skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes me think of Comcast rebranding to Xfinity (USA); though I didn't really grasp what the intended reach of the rebranding to Meta will be from the last post [1]. It seems like it's for the umbrella entity, no product renames. But it still seems like a play to distance their image from Facebook, only to be referenced in court. And if it's anything like the Comcast rebrand, it's like, everyone still knows who you are--and yes we're still stuck using your products--it's just pretentious, annoying, and you're just creating another bad name for yourself lmao.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29029317
> The key thing is to ensure they are not too save-worthy.

Basically the definition of a chilling effect...
There are hundreds of alternative options to Facebook to host a website on the internet, there's really no excuse to be dependent on Facebook, it is a voluntary choice.
A reduction from 16% to 11%, in a group that was high risk due to age or medical conditions. So that's a 1/3rd reduction.
It showed a 32% reduction in hospitalization and approx 31% reduction in deaths.
Duplicate: https://www.independent.com/2021/10/28/architect-resigns-in-...
Why doesn't the Indian dude get payed $50 an hour so that he can also enjoy a four hour work week?
Personally, I'm less bullish on FB/Meta now. Half of me believes if someone can turn it around it would be Zuck, and the other half believes that FB's culture has optimized the wrong the thing for the past 5 years.

Consider this, and call me out if I'm wrong, for the past 5 years we were led to believe by FB/YouTube that algorithmically generated could only have negative consequences as it moved people to more and more reactionary content as it was the only way to optimize time on site. The only way FB could grow was by pushing content that got people riled up. Then TikTok came along and it's kind of disproven that? I started using TikTok as a joke and it's by far my most use social app now, and none of the algorithmically generated content is as polarizing as what I would find on the other apps; and clearly they are growing fast. There was another way but the local-maxima prevented FB from seeing it and as a result they have lost major brand cachet.

I don't know what is different about TikTok but the way I see it is Meta's problem will be avoiding their user base dying off and the USG will likely prevent any future acquisitions. Their standalone apps (M, Rooms, Riff, Gaming, Dating, Collab) haven't been major successes (although given the size of Facebook some of these have 10s of millions of users); and I'm not confident a VR platform will have major penetration outside of "Ready Player One" fanboys.

That said, FB is a trillion dollar company and betting against a company with such a huge war chest is like trying to catch a falling knife.
Close enough?

https://theanchovybar.com

(The Anchovy Bar in San Francisco)
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 powers the Null 2 RetroPie gaming handheld
All I am saying is that it's just a matter of perspective. If we have a separate word for a group of women that can be seen in both ways: either as a special treatment for women (the group of women stands out when no men are present) or as a special treatment for men (the mixed groups is referred to in masculine terms).

Personally, I am not sure how these linguistic details evolved, but I wouldn't be surprised that the original intention was to place a special emphasis on women. Because the word for a mixed group should have been "invented" first, and then a separate word for women added on top.

But don't quote me on that.

But there is an interesting precedent about dual-words (in the languages that have them), where you use a special form of a word to denote groups of two people. And according to research I've seen those words were added after a word for a group of any size was available - to place a special emphasis on a group of two.
Got excited at first but it's missing push notifications which is 90% of the reason I even want an app
Well I don’t think he’s saying it would fail in America because the US is leading, but actually because it’s behind in health. Either way such generalized comments are always off target because the US is a hugely large and varied place (in climate, population, terrain, design, etc). It’s hard to say anything categorically will or will not work across the country. The key error here isn’t thinking too highly or badly about this country or another, it’s about making sweeping generalizations.

When imagining bike policy, stop thinking nationally in context and start thinking hyper-locally.

Maybe if your city matches key elements of one in another country that implemented a successful program to do X, your city could stand to learn a thing or two. To presume that a prescription from Copenhagen would be equally valuable across the the vast scope of conditions in the US as an entire country is a ludicrous assumption from the start. This isn’t a “pride” thing, or an issue of the US accepting something, it’s an issue of scale and comparing apples to oranges. Bike lane policies cannot be a national issue here, they are local issues. Each locality needs to learn how to enable different transport modalities from other cities, yes, but what works in NYC will not be the same solution for Tampa, for example, or Bozeman.
I commented above a few of the issues I see. For example, would Lebron James (or any celebrity or person that has genetics that are profitable) be afraid of giving blood for fear of someone making Lebron 2.0 without his permission?
you can't conclude anything from these experiments like that.
we can conclude that many planets are likely to have rich organic soups, but nobody has made plausible link from organic soups to true living information processing systems.
> "Patagonia said it began boycotting Facebook platforms 16 months ago because of its claims that the social network spreads hate speech and misinformation about climate change and politics. Mr. Gellert said the company would continue to withhold its advertising until Facebook makes sure its products can mitigate harm."

