skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Smart business people will take this as a lesson about the dangers of zero-inventory manufacturing

I disagree. Something entirely different is going on. Before the pandemic, onshoring of basic components started picking up (Trump's erratic behavior made planning really challenging) but the pandemic kicked it into overdrive (and Biden's policy plans will only increase it).

I know people that are "Tier 3" manufactures - suppliers to the suppliers of the suppliers. They have more business than they can handle and are no longer willing to take on risk from sh*tty customers.

JiT/0-inventory doesn't truly exist - somewhere you have to build enough stock to ensure smooth delivery during line changeovers, shift changes, machine repairs, and all the other completely normal minor "disruptions". It's invisible at the high levels of manufacturing because it's not on your loading dock.

Smart business people will realize that supplier relationships are more important than ever. You have to screw them over less than the other guys or things get really choppy really fast.
Mind blowing progress! So impressed with the Asahi team.
But this isn't the point, and comparing the two eras is useless IMO. It isn't where we were that matters, it where we could have been if Steve were still driving the ship.
> but they can certainly harass Facebook into doing it for them.

I believe you are exactly right here, or at least giving them cover to censor more with "the public's blessing."
How do you go from "have a separate access method that doesn't depend on your main system" to "turtles all the way down"? The secondary access is allowed to have dependencies, just not on your network.
I kind of like Sleep Sort https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Sleep_sort

Seen previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657277
Let's not forget the wage fixing cartel that he started and really kept going.

Ended when Facebook wouldn't play along.

One reason developer salaries have popped so strongly in the last five years or so.
Have you used the new Podcasts app? It can’t even do the fundamental job of a podcast app - “show me the episodes I haven’t listened to yet”
Chemical Addiction != scrolling facebook
The trick for me was to move one triangle around over the other until only three coins didn't overlap.
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Wasn't the IOU congress spending the money in the first place? And this coin allows us to pay for the IOU.
Ok, it is not bubble sort. It is worse.
Facebook faces this problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAatPPEaZDA

That is, a platform will start out young and cool, then the users get older, their parents join, their grandparents move in. Soon it's not.

Facebook beat one or two cycles of this by buying instagram and whatsapp. It's not a sustainable answer, and a near-death experience is always a few years away.

I question, however, the idea that the young demographic is desirable for advertisers. It's true that older people like to think they are young, but it seems the real ad bonanza is for medicare advantage plans, political advertising, expensive cars, and other things old people can afford.
With the glaring exception of the butterfly keyboard debacle (typing on, what, my fourth right now? and already showing some signs of wonkiness), I agree hardware quality is amazing & best its ever been.

The software though... Fit and finish has fallen off a cliff. So many weird glitchy anims and dumb usability issues.
Sorry for the late response, missed this somehow. I'm realizing as I try to write this that it is a bunch of small things, and maybe it boils down to having used it a long time or it being my first non-garbage (SSMS, PGAdmin) UX db tool. The autocomplete seems to work exactly as I'm expecting, the filtering seems to work a little better than TablePlus. Copying and pasting is a bit more consistent (I do this a lot while dev'ing). The whole UI is lightning fast and always stays responsive.

That all being said, TablePlus is 80 - 90% of that and the fact that it also works with multiple databases is huge. I also love the vertical tabs for multiple connections, editor sidebar pane for single records and tabbed queries vs a single query pane.

Both are fantastic, but if I was postgres only I'd probably stick with postico. As-is I just paid for both.
I mean, controversial but (ultimately confirmed) constitutional laws has a tendency to be challenged anyway, especially when the person who disagrees is in the government. This is not specific to this law, but instead just a general commentary on who brings cases to the court.

Specifically to this case though, they might argue it's violating the so-called "power of the purse", which constitutionally is solely given to the Houses. I'm not sure if it will be enough (given common-law precedent), but I won't be shocked if someone will use this argument.
Now you might have a better idea, with the downvotes.

:)
This is kind of like Chernobyl where they were testing to see how hot they could run the reactor to see how much power it could generate. Then things went sideways.
Is it too little censorship or rather amplifying problematic things and suppressing heathier things because of perverse incentives? FB and Instagram timelines are not raw feeds from ones friends/follows. They are tuned by human calibrated algorithms.

Kids need to eat vegetables and lean protein sources. But if school districts instead optimize for profit they may end up feeding the kids borderline poison like sodas and candy. When companies come to dominate a public space, like huge parts of digital comms, then maybe it's OK to demand more responsible behavior of them.
> let's just open several new ones

I see it as the exact opposite: the gambler's fallacy. "This time we'll protect our privacy! I got a lucky feeling!!"

