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The primary use case for passthrough is bringing stuff into VR, specifically your hands (when used in hand tracking mode), and your keyboard. Your monitor is projected into VR by being hooked to your headset. Any other function's utility has been traded off for these purposes.
* Cultural integration to generally to the US, and specifically to the US way of doing business. Except for a few rare cases, software is ubiquitously embedded in the culture that requires such solution. This has a _lot_ of non-salient culture-domain-specific parts that nonetheless comes as second nature to peeps growing up here. For example -I'm implementing a module that requires accounting for eg income tax brackets. A person from the EU would fire an email to product asking what these are. Here we come to the "US way of doing business", moving fast: a senior US sw engineer at a startup is enabled, and expected to do whatever it takes to drive things forward. So, the right move is to go to IRS website, look up the table, write an implementation, and note to product to double-check it.
* Related to this, "extremely remote" (different timezone + different country) requires a degree of autonomy, requires a level of trust, that is very difficult to build over videoconferences alone. Most successful "extreme remote" I've seen always added at least a weekend of flying peeps into retreats, doing mindmelt.
* The issue of trust: US is a high-trust country; it is default expected that everything you say is true, and you're not omitting materially relevant facts; and there are severe (but only country-wide) consequences of getting caught. For international peeps, trust level is highly varied, with very limited ability to enforce.
These are the top-level bits on making hiring decisions, and the root causes why none of the items on your list are being addressed.
For those who upgraded: is there an edition (like win10 LTSC), which disables all these nonsense, and creates a livable computing environment?
If not, is there something like w10privacy for windows 11?
if neither, what's the current-best guide of setting up, and locking in a livable environment?
I put this earler in the phrase "reflection completeness": https://sdrinf.com/reflection-completeness ie there are things which stops working when people know about it.
In particular with A/B testing, this means that the initial A/B test is intermingled from at least 3 effects: specifically it measures how the naive population's behavior changes as a function of new functionality being made available. This is heavily, heavily time-dependent; specifically there's a "novelty effect" (early data collection will not be representative to long-term usage patterns); and there's "reflection effect" (once the outcome of the test is widely known, people can change their behavior based on that). Controlling for the first is difficult, but possible; controlling for the second, beyond just "keeping everything secret", is significantly more so, as the timelines for that might be years in length.
I strongly suspect GP was pointing at this timeline factor, and specifically that market engineering, as currently, generally, widely practiced, is grounded on the immediately available signal of "does it increases sales in 2 weeks of A/B test running". Which, given novelty effects, is heavily biased towards "yes"; and these people aren't incentivized (nor have the time/energy) to measure _very_ long-term effects beyond novelty, and reflection period.
Delaying going IPO this way, amongst other things, is about retention.
I am... somewhat sceptical as to why they feel they can just "VR/AR: We need to flip the bit to enable WebVR / OpenXR support", _especially_ with custom avatars. VRC has been 1, native, 2, using an engine very optimized for 3d pipeline rendering (unity) and yet it still has _major_ performance issues, on account of different avatars using different shaders, and high (80k++) polycount. I'm open to be proven wrong, but feel very strongly both that 1, the whole "metaverse" concept only makes sense in vr context, with physical intimacy being the core killer feature; and 2, in order to do that, you need an engine highly optimized for this purpose (to avoid vr fatigue / vr sickness), and 3, chrome is, as far as I can tell, not the delivery platform for that.
Specifically, in order to provide vr experience that people don't get sick in, you need an extremely high-grade, low-latency rendering pipeline, including fine things like pose prediction, timewarping, and other ways to generate hypothetical frames _before the user actually moved there_. I'd be intensively curious if chrome would provide that.
Otherwise, what you have here, will remain essentially a small sandbox for 5 minutes gameplay. Good luck!
Tales of Ba Sing Se & Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters? ;)
People are many, and weird, and different; the attention of lawmakers & govs are limited, and this can (and have repeatedly made) roadkill of you, with no recourse other than privacy.
