skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the initial FB OS attempt failed, I think Zuck realized the investment to make something work was beyond the capital he was willing to invest.

When FB released its first “phone” it was still unwilling to take mobile seriously. They left the head of mobile position open for a very long time. Zuck himself has said he missed mobile.

With the IPO around that time, making some major strategic investment in tech was not an option when the company was likely under a lot of pressure to make the stock price only go one way.

You give Apple Maps as an example, but that product was a major fumble at release. To the point Apple fired the exec in charge over it.

It’s taken major investment over many years to get that app sorted out and it still needs a lot of work.

I think FB did know better they just had a competing problem of revenue growth that was at odds with laying claim to the future.

If anything, I think FB is making an ongoing strategic mistake in lack of any obvious work to establish an Alphabet structure.

FB can recover by building a social network that monetizes via payments and subscriptions. This could be hooked up to a new fortnite-seeded metaverse and run exclusively through oculus.

The opportunity for a FB-parent Corp that distinguishes a new, private network away from the damaged brand of FB is still there.

Leadership just has to be way more daring now in what it’s willing to do.

It really has to or the ruling metaverse social network will be built by someone else for Apple hardware.
I'd like to see some kind of explanation of how exactly you "express the various uncertainties" of the project. I'm not going to click the CTA until I understand what I'd actually be doing to use the product.
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What it immediately brings to mind is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590
How can you justify a ton of pollution, a ton of emotional and actual energy lost to commuting, millions (or billions) of dollars in real estate fees, only to reduce productivity because most studies are showing a productivity increase when working from home? There is a point where it becomes morally indefensible, and we're well past it.
I meant going back a couple of hundred years - every one having a full kitchen and cooking most things at home is still in historical terms recent.
> Can we please stop complaining about Python 2to3 already. Feel free to use and maintain Python 2 indefinitely or move to a different language. Most of the rest of us will move on since the conversions were not that hard and the improvements worth it and we were given 10+ years to do it.

Have you done such an upgrade with a million line codebase?

No company wants to do that with such a large codebase with the potential of regressions that can cost quite a bit of money.

Reading this article makes it sound as though the experience taught him a valuable lesson and that he agrees that in retrospect Python 3 was a mistake, and it was.

There is quite a good reason why so many platforms and languages take indefinite backwards compatibility quit seriously. — it is simply a very demanding thing of large codebases to rewrite to a newer version of the language with all the potential of subtle regressions.

> The maintainers would probably do some things different with the 2to3 conversion if they had to do it over again.

The article suggests that if they could go back in time, they would not do it and make no backwards incompatible change to Python 2.

> But whatever mistakes were made weren't malicious and they were learning as they went just like the rest of us. I greatly appreciate their efforts to fix the things that were broken, regardless of the hassle involved in upgrading.

It was certainly not malicious, but it was indeed a bad idea which is what the complaining is: that Python 3, or any such backwards incompatible changes should have never happened.

This is why Rust uses editions and many other languages a system where backwards incompatible changes must explicitly be imported and the old behavior continues to be supported indefinitely.
You are lucky! I was lucky for awhile, until I wasn't.
That is, of course, true.

However part of the problem is that zionists within the state of Israel work really hard to blur this distinction.

You can see for example arguments being made in that sense
in this debate here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VTt_THL4A

Or the French parliament deciding that anti-Zionism is antisemitism: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/french-parliamen...

Even within Israel there are of course fringe groups (e.g. Naturei Karta) and such, but unfortunately, the reality is that while it wouldn't suit most Jews for Judaism to be conflated with Zionism, it suits most zionists, so they try to further that notion.

Edit: To be clear I'm addressing the Judaism x Zionism aspect of this comment thread, not the blog post in the topic post.
Yeah, seems like a good compromise. There's a big difference between "we don't want our spokesperson to say X" and "we want to make people saying X unemployable". I wish the second didn't happen at all. I wish all people saying things hateful to me could find nice jobs and get assimilated into live & let live. What else should I wish, that they'd die poor in a ditch and their kids too?
Clickbait for the kids.

"“For baby boomers and Generation X, it was quite common to stay in the same company for most of their working lives. Today’s working landscape is different, with millennials and Generation Z open to the concept of job hopping,” he continued.

“People changing jobs every year or two can be seen by employers as a red flag but, actually, it shows these people are ambitious, adaptable and knowledgeable, traits that every employer looks for.”