Perhaps I'm a cynic, but this reads like 'mood affiliation' and a brand play to me. I doubt Mr. Gellert and Patagonia have a well-thought out perspective on hate speech/misinformation (if they do, please point me to it) and the complexities of even judging what it is and the myriad of considerations for whether/how to manage it. If I were to predict the 'socially conscious' positions they will take, I would guess it will align with those of their customers: higher socioeconomic status, urban, democrat-voting (but not necessarily liberal), college-educated, and mostly white people.

At the end of the day, they are a for-profit company, and want to remain attractive to their core customer base.

The "people over profits" bit is kind of rich, in my opinion. Given that Patagonia products have huge markups and are inaccessible to middle and lower class people due to their price. A big part of their brand is about a social status signal from wearing an upmarket brand. They depend on conspicuous consumption.

I say all this even as a Patagonia customer. I do like their products, but the proselytizing about issues without humility on how they themselves operate and the lack of consideration for the complexities of issues, is all a bit much.
Ask HN: Do the recent HN changes bother people who use screen readers?
Due to some mild problems with the vision, I have been "reading" HN using the screen reader in the past year or so. The discussion in the comment section is often more valuable than the linked article and the text-only page made it read like a real discussion.

However, the links to "root", "parent" and "next" were added recently, which breaks this flow and adds a lot of repeated text that makes it hard to follow the discussion.

Has anyone noticed this and is there a chance we might get an option to turn these off?

Thanks.
This would be an interesting exploration of a sort of Sapir-Whorf type question.
> The way I see this playing out is that the metaverse is going to be for poor people while reality is enjoyed by those with resources for "all five senses".

Given my experience in Alt Space thus far, I think there's a really good chance you're right.
They refused to sell to mining and petroleum companies, while profiting off of them. Seems hypocritical of them to me.
Different people states different years. The following years are averages of about 30 sources I found online:

Lost Generation: 1883 to 1900

Greatest Generation: 1901 to 1924

Silent Generation: 1924 to 1945

Me Generation (Baby Boomers): 1945 to 1965

Generation X (Thirteeners): 1965 to 1980

Generation Y (Millennials): 1980 to 1997

Generation Z (Centennials): 1997 to 20xx?
Where the CDC definition of "unvaccinated" includes those who received a vaccine less than 14 days before an event.
This is conspiracy dribble. Do you seriously think that there's a room full of executives at Google sitting in the dark rubbing their hands together and cackling as they draw up policies to block beneficial information from spreading so that the pandemic lasts longer and they bring in more revenue?

People don't think like this except in movies. Any effort to do so would be immediately obvious to the people tasked with implementing it. And people don't keep secrets.
If Meta stays true to its history of designing its products to maximize user engagement I find little reason to believe they wouldn't try to design their product to become more and more tightly coupled with the lives of their users. Maybe to the point where they're not able to function in some important way without it.

The main point being that it has the potential to grow to a point where the life of a user becomes inseparable from a 'Metaverse'. Whether you call this 'virtual' or a 'simulation' seems moot.
the moat that facebook have with their sheer number of users is their #1 feature. IMHO, this is why certain social networks exist for parts of what facebook offers but none quite encompass the entire breadth.

Just as an example, i have a facebook account with bogus info but i've had it for nearly fifteen years now. Over time, i've used it for chatting with friends, reconnecting with lost ones, buying and selling locally, finding events and even as a local rideshare.

No single platform can do all of this and despite the horrible things facebook does and enables, there is real value in their service.
Or long running sitcoms.
Once humans (and other animals) can be created without parents being involved, there will be many ethical issues.

At what point do they attain human rights? At conception? At "birth" from an artificial womb? What defines "human" in "human rights"? (Can they knock out a few genes and make a sentient creature that is capable of suffering but not human? We have sentient non-humans suffering in factory farms already.) How will we prevent people/corporations/governments/religions from just deciding to create a bunch of people? What does regulation look like in this inevitable future?
When the government institutions act like the mafia.
So pray tell, what do investors see in it? As a geek I see a hobby horse.
Three 19th-Century Shipwrecks Discovered in Lake Superior
I always liked this take on the "policeman, congressman" issue (back when that was the thing that people got upset about in newspaper columns):

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html

25 years old, and probably the most striking thing from this distance is the implicit assumption that all the readers would believe in racism, but not sexism.
For example: the rush to buy Nintendo stock following the success of Pokémon GO. Nintendo is only a 1/3 owner of Pokémon and none of the owners developed the game.
“Completely out of line with the culture” firefighter, for a moment, was an exclusively male job. Fireman made sense. As more women took on that job during the past 50-ish years, calling them “firemen” makes less and less sense. So to say it’s people out of step with culture isn’t quite right. It’s more like entrenched language in conflict with shifting culture.

