skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on container port statistics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_container_port...) LA and Long Beach are not very big compared to Rotterdam and Antwerp. And Hamburg is roughly in the middle between LA and Long Beach in size.

LA and Long Beach don't seem big enough to cause a global problem.
> Only founder led companies and family owned businesses can stand up to the immense pressure from the dogmas of modern finance.

How about worker-owned companies, co-operatives, and collectives? I totally agree the problem is that with the finance people steering the ship there's incentives to push up your short-term performance and collect bonuses and watch your publically-traded stock value go up. So don't go public; use the value an organization creates to pay the people in it, and invest in making it better for those people and the people you serve. The people who have say in the decisions are the ones who are most interested in having the organization continue to be healthy and a good place to work.

There are other ways. We don't even need to imagine them, they've already happened. We just need to resist the siren song of the lottery ticket and instead try to create systems and organizations that we want to be a part of.
How different were the reactions to Alphabet, which on the surface was the exact same move?
It's not that simple. It's very hard to avoid Facebook. For example I literally can't delete it from my phone.
I sincerely hope this does not work and they continue to carry the stigma they've rightfully earned.
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I agree but relax with the antichrist stuff, we don't want the justifiable hatred of him to turn into antisemitism like it already is in the conspiracy circles
A brief retrospective of iron lungs and the technical difficulties faced by people who still prefer them is among the least sensationalist pieces of writing I can imagine. Where you normally get news that's so sedate by this standard?
So, allowing for the limit on an individual's property ownership rights within a community to scale alongside their residence in that community?

I think that makes sense and inherently circumvents the potential for abuse via inheritance as the individual who would potentially inherit the property could just be subject to the exact same limitations based on residence.
Ivermectin has been tested and proven time and time again to be a safe and effective treatment for early covid, yet it's constantly attacked and suppressed by the non-alternative crowd, seemingly for political purposes.
Sure, and how many more weeks would they have remained ready to surrender, but never had done it? We don't know. We know they were beat in all but the surrender, but we also know countries through out history have fought on long after their loss was obvious. Japan has some "interesting" internal politics going on, even if they had formally surrendered it isn't clear if the military would stop fighting (Army and Navy needs to be considered separately).
It's completely fair. There's always a cause of death, and averages aren't indicative of individual cases. If an old person gets shot by a gun tomorrow, we don't chalk that up as "well, they had their time."
Google should probably be Alphabet, though?

Microsoft
Apple
Meta
Amazon
Alphabet
> it can also be hard to remember longer IPv6 addresses

mDNS helps since you can use hostname.local without having to set up a DNS server. I was going to make a joke blog post about using ipv4 addresses as hostnames so you can "keep using ipv4" while actually using ipv6, but I found you can't have "." in hostnames, so maybe instead use "-".
Hopefully this is a public announcement that Mark Zuckerbarf has indeed lost his mind.
You are assuming that in the given scenario that companies will be allowed to rent houses rather than offering them for any agreement more complicated than outright sale.
>...now, instead of copying off stackoverflow, it's gonna be off copilot.

Eventually, I'm seeing another breed of SO questions, making sense of Copilot suggested fragments and seeking reassurance or alternatives... Then possibly the copying off, just as now.
>>by arguing against Safe Harbor you want to make Facebook legally responsible for stolen cat pictures

I totally agree that we shouldn't hold them responsible for stolen cat pics posted, and I'd argue that 1) FB can and TBF, probably are, taking measures, and 2) for the copyright issue, I would argue that they should have the same safe harbor as anyone else - if FB receives a takedown notice and responds promptly (as defined however in the safe harbor regs), they are fine. The users would see a 'Sorry, this image/audio/link/whatever removed due to copyright issues." message. I see no reason this would work any differently regardless of the FB amplification algo - only more people would see the disappointing message when it got yanked after notification.

>>They have every reason and incentive to prosecute those who have posted on Facebook for Riot Act violations; this doesn't seem to have happened; why?

You'd have to ask them directly; I've no access to their thoughts. Maybe they are already. Maybe they are discussing it. Maybe it takes a long time because it would be a difficult case to build against a new technological structure and they're already working the problem. I could see similar opportunities to use RICO statutes, but IANAL, and don't know how to solve that problem in detail. Maybe FB donates to every prosecutor in the country. Maybe the prosecutors don't see the opportunity we described, or think this would be breaking too much new legal ground and want the legislature to give more clear go-ahead first. <-- That is what I think is needed by making curation teams and algos responsible in (roughly) the same way that editors are responsible.
Will we start talking about MAANG now?
Where are the bottlenecks? I see that things are in low supply and sold out, but when I look at specific things (say cpus or complete computers) I see increasing and record numbers of units delivered.

