skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't come across as facetious/condescending. Thank you for your advice.

I'm actually using a TDD-ish approach in my work, but I never felt comfortable letting it actually drive design decisions. I don't believe it works that way - I can explore the design space up front and pick good solutions faster than it would take me to organically arrive at them through applying orthodox TDD.

I'd like to do more TDD-ish approach, because the design process feels way too slow to me. The problem is, refactoring involved in test-driven design discovery is even slower. I constantly feel bottlenecked by the speed of tooling we use - and not on the surface level (I have my Emacs configured well, thank you), but at a fundamental one. Programming languages are not expressive enough. The whole approach of writing code as plaintext document is not ergonomic enough.

When I'm sitting in front of an empty text file, staring at the sea of infinite possibilities, all I feel is dread - the fear of how much effort I'm going to spend fighting tools to conceptualize my design, how much time I'm going to waste dealing with infrastructure, build systems, dependency management, constructing intermediary layers, writing and rewriting tests...
There are also leftist visions of a future world where we actually address the core problems plaguing our world and give workers democratic control over their own work, instead of leaving that up to wage slave owners who view all of us as human resources.
What are the motivations of the other players?

> enforcing digital scarcity in a federated metaverse

Yeah, I'm not interested, actively anti-interested, in the "metaverse" we are going to get, at all. Any "players in this space" that aren't motivated by selling user's personal data are instead motivated by selling users things they don't need.
It’s a shell built-in.
This is a good story, but really the airframes are the cheapest part of fixed wing drones. You can build them out of dollar store foam if you'd like, people have been doing it for years [1]. The expensive part are the electronics, in particular if you'd like the drone to do something useful. The motor, servos, speed controllers, flight controller, gps, receiver, antennas, payload can be 99% of the cost.

[1[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAd5Zbb-p6I
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game

after a very short period of time after a major disruption, there ceases to be a simple cause and the answer rapidly becomes "well, it's the gibbs phenomenon, it's gonna ring for a while now".
When you feel you are not doing anything useful think that maybe at least you are not doing anything harmful. What an incredible waste of money and time to avoid culture distribution, their authors long ago dead.
It's almost like Zuck saw all the ads in Ready Player One and read about all negative shit in Snow Crash and went "yes, I'd like that"
Does anyone actually enjoy the VR/AR experiences in a profound way?
Sasha and Ann Shulgin famously believed that dissociatives have no safe role in psychedelic therapy:

"We are strongly prejudiced against psychedelic drugs which cause such mind-body separation, as we are against any drug which causes separation from feelings and emotions. However, we acknowledge that the ketamine state can be highly instructive for researchers trying to understand the functions of the human mind."

Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin passed away in 2014. He is a historical figure. His lab will eventually be an official historical landmark.

Is it really so confusing that I use his nickname as a handle online?

John C. Lilly died of heart failure at age 86 in Los Angeles on September 30, 2001. His remains were cremated.
Long story short: Big spike in demand in a very short period of time.
If it was just one item, such as graphics cards, I wouldn’t be particularly concerned. The problem is it’s a bit of everything, a mere 11-ish years after the Great Recession, which was itself “supposed” to be a once-a-century economic catastrophe.
I have certain albums that I have listened to straight through many times now while getting work done. They no longer distract me basically at all, so I can work very effectively.

I have also found that certain not types of older TV shows hit the white noise level where they get me moving, but don't pull me out of my thoughts too often. This is mostly for things where the goal is just to keep moving on something, not where the goal is to think deeply.
Think you’re missing the “next” button at the bottom haha
I wonder if facebook employees really think they paper over the harm they do each day by renaming their company.

if you call it something else does it still hurt people?
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How long until they begin to sue any other company with "meta" in its name (even pre-existing ones)? It will happen.
Yeah, I liked that one.
Optimum Tech is the place to go when evaluating any PC part or peripheral.
The work put into the videos is simply unmatched, with its scientific precision, in the space and it doesn’t go overboard in the recommendations.
It keeps in mind everyday things like value for money, availability and practicality.
True. I do have a revulsion; not like a vomit reflex, just that I don't like them.

It's not a "blanket distrust" - rather, it's that cosmologists are proposing three distinct ideas, each with very strong implications, none supported by more than what amounts to circumstantial evidence.

I just have an instinct that those three ideas might not be as distinct as they look.
Thinking about it from the perspective of someone who thinks the shutdowns were net good but reviewing the comment in good faith:

Lessened demand in large sections of the economy can itself create shortages in the parts that take on the load or at least stress on the supply chain to redirect to those places now in extreme demand. Take restaurants for example, people didn't stop eating but vast swaths of food supply chains had to change pretty much overnight.

