skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, the metaverse is a medium. Much like web forums, social networks, different genres of video games (FPS, RTS, block-builders, etc), television, radio, and books.

In the social network space, Facebook created a monopoly by buying up their competition until they became inescapable in most countries via the network effect. As a result, Facebook effectively holds a monopoly on social media to this day. They squat on that monopoly and extract value through ads, keeping anyone else from meaningfully competing, like some kind of medieval bridge troll.

In the metaverse space, Facebook wants to create the first viable product so they can extend their trolling and rent seeking to that medium as well. If they can absorb competitors, I think they have a chance. If the US government meaningfully enforces anti-trust law, I don't see any way that such a soulless, awful company that routinely churns out unpleasant products can possibly attract enough users to establish and maintain a monopoly. It seems that Zuck is betting that they can build the tech first, patent the shit out of it, and the users will have no choice but to play in his walled metaverse garden. I suspect folks will opt out before they do that.
Tax ID Pro is an API that helps you validate tax ID numbers. I've worked on this off and on for a couple years now. I just launched a complete overhaul, re-writing the entire front-end with Next.js and back-end with FastAPI. My next project is to create an SDK for various languages to make implementation even easier.
I think he is mainly talking about woman entering the workforce since 1970ish, which massively increased the labor pool.
A tradeoff can exist without implying that the tradeoff is necessary.

In other words, America has A but not B, Europe has B but not A, and there doesn't happen to be a place with both A and B, but it's not impossible in principle. Workers would still need to decide if they value A or B more, even if in a perfect world they could have both.
> Nah.

how ironic
For legal purposes, a separation letter for a for-cause termination must state the specific "cause" for which the employee is terminated.

Termination on the basis of poor performance (legally, "incompetence") requires supporting documentation, such as written reviews of the employees' performance prior to the termination. And legally incompetence only tests the employee's performance at tasks actually within their job description; an employee can't be fired for incompetence at other tasks. Very importantly, a new boss coming in and deciding that employees weren't performing up to his arbitrary (and new) standards doesn't pass muster.

A mass layoff for "performance" reasons has never been sustained by a labor department. The penalty is $500 for each day of violation (meaning each day short of the 60 required by the Warn ACT), plus all salary and bonuses that would have been paid during the 60 day period, plus legal fees incurred by the employees to protect their rights.

Additionally, a "for cause" termination on performance (or any other grounds) opens the employer up to per se libel lawsuits. Literally, all the employee has to do is submit a copy of the termination letter into evidence and they win unless Twitterlon can demonstrate that the employee was actually incompetent.
The latter was already public knowledge, your entire salary history is probably available via The Work Number. This makes the former secret public knowledge.
Pricing transparency eliminates economic triage and uncertainly: if you want to make $XXX, you don't have to apply to 10 different jobs and spend everyone's time determining whether they'll pay you $XXX.
Can't I just not want a DHS?
What I don't understand is why its so hard to have designated drop off points every block or so. The scooter vendors should be responsible for putting them in appropriate places (which might mean renting the space if needed).

Then use some geofencing to fine people who fail to park/etc them properly.

Sure, allowing people to drop them off in the middle of a congested sidewalk is easy on the asshole doing it, and the companies might have a bit less revenue because its inconvenient to park them properly, but so what. They might be able to make some percentage of the fine back if people still refuse to comply.

The sidewalk is public space, they have _LESS_ rights as a corp to be there trying to profit off it than the citizens walking the sidewalk IMHO.
> Not everything is backwards patchable. Some things are results of decades long development practices that patching would cause the OS to break for users who aren't able to upgrade yet.

Of course. I wouldn't expect them to backport fixes for things that were considered outside the scope of security protections in the original version. But I also expect cases like this to be uncommon, because how many things can you completely rearchitect each version?

The article also says:

> Joshua Long has tracked the CVEs patched by different macOS and iOS updates for years and generally found that bugs patched in the newest OS versions can go months before being patched in older (but still ostensibly “supported”) versions, when they’re patched at all.

Focusing just on the issues that do actually get patched (if we assume the ones that don't fall into the category you describe), if they are getting fixed months later this still leaves these "supported" systems vulnerable for months.
> But docked e-bikes can get you the same effect as long as there are actually docks at the tops of the hills. I find that Capital Bikeshare is really good about placing docks at bus stops and train stations and having a high enough dock density...

This is an entirely reasonable point and that's likely where Seattle's bikeshare system failed. The operator was borderline incompetent, but also siting docks in Seattle is very difficult because of the propensity for car drivers to vocally oppose any efforts at space reallocation. It's getting very frustrating, especially now that they got a Mayor elected and a head of the Council's transportation committee who are both quite pro-car.
Last Resort: Moving Endangered Species in Order to Save Them
This issue is at least somewhat perceptual. If you have to charge everyone the same, but some patients cost more, then you raise the prices to account for the fluctuation and the other patients subsidize the more costly one. If, instead, the extra cost were covered by a tax rebate or something, then the cost is still subsidized to the other patients. Effectively, it isn't any different, it's just a matter of accounting. Making the disabled person pay extra for their services makes the flow of money more obvious, but at the expense of cruelty. I doubt many want to see that be the norm, but I think the result is then an argument of who sees the subsidy being paid on a bill. The doctor seeing a $30 loss on one patient and everyone pays $1 more, or 30 patients seeing a $1 interpreter fee.
Defining disinformation exhaustively and concretely is an impossible task, it's almost like defining beauty. Moreover, disinformation is not even contradictory to "vetted, objective facts", because not all "information" (which is also hard to define) is necessarily intended to be viewed as factual, and not all information has any kind of deliberate intent associated with it (malicious or useful).
The GnuWin32 port of Make [1] is version 3.81. I've used it when I needed GNU Make on Windows. I know there are other ways to get newer versions of Make on Windows, but the GnuWin32 port is simple, standalone, and it still works despite its age...

[1]: https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm
For tech jobs I'd wager the vast majority operate on a simple salary plus retirement set up. HN is definitely in a bubble where seemingly everyone works at the top tech companies and gets like 175k base + 90k in bonuses and equity.
3.81 is the last make release that was GPLv2, so that's what is bundled w/ macOS

unfortunate situation.
Can't you already estimate this pretty well from e.g glassdoor?
Yeah, I didn't quite get the "easy sharing" part... need the model for playback!
The place I’m applying simply lists: “Software Development (all levels)” and is an open call for engineers. Salary obviously will depend on experience and interview performance. I don’t see why that’s an issue, a corporatized version of this where each company has to split their postings into 8 different categories or risk excluding complete novices/interns that might join for near free or heavy hitters that would need big cash but provide significant return… doesn’t seem better in any way.
I don't think the fermi paradox assumes that. Aliens don't have to want to be seen for us to see them. All it takes is one civilization failing to hide for us to see aliens, so the question then is "why has every single intelligent life form dedicated so many resources toward effectively hiding" or "if they're not doing that why haven't we seen them"
And who declares what “disinformation” is? Who is the arbiter of truth? Will it be the Republican DHS when (not if) they win in the future? Why not?
Strategic disinformation that can be attributed to foreign operations? Maybe, although it would probably be better to expose, not suppress it.

Taking down parody accounts and flagging people for COVID conspiracy theories, as documented in the article? Probably less so.
>Because that's the sort of speeds you easily end up at if you try to keep up with cars downhill

Not many people will do >50kmh even downhill (even with disk brakes), and on the few occasions I've done so, I absolutely would not say there are "significant controllability problems". In fact, quite the opposite.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN6Z8UgVOuw
Nb - these were shot in the days before the 'supertuck' (sitting on the crossbar) was banned.
> sent Tesla engineers to evaluate Twitter’s software code

Isn't the Tesla software allegedly a horrific mess? I suspect they may have been taking notes, instead.
The issue here is that Russia and China have recognized that the internet is a powerful channel to introduce propaganda, sow distrust in democratic institutions, and so on [1].

I'm curious what commenters here think should be done about this, if anything?

[1] https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE10...
A Deep and Wide Twilight Survey for Asteroids Interior to Earth and Venus
Nearest M class planet is how many lifetimes away? How many earths worth of resources must be consumed just to safely transport bacteria there?
Centos 7 has v3.82, I'd assume RH7 does as well. Now, its not 3.81, but it's close.
OK, you have a technical disagreement. No need to take it personally.

You may be right - you probably have more experience with this particular thing than I do.

I can't answer for the performance of the XB1, but I am curious what % reduction in GPU memory bandwidth you observed due to virtualization.

Did you have a non-virtualized environment on the same hardware to use for comparison?
> relative to the opportunities they received growing up

There are so many better ways to do this than race, and they have zero interest in looking at any them. Measures that are both more accurate and more objective like.

Do your parents have a college degree?
What's you family income?

What opportunities that affect GPA/SAT are going to be denied to anyone because of their race?
"hits of dopamine" is not really how it works. Drugs like methamphetamine or cocaine directly give you "hits" of dopamine. Perceiving a stimuli through your senses does not directly manipulate the dopaminergic neuronal populations. It's just like any other stimuli where, if the stimulus is actually intrinsically rewarding, eventually the dopaminergic populations in your brain begin to associate the stimuli with potential for reward. This leads to an increased perception of the salience of that particular set of stimuli.

This is very different from cocaine which can cause humans to perceive stimuli as more important and potentially more rewarding even without any rewarding component to the stimuli at all.

Using a computer is not a drug. Stimuli on a screen are no different from stimuli from looking at something else. Using a smart phone does not give you "hits" of dopamine. Stop conflating normal environmental stimuli with drugs that act directly in the brain. It is dangerous because the way governments deal with drugs, and the very real addictions possible, is violence. Bringing violence into this non-violent non-coercive context is immoral.
I’m not sure it’s sane to classify disinformation as a weapon of war. There’s all kinds of bullshit that definition doesn’t fit. At best you’re if ignoring it, at worst you’re lumping it together.
Science is based on mythology. Logos developed out of mythos. There is no dichotomy or conflict between the two.
No, even for a remote position they can simply say "Not open to people living in CO etc."
Maybe. Just maybe. If the system did not produce ignorant citizens, there would be no need to police disinformation systems those citizens engage in. Which brings me to another point, how comfortable do you feel about DHS determining what is sufficiently non-disinformationy? Do you think DHS would have an opinion as to whether Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are disinformation?

I do not understand the naivety that comes with this particular view. The freedom of speech is not about saying a $slur. It is about ensuring we are not Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Russia or China.

Why are people clamoring so hard to become like those states? Beyond government, who benefits from this?

It is not the citizens of US.

edit: added Iraq since that reference may not be as evident in in 2022.
NYC's Fact sheet about the new law notes that minimum and maximum stated salaries must be in "good faith". Not a lawyer, but maybe this is space for class action lawsuits or something...

Salary Transparency Fact Sheet: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/cchr/downloads/pdf/publications/...
> Successful? Comma.ai has raised a rather small amount of money and hasn’t delivered anything except a toy for a couple of nerds.

I rest my case. Go troll elsewhere.
I think Facebook by itself could survive well but the problem is one of perception that the platform Facebook is tied to the whole VR/metaverse nonsense which is probably scaring some investors as one reliable product being forced to carry the weight of an unreliable/unproven one is a recipe for trouble. It probably won't sink either Facebook or its company but it will make both of them less well off. Zuckerberg should've taken the hint when he first acquired Occulus and kept them at arm's length at minimum as to allow for the company to grow its portfolio rather than being just stuck with Facebook, Instagram, or Occulus VR as their shoe-in to long term profitability alone. Zuckerberg should've taken the Alphabet approach which would've allowed him more freedom to toy with the whole metaverse thing without having to perform for shareholders on that front.
There were a lot of WFH job postings from the past few years that said "No applicants from Colorado" because of their similar law.

CA and a few other states have recently enacted this same law though so it'll become a lot harder to avoid posting the salary if you want good candidates.
ahem

You can find out more about Keffals' victims in their thread (NOTE: TOR link):

http://kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiyx...
ITT: A bunch of people convinced they know why, with 1-2 anecdotal datapoints, mostly their own experience.

Come on people, be at least somewhat scientific.
My remote employers have - and continue to - effectively subsidized a lot of my personal ventures in the last decade.

Personal projects (software and art), learning skills (programming, instruments, video editing), improving at video games and sports. Not to mention leisure. All done "on the clock." To be honest, maybe the majority of the 40hrs I get "paid" for is actually used for this instead of company output?
Going after one forum isn’t a fix. They’ll just go somewhere new. E.g., Twitter —> Parler.
The first amendment has been around for more than 200 years and SCOTUS rulings for as long. At this point any government actor, or private sector entity working in conjunction with the government, should be facing years in prison and brutal fines for even suggesting Prior Restraint on speech. When these pieces of shit get together and make plans they are actively conspiring to violate civil rights.
Chronic Disease in the United States: A Worsening Health and Economic Crisis
No Microsoft remedies in first EU antitrust review of Activision deal
Yeah I'm sure this new department will not be used strictly for political gain.

Bad inflation numbers going into the midterms? Joe B flubbing some speech or person reference? Just call it misleading or misquote on some stretch technicality and down moderate.
Here is what I am thinking:

- Setup keypassx with all key accounts/passwords

- Setup 2FA on a phone app such as Google Authenticator. Then make a backup on another phone (you can copy Authenticator app data on another phone easily). Bonus: setup Authy app on a desktop as well.

- Record a video of you showing anything critical

- Write down any details that only you know.

-Put all this in a simple HTML/Markdown page and save on an encrypted disk and/or S3. For backup, save a copy on a flash drive.

- Keep the encryption key and flash drive in a physical locker that only is accessible to your spouse (if any) or anyone else whom you want to. If you are using a physical 2FA device such as Yubikey, then keep a copy in this locker as well.

- Make a Will which explains who/how can access all this if you die suddenly.
Does anyone know how productivity for knowledge workers is actually measured? The article only goes so far as to mention that measuring productivity is "particularly tricky", but what datapoints exactly are these statistics even pulling from?
NBI suspects arms sent to Ukraine might be in criminal hands
Because the thing that centos has morphed into isn't terribly useful. It gets most updates early, and as a result has many bugs, which often take a good while to get fixed.

However for security issues it's the other way around - RH won't release security fixes into centos until they've rolled out across all their sold products, even long-term maintenance releases of old OSes. This can take weeks.

End result: many bugs, often broken, and can be missing security fixes for far longer than any sensible user would be comfortable with. It's a product to make facebook (who are the primary user of it) happy essentially, and very little else.
As for knots - they say there is a significant interception in the center of the venn diagram of shibarists, scouts and climbers, not that sure about mathematicians though
The first R2R bill that was passed in the country was a narrow target towards repair of specialty equipment (mobility and wheelchairs) in Colorado[1]

There are over 17 lawsuits filed by R2R advocates against John Deere around the country.

This is not just a fight for consumer electronics.

1 - https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb22-1031
Unfiltered, anonymous speech on major social media platforms is the equivalent of a supervirus. Bad, poisonous ideas spread more quickly than truth and logic can catch up, and no one is silenced or held to account when these bad ideas keep spreading.

I don't know what the solution to organized disinformation is. I don't know if the "cure" would be worse than the disease of disinformation. But it's naive to think nation-states are not using social media to leverage peoples' negative emotions and dividing society and making people disrespect really important things that should be held in really high regard in society, like truth and science.
> it kind of make the portability useless

It's not actually portable, it's purely a controller.
Well I see a lot of systems which rely on RESTfull APIs [1] for some level of external interoperability but maybe framework is the wrong phrasing.

[1] https://restfulapi.net/
Part of the problem is that the suburbs already externalize their maintenance costs. Nearly none of them generate enough tax revenue to maintain their sprawling infrastructure, so repairs get subsidized by the tax base in denser areas, or the maintenance is just not done at all.

If suburban drivers and homeowners weren't benefitting from urban success and externalizing all their costs then those properties would already be close to worthless.
I strongly doubt that HN is a place that would ban you for being transphobic.
I wrote my first novel-shaped object when I was 15.

Sold my first short story for actual money aged 21.

First novel sold when I was 36.

... Stopped doing other stuff (mainly freelance computer journalism) to sub the fiction when I was 42.

The sole consolation is that I'm doing okay now and my career didn't really get started until most successful pop stars are at the touring-with-the-greatest-hits-playlist stage (or have given up and gotten a job as an accountant).

On romance; yes, it outsells all other commercial fiction genres combined. But don't assume it's easy money: there's a lot of competition, and every genre turns out to be much harder than it looks once you dig your teeth into it.
Among the information labeled as disinformation was the Hunter Biden laptop which turned out to be true. So this disinformation apparatus ended up doing the opposite and suppressed true information. Not only that but the government knew at the time that this information was true.

Just label this for what it is, government censorship supported by big tech.
They really love the Kit suffix, eh?
One thing that really changed my mind about nuclear power recently has been the war in Ukraine and Zaporizhzhia. The happy path for nuclear looks as good as it gets. Huge amounts of energy for a tiny bit of fuel. Zero carbon emission from operation. No venting of waste into atmosphere.

However, the potential for bad actors, corruption, and negligence to result in a country spanning disaster make me think that maybe paying the extra money for battery based solar and wind power isn't such a bad idea. Very few solar options could render a country un-livable.
It doesn't seem healthy to care more about this than the people actually involved
How to update macOS as unsafely as possible
Sailors and climbers too.
To be fair, there are also occasionally staff at the busiest drop off locations who manually accept bikes and then just pile them off to the side.
> disinformation is not a free speech issue.

Yes, it is.

> Saying we shouldn’t fight it is as invalid as saying we shouldn’t repel an invading force because that enemy has a right to bear arms.

You're conflating the rights of citizens vs foreigners. Your own citizens are not your enemy. You should never call them that. That sort of thinking is what gets you internment camps. That is a road which we already traveled and do not need to travel again.

The difference between "you can't say that" and "you will go to jail if you say that" is very minor and plenty of western nations have already breached that wall.