skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What is the use of facebooks metaverse?
I only bothered reading through their extremely vague press release now. It seems their idea of a metaverse is loosely tying together their existing assets plus vr(?) I didn't notice that the current lineup of vr goggles was jumping off the shelves in shops. Do you think this is the next revolution which will transform social media forever? And will a significant part of reality be controlled by a company called meta?
I'd think some second-tier manufacturers would see these bidding wars as an opportunity to do just that.
> simple form

Just to add to above comment, if the record is not for self (i.e. self owned car or own driving license), then it can be fetched only for "permissible use". The bullet points are:

Motor vehicle or driver safety and theft

Legitimate business

Civil criminal administrative or arbitral processing

Insurance purposes

Employer of commercial drivers

All other uses permitted by CA law.

The pdf form at https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/file/request-for-record-inform... in section 4 has more details.
Castles of glass and convinced they are made from stone…
Hey, those were fixable if you ran a UART to the jumpers, if this is the right one. Not entirely a brick!

Also, firmware mistake = disk disappears from the bus is pretty common in enterprise SSD land. HPE did it twice, I've seen it on Intel drives, and I'm sure there are others I'm not remembering. Maybe Seagate was trying to be more enterprise... and at least their drives only failed to start up IIRC, if you were running them continuously it was fine (unlike the SSDs)
> I'm afraid we can't provide the information due to NDA so I'm going to close this issue.

This implies that they made some kind of special deal with Apple to get an exception to the licensing terms that everyone else has to follow.
Late but wanted to clarify/correct for posterity: the reasons why most people don't use "fstack-protector-all" everywhere are typically related to resource usage (not crashes), esp. in constrained environments. I have old hardware so I don't use it everywhere just yet.
regardless of anything else, windows is older than posix... so posix should arguably be windows compliant :P
I don't think it a hard fact statement, more of a "I believe this to be so, isn't this incredible!" type of statement.
A TikTok bone salesman’s wall of spines
Well. Good work then!

Your build is half the size of twitch.tv's vendor.js.

If you go on their front page, then click a stream, your browser will have loaded around 15MB of JS (~3.4MB over the wire).

To be fair they're a video streaming service so they probably don't care about a few extra megabytes here and there, but on lower spec'd hardware you'll feel all that JS: a solid 5s of CPU time just spent executing JavaScript on my thinkpad during that test, not including the time to load it.

And it's not like they're done. If you then do pretty much anything, it'll have to load even more. Apparently if you click a name in chat, it has to load another 998.96KB JS file (features.chat.components.viewer-card-*.js) to render those tiny cards that contain maybe 50 bytes of information. That's a good bit larger than your entire application!

There's operating systems that fit in less than what twitch needs to show a glorified tooltip. On my hardware they could probably boot in that time too.
you're not wrong; conceptually. But those aren't the actual definitions.

https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/do...
Amazon has had a large cash comp for years 1 and 2 for a very long time. It's not new because of covid at all.
I don't quite understand the obsession with homeownership.

If a large enough percentage of people rented from property management companies, there would be more impetus to have strong tenant's rights laws to protect residents, and people would have more flexibility to move around. Moreover everyone would have an interest in increasing supply to keep their own rent down, pushing prices down toward cost-of-materials and upkeep.

As it is people willingly submit to homeowners associations that are in many ways worse than the laziest landlord. I don't see what gets worse by just becoming a nation of renters.
Haven't read the article but my immediate thought is that it's kind of obvious if you simply replace it with "microprocessors". I don't know about the historical significance of the 4004 though.
The Story of The A.C Gilbert Company
TOML looks good. I'd rather it be call the ini standard but.
I would expect the government to pay for this. But the government has no money of its own. It is all taxpayers money.
Thanks! I observed two points.

In order to look at flow - "should learn about queue theory"!

"queue theory" itself would be useful to design queuing related systems.
For around two years I’m constantly using shared cars via apps. I’ve had almost zero issues. If the car is dirty or smells you can review it and one would assume repeat offenders get booted off.
This has been the tenor of international discussions on global limits (initially with a focus on population and resource availability, over the past several decades with an increased focus on environmental impacts, most notably climate change) for the past 50--60 years.

I'm familiar with discussions dating to the 1970s, in which the Global North (then "first world countries) and the Global South ("third-world", "undeveloped", or "developing" countries) battled over where and how sacrifices should be made.

In the interim, China, and to a lesser extent India, have emerged as global economic powers. Both have done so by dramatically increasing their consumption of both energy resources (much of that from coal and other fossil fuels) as well as other natural resources and extreme amounts of ecological disruption and contamination. Much as Western Europe and North America before them.

China and India also have some rather sharp history with the UK specificially, which the president of COP26 hasn't referenced, though I'm fairly certain domestic coverage in both countries will play up.