Then there is also the problem of the demand of certain things being highly uncertain, like cars towards the beginning.

Then there is the extreme induced demand on certain things like webcams, laptops, or other home electronics as everyone stays home. I'm sure that also isn't an easy overnight change to make and then swing back from since it was completely unplanned. I know the area I work immediately ran out of widgets based on orders of 10s of thousands instantly coming in and it has been backed up since that time to this day.

Finally during the initial portion of the pandemic lots of factories, both in the US and China, were getting shut down. China seemingly longer. When restaurants and whatnot started to open back up was about the time you saw those shutdowns stop happening too. So on top of the above concerns for the supply chain lots of non bars and movie theatres were also affected by shutdowns, just perhaps not as long.

May be more I'm missing but I don't think GP is an empty comment by any means.
Well the int version returns the correct answer for "empty()" unlike unsigned. The size of a list of 2^32-1 elements should not be reported as zero, nor as "empty".

In this case, the compiler has to enforce wrap semantics for unsigned, which is an applicaton-level level bug if it occurs, and doesn't need to enforce it for int, which happens to lead to the right answer for empty (i.e., it checks if it has at least one element, which continues to return the correct "not empty" answer for 2^32-1 or 2^31-1 elements).

Both get the wrong answer for size() (over different domains), if you allow lists that large: they can't even represent very large lists.
We can answer this by looking at how many facebook users are okay (implicitly) with using facebook in exchange for access to their data and exclusive rights to place ads right in front of them. The answer is 100%
Dropbox has long since been a company with an engineering mindset. I wouldn't plan on using it in the bloated-app, emulated execution future.

It's dumb even from a business perspective: we won't build for the new platform/market--prepare to have you lunch eaten.
You sure about that? wink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp...

exists for a reason you know wink
> 2.8% trade deficit isn't very high compared to other countries

You are joking, right? You can find some years where the US trade deficit isn't the absolute highest as a percentage of GDP, particularly if you start throwing in small island economies like New Zealand into the mix, but you will not find any other nation whose balance of current accounts is anywhere as close to the size of the U.S.'s in terms of GDP share.

Morever the sustainability arguments have nothing to do with whether you like globalism or not. I may like housing, but that doesn't mean I can keep going into debt buying more and more houses on the same income.

> Historically that isn't true at all: economies aren't closed systems where imports

This is a complete non-sequitur. You need to logically connect this statement to the argument I am making rather than just changing the subject to something irrelevant. Please read and understand and then respond to the arguments made, rather than responding to just how those arguments make you feel and what they remind you of.
Has anyone ever had a novel idea for a social network, patented it, and been paid for it by FB?

Because it seems to me, the way the patent system is supposed to work, and the way it actually works in practice, are very different.
Yeah, when they get public bailouts.
That is quite an interesting difference from me. I have to have sound or else there is absolutely no chance for me to focus. Primarily music with a lot of bass. Podcasts are bad though as that requires paying attention. Perhaps the music serves to block out other possible distractions. If you make me sit around in silence, I will be all over the place and unable to focus. It feels like I require some level of sensory input, and once that is maxed out I can actually get things done.
They have a legal obligation to maximise shareholder value, but what that entails courts will generally leave up to the discretion of the company's executives. In fact, the very first paragraph says precisely that:

> At the same time, the case affirmed the business judgment rule

What is the business judgement rule?

> The business judgment rule is a case law-derived doctrine in corporations law that courts defer to the business judgment of corporate executives.

In other words, if the CEO of a company says that he did something because e.g. he believed it was better for the long-term health of the company, the court will generally take his word for it, barring evidence of deliberate malfeasance.

What one cannot do is as Ford did, which was to deliberately try and hurt other shareholders.
>I can't help but wonder how anything ever even gets done on this project

Slowly, methodically, and with minimal user impact.

As mentioned at the end of the article, what first appears a waste of time for a small issue could also be seen as a beautiful illustration of the democratic process that makes Debian so stable/widely adopted.
Been a while since I've used Debian but I'm sure Debian is already using NetworkManager. This means the Raspberry OS has actually removed NetworkManager from its Debian base and put in something else. I agree with the OP this shouldn't happen. For my Raspberry Pi, I ended up switching out the Raspberry Pi OS' default networking manager thingy in preference for NetworkManager so I could share wireless networking configuration among my devices. It also helps with troubleshooting as well since I can just use the same commands I use on other Linux machines even those running other distros.
Well, now the dollar is not just a reserve currency, it's a floating one. I'm not sure to what degree "devaluation" is a meaningful concept in that environment - certainly not "a devaluation", referring to a discrete event. The devaluation is a continuous, ongoing operation, as exchange rates move in real time, and as CPI changes happen.
So you can't franchise now?

