skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One rumor that occasionally makes the rounds is that managers specifically seek to disorient and fatigue workers with hostile flex schedules in order to keep employees too exhausted to seek better work.

It's a little dramatic for my taste, Occam's Razor probably applies, but there might just be a grain of truth to it... at least in the darwinian sense where incompetent time management just so happens to somehow beat workers into submission better than competent time management happens to retain them. The incompetent managers win out over time and a dominant pattern emerges.
> People aren't going to pay 8 dollars for a big mac,

1)The price of a Big Mac isn't just facilities, labor, material, and marketing. It's also profits.

2)So? McDonalds doesn't have a right to sell a product a particular price point. Someone's unsustainable-for-society business model is not society's problem.

3)That big mac is costing us all money because McDonalds, like other starvation-wage employers, is relying on government assistance programs to keep their workers fed, housed, and healthy.

Wallyworld hires people to help their employees file for welfare. Wallyworld made $183BN in profits last year. That's roughly $80,000 per employee.

Tell me with a straight face that they can't pay people sufficiently that they don't need to be on welfare.

Let's say that means a dollar or two more an hour. Two dollars an hour more for every employee (I don't know how many of Walmart's workers are minimum-wage retail, but it's certainly not all of them) would mean taking $4,000 out of that $80,000.

A five percent profit loss.

For an employee making federal minimum wage at $7.50/hour, a two dollar raise would be 27% pay increase.
What about eSims?
We're all talking about the Metaverse instead of whatever else is going on with Facebook. So it changed the public narrative. However, the latest earnings report was fine, so rumors of Meta's demise are quite exaggerated. Their other web properties will remain profitable for a long time.

I see many others here calling out FB's pending decline, but I don't see anyone offering a clear thesis for how it happens. It could simply be wishful thinking. Locking down iOS doesn't mean Meta can't do targeted advertising with all previously collected data. Less effective, sure, but not meaningfully so.
A company that already makes the best selling VR hardware by a healthy margin.
It might be not unreasonably unsafe, compared to e.g. coal (which will be phased out). But as an investment it is even riskier than FRC fusion. The ratepayers of South Carolina were made to invest $30B in a fission project that will, in the end, produce exactly zero watt-hours of energy. But might burn even more money, first.
Great! More details on our robot here:
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> It's like trying to learn painting by watching a series of videos in which you're taught which parts of canvas to paint what exact hue to recreate famous works of art

I have some bad news for how artists traditionally learned how to paint. I agree with the overall thrust that only learning by copying with no theory behind it is bad, but the problem isn’t the copying it’s the lack of theory. A python flask how-to that also explains how flask works while doing the step by step process seems just fine to me.
Nope, one variable, funding was completely irrelevant. All the funding in the world can't give scientists precognition. Progress was always being made, if you look at a plot of reactor performance by year, it's a straight line from the 50s to today. The reason that fusion was 30 years away and always would be is because the knowledge gained revealed our ignorance - we were discovering new issues as fast as we were solving the already discovered ones. That's the problem with cutting edge research - there is no way of knowing ahead of time what trouble you'll run into.

Again, the progress didn't stop because funding dried up, funding dried up when it became clear the progress didn't matter. Fusion was appealing at first because it seemed easy, and easy things can typically be done economically. As soon as it became clear that fusion was much harder than initially believed, the hope of building power plants that are economically competitive with more mature alternatives was dashed. New startups can make all the claims they want about how their technology will succeed where others failed, but the fact is until they've actually succeeded, it is impossible for them to say they won't run into unforeseeable problems between now and then. Anyone claiming otherwise is lying.
Didn’t the CEO of Ryanair say he was going to make tickets free at some point?

I mean the fare would be super basic, no luggage, only what can go under the seat. No water, food. Print your own ticket, etc.

Basically all your margin is on the extras which many people are willing to pay (as long as you’re upfront about it).