Doors open. Horse is gone. ID is actually smarter in this case because it will prevent fake accounts, which is a huge problem given their failures at policing the horrible things being done behind anonymity.
My Mom said it to me with simpler terms when i was little... "we only have laws because of the assholes"
Launch of the UNDRR/ISC Hazard Information Profiles
They tell you to buy a bunch of gift cards at the grocery store and then read the number off the card over the phone. How do you successfully sue them with that information?
Performance though?
Yeah. I'm fine with people choosing their path in life. I was only referring to their own statements and attitudes. Not trying to come up with some universal code of conduct or anything here.
Not completely true. Historically mass media was regulated. Lying also isn't legally protected if it causes injury (fire in a crowded theater being the canonical example, libel another).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
My issue is that the government shouldn't allow companies - especially tech companies - to become so big to begin with.

There are ways the government can begin to minimize the growth of said companies. There can be taxes based on the amount of MAU, strictly prohibit any acquisition of other "social media" after a certain size, etc.

In my opinion Facebook should be forced to break up WhatsApp, Insta, etc. In addition, the new broken up Facebook organizations should be taxed heavily (call it a network effect tax, that's progressive and highly de-incentivizes being so huge).

Alternatively, the government could just deem certain internet activity "marked" and make it so all "marked" internet activity to require payment. This would include pornography, social media, etc.

That being said the challenge would be creating a reasonable definition of what "marked" includes.
Just updated Firefox Developer Edition and got this, as well as a new "Colorways" auto-theming feature. Pretty nice, so far!
I'm asking for people to stop posting these rants. There's nothing wrong with scratching an itch, but the rants are just inflammatory and cause drama. I have never personally found them to be an adequate documentation of governance issues, and it almost always seems to devolve into a "he said she said" type of situation. Every time I've dug into an issue (this one included) the rant is way off-base with what is actually happening, and when I push back on it the developer just starts getting hostile at me and further fanning the flames. So it's not really useful to try and dismiss this by saying "oh it's just one piece of documentation you don't have to read it," my point is that people are still using these bad attitudes to inform themselves when that's a destructive thing to do. I mean, come on, someone just posted this in an HN comment. If you want to vent to your friends about how you think someone is a jerk then just do that, but it hurts me when that gets dumped in front of me as someone who's just try to comment on these issues and get my terminal fixed.

Open source in general has a problem with this, if it's left unchecked it leads to toxic behavior very quickly. That's my experience anyway. Traditional diplomacy doesn't help because some people seem to see open source as a "I can do whatever I want" type of thing, which it is. It's fine to do whatever you want in your free time but once you combine that with an attitude of "I will never change my mind or stop ranting" then is when it gets destructive and harmful towards someone who is trying to build a community and convince other projects to collaborate and adopt a shared standard. So if that's the goal then the ranting and bad attitudes need to stop. (Full disclosure: I'm saying this as someone who used to rant quite a lot, and damaged many relationships over it. It felt good for me but it made everyone around me become distrustful of each other)

If you want to downvote me again then that's fine, but if you have something to say then please reply. A downvote or an upvote can't mend a broken relationship like a strong conversation can.
Linux on basically every computer platform at least started out as, if not still is, "an unsupported hack". Even on x86 it's pretty questionable to call it supported on the vast majority of PCs out there.
Orwell is a fantastic example. He's also a profoundly amusing example, since quoting him is inversely correlated with (1) actually agreeing with his politics, and (2) familiarity with (dystopian) fiction outside of a 10th grade English class.
Woz's forgiveness speaks mountains more of Woz's character than it does of Jobs.
A browser is a user agent. Web developers shouldn't expect browsers to support spam vectors like alert().

Browser extensions (ad blockers!) also "break" web pages. Should we wait for standards approval and web dev buy in?
I've been a OS X user since the Titanium Powerbook and wouldn't trade Mojave for any cat version --- and, in particular, wouldn't swap the aesthetics of Mojave for any of them either.

This is a thread about Steve Jobs, and, again, when I think of Jobs, I think of rich Corinthian leather. What a nightmare.
"I don't got inflation...

