skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be 'meta' rather than 'social' is an improvement.

Zuckerberg presents sometimes as suddenly widly ambitious, whilst so far maintaining the wide eyed - nobody knows who I'm supposed to be. God of personals sharing? Master of your wall of little notes?

This may prequel taking a more active stance in what Facebook means, and how it (supposedly) relates.
Yeah, you can absolutely buy much cheaper cases. I think this type of thing is to appeal to people who like to look fashionable. The same group that forks over a couple of extra hundred bucks per build on RGB accessories.
Custom objects in SalesForce. How to create and use
It's easy to get first hand experience: get a remote mouse and keyboard and then try to perform task on your laptop from 20 meters away.
Getting Started with Rust on a Raspberry Pi Pico
I've been in international air freight for over 15 years, I don't see things getting even remotely "back to normal" until 2023, if it doesn't continue to worsen before getting better.
> Scientific knowledge network powered by machine intelligence

> On October 28, 2021, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced the sunset of Meta, with a proposed shutdown date of March 31, 2022.

This really describes the overall mindset of humanity right now.

Discovery, learning, and advancement? Nah, f*** it. Let's build a VR dystopia.
The thing has been so deeply politicized that assuming things will end up as they should, Assange should fear for his life as a free man anyway; I'm sure he couldn't even think of visiting the US then fly away alive. After all that propaganda depicting him as enemy of the US, chances are that some thugs, whether because batshit crazy, or following orders, could attempt to kill him anyway. Possibly also at home in Australia.
The same applies to Edward Snowden: should he get the pardon one day, he'd still be a target for someone.

No matter how it ends, these guys have been already punished enough, and by forcing them to live in fear, some of that punishment will last forever.
Dbus is available on most systems now. I don't know what's the reason for the authors, but in practice with UNIX socket, you have issues like "which instance owns the socket", "how are the requests distributed", "how does an instance know the current handler died", "how to serialise and version the remote requests", etc. Dbus solves a lot of that without (effectively) designing your own custom underspecified version of half of dbus.
I would love if all games let you change the font and font size. I loved Fire Emblem: Three Houses, but god, I’m too nearsighted to deal with text that small.
Also helps with an immediate understanding of ballistics and escape velocity
I would like to reply in text, but i d rather call you, ruin your flow and bother you with insignificant details
I suspect that the "coastal historic town just outside the city" (or other pleasant location that is within a 1 to 2 hour drive of an urban metro office--which is often not actually in the city) is probably fairly sticky. Even if a lot of people in the US don't want to make the tradeoffs to live in an urban core, for all sorts of reasons they may want to live within striking distance of a US city as opposed to moving to some small mountain town much less a beach in Thailand.
This is universal. Eat where the truckers eat was passed on to me by my father in the US decades ago.
It should work. You're not including the brackets, are you?

I use it a lot for signing up for mailing lists actually so you can tell if a company has shared your email. If my address was example@example.com, I might sign up with example+zappos@example.com. It's always worked for me.
>Looks cool, but I'm pretty sure that as an end user I would not feel comfortable reprogramming the board management controller of a $5000 dollar piece of equipment.

I don't think the point is that they expect you to start tearing into the code, it's more so that you can feel comfortable that if you have any questions at all about the code running on it, you can rebuild from source and reflash to verify yourself.

I also may be underselling the ability of this to harm your system, but I'm not sure what you'd possibly do that wouldn't be reversible. Bricking the BMC itself means replacing the BMC (although if you can flash it I think it'd be difficult to COMPLETELY brick) - maybe a motherboard if they happen to fully integrate it but that doesn't look like the plan at this point looking at the size of the add-on board.
For me these kind of ridiculous projects from both Facebook and Google are the prime evidence that we ought to be taxing these companies more.

They're essentially circumventing market mechanisms (which would require a whole lot more people than just Zuckerberg to think that such a project was a good idea) and wasting a bunch of resources because they've been overcompensated for their other successful projects.
Ask HN: Is there a simple and minimal language like C but without its footguns?
I want to pick a new programming language that is simple and minimal like C but does not have the type of footguns C has (segmentation faults, double-free issues, etc.)

C++, Java, Rust are far from minimal. Go feels minimal but it too has a lot of features compared to C and it has a garbage collector too.

Here are some things I am looking for:

* Compiles down to machine code.

* Does not have the footguns of C.

* Simple like C.

* Implementations available for all major OSes, at least, Linux, Mac, Windows, *BSDs.

After extensive search I got the feeling that it is difficult to find such a language. If I am willing to let go "simple like C", then it provides a lot of options like Rust, Nim, and all. Just asking here to see if I missed something during my search.
> However, Zuckerberg said during the keynote that they were going to continue to sell hardware at or below cost in order to grow the space.

