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> The description of crypto markets as "speedrunning the history of why we have the financial regulations we do" seems more and more accurate as time goes on.

As someone who's been at the butt end of banking regulation for almost two decades, I love that quote.

It used to annoy me to no end that crypto folk touted the lack of regulation, actually even the ability to regulate, as some revolutionary new feature, not realizing that in fact, they were just traveling back to the stone age of finance.

The vast majority of the tons of financial regulations that exist today serve to protect market participants, most notably your Average Joe. Average Joe claiming he doesn't need regulation just demonstrates their absolute cluelessness and is just another argument in favor of it.
May be if they are all posing for a stock photo then yes. But how does it add diversity in a workplace. Assuming all the white men are from different countries.
Good. Why should HK comply with US sanctions after what happened in 2019?
VR adds a third dimension compared to a typical remote meeting. For me, this gives a sense of locality, as if you’re sitting next to a specific person (not a bunch of tiles) and can communicate with them naturally. Features like breakout rooms are not required.

Any other remote meeting features like virtual whiteboards are usually the same level of convenience, or more so. It’s almost like progressive enhancement when the meeting has both VR and non-VR attendees.
Hah I was asking about just that 12 days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33027184
Everyone needs search, and it's unfair that Google has spent over a decade creating a better search engine than its competitors, so Google should be forced to open source their search algorithms.

Is this the argument you guys are seriously making?

The solution for a competitor having a better product than you is to pick a single strategy and keep iterating on whatever it is you build, instead of abandoning one product after another.
Besides, what did they actually look at? According to a friend, it's a lot easier to get a male date, even if you're more interested in women. How would that affect the 80% figure?
What? 4 years to get from "I think I'm going to rethink the entire GNU/Linux graphics stack" to "usable" is amazing, especially if you consider the GPU-drivers work that was involved.

And to be clear: A big part of only being "sorta" usable isn't anything to do with itself, it's that so little other software had been ported to it.
star wars: the empire strikes back - and vader is luke's dad.
I was grumpy Android user at the time FirefoxOS came out. To me it was the dream phone that will get me away from Google tracking so I bought a Flame device as my only phone. This meant I had to convince everyone in my family and network to move away from apps unsupported on my new open device, so moved to Signal instead of WhatsApp for example. I was very disappointed to see the project killed by Mozilla but still went ahead and got a Banana phone with KaiOS, only to discover it has as many trackers as Google but without much of the usable features!

This was the straw for me that broke my faith in open phones and went full iPhone since.
How far apart were your infections?
I did not say I trusted google any more. The only services I use by them are the search engine and youtube. I avoid everything else. And the search engine is not the only search engine I use.
For now. I do not expect Meta will allow headsets indefinite multi-source operability. At some point they will force a rift between first party and third party games, but not until they’ve truly starved major competition out.
cant try it in five years though: no more cheap $$$$
you actually have to do stuff now
The anxiety is real. Everybody is tightening down, including my employer, who has slowed hiring and started letting go of people who aren't performing. There have been some team layoffs - five people in HR, ten people in customer service, etc. - but we are also still hiring for around a dozen positions. (This is a company with several hundred employees.) No engineers yet, but I can't say for sure I won't eventually be affected. On the other hand, my side of the org is meeting all its targets and works on core tech relied on by all our customers, so layoffs would seem hard to justify.

At the same time, people don't seem to be having much trouble finding new jobs - none of my colleagues who have left (voluntarily or not) seem have had issues in that regard. (Though I don't know everyone who's left, so, I can't speak authoritatively.) For my part, I like my employer and my job pretty well, good pay, good benefits, so I don't plan to make any big changes unless I don't have a choice or something egregious happens.

All that is to say that right now I am not doing anything in particular aside from making sure my income / savings are at the right level and that I have a backstop for any future trouble. I feel the anxiety, but I don't see that there is anything productive I ought to do about it that I am not already doing. I don't think that in an honest assessment I'd have any real trouble finding employment if I lost my job, especially if I had a couple months to look with pay.

Should I feel differently or be acting with more urgency? I'm genuinely not sure. The uncertainty is killer, even if I am in a good position in reality, which is what I suspect.
I'm baffled by the reaction here. I agree that productive VR work is still not ready for prime time, but most of you haven't tried any of this (let alone the new hardware) and you're already dismissing even the possibility of it becoming good in the future. Reminds me of the Dropbox thread. You know which one.

