skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried to remain open minded for a long time on this issue, but honestly that list still looks really bad. At a glance, all the top companies seem to only be useful for coin trading/borrowing/lending/financialization.

Do you have any example of a use case with traction that serves a need not created by the existence of the cryptocurrency market itself?
> the first 3 paragraphs are 2 examples of why a 1:1 reconstruction of our world on demand can be an amazing thing

But they obviously weren't "a 1:1 reconstruction of our world": You can't all simultaneously be drinking beer and be drinking OJ in the real world, so all the scenarios were false.
There's nothing in the article that answers the question "What does meta.company do?"
It's a 50/50 country. We're not going to get results known on election day, if for no other reason than that true absentee ballots (not convenience mail-in ballots) are a thing, and many jurisdictions don't allow them to be counted until election day. Since no proposed policy change gets us the outcome you're looking for, it doesn't make sense to inconvenience (and, really, jeopardize) votes in the name of achieving that goal.
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Seems like the vulnerability is that hidden characters can be added to code, which will not show up in the web interfaces of the products affected (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, pretty much the whole Atlassian suite).

> A vulnerability has been identified affecting multiple Atlassian products where special characters, known as Unicode bidirectional override characters, are not rendered or displayed in the affected applications. These special characters are typically not displayed by the browser or code editors but can affect the meaning of the source code when it is processed by a compiler or an interpreter.

I guess you could potentially sneak in code without anyone noticing. You'd have to have commit access to exploit this, though, I suppose.
Read again:

> One more thing: Our new product launch just got delayed because of Facebook. We must deal with these matters. In the coming weeks, we will make an announcement earlier than we expected. We promise it will be good. Stay tuned.
Gold was also legal tender within living memory in many jurisdictions —- until 1971, you could freely exchange USD for gold and vice versa. In some ways holding gold as a hedge asset is a survival, though as with its intrinsic value, this doesn’t account for its current role in the market.
I wonder if there are others who see a war footing to "attack" China through the Taiwan proxy by reneging on the One China policy and the three communiques signed and talking of Taiwan joining the UN.

What potential is there for a war to break out and when?
Will it be localized or should those in the Bay area be concerned? Or is this just typical bluster?
Sadly not for full time, we do hire remote contractors
A 2D slippy map that shows sun and shadow around the world.

Today’s sunset around Puget Sound: https://shademap.app/#47.89056,-122.66785,7z,1635813675213t
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One of the many yaks! In this case taking memory mapped Vulkan buffers and unsafeing them to various Go arrays and whatnot. I have a gapbuffer implementation on top of this, and then a truly evil "gaptree" implementation that uses gapbuffers to represent a tree data structure.
Would it enable any new use cases?
Maybe your definition of "destroyed" is maintaining this misunderstanding. Their definition of "destroyed" is some paper saying that the destruction is being handled by a specialized company. That company can "outsource the destruction overseas" without being liable.
That means literally zero.
There’s already a mongodb compatible document layer for FoundationDB: https://github.com/FoundationDB/fdb-document-layer
I have. I also don't respect them.
When I was in business school in the 1980s, I had a small side business selling students the floppy diskettes they needed for the PCs in the new computer lab. (Very few owned their own computers although I did.) I don't remember the exact numbers, but I think the campus store sold them for about $10 each. I bought off-brand in bulk and sold them for at least a 50% discount (with free replacement guarantee) while still making something like a 3x markup.
Sino-American Relations: A Contest of Innovative Capabilities
A better phrase probably would be "we shouldn't label academic / grant fraud some effective time-honored methods"?
> So she continued to use it? That's insane.

Or she just lied to deflect blame for her clearly at-fault collision. I genuinely don't understand why this story is getting so much play here. It's like people read "Tesla" and completely lose their mind.

Literally thousands of these accidents occur every day. This is a routine a collision as one can imagine, and there is basically zero evidence for a system failure here at all. It's One Unreliable Anecdote. And it's generated 300+ comments and counting? Come on HN, do better.
after a few-month hiatus I've been getting back into playing around with Jonathan Blow's closed-beta compiler and enjoying it immensely, especially now that I've finally gotten around to delving into the metaprogramming stuff. I made a dead-simple entity system (not ECS) module [0], and while it's definitely not ready for production, it seems to already be exactly what I always wanted to make in C/C++ for my past projects, but never was able to (elegantly, at least). I am very pleased with this language even though it's still definitely a beta project (odd WIP syntax here and there, very occasional mysterious compiler bugs). considering maybe doing a writeup of my experience so far...

[0] https://github.com/rezich/Entity_Framework
This is just ridiculous. I hope this post gets removed because it is now going to get picked up by major news organization and it might even overshadow the real and current problems of Facebook.

This reminds me of this sketch: https://youtu.be/pvjgIxuVdo4
Fully generated and animated 3D news : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFuumb1Xcs

Unfortunately I just got hired so finding time to finish my project as always is proving to be difficult.

