skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this, simple and applies to other tech as well. E.g. Should I upgrade to the latest Macbook?

Don't believe the hype, try it for yourself - Try how the Macbook works at the local Apple Store.

Does it solve a problem I actually have? - I want to play games while having a portable and long-lasting laptop. How does the Macbook handle games that I play often?

Find the missing features - Does the notch bother me?

To shape the roadmap - Anything that I don't like about the Macbook? How will Apple play the chip game? How will they improve the next iterations of the Macbook? No matter how powerful the M1 Pro Chip, it is still only the second version of the M1.
They can probably out-lawyer and out-PR nearly every company on the planet, so it's not surprising from Facebook that they try this route when the negotiations failed, if they really wanted that name.
Meta View, Inc. is a spatial computing company founded by Olive Tree Ventures in late 2018 following the purchase of Meta Company's assets. Meta View will build on the groundbreaking display system first commercialized in the Meta 2 headset. Jay Wright, the newly hired CEO comes with over a decade of experience in augmented reality, previously as Co-Founder and President of Vuforia and Vice-President at Qualcomm.
As far as I can tell this "Meta company" isn't even a real company, it's just a shell company that claims to own never-used trademarks.
Based in this whole site (which is just the letter), I assume they are positioning themselves to optimize for largest amount of money to be gained in the court against Facebook. HN is dutifully helping them.
I've read the article. If they don't have a product released, then accusing someone of taking away their livelihood (aka income) is ridiculous.
Bad luck for them, they should have taken the deal.

Trademark protection is to protect trade. A company that doesn't make a product yet is at a huge risk trying to hold a name against an established company that wants it... You can only infringe a trademark if you are doing business in the same or a very nearly adjacent industry (Apple Records v Apple Computer as a historical example).

I'm sure they can litigate it if they want, but when the question comes up of how Facebook being named Meta interferes with the business Meta of Chicago was engaged in, what will their answer be? If they weren't planning to do something in either the social network or virtual / augmented reality spaces, the likely answer is "neither of you are infringing the other, go about your business."
But is it webscale? [1]

1. https://youtu.be/b2F-DItXtZs
Working on a way to write Oculus Quest apps in Golang. The entire thing is a tower of yak shaving. Current adventure: attempting to write a reactive UI system that doesn't need to dynamically allocate memory.
Trade War Is Hurting Silicon Valley Augmented Reality Startup
By Selina Wang

September 10, 2018, 12:06 AM EDT

Meta says lead Chinese investor froze deal at Beijing’s behest
Crackdown on Chinese investment in U.S. tech companies blamed

Augmented reality startup Meta Co. was on the verge of raising funds from Chinese backers when the lead investor froze the deal at the behest of a Chinese official who cited the trade war.

It’s the latest sign that U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods and a crackdown on foreign investment in U.S. tech companies is casting a chill in Silicon Valley. Small hardware makers are already suffering from rising tariffs, and now startups looking to raise money in China are feeling the effect.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-10/trade-war...
IANAL (nor an expert!), but I would have expected that an expert witness appears in court in response to a summons; he is therefore obeying the orders of the court, which I would have expected would override any shifty terms in an employment agreement.
>why not? health agencies approve pesticides as well, but they advise you to rinse off vegetables/fruit.

As far as I know, the rationale given for washing fruits and vegetables is not because of pesticides, but because of dirt and bacteria. As far as the public is to be concerned, any pesticide residue that makes it into your home is to be considered "acceptably low."

The USDA makes no mention of pesticides:

>Before eating or preparing fresh fruits and vegetables, wash the produce under running tap water to remove any lingering dirt. This reduces any germs that may be present. If the fruits or vegetables have a firm surface, such as apples or potatoes, they can be scrubbed with a brush.
I suppose teslas could come with warnings, "this vehicle is not intended for use in Arizona".
It's similar gold, yes. Gold is an unproductive asset. You are correct that there is base demand for it in the form of jewelry and electronics. In fact, a percentage of the world's gold output goes into making Bitcoin miners each year. However, its value is not supported by its demand in these industries. This is why I personally do not invest in gold.

The difference is that if you shut down gold mining, existing gold would still retain all its value. If you were unable to protect your gold reserves, they still retain all their value. If you shut down Bitcoin mining it's immediately worth nothing. In fact if you reduce your energy expenditure below some unspecified threshold it becomes utterly worthless. Mining gold consumes resources, but once extracted it does not. I would consider it to be zero-sum, as compared to the negative-sum nature of Bitcoin.

