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> and we blame existing leadership for tons of problems

and then vote again for Democrats when elections come. I'm not picking on you in particular, or on the Democrats, in other places it may be the Republicans, but it seems to me that the American society is so much split that when it comes the time to vote, most people will vote for the party that ostensibly is more aligned with their values, irrespectively of the fact that they are doing a good job.

I mean, a bad Democrat is better than a good Republican because at least it is not a racist cunt (or, from the other side, a bad Republican is better than a good Democrat because at least is not a woke idiot).

It looks like in the past it was different, maybe the position of the two main parties were closer so it was not much of an issue, but right now I think that the USA would benefit from a more pluralistic approach to the elections
This is incorrect (which is lucky, because it would both be extremely unreasonable and impossible to enforce). You can only be fined if you are driving so slowly that you are causing an obstruction.

Citations:

NRMA: https://www.mynrma.com.au/cars-and-driving/driver-training-a...

Australian road rules: http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_reg/arr210/s12... -- key paragraph: "a driver does not unreasonably obstruct the path of another driver or a pedestrian only because [...]
(b) the driver is driving more slowly than other vehicles (unless the driver is driving abnormally slowly in the circumstances)." (Note that these rules form guidance for the States, so there will be per-state differences -- see below)

Western Australia is the only state which explicitly defines "too slowly", it's 20km/h below the limit, and it only applies to freeways. https://www.whichcar.com.au/car-advice/is-driving-slow-illeg...
This New Company Is Betting Big on Nuclear Power in America
Does Quantum Mechanics Reveal That Life Is but a Dream?
I’m with you on this. I received a Quest as a Christmas gift and basically went from 0 to 100 on VR and the Metaverse. It finally makes sense to me.

Like you say, there are some issues with the tech, but they’ll be resolved in time, and it’s clear that this is the future of gaming at least, and maybe much of social media/virtual interaction.
I am a true believer in Tesla and I think it will have a great future. I believe that in the future (maybe a year from now) we will be able achieve what I said above. I believe you will be convinced too.
DeFi Project Known as Wormhole Hit with a Potential $320M Hack
Podcast make money by putting ads in the middle. Same could work for RSS
On the Pi, run

vcgencmd get_throttled

You're looking for a 0x0 result (not now and never under-volted nor throttled). The result is a bitfield. A script to turn them into human-readable format is here but I just look at the bits: https://gist.github.com/aallan/0b03f5dcc65756dde6045c6e96c26...
That’s not necessarily a problem if the future of the cash cow looks bright. Facebook’s problem is that the cash cow is looking rather ill with nothing clear to pick up the slack. Also the business model of GOOG and MSFT is far more diversified than FB.
>I leave my IDE theme on the default,

For sure you installed some plugin, enabled/disabled some feature in your IDE.

My terminal apps has tabs and profiles, I have my important server SSH open in a tab with a red color scheme to remind me this is not my local and I should pay attention. Sure more then 50$ of the users don't need this but why should the terminal developers not put this important feature for power users in ? I mean regular users should not open the advanced settings, or if by mistake a GNOME users will open it , will have a short segfault/reboot and then proceed to uninstall the app and installed some crippled software or buy an iPad. Do we really need to hide power user settings under some "Cheat code" so this type of users don't see by accident the options screen? do we need to protect their limited ....?
There are lots of cryptographical protocols with mathematical proofs that contain errors that break the security of the protocols themselves. A version MuSig in Bitcoin was a protocol like that, though luckily the mistake was caught by the cryptographic community when the authors wanted to publish the proof at a conference.
They can always try the same strategy GCP adopted: huge discounts.

If you’re paying retail for GCP, you are getting fleeced.
> Really, really curious to see how all this market volatility will affect their talent pool. Losing almost all gains over the last 18 months will certainly cause some people to reconsider their tenure

One can hope...
Too many places have horizontal silos, elaborate bureaucratic policies, throw it over the wall mentality

While looking you dead in the face and saying "we've broken down all of our silos". Current job is this way.

"We are all DevOps"

Yet only one person is allowed to deploy, build pipelines, and provision resources.

No one's broken down any silos, they just changed the name on the land deed and kept the silos where they are.
We're having major debates right now in the US over whether or not the federal government should invest into infrastructure at all and how much it should invest, and to phrase that as "nobody wants to work" is utterly backwards. Nobody wants to pay to maintain bridges, and whenever we try to set up funds to pay for fixing bridges, it gets funneled towards grifters because of an equal mix of privatization/government corruption/lack of transparency.

You can look at a lot of infrastructure through this lens. Why is our Internet so far behind other countries? Is it because of a lack of workers? No, it's because of a mixture of monopolies, government capture, and both over and under regulation. We make it hard to invest in Internet infrastructure without serious effort from lawmakers and companies, meanwhile we don't regulate the companies that we are funneling public funds to. We give money to Comcast to set up Internet connections, and it doesn't do it, and then we give them more money instead of punishing them.