In security, to make an assessment of overall risk of a potential vulnerability, we take into account both the probability, and the impact of exploiting such vulnerability. Facebook, and corporations in general, ultimately want to move merch, and, at worst, make you vote for candidates of their choice: probability of being successful is medium, but impact for the individual is relatively low. Goverment laws can roadkill you: probability of this ranges from low to medium, but impact is super high. This advises for being especially vigilant for gov interventions, especially where freedom, and liberties are concerned.
In virtually all existing use cases, I'm strongly against cryptocurrencies, buuuut token issuing and the related Ponzi scheme has been the single biggest new thing they brought to the table which _does_, actually solves this (minus the questionable legality, the Ponzi, and all the current issues the crypto market is having). IE: issue utility-coin for founders & first employees, issue utility coin for public, increase overall utility (and thereby price) of coin, cash out of coin via public. Some coins even carry voting power, which makes the end-consumer part of the governing process. Connecting value-holding with utility _is fairly novel_, haven't seen it being tried in normal corporations before, and might be interesting, if it works.
The other config would be dividend-paying corps; however they went out of fashion on account of growth-above-all-strat playing corps being able to fundraise based on the _biggest hopes and aspirations_ any of the potential investors can dream up; which means, a competitive market have selected for growth-above-all against dividend-paying.
| What do the balance sheets and end of year accounts look like for a non-profit? What happens if they generate surplus profit? Can the CEO and director simply pocket it too avoid "making profit"?
Nonprofits _totally can make a profit_; buuut they can't distribute it to directors, and can't issue dividends. They could have increased salaries; however the governing check&balance on the organization, is that they must have 3 independent people on the board, who checks decisions against the organization's "non-profit mission"; and having high salaries for execs can't really fit that.
^^ why is that? is it just the firmware being buggy, or is there any legit reasons why they need to self-check _for minutes_?
This means, that eg as a pass-through partnership incorporated as an llc, getting money out from the company will incur a 30% tax plus state plus local taxes.
There's additionally a problem (more for small corps), that the paperwork on the above will involve at least 2 accontants -one from US, one locally, meaning non-trivial startup costs.
None of this is to disencourage you to go with US; just do so with open eyes, and it's worth sitting down with an accountant in potential target country _before_ incorporation.
There were none for me.
So, given that mastodon is large, and federated, surely the problem is with me right? So, I said fuck it, let's break out the API. I wrote a scraper, seeded with a few least-bad people's profile, programmed it to pull the last ~32 toots & add all connections of the user to scrape breadth-first to get a wide array of perspectives. ~150 servers & 50,000 toots. I then took my general keyword list (~150 items, representing majority of my interests in both layman and technical terms) that I use to evaluate social networks, and search engines, and crunched through the toots.
Results: deep technical terms have accidental hits, generally used either in different context; or scratching almost none of the surface. Wide terms generally pull very low signal, from the general vicinity of conspiracy theories/how bad twitter is/crypto/mastodon is great.
I'd really really would prefer to actually use Mastodon, but
1, the features they offer optimizes against it's own usage (lack of search, lack of discoverability; you can call this positive change, but again, it optimizes against onboarding & finding interesting stuff)
2, because it's federated, there's no-one dedicated to acquiring people who have better use of their time, and
3, the people who are in there, do not, currently, would lead me to level up in directions I care about.
Mastodon represents a set of preferences, and I'm happy for you that it seems to be aligning with yours; it does not aligns with mine, is all I'm saying.
I'm not expecting this to hold for very long (openai has partnered with microsoft; and there are at least 2 groups currently working on replicating it open-source), and expect strong detoriation of overall web content soon afterwards.
On the other hand, this disregards liquidity: specifically, that vast majority of startups tend to die, vast majority of rest stagnate in funded but non-liquid form, liquidity events are boolean, and are happening generally years beyond fully vesting into stock options.
So, I feel, this too would lead to significant misunderstandings as people vest fully into their options, but can't get a penny for them.
OTOH, for the capability itself, you might want to look at https://reactstudio.com/ .
Things, in this book, do not become better.