skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering if Facebook will try to spin off another network, or maybe a different frontend on top of the Facebook/IG networks, to get rid of the Facebook branding problem altogether.

My (outside) impression is this is what PayPal did with Venmo. Venmo wasn't functionally superior, just "not your parent's money app".

We see the pattern in retail clothing. Parent companies recycle smaller brands through a multi-year trend cycle and raise up new brands when the last one gets too old.
> You can't really avoid this either without throwing out judicial precedent because "knowing how the court will rule on subsequent cases" is basically the same as law.

But that's not law. That's consistent interpretation of law. Very different.
High switching costs and controlling the experience end-to-end may be anti-competitive business practices, but it doesn't make Facebook a monopoly. Apple also uses similar practices, but clearly has a lot of competition.

Monopoly definition:
the exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service
"Anyone that is addicted to drugs can get the drugs they want, they just have to already be addicted first"

All that does is create a perfect window for new users to use tainted black market drugs and die. It's also essentially a government endorsement of the black market and the violence that comes with it. I think we need to move past those cowardly policies and craft laws that respect the reality that drug use will always be part of society. Playing make-believe that we can stop drug production or sales is too expensive (in cash and life) and has been proven comprehensively ineffective over several generations.
I mean, you have a point, but at the same time, Carmack and Romero have literally been pulling these kinds of shenanigan's since John^2 were working at Softdisk. It doesn't make for the best business or legal decision, but it's certainly not a surprise to hear. It's kind of his MO.

I would find it hard to believe that Zenimax was unaware of what was going on.
Just as much as I believe in diversity I love matte black Apple and blue/blue-green Sony PCBs.
> There's much more competition than there was when Linux was released and that competition is much more mature too.

I think it's the opposite. When Linux was released, basically every major tech company had their own variant of Unix. Now almost everyone has migrated to Linux or Windows.

Competing with modern Linux by creating a drop-in replacement for Linux would be a pretty difficult task given that people have been optimizing Linux for decades now, but on the other hand I think there are ways to improve dramatically on the traditional POSIX-style API that Linux mostly adheres to. For a random example, why can't a given process have more than one "current working directory" at a time? That seems like an arbitrary limitation imposed by an implementation detail in early Unix system, and it causes problems for modularity. There are many other little details like that. I think if Linux is replaced by something eventually, it'll most likely be because the new thing has a cleaner, more powerful, or more generally usable API.

(Kerla is apparently not trying to invent a new API; I'm just saying that's the direction I would recommend to anyone project with a goal of seriously competing with Linux.)
I, too, agree that we should leave unvaccinated people alone.
NLP model converts casual text to formal
My biggest problem with TikTok is that it make you feel better when you come away even when you got nothing of value from it. I rarely remember what I saw 5 videos ago even if it's something that I thought was great.
I believe that is the income growth rate, not the revenue growth rate.
Thank you for some sanity, this thread was giving me cancer.
I see that picture and think how great it would be to have a more rugged connector to those two iPads. I can imagine that those connectors will need some ruggedizing.
This won’t really help against the numerous background processes that run as root (as mentioned above).
These cars are probably going to use the cheaper iron based batteries which are fine to charge to 100%.
Car subscription service, Go, raises $41M
I'd have ~2 years and not hurting my lifestyle. Hopefully it doesn't come to that, but I can get a job if needed
Maybe I’m paranoid, but I wouldn’t want to expose my NAS directly to the internet. At most via a VPN.
That is the income (profit) growth rate.
well, guess we should spend our whole lives praying just in case
Depending on how sick she was there are such programs in every state. If she needed round the clock care like it sounds, she was sick enough most likely.

He also could probably have declared bankruptcy early and been able to focus more on learning useful skills instead of killing himself trying to pay bills he never could. That is what bankruptcy is for.

But hard to say what was really going on.
I'd like to point out that "technocracy" means society gives decision-making power to the experts.
It's a press release. I expect a press release to lay out at least some of the details. If you're putting the EFF into the realm of just another political group though, then sure-- I'll learn to expect the same level of vague propaganda from them that we get from any Super PAC or politicians campaign and filter their noise out completely. Luckily, we're not there yet. A lot if their releases are fine, but some like this slip through.
A crusade to end grading in high schools
I am not a chiphead either (but I used to live with some)

I think easier decoders => shorter pipeline, less silicon footprint for decode, possibly more silicon for reordering logic, less dark silicon, etc.

To be fair the chipheads I lived with were gaga about VLIW, so there was certainly a bias there.
They're speculating. The author states many, many times in the article they don't have full facts and are speculating based on inference and the parent's recollections including their own speculation.
> just "here's what ATC is asking you to do, press button to ack".

