skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In some ways they have though, at least in terms of time allocation. When Facebook was in its heyday it was the default social network. They dont seem to be adding as many new users and I suspect they are churning old users. They also have to compete with wechat, twitter, tiktok, reddit, twitch, etc so its not obvious to anyone but facebook how loyal the userbase is.

But it has nothing to do with loyalty. It has all to do with algorithms. If Facebook's AI is superior to Twitter, Wechat, TikTok, Reddit and Twitch then advertisers will never leave Facebook. All Facebook needs is 30 seconds of user time to show them ads. Also don't forget the audience network that Facebook has. Are you playing a free game of Ludo on your mobile? You will be shown an ad in between games. That ad is served by Facebook. So it is not even necessary for the user to be on the platform to be shown ads! Now how do you tackle that? Publishers will also have to abandon Facebook. That will not happen so easily. The only way to tackle Facebook is to create an alternative that has at least 50% of the user base that Facebook does and also have an equally good AI Ad platform or superior.

> Facebook is becoming less relevant so yes these companies will most likely be back, but what about 5 years? They might not be willing to pay the same rates. Facebook will kind of be like a personal email client that people check occasionally. Facebook.com specifically, Instagram itself will remain popular for a while I would wager.

Facebook knows that. That is why they are constantly improving their algos to make it cheaper themselves. Advertisers don't want access to a billion people really. They just need to sell to a few hundred or thousand people to make their profits. Even if Facebook userbase comes down by 50%, if the Facebook AI is half as decent as it claims to be, it will still find the right audience for advertisers to target!
I believe intel marketing teams will sweat a lot in the coming years.
With regards to bugs apparently largest human by mass is 20 years old gymnast:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15710550
That could simply be read skew. It's also quite spammy.
And there's never a serious consequence to the ones who did it. By then they switched to a new position somewhere else. Like most prima donnas. And this shows that deep, deep down they know they are fake.
In 2008, the US Gov't made hundreds of billions on the bailout loans they gave.

Let me make that clear. Whenever people say "Wall St was bailed out by the taxpayers", they don't understand finance well enough to know that the taxpayers actually earned a significant PROFIT from that bailout.

...and naturally the media doesn't report on that important detail.

"socialize the losses, privatize the gains" is a slogan based on complete ignorance.
Even Germany allows the swastika when presented in a historical context in artistic or educational works, come on.
This assumes your conversion rate from media is the same. It's reasonable to hypothesize that most are significantly more reluctant to spend money in this environment.
This particular museum is in the Europe so looks like the problems exist there too.
Zuck is busy trying ensure his best employees aren't running for the hills. Too late man too late. It's already happening.
Apps may be getting security updates, but when was the last time that the version of Android it's running was patched?
The manual memory management thing -- like needing GC -- feels like a false dichotomy. Most of these languages that have GC need you to "manually" manage resource lifetimes anyways for a lot of resources: files, network connections. If you're making a UI, you think about when components are mounted and unmounted. The logic for all this is domain logic and part of the code for your program. Memory is just one such resource, and I think there should be more acknowledgement of it as such by languages, instead of just piling it up and kicking a "GC cycle" to clean it up whenever, leading to pauses in interactive programs and whatnot (Go's GC, and Go in general, do not perform well under WASM in my experience).

In Go you have to "manually" defer a file.Close() call -- vs. the destructor getting automatically called in C++ (it even gets automatically called when a containing object is destructed, if it's a member, and so on). Go's version doesn't seem very "automatic" to me.

The simplicity of Go actually hides a lot of runtime complexity that is happening: the GC, map lookups, scheduling of goroutines and so on. Which you have to understand and then ultimately learn how to tune from a distance (because you don't have direct control) for a lot of applications where it matters. For server applications (where the hardware is under your control) and also CLI tools (which can just run, only allocate memory, then just exit), this matters less. If your code is running on user's devices as an interactive application, it feels to me like how it performs on and uses their actual hardware is part of your responsibility as the developer, and some things about Go make that harder to do. Like you have to think about the GC and try to avoid it ("from a distance") if you run into that (which you do quickly in WASM, and which eg. Gio tries to explicitly design around, and so on).

I want to see languages that care about simplicity and also include such deterministic resource management as part of their design and offering.
> supposedly our circumstances only account for 10% of our happiness with 50% being genetics and 40% behavior

Do you have a reference for these figures? 50% genetics seems high.
All I can do is imagine Jesse Eisenberg saying this. There are other channels you can push your spend through with decent ROI. Nobody's platform be it a personal blog or small app is without analytics anymore.

