skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many articles written about a company that adds so little value to human life (at least in its current form).

If you spend just 1h/day on Facebook, over the course of 10 years, that's approx. 150 days or roughly half a year. I'm sure plenty of people spend more than 1h/day scrolling through their pointless feeds.

So my question to you is this: What could you achieve if you could spend half a year of your life, fully immersing yourself in something meaningful and of value?
I used to teach undergrads and phds at a university Beijing back in the mid 2000s. What I see happening in China since I lived there absolutely frightens me. They spend heavily on the military and military technologies, which normally would not concern me had I not spent time living there. Among the younger students I taught I heard on multiple occasions statements along the line of "All Japanese must die". The younger the student, the more likely they were to harbor intense hatred for the Japanese. Yes, the rape of Nanking was horrible, but I would expect older Chinese to have the strongest emotional concern for the Japanese, not the younger generations that are decades removed from any atrocities from WWII.

At the rate things are going, if we see the rise of a "fourth reich" so to speak with a genocidal demeanor, it's going to be from the PRC. In a way, they've already been doing this with the Uyghurs and the Tibetans. It first started off with ethnic cleansing via dilution, but has already taken a turn for the worse with the growth of re-education camps.
Yes, true - that showed up in the SKX uncore. I wonder if it is being used in CNL client parts as well?
Partially to learn how, partially to maintain a consistent style, and partially to see where we can improve.

As for the POSIX parser specifically, I love grammars, and want to support multiple, and building one in LALRPOP is t too bad. Also I looked at conch-parser, but didn't want to use its AST, and decided to go this route.

I have been using the termion crate, and may have another PR to contribute. I have somewhat ambitious goals for the readline like library though.
but that is exactly what the OP is trying to change because the current status quo can not be upheld.

that it doesn't pay now is only because not enough people are aware of the benefits.

it's similar to the problem of hiring for a specific tools as opposed to hiring people who are good at learning new tools. if the new tools are similar to the ones they already know they will be productive in no time.

greetings, eMBee.
Caruana was a GM at 14. Unless EGreg is a very strong player, I don't think he was able to beat Caruana.
> And why do many ordinary Americans experience such outrage on behalf of these multinationals

These are companies we all helped build in one way or another.

Their revenues boost our economy and pay for a lot of our govt services
Yeah, actually doing this math tends to surprise people. We had an automated background process that took ~2s to run, which doesn't sound bad at all considering it includes an API call over the internet. But multiplying it out to the number of backlog items we actually had at the time, 30-40 hours doesn't sound so good.
Not really, at least not yet. It doesn't exactly provide the same API capabilities as CUDA yet (there are some unsupported functions) and no one has realistic comparisons of benchmarks but the consensus is that there's some performance gap between similar chips from Nvidia and AMD.

Both are being actively worked on, and I expect to see this gap shrink in the next few months to a year.
Just because he's politically unpopular doesn't mean he won't be valuable to them.
I know this is true from my own experience.
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Yes - but for their cost to increase by such a large factor, the only obvious thing I can think of is that their prediction is disabled.

I didn't follow your comment about a "programmable pipeline". I don't think many or any of the Phoronix benchmarks are based on a pipeline with indirect branches at their core.
It's quite stable by now. I have backed up and restored around 4.5TB of data and multiple machines backup files to it over SAMBA - I see nice benefits from compression and dedup, the performance is fine and I haven't lost anything.

Here's some benchmark comparison - https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=8-linux-...
There’s a big difference between what you can accomplish with an hour here and an hour there vs contiguous, high quality focused time. I suspect that the average user’s Facebook time is of the former, low quality kind.
> i called social media companies corrupt in a week where some of the most damning reporting about fb ever was published

Uh, ok? Sorry but your reply is a bit of a non-sequitur, I'm not clear where you're going with this point.
The idea would be that WASM will facilitate a particular language with a good standard library would be used to create an easy to use GUI drawing and then coding setup.

But yes, it wouldn't support every language that could compile to WASM and you're right that would be even harder than creating a good tool for Javascript.
We should really improve K-12 education. The fact that kids are not qualified for college after 18 years in public school is a travesty.
Hopefully the upload was to a secure web site.
> What's so ridiculous about asking you to name the two Chinese leaders who you view as benevolent?

In terms of benevolent, probably Deng Xiaoping and Xi Jinping [at least, Xi hasn't made any major mistakes yet].
I meant it in the confidentiality sense. The fact that you can put anything on the cover sheet and header line as sender number and that it has exactly zero relevance as authenticator should be obvious to anyone who actually ever set up a fax machine.