My one anxiety is how on earth to market it I have no idea how to do such things. After years on hobby projects I’ve yet to make a cup of coffee. It still needs a ton of work tho so I’ll just keep plugging away.
> I prefer countries with a better track record on human rights and freedoms than the CPC.

Because the United States track record on human rights and freedoms is so much superior?
all their social medias were only created recently, and I can't find anything on what they actually do... "Stole Our Name and Livelihood"???
Cost of obesity was $1.4T in 2014, covid costs in excess of $16T. Just googling. I can't comment on methodology, etc. Obesity is ongoing, pandemic will eventually subside, etc. Thoughts?
I'm interested to know how one should quickly pivot software written in 6502 assembly and physically distributed in retail stores.
Can someone please teach me how to pronounce this word?
What if you work for months/years on a product, waiting for it to be ready-ish before announcing it to the public, only for a corporation to steal your name a few weeks before launch?
They weren't trying to buy just the domain name, they were trying to buy the trademark. Their offer was refused, but they used it anyway. That's quite literally the definition of trademark infringement, made worse that they've implicated themselves by trying to buy it first -- which shows recognition of the validity of the trademark.
An independent study of the effects of Social Media (instagram, FB, TikTok, whatever) needs no insider information. We're studying the effect, not the company.

Hypothesis: Instagram causes teenage girls to have a lower opinion of their bodies than they would otherwise have without Instagram.

Study: Have 2 cohorts of teenage girls rate their appearance or happiness with their bodies. The two cohorts are separated by those who use Instagram and those who don't. Run independently, of course.

This study is incredibly flawed (like the original) b/c it is self-reported happiness (incredibly subjective, ephemeral, and prone to bias) and subject to the same issues as all qualitative research. The only way to get any semblance of reliable data is with a _large_ set in each cohort. Even then, the data raises more questions than answers it provides. But, you could say after this study whether 'it seems Instagram may be harmful.'

It is also flawed for other reasons but you get the point. You don't need insider info to study the effect of something.
See also online access being very expensive.

Compuserve, charging $11 per hour ($25 per hour in 2021 dollars), had "more than 250,000 subscribers".

The Source, charging $8 per hour, was popular for its conferencing system "parti".

Delphi, charging $6 per hour had a loyal but small (less than 10,000 users) following.

BIX, $9 per hour, grew from a magazine. Notable quote: "This is the computer industry as it used to be: people sharing ideas and solutions without the greed and grit with associated with today's corporate driven, litigation-laced, industry"

From the Whole Earth Catalogue "Signal - Communication tools for the Information Age" (http://www.wholeearth.com/issue-electronic-edition.php?iss=1...)
It is the DA's doing this. Its gotten so bad in SF you have Assistant DAs leaving and joining the recall effort
https://abc7news.com/chesa-boudin-recall-brooke-jenkins-san-...

In Chicago you have DAs letting shooters that are caught on video go due to "mutual combat".
https://abc7chicago.com/kim-foxx-lightfoot-mutual-combatants...

Its out of control and these DAs need to be removed.
Open Library API isn't meeting your needs?
First, can we agree on a set of premises --- for instance, that "ballot harvesting" is not an idiosyncrasy of the Democratic party? It's an article of faith among conservatives that the Democratic Party is the party of voter fraud, but that's empirically untrue.

When we agree on what the facts are, it should be straightforward for us to work out what good changes would be.
> Owning the name of a common adjective seems dubious to me.

Yes, but is legal. But IMHO shouldn't be, the less the more relevant (as in large) facebook is.

To some degree Facebook is committing forceful cultural appropriation of a common english word and it's usage
in common language and literature (especially SiFi literature).
I'm starting to see a lot more interest in shortwave radio and radio in general recently. Is it just me being out of the loop or is anyone else noticing this?
If they have a registered, accepted trademark (and it appears they do), they can reasonably argue that Facebook has damaged their ability to establish the brand's identity despite significant outlay for design, marketing, and advertising -- those are dollars already spent. "Livelihood" includes income, sure, but it can also be read to include lasting damage done to their brand by Facebook prematurely usurping their ability to control the mark.
> What exactly is the problem with ballot harvesting if they’re legitimate votes

It destroys the chain of custody. See section 5.2 of the Carter-Baker report, which recommended banning the practice: https://www.legislationline.org/download/id/1472/file/3b5079...