Shorting Facebook: FB 210p 7/10
99% of panic stories about people being arrested for Twitter is this type of stuff
During the 2009 recession, a woman called into one of those financial advice shows on cable TV. She began to talk about how she was cutting back on her budget, and she was 'forced to eat beans and tortillas'.

My step-father, who is a Mexican immigrant, started laughing. He said that's all they ate growing up. He said it wasn't until high school when his dad got a job in a General Motors factory that they had enough money to eat hamburger and cheese along with their beans and rice.
I don’t really trust polygon for reviews of art films. Looking at some critic reviews, it seems like Natasha the first film in Dau has had some rave reviews. For instance the guardian gave it 5/5

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/26/dau-natasha-rev...
> Many countries in the western hemisphere had slavery at the time.

4 in the New World and that's counting the USA and CSA separately.

About 5 more in the west coast of Africa which are in the “Western Hemisphere." But not “many”, in any case.

But only one of them was formed in rebellion citing preservation of both slavery and white racial supremacy as key motivations.
Bind does something like this (but not with JSON).

You have to run a “freeze” command before editing the database directly (so it can flush the current version of the database, and redirect writes to memory + log), and then “thaw” so it can read your changes and apply the log of updates to it.
As a programmer and not a finance guy, I can't understand the cost savings.

I'm earning roughly 4k USD per month and our developers in India earn 1k USD per month.

The output of the entire 12-people team there including managers etc is the same as output of 1-2 people with a 4k USD salary here, but with a much lower quality and maintainability.

And that's not counting the hours spent negotiating fixes or giving detailed instructions.
You are right. I should have said Mexican Republic.
They do update it from time to time. The biggest recent updates I can think of were thread folding and an improvement to mobile styles. Recently there was a thread about adding a dark style, and the mods said they were considering it.

They're just conservative about changing things, and at this point, the look of the site has more or less become part of its brand.
I had not heard of this, thank you for sharing!
Well do they or not? If their life is better rejoice for them. Help their kids take the next step better.

Someone who grows up in a mud hut with no education and no idea where the next meal comes from cannot be made into an engineer easily. But if you can get them enough to eat they can take their kids out of the child labor market and send them to school to learn. It might be a few generations, but that is normal. Me and my sister are the first to finish college in my family on either side, more cousins have since followed. We started on farms generations back, but have moved on as technology advanced.
I hear these sorts of arguments often, as someone who likes both Go and C I do have some responses: I would hardly call exceptions in C++ a "feature" but more of a "liability." Enumerated types (probably referring to sum types here) have trade offs that are not necessarily clear from simply reading the code. Generics often lead to code which is (IMO) difficult to follow, debug, and reason about. The point about assembly is jest? Or dishonest? I would argue that C, C++, Go, Haskell, etc etc are "simpler" than assembly, if they weren't we probably would be writing assembly, and I suppose following that logic maybe we'd be hand constructing opcodes with a two key keyboard.
I feel fine: fans of world-ending films 'coping better with pandemic'
How did it crash? And what was spectacular about it?
Not particularly.

I was specifically responding about your outrage how internet 'mobs' demand forgiveness from the people they've supposedly wronged.
The whole comment was just me talking from the perspective of a possible self identified victim and how that person (me) would respond in such a case.

Forgiveness would've to happen for me to trust that party again, which would be a requirement for me becoming a user/paying for the service again. If that possible other party doesn't care about wherever the people they've supposedly wronged use/pay for their services, then there is obviously no need for any interaction after that point.

And as I said before: none of this applied to ddg, as they didn't spy on their user. They implemented a leaky feature, which they've committed to changing.
Yes. I know.
Censoring foul language is arguably the main thing that we're on about now---with a redefinition of what counts as "foul".
This happened to me recently as well, on a smaller scale.

I typically consume 1 double-shot espresso, 1 green tea, 1 small cup of brew, and sometimes decaf in a day. It's mostly just a part of my work day routine. I used to go some weekend day without caffeine altogether.

Since working remotely at home I don't have a specific caffeine schedule and lost track of my consumption. After one long weekend I didn't consume much/any caffeine but I didn't realize this. On Monday my stomach was uneasy so I drank some water and avoided caffeine because on an empty stomach it can make me feel worse. The next thing that happened was inconceivable. I was curled up in bed clutching my stomach in agony for several hours. It wasn't extreme discomfort but just enough that I didn't want to do anything else. After it eased I had a coffee and everything magically felt perfectly normal. The next day I started to get that same feeling and immediately had a coffee. My day went fine.
As the set of information encoded into Wikipedia approaches the sum total of human knowledge, there's no particular reason that needs to remain true.
'Suddenly they started gassing us': Cuban migrants tell of attack at ICE prison
Yeah, if recruiters are tagging the least interested in tech in my contacts, then I know it's a ship going down. Acqui-hire is their only way to replenish the talent pool, now.
How would you improve it?
It is, that is no excuse. Also it's harder to avoid banks than Google Pay.
Maybe you just can't read very well.
Less is more: language features
Apple wants your iPhone to replace your passport and driver's license
Isn't the origin story for Stanford University that the founders wanted to be benefactors for another Ivy League school but were snubbed (classism)?