I got family."
One way to fix this is to buy more memory (if possible). Then your tabs will be much less likely to be unloaded.
I had a similar experience in college. The assignment was to print out a tree structure with any given initialization values. The professor and everyone else in the class printed the tree top down, like tree diagrams in textbooks. This required a bunch of fiddly spacing considerations. I realized that printing it out left to right required far simpler spacing. I think the final code was less than 20 lines with the core logic being 7 lines. The professor was very surprised it worked.
Well we do have laws regulating and/or taxing most of those addictive things already. Except for social media and gaming really, although gaming is under hot water currently due to loot box gambling mechanics.
Although the difference here is that loosing connection and out-of-band for a single data center shouldn't be as catastrophic for Facebook, so your examples would be tolerable?
Linux isn't GNU, and there have been a rise of projects that prove exactly that.

If we reach the point where redhat pulls the cash out from GNU then there's a lot of infrastructure that will be lost. I find it alarming that no one ever seems to mention that.
mind you this source is bias but does have the report available to download; https://humanevents.com/2021/10/04/breaking-china-pcr-test-o...
Function passing/callbacks, no thanks. You still won't get a compiler error when passing a potentially nil value, and I'd rather have readable code. I hope Optional is not going to be in the way of progress in this area.
No one with a brain uses the terms "disinformation" or "misinformation".
I'm reading your comment as a form of "feigning surprise", in other words a statement along the lines of "I can't believe target audience doesn't know about x concept".

more on the concept: https://noidea.dog/blog/admitting-ignorance
It's not that monads "require" higher kinded types, it's that , like an interface, monads only start really "buying" their "cost" when there are _many_ different things that can be monads.

Then the common abstraction of the monad can be used to interact with these things that all share this common property, in a unified way.

Finally, higher kinded types is what makes the idea of _many_ different things that can be monads manageable for the programmer, because if the underlying thing that the monad represents keeps changing into different forms, it's very easy to loose track of what structure or concept it currently represents without the types to keep track of that for you.
> sense of powerlessness led to rioting

Middle-class and rich white people from politically-advantaged parts of the country, that famously powerless group.
1619 Project? "The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of our national narrative"?

I mean, sure, some historians objected (https://web.archive.org/web/20200814135117/https://www.nyboo... [1], https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians...). But if "cynicism" is a sin, everyone here on HN (and not the least you) are due for some unpleasant cigars in hell.

[1] I note that I, non-historian that I am, could poke some logical and (from primary sources) historical holes in that speech.
Gecko wasn't really designed or made for embedding. For years using it without XUL has continue to be a struggle. Mozilla dropped support for embedding Gecko so Camino had to switch to WebKit, and in the end it just wasn't worth the effort given Camino offer no advantage to Safari using the same engine.
The misbehavior of Facebook has been well documented and has been going on for many years. Facebook has been shifty and deceptive in their responses, and there is literally no reason to give them the benefit of any doubt at this point.

Your comments about hard data are well-taken, but you talk as if we have no, or very little, evidence that harm has been (and continues to be) done. I think that we have a lot of evidence to indicate that there's a real problem here -- and one that Facebook continues to downplay. None of that evidence is as clear-cut and solid as physical injury is, but that's to be expected with social harm.

> Why, in this case, do we seem eager to throw scientific rigor and frankly due process out the window?

I'm not eager for that at all. On the other hand, the evidence we do have very strongly indicates (but does not prove) that there's a real, serious issue here. Are you suggesting that we should ignore that? If we waited until there was zero uncertainty on things before taking action, the world would be unacceptably dangerous.

Facebook could have helped on this front by being honest and taking the issue as seriously as they take profit-generation. But they chose not to, and now, after so many years of deceptive and abusive behavior, we have no reason to trust them anyway.
Someone should tell all these guys about the memento design pattern.
Opera has a nice way to deal with this problem - contexts (similar to tabs groups in other browsers, but it completely removes unneeded stuff from tab bar) and recently they also introduced pinboards. I recently came back to Opera and I'm quite impressed of how this works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2FbCCCmV9U

Oh, and "Flow" which is something like personal chat app, you can send links and notes and have access to them from Opera on mobile too. It's achievable in other ways obviously, but the workflow here is smoother, because it's built in and sharing link to website is done with one click.
Facebook's researchers found the opposite...
Back basically works like it always did on static sites. Blame the fashion for single-page apps and endless scrolling for it being broken.
Not going to expand on your point too much, but I've commented similarly in the past, and I heavily agree with you. There's so much room for innovation in browser UX, Bookmarks and tab archival never really evolved and it feels like we're just stuck in the past.

Part of the problem is that it's tricky for people to innovate on bookmarks in an accessible way, because I'm not going to do heavy browsing in a 3rd-party Chromium fork that doesn't have Firefox's privacy tools or support for Ublock Origin.