Edit: and exactly how that differs from SMTP?
It's the primary play in the modern conservative playbook.
Unfortunately not. If that was the case, pretty much every politician in the world would be in jail, same as all the bank execs that made the 2008 crisis happen and probably a bunch more powerful people. But it turns out if you are powerful or influential enough, you'll just get away with stealing, and maybe you'll call it something else while you are at it too.
If one likes the "bouldering is problem solving like programming is problem solving" paradigm, you may enjoy training tools like the Moon Board, which is an array of holds spaced out uniformly with problems programmed in using LEDs (use only the holds where the LEDs are on). You can share the same problem around the world- anywhere there's another moonboard, and collaborate that way.

https://www.moonboard.com
Yes, the limit in Wikipedia is not number of physical pages... but to be honest that wasn’t really the biggest limit for Britannica either, just the most obvious one.

The biggest limit is author/editor time. The Internet certainly provides a bigger pool of editors (and a lower implied quality floor) than a centralized company hiring authors/editors with a few people in charge of the organizing, the way print encyclopedias did.

But even with a completely decentralized worldwide editor corps, there is still some amount of organizational overhead which continues growing as the project grows, and there is still a finite amount of author/editor attention.

Wikipedia can’t in practice have an article about literally anything.
I don't think they are capable of attracting better talent at this point. Come to think of it, I'm surprised they ever were able to attract any serious talent at all.

I still remember a highly respected veteran industry executive talking to my entrepreneurship class in 2010 about how he couldn't bring himself to work for Zuck despite a strong offer on the table, and the joke he made about missing out on millions in stock options. This person today continues to lead entire businesses at one of the leading companies.
> Law and Medicine Still Rely on the Device

And a vast number of businesses in Japan, unfortunately
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There's freedom in it: sometimes I wanna play chess; other times: just checkers.
> In fact if you've diverged from a straight specialism throughout your career it's probable you'll be punished with a lower salary, and problems getting hired in the first place.

I don't think this is true. Getting better at a thing has diminishing - often severely diminishing returns. Giving up being top 23% in programming in exchange for being top 25% in programming + top 25% in accounting doesn't seem like it would be much of a career liability.

> Employers want specialists, and pay for them. If your CV is two or three distinct things (I don't mean a selection of languages, or front and back end dev here, I mean distinct skills like say programming and accountancy) it's very unlikely to get you a better salary.

You're probably not going to get a better salary working for a company that only values one skill. You have to pick your employer more carefully. That being said, there are tons of software jobs in the banking/accounting sector ranging from product development to consulting. I'm sure that being an excellent programmer and an excellent accountant could make you much more money than just one without the other at some of those companies.
We should boycott China and refuse to buy their stolen technology.
One of my highschool teachers mentioned that a book wouldn't help much before her first open-book test, then openly stated that afterwards that it was a small trick to see who wouldn't study. She was among the best and most-liked teachers in the school.
Huh, I just looked it up, I guess the Mayor represents the five burroughs but you'd think Kings, Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island would have representatives that represent them alone if Nassau, Rockland, Putnam, and Orange counties do.

Bizarre.
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Half the comments here bring to mind the infamous Dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Reinforces my personal rule-of-thumb that any comment HN has about UX can be safely ignored.
FAXes have legal standing in California. As much as I hate supporting them :-)
I'm quite happy to admit (it's kind of self-evident) that criticism is easier than building. It's a known known now that our economy does end in catastrophe - the collapse of ecosystems (on which all life, ours included, depend) is happening apace, is entirely well-documented, and barely starts to be addressed by shifts to renewables. That's mostly limited to power generation, and in any case climate collapse is only one amongst thousands of ecosystem challenges.

Knowing, as we do, that an ever-expanding economy leads to global collapse doesn't imply that we know the fix. I don't. Personally I doubt there is one. I think nothing in H. Sapiens' evolutionary inheritance empowers it with the attributes necessary to manage a global civilisation.

> besides a "holier than thou" vibe.

If you get that vibe from me, that's just my inadequate communication. I'm neither claiming to live better personally (which is anyway just more consumerist narcissism), nor to have a blueprint for a sustainable global civilisation (which would make me a towering genius).

The only claim I'd make here is that I'm not in denial about physical reality (which economists and most business people are).

> And can you blame the poor for wishing for a better life?

The poor aren't the problem. The rich are. Adequate food and shelter could be achieved without trashing our home. Endless expansion of consumption cannot.

> can it really be neurotic when it's the culmination of seven billion individuals actions

It's not. There's such a thing as culture - human 'individual' actions have systemic causes. A culture of ever-increasing consumption is neurotic. It replaces the essential (functioning ecosystems) for the trivial (expanding consumer consumption).
The risk of theft lowers the expected value of having the car. I'll never buy one of those $1000 bikes because of the risk of theft, nice as they might be. I'll go to Wal-Mart.
If by that you mean "these distros support XFS, but I don't use them for other reasons (package managers)" . . . OK. Don't use them. But don't criticize a filesystem for unrelated tradeoffs that OSes that support it happen to make.
>This has been the standard for a while now. Why does higher edu charge more? Because they can!!!