I would argue if institutional demand and even jewelry demand for gold fell, it would still be a fairly valuable commodity, and its use in electronics would likely expand substantially as it became less expensive. Connectors, switches, wires, PCB contact plating. All big demand drivers, and gold is better than the status quo - just too expensive at the moment.
Then they didn't have any brand recognition/"livelihood" to steal.

Sure this sucks for them, and I am no FB defender but that's the nature of trademark. Not a lawyer but even if they are in the same space as FB, I'd think they would forfeit their right to the mark if FB got their first, presuming they have not yet actually marketed a product to consumers under this name?
It would be very interesting to see Facebook/Meta make that argument in defense of what, I am assuming, is a pending lawsuit.
Two companies can have the same name. They could have a case if Facebook was infringing on an established trademark or brand, but considering they have neither I fail to see what legal recourse they have. What does this company even do? What is their "livelihood" and how did Facebook steal it?
I am wary of this kind of casual reduction of videogame plots to one-sentence summaries that is all frequent in online discussions. For all I know, the plot of Grim Fandango could be said to be "you're the chosen undead, and you must quest for some items" and Grim Fandango story is one of the best.

There's probably not so much of Grim Fandango story in Dark Souls, given there is not so many friendlies in the latter. If anything, I would compare it to System Shock 2, but in fantasy genre rather than sf. The story of System Shock 2 was fine, though maybe not that famous because Half-Life beat it to market.

Obviously those are examples from 90's and there is always the question about modern games; AAA as well as those made on lesser budgets. Funny the author of the blog roasts titles such as Firewatch and Spec Ops: Dubai.
Rent controlled tenancies are a whole different animal. A conversation about them probably ought to begin by clarifying it's a RC'd property.

I expect that SF's non-rent controlled property is evictable like any other.
Your anecdote does not match study/survey data that has been around for at least a decade.

>And, yes, the facts (e.g., anthropomorphic global warming, vaccination, voting dynamics, etc.++

Part of the problem is this insidious, preemptive appeal to "consensus" as a misleading substitute for certainty, particularly in biological or social sciences. This isn't physics or math and the science is never so certain as to justify putting careers into jeopardy over dissent.

>a bona-fide expert presents data and expert scientific interpretation about how vaccines, public health measures, or voting actually works, that is not political

It is political when the science on these subjects is not actually settled as is dishonestly claimed and the only allowable opinions of so called experts at the vast majority of our academic institutions consistently align in a certain political direction.

Reality's liberal bias is an illusion, borne of groupthink, social shaming, a collusive media, and exclusion/shaming of dissent. The fact that one or more experts believe something does not make it true, and there is clear evidence of political bias in the sciences. For a more obvious example, consider nonsensical "consensus" that race does not exist, or cannot be used to predictively classify humans. Look at what happen to Watson for daring to suggest that maybe 200k years of natural selection did not stop at the shoulders. The same ideologically driven bias has spread to virtually all soft sciences, and laymen do not understand the hard/soft distinction.
> If you take their communist ideas out of the equation

For crying out loud, that was the point of the whole ball of wax.

They came up with "scientific materialism" so they could "demonstrate" that the inexorable progress of history would lead from the original primitive communism to the final advanced communism.

(All other believers in communism that did not adhere to the doctrine were to be shunned because their "unscientific" approach would make them bad guides.)
Intro to interpreting clinical data for biotech investing [video]
Reminds me of the nissan.com debacle
Not using brakes when car is approaching a red traffic light is failing at a basic function. Being distracted by text messages, phone, etc. is not.
Benchmarking a Go-Powered SQL Engine Against MySQL
Chaos, the Greek 3k-horsepower 'ultra car'
IANAL but my understanding is that trademarks are only granted for specific goods and services (particularly for common dictionary words). What goods and services does this company provide?
Also pro software is still very expensive. A seat of maya costs 2000 a year. Solid works cost 3500 for a license. Matlab costs 2 grand. Microsoft’s compiler products weren’t particularly expensive ( and were much much cheaper than say a small talk seat)
>> If you really want to make important discoveries, you have to know how to work the system,” says Richard Muller, an American physicist and emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Muller revealed that he had secretly redirected funding from approved projects to fund riskier rejected ones in a letter in Science magazine in 1980.

> It's worthwhile noticing that this propensity to leap ahead, self experiment and generally operate outside established strictures has always been a key feature of science!