That's already a thing with the big aircraft:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACARS

You can decode them on your SDR, they're in-the-clear:

VHF ACARS (fairly local):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGD_GFxH9ps

and the satellite version of the system here (every aircraft shares 1 of 4 geosynchronous satellites and you can pick up some interesting things):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Nc9GPOHz0
Tailscale tries a few things, from direct connection, to NAT traversal techniques, and as a last resort, relay servers run by Tailscale that both nodes can connect out to.

The “magic” is just that it’s all automatic works pretty much no matter what.
3080 mobile is confusing brand name. It also uses GA104 rather than GA102, so it isn't totally equivalent to 3080 desktop.
Israeli flying car Startup ‘Air’ presents eVTOL for private use
I don't think the suggestion in the article works, does it?

It checks the dpkg lock, but I believe apt has its own lock, I believe at /var/lib/apt/lists/lock , and that option name strongly implies that it only checks the dpkg lock, still leaving you with a race condition on the apt one.
I have been using on device transcription on my old Pixel. Here is a demo of the 2 years old technology:
https://youtu.be/zfOPF069Xn0

But what I'm looking forward is the new technology in the Pixel 6. Besides much better transcription, caption and translation (see the video completely) it could even solve the real problem by letting people send text messages by speaking into theirs phones with better quality than before.

https://youtu.be/tSAYtwTqppA
the notifications change makes me actively angry

I'm sitting on catalina for as long as possible on my non-work laptop
Look at the jobs board of www.ccl.net and the biotech/pharma jobs in San Diego or Boston (possibly elsewhere). Lots of computational chemistry/machine learning kinds of jobs there. There are also several companies in N. America (OpenEye, Schrodinger, CCG) and in the UK (Dotmatics, Cresset, Optibrium) and Germany (BiosolveIT). There are also smaller companies in areas like QM and modelling and newer efforts in "modern CS technology". They just don't visit sites like HN very often.

EDIT: and for the highly-skilled reader, you can always look into DE Shaw research. Very interesting place...
FB has exclusive possession/control of digital connections to most of your friends and family. Apple doesn't have network effects like FB. Network effects + high switching costs = monopoly.

Why doesn't FB let other businesses else access friend lists via API? or send people messages via API? Same with Google and all their data about you. They just can't do it.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/50103448/1997590
Well, except it isn’t right? We can and do budget them separately.

Might be more fair to say ‘every tomahawk missle fired randomly at a target at the Middle East is an entire middle class families lifetime income down the tubes’.
Duplicate. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28992594
The fixed width decoders have always been a commonly cited advantage of fixed width, and to some degree it must be true. But this is not a recent thing, the "common wisdom" about instruction format not mattering too much still very much applies here.

Pre-decode lengths or stop-bits and more recently micro-op caches have been techniques that x86 has used to mitigate this and improve front end widths, for example.

People like Jim Keller (who has actually worked and lead teams implementing these very processors at Apple, Intel, and AMD!) basically say as much (while acknowledging decode is a little harder, in the large scheme of things on modern large cores it's not such a big deal):

https://chipsandcheese.com/2021/07/13/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-...

Andy Glew, one of the architects for Intel's first out of order x86 core (P6) among other things, is another who has said similar.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.arch/c/elke1FHfYr0/m/SwW9NT...
You ought to see it in person, in any dark sky place - that would clear your perspectives
I use plpgsql for constraints but try to avoid any form of mutation mostly based on other folks horror stories.
and quite false. there are many laptop xeon CPUs. while costing more than the M1 Max, they beat the pants off it.
Of course. In places with low crime levels, the police can afford not being completely stressed to the point they become psychos.
> Do people on this site really want Bezos to give up

How about not blocking everybody else constantly suing everybody and delaying the process. If he actually wanted to achieve a goal, that's what he would do.

Bezos is driven by pride more then anything else. It was clear that SpaceX was way ahead of them in terms of rockets. Instead of leveraging that and investing in space station or moon lander, they had to 'beat' SpaceX at rockets.

BO has been chasing its own tail and then suing everybody and claiming everything is unfair.

For a company that has achieved mostly nothing, to claim everybody else shouldn't get contracts and that they would be better is just the hight of arrogance. Not surprising it has left many space fans with a bad taste.

Additionally, this is a station that will only be build for a government contract. BO might be willing to spend actual money on idealism, but Boeing and Sierra are not.

> I'm starting to get the impression many on this site aren't really pro-space, they are just pro-Musk.

Maybe they are pro companies who actually achieve things and are not happy that the can finally sue everybody to 'flex their legal muscle' as BO CEO actually said.

Nobody dislikes Firefly, RocketLab, Relativity or any number of other space companies.
I have 15 hours as a trainee helicopter pilot (non-solo).

The key quote is this: "You still need someone with training in communications protocols, what speed and elevation to fly and where the system is unsafe to operate."