Meanwhile, the very notion of improving this infrastructure is itself political and constantly debated. At best, our infrastructure projects are rolled up into an increasingly dysfunctional political system where parties are purely interested in maintaining power and opposing each other. Add onto that an unhealthy dose of individualism that teaches us that people shouldn't be paying to maintain common infrastructure and that asking them to do so is theft.

This take is also really disconnected from the reality of gig-workers and factory workers (and out-of-work individuals) across America, including in Seattle. It is not the case that everyone is privileged enough to not work and therefore we have a shortage because too many of them are making art. There is a large population of people in the US who feel forced into oppressive jobs, and companies literally rely on their desperation in order to maintain an underpaid workforce. We have willing workers in America, but a nontrivial number of them are trapped working for Uber and fighting off homelessness.

What does it say about government spending, about the barriers of entry to doing other work, and about the amount of resources we're devoting to infrastructure in general that those people can't get better paying jobs than Uber? It's just so out of touch to act like the potential workforce begins and ends with programmers/artists. Get out of the tech bubble and talk to normal people; the reason Seattle isn't paying to fix potholes is not because there is no one left to fix the pothole, and it is definitely not the worker's fault that they haven't done their civic duty to push blue-collar market wages down far enough.
I’m loving this article! Looks like there are many commenters that expressed negatives toward this article. But this article resonates with me!
Ted Chiang has another interesting take on this, namely that perfect memory is often undesirable, and that the past often is molded to fit narratives about the present.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth...
Monolithic platforms are significantly more feature-full and user-friendly than standards based development, and thus are the ones that actually experience significant adoption. This is just a fundamental reality.
There's been a lot of rumbling for the past decade or so, mostly from misguided indie developers, that there are "too many games", as if there was ever a time when marketing a game was easy.

There are a lot of games. Bad games. Boring games. Unoriginal games. Half-assed games.

You know what there isn't an excess of? Great games. Games which serve particular niches really well. The "colony sim" genre has enjoyed a bit of a renaissance since RimWorld proved you can have a big niche hit without replicating the entirety of Dwarf Fortress' detailed simulation - but there still aren't a ton of interesting games in the genre, such that even a highly derivative game like Going Medieval gets a ton of interest.

And that's just one niche! There are many others. Make a game you love, make it great, and you can probably succeed. Don't make boring crap that nobody wants to play.
When you buy something using money in your bank account, your bank needs to pay their bank during settlement. Your bank has lower assets (and matching liabilities.) Their bank has more.

This is presumably true for stablecoin deposits too. But what banks are they using? What assets end up changing hands?
Do you think that sounds fair? Would you agree with other highly skilled individuals working a smaller subset of agreed hours due to their competency being high?
Yeah, this is like "people who are overweight: lose weight". Well gee I never thought of that before, I guess I'll go right out and do it. I certainly won't continue lying awake between 3-5am 2-4 times a week now that I know it's important. /s
Haskell (inspect element of the code blocks reveals highlighting metadata)
From what I very briefly read, apparently their server hardware broke and they didn't have the funds to repair everything at once? Was quite shocked when I first saw it was down.
People mistake schoolchild-level analogies for the way the real world works all the time. Kids grow up disillusioned that the neat causal view of history with a strong moral arc they learned at school is a gross simplification, and assume they've been hoodwinked as opposed to just talked down to. Likewise, schoolchildren learn a simplified version of physics and mistake that for the real thing (for example, believing that water has set freezing and boiling points rather than phase boundaries on a pressure/temperature plot). Actually, there is probably a trap which certain people who pay a lot of attention in school but never deeply pursue any subject outside of it fall into, which is to grossly overestimate their understanding of things. Whereas the class bozo is probably closer to the mark in his assessment of his own abilities.

This cocktail party observation is definitely common in certain circles, but I think particularly American culture, where maverick thinking is so highly prized. This type of thinking is a true wellspring of innovation, but is not accessible to the vast majority of people. It does remind me of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/675/

I'd also caution against being too harsh in such people, especially in informal situations. "Why don't you just..." type questions are actually a great way to improve your understanding of a field, and should be taken in the spirit of curiosity, and not necessarily as an indicator of extreme hubris.
Just cancel copyright and see who will keep on creating.
Thanks for mentioning, I just updated my website and Github to use the new WAT functions.
I've struggled with sleep for as long as I can remember, but my issue isn't falling asleep -- it's staying asleep throughout the night. I usually sleep ok from 12am-5am, but after that, I wake up and fall back asleep every ~30 mins or so til I get up around 8.

Does anyone else have this issue? Curious if there are any good solutions...
Wow what's better? As an Oculus owner I dismissed the 2 as just aesthetic. Can it run Alyx natively? On the Oculus 1 it requires a PC and cable.
> As an Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will be contributing to the design and development of the end-to-end developer experience across all 50+ teams

In other words, when the janky build tools someone wrote >10 years ago break down, you're going to be on-call so much that you'll just run a landline into the back of your head, Matrix style.
People do say similar things about video games and Starbucks. "A cup of coffee per day" is often used as a barometer when charities want you to donate to them.

It's not a bad question though. Someone who wants space exploration should think about that question and be able to answer it in a meaningful way.
Yes, it's everyone else's fault they don't cater to you. How dare they.
Why do you think you know their users better than they do? What data do you even have?

The much simpler explanation, given that the product doesn't seem to be failing by any measure, is that maybe you just aren't who they are targeting?

One of the main reasons products fail is because they try to please everyone, and have so many knobs that the UI is horrible.

Good product design requires choice. You don't like those choices. Okay, awesome, it's not the product for you. That doesn't make it the wrong choice, or a bad design. It just means you aren't in the user base they are catering to.

Most of the time, if it turns out the user base thy are catering to is unsustainable, the product will fail, and something that does cater to that user base will take over. So how is this not a uniformly good thing?

The market has products for people who like different things - those users will decide what wins or not.
Do you mean "like [non-] interactive TV"?
> figuring out how to buy Valve

He would step in a long queue, and would get the same answer everyone in front of him: Gaben wouldn't let it slip out even from his cold dead hands.
Except crypto is a pump and dump scam and most people know that. It was obvious from the start that libra was a “fellow kids” attempt to capitalize on the blockchain hype.
Wow what are your favorite apps? And a bit more leading question, what apps have you used in the last week?
Fendi entered the chat. "We object! We don't use barbaric clubs anymore, we use proper pistols to dispatch baby animals in order to steal their hides to make Predator human trophy garmets from them. Please browse our winter collection."
It takes a lot of CPU (lean side) on top of GPU (neural side) indeed. But technically, when properly parallelized, it takes no more than 1-2h to crack the hardest problem we've cracked so far.
You don’t consider the car reliable after two wear items wore out after 200000 miles? What are the other things about this car that cause you to question the reliability?
Keep an eye out for decentralized, algorithmic stablecoins like UST which have continued to grow market share which others like DAI have decreased.
a lot of people i know in the US have moved on from paypal and use venmo or other apps now
Thank you. How can I find your email?
There’s a whole bunch of geriatric millennials out there remembering what happened to second life. With the pandemic letting up the last thing people are going to want to do is live in some virtual world. Fresh air is the new black.
Actually, my assumption is that my peers can be as competent as me. When everything being equal, time does matter.
> Google and Microsoft have had the same business model forever .

Microsoft has Xbox, Office, Azure, etc.

Google has Android, Google Workplace, GCP, etc.

When you diversify your income streams you add more. It doesn't mean you get rid of your breadwinner.

Facebook's main model seems to becoming illegal and/or not viable via a tech perspective.
> when

If native performance is "very very very" not fast enough then that's supercomputer work and it doesn't really matter if WASM is 3x native or 0.3x native. So that context should be where you're the least depressed.
‘Take back life’: More nations ease coronavirus restrictions
absolutely. if company A pays me to get my job done and company B pays me the same amount to "be at work" I know which one I'd pick.
This is the dataset: https://insight.shrp2nds.us/documents/shrp2_background.pdf

It covers 5.4 million trips in 3,400 vehicles with digitally collected records and vehicle data and has been independently validated by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and Department of Transportation.
> The vitriol on HN for FB is something else.

> The earnings for this company are truly staggering. ...

> You people are nuts.

> While I don't love FB as an entity, as a business they are making fucking bank. ...

Purdue Pharmaceuticals made a lot of money, too.
Ask HN: How can I make a “kid's computer” today as good as an Apple II?
When I was a kid, I had an Apple II with a BASIC interpreter, Print Shop Pro to make really cool cards and banners, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego to learn about geography, Pinball Construction Set, Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, and LOGO for programming the turtle.

Today I can't see a way of giving my kids a computer like that, where there are a lot of open-ended ways to create. The iPad games are too directly educational, or mindless, and great creative experiences don't seem available on desktop or iPad suitable for early elementary schoolers.

