skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, Google doesn't offer 80% time. I switched to 80% time at Google (and 80% salary/vesting) but that was my suggestion after a number of years. It wasn't straightforward to transition (I think it needed VP approval), but I didn't encounter opposition either. I found that 80% time is a much bigger quality of life benefit than you might expect, since it's a 50% increase in the number of days you have off.
Researchers set record by preserving quantum states for more than 5 seconds
It’s not helpful to say it’s inevitable if no timeline is given. If it won’t happen for 30 years, there is little point in talking about it right now. Though looking at history, when one of these tech giants do fall, a lot of people who were saying it would happen will act like prophets.

Especially funny because the downfall of Facebook has been predicted for a decade now. Since Friendster and MySpace each did not last that long.
That totally makes sense. I appreciate it!
Meta should just double down on trying to be not just an ads company by buying Valve or some other prestigious gaming company and some business software company to have better gaming and business tools in their metaverse.
It’s not about accuracy. If a stock is priced at a huge multiple to earnings and sales, the market consensus is enormous profit growth for a sustained period. When the slope of the curve moves (or changes direction) the NPV (Net Present Value) of future cash flows drops dramatically.

The miss is also against future guidance. This could be answering a question of “Is Facebook too distracted to grow their core business?”

Anyone who thinks they’re more rational than the market can take the other side of these large moves. (Many quant hedge funds do)
Do you have more information about how Apple disrupted Ma Bell? It is also worth noting that the iPhone was originally released as an AT&T exclusive...
Although that's sort of like saying "if an ant can't survive being scorched by a magnifying glass, it was probably doomed to burn in the sun anyway".

What you're saying may be true – I've no idea. But I'm not sure we can yet dismiss the idea that social technology like Facebook, used as it is, might push us over a line we wouldn't otherwise cross.
Money can absolutely flow “into” crypto. The result is an increasing market cap.
Reading Leo Strauss in China
> In practice, people don't want to take risks that are irresponsible

Yes that was the same argument used by Alan Greenspan when he said investment banks dont need regulation because they wont take risks that are irresponsible, yet Lehman and Bear Sterns and others imploded because they did not understand the risks. This is precisely why you should not socialize the losses, if they fail let them fail or else you regulate them so they they dont take excessive risks.

> It was the complexity of valuation that reduced the short term liquidity

It was so complex that the bankers themselves did not understand it.
I've always liked this one: https://xkcd.com/277/ as well when it comes do "Why don't you just..." things.

As an aside, looking at that comic now I get the same feeling as I did when I watched a Season One episode of The Simpsons. Randall has refined his stick-figure technique!
That's not technically Quest 2 that's PC VR (a nice PC hooked to a Quest 2).
We had a campaign to switch to signal, it fizzled out pretty quickly. I am part of 6 active groups from school to work days, and 1 of them split and exists on both WhatsApp and Signal - signal for sports talk, WhatsApp for everything else, but every other group that tried, moved back. WhatsApp has too much "moat".
Guitar Hero Player Was a Cheat
Feel free to do a deep dive on the meaning and nature of earnings estimates, and you'll find it's mostly just a service that exists because it gives the appearance of legitimacy to various financial institutions. Earnings estimates do not come down from God and there's no one single earnings estimate either, different sites and sources will report different estimates. Typically it's just the average or the median of a bunch of guess work done by analysts across a bunch of different brokerages or financial institutions and they exist to give credibility to said institutions.

A basic quantitative analysis of earnings estimates reveals that they are not particularly accurate when compared to the earnings guidance given by the company itself, and in the rare cases where companies provide no guidance, estimates are almost worthless.

All this is to say don't confuse the term "Wall Street estimates" with what people who actually buy and sell stock estimate. The actual people who have skin in the game and face tangible consequences if they're wrong don't take these earnings estimates that seriously, and conversely the analysts who produce these estimates don't have much of any skin in the game themselves and suffer next to no consequences for being wrong.
Data sharing between companies during a bunch of 'cookie syncs', in detail
This is after-hours trading which is very volatile. I wouldn't read too much into a "20%" drop.
In no particular order (well, except for Alyx, which is the gold standard)...

- Half Life: Alyx

- Lucky's Tale

- Beat Saber

- Thumper
The Flawed Claims About Bias in Facial Recognition
You guys have talked me out of it... thank you. I have really considered to live in the woods last past few months.
I find I remember things better in a paper book than a phone (for sure!) and possibly even a Kindle.