It's really a shame this isn't illegal.
I’ve witnessed the alternative and had to clean it off my shoe. Public bathrooms should be a right, if only for sanitary reasons.
Resources on Mitigating Harms from Social Media
Are you suggesting that a few hundreds millions certificate shall be re-issued, distributed either in person, or per email, or even per post for some countries? Sounds easy :-)
You can't afford a one time purchase of $1.99 for Wipr on your iPhone ?
> I can find a cholera outbreak, and tell whoever will listen to stop drinking water from the local wells ... Those who listen, even if only one, will be my proof.

Results with diseases have a fair amount of chance, as we should all know by now. It might go as you say, it might not. Your disciple might leave and get cholera soon after due to exposure beforehand. A person who stayed and didn't get cholera might attribute their success to the manner in which they prayed. Or your guy's success to the manner in which they prayed.

It's hard to falsify the assertion that "they were not stricken because they were righteous / said the correct prayer", and "statistical significance" is not a dramatic or obvious thing to convey.
any nutrition advice that makes sweeping statements about entire macronutrients (protein/fat/carbohydrates) should be ignored and is mostly used to sell fad diets. "Carbohydrates" could be HFCS or leafy greens. "Fats" could be shortening or avocado. The nutrition of the individual food is much more important than the macronutrients.
My guess is that average individual brain size and intelligence just isn't as important in collaborative society. Once you start sharing knowledge (orally at first, written later), you don't need everyone to figure everything out on their own.

There's a also a huge variation in human brain size. [1] suggests almost a factor 2. I don't know if variation was similar 70.000 years ago.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4262916/
There's a thread[1] over at Egosoft's forums about improving their X4 game for blind players.

I admit I was quite surprised to find blind people playing this game, given the primary activity is flying around in space ships... but it does have trade/build elements and you don't have to fly a ship.

Was very interesting to read about just how they achieved this, and the tweaks needed to make it viable.

[1]: https://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=146&t=440905
This topic has been occasionally raised in the Plover stenography Google group [1], I highly recommend browsing the threads there. I used to read this group, and I think there has been several proposals for e.g. orthographic steno systems.

Years ago I made a quarter-assed, dreamy effort to implement the Gregg [2] shorthand system in my language (Estonian) -- I worked as a journalist back then, so it was supposed to serve a professional need -- but unfortunately this enthusiasm faded quickly.

I remember how inspired I felt after reading a particular article about Gregg [3] for the first time, though.

1: https://groups.google.com/g/ploversteno

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_shorthand

3: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/yeah-...
Facebook Is Now Meta. and It Wants to Monetize Your Whole Existence
Another approach would be to integrate Firefox-specific D-Bus proxying inside of waypipe.

Have waypipe listen to where Firefox normally does, if one is spawned on the remote host.

I can imagine this being useful for more things, like portals going forward: one could imagine forwarding sound, video (both trough pipewire, negociated over D-Bus) and files this way.
There’s also out of sight, out of mind pressure.
German investigators identify REvil ransomware gang core member
>The impact on truckers is a side effect... At the core, he's saying that the problem is a lack of unloading capacity.

Right now that isn't even the real issue. The real issue is there simply aren't enough chassis to put containers on. Nott by a long shot, and many of the ones that are being used are barely usable.

The supply chain is currently impacted for umpteen reasons: lack of chassis, lack of drivers, a mass exodus of people out of the industry (customs clearance, handlers, drivers, dock workers, sort managers, maintenance, etc), weather, ongoing covid shutdowns at some facilities both foreign and domestic, etc.

It's nuts.

What's crazier is, after 15 years at my job, I make $4 more an hour than fast food is currently hiring at in my city... and I'm on like week 27 or 28 of 60-70 hour weeks with no end in sight. I haven't had a cost of living increase since 2008, TWO THOUSAND EIGHT.

sigh
Don’t forget to bring a clipboard.
Thanks a lot for looking that up for the rest of us!
Facebook could just as easily change the policy again. Meh
Aside from what others say, there is a trend to 'cloudify' even things like bench work in biology. Companies that allow people to run remote experiments. This will probably change the way university labs teach things
> I think remote first is more efficient for companies because they have a wider pool of candidates to select from.

Its efficient for high paying companies in high COL areas. It is going to suck if you're trying to get a developer in a small town and never had to pay much before.
"Drug addiction" is not a singular problem with a singular solution. Every drug has unique effects, even between different people (two people take the same drug and don't have the same result). It does not serve public health to shoehorn everything into a square hole.
The Polarization Spiral
UX Flaws Causing Users to Remove Your EV Charging App
What’s extreme about them? Does being outside the American Overton Window automatically make one an extremist?
I have to say the biggest challenge I had was hiking in wales in Snowdonia and trying to inquire about town and village names. I ended up writing them down to show because I butchered the names no matter how much I tried.
Since the law and surrounding professions havn't been really constructive in being beneficial in providing a better internet and I am very critical of fact checkers, I had low expectations of this article. But the suggestions are far better compared to what we heard before. I don't agree with everything, but this is a more constructive approach.