Maybe we shouldn't glorify what sounds a lot like academic / grant fraud.
Seems not, meta.company links to MetaCompany and mentions Nate Skulic as founder, while Meta (company) lists Meron Gribetz as founder.

Strangely enough, Wayback Machine doesn't have any snapshots of the site https://web.archive.org/web/2018*/http://meta.company/, and finding no mentions of "MetaCompany" online, so seems weird.
This description seems incorrect... Unclear if this is the same company ...
> Owning the name of a common adjective seems dubious to me. It's like naming your company "big."

Or "Uber"?
Atlassian warns of high severity vulnerability in multiple products
This is incorrect, this is the preface lifted straight from the 2nd edition pdf on the original site:

"This is the best book ever written on how to practice at the piano! The revelation of this
book is that there are highly efficient practice methods that can accelerate your learning rate, by up
to 1,000 times if you have not yet learned the most efficient practice methods (see IV.5). What is
surprising is that, although these methods were known since the earliest days of piano, they were
seldom taught because only a few teachers knew about them and these knowledgeable teachers never
bothered to disseminate this knowledge. "

http://www.pianopractice.org/
how ... um .... meta
I'm not saying it isn't potentially workable, just that it's deceptively hard to deploy across the whole Signal userbase. A company like Slack or Discourse could build something like this easily, because it'd be mostly managed from the servers, which they control, working from a single source of truth about who's talking to who. Signal doesn't have that luxury.
Why don't you use an embedded chromium instead? Skia bring SOTA gpu performance and the SVG backend must be mature.Even if there were a need for improvement or for a new SVG backend, contributing it to chromium instead would be a much more altruistic gift for mankind, since the improvements would affect billions of end users, instead of the webkit idiosyncrasie.
I think the US government wasted any political will to fight someone else's war over the last 20 years.
He isn't, that is exactly what the book says.
Put it in a plastic bag
Just tried looking up [name redacted] on linkedin but no profile found. Seems like a troll to me
It seems our difference in opinion comes from our definition of value.

I know people point to the current system and infrastructure of stock exchanges, SWIFT, the IMF, Central Banks, Retail and Commercial Banks, Internet Banks (Such as Stripe, Paypal, ETC.), Credit Unions, Savings and Loan Associations, Investment Banks and Companies, Brokerage Firms, Insurance Companies as working good enough. But for me... Occams razor hits me hard. Doesn't it seem weird that through this complex system of interactions, we can recreate all of that in Code? If there was no value in it, why did we create all those institutions in the first place?

If we can recreate those in a more humane, democratized, decentralized way, I think it's worth the .001% of the global financial system that it currently is. Even if it's grabbing 5% of the current headlines.
Burning wood in my fire pit, grilling, having family over, pampering my pup and loving nature.
A lot of productivity/business software was in the hundreds of dollars. It was pretty radical Turbo Pascal from Borland was priced at only about $50--which is still getting close to $100 in today's money, given that most compilers, etc. were $300+.

As the article suggests, pretty much anything you bought in a store was going to be in the $50 range although there was cheaper shareware (which the majority didn't pay for) and freeware.
yeah, Microsoft loves to give an inferior experience to 1% of its users in favor of polishing the experience for the 99%

The problem is that everyone is a member of a different 1%. "Oh, only one percent of users have that monitor setup" "Oh, only one percent of users run that app" "Oh, only one percent of users change that setting in any given month" "Oh, that app only crashes once per hundred uses"

If you do 100 things with your computer every month, and every one of them has a 1/100 chance of crapping out, you're looking at a 64% chance of something crapping out on you over the course of the month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comput...
It would be nice is such a post was accompanied by an a indication of what MetaCompany does, a site that's more than a stub, and a link to its trademark registration (believe it or not multiple companies have registered a trademark for Meta).
The production cost was high since they wrote it directly in assembly and/or C and used very few external libraries. It was code golfing everyday and you couldn't afford many bugs since rolling out patches was a huge pain. So you truly needed rockstar programmers to pull it off. (The closest equivalent today would be custom embedded firmware - not cheap.)

In terms of value, I'm pretty sure 30 years from now they'll laugh at the quality of today's UI and what we pay for it. For the time they had quite adequate graphics considering they were competing with arcade games and playing cards. Also IIRC they ran pretty fast on less hardware than you get in a coffee machine today.
> Current adventure: attempting to write a reactive UI system that doesn't need to dynamically allocate memory.

Avoiding dynamic memory allocation... in Go?
Are you sure children are included? “The Census calculates per capita income by taking the total income for the previous year for everyone 15 years and older.” - https://www.thebalance.com/income-per-capita-calculation-and...