I remember flying Ryanair and if you’re prepared to follow directions, it can be very cheap.
> I wouldn't use a non-FOSS platform or experience

You are in the extreme minority, if smartphone trends are to be treated as any kind of indication. So your actions likely would not matter to Meta/Apple/Google.
Second Life was limited in many ways, as far as gameplay goes. Ultimately it failed because it was boring, in my opinion. More modern examples of games that approach this concept are Minecraft or Roblox (public company valued at $45B). Roblox in particular is interesting as it created a platform for others to make game experiences and re-sell them, and it's been very successful. Minecraft, too, has had a lot of staying power and has an active community.

The problem with Roblox, is that it's geared for kids primarily, it's centralized and it also has I believe a 30% fee. You have the same issues as you have with the mobile app stores: an excessive take rate and risk of being deplatformed at any time (like the early Facebook and Twitter apps). You don't really have ownership. But it does underscore the idea that if you create the right environment for shared gaming experiences and creativity it can be very interesting and entertaining.

The crypto metaverse is attempting to use digital property rights represented as NFTs to facilitate permissionless value creation and exchange. Just as real world property rights give owners the stability and framework with which to build long-term investments, understanding they can take risks and potentially reap rewards for those risks, the hope is that digital property rights will do the same.

The NFT space is very interesting and the gaming sector in crypto is evolving pretty rapidly. Some interesting attempts I see at creating these experiences are Sandbox (https://www.sandbox.game/en/), Decentraland (https://decentraland.org/), and Treeverse (https://www.treeverse.net/).

I think it's still super early days for this stuff. It's likely that a lot of the current attempts will fail, but I believe this concept is going through its 90s dot com phase, and we'll get a few gems out of this movement that stand the test of time.
Can somebody recommend a good book/paper/video/etc. on Cell/Mobile phone HW/SW/Internals and Hacking (everything other than the Application Processor and its OS i.e. Android/iOS). The only one that i am aware of is an old paper by Harald Welte named Anatomy of contemporary GSM cellphone hardware.
I respect your opinion and completely understand where you are coming from, but I think you should also consider the amount of technical effort, organization and money required to build something like an open platform/protocol for the metaverse + all the advanced hardware required. It would be awesome if a group of strangers from the internet were able to band together and build this, but let's face it, they will have no where near the resources and talent a place like Meta, Google, Apple or Microsoft has. They have the top engineers on the planet, hardware pipelines and the resources to actually make these ideas become reality.. or virtual reality? :)
NSA: "General Canine then forcibly expressed his exasperation by exploding: 'Build me a thousand megacycle machine! I'll get the money!'" Finally, a cite for that line.

Some good came out of that, but there was a long detour into cryogenic computing. They found a way to make gigahertz components, cryotrons. The trouble was, they couldn't make them small, or cheap, or integrated. So it was a dead end. What's come out of NSA over the years indicates that a full cyrotron computer was never built, but some "analytic tools", probably key-testers of some sort, were made. (The WWII Bombe and Colossus machines were key-testers, like Bitcoin miners, not general purpose computers.)
I think what you're looking for is curated search engines. The issue is, that curated content doesn't fit everyones taste. What may seem high quality to you, may not be the high quality content for someone else. del.icio.us clones and what not, and Pinboard, already have search functionality.
I've met more than one person who does this on the Mac for all their "Unix ports" rather than use a package manager like Homebrew or MacPorts. I find that fascinating, but a little quixotic.
The TP destination number 1111340002 does not fit into any public network numbering plan. It must be a private address inside AT&T. This number does not exist in the public network. You cannot call it or text in through normal means. For a message to get delivered to that private address, it must go to a particular AT&T SMSC that knows how to route it.
I’d be insulted that she thought they should get raise a raise but they won’t because power.
ya obviously it's reasonable that Facebook changed the name of their company for a "hedge"
That's because the service was to capture users to then monetize them and the people visiting the site to verify their ID. Ads, other services, etc.