Runaway inflation looks like a supply problem at first, as shelves are emptied by the huge amount of money in the economy chasing the goods available. The price increases are a supply side response to demand being higher than can be supply can keep up with.

Please feel free to downvote this and insist that inflation is a myth as is usual on HN.
Ah, it makes sense in that case.

I have a decade old Sony Bravia that we got because it supported DVB-T (terrestrial digital television; now no longer in use because of a switch to DVB-T2) without the need for a set-top box. It has an Ethernet jack, but other than some experimentation after we got it I never connected it. I can't imagine ever trying to update its firmware at this point; no reward and plenty of risk. After DVB-T went we just stopped watching broadcast television, and this early 'smart' TV only gets turned on sitting on the HDMI input it gets from a receiver hooked up to loudspeakers and an HTPC with Netflix in a browser and other media. Of all its features the on/off button on the side is the only thing interacted with now. I've stopped repairing the remote years ago.

I fully expect it to just die one of these days, and it will probably be the last smart TV we'll ever own.
In duplicate, these aren’t really factors. Once the hand is complete, the bidding and cards are known, and the limited nature of the problem means the requirement to have had information is more apparent than in other types of games.

There are also many bridge players who essentially play at the current human maximum, and are easily classified as winners, and they have spoken about the cheating.

Played card tracking in intermediate play might fit into the pattern you describe, though. At higher levels a misplay shouldn’t be happening often enough to be worth using this kind of software.

I’m aware of the social dynamics you describe in online gaming, generally.
Sorry to pass for a semantic Luddite, but "social", "technology" and "company" all in one title, is something I'm not thrilled to read.
Can't wait to talk to all you guys in VR
question about your support levels. for a solo basic account, do you really not offer a your-business-hours chat support function?
There's plenty of products made with plastic that holds up well, even in the most harsh environments.

They decided to make the OP-Z out of plastic and it didn't hold up well. It's the fault of their poor design, or at least the type of plastic they decided to use, not the materials.
Wow. That works like really poor technical leadership. Fixing flaky tests (as opposed to deleting them) is indeed time consuming, but it is a far cheaper choice than getting to the point your test suite is untrustworthy.

There may be a point where the cost of ownership for a specific test exceeds its utility, but the way to resolve that is usually to reevaluate your code and supporting tests. Suppressing flaky tests seems a very unwise choice.

Perhaps under extreme circumstances and with unhealthy code bases there may be a case for this, but I struggle to imagine it.
The related Wikipedia article is nicely organized:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_endurance_record
Wouldn't UBI reduce the need for everyone to live in the same place though?
Correct. The Fed is holding huge amounts of assets artificially boosting stocks and both corporate and govt. investment, creating a housing bubble and wealth inequality as a tradeoff to keep unemployment low. Combined with the government 'stimulus.' School districts and municipalities with millions to spend for several years into the future.

Why would we expect there to be a perfect equilibrium immediately?
5 years isn’t that much difference and you still share some cultural overlap. I’ve dated people who are closer to 15 years younger and it was hard to have more than a physical relationship because our personalities were formed in such different contexts.
> NFT is useless for implementing IP without some other legal enforcement.

From a real-world legal perspective, you're totally right.

But as a means of acquiring an object in one virtual environment and maintaining access to it in others, it seems like a pretty good mechanism.
Is my vote not the say? If I am a christian and I don't want my money going towards abortion, then I'm going to vote for candidates who support that. That anyone should argue that I should not have that say is frankly scary.

And yes, because it's money from my pocket (as I explained), if someone asked me directly, I would have opinions on how it ought to be spent.
We'll be there soon. You still need a prescription in Oregon until Jan 1, 2022.
The video announcement is extremely wild to me. It is essentially just Zuckerberg talking to you directly for an hour and twenty minutes, with occasional interviews with others. It's like a full-length feature film in both length and production quality, with an emotionless main character and dystopian plot.
I think it's even worse... does anyone outside of Facebook and the press take their Metaverse demos seriously?

Everyone I know and work with universally thinks they're a joke. They've spent how much money on this janky uncanny nonsense? You'd think they'd at least stumble into one redeeming quality, but it escapes them.
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BSD and Linux do.
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To be even more fair, there's absolutely no reason to think these types of events are independent; there's good reason to believe they're positively correlated. This means once one happens the chances of it happening again soon are greater than before it happened. (But if you're lucky and it doesn't happen again the chances decrease further, giving you an average of 100 years between them again.)
Reminds me of MySpace renaming itself to My_____.
> You can create an enumeration over all Turing machines

Do you mean "all Turing machines that only accept the 'problem'"?

Because if you literally enumerate over all Turing machines, including trivial ones like those that ignores the input and just acceps/halt no matter what, then it doesn't help you solve the problem at all...