There's something about keeping my fingers in other page sections, folding over the corners of useful pages (even if I never revisit), and remembering the location of information on the page. In college I would often remember WHERE a detail was located, but I didn't know the detail itself. It's like my brain was creating an index to the data based on its approximate page location and the location within the page itself (and crucially whether it was on the left side or the right side of the book when open).

Did anyone else experience something like this?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30177084
and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30182058
HN auto-removing "The World's Best" at the front of the headline takes a little oomph out of it.
The reason is that any earnings miss is a signal that Facebook has already peaked and is on its way down and out. Especially considering all the other negative news around it, it might not be able to recover from a tailspin
LinkLonk can also send new link recommendations by email.

There is also https://refind.com
>Facts: Tesla was the first to introduce such wide range of safety features in every car they sold. They don't make safety a premium feature. They invest in own crash test facilities. Only Volvo is kind of on par.

Volvo built their crash test facilities before Tesla came to existence.
I hate that pro gun propaganda is seeping in to our country and gun access is getting more relaxed allowing psychos to get armed.
I want my right not to get shot to be intact. The police isn't also assuming you are armed during routine stops so they aren't so trigger happy.
Time to pick up EA and make Fifa and Madden exclusive to the Metaverse
Not 1 mention of Tiktok? IDFA is probably not the main reason they had a bad report. Tiktok is quickly dominating time spent and the reason active users are plateauing.
When it comes to printing and the biggest minter are you talking about the US government or...?
"Facebook’s core business model appears to be in decline"

How so? Revenue is up and there's more users. What decline are you referring to?

People have expressed Facebook being passe or not cool for a decade now. They keep growing anyway.
USDC is a coin issued by the US-based company Circle Ltd. It's not related to Tether.
Totally agree, for the most part. With the exception of Ann Davidson, western WA generally won't elect anyone with an R by their name. Polarization is a part of this (I won't get into the weeds here, but The Last Guy was popular in part due to the perception that he was "owning the libs", and as high-minded as coastal liberals consider themselves, there's a sneer not too far off for any southern accent or 'unenlightened' viewpoint).

> maybe the position of the two main parties were closer so it was not much of an issue

I think the parties were further apart, actually. They almost completely overlap in terms of policy outlook and - tellingly - donor class. Maybe the flames of culture and race war are being stoked by the Tuckers of the world in part because there is no major meat-and-potatoes differentiator anymore.
You can use it untethered too, I haven't had any issues at all with it.
>16-18 hours a day

Can I ask you how, and why, you do this? I'm genuinely curious as even back when I was your age I would be fatigued after maybe half of that time.

As others have said, this exaggerated workload obviously contributes to your situation.
I never realised there was some Kool & the Gang in there too: https://www.whosampled.com/SL2/Way-in-My-Brain/
I agree the treatment is terrible.

My curiosity is piqued though. What was the comic that set this all off? It's mentioned several times in the article and the comments, but did I miss the link to it?
VR experience is otherworldly. But, Facebook's idea of making a clone of Second Life VR isn't futuristic or exciting at all.
In ye olden days, you could run your home automation on MisterHouse on any old computer and use a parasitically-powered DB9 serial RS-232 wireless adapter to control X10 devices.

http://misterhouse.sf.net
as a member of the target demographic, all you have to do is provide a version of Modular Grid that doesn't randomly reposition modules for no reason, or which can display a picture of a cat without moving my entire rack, and I'm in.

but you have to give us this for free. we have to see it and use it right away when we get to the page. I'm not making an account or providing my email address if I don't have to. you have to show me something worth my time to get something from me. other people may not feel that way, but that's where I'm coming from.

anyway — the signal flow feature looks nice, and if you were using pictures of the modules instead of colored circles, I'd be pretty into it. if you made those signal graphs easy to share via Twitter and Reddit, and easy to export to Instagram, I would definitely use them, and I think a lot of other people would too.

I built some pretty complex patches recently and abandoned a whole mini side project documenting them for YouTube because I didn't have a practical way to do the signal graph thing. your signal graph would be perfect for that, but it's got to look better.