There are a lot of adversities that steel a person's resolve. Rejection is one of them, if not as sexy as personal or family trauma ("I became a neurologist because my childhood friend died of seizures").

And what if that's part of his schtick? If he specializes in YC's blind spots, then he has an ice breaker. Hey YC didn't want to talk to you, get in line to talk to me instead.

We the public get some data points on whether YC's blind spots are rational or not. We all avoid things we are bad at. Some of those things everyone is bad at, so nobody would fault you for avoiding them too. But if you are good at it, people will throw money at you to deal with the situation.
People like to say the poor eat fast food because it's all they can afford, but the truly poor don't eat McDonald's, You're still spending $3-4 a meal at the least, if not $7-8.

They have to do $0.50/meal, so they eat potatoes, rice, beans, etc.
The loophole is that properties owned by corporations are not reassessed when the corporations are sold

There is already a measure on the ballot to reform prop 13 https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-meas...
What ever you try to do with JSON has probably been tried before with XML. Including XML databases.

Now I’ll accept that XML databases has their use (especially if it involved storing and transforming third-party XML) but I can’t think of any good use for this when there’s SO many better options.
Yelp's Machine Learning Platform
Looks cool, but it hasn't been updated in a bit and as they note, the Torch framework is no longer maintained. There is a PyTorch alternative that appears more active: https://github.com/OpenNMT/OpenNMT-py.
> Companies aren't the only entities allowed to publish content on the World Wide Web

Actually, the only entities with any capacity of publishing content on the WWW are a few tier 1 ISPs.

If you push that rope you will discover that your capacity to publish anything you want is restricted by the policy of whoever hosts your servers, and their ISP, and their ISP's ISP.

If the end-state of that evolution is every entity being completely free to decide what gets published on their private platform, that's a huge problem.
potential ad free alternative https://userheist.com
Engagement rates are way up, but conversion rates are down. Overall a net benefit in my line of business, but it's affecting other segments different ways.
Wouldn't it actually say a lot? Engineering is about trade-offs, and the trade-off that says "use this special language for 1% of our most critical services instead of the company-wide standard language" is not "absolutely nothing".

Lines of Code is a bad proxy for mission critical.
Anecdotally, most of the older folks I know will use hardware until it disintegrates because they don't use many apps and "it still works." I've seen a seven year old iPhone 5C in the wild.
Think a little wider.
Austin is the kind of city that families move to after having kids. A microbrewery in Austin most likely has minivan parking and stacks of kids' high chairs.

If kids really annoy you that much, you might be the perfect candidate for moving to a city where having kids is actually difficult or expensive.
It's still used in defense and aerospace. Last talking to people who were making inertial navigation units (the movement sensors like in your phone but much better and for a plane), all the software was done Ada, millions of lines of Ada.
In some sense, one could think of human dreams as synthetic data generation. Surely looks a lot like one part of the brain (one network) generates samples to train some other networks in the brain. Perhaps to consolidate the knowledge across all systems, or transfer it from one high-level, flexible slow network to another - a fast, responsive, dumb but highly customized one, both to be used in different situations or for different aspects of life.
Stoic ethics is greatly underrated unfortunately. Despite being extremely influential from Christian ethics to modern cognitive behavioral therapy, it's relatively obscure. Everyone is familiar with it without knowing its source.
There’s even a meme: Facebook is for boomers.

Idk how much of that is true, but apps like Instagram and tiktok are definitely talked about more these days
Neither are you. You get brainwashed like the rest of us.
Second Week: 1,201 visitors, 2 sales and $528 revenue, tough decisions made
These are people who thought South Park was on "their" side, only to get ridiculed by South Park. Thus they feel bitter and have to lash out.

They don't realize that they are the authoritarian jerks that South Park despises. "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
The distinctions between African-Americans and African Migrants are interesting. The migrant groups have higher incomes, lower use of welfare, better academic performance. There are some Black STEM programs in the US that are entirely filled with the children of African migrants.