Also what I really don't understand is how anyone can have anything against them spending $$$ on R&D? Worst case scenario: their whole productivity angle doesn't work out, they lose billions upon billions in the coming decade and eventually scrap the whole thing. Then they've still invented a lot of super interesting tech along the way. High resolution displays, low latency rendering pipelines, novel human interface technologies, high fidelity hand tracking, lightweight and sharp lenses, the list goes on and on. There's lots of applications for each of those things and almost nobody else is willing to spend this much cash for such an uncertain roi.
I, for one, am super excited about what the future iterations of this will look like.
Perhaps emulating real life is a prerequisite to real innovations in VR. It may be hard to get mass adoption of more unfamiliar paradigms.
I bet $1000 that this is an ai bot. Hn should have a bot that bans bots
It just replaces one problem with a different one, or, worse, will mask the actual problem through "facially neutral" policies that are anything but.
Primarily I used to search Crunchbase and Hacker News for companies which got a lot of hype 5+ years ago, then I never heard of again.
If you are getting your daily dose of HN comments for a long time like me, you may also think there would be not a single dev that chooses Electron to develop desktop applications.
SMS already represents universal messaging interoperability.

Even ancient no-longer-updated dumb phones support SMS.
I misunderstand the tech so much that I have a Valve Index. Working with multiple screens on that is absolute hell, taking up your entire view, locking you into a bubble. Enjoy your neck pain when you need to turn your head every other second. Oh and good luck with using both a pointer and a keyboard while in VR, I hope you remember where your keys are.

Facial capture for gaming will be absolutely worthless, and so will it be for chatting. Firstly because it already exists without wearing an expensive helmet that makes you sweat and is uncomfortable, secondly because nobody wants to wear a damn helmet so that people can see you smile ingame, and thirdly because nobody wants to put 1k+ on a device whoses uses are extremely limited.
Work from home doing RDP drone control.
any plans for an M1 native build?
I'm with you .... it's fascinating how hard it seems to be for people who aren't bought into this vision to accept there is even a low probability of it happening. But it seems almost completely obvious to me that this is where things will end up. Once an AR headset can render a high fidelity / resolution monitor virtually in front of you it will seem insane to go and buy a giant physical rectangle that is geolocked to your office or where ever you put it.

The timeline is unpredictable but that's the excitement of getting in early to these types of things, because we can start to experience and anticipate what the future will look like before others even have the chance.
I understand the big difference between Trumps delusions, and Clinton’s opinions.

But you’re giving Clinton too much credit.

For one thing, neither Clinton nor Trump received over 50% if the popular vote. It’s tempting to think the Green and Libertarian voters wanted Clinton more than Trump - but third party voters have weird ideas.

Winning the presidency by getting the majority of the electoral college isn’t a steal.

If there were concerns about disenfranchised voters, maybe she would have a something.

But it was low turn out, plain and simple.

The election wasn’t stolen in any way shape or form. Nothing fishy happened. It wasn’t insanely close like in 2000.

She simply lost.

Not as bad as Trumps insanity. But not innocent either.
I suppose it depends, even those on 80-100k would still be living somewhat frivolously. Perhaps they use the money for kids colleges, paying off mortgages sooner, paying off car loans, paying of student debts entirely, perhaps even going on a holiday. Reducing financial stress would be the main target.

Also there's being able to retire >10 before others, or also being able to retire when others do but with more in the tank.

Above that any additional money allows people to again, pay things off sooner or increase their lifestyle. More holidays, latest gadgets, multiple cars, holidays etc.
Only if anyone want to live there. Why would anyone want to purchase a house or live in a place how ever affordable it is, where a mob might burn their house down.
I think the same as you, but let's admit that C# is one of the easiest languages to get into, especially with the magnificent tooling.
You don't make a single page application by adding links to other pages.
So strange given how small the talent pool is and how long it takes to skill up.
It's not so bad. The stress at these places is far lower, the work load is realistic, and the salaries are pretty good, sometimes the base is higher than you'll make at FAANG because they can't entice people with stock.

What's best is these companies welcome wisdom over leet coding. They aren't going to be like Amazon where the way you advance is by stabbing your coworkers in the back. They just have steady revenue streams they want to protect, with no delusions about ever becoming a unicorn.
I recently published a fairly detailed blog post about how to formulate expressive provable programs in Lurk (https://github.com/lurk-lang/lurk-rs). Although this post goes into no details about the underlying proving mechanism, it does build to some pretty powerful ideas. If you haven't thought about the implications of being able to prove correctness of a computation without revealing some or all details of what the computation actually was, you might enjoy it. https://blog.lurk-lang.org/posts/prog-intro/
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/oxymo...