A non-gendered example of this would be something like xerox vs photocopier. There was a time when all photocopiers were xeroxes, but now odds are very low that your xerox machine is a xerox branded photocopier. There are still a few people out there who haven’t bothered to update their language, but largely that shift happened over the past 30 years - and because it’s not very political it was largely a silent shift. “Firemen” is, unfortunately, wrapped up in people’s beliefs about what gender roles SHOULD be - so it’s not going so quietly
If you want to avoid Facebook the product, this will work. If you want to avoid Facebook the company (now Meta), this will not work because Facebook acquired them in 2012.
it will be interesting to see what facebook turns into if/when they get a new ceo who is business success focused, like tim cook and satya nadella, who are just corporate mercenaries trying to run the most efficient business possible, which is not what the founders of those businesses did. then there’s the question of, will zuckerburg ever even get fb now meta to that point or will he insist on maintaining control and using the company to fund his pet projects to the detriment of the bottom line? zuck spends his time, pie in the sky, while cook and nads eat sleep and breath spreadsheets! riveting!
Siphash is more like a crypto has right? According to smhasher its performance is somewhere between a non-crypto hash like xxHash or Meow and something like SHA-1.
A GoFundMe Campaign Is Not Health Insurance (2017)
The author seems to be deliberately conflating "free banking" with "no overdraft fees", which is extremely misleading.

I have had "free" banking for over 20 years, by going through credit unions instead of banks. Credit unions are identical to banks, with the exception that they are (usually? always?) non-profits and generally do not charge fees for having an account. There are limits on withdrawals, transfers, and fees for things like wire transfers that do not affect the average family. They also have some condition of membership but these days, living, working, or going to school within their service area suffice. Almost every area in the US has a credit union. There is no reason to open an account at a commercial bank. Every time I have opened a checking account (for temporary business purposes) at a bank instead of a credit union account, I have regretted it.

Now, overdraft protection fees. These are a completely separate topic that is applicable to both banks and credit unions. These are completely optional, by law. If you have a habit of regularly withdrawing more than you deposit, you can call up your bank/CU right now and tell them to take it off of your account. The tradeoff is that your checks will bounce. Either way, the solution is simple: Keep track of your balance and don't overdraw.

The author also thumbs his nose at paper checks, but most traditional small businesses in the US don't have much of a choice: checks are how money moves because they leave a paper trail. Which is important because the security of the whole US banking system is based on after-the-fact audits. This is a double-edged sword because while it allows (some kinds of) fraud, it's also easier to clean up. If someone steals Gradma's check book, most banks will bend over backwards to help her because they want to keep her as a customer. If someone steals Grandma's bitcoin wallet, she is just simply fucked and that's the end of that.

I agree that the ACH system is largely a dumpster fire, though.
My pup does the tilt, back and forth, pretty much 90% of the time if I talk to her in a sustained sing-song voice. She definitely understands a lot of words, and it definitely seems like she’s focusing to pick out meaningful words she does know from whatever other nonsense I might be saying.
Truly global variable is a baffling mystery. I studied one bigger program, where they maintained cross-module variables in most bizarre inherited structure of references. I guess that is how professionals do it. I did not understand any of it because I am not very bright or professional. Solution was to make

class globals
foo=1
doo=2
..

Now you can read and modify globals.foo anywhere.
Thanks for the feedback. We're looking to add that in a follow-up release.

In the meantime, if you really need it, have a look at this project: https://github.com/khmyznikov/ios-pwa-wrap

It's a iOS PWA template that uses push notifications via Firebase.
Funny enough, I've never gotten on with ergonomic mice/keyboards. Switching from Logitech to mechanical some years ago made wrist pain go away and it never came back.

I agree that many buttons (which appears to be mostly mice intended for MOBAs or MMORPGs) is not good. My current desktop mouse is a Corsair Glaive (https://www.corsair.com/us/en/glaive-rgb-gaming-mouse) which has a very normal button set.
The Facebook name was such a drag that employees referred to it as a ‘brand tax’
I have mixed feelings about Patagonia. I think corporations should have high standards and I share a lot of their outspoken values. At the same time however, they do have polyester in almost all clothes which risks ending up in the ocean as micro plastics when washing them. They also according to themselves still use DWR-treatment with fluorocarbons. It's sometimes like they think that publicly recognizing a problem is enough while there are other brands who's already banned all forms of fluorocarbons and don't use polyester or spandex in all their clothes still making less fuzz and bragging about their environmental efforts.
https://pasteboard.co/M7nigkQRAypP.jpg
This is an example of what I mean by "AI Hard". Yes, obviously, rolling updates is an improvement over non-rolling updates at scale.