Not that I think browser TLS warnings are good, since they are heavily paternalizing, Edge being the worst with special options to even have the ability to ignore TLS errors. I can see the need in a corporate environment however that there is policy control to really enforce TLS.

Still, an error remains that people rely on politics to fix hate on the internet. "Hate" - as if this emotion isn't prevalent between two very split groups of people. What do you do to love the others a bit more? What good can liberals say about conservatives and vice versa? Not possible? That problem isn't fixed by big tech speech control.
It will survive. Years ago I would never have imagined walking into a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (American chain restaurant with a shop that sells novelties) and finding vinyl records and even record players. The selection includes stuff from thirty years ago and brand new stuff, like Disney soundtracks-these are interesting because they do color art on the front of the vinyl itself and sell it in a clear plastic sleeve.

Nostalgia and the yearning for physical objects are powerful things. Pair that up with the Internet and its ability to unite far-flung niche communities and yeah, I have no doubt at all that stamp collecting survives.
I am completely in agreement with this comment.
> The end goal for Meta is that it is no longer a service you use, but instead, the infrastructure upon which you live.

(...)

> Like water to fish, Meta wants to become the imperceptible medium that permeates our entire existence. It will no longer be a choice you make but rather the space within which choices are made available to you. In other words, it’s not the company sponsoring the event, it’s the stadium in which it’s held. The idea is that Meta will be a holding company in charge of a thriving ecosystem of interconnected products and services, all seamlessly integrated into a hybrid world able to effortlessly extract profit at every point in the system.
If Teflon impeded the reaction but borosilicate did not help it, then the two Teflon flasks would have had identical results. They didn’t have identical results, therefore logically one can conclude that borosilicate has a beneficial effect.

Yes, it would take more experiments to further explore the role of the vessel material.

This is how science works in general; someone gets an idea and runs a limited experiment and gets results. Then other people, seeing the results and understanding the limitations, get their own ideas and test those.

What I’m trying to say is that you’re not wrong to say there is more to test here. But, it’s not a fatal flaw to this experiment. All experiments have limits to what they can prove.
> Possibly also at home in Australia.

Considering how much the government of Australia washed their hands of him, I don't expect Assange will ever call it "home" again (if he ever did).
Absolutely agree, now traveling outside of Europe is as easy as between European regions, this is so much more consistent!
But for example, if your content got Likes, upvotes, retweets does it actually work to retain you longer as a user? I have certainly fallen for viral content as a producer and as a consumer. But I try to pay attention to the actual purpose of the content than this extra data associated with it. Do you get more satisfaction from the content or its reception?
Hence the joke book I heard of as a kid: "101 ways to wok your dog". Tock and talk are pronounced the same, as is wok (the cooking instrument) and walk.
> what to put on the x-axis

Perhaps 1/frequency.
> Because one of them requires ability of device owner to delete any pre-existing platform keys and load their own set.

On x86 based systems.

My understanding is that Arm systems require the opposite.
I wish it was harder for these megacorps to just buy every single rising competitor as soon as possible. Because honestly I doubt they would be able to survive or be as successful without that whole routine.

The market can't self regulate if only very few megacorps have an iron grip on it and can stamp out any threat immediately.
Sad that it takes a pandemic to do the obvious
I've threatened off and on for years to get out of software work and go drive trucks. I love to drive and go places and I enjoy handling large vehicles.

I understand the realities of time management and that driving has it's own set of work and life challenges. But I'm still tempted.
Simulation School – Computational Economics
The new URLPattern API seems very nice for things like lambda functions.
Introductory guide to various topics in computational economics by Saku Panditharatne, in the browser-based HASH simulation platform (disclaimer: I'm one of the founders of HASH)
> Thank you making an assessment of my character knowing virtually nothing about me.

The pot calling the kettle black it would seem.

> This is not an emotional support forum.

We are all humans here, and humans have emotions. And we bring those emotions to everything we do. To deny this is extremely naive.

There is nothing to be gained from being disrespectful or cruel to each other. Quite the opposite in fact.
Makes perfect sense - stop using X11 because XWayland needs to be fixed.
For me personally, the OpenBSD movement was a real eyeopener at the time. So I can not agree more about the glossing and skipping.

Unfortunate since there is soo much drama and progress missed.