Look let’s split the difference since we’re down to semantics. I’ll take the “oxy”, you can keep the “moron”, and we’ll go our separate ways.
Tiktok is the result of that meeting where someone asked: "What would be a good spiritual successor to Facebook?" and the brightest person in the room sarcastically rattles down a list of satirically bad ideas and expects a laugh — only to have the manager say: "Great! This is precisely how we are going to do it!"
I’m pretty sure the multiple reports on electoral interference said the outcome of the election wasn’t affected.
But that has also the danger of forming islands (mortgage code) which can be maintained by some (or, one) specific engineers.
Hello everyone. I was heavy drinker for approximately 22 years, alcohol caused some real problems in my personal life. I drank from 18 until 39 years old. Let me tell my story how I quit drinking. One day during hangover (and my hangovers were hard as hell) I realised that my son is going to kindergarten and I badly want to see how he is graduating from school, university. On that day I made my temporary decision - to live 30 days without any alcohol. 30 days are not very much and are manageable for every person. After 30 days I didn't feel any urge to drink immediately so I'm still counting my "30 days". Since July of 2014. The best decision I made ever. I hope that my story could became inspiration and support for other fellas here in our sober journey.
> If getting the response times below 7ms is all that's required to fix that problem for the small minority of people who have it then that still seems pretty doable. You would need a 144hz display though.

It's not just the frame rate. When your eyes and inner ear don't agree on the perception of movement you can end up with motion sickness. It's very easy in VR for your eyes to see movement counter to what's being perceived by your inner ear.
Jesus, I knew it was bad, but those stats are unbelievable.
They should have open sourced the platform. This would generate more hardware makers to jump in and improve hardware part, bring to market cheaper as well as more high end devices and so on. It would also accelerate building apps for the platform. A big issue in tech is that everyone wants to copy Apple, keep things secret and build walled garden. What worked for Apple worked for a reason (and bit of a luck) but may not work for others. The big issue is that everyone wants to be next Steve Jobs.

Another overlooked thing is their future EM based wrist sensor which can sense hand movement accurately even if humans don't see it moving. This can be a killer device on its own. The realistic avatar that one can generate by scanning themselves by phone is also very doable with today's tech (SIGGRAPH is full of these papers now). If they can make that happen as fluidly as enabling FaceID, that would be killer app in itself. That can start whole industry of try-before-you buy clothing stores in VR world on your avatar, for example.
I still have my Firefox phones. I cannot bring myself to throw them away and let go of the dream.
This comment reminds me my first times in geocities chatrooms, talking with people all over the world. Welcome to the future.
What’s so weird about this? If he’d painted flowers we’d have all said “how lovely!”. Maybe he liked painting demons, it doesn’t make him demonic.
This shouldn't be surprising to anyone who has ever worked in academia. Certain names have it much easier to publish than others. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Double-blind reviews aren't common in all fields (e.g. everything IEEE) which leads to a lot of bias right from the start: Seniority, country, university, ...
I have a feed from:

https://web3isgoinggreat.com

Multiple scams and failures every day.
Based on the photo, it seems more of a showpiece than an actually practical way of filtering large quantities of air. Those bubble columns are at most a few liters of air per minute -- not much more than your usual aquarium pump -- when large air purifiers are in the hundreds or even thousands of cubic feet per minute. I just can't imagine passing that much air through the columns without sending greenish water all over unsuspecting passengers. Unless this treated air has a synergistic effect on the surrounding air, like negative ions or ozone, this won't make the air significantly cleaner.

It does look cool, though.
Damn, I saved the wrong link. There was a video tho.
CNN accused of rug pull after ditching their Vault NFT project
> But then, venture capital backed companies generally (arguably by design) are not profitable

I've heard this before but I don't get it. Why are they not profitable "by design"?

Edit: not sure if it was the reason this is downvoted but this was an honest question
We call them godrays.
Hashing parts of the problem works for interactive proofs.

I know a graph colouring, so I hash the {color, random salt} pair for every node. The other party chooses two connected nodes at random at asks me to reveal the {color, salt} pairs and checks if colors are different.
Wide Area Synchronous Grid
In other words, when society attaches a label to people, those people start behaving accordingly.

”You call me an addict and refuse prescription? Yeah sure whatever doc, I’ll just buy that fentanyl off the street since I’m already an addict.”

We need to end prohibition.
I think there’s a lot of hate because Facebook is an immensely hate-able company that needs its next cash cow and it sure hopes this is it.

Look at the history of it’s core product to see where VR will go if it takes off:

Facebook was the cool place for college students to connect with friends. No ID requirements to sign up and no ads for years. Your feed was just your friends post. Things were great. Now there’s ads in your feed and you need to definitively prove your identity. Not to mention the history of scandals and privacy violations.

They’ll do whatever it takes to get those first 100 million users. Once they get them though all bets are off. Privacy will only get worse, they’ll give up on the initial power users because who cares about a couple million hard core gamers?
Erm, if you do a fix and the problem still exists then how is that a fix? For example, if I have a number box and I punch letters in it and the problem is <string "CARTER" is not a number> error is still poping up, then my fix is not a fix, is it?