Flying a helicopter is, by its nature, unsafe to operate. At any moment, you could have an emergency. If you have someone at the controls who only knows joystick flight when any such emergency occurs, good luck to them.

Helicopters are not like airplanes; they are not a "set and forget" experience. You have to actually fly the helicopter from point A to point B. You have to be ready to make that helicopter drop at a moment's notice because if the engine dies, you need air blowing up through the rotor to keep it spinning. If it slows down enough, that is automatically "Game Over". (Search "rotor stall".) In the helicopter I flew, you had two seconds to get the collective down, and that was only the beginning.

Watch [1]. At 1:24, the engine dies, and you hear a horn almost immediately. That's the low rotor speed horn. The horn goes off after about a second; that's because the pilot slammed the collective full down.

Then the pilot turns left and crash lands. Why? Because there were wires in front of him. The wires could have flipped the helicopter. Would a bot have flown into those wires? Almost certainly, and everyone would be dead.

Oh, and did you notice that the low rotor speed horn was sounding a lot during the crash sequence? That's because during such an event, you have to maintain the rotor speed in balance while trying to pick a spot and bring the helicopter in. He had a full helicopter, so he actually couldn't force the rotor speed much higher. And yet he couldn't go full down either because that would not slow them down near the ground.

In other words, those guys are lucky that their pilot is awesome. And even though he was, they still landed hard.

On top of that, as dmitrygr says [2], flying the helicopter is a fraction of what you have to do.

I would never fly in a helicopter where the "pilot" was anything but.

And the same goes for airplanes. They may be able to fly themselves, but that is only true in non-emergencies. And even in some non-emergencies.

Pilots are expensive because they train for the worst, and most of the time, when it does happen, they handle it with aplomb.

Bots will not. When it comes down to it, bots will never replace humans where life-threatening emergencies can happen.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYBf3XPwvaU

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28995347
Thanks, that was the question:

> You could then have an 'almost black hole' that looks just like a real black hole but allows gravity to escape

I wondered if that answer to the conundrum could apply to all black holes. I suppose not

For real black holes, I suppose we should say they are not true singularities where the event horizon curvature goes vertical, but simply that curvature goes beyond the speed of light, so the maths still makes sense

Thanks that is a lot more logical

So then the effect of gravity from a real black hole would be like the effect of a messy person after they've left the room, and the reason why the effect of a black hole is felt for much longer is because of time dilation, and gravity doesn't experience redshift?
More often than not, lives are in greater threat of being "destroyed" by the consequences of drug prohibition than the drugs themselves. Addiction is a serious health problem, but impure drugs that lead to overdose deaths, spreading disease through needle use, avoiding medical care for fear of legal consequences, going to jail and having a criminal record, and becoming involved in black market violence are all vastly more common threats to drug users than any drug.
> why is it so difficult to have their computers talk directly with the aircraft?

CPDLC exists today and has been in use for a couple of decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controller%E2%80%93pilot_data_...

However, like everything in aviation, progress is slow because aircraft are expensive to buy, can last a long time, and are very expensive to modify.
at that cost it almost feels like something internet archive or aws open data could provide on a regular basis. the cost of pre-made vector tiles is huge, and making them yourself has been a huge ordeal before this...
/rant The world has collectively decided to become completely deranged about UX and UI. The entire field was typified by terms such as human factors, haptics research, disambiguation and human-machine interface design, ergonomics, accessibility, etc. Then came the iPod age, somewhere between 2003-2007, we decided to chuck it all out. BAM! Web 2.0 has arrived. Engineers were given a cold shoulder as new UX/UI teams started assembling in corporations. All went loose. Internet was getting commercialized and extremely profitable (Gartner's plateau of productivity has arrived after the peak of delusion in 2001). Therein came glorified aestheticians with fancy titles imploring everyone to shift to open office plans. They got rid of borders and frames, negative space became the common driving force to appease the marketing targets for "Luxury" user experiences. You see, just how Louis Vuitton stores have lots of negative space and more people employed than necessary, designers decided that we outta fake the luxury appeal to our UX/UI patterns - here comes minimalism. The catch all do all luxurification technique for someone with an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. The whole machine prints money like there is no tomorrow. Hordes and hordes of sheep-like humans consume extra large typography and hamburger menus, massive JS apps were hand crafted with animation libraries to woo the sheep. Touchscreens (for cost reasons) were used to brainwash the customers into thinking its cool while bean counters raked in their bonuses for reducing the COGS by 40%. Look! Get rid of all these knobs, buttons, sliders and encoders - replace it all with this magical touchscreens. Ship broken software and we'll just patch it later. The funny thing is there are many great designers out there, but the market has no place for them.