But more experimentation with bookmarking systems would be very welcome. In the meantime, here I sit with my 977 open tabs.
One of the things I have yet to understand is how their books are so cheap. They are hardback on high quality stock.
It takes years to develop stuff, and a final gatekeeping step will certainly prevent them from shipping junk, but doesn't teach people how to create something that isn't junk.
The fatalist comment from GP distracted entirely from the value-add content and I added to that distraction. Blurg. :-\
Totally agree.

Also before Insta it was teen magazines that were raged about. How is it news? Also one statement by FB said one of the studies (I haven't followed how many or which is which) was a poll of 40 people.... FOURTY PEOPLE. That's beyond meaningless.
We haven't banned cigarettes or alcohol, but we have put labels, restrictions and public ad campaigns into place to govern the behavior of their sellers, and to inform the public of their dangers.

I think it is a terrible place where government does not have a responsibility, as the union of the people, to help inform citizens of the dangers of addictive products and to regulate unethical behavior of the sellers of such products.

Your perspective completely ignores the intentionally addictive design of the products, and the network effects of having everyone and every business you know also using it.
Yes, and we have regulations and taxes and laws around these industries, but evidently facebook gets off scott free.
I was gonna ask "why would you need an outage for that?" until I remembered stories that people's keycards and internal networking were all down too. Interesting, is there some internal logging that would be down as well? But data deletion is detectable in other ways no?
Dont blame this on YC, this is on the individuals at those startups.

Be confident in your ethnicity or gender. They just didn't see your value.
There are some tweaks out there which patch the CSS to bring stuff slightly closer to the original style.
I gave you a definition (once again, you are starting from the viewpoint that my view is invalid because I refuse a definition...a pattern is appearing).

The actual epistemic logic is more complex but, for the purposes of this discussion, the point is that you can define these things as things that reasonable people can disagree about because: there is no clear evidence, and people will weigh that evidence differently. It makes no sense to say that these things should be removed from the internet because they are "irrational"...Galileo was regarded as "irrational" too, the nature of new information is that it breaks down existing systems of thought.

To be clear too, believing in rational universalism is an example of irrational thinking. No "rationalist" philosopher ever believed in universalism. Theories like logical positivism were explicitly non-universal in regarding some things as unknowable. The only real application of universalism has, typically, been in German fascist political philosophy with ideas like the Volk...it is in an inherently political/cultural concept...again, the irony of this is a bit much but the precise reason why these theories exist is because they are people who think that we just need to shut discussion down.
Ok, lets go to the scorecard then. How would you say the governments regulations for the topics of obesity, misleading ads, climate change, car safety? Its a mixed bag.

Regulation is necessary but hard. It should be a last resort not the first thing that gets tried. I don't think we are there with Facebook. Maybe some minor regulations, but most people on HN are saying to blow the whole thing up.
All I can say is I wish you luck!
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It’s honestly pretty disrespectful to the people who have put a bunch of absolutely amazing work into this project to dismiss it as an “unsupported hack”.

It’s true that we are never going to see first-party support for Linux from Apple. That kind of sucks, and it would be much better for everyone if they had a more open and documented approach to this new platform. But it does at least have explicit support for booting third-party operating systems, and the attitude of the team behind the project is clearly not “hack together a prototype and we are done”.

I guess the point is that it’s not black and white, and there’s a large spectrum between “first-party support” and “unsupported hack”.
For those downvoting, I should have made it clear that the FB employees, as well as employees at the company I worked at, explicitly discussed using psychological tricks to milk people, literally talking about them like animals, such as cows and whales.
Why wouldn't the power supply shut down due to overcurrent protection?
Good. I'm glad to see that NASA will not buckle under the pressure of the woke mob for once.
Mac development started stagnating under Jobs though, once the iPod and then iPhone really took off.

It's well known that Jobs was basically bored with the Mac and spent all of his time focusing on the iPhone.

This is where having a single visionary in charge of everything (including small decisions) breaks down. There are so many days in the week and you can't be everywhere at once.

Cook is the better CEO, and Jobs was the better founder / early CEO in my view. I'm thrilled with the M1, and I'm not sure that would ever be something Jobs would have developed.
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Wasn't YC founded by white dudes? Isn't YC mostly white dudes today? If YC isn't diverse, why would they try to foster diversity in the startups they support?

The fish rots from the head down. You can answer your own question by taking a good hard look at Paul Graham himself.