However, you still have things like "this update severs the machine from the management system due to unexpected XYZ", "this update is fine until it's rolled out to 80% of the world, at which point interactions with the other deployed systems hammer the system so hard the management interface can't get in properly", "this update looked fine because it was using almost entirely cached data but once the caches all expired it turned out to be a disaster, now restoring is a nightmare because we had to roll back the version, empty the cache, and regenerate everything", and all the other edge cases that no matter what you do, will cause cascading failures at a huge scale.

No matter what rule set you write, something's going to get past it.

Or, to put it another way, if you aren't yet on the Pareto frontier between power and safety, sure, by all means go get your free safety and power. But you will hit a limit on the two before you have all the power and all the safety, and the limit you will hit is going to be uncomfortable in at least one direction.
are you certain that patagonia products have a markup and not their competitors with a mark-down due to using unfair labour and materials practices?
What's a computer?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zfR_Jj4grZE. [Apple 2017]
Only since Qt5 I started seeing some programs not sending raw X acceleration commands; that's way latter than "the early 2000s", and they can still be configured to render using X. With few glaring exceptions (browsers, games, etc.) most programs still issue X rendering commands, even if they don't use font stuff.

But the point is that it's still much faster to send vector drawing commands over the wire. Programs/toolkits no longer caring to do so is a problem which we paper over by finding efficient ways to compress bitmaps (like h264), but almost by definition you cannot ever surpass the benefits of vector graphics.
At the 20th century, science evolved in a way that now every scientific theory must be described computationally. (It's actually the most flexible way we ever had, so there's no loss there.)

So, yes, the entire exercise looks meaningless to me too. If we get a theory it will be computational. And that tells absolutely nothing.
How much does ethics even matter in this specific case? If they develop this technology and use it in a "maximally ethical" way, whatever that is, what is stopping the next person to get their hands on it from using it unethically? It seems to me that the ethics question was "Should we have this technology at all?" and not "What do we do with it?" and it's already been answered.
In most gaming spaces, I would rather not give people the amount of info associated with my Facebook account
I don't like the us foreign policies at all, nor the military forces and all the politicians everywhere collecting dust with their knees when the us is manhandling instead of using diplomatic channels.

However, I don't like wannabe anarchists like him never, ever taking responsibility.
He ran away from the Sweden case, whatever that was about.

And I don't like this "he was just propagating the messages that are sent to him". He was taking money(called donations) and the operation was large, WikiLeaks is not some one person garage operation.
This was internal government document leaking as a service, period.

Many Californian companies are generously using NDAs for much less critical info and leakers or thieves pay hefty consequences. Why wouldn't Assange?

In many places this would be classified as straight up espionage.
He provocated the us government and military, of course they were to go after him.

It's not right, it might not be legal, but it was bound to happen.
Anarchists don't believe in rulers ,rulers don't believe in anarchy and the rulers have the bigger guns, plain and simple.
if you want youtube to get rid of any salesmen touting miracles anything you're going to have to get rid of commercials as well.
Agree 100%.

Patagonia could (and used to) make their products in the US, sell them for the same prices, and still make a profit. They don't, and instead chose to outsource their manufacturing to countries where environmental regulations, even if they exist, are seldom enforced.

This is a canonical example of companies who embrace a veneer of social good piety, and under the surface are utterly hypocritical.

Most of the items in the brand are entirely, as you say, social status signals.
this experiment only reduces the uncertaintly that the building blocks are widely available. The big problem wiht this experiment is that it misestimated the nature of the early atmosphere and os they basically simulated another planet. We don't know if any other planets have life, so simulating another planet isn't useful to illuminate anything about life on earth.
"the article had already ended"

I had this very same experience.
I wish it supports ORC.
I'm not sure how this relates to my post. Most of the unvaccinated deaths are people with no vaccine whatsoever. The number of people who were vaccinated less than 14 days that falls into this category is small.
IIRC there’s also a similar lawsuit against Apple. Someone who had purchased quite a lot of content with their Apple ID had their account suspended. I don’t recall the details either but I do remember reading their complaint and thinking they had quite an interesting and creative angle to get around Apple’s TOS that purport to allow Apple to cancel your account at any time for any reason.

Edit: Thread discussing the Apple ID suit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26890055
CRC32 is actually very slow in modern CPUs. So if you can use an algorithm that is both (1) faster and (2) better quality, why not use that algo instead?
Show HN: Open-source, local-first video file browser like YouTube
Most civil forfeiture cases occur in "small government" states...

It's not the size of the government that matters, it's the level of control and oversight over said government that determines what they can do.