And then the question becomes whether you can enumerate over all Turing machine that accepts only languages of the 'problem'... (or whatever they call it in the standard terminology). I have a feeling this one might not be "computable" regardless of the "input size".

PS: I'm not quite thinking straight now so apologies if I missed something obvious..
In wealthy countries like the US it might be harder to get that new XBox you wanted. In the rest of the world there's hundreds of millions of people who are starving to death.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pandemic-could-mean-260-mi...
opening titles and music

q: what caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?

a: the pandemic.

cue outro

next week:

opening titles and music

q: should we have done anything differently?

a: probably not. that would be really expensive and pandemics are pretty rare.

cue outro
Related: "Facebook's metaverse spending will top $10 billion this year"

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/facebook-metaverse-10-bil...
oh my god monsters inc was an allegory for social media, profit via harvesting fear, laughter, empathy and anger
> If they're passionate about helping the company wherever necessary, that's one thing.

Why would anyone be passionate about any specific corporation? Sounds like a great way to be exploited. People are passionate about enjoyable activities such as programming, not companies. They help companies with their problems because they get paid for it.
Launch costs are not the only (maybe not even the most) important factor for reliability. If your probe takes 9 years to reach it's destination and then fails to deploy it's not the launch costs that are the problem. Or if you want to land an unmanned cargo ship near your lunar or mars base reliability is defiantly a concern. Cheap launch costs are definitely in important step to colonizing the system we are simply pointing out it's one of many things we need before we can usefully launch millions of tons around the universe.
I definitely know how hard it is, I have 10 years of experience and I'm now staff eng and team lead at a 50B+ MC company.

I had my own startup, and built many projects first-hand, but I'm not going to de-anonymize myself for the sake of argument.

In my opinion, it should always be hard. OP had a good launch and delivered, which is something that's incredible and that only < 1% of devs do, especially by themselves. The design is terrible, but the idea and execution was great.

I also love the fact that he did this out of wanting to prove that he could do the work, and not taking the L from the rejection.
I've considered it but haven't had much luck.

For a period of time in the past I ran a small porn production shop wherein I would hire and then get recent test results from models. But TTS, the industry standard, doesn't test for hsv or hpv so I gave up while I was ahead.
When developing ideas, tootstorms offer some advantages.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28970983
This is communication 101. If you start internalizing that form of storytelling, you'll see it everywhere - literally all of our public discourse has this structure, from the Build Back Better plan to "Immigrants are taking our jobs" to "Flatten the curve" to the right-wing school-board stuff to fluff pieces on local restaurants to top-ranked HN comments. It's so prevalent because it works - it taps into fundamental cognitive & emotional biases that humans hold, so the ideas that spread are the ones expressed in that form.

If you want to be rational about this, judge the plan (and this one too) on its own merits rather than on the fact you're being manipulated. You're being manipulated - you are always being manipulated, every time someone communicates with you, and you can't escape that. It's good to understand how, but then your job is to tease out the rhetoric and understand the underlying proposal enough to judge it on its own merits.
When the marketing outpaces the product call me skeptical.

So the metaverse. Instead of websites (or social media accounts) interacting using links, we'll live in some AR reality and interact some other way?

Sounds hand-wavy. Sound a mix between a bored tech billionaire searching for a new venture and a distraction from awful business practices.

I don't think Facebook even have a good reputation for innovation. So now Zuck's throwing ideas out to a swarm of marketers, while facebook prints money in the basement with continually dodgy business practices.
The behavior is defined, but by the compiler documentation, not the language standard. Different documents can define different things.
Wrong again, a psychologist would not make that mistake. They know what those words mean; you just googled them. Luckily you didn't even try explain away dysthymia from your armchair because, well, you have nothing to stand on.

> Many psychiatrists, by virtue of their education, are part of a class of people who are themselves more prone to depression and anxiety

Yikes, now we're just on to blind speculation.
Can we finally remove Netflix which doesn't fit in here? We can always replace it with Microsoft.
Although I do feel the same I think given the world we are in today, I wouldn't necessarily bet big on its failure. That would probably make too much sense.
> They've got almost zero credibility with anyone under 30

I'm not a fan of facebook either but this is simply not true.

< 30 is the _largest_ proportion of facebook users

https://www.statista.com/statistics/376128/facebook-global-u...

Even putting Facebook aside Oculus is dominating the VR space due to cheap hardware, which I would bet is a ton of < 30 people.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265018/proportion-of-dir...

My point here is consumers don't _actually_ care about company morals, despite the prevailing narrative.
Of course fraud is a problem. But 11% fraud isn't a reason to scrub the program altogether, either.
Catholics are called to provide charity even to non-christians, so there is no fundamental reason to only provide for our own community.