Any suggestions here? I will be happy to pay $.
You can mine crypto/mint new NFTs/create new coins arbitrarily without paying external currency for them though.
> When someone exchanges a real dollar for a USDC token

You're making the very large assumption here that people are exchanging real dollars for stablecoins, which is almost certainly not the case. Tether, in particular, seems to printing their stablecoins out of what appears to be thin air, or at best in exchange for sketchy IOUs.
Did you really just use the argument that authoritarian regimes already de-anonymize so why can't we?
The lack of awareness and smugness to be able to invest in a majority of the stock market when the line is drawn at Meta/Facebook is a problem too.
Just look at the reactions in this entire thread, in virtual reality they hate Meta so much and it's all over for them. But in reality:

It is a screaming buy signal.

I would wait for it to go even lower, say at least $200 or $190 before doing so.
Their point is that thinking of money going "into" crypto means that the money is there to come out of it. And that's not generally true.

When I buy a BTC, my dollar goes to someone else bank account, who then does whatever with that dollar (spends it on electricity, perhaps). If I later get out of BTC, I don't necessarily get my dollar back. So if $1B has gone "into" BTC, perhaps only $1M comes out of it later. So seeing there as a stock is misleading.

That said, if you trust the maintainers of stablecoins, then the article's assumptions do hold. $1B spent on USDT and then later reversed should result in $1B coming back. So you can think of stablecoins as a stock (relative to the tethered currency at least)
"I see a speck of dust on the tire. Minus $100."
My problem is that I get too much sleep and it's very difficult for me to wake up if there's no meeting scheduled that morning for my flexible remote job or if there's no social pressure to get up. I'll happily sleep 12-14 hours if you let me. I've been this way since I was a teenager, and I'm 25 now.

I know this sounds like I'm complaining about a luxury, and lack of sleep is definitely worse, but it's always made me feel like I'm wasting my days sleeping and missing out on life to a degree.
It definitely feels like you did, though you don't seem to believe it.
FWIW - There is literally no claim anywhere that the cynicism was unwarranted.
Only that it was typical of HN.
So like you are making up a strawman and then beating it up, while everyone else is having a conversation about a different thing.
I'm simply inviting you to contribute to the latter rathr than the former.
> if executed right

I think this right there is the biggest issue for the companies that sell consumer data. Google has had so many golden eggs, office365 before Microsoft, the cloud infrastructure before AWS and so on, and they keep fumbling the ball because their organisation is geared toward a very different form of sales.

The fact that Instagram didn’t become an Etsy styled platform for artists when it was the main platform for sharing semi-professional “hobby” work should tell you everything you need to know about how little Facebook understands markets that aren’t selling privacy data. Because even if they opened up now that ship has sailed as less and less people who produce things rely on Instagram as a platform because the younger audiences aren’t there.
Correct me if I'm misunderstanding something, but this looks like it could support very simple software sales.

You develop a library/framework that you want to sell commercially, put it in a private repo that is only available to sponsors, set a custom minimum price and voila.
There are some cascading effect if you look at stocks of other major companies (AMZN, MSFT). I would guess an algorithm balanced these holdings.
This is from Mark Zuckerberg's post. I think it's a decent explanation of their performance. Historically Facebook always made these longer-term bets and they've typically paid off.

"Before I get to that, I want to briefly touch on our Q4 results, which I know Sheryl and Dave are going to go deeper on. I'm proud of the work our teams did here. We shipped products, our community continued to grow, and businesses of all sizes turned to us to help them reach people. But there are two things that I want to call out that are having an impact on our business.

The first is competition. People have a lot of choices for how they want to spend their time and apps like TikTok are growing very quickly. And this is why our focus on Reels is so important over the long-term. As is our work to make sure our apps are the best services out there for young adults, which I spoke about on our last call.

The second area, and related to this, is that we're in the middle of a transition on our own services towards short-form video like Reels. So as more activity shifts towards this medium, we're replacing some time in News Feed and other higher monetizing surfaces. So as a result of both competition and this shift to short-form video as well as our focus on serving young adults over optimizing overall engagement, we're going to continue to see pressure on impression growth in the near term. Now I'm confident that leaning harder into these trends is the right short-term tradeoff to make in order to get long-term gains. We've made these types of transitions before with mobile feed and Stories, where we took on headwinds in the near-term to align with important trends over the long term. And while video has historically been slower to monetize, we believe that over time short-form video is going to monetize more like feed or Stories than like Watch – so I'm optimistic that we'll get to where we need to be with Reels too."
Sorry, I should have been more clear about Alyx - in both situations I'm running Alyx on a PC, and using the headset tethered.

That being said, Quest 2 uses a USB-C cable that is quite a bit lighter and easier to manage than the Oculus' HDMI cable.
> unlike, say, Google or Apple, I don't think Facebook has really ever had more than one big payoff idea.

Interestingly, by revenue Apple is more of a one-trick pony than Facebook. iPhone sales are fully half their revenue, and almost all of their software income is totally dependent on iPhones as well. Meanwhile at Meta, Instagram revenue is roughly equal to Facebook revenue.
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