Partially true but there are many other reasons why. Personally, I always thought it was administrative bloat which in turn put higher costs on the students. A 2015 study[0] shows that the real culprit could be as simple as less state support per research institution.[1]

>more than half of core educational expenses at “public” 4-year universities are now funded through tuition, a private source of capital, they have effectively become subsidized private institutions.

[0] https://www.demos.org/publication/pulling-higher-ed-ladder-m...

[1] https://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/imce/Pulling%20Up%...
Mirrors, unlike RAID-Z, can be added later. They can even be detached from the pool as long as one mirror from the device remains.
Exactly. All is fair in love, war and business... industrial espionage is developing-country "slut-shaming," when the developed countries are brothel madams. (The oldest profession is honest and consistent, whereas geopolitical PR is anything but.)
Is there a Facebook smear campaign going on or people just love to pile on Zuckerberg? Facebook is an advertisement company and collects data, but so does everybody else. Gmail launched in 2004. Snowden leaks in 2013 were greeted with general apathy. But know it's the time to crucify Zuckerberg for what exatly? Make use of targeted advertisement? Or letting Facebook have user-generated content, that may or may not have influenced votes in the past?

Either way, the ongoing collection of all kinds of data has been obvious for many years now. And it's not going to stop, so some advice: Instead blaming this one actor, better get used to it.

Platforms also can't fully and completely be responsible for political views expressed by user-generated content.
Isn't NAFTA pretty much very favorable to the US?

I agree with your sentiment that corporate welfare sucks and would have been much happier with the tax breaks being distributed to startups somehow, however, you're talking about LIC, where home prices already average above one million dollars.

Gentrification in LIC started a long time ago. These 25,000 people, many of whom will be hired from within the already vast tech talent pool, probably aren't going to drive prices up very much.

I think it really underestimates just how big NYC is to think such a thing.
I don't think it's that big of a deal in Silicon Valley anymore. If you have a few years' work experience as a software engineer and are currently working in the Bay Area, you are sure to be contacted by at least one recruiter from each of the FAANGs, regardless of where you studied. Possibly more.

Don't know if it's more difficult as a fresh grad from a no-brand name institution though - I would imagine so.
> Many of them could just use your TV as display though, which went away pretty quick in the PC era.

Composite (and, later on, S-video) outputs were common on third-party CGA, EGA, and (S)VGA cards (not sure if official IBM ones did, but third party were more common.) Also, I think that Tandy’s quite popular proprietary graphics did. And VGA to composite, component, and S-Video adapters were all readily available, too.

And later, this shifted to HDMI being common for both video cards and TVs; the ability to use your TV as a PC display never went away, though TVs couldn't handle (until the HD era) the higher resolution modes used for text and later graphics (though it wasn't until SVGA that that became an issue for most games, which tends to favor higher color offer higher resolution modes.)
Those are both almost entirely lacking in any technical evidence.
I share your sentiment. Though I find bouldering good practice for hard sequences in roped climbing. My philosophy has been " if you can't climb the crux, you can't climb the route!"

I don't do many outdoor activities where this same concept holds up. Like if I'm mountain biking and can't clear a section cleanly, I can still ride the rest of the trail. That's not always so in climbing (even when aiding through)
Private organizations are of course able to take and support political opinions, especially since there are competitors in the browser space.
Here's a short-list:

- Calculating space by Konrad Zuse (See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18325689)

- The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzlod

- Introduction to Lambda Calculus by H. Barendregt (do the exercises/proofs)

- Propositions as Types by Philip Wadler

- Part III. of Languages and Machines by Thomas Sudkamp
It is more secure in some senses. You can't get a PDF-borne virus from an old-school fax reception. My tax preparer only accepts mailed documents and faxed documents. It's sometimes a pain, but I have to admit that I'm a little bit happy that he's more paranoid than I am about my financial information.
This. These countries also export to the rest of the world, strengthening the US dollar and making our nation richer.
Right but the deck was stacked in Kavanaugh's favor. House and Senate investigations into Facebook in 2019-2020 would be disastrous for them as they have to appease two political parties who may decide to go full bipartisan on them. I expect strong lobbying to drive the narrative.. the problem is though that there are a lot of extrinsic issues that pop up. The seemed to survive the midterms though relatively unscathed so really it will be data privacy and maybe global events that impact them. Most of Trump's focus is local though so that may help Facebook avoid the news cycle (say with social media induced violence in Asia)..
I can't recall if I ever saw it, but by default it will use HFS+ for external drives.
This is a very good comment and I hope it rises to the top of the heap.