Personally I think the African American community could use less BLM and more of the values and ideals of these migrant groups.
The two most bike-friendly cities in the US (Minneapolis and Portland) are not on or near the coast.

Any "best schools" ranking will show you that at least 7 out of the first 10 districts are not in coastal cities.

I'm not sure where you've lived before or if you have family or kids to have researched this matter seriously but the US offers a lot of choice depending on where you are in life and how you want to live it.

Discarding half the country as a "desolate wasteland" can only narrow your options in life.
China Is Sterilizing Minorities While Trying for a Han Baby Boom?
Not going to defend private equity companies if only because I don’t care for them, but the author is chasing the wrong story. When the government is willing to bail you out when you make risky bets, then the government screws up the way the market is supposed to work.

Capitalism is a system of profit and loss, but if you don’t have to worry about the losses, then the incentive to do your due diligence on risky bets is also lost because you’re effectively playing with taxpayer money instead of your own. The real story is that we bought into too big to fail and that was a mistake.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2017/03/24/kim...

https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/22/technology/sexism-tech-pipe...

You can google more about sexism in tech, and how many women get sexual harassed at work. I agree with you about toxic culture. And usually people in power (usually male) in organization influence culture.
A Massive Star Has Disappeared Without a Trace
I'll settle for being content...
I hear this claim a lot, but it forgets that Facebook has 1.7 BILLION daily active users and still growing. They won't miss a few users here and there: users are the product, not the customer. 100 million people could leave Facebook and it would only slightly reduce the amount of ad impressions they can sell.

On the other hand if advertisers boycott Facebook that directly hurts their bottom line.
2:10pm 7/10/2020?
Hate speech is not "hurting someone's feelings".
C++ and Rust, IMO have a very similar featureset, Rust just puts that upfront as properly part of the language. Those C++ features are pretty much mandatory for general development, and likewise you will find them in most open source and production projects. Programming without them is just C++'s one of many ways that it gives you enough rope to hang yourself.

Yes, you could program C++ without even knowing what std::unique_ptr (and I talk to many college grads with C++ on their resume who don't know what unique_ptr is, or that C++ has more than one type of pointer). But Rust won't let you use raw pointers (as part of the language), whereas in C++ you will be told "make sure you have read Google's 10,000 word style guide before committing any code".
Because broadcast media is a publisher. Does Facebook want to call itself a publisher? If it does then I am sure FCC will regulate Facebook too. Right now all social media platforms are shielded by Section 230. They are platforms and not liable to what is posted on their platforms. But, some social media companies like Twitter have taken on the mantle of a publisher by mucking around with the US President's tweets. This has now set a precedent. Tomorrow Trump may or may not be in office. But Twitter will continue to exist. Will it continue to edit/censor Presidents and Prime Ministers around the World? If Twitter acquires those powers for itself without any regulatory oversight then you have an unofficial Supranational Government: Social Media.
> And in most countries, a huge population is still rural/semi urban

China is 60% urban now, and that's another number that's only going to increase.

I'm sure it's true enough that India and China, for example, are quite different, but your description that the issues surrounding fast food are a "uniquely western problem" strikes me as pretty obviously not true. The rise in worldwide obesity rates has to do largely with this change in diet, for example.
MaraDNS – a small open-source DNS server
Amazon is allegedly interested in getting a stake in its Russian copycat
Ozon was started as an online bookstore and even it's name sounds like last half of Amazon's)
And you could shell out $500 to visual studio and the C++ MFC or the borderland C++ components if you wanted to do some fancy stuff like in delphi.
Synthetic data always reminds me the practice of feeding cattle with the meat and bone of other cattle. Will this make our generation's mad cow disease?
You're missing the problem. It's that they lose the unemployment by coming back to work. Even if they were paying (any reasonable definition of living wage plus hazard pay), the unemployment payment structure still disincentivizes them.

It means their pay would have to be some $600 over and above the regular amounted needed to compensate for the inconvenience and utility of work. So they're effectively "taxed" at over 100%. At that point, it's not the employer's fault for not offering enough.

At the very least, they could just make it so that unemployment (i.e. same logic as behind the UBI -- have social benefits, but don't [significantly] contract them as you work more).
That's a very strange idea: JSON is basically structured data, like XML, it's nice for documents with deeply nested structures.

The main issue is that contrarily to a DB, any modification will shift everything after it, so any indexing will have to be corrected. I suppose that if the document is not stored as is, but instead broken up in pages (filesystems are likely doing that already, so piggy backing on that could help), then indexing could be improved, but then storage starts to look like a regular DB, rather than JSON.

Interesting nonetheless, time will tell.
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