At this point, if we go to Mars, I'd like to be incharge and a gatekeeper for UX/UI. It is not possible to fix the world as it is here on Earth.
One thing that was slightly confusing in the initial announcement was that it was said to be released on a day when no OS update was happening[0]. I've been unable to find details of how the rollout was supposed to happen, but if no OS update was needed the code would have had to already be deployed in a previous update before it was officially disclosed by Apple, wouldn't it? I don't know of any sources that show it was present and if so whether it has been verified that it was removed, but if such sources exist I would appreciate references.

EDIT: This announcement from Apple says it was to be included in an iOS 15 update when ready [1] so unlikely it was just dormant in some previous update.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068741
[1]: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
Children's TV nostalgia, eh? Back in the '80s the earliest UK TV in the morning was often a long countdown clock leading into a couple of hours of very slow-paced and somewhat haunted old schools programming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs315UWC2Uc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp-lVHi2nnE . Now that's the stuff of memories. The whole first series/season of the early-2000s TV series Look Around You https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Around_You was a parody of this programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBaVwwuErmU .
They have 2 gigantic space programs, Starliner and SLS. Both among the worst projects in the last decade.

Their experience from ISS is decades ago.
No joke I could not actually work out how to change the audio device on my mac the other day. Took a while to realise it's hidden in the little menu.
JavaScript is a totally reasonable first language, considering it's unavoidable in web dev. As a former teacher, I think you might consider the way your own context might color your messaging to your students, and how their context might be completely different. They don't need to understand JavaScript, in all its layers and quirks. They just need to get simple things done to begin to develop an intuition for the platform.
Wannabe pilot here (15 hours in R22's). What do you fly?
Modern Architecture – Takes Us Up to the Sky – Literally
A friend of mine has terminal cancer and is in a place like this - DNR’s pasted everywhere as the worst fear he has is he’ll get rescucitated and be even worse off.
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For one, support Signal without reservations for the required phone number.
For anyone interested in this topic I highly recommend Carlo Rovelli's "The Order of Time", a beautifully written and up-to-date discussion of the physical nature of time. The book is written for a general audience (there is only one equation) and is as much a work of philosophy as of physics.

https://bookshop.org/books/the-order-of-time/9780735216112
> But the problem with mainstream social media platforms prohibiting content is that it fuels the extremism it's trying to combat.

I've held this belief before but now I'm not so sure. Is this actually quantifiable? For example, I'd be interested to know if there are people or groups that have grown in size/reach after (and more specifically, because of) being banned from major platforms.

In fact, you just said that you're not familiar with these alternatives -- doesn't that hint that the banned groups might be now reaching a smaller audience? If they weren't banned, you might have seen them on the more mainstream sites.
I've seen government forms that run some JavaScript or something to hide the actual contents of the form unless you open it in Acrobat reader.
Photopea is an excellent, free web app photoshop clone that is worth a try.

https://www.photopea.com/
Yes some civil claims about IP theft are definitely comparable to murder.

The reason that this gets covered before is that it sounds like juicy gossip. Turns out the gossip isn't "true" enough to get an interesting court result. So it's not really news. Those articles are just gossip.n the words of Dennis Nedry, nobody cares.

The intersection of people who think that FB is evil because of IP theft in the occulus thing but who don't also just come to this conclusion from all the other FB coverage of their non-action to stop genocides (random example), is the empty set.
I would absolutely buy something larger.
Sure would be nice if the Sacklers faced any consequences.
> ... For engineering or other pragmatic types?

This does not apply to people who chose to go to a coding bootcamp?

> ... For those who are used to hard reality

This does not apply to people who chose to go to a coding bootcamp to avoid a life of a menial, lower-paying job?
On my work computers I have an app that screenshots all of my desktops every 30 seconds. I have literally years of screenshots. The cost is miniscule.

Meaning, the cost to record everything a person does all day, every day of the year for literally forever is not very much at all.
I really don't understand why so many people seem to be impressed with Arrow's theorem. It seems to me that it only demonstrates that it's impossible to do something you clearly don't want to do in the first place.

Imagine you have a voting public whose preferences are (roughly) 1/3 prefer A > B > C, 1/3 prefer B > C > A, and 1/3 C > A > B. Fisrt off, it's quite obvious that there is no real "right" thing to do, whichever candidate wins, roughly 2/3 of the electorate would prefer one of the others. Fine as far as it goes. But let's say there are slightly more A > B > C, and A is declared the winner. Arrow seems to think it is a bug that only people's knowledge of B allows A to defeat C, but obviously it's a feature.
>For their extremely broken brains, everything is political discussion.

If I had a nickle for every not dead comment on HN saying "everything is political" (though it seems to be in a lull these past couple months) I could get a pizza delivered a couple times a week.
> The advent of smartphones, social media, search engines, pervasive online shopping are all absolute boons for surveillance entities

The only way to avoid this would have been to design the Internet as something Tor-like from the beginning, which would have been impractical from an efficiency standpoint.