Regardless of how many bugs I have that cause the problem, a fix, in my opinion, is the sum of all those bugs going away.
Win+Arrows work in sequence for some, fyi.
I’m going to bed but don’t want to leave this unanswered before I lose track of it. They’re working on it as part of the next major release and you can see that in the roadmap they’ve posted for it.
This is a fair point. In recent years (before Brave supported tabs, but after I left Firefox), I had to use a single window because the TST-style tab manager sat beside it in a separate window. This was annoying enough even with a single browser window, and it was unmanageable with multiple windows.

But now that I'm using native tabs, it is much easier for me to use multiple windows because the tabs are attached. Thanks for pointing this out!
Thank you! It makes sense now, and also... wow.
> Gold has likely lost its place as a store of value.

So what is its replacement as a store of value that is broadly trusted?
Curious what you don't like about it. So many of the people who say this are basing on assumptions that are either solved or on a clear path to being solved.

For example people say it's uncomfortable : solved now by Quest Pro. People say resolution isn't high enough. Clear path to being solved as display tech and foveated rendering takes over. Don't like being isolated? Solved by Quest Pro with high quality pass through and open side profile. Can't type without seeing your hands? Solved by Quest Pro. Experienced nausea once upon a time using VR? I will bet 80% chance its solved because the tech has gotten vastly better.
It’s interesting sure. AI has a long way to go. It knows something should be there after the user types (@ but it doesn’t understand what is typically typed there. So it offers suggestions.

I feel like the tweet is panic like there’s something wrong and data is being leaked which I don’t think is the case. However someone said it exposed keys. That could be bad for sure!
How can you use zero knowledge proofs to show that your nuclear weapons are inactive? Also... couldn't you just reactivate them after?
That's like saying I would only release iPhone 14 Pro Max and if you can't efford that there is always two year old iPhone 12. Not very appealing, IMO.
If you aren't a 25 year old kid trying to win the startup lottery at a future unicorn, or getting fat at FAANG, then these jobs are great. They move slower, so their processes are often very well refined, the churn is low and the change/velocity is even.

There are few fires to fight in a stable company with moderate growth, a low change rate, and predictable customer behaviors. Disorganization and exhaustion is usually a side effect of hyper growth.

When I hit 40 or so, I accepted I wasn't going to be a billionaire and that I was too old and too mediocre to get a job at a unicorn. I still provided a lot of value for my customers in last few years of work before I retired from tech.

If you are ready to transition from "My life is my work! I'm going to kill it, crush it, and get my lamb" .. Then look for a stable, low growth company which disappointed investors but not customers.
I'm going to assume you're from the same country that allows 16 year olds to buy guns and people of any age to buy guns at a swap meet with no paperwork or whatever.

I'm sure the gun nuts will come out and correct me if I'm wrong. But I sure know the easiest way to kill myself if I find myself in the US, and it's not ordering some obscure chemicals.
More like borkedchain
And perhaps it's not. Perhaps the boundaries of the imagination of the product people are limiting what is being created here. "Wouldn't it be cool if you could travel in a virtual car and go to a virtual mall where there were virtual shops and you could walk around them and buy stuff?" Well no it wouldn't be cool. The internet is better than that already and most people who look at this think it's terrible because it is. If you produce something that is a facsimile of the real world it's always going to be a pale imitation. If you want people to adopt it, it has to be better in some important way that they care about.
I'm not giving Clinton any credit for anything (if anything, I'm denying her credit—for things she didn't do), and nobody is saying Clinton was innocent. You just distorted what had happened and are now twisting what I said.

If you "understand [as you admit; emphasis mine] the big difference" between what Trump and Clinton were referring to and merely intended to argue "Clinton is not innocent", then by all means, go ahead and say that directly, instead of casually leaving an incredibly misleading comment claiming Trump's allegations were "not a unique claim" because Clinton and others have been making "similar" claims. "Big difference" and "similar" are not only dissimilar, they're about as diametrically opposite as you can go.
Sure, if the employee being paid is an owner of the company.

But in this case, I can't imagine how it would be relevant. Perhaps you know more about Dutch law and piercing the corporate veil, but my training as a US lawyer has me scratching my head on this one.
I think you mean "fazed"
7 months
Regulating bodies are not capable of performing cyber-security protocol audits on emerging technology. 'Throwing regulation at the problem' is an embarrassing proposal that I'm sure many regulating bodies will pat you on the back for stanning.
> The term recession has been well-defined in economics for decades.

It's been so thoroughly defined, that there are even multiple conflicting definitions.
> After all, when rendering their decisions, human courts are also solely refering to rules written before the fact (in my home country at least).

They don't though. Courts dream new meanings into existing laws, create new duties where none existed before, and while the extent to which they should do so is controversial, few serious people think they should avoid doing so entirely.