The problem with your solution is that it's just a different problem.

We essentially want to forbid "bad" ownership. But it's hard to define "bad" in a way that doesn't either trample over "good" or "benign" ownership or makes it so subjective, it's pointless.
This is awesome work! I have a similar problem in a different domain and I'm curious how you match against a "canonical merchant"? Do you apply some fuzzy matching / string similarity against the result of the NER? Or do you have an E2E ML model doing this task (a classifier?)
I agree that Facebook and Zuch can't be that stupid.

But for me, I can't see this working. There is no VR game that really killed it. I also don't see which generation would actually be into this.

So it's not a "idiots!", but more of a "what am I missing here?".

Will be interesting to see this play out
If that were the problem, improve recruitment.
IG and WA were already wildly popular on a global scale when they were bought, though. People clearly wanted those. Is anyone on board with this “metaverse” thing outside of SV?
To me this seems less like the IG and WA acquisitions, and more like the much hyped Facebook Phone and Facebook Home projects (RIP).
you pre-configure the boot.conf and other settings on the same system you use to write the raspbian image onto the microSD card, before you put it in the pi. if you get the config right you should be able to boot a pi headless and ssh to it over your 802.11n/ac/ax network immediately after the first time it powers up.
If what they're doing now is any indication, I don't think they'll succeed with it anyway. They've got almost zero credibility with anyone under 30.

Their existing prototypes are outrageously embarrassing. I'm the kind of person that has a hard time watching The Office because I feel second-hand embarrassment, and I can barely make it a minute in to any of their VR demos. They're so uncanny, awkward, and embarrassingly goofy. At least The Office has some endearing quality (sorry for the weird comparison).

I'm not sure if it's Mark Zuckerberg's influence or what... but everything about Facebook lacks some sort of jour de vive. Like, their idea of "making work fun" is stuff like... an astoundingly cringe-worth video about healthcare open-enrollment? This kind of thing dumbfounds me https://vimeo.com/639318528... and I don't even consider myself a cynical person.

All of this feels only a few degrees removed from Jonestown.
The timing of this announcement is strange. Maybe this was already planned for late October, or maybe this is an attempt to take control of the narrative after all the horrible publicity.
I do think VR will be part of our futures but I won't use Facebook as part of it.

When I was watching the keynote - about 10 mins in - I got redirected to login to Facebook. That is not cool.
Well, Facebook in some demographics is above ity peak. The company however was able to acquire Instagram and keep Snapshot in a niche. Will be interesting how much TikTok will takeover in attention time. But for now they have a money printing machine and a good foundation.

Europe unfortunately is too weak unless they convince the U.S.
A Postscript to “Into Thin Air"
There's a secondary issue here. Sometimes, we look at outcome data: what is the decrease in getting sick or dying after taking a vaccine? This is the number you actually care about.

Other times, we look at a number that correlates: what is the increase in _antibody levels_? One example from this article:

> A recent (but not yet peer-reviewed) study of more than half a million U.S. veterans showed that the Johnson & Johnson shot’s protection against infection (whether or not that leads to disease or hospitalization) had plummeted from 88 percent to 3 percent by mid-August, while the other vaccines’ effectiveness had declined much less. Research published in the past few months also signals that Moderna’s shot beats out Pfizer’s in terms of both antibody count and hospitalizations prevented, while a National Institutes of Health study released earlier this month found that Moderna’s booster shot lifted participants’ antibody levels a bit more than Pfizer’s, and that both mRNA boosters were miles ahead of J&J’s.

My understanding is that we don't know how much antibody levels need to increase to provide a level of safety. Or, for that matter, if at some point, further antibody levels don't help at all! If there's a light rain, a full-body drysuit will keep you dry. But so will an umbrella! The drysuit is overkill!

We certainly want antibodies against the virus, but I don't believe we know how much is overkill. One reason this might matter is if we could have given smaller shots to people and ramped up injections much sooner. Or even in the present, we could send more injections to other countries for lower cost, if a certain volume of vaccine could be given to more people.
Leave it to the copyright people to make a huge legal mess out of the simplest concepts. Now people can't even cache data without lawyers showing up. I wonder how long it's gonna take before I see them arguing memcpy should be illegal.
* A month, yes, in Elon time.