Questions of ethics, morality, and justice notwithstanding, what remains is quibbling whilst the world burns, literally and metaphorically. And that quibbling's been going on for well over a half-century (again, with different foci).

I'm digging through an excellent 1970s treatment of the general issue, William Ophuls, Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity*. The international dimension begins at roughly page 200. The book as a whole is excellent, as are many of the author's subsequent works, exquisitely researched, argued, written, and referenced. Ophuls's bibliographic notes are a treasure unto themselves.

The work is available for purchase, or at the Internet Archive. I recommend it strongly. Originally published in 1977 it was updated in 1994. I somewhat prefer the original in that the track record of its predictions and observations can be checked against a longer span of subsequent history, and with formidable accuracy.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=ecology+politics+scarci...

https://www.worldcat.org/title/ecology-and-the-politics-of-s...

http://libgen.rs/search.php?req=ophuls+ecology+politics+scar...

The author maintains a website at which he's published numerous more recent essays directly:

https://ophuls.org/
Loop Protection
STP is a loop prevention protocol that prevents loops on a Layer 2 network. Loop protection is an enhanced function of STP. It prevents loops that occur when a port cannot receive BPDUs from the upstream switching device.

Learn more:*STP Loop Protection*
<https://info.support.huawei.com/info-finder/encyclopedia/en/STP+loop+protection.html>
Have they raised a seed?

If not at least a few to several percent. If yes maybe 1-3 percent.

Profitable? Product market fit?
Will the stock fit the requirements for Qualified Small Business Stock? This makes a huge tax difference. Early-excercise and 83(b)? Market rate salary or under market? Note market has 50% increased for startups the past year.
It is because basic economics is only a crude approximation for real world economics. That's why Economics departments at universities require you to take a few courses after Ec101 before they will give you a degree in the subject.
yes. Even as a civilian; they told us that we should not visit the site.
Not only less debt, but surplus payroll taxes from Social Security were flowing in and basically landing on the government balance sheet. (Via a special non-marketable bond series)

We no longer have a surplus there, and the issues around it were kicked down the road 39 years, when we had a Senate run by adults instead of the current pack of dull knives.

The military stuff will just get cut. We separately run 4 of the top ten air forces.
Then you don't have an asset. You paid for the option of living there for the duration of your leas, but you have no control on the property, or your future.
You're not getting it. You keep the plant on all the time. When you need to reduce power you insert the control rods. You lose some efficiency, but you do burn the fuel less fast as well; you're getting so much energy out of the nuclear fuel it's irrelevant.

This is established science and reactor design, it's not new. What I learned from a friend who works in power is there's red tape constrains on doing power variation which is why they don't do it.
> Would three wheels be enough?

Potentially, but there are a number of issues to overcome, such as:

More weight on each wheel compresses the soil more. This is possibly alleviated by the 3rd wheel not being in line with the other two, or that might make the problem worse, I'm not sure.

Steering, handling, tipping. With a triangular wheel base, the tractor will seem more top heavy for any given size. This is less of a problem than it would be for eg. an SUV, but it is still a problem. Widening the footprint overcomes this but introduces transportation and parking problems, not to mention having to reconsider spacing of row crops etc. Overcoming that is possible by making the whole thing an articulated tripod that can adjust the wheelbase at need (and incidentally maneuver in any direction), but the flexibility gained comes at the cost of quite a bit more complexity that is unlikely to be worth it for farming equipment (construction equipment might be a different matter, but I wouldn't bet on it).
We’ve crossed the Rubican on the injection of type-a’s in this field. The entire Agile layer is one hell of a ruse where they managed to employ an entire group of unnecessary people into what used to be a very natural workflow. I really don’t need a scrum master asking me every morning what the fuck I did yesterday, or size stories every other day. Believe me, I really don’t.

I almost want finance to be glamorized again so it can siphon these people away.
htmx is SSR-oriented: it is all about exchanging hypermedia with a server, but making that more expressive so you can implement things like Active Search within that paradigm:

https://htmx.org/examples/

hyperscript is a client side scripting DSL that attempts to improve on javascript/jquery with an event-and-DOM-oriented syntax:

<input type="text" placeholder="Search..."
_="on keyup
if the event's key is 'Escape'
set my value to ''
trigger keyup
else
show <p/> in #quotes when its textContent
contains my value">
I have friends who were impressed to see their house has gone up in value by 20-30% or more since they purchased it. But selling is pointless, since they would have to buy another overpriced house to move into.

It doesn't really seem like there are many winners in this current scenario. Unless you're selling to "downsize" or move somewhere cheaper. Or an investor...
It's well established that low density housing is completely unsustainable.
Amen. Funny how Peter Thiel parlays something that was obvious to many, if not most, people outside the SV echo chamber into some sort of new insight…
There's a lot more nuance to the 2016 event. Ironically, the wind generators could have saved SA from a multi-hour blackout but the "settings" being used by the wind farms were overly paranoid (in my simple understanding) and caused them to shut-off before their more realistic danger limits were reached.