I'm sorry to say that in this space the bar for interaction design is low. I love Modular Grid but everybody knows this is true. but Modular Grid shows you pictures of modules. that's where the bar is for the visual design. you have to at least show pictures of modules. people who are thinking about buying stuff like looking at pictures of the stuff that they're thinking about buying.

likewise, when it comes to the YouTube use case, most views on Eurorack videos come from people who are thinking about buying the modules in the videos. if I'm doing a YouTube video showing the signal flow with pictures of modules, I'm getting views, likes, comments, and subscribes — and the comments are saying "what is that app? how do I get it? where do I sign up?" but if it's just these colored circles, the response won't be as strong.

just my opinion.

after reading my own comment I decided to add: building stuff is hard and I respect the work you're putting into this. we in Eurorack definitely need better tools and what you've built looks really awesome.
what do you mean when you say "now unfalsifiable", is that because the experiments themselves are too unethical to be repeated?
Let me know if you would be interested in developing a bit more to this nyxt browser feature to support persisting these extensions via the W3C Web Annotation protocol - https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-protocol/

I've been wanting to write an implementation of an annotation server, and it'd be cool to immediately interoperate with nyxt browser. Then I'd work on the same server supporting most other browsers (e.g. Firefox) via WebExtension API building on my old https://github.com/gobengo/web-annotation-extension
I don’t miss Lab 126
Are you stuck with their software though? I've ended up pretty deep down the NixOS rabbit hole...
From the post:

> More seriously, it’s reasonably well-known among mathematicians that published math papers are full of errors.[1]

I think the author's point is that actually the distinction is less clear: many math papers can't be (easily) replicated, yet people in math aren't too worried.

[1] https://twitter.com/benskuhn/status/1419281164951556097
I think the more relevant/interesting question is where is the money flowing into crypto coming from. The data there suggests it’s highly concentrated from folks that really have no business investing in extremely speculative things, which is a huge red flag. Purely anecdotal but my Facebook feed suggests those with a lot of financial literacy are steering clear while folks from high school that barely passed basic math and never left their home town think this is the absolute best place to invest for the future. Just saying.
For the sake of argument let's take you folks' word that it's the future of gaming (for the subset that can tolerate and enjoy the headsets). How much money is in that?

I don't believe for a moment that it'll extend into work interactions. Maybe family visiting type experiences, again for the subset that can enjoy the headset setup.
I think TikTok has it figured out. They have a thing called "Live" and there are people throwing money at the hosts every single day, and guess what : the company gets the 30% (I suspect did not calculate) cut. This may not be enough to pay the bills, but starts the virtuous circle where people buy your (FB) currency and start subsidizing the platform.
How long do I have to lose sleep for permanent effects?

My newborn children would like to know their dad isn't going to suffer these problems.
That's true, but specific to the Quest 2 hardware is the much nicer display, lighter than its predecessor, its inside-out tracking is more convenient than setting up stationary tracking beacons (a-la Valve Index), its guardian system is nice for setting up arbitrary play areas, and it degrades more gracefully at low FPS than its predecessor by respecting 6dof of head movement at a minimum of 90fps at all times, reducing motion sickness.
Relevant classic that's been on HN many times: Reality has a surprising amount of detail http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
Look I know Lisp quite well, have written more than one dialect of Lisp for fun, and have 25+ years of professional software development experience behind me. I don’t think there is anything you need to somehow understand better about “computing” to use Lisp. But you are welcome to convince me otherwise. Do you have any concrete examples?
You're missing the point. It's home automation, not home connect everything to your phone. The whole idea is to create custom automations using network connected devices; the ability to use your phone as a switch is just a bonus IMO.
If it is the same type of spoon I’m thinking of - they are indeed titanium! Forged titanium, at least the version I got.

Because it’s a small part with no significant critical tolerances, it’s also only $10-$20 for a few grams of metal, and only 5x as expensive as a typical spoon.

The equipment required to forge it is also doable in a garage due to the small surface area the forging is happening over (force required goes up as the surface area goes up - which is squared for the dimensions, so very rapidly gets very large).

Compare that to say an engine block, wing spar in an airplane, or fighter jet bulkhead [https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151007005865/en/Alc...] and it gets dramatically more expensive and harder.

It isn’t truly impossible to machine titanium (generally - like most metals the alloy, heat treatment, etc. matter a lot), it’s just so much harder and requires so much more expensive tooling that it’s hard to justify economically except in niche applications.

It’s improving though with better insert based machining tools and hardier insert material.

I’ve heard of some impressive titanium 3D printing using sintering techniques that also have a lot of promise.

Many of the alloys (many more than say aluminum) are nearly impossible due to material characteristics and do require EDM to machine.

Decades ago I happened to get a tour of the Edwards Air Force Base SR71 hangar (near the end of their effective time in service) and the machinists there were very proud of their EDM work for this reason.
The social media website/phone app company gets half its revenue from one of its social media website/phone apps? Feel the diversification!
How would you know in advance which was which? (And often “getting work done early” just becomes “here’s more work”)
> When you find out that most free-living artists have financial backing - well, the rose-tinted glasses come off quick.

Maybe the issue there is taxation, not art? If we're going to get into a debate about people owing stuff to society, I think looking at estate taxes, property taxes, etc... is probably a lot more reasonable than getting mad at them for doing things they enjoy with their time.