Generation X'er here. Pretty sure I remember these same articles being a thing - with Generation X being the job hoppers - back when I was ... younger. Job hoppers had a bad rep back then too. It all depends on how long and what you accomplished. Oh you say you invented tcp at your last job where you stayed for 6 weeks? Gonna be an interesting conversation, or maybe an entertaining one.
Will be interesting to see how Google handles other old examples of people writing things perceived to be offensive. Apple clearly has taken the opposite approach, with the firing of Antonio Garcia Martinez. While the google employee's comments are clearly anti Semitic, one can hope he has changed since then and give him another chance. We are too quick to condemn people for life due to their past mistakes. With that said though, a diversity role is probably not going to be an ideal spot for him going forward and re-assigning him is good.
I feel like you're not reading my comment in a charitable light here. I explicitly said "fund it better and more effectively", not throwing more money at it. How is that a power grab?
The early Teslas were overpriced for value delivered. They had shorter range, build problems etc..

People wanted to buy them because they were 'buying a dream' - and helping to move the ball forward.

There was a huge amount of 'good faith' in the process by early customers and supporters. Even to this day.

Tesla is an aspirational brand and people are paying an aspirational premium.

Boom will definitely be that as well. Execs will humble brag about their Boom flights, everyone will talk about - it's super exciting, super cool.

The issue I'm pointing to is scale ... will those smaller tranche of buyers be able to support all of the operational overhead of the airline and the ongoing R&D of the company ... is the question.
It’s more of a nitpick than an objection.
Imagine being a Jew and suddenly finding this guy not only not-fired but on your team.

I'll take hostile work environment for 1000, Alex.

Thing is, I wouldn't want to work with this person at my company period.
Slightly shocking that he didn't get fired. (yet?)

They fired Damore for writing an email that was tone-deaf, insensitive, but largely supported by research.
Bobb goes on a clearly antisemitic rant, and just gets reassigned.

Is Google inconsistent, or has their policy on how to deal with these things changed over the past few years?
> the breaking changes of Python 3.x have decreased the psychological barrier for doing that

Perhaps the 2-to-3 transition caused people who dislike breaking changes to move to other languages, leaving only those who are pro-breakage in charge.
I think this is one of those extreme cases. The student should be admonished, his actions were presented as absolutely legitimate, and that could have caused harm. What if someone saw the flyer and decided to react violently not realizing it was just satire? While I’m all for speech being protected, in this case the student’s actions were reckless. Keep him from graduating? No, not that serious, but certainly a stern admonishment that satire is fine but don’t try and pass it off as truth.
I really wish we could seperate people's private and professional lives.

This guy in his private life wrote some nasty blog posts. That shouldn't impact his professional life. Nor vice versa.

This blog post isn't sufficiently against the law to end up with him in prison. Yet this is a case of extrajudicial punishment.

Unless there is any evidence of him bringing that thinking into his work, he shouldn't be punished.
The world extends beyond the US and there are places in the EU where a 50–55% marginal tax rate is a thing.

I’m not against paying taxes at all, my comment was about MS (in that case) making over 300bn and paying 0.00$ of taxes while individuals make 10–100k and pay significantly more taxes than MS Ireland did on their 300bn. I don’t think that’s fair. Furthermore, individuals are unable to make business deductions that MS and other companies can (and spend pretax dollars to buy things while the rest of us spends after tax dollars)

My post was to point out that corporations are massively advantaged in comparison with actual, alive human beings.
Uh, not sure what I did exactly, but this is really cool: https://i.imgur.com/6wDRXMd.png
I don't think VR will ever take over the world. Too many people get motion sickness from it and I don't think it's only a matter of more pixels/fps.

AR... maybe. My personal opinion is the needed electronics (and especially the battery tech) aren't small enough yet, if we're talking AR glasses.

If we're talking AR on phones, where's the killer app? Pokemon go?
The purpose of the role is to be able to show that you have a diversity officer. Whether or not that actually helps diversity, or helps at all--is secondary.
In my country, UBI is supposed to go hand in hand with dismantling all social welfare, subsidies, whathaveyou. Once all the laws have been changed, and the civil service has been completely reorganized, it's a titanic fight to get them reverted, and after that, all the institutions still have to be put back in place. It would take 20 years.
You and I have very different definitions of “in the wild”, it seems. To me, “the wild” is embedded civic-infrastructure / industrial systems. This is a place where people will encounter trusted computing involuntarily.

Consumer electronics — phones, game consoles, etc. — these are places where people choose to buy the dang thing in the first place, despite the restrictions the manufacturer imposes. Trusted computing isn’t the problem, it’s a tool used by an abuser against their Stockholm-syndrome victims. The abuser themselves — and society having no social norms that protect against developing this particular Stockholm-syndrome — are the problems.

The stuff people want from these devices — the reason they buy into these locked-down ecosystems — is almost always just the platform-locked software that runs on them, not the distinctive hardware (that the software doesn’t usually even take advantage of!) But that fact is great for the end-user: it means that, as long as one person figures out how to defeat the platform’s software DRM, and another person figures out how to write an emulator for the hardware, then there’ll never a reason to lock yourself into these ecosystems. When software is the USP, users can just use an alternative conformant implementation of the same platform (from the software’s perspective) that isn’t locked down, to run said software.
It's not just substack. It's a plague that has infected regular journalism; they're just more cunning in disguising it.

Think about all the "Sources say" articles you've read at 'respected publications' over the past few years. How many of them turned out to be true or collaborated?
"Think different" just has a different ring to it now.
"As well" is subjective and your presuming those two people want to eat like that. I don't. I enjoy talapia, chicken breast, white rice, and Fiber One on a daily basis. I rotate in broccoli and peas, and enjoy the occasional Honey Bun, chocolate, and bowl of Cocoa Pebbles.

But the best part of the day is the very first fresh ground coffee with real sugar and real cream in the morning. You just can't beat it.
The proof is in the pudding. Covid death rates were identical to California. I don't care about signaling, I care about results. Scientific research has consistently confirmed that school age children are responsible for a de minims fraction of Covid transmission.[1]

[1]https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2006100
Brain-Computer Interface Smashes Previous Record for Typing Speed
Only the purest of the pure can lead a diversity effort. And it doesn’t count unless you were pure from the beginning. Growing to overcome past problems is not sufficient.
Getting other people to do hard work in a coordinated fashion to create a valuable collective outcome is itself a form of hard work. On that point, we seem to agree.
and billions of dollars
Something tells me Google wouldn't be so gentle had he been a white male talking in a similar tone about women, blacks or muslims.
Another successful witch hunt. Never mind wondering whether his opinion has changed in the intervening 14 years.

This vigilantism has to stop.
NFTs act as unique instances of objects that can be “digital shadows” of real physical objects, or their own thing, wrt the blockchain they exist on.

For the art world, they are a new medium and can be used to secure provenance. In the rest of the world they are being looked at as mediums for selling tickets or keys to access unique experiences (an art piece/door/puzzle that activates or lights up if presented with a valid NFT as a simple example) among many theoretical use cases.

A lot of crypto stuff doesn’t make sense unless we get Decentralized Identities (DIDs) right, so things like NFTs can be associated with with a user.

https://www.artworkarchive.com/blog/what-every-art-collector...

https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
I just have an alternative name for the world of work.
If that's the quote, damn, that is sooo wrong. Aside from the overt antisemitism, just replace whoever he is talking about with "X".

For any X, when they live constantly among existential threats, in particular other petro-states, who explicitly state that you should be "wiped off the map" and who use and fund impoverished neighbors to instigate and wage proxy wars against you, you should be extremely concerned if you and your nation do NOT prepare strongly by taking up arms in defense of themselves.

Characterizing a necessary defense posture as some kind of blood lust is just sick and ignorant.

The guy should be fired.
> manager's performance review based on whether or not they fired enough people to match a company-wide expected attrition rate is completely bonkers

Amazon is a company which gained a lot from their policy of exploiting the employee. Amazon loves how they can hire mostly subpar candidates and still make profit by driving them with fear. The same is reflected in their mandatory URA policies. Its not a big deal that some great people get fired too. They don't expect such people to stick around for long in the first place. Policies to manage developers and warehouse workers have come from the same person, so you can't expect much difference in philosophy of how to treat employees.

On Blind's Amazon private lounge, there's a popular saying, don't make noise until Amazon starts shooting it's own employees. Anything less is either old or unsurprising.
> one can hope he has changed since then and give him another chance

I... can't help but think that, had he been a member of a different demographic, he would have just plain been fired.
I love pedants, don't apologise! Happy to be corrected and keep learning. It's been quite a few years since I was in physics classes, so I went and looked this up, and I think my memory was right, as for example, descriptions of the Coulomb force (electrostatic repulsion and attraction as in my foot example) all seem to be phrased in terms of virtual boson exchange.

I agree the forces holding things together is "ordinary EM", but virtual particles as force carriers seems to be ordinary, not rare.
How can you be sure that will happen? If the artist is relatively poor and the artwork/NFT ends up being a marker in some sort of huge money transactions, what recourse do they have to enforce this cut on future transactions?

In the event of huge transactions going on, how plausible is it that the people selecting properties to inflate in this way will choose properties that are encumbered by such an obligation?

I think 'artist gets a cut' is certainly a cool concept, but I think it's purely hypothetical. It will not work out that way in the real world. There will be a mysterious lack of revenue stream to 'artists', even if the scale of speculation continues as it has.

Reason being, this type of speculation is not really about art.
I can guarantee you that challenging someone who does not want to be challenged will not actually cause them to learn anything.

When I was a kid, two different years, the teachers had us read/read to us "Where the Red Fern Grows". At the time, I was reading fantasy from the adult section at the library (and was teased for it; both the fact I was reading for fun, and the subject matter). Literally the only thing I remember about that book is how much I hated it.

It's one thing I have to give Harry Potter, despite J. K. Rowling. It popularized fantasy enough that kids read on their own, and normalized reading books for fun in schools.
What electrical brain maps may reveal about migraines
to be honest I think pony focuses on Actors from a theoretical perspective. Erlang accidentally implemented Actors, and the driving motivation was fault tolerance. Specifically, the Erlang system really cares about having a sane error model.
You're saying it ain't small enough yet. Another way to say it is, it'll get there, but in the future. That's what FB is investing in
I already deleted my account. But I suspect that this group is small enough that it is still a net win.
I think try >> why [0] is one of the unwritten mantras that the cryptocurrency space is going by. If someone would see a roadmap to tokenize sharks with lasers [1], they would do their best to get funding for it and a team to implement it.

Why would you do that? Because try >> why

This doesn't apply to all people in the space obviously, some have a very strong philosophy as to why something needs to exist. With that said, I do think a lot of people are on the hype train that adheres to try > why

[0] with >> I mean the math operator "much bigger than", not a bitshift.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3GKVWcBLNU&ab_channel=Midas...
I really can't tell if this is right or wrong. On one hand, these comments are hurtful and obviously stupid. On the other hand, this post is 13 years old. We all say or think stupid things sometimes, especially when we're naive about a topic. Isn't it possible his stance has changed? All this publicity now may have ruined this guy's career forever, all because the scribbled down some random stupid thoughts more than a decade ago?

Downvote me, but I am truly sorry for him. Stuff like this makes me never want to post on the public web under my real name, who knows what will be marked as "offensive" a few decades from now.
https://erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/expressions.html#pat...

it's more like the = sign in math mathematics.

2x = 10
we can deduce x = 5

Here's an elixir example where a bunch of "if/else" blocks are refactored to use case statements, and then from case statements to pattern matching.

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/refactoring-elixir-code-if-co...
I honestly hope VR and other telepresense stuff eats this market's lunch. It seems like an awful lot of resources to throw at the problem of people needing to read each other's social cues in person.
> Nothing he posted was offensive.

> “If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself”

How about that?
I used to be a diehard supporter of homeschooling. But then I experienced things in my life that revealed the nature of people and society. People are wildly different. But nobody realizes this because nobody really listens. People are different in much deeper and more deterministic ways than is commonly appreciated. There are specific metabolic pathways that are responsible for this. The answer is that for most people home schooling is a waste. They want and need to be in a toxic, petty environment. Intellectual development is wasted on them. It’s biology — not a choice for the parents or for the kids.
Wow, wonder if he’ll get the same support[1] from the free speech crowd as AGM.

[1]: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1392756490138791937?s=20
Sure, maybe, but that won’t be CSV.
> So do I think governments having more money NOT by squeezing me and all those I live near more is a good thing? Why yes, yes I do.

Unfortunately, those same governments don't see it as a mutually exclusive matter. They want to both tax you and everyone else. Not only that, they will end up wasting that money and nothing will get accomplished. You said it yourself, Canada has very bad wait times for healthcare. We need a fundamental solution.
Show HN: id6, open source Auth0 alternative written with PassportJS, React, Node
> Whether or not that actually helps diversity, or helps at all

Or even hurts.
Hi all

I got tired of re-writing auth over and over , so I wrote id6, a container-native service that handles it for me and can be integrated easily in my apps. I already wrote React and ExpressJS integrations as it’s what I use the most, but Angular, Vue, and other frontend/backend framework and languages are welcome to help me extend !

Id6 is built with React and Node and is PassportJS-native so new authentication strategies can be added easily Feel free to add your favorite ones!

As it’s still early, I would say that at this point I’m looking for beta users that want to try it in their apps. I hope it will help some of you out there speed up development and simplify authentication setup.

Keep up the great work

Links:

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They live all four years in halls most UK uni's have a lot of students in rented accommodation for al least some of the time.

Did the "The Young Ones" not get picked up in the US
Killing competition and dominating the market??
For anyone who is interested, the actual blog post on his website was deleted. It's available on the Way Back Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210601160519/https://www.kamau...
FB more or less always had access to capital markets, and they could 100% have borrowed money and dumped billions into mobile. Subsidized, $100 phones that are comparable to flagships (but data-sucking for FB) would have beaten the market.