It's almost certainly going to be longer based just on past performance (though that performance is nothing short of astounding). They need at minimum to:

- get the chopstick carriage moving
and out of the way for launch
- get the water deluge system in place
- tank up enough water, LOX, and Methane
- build more of a blast barrier for the GSE
- maybe add a flame diverter
- test-fire BN4 on the launch stand,
testing all engines or enough that they
can be certain of the robustness of the
ignition sequence
- re-assemble the stack and load it with
liquid nitrogen to test structural
integrity under load

etc.
> They often say that there's no one more hopeless than a rich junky. If they have a very large amount of money, they never hit rock bottom until they're dead.

Why doesn't anyone make the argument of quality vs. quantity when discussing such examplers

5 years spent as a rich junkie must be worth a lifetime as a 9-5 cubicle worker
I want to read the William Gibson book that inspired this reality
What SD brands do you usually buy? Are the Sandisk Extreme range any good?
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> If a metaverse is hosted by FB, it'll come with all the drama, nonsense and toxicity we see on there today

It is ridiculous to imply that it's somehow unique or exclusive to Facebook.

It exists on all of the social media platforms, across the web and in the real world. It is more a byproduct of anonymous interaction than something Facebook is specifically doing.
Facebook lates to the party - meta.ua
There are plenty of things, they are just stuck on boats off California.
>On the other hand, there are other classes of psychedelics that are unambiguously good: tryptamines (e.g., psilocybin) and phenethylamines (e.g., mescaline).

I don't know that I would necessarily classify hallucinogenic psychedelics as unambiguously good. I suspect the potential negative effects are understudied and under reported. Beyond hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (admittedly rare), medium-long term induced psychosis (also probably rare), while users frequently report positive effects both short and long term, there are potentially profound psychological/neurological alterations occurring post use which may not be obviously detrimental. What further complicates the issue is that, because of the strong dependence on existing psychological state (set and setting), its quite possible that a user's culture becomes a significant confounding factor and that some groups of people may in fact be worse off after using some or all such psychedelics.

Personally, a year or two post experience I noticed that certain emotions are more apparent to my perception which honestly I would have preferred to continue ignoring.

I still suspect that for the vast majority of people hallucinogens can be positive but let's not make the mistake of preemptively asserting that they are harmless.
I don’t understand the title? How do you get ‘rejected’ by Code Academy? It’s not a ‘boot camp’ with an application process. You either do the free lessons offered, or pay up for one of the ‘Pro’ level tiers.

This title seems sensational, and it’s misleading to people not familiar with Code Academy. Considering that, it doesn’t sell me on this product. In fact it makes me not even want to look at the lessons offered, since the premise feels dishonest.

Edit: I don’t think I’m the only one that read it that way based in other comments. Honest mistake, it looks like English is not the authors first language.
It's especially dubious in Facebook's case because Mark Zuckerberg controls the majority of voting shares. If he wanted to run the company straight into the ground I doubt anyone could stop him.
> From OO perspective, there really isn't any difference between Java and C#

I'd say that properties, reified generics, and extension methods are all highly relevant to statically-typed, class-based OOP, and significant C# vs Java differences.
Agreed, good point. I should have said "we have been faring relatively well [so far]"
My dad worked on some testing software for a float glass factory back in the 1980s. Float glass is a process where a factory makes a continuous sheet of glass that floats on a river of molten tin, about 3 meters wide, 24 hours a day. It never stops. If it does then the glass cools down and solidifies inside the machinery, and the factory needs to be practically scrapped and rebuilt. I imagine that's the worst case scenario, but many large scale manufacturing businesses are likely to have similar processes that can't be stopped easily, and that cost a fortune to restart.
I assume this just means that they'll require a "Meta" account instead of a Facebook account, and it will come with all the same problems as creating a Facebook account.

Also, their "support" for sideloading, while better than nothing, requires a valid phone number or credit card number to sideload anything.
"Let's change our brand. We will get the suckers to think we are creating a better digital future!"

"We will continue to make people more miserable, and me wealthier?"

(I like FB groups. It's not all bad. I do believe the company, and their acquisitions, are not good for adolescents psyche, or even most adults up to 40.)
Its a bit like an art piece. Its like YouTubers writing novels or comic books and selling them to their existing audience. Is the money real? For sure. But they're really not competing with anyone in a market they're just relying on a small group of people who buy whatever they make. Good for them but not really interesting in its own merits.
Its where "mac fanbois" or "BOFHs" come from...

I worked with a guy who was so mac focused he was blind to other tools/perspectives and it was often a friction point between team-members...
If it's gonna be an ad-based business model, we might end up here, HYPER-REALITY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs