https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26306020

In that instance, the canceled person was one of the United States' top reporters on the COVID pandemic.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/china-xin...

Many companies besides Facebook have developed games for the Quest. I guess you could say Facebook sucks at working with game developers, but I’m not sure if that’s true either. Unreal and Unity have well-developed integrations with Oculus [0].

I think where Facebook really falls down is tying customers’ FB account to their Oculus Store purchases (and ability to use the Quest at all). They’re applying a social media platform’s aggressive algorithms to suspend or ban accounts which violate their expansive TOS, which is wrong in consumer product and digital marketplace space. For that reason, mixed with personal experience at the hands of Facebook's algorithms, I have no interest in developing for Oculus.

[0] https://developer.oculus.com/get-started/

I was tremendously excited about it, to include messing around with VR development in my spare time, until the Facebook account debacle dropped my enthusiasm to zero. I’ve used my Quest maybe twice since my account got caught up in all that. I have no plans to develop any software for such a closed platform with arbitrary gatekeeping.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/groundbreaking-exhibi...

The re-enactors are all fantastic and very knowledgeable. It’s unsettling talking to a black re-enactor who’s firmly in-character as a slave, which I suppose is the point:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MVFdsqQby9o

If Google ever breaks plain old IMAP support, I’ll complete my migration to Fastmail.

Steven Rambam would probably disagree. He's a private investigator who's given many excellent talks on privacy at Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHwl6AyL6js&t=10m20s

He goes into exquisite detail on the ways in which private info is shared, sold, amalgamated, and analyzed by private and public entities, and how law enforcement uses (and abuses) these resources. That particular talk is from 2016, so things are probably even worse now.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelfari#Amazon_and_shutdown

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crime

>1: an illegal act for which someone can be punished by the government

And from the Code of Laws of the United States of America, linked previously:

>Any alien (including an alien crewman) in and admitted to the United States shall, upon the order of the Attorney General, be removed if the alien is within one or more of the following classes of deportable aliens:

>(1) Inadmissible at time of entry or of adjustment of status or violates status [...]

To reside in the U.S. illegally is prohibited by law, and the government shall punish you with removal to your country of origin. In other words, residing in the U.S. illegally is a crime.

EDIT: Downvotes because I'm mistaken, or because you don't like the U.S. Code? If the above analysis is wrong, please correct it.

https://www.uscis.gov/laws-and-policy/legislation/immigratio...

Specifically:

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:8%20section:1...

See language regarding “adjustment of status” and “present in violation of law.” As enforced via:

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...

https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/10306/silence-of-the-inn...

Since most victims of violent crime know their attacker [0], this may imply an under-reporting of crime committed by members of the undocumented community as well.

[0] https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/08/06/americans-most...

https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/10306/silence-of-the-inn...

Per the study, crime among an illegal immigrant population fell post-amnesty in repose to increased crime reporting. Conversely, this implies that when members of a community report crime less often as a result of their immigration status - which the study finds to be the case - crime in those communities is higher than it would be otherwise.

>But at least two independent studies suggest Secure Communities didn’t have any effect on crime rates, according to Light, despite deporting more than 200,000 people in its first four years.

>“If the plan was to make communities safer, to reduce the likelihood of, say, a felony violent assault in these communities through deportation, it did not deliver on that promise,” Light says

would seem to contradict

>“They have a tremendous incentive to avoid criminal wrongdoing. The greatest fear among undocumented immigrants is getting in legal trouble that leads to deportation,” says Light

That incentive exists because the law is enforced. If the law were not enforced, the incentive would disappear and crime would increase. QED the Secure Communities program prevents crime.

Am I missing something?

When it comes to augmenting digital assistants like Alexa or OK Google, standalone semantic knowledge bases like Wikidata [0] seem good enough. And as natural language understanding code gets better at interpreting user queries, so too does it get better at ingesting unstructured knowledge, such as raw Wikipedia articles, without need to resort to structured meta-tags.

[0] https://wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page

https://www.polygon.com/2018/5/14/17335670/twitch-emotes-mea...

edit: Downvotes, really? I'm not wrong. Read the link, or use Twitch chat for yourself, as I do on a semi-daily basis.

In my direct personal experience as an Oculus/Facebook/Google account-holder, Facebook’s polices have had a much larger negative impact on consumers. I’m glad they are the (first) target of this probe.

[0] https://boingboing.net/tag/real-names

Can it? Doesn’t Oculus Link only work via the Oculus desktop application, which also requires sign-in?

https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Slamhound

And as someone who doesn’t day-trade, the “loss porn” regularly posted to r/wallstreetbets has firmly convinced me to stick with index funds.