Does not help that the "part 1" is missing from the link either.
Confront them with their own beliefs? You mean invalidate their policy preferences by just ascribing them to racism?
I am curious about this too. On OpenBSD I set

export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="no"

to avoid Firefox from starting dbus, which is a Linuxism ported to BSD just to allow people to execute some applications. That works fine for me.

So since this is removed and Firefox is the only app that I use which needs dbus, I wonder if I will be required to use yet another useless (ie: not needed by OpenBSD) process just to use Firefox.
...A 'hack' the system was designed around, sure.

Why do you think it has the odd server-client architecture in the first place?
Deciding that symbolic expressions are equal is in fact undecidable for even relatively simple sets of symbolic expressions: this is Richardson's theorem.

So this is an example of carefully constrained conditions where equality between all total functions on an infinite set is decidable.
I was enjoying this article until it effectively abused the audience to push censorship.
Make stuff closer to where it's used again.
I wouldn’t think the difference in distance between the two nostrils would make it possible to differentiate smells spatially. You need some amount of separation between the inputs for a “3D view”. And both sides of the nose are ultimately connected into one nasal passage. I’m not sure where all of a dogs olfactory receptors are, but that wouldn’t help much either.

Moving the head around (from side to side) would make more sense to establish the direction of a scent. Then the strength could tell the dog the appropriate distance a smell is away too.

But if the head tilt was about trying to get a better perception of the world from a smell point of view, they wouldn’t be so consistent in their head tilts. The article said that dogs tend to tilt their heads in only one direction (left or right). And that the direction was always consistent for that individual dog. If they were trying to map out smells in 3D space, they’d move their heads around in more varied patterns.

That said, I do think your larger point of not assuming dogs (or any animals) have the same perception of the world as we do is correct. For example, we would identify a toy based almost entirely on how it looks. But a dog would definitely also take into account how it smelled. The same theory of "concentration" to explain the head tilt would be valid, regardless of what the dog is trying to remember -- look or smell.
Or maybe they to it because we think it is cute. The dog's evolution is totally tied to their interactions with humans. The head tilt is a form of communication, them telling us that they are doing a particular behavior. Those that head tilt would better communicate with people, resulting in better treatment, more breading opportunities and an evolutionary pressure towards more head tilting.

These are border collies, a working dog designed to interact with a human handler. Take a look at something like a cane corso or great pyrenees. They don't head tilt nearly as much because such close communication is not what we have, through breeding, designed them to do.
Maybe check nearlyfreespeech.net? They're relatively cheap, have happily taken a couple of pretty large traffic spikes on stuff I've done in the past and have an API to create new sites.

Edit: link - https://members.nearlyfreespeech.net/wiki/API/API
They keep him away because this way they keep him silenced as well. If he were free he would be a strong voice against the powers that be.
I don't think the risk is that high. It's a surprisingly high threshold to plan and kill another person if you aren't already used to it.

There is more than sufficient reason for madmen to kill every world leader, yet this happens extremely rarely.
more context on the title:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29034029

Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand (techcrunch.com)

202 points by Factorium 11 hours ago
One of the teams I'm on is mostly split between US East Coast and Europe and we generally have calls ~9-11am ET which is reasonable for everyone and don't generally expect anyone to be available outside of "normal working hours." That ~6 hour delta is probably about the largest that can easily be handled without someone being up early or working late though.
I'm new to steno. This article in their wiki is great: https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Stenography-...

It's essentially a chord-based, dictionary-based, short-hand typing. You write by looking up entries in a custom dictionary (a dictionary of syllables for example) by pressing combinations of keys. The stenographer's keyboard has few keys, compared to a QWERTY. You can define your dictionary however you like.

This must be extremely good for languages whose phonetics can be directly translated to its ortographics (without semantic or grammatical parsing), because then the dictionary is small and easy to remember. English is not optimal in that sense: e.g. the words 'flower' and 'flour' are phonetically identical. Edit: but then, ML transcription would work great for those languages for the same reason.

You could supplement with ML or some crafty NLP to effectively simplify dictionaries. Autocomplete/autocorrect in other words. Really cool domain.
or maybe they’re just good at their jobs
This explains why it may not be a sound argument, not a demonstration of its invalidity. The distinction matters, because while invalid hypotheses can be summarily rejected, valid ones might turn out to be right.

Of course, if some people don't understand that this one is not an established fact, and that annoys you, I can't say you are wrong.
I did read your comment and the table and that’s why I commented. There’s questions but no answers.

I wasn’t referring to you as being boneheaded and don’t want you to think that you’re targeted. I’m commenting on the paper and other discussion on the topic that seem to be cherry picking parts of data without questioning or digging into. Then I explained why as I think basic questions are missed and non-significant findings are presented as if they are significant.