Every tech startup does the same thing. Capture users with something useful for free, get them hooked, go public, and then bilk them just enough that, well, just enough of them stick around...while monetizing the data they give you, even if it's just their IP address at any given moment.
People need to develop agency in actually doing something to lose weight which essentially comes down to eating less. It might be painful in the short term but is a huge benefit in the long term.

All I've found online is people giving excuses as to why one body type cannot do this or that, which essentially are the same reasons smokers give when trying to quit(too stressed, can't quit cold turkey etc).
That’s the most dystopian thing about this - the best, most aspiration use for VR they can show case is… meetings, but in VR.
Tech results have gotten progressively noisier and less useful. It's become mostly worthless

I usually don't even bother and just debug the source of the thing giving me problems now. Thank God for open source. It's kind of ridiculous though
Seems like a tough sell without a believable model for the effectiveness of a nationalized company. It won't be the same company despite promises to that end (similar to the problem with acquired companies where the parent promises to be hands-off.)
Apple heavily resisted building a backdoor that would only be installed on a phone the FBI already had in their possession. Why would they build a way to bypass airplane mode if they receive a warrant?
The fictional 'royal' titles are just strange.
Conceptually speaking, the difference with AR/VR is that you can have a truly immersive experience, which really does give you more possibilities than just Second Life, which was always just a 3D game world on a 2D screen. The pitch from Meta and with AR/VR is that with the ability to use 3D space, you can actually turn Second Life-style virtual worlds into something useful with actual tangible benefits. For example, VR/AR sense-of-presence totally outclasses video calls, if the intent is to feel like you're really in a room with someone. VRChat is already one of the most popular VR apps for a reason.

Long term, I think that you have to look at it like this: most desktop computing is very very 2D centric and touch centric. If you want to, e.g., buy a product on Amazon, you're dealing with photos and imagery of a product, and reviews. But if you had a "Metaverse equivalent" you could view a 3D model, see it in action, and physically size compare it to other objects in your house much easier than manually checking dimensions.

Obviously the applications and benefits aren't as clear cut right now. I'm not sure that the windowed operating systems we have today would have been the obvious way that computers would be used if it weren't for constant iteration on keyboard centric UI and experimentation over many years. That same innovation trend hasn't happened with AR/VR, and "the metaverse" that people talk about now will likely be totally different 20 years after it becomes a thing, post-iteration and innovation.
> or joining "a server"

> recent games

You absolutely would. Just because maybe you're playing overwatch or league or something, doesn't mean this isn't still a hugely popular paradigm.
For Business News, there is: https://biztoc.com/search
Improving Spark Cubing in Kylin 2.0
Only natural that complexity is increasing. When and where that’s warranted will be an eternal debate.
> F# really is the most "production" a general-purpose functional language is right now, IMO

You're kidding, right? Cisco (and juniper?) Switches run erlang on the control plane, as does freaking Whatsapp and the British NHS; discord, divvy, brex, pagerduty, slab, PepsiCo, Boston MTA, and stripe use elixir to varying degrees, not to mention tons of companies you haven't heard of.
I've been using it pretty much daily for over a decade now. I don't know how people ever did engineering without it.
Not only that; you can't do 5nm power management chips. At 5nm the highest voltage you can handle on your I/O is 1.2V or perhaps 1.8V. You can't even make USB transceivers on that process, which is why the Apple Silicon macs use external USB level translation chips!
As long as you use the phone they have the chance to access the sim card and be able to upload and run any code.
Openpilot 0.8.10
Matts are the unspoken heroes of the world. Low wage salary paying for 4 people who aren't blood family under a roof that is not his.
I'm not sure that I would like the SIM to send data to anyone without me knowing it. But since both Android and iOS send user data without the user acknowledging, it might not be the biggest privacy issue.
It's hard for me to imagine one of the incumbents leading the next generation of innovation, despite the copious amounts of capital to execute it. They view the world through their own Overton window, such that the next leap forward will originate from some perspective independent of their own. Brick-and-mortar stores weren't going to be the ones pushing online sales. A lot of the last few years have been copy/paste product ideas from other smaller social media companies: that's the reality. FB realized not everything has to be a timeline. At best, Meta could be something truly novel, but at its worst, it's just marketing to paper over the lack of innovative Product leadership within FB.
"Even poor families" need support.
You literally can't do it. The smaller the process node, the smaller the voltage you can handle and the more delicate the chip is. At 5nm you can't even make USB transceivers; Apple M1 machines had to use external level converters for all the USB ports for this reason.
These defcon slides give a good overview of one