I think it's a very easy trap to fall into where we sometimes look at opulence/privilege and get mad at the good things that come out of that (life/job security, freedom to experiment, etc), rather than the consolidation of resources and wealth that enable those outcomes very selectively and that deny other people access to the same conditions.

And there's lots of different life philosophies about how to deal with millionaires/billionaires from lots of different political perspectives, but in all of them from the most Capitalistic to the most Socialist, guilting people over not being passionate about charity blue-collar work is probably less helpful and less reasonable than guilting them over not paying back money (either through charity or taxes) into the systems and common social resources that are currently supporting them and their lifestyles.

"I'm a millionaire, but I got a normal job so therefore I don't need to feel guilty", feels weird to me. That's not really practically changing anything about other people's conditions.
Charles Darwin accomplished building a theory in comparatively luxury. Clearly, wealth can, if not always, enable great things.
"Google could easily serve the needs of users much better than it does, even if it can't do it perfectly. But it won't because it's not in the business of serving user needs, it's in the business of serving advertiser needs, and serving users is just a by-product."

This is such a uncharitable assumption i don't even know where to begin.
Nobody can serve everyone well. Trying is a quick ticket to failure.

The choice not to serve certain people is clearly the correct one, even if one could theoretically do more than you do now. Why isn't the simpler, more charitable answer that they are just serving the majority of their large userbase, or whoever in that user base they care about? Why is it everyone who feels like they aren't served has to decide the reason is because someone is doing the wrong thing, rather than "guess i'm not the user they are looking for".

As for whether you can do more - Good strategy (and product choices) are framed as mutually exclusive choices: https://hbr.org/2012/09/bringing-science-to-the-art-of-strat...

That is always going to make someone upset, because yes, you could do something more than you do for them. That doesn't make that path make any sense. Trying to do more of everything for everyone is pretending that you don't need to make choices, and that those choices don't have consequences (for example, what users you will retain or not). That is, as i said, a quick ticket to failure.
And Google is 90% ads.

OP wanted to use "cool" companies as examples but the actually diversified giants are Microsoft and Amazon.
> Is there really no other competitor or company that tried to tackle this problem in the past?

Microsoft and Google already have very mature offerings in this space.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/media-services/#g...
Well they are leading it right now and no one is really stepping up to do anything about it unfortunately.

Sony could if they were game enough to compete with the Oculus Quest and build something that would work either standalone or wirelessly with a PS5 to handle more intensive games. Same goes for MS ofc.

I think the big fuckup by FB/Meta here is not having the foresight to acquire Unity no matter the cost. They should have made a massive stock deal for it even if it caused their own stock price to take a massive hit in the short term.

The long term benefit of owning the most pervasive toolchain + the most dominant VR platform would have essentially ensured their market position for the foreseeable future. The only other engine that is half-decent for VR is Epic's UnrealEngine and there is a huge step up in complexity, pipeline etc from Unity to get there.
They already have a gaming platform. It’s the Oculus store (soon “Meta” I imagine) and they’ve been working on it for years.
Plausibility has no part in this, when stocks are "priced to perfection" any blip can cause a large correction in price. I remember linkedIn when it was still public and not owned by MS missed earnings slightly and the stock tumbled 40% in the day after earnings. When you have a sky high valuation and your business model requires ever more additions of users, slowing usage and drops of revenue are a bad thing.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30177084 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30182058
I think that Jeff Vogel is a genius, an original thinker with a tremendous amount of creative energy and drive, like Steve Jobs, or John Carmack, or Terry Davis. But geniuses can be wrong, a lot, and this particular article reads like his own intrusive thoughts of anxiety and self loathing spiralling out of control and being given voice and broadcast to the world.

For 10+ years Vogel has written blog posts about stubbornly making it in an increasingly hostile indie game market, and he's always sounded a little bit proud and a little bit scared. Now the pride has turned to shame and the fear has turned to dread.

Western society is in decline, and the fault and symptom is that so many people are making and playing video games, the work to which he has dedicated his life.
I would like OTA updates that are opt-in. That would be a happy medium between Tesla and traditional automakers.
Idk where the person who wrote that got “you scums” from.

In this case, kuso (lit. “shit”) is like “damn” in English. I think the bowdlerized versions of “SOB” are actually appropriate
Sure but think about if a particular setting is used by 0.1% of the user base but takes up 5% of the real estate and confuses the 99.9% of users that have no idea what it is and no intention of ever using it.
Ok, how many % of the time does it work, versus how often do you have to perform admin work to fix it?