This is more of a failure of development and regulation of standards, which, I believe, have now been resolved. Said standards had already been developed in countries that had more experience in wind generation than Australia.

The "cause" was unprecedented wind speeds that brought down a few of the big "giraffes" that carry high voltage wires across the state and the interconnectors between states. See article below for example photo.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-28/sa-statewide-blackout...

A lot of good has actually come out of that event, none related to the politicking.

More info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_South_Australian_blackout
There won't be much new for analog until something lower level is found.
I mean, if you invent Gmail, sure, you'll be richly rewarded.

But the average engineer working on an average side project will not do something like that. Especially not during a quarterly review cycle. So then your accomplishments working 80% are compared to those working 100%.

I never worked with someone who had a 20% project during my 3 years. I did try to start one myself, but gave up after 1 day.
Thought it was the 6502.
> I didn't really imagine any sort of incentive to join the pact. The motivation to join would be something akin to a protest against facebook's product.

The second a company does something like this (aka no real incentive event that can only potentially cause damage, solely as a "protest") is the second that company is going to look like a pretty bad place to work at. Mostly because it just means they care more about public outrage and putting on a show than actually doing their work.

And despite not having much interest in working for FB, I have way less interest in working at a place where other employees (and the leadership) are supportive of such proposals.
Yes, you could have 20 drives or whatever the magic number is behind a single NVME interface.
Definitely agree with the parts about Elon Musk and Larry Page not talking about AI anymore.

My perception of OpenAI is that it's running on the fumes of Elon Musk circa 2015. It was launched in that year or so with a lot of hype, much of it due to Elon's name being attached. Then he lost interest, and it's been getting less and less ambitious as time goes on. That's the opposite of what you'd expect if they were on the path to AGI.

My (somewhat first hand) perception of self-driving cars is that the industry is running on the fumes of Larry Page circa 2006-2010. Larry attended DARPA self-driving challenges, and spun up a self-driving project at Google. Through incredible PR they managed to convince the entire auto industry to jump on board, investing tons of money for acquisitions like Cruise.

All self-driving projects have also been getting less ambitious over time. I noted a few years ago that in 2016 Chris Urmson already told people to adjust their expectations -- that it would take 25 years to roll out. Still in 2018 people were repeating claims that Page and Urmson made back in ~2010, and some are still doing that today.
There's another advantage to feeling it out in production - you're measuring the actual system, not your theoretical model of the system, so all the extra things you've forgotten are automatically included (assuming you measure the right things, of course!)

And keeping your safety margins nice and wide isn't just inefficiency. It's also building in resilience for when something unexpected does happen. Yes, if you need your six-nines performance on a 1% margin then maybe you should try to optimize this to the nth degree, but realistically almost none of us have to sail that close to the wind.
I suspect they picked that chip because tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of its launch (Nov. 15, 1971).
a lot of pressure to not go solar and the whole overhype movement i've seen was mainly endorsed by those with vested interest in other forms of energy. big oil, coal, nuclear etc. there's a lot of energy we are not harvesting due to battery technology. hell we can honestly pull energy out of the air during a storm, it would make the area safer because lightning itself could be used as a way to charge up batteries. but the batteries are just not there, there are very cheap ways of storing energy though, gravity being one of those primitive technologies. pumping water up a spout etc. but i don't think solar itself will be all we need, i agree with that part. but we have a lot of unused energy that we can take advantage of if people allow their mind to explore new sources of renewables
Agrivoltaics, agroforestry, aquaponics and regenerative organic methods combine really well for modest commercial farms.

I'm curious to see how, or if, these approaches scale, together or individually. Automation could be a decisive factor.
I gave FB the exact breakdown of my other offer with plenty of time to react to it, and got only silence in response. They had all the tools to put together a superior compensation package and just didn't.

(It's possible that based on my interview performance, FB didn't want to match the level I was offered at the other company. But if that were the case, you'd think they would cut bait and move onto a more promising candidate rather than half-assing an attempt to get me to join regardless.)
Determing whether or not arbitrary code is looping is actually impossisble (halting problem).
> Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret are the only clearances

Not necessarily. Maybe in DoD land, but there's also a different system (uses similar terminology) for the State Department, and Department of Education (and some others) also has a thing called "Public Trust Clearance" and they involve different background checks (which aren't transferable). But the DoD clearance is the one that takes much longer to complete.
You also don't have to worry about owning anything that is, you know, useful in any way.
Sorry to go a bit meta. I can't help but notice that a reply to comment that mentions F1, is from a user handle named Jensen Button.