However, welfare and taxation is not charity and you do not grow in virtue through taxation. Welfare is meant to keep a good society. As catholics we have responsibility to vote (if we live in a democracy) for policies that form a just society (this is the original meaning of social justice before it was co-oped by the woke). There is no fundamental conflict between providing for non-christians here, as they too may fall on hard times.

Sorry... were you trying to get at something here?
Also, POSIX is basically irrelevant now. There are only two Unixen that anyone uses: RMS/Linux and whatever outdated garbage userspace Apple is shipping with macOS.
Yes, but it is not an aspirin. Before trying medication try therapy with a psychologist.
Also super common in northern Wisconsin
The only person with Oculus is Mark Zuckerber as he owns Facebook that owns Oculus. Maybe you mean Quest or Rift? I personally don't know anybody who owns an iPad.
>When CEOs spend their money in frivolous ways, they generally have enough to not need to fall back on additional public assistance

The wealthy receive the lion's share of the wealth created by public subsidies, whihc they then spend as they please.

1. Marillyn Hewson was paid $30mn as a retirement package last year, and 75%+ of her company's revenue comes from the US government.

2. Hugh Grant of Monsanto was paid $20mn and a significant share of his company's revenue is driven by the US's $20bn farm subsidy.

3. Peter Thiel has saved c.$1bn in taxes by using the Roth IRA structure.

I'm not trying to judge the morality of the above, but to act as though the wealthy don't receive government support tht they spend exactly as they please is a short-sighted position.
Of course, you're assuming that a quality life is measured by the amount of worldly pleasures experienced.
They were great acquisitions because Facebook failed to compete in those markets. Facebook continues to fail to compete in the youth market. I don't think failing to innovate and then buying your way out of the hole is a sign of particular acumen.

And they're still failing to innovate. Facebook now will be "retooling" toward "serving young adults the north star, rather than optimizing for older people." https://twitter.com/sarafischer/status/1452744573084708869

In practice what this means is that they have the same problem they did before, but antitrust scrutiny means they can't buy their way out of it this time.
How does one know if a student will succeed in college? Past performance is no guarantee for future success or failure. I know ample examples where students were really bad academically until grade 12, and then flourished in the college/university environment and vice versa.

Until students try, they will not know. One way out of this is to give students an escape hatch so that they can easily switch from college to trade school if they so desire without impacting their academics.
Curious. Do you have any references where we could explore this mystery further?
Counterpoint: the HTC First (aka the Facebook Phone) was >$1 USD less than a month after it debuted, and still was a gigantic flop. Facebook Portal has sold ~1 million units. Oculus has sold ~8 million units or so (all numbers based on quick googling, might be wrong). So people reject Facebook hardware all the time, and they don't actually have that much in the way of hits in the HW space.
It rotates in the third dimension.
> Let me know if you ever want to catch up to chat consensus and storage.

Likewise!

> working through figure 4 carefully is key to understanding the paper's contribution here, especially (c)(i) which is a simple scenario that can lead to indefinite unavailability of the cluster

Unless I am badly misreading figure 4, example (c)(i) seems impossible to encounter - with a correct implementation of Paxos, at least. For a record to be appended to the distributed log, it must have first been proposed to a majority of participants. So the log record must be recoverable from these other replicas by performing normal Paxos recovery, or may be invalidated if no other quorum has witnessed it. By fail-stopping in this situation, a quorum of the remaining replicas will either agree a different log record to append if it had not reached a quorum, or restore the uncommitted entry if it had. (c)(ii) seems similar to me.

All of (b) and (d) seem to exceed the failure tolerance of the cluster if you count corruption failures as fail-stop, and (a) is not a problem for protocols that verify their data with a quorum before answering, or for those that ensure a faulty process cannot be the leader.

> Discarding entries due to such conflation introduces the possibility of a global data loss (as shown earlier in Figure 2)."

Again, Figure 2 does not list data loss as a possibility for either Crash (fail-stop) or Reconfigure approaches.

> We actually found some interesting cases where PAR was able to help us maximize the durability of data we had already replicated

This is interesting. I’m not entirely clear what the distinction is that’s offered by PAR here, as I think all distributed consensus protocols must separate uncommitted, maybe-committed and definitely-committed records for correctness. At least in Cassandra these three states are expressly separated into promise, proposal and commit registers.

Either way, I and colleagues will be developing the first real-world leaderless transaction system for Cassandra over the coming year, and you’ve convinced me to expand Cassandra’s deterministic cluster simulations to include a variety of disk faults, as this isn’t a particularly large amount of work and I’m sure there will anyway be some unexpected surprises in old and new code.