understand.
Yeah, for me this is a classic "easy vs simple" example.

Cloud databases are a very easy option. But Postgres is 1.3 million lines of code, and on top of that you add the complexity of the cloud vendor's environment, choices, and custom code. It may be easy, but it's definitely not simple.
For instancce, here's an example of a HN thread from two years ago, on an article on "fighting back" against AMP (!), in which the top comment:

> I worked on amp for a leading newspaper, and everyone who says that amp is about "making the web faster on mobile" is either very naive or doing marketing for google.

—https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21712733

I guess that user was... right? There's a reply disputing it, in part, although even the replyer seemed to accept that Google had ulterior motives, they just weren't willing to accept that Google would actually make the web slower and lie about it to achieve their ulterior motives...

> Of course AMP has other motives than simply making the web faster for mobile, but it also does make the web faster for mobile
Yeah one thing that’s puzzling to me about FB’s bet is that Oculus should be a litmus test for the consumer interest in this stuff and afaict it hasn’t really took off. If Oculus isn’t particularly realizing huge growth, why would the Metaverse?
Since "blockchain" is already a very stretched term, I think Cert Transparency log can be classified as a blockchain.
No access to your money for a fixed period of time and usually (much) lower returns than if you just invested in a broad market mutual fund / ETF.
Inflation is scaring me even more now.
Assuming they deliver (very questionable), it’s like asking that aren’t smartphones simply a telegraph machines?
I have an Ally bank account. Over the past couple years, they've been great about religiously informing me of my interest rates dropping to almost zero. I see something like this and just have to laugh. When will I get my increase notification?
The same way as you write a comment in a LTR human language in the middle of RTL code - you don't. You stick to either LTR or RTL. This is code, not prose.
This yield means we are expecting much higher inflation than normal. The 2% target was missed.
> Not necessarily. In some countries, public research institutions are governed by regulations that cover organization aspects, funding, and performance evaluation.

This is part of the fleecing. It ends up in law the same way that "Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations" (NRSROs) ended up in law in the US, or anti-third party laws (like against "fusion.")

Those laws and regulations seem like great places to attack, seeing as against the vast majority of academics, the few juggernauts of academic publishing would be very much underdogs. The problem is the weird rationalization that these arbitrary brands serve a useful purpose simply through being labeled as brands that should be respected.

It's no wonder they do as little as possible and charge as much as possible. Their value lies not in the papers they publish, the quality of their peer reviews, or the composition of their boards (which could easily be transferred) but in their titles, as if they were royalty. The only way to transfer this value is to sell the name to a huge company that can realize economies of scale and monopoly power to bring costs down even farther.
> Sadly, when the 1% of the time hits this also means that nobody on the team has built up the DBA skills required for the big hairy problem. I see this pattern repeated all the time when consulting for startups that just had their first real traction and now the magic database box is no longer working as before.

I call this the Kubernetes effect. 99% of the time, people think it's easy. Then the 1% hits and they have to completely rebuild it from the ground up. For us it was cluster certificate expiration and etcd corruption, and some other problems we couldn't ever pin down.

The other effect (which I'm sure has a name) is when they depend on it for a long time, but then a problem starts to occur, and because they can't figure out a way to solve it, they move to a completely different tech ("We had problems with updating our shards so we moved to a different database") and encounter a whole new problem and repeat the cycle.