Atmel AT90SC25672RU, 8-bit AVR, 256KB ROM, 72 KB EEPROM, 6 KB RAM, Between 20 & 30 MHz

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2021/DEF%20CON%2021%20pre...
Why say boutique? Why not specialized or small or purpose-built or targeted? Engggrish, you speak it?
Iraqi prime minister survives assassination bid with drones
I honestly don't get how Five Guys is an option at all. It's like a half sized burger that has too much on it and it's smooshed up usually and not well put together so it ends up just coming apart on me half the time.

For basically the same price I could get a pub style burger on a nice brioche bun with twice the beef.
"The artist formerly known as Facebook"
No i am happy and having been paying more and tipping a lot more (30 to 40 percent) as I appreciate those who are working hard. From restaurants to sub shops (jersey mikes has tipping system built into their P.O.S).

Let's keep the economy and service industry running as strong as it was prior Covid by paying such workers a lot more per hour and tipping them a lot too.

Handing out free money will definitely have a negative affect on being able to enjoy service industry businesses as we did pre-COVID .. we are seeing it now even if its just half the reason of what happened/where all the workers go.
some old racist catholic guy sent a well-written letter about a clear murder? yah... fuck off...
A burger from a steakhouse is 7 bucks? What steakhouse is that? Even 6 would probably be the lowest-priced food truck burger I've ever seen.
This is true. AFAIK SIMs are based on an ISO 7816 smartcard with some additional features, and the former are definitely in that size range.
Make Opium Great Again

Seriously though both tobacco and a lot of other “whatever they want” crops have mountains of externalized costs and societal consequences
I'm pretty skeptical it'll ever take off. Having tried to hang around in the Oculus Go spaces early on, it was pretty clear no one really had a great reason for being there. You'd sit around a badly rendered bonfire and hear people talking, sometimes interestingly, but it had about the same level of interest as getting on a CB and talking to strangers.

There are two kinds of people you can meet in VR: Friends and strangers. Friends, you can meet privately. You don't need a public space 'verse for that. And as for jostling around or randomly talking to strangers, well, you can walk outside or go to a bar.

It seems pretty nuts that Facebook would actually put its chips on this proposition. I can only view it as a totally desperate attempt to distract from the train wreck of their core business model.
Facebook has already had three tries at the metaverse - the Oculus version, Facebook Spaces, and Facebook Horizon. They're all so bad that Facebook won't give out user counts.
Possibly most of the people in Tokyo aren’t even originally Tokyoites. They’re random people from other cities living there for a couple years for the big city experience and decent work. There’s nothing intrinsically unique about their culture and personality, compared to, say, people born and raised on a small island and who’ve never left.

Your experience is definitely very uncommon. I’ve been to Tokyo countless times and they’re not any different than the small town I currently live in in Japan. If anything, you probably talked to some people who are way too used to tourists asking them for “directions” then trying to turn it into a chance to hook up—way too many people try this and some people have learned to just avoid tourist-looking types, especially women.
> It’s pretty bad at answering questions that require judgment and context like “What do NFT collectors think about NFTs?”.

That kind of question seems really difficult for a search engine to find when there likely isn’t such a summary posted in exactly the format you are looking for. But thankfully there are other ways to do your own research on the internet. I’m sure you could easily find an NFT related subreddit, post exactly that question, and have multiple answers within the hour.
Great write up! I would suggest using OAuth2 rather than the Less Secure App settings (https://cashweaver.com/blog/read-email-in-emacs-with-mbsync-...).

I also wrote up a guide for using notmuch, which has quickly become my preferred emacs email solution: https://cashweaver.com/blog/read-email-from-gmail-with-notmu...
The Tools Problem
You could also physically remove the SIM card, but there's a practical problem there; people with SIMs usually want to use them.
From what I've understood, soy actually doesn't affect hormone levels as much as it itself performs the function of some hormones - estrogen I think. So people who promote soy will (rightfully) claims that it doesn't affect hormone levels but they'll leave out that the effect on human development is very similar to the effect of raised estrogen levels.

I'm not a medical professional though the opinion that I share is the opinion of a medical professional that I trust. There's a lot of money to be made in soy products, though, so like fossil fuels be prepared to find zealots on both sides of the argument who have no problem lying or even just being "useful idiots". I certainly hope that I'm not being one.
Meta can buy fresh blood. Oculus was acquired. Parts of Oculus were acquired and acquihired. If a smaller company innovates in this space, acquisition by Meta is an obvious business plan. Zuckerberg is a geek almost young enough to be my kid. If I can imagine a thriving metaverse, and I can, I don’t see why he can’t.
I absolutely respect the technical challenge of the Metaverse, but also: I'm not really interested in it.

I live a fairly tech-minimal lifestyle already. I have my computer, which is largely a tty machine, and my phone. All of my media is either downloaded music files, pirated lectures, or physical books.

I think of VR/AR, the Metaverse, etc. ... and it fills me with a sort of vertigo. I'm desperately in love with my physical existence, as such. I very much abhor any attempt to make computers _more_ present in my life.

I'm happy to wait 30+ years for a Metaverse that doesn't repulse me. If I were to die without ever having worn a VR headset, I'd be likewise happy.

I'm much more interested in finding ways to meaningfully, socially, connect via my terminal. I've been happy with IRC for the past 5 years and see no reason why I won't be happy in the future.

EDIT: thanks to mosh and termux, my phone is also largely a tty machine.
The only noise I have noticed is SEO spam sites copying posts from stack overflow or GitHub. But usually these only come up when almost no content on the topic exists so it didn’t really deprive me of anything.
One way to encourage companies to build more of these equipment is to make them open-source. This way any one who's passionate and smart can improve and lower the cost or increase the supply. The end result is more chips for all.
>RISC-V and MIPS are the only semi-modern architectures...

OpenPOWER.
That’s not an argument.

As long as query #2 doesn’t run, that’s better then nothing.
But the minimum wage hasn't increased. The supply of money increased. It's not even close to the question being considered.
What's wrong with that? That meetings are necessary in modern working life is a fact. So might as well have products and services that make them better on some axes. And it doesn't necessarily have to be just office meetings either. University lectures or tutorials this way also sound pretty cool to me. You could have a student from Taiwan, the US, Germany and Sweden sit in the same classroom and interact, without having to travel thousands of miles. I think that's very cool.
You'll never get the update then that it's confirming it installed. And you can't make phone calls. And you can't even use it unless you can get inside the cage. I guess it if comes with solitaire you could play that or something.
Seriously - Carl's Jr's six dollar burger came out in 2001, which was about what a burger cost in a full service restaurant back then. That was 20 years ago.
I believe mobile radios are effectively narrowband SDRs, optimised for the application. Hence the concerns around firmware and FCC certification.
Ugh, one more thing to worry about!
I quickly checked the brand we use (Oatly) and it’s certified by this organization which also lists other products, a lot of major brands are there:

https://detoxproject.org/certification/glyphosate-residue-fr...

Their process seems pretty thorough, the companies have to go through periodic random testing.