As long as it isn't GPT-3... (:
For most of American history, neither the legislators nor the courts saw a contradiction between censorship on obscenity grounds and free speech. And in principle, we still recognize that principle: it's just we define the line arbitrarily and subjectively around things like snuff films and child porn. The current interpretation of free speech is a mutant interpretation of the concept as written by the founding generation.
I think the advantages over the csv example are not quite advantages.

"tall and skinny". Well it looks skinny, but in bytes is actually fatter than the csv. Similarly, for comparing stuff, the columnar display works better.

My go-to is ini. Simple. Everything is a string. No assumed hierarchy in section naming. Just key/value pairs under sections. It is up to the using application to parse them how it sees fit.
I took a loan on a new car. It is 0.9% APR. It's easy to have your money grow faster than that, so leaving my wealth invested and paying the payment nets me more money in the end than if I paid it up front. I could take money out of my investments to pay off the car tomorrow, but with the markets being as they are that would be insane. Even the bonds I own have higher returns than 0.9%.
I think using the car batteries as storage also makes a lot of sense. Suppose technology improves so that cars have ~double the capacity they have now (~150kwh), then that’s super useful for long car journeys, but most people only do short journeys each day. So you could use the excess for storage. And they’d be plenty considering the average household in the uk only uses 10kwh a day (although admittedly that’s factoring in gas heating which will need to be replaced)
a house isn’t a particularly good investment. it’s just the one everyone, in america, makes because they’re financially illiterate. anyone can buy ETFs now with zero commission and zero gate keeping.
Sales is the lowest risk job tech related skill I know of; it works even if we were hit by an apocalypse and had no electricity. In all likelihood, we'll still be making tools and selling those tools. It helps you to think in the problem/business domain too. So you're not simply learning PHP to build a website, you're doing it to say, help people find hotels.

It works on your resume, it works for job searching, it helps with getting promotions (proving yourself useful), and it works with landing a higher salary without negotiation. You still can't sell crap. So you need a good product (i.e. yourself, your skill) worth selling. But it complements any other skill you have.

There's also communication skill in general. How to refine ideas into denser, cleaner formats that people and AI can understand. This works for sales, and it works for code.

Tech-wise, I can't say. The nature of tech is that it's very high risk. If you've had a look at how GPT-3 is engineered [1], it makes you question whether algorithms and OO will be a useful skill in the future. Sam Altman expects us to hit AGI within 2025 [2]. He's probably being a little optimistic, like every other programmer, so let's double the estimate and say we have until 2030. Codex itself scored #96 when pitted against 9000+ humans in a coding challenge [3]. So whatever you pick, it should be fairly AI-proof.

Data will be around, and anything that deals with data will be helpful. Even if you could tell AI to do whatever, it has to pull data from somewhere. Spreadsheets are great. Databases will be around for a long time. The top 3 most used DBs or so use some variation of SQL.

There will also need to be some kind of front end for data for people (and even AI) to use. Low/no-code has been around forever but there's always a domain it can't solve. Something specialist like Shopify, Magento, WordPress that solves a problem millions of people have. If you want something that combos well with higher risk work, you can learn UI/UX.

Again, low risk, low returns. The absolute lowest risk is food. Everyone needs to eat. Farming and cooking will keep you from starving, but probably won't take you much higher than that.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#prompts-as-programming
[2] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1081584255510155264
[3] https://challenge.openai.com/codex/leaderboard
One of the sequences is at 1:05:25 -

https://youtu.be/QHwRI0dHqps?t=3930
Not exactly an incompatibility, but my mind jumped to issues like this: https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/blob/mas...

<NameID>user@user.com<!--XMLCOMMENT-->.evil.com</NameID>

Some parsers will take just the first text element ("user@user.com"), and others will concatenate the text elements ("user@user.com.evil.com").
This reminds me the 1968 Brazilian movie "Roberto Carlos em ritmo de aventura" when a pilot flow an helicopter inside the 250m (~ 820 feet) long Túnel Novo (New Tunnel) connecting the neighborhoods of Copacabana and Botafogo.

https://youtu.be/ab8bVouGtwU

Minute 0:57 to be more precise.

Also, you can enjoy Rio de Janeiro from above in the 60s.
The article title is not very accurate. The 4004 was an evolutionary dead-end. The later, unrelated, 8008 design was a much more important chip. But the 4004 was the first successful COTS microprocessor, which is why it is remembered.
Idiotic comment.

The proportion of world population from India and China has been almost constant throughout history. They have not "bred more" than the rest of the world.

6-8 children was the norm even in developed countries in the past, economic prosperity and education changed that. European colonization actively prevented both from occurring in these countries, keeping birth rate high.

Post independence, both countries have decreased birth rates drastically, India is at replacement and still decreasing, China below replacement.

Stop using that stupid racist argument.
In the early 80s a 13% mortgage rate was not uncommon. People survived. Very little blood was spilled