I wrote this post on an HN comment, but I wonder, "Is there an actual Facebook crisis, or media narrative about Facebook crisis?" https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo...

It seems to me that Zuckerberg doesn't know that he's in a media scapegoating situation. When you've become the scapegoat, there is nothing you can do to stop it. You can observe the scapegoating mechanism, but even that will likely do very little to halt it in action.

The media cannot accept (or comprehensively address) its own culpability for the 2016 election. So let's put the blame on those guys, over there, instead of looking at ourselves.
It would be interesting to see the MacOS version of this story, say hacking an office full of Macs, like a Digital Agency or something...
you are right, but there is a paralell. when it comes to hiring programmers i prefer people who are good at programming in general and at least familiar with two or more languages. because those who are very good at only one language and have never touched another will have a hard time learning a second language, and, will also have a hard time getting to expert level because they will miss out on that additional pwrspective that other ways of doing things provide.

same goes for knowing multiple web frameworks like angular and react for example, to be even more specific.

greetings, eMBee.
An office fax machine sitting out in the open is going to be less confidential than email on an SMTP server where only a sysadmin or the recipient can see it, yes.
And may go the other way again now that we can't avoid smart TV's.
It is still the ebook platform. Unless you publish directly in the web like Worm author Wildbow, but then you'll make money from Patreon (Wildbow makes $70k a year).
wut. if the book isn't good why would one feel ashamed of returning it? is there a moral obligation to keep a bad product?
There is, but there are things Facebook could have done to curb it. The problem with blatant insincerity is it quickly gives everyone else the moral high ground.
Only if your telco still supports it.

In Australia, perhaps not.

Our home phone service was moved from copper to VOIP as part of the NBN rollout. The technician who did the installation confirmed our multifunction laser printer would no longer fax, as the network didn't enable it.
> What could you accomplish with the hours spent on Facebook?

Nothing. Society doesn’t want white males. And Christian. Seriously on Facebook I have fun discussing with a disgruntled males group, but companies are focussed on hiring « diversity ». So I’ve built my own company and I was a millionaire at 31 (you know, IQ138, you never really fail anything). Twice now at 33, in my estimate. And plenty of free time. Which I spend among the rejects of the Diversity movements. Diversity always excludes us.
A nation won’t play this hand without expecting to back it up with standard military options. So when things get to that point it should come as no surprise.
A computer can be however exact you want it to be, that it supports floating point in hardware doesn't mean that is as accurate as it can get.

It is far more apt to bring up most "interesting" solutions do not have an exact closed-form expression.
It's stated in the article.

>The Dooly County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook statement that some cars contained pressurized propane, requiring evacuation within a half-mile of the accident.
One of the primary reasons it is cheaper to build in China is they do not enforce pollution laws. We outlawed destroying the environment and all our friendly harmless corporations just moved production to where it is de facto legal. If we are not hypocrites we should be rejecting any products not built to our environmental standards.
Some more (helpful) suggestions:
For two meals I'd love to pick which meals, because I prefer eating a late breakfast and dinner, and the meal options seem to be dependent on the type of meal.
Ability to limit sugar amounts (or carbohydrates) without limiting to paleo or no wheat.
Being able to nix certain things (like protein shakes, not my thing). I know that you can just refresh, but I'd rather be able to veto something all together.
But great work!
Wow. Your friend is ruthless haha.
If it isn’t understandable, isn’t that the very definition of deficient writing?
> Platforms also can't fully and completely be responsible for political views expressed by user-generated content.

Maybe, maybe not. But in Facebook's case, they did not hesitate to commoditize disinformation and propaganda.

While a lot of platforms are/were susceptible to this vector, we now know that Facebook knew what was happening and didn't care as long as the money came in.

Which brings us back to "maybe, maybe not." Corporations use profit (and variants) as their natural reward function. Look at FBs stock the last few months. People are speaking. We, the users, may be demanding some accountability from our platforms we previously did not.
> Does he just want a wing of the library named after him or something

No, as there are already numerous Hopkins things bearing Bloomberg's name for many years -- including a 7-story physics/astronomy building, and the entire graduate public health school. The new $1.8B is in addition to previous total gifts of $1.5B.

Bloomberg previously established a scholarship program for high-achieving incoming undergrads, but it was limited in size to a few dozen students a year. It sounds like the new money will allow this to expand to all students in need. Some universities like Harvard already did this, but Hopkins never did, due to its endowment being smaller than its peer institutions.

This could be very good for the future of Baltimore. Many decades ago, a decent percentage of Hopkins undergrads came from Baltimore public schools, and that percentage has plummeted precipitously as Baltimore's fortunes declined.

I do understand your overall point, but it's Bloomberg's money, and it's his decision how to spend it. I'd also suspect he gives money to other causes, although perhaps not on this scale.