The census specifically doesn’t ask for income for children below 15, so perhaps that is the meaning of the sentence above, and per capita calculation does include kids as $0 income for calculating median - although that would be weird IMHO. Unclear, and I got bored looking for exact details, so gave up quickly!
A lease has a a duration; absent rent control, the landlord can let it expire. It’s specifically under a rent control regime that the landlord is obliged to offer indefinite renewals.
I have lost count of the number of times I have seen this exact post on HN because some company I never heard of used a common word for their company/product and Facebook, Apple, Google, etc. came out with a product with the same name. I'm not going to excuse any of the behavior by these big companies, but at a certain point you have to take responsibility for introducing this risk by naming your company a short, commonly used word that is found in the dictionary. It was only a matter of time until this issue would pop up.
> my car is parked outside ... the interior temperatures can easily rise over 150f

I live in Arizona as well and this is why you'll see everyone in parking lots parking under trees in the summer, with empty spaces in between.

Teslas have overheat protection (turns on the AC when interior temp > 105F) for a reason (one of them because it's cheaper to manufacture cars that don't need to withstand higher temperatures).
Chromebook Linux Comes of Age
It’s not really that company’s responsibility to accommodate Facebook. You can balance your imaginary odds of malice against the actual statement, though, and judge appropriately.

> One more thing: Our new product launch just got delayed because of Facebook. We must deal with these matters. In the coming weeks, we will make an announcement earlier than we expected. We promise it will be good. Stay tuned.
> One more thing: Our new product launch just got delayed because of Facebook. We must deal with these matters. In the coming weeks, we will make an announcement earlier than we expected. We promise it will be good. Stay tuned.
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There are too many projects named Yggdrasil
> retail depositors are willing to receive 0% interest even when market rates are much higher

I'm unconvinced. I have a pile of cash that I would readily move to a bank that offered substantially higher CD rates than I am currently making. With online banking becoming normalized, competition for retail deposits should be much higher than it has been in quite a while.
The Governor of Missouri is very upset about this.
This has been going on for years already before the Huawei CFO was arrested.

> The product may be good, but China has very little credibility anymore, and should absolutely not be trusted.

Right, just kind of weird that the biggest, and still mostly unfounded, accusations are coming from a block that also absolutely shouldn't be trusted.

It's no coincidence that after the US torture and Five Eyes mass spying reveals we've now been bombarded for years about how China is allegedly putting Muslims in "concentration genocide camps" and supply-chained their way into every single larger US tech company [0].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
> Computers are the same thing

Uh, no? Computers aren't people.
Ugandan kids lose hope amid 77 week school closure in response to pandemic
It's the same as anti-cheat in a game. Given how easy it is to create a cheat for open source code, it's just way more cost effective to keep it closed.

The rule is not to RELY on security by obscurity. It shouldn't be the last line of defense. But by all means, use it where the ROI makes sense.
Enigma Artifacts at the National Cryptologic Museum
MySQL is clearly the javascript of databases. PostgreSQL is the Rust of databases.
It’s possible for UF to have a nuanced position and still be in the wrong.

Do you believe the purpose of the article was to inform you of the nuances on both sides and let you make an informed judgement for yourself?
Name squatters deserve nothing.
you mean the webkit team is practically non-existent
But a noun like Apple passes your personal trademark requirements?
I’d be super interested in any speculation on what the offer for the name was.
Of course I don't imply taxing unrealized gains, but taking away loopholes would be nice.
I don't think that is the same company.

Meta (Wiki):
- Website: metavision.com
- Founder: Meron Gribetz

MetaCompany (HN Article):
- Website: meta.company
- Founder: Nate Skulic
I should be pretty obvious by now that Facebook is a really bad company with way too much power.

What can we do about it as just another nerd? The answer is just as obvious. Delete your account, don't look back and encourage everyone you know to do the same.

I'm one year without now and hadn't affected my life in any negative way whatsoever.

Poff! Power gone..
> The problem here is Tesla does not make the claim that the car is autonomous

Tesla's own marketing disagrees with this. Here's what Tesla says they mean when they say "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving":

> The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
Building circular food production systems. Local, automated, data driven. Some stuff posted here, but much more going on. http://cirkularodling.se/build-an-aquaponic-indoor-farm-part...
well facebook-the-company-that-wants-to-be-called-'meta' sicked their lawyers on them so they must think that they are some form of 'real'