Also what does this have to do with Black people? Most older people in the country who supposedly would benefit from this are white—the median white person is a decade older than the median Black person.
Is there a "getting started" guide for flakes? I've been using NixOS for a few years and I'm kind of aware that flakes exist, but I'm not sure:

- What problem(s) they will solve for me

- How I should go about using them to solve the above problems.
I’m learning cooking as I’m going independent from family. I’m also working to form better exercise habits and have joined a book reading club before resuming my Masters in two months. It’s a fairly relaxing moment in time.
Are there other companies named Apple who complained about the name in the past?
They've been in stealth mode for at least three years now? They must have some very patient and deep-pocketed seed investors.
I recently created a product that has picked up some traction. The name of the tool is a character from a famous comic book. The characters name is trademarked. I'm from the UK. My tool is an analytics tool. Does this run the risk of me getting sued by the comic book company?
Good. Because it sounds like they needed a new livelihood.
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Another startup! Very excited for this one as everything aligned: feels like all of my previous adventures have led me to this point in time and space and that it's ours to lose.
The message said they're from Chicago and there's a META LLC registered to him in Illinois since September 2013. Not sure what they do, but at minimum it seems like they've been using the name for some time.
I was thinking the same thing. But Facebook still needs to make things right with this company since the small company has the rights to the name. Unfortunately, for the small company, they have to fight a big monster. And they will, ultimately, unless they find someone to fund the litigation, have to settle for an amount close to the original offer from Facebook. Big companies with lots of lawyers win most of the time. It's how things go. :-(
You can’t, so they didn’t, so software was expensive.
All of the social links they have are dead. Their twitter account doesn't exist. There are no other pages on the site.

Not a promising start to the proceedings.
creating jobs is not a positive argument in and of itself.
That’s awesome man I have no idea how you made that well done
This was posted elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29074478) and already established as a different company
There is a vaccine for salmonella. I might be wrong, but I believe it is mandated in other countries, but not in the US. Notably, California requires it for chickens that lay eggs, which means most eggs on the West Coast are vaccinated against salmonella.
Facebook must be shaking in their boots.
People who use anything but smaller self contained platform are in denial if they think all of their emails and IM's aren't already scanned and logged.

People with knowledge and resources can and should host their own email and IM servers, on their own hardware, on their own properties.

Want my emails or IMs? Get a warrant to enter my property physically and try to decrypt my disks.
Well it lost a war to shoeless illiterate cave folk. Wondering how it would fare against China, the second largest economy and a country with overwhelming manufacturing power. And nuke armed and a major supplier of goods for pretty much the while world. I am quite sure the would be taught a lesson it would never forget, sadly. And its quite upsetting the state the us has come to.

Of course the us could make allies with europe. But we’ve had enough fighting your ill managed wars.
If product is not released yet, then their expenses of changing the name are not as huge as they declare.
> We completed over the summer and even had to provide our marriage certificate to the bank (no idea why, are single people not allowed mortgages?).

Single people are allowed mortgages. Certain property ownership forms are only available to married couples, and anything recorded in that form incorrectly will revert to a different form with different consequences if the owners were not qualified; there are also different provisions that might affect other interests in the property that apply based on the presence of absence of a marital relationship among the owners.

So, a lienholder is going to want to be as certain as possible about the actual relation of the parties.
Obviously only God has.

(Well, he would if he existed.)
Not for five years they aren't! That chart ends in a few months. It's just reflecting CURRENT inflation rates. Again I ask, because everyone insists on cherry picking their way around this: Where is the source predicting a >7.12% inflation rate over the next five years? There is none. That's looney-tunes conspiracy nonsense.
Does the policy that requires them to ask permission to do something ever apply to volunteer work under any circumstances? Or is this something they only have to do when getting paid?
I disagree -- I think a lot of people are concerned with what their job is. Many people have a lot less agency, but software developers are in demand and can more easily change jobs than many other careers.

Would you have worked for an oil extraction company, like Shell or BP?

Would you have worked for the NSA? A defence contractor? The military itself?

There are plenty of technical roles in these sectors, with (at least in Britain, where I studied) a big presence at careers fairs, recruitment events etc. But I, like all my friends, ignored them all.

Someone else I knew joined GCHQ. He was keen to catch criminals, defend British interests etc. I wouldn't do it, but at least he had considered the morality of it and decided it aligned with his own.

Working on something without any care for how it's used, or what is being built... these people deserve criticism for their complacency, at least.
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Indeed. Without any upper management that possess souls or spines, Facebook has all it needs to fight really dirty.
> there's the point about how completely irrelevant it is as an analogy to what is in question

It's really not irrelevant. It makes as much sense to campaign against my obviously nonsensical allegation as it makes sense to campaign against some random lawyers obviously nonsensical allegation.
> It's like naming your company "big."

That's a pretty sweet brand name, to be honest.
It was easier to price software that high when people had invested so heavily in the computer already. When the computer was $3,000; another $300 for a BASIC compiler was easier to swallow (especially given there were few alternatives and none free).

I was involved in one company in the mid 80s that sold most of its units of a niche software package in combination with a full system, printer, etc. Most of our customers didn't have a computer or if they did wanted another as a dedicated tool to run our software... Which was essentially some spreadsheets and a friendly menu system.

$1,900 for the software or $4k to $8k for various hardware packages with it, as i recall.
> Since when did commercial flight or rail stop being a way to transport people?

I'm not sure why you are lumping those two modes of transport together. According to one estimate, "a passenger traveling in a private aircraft emits ... between 75 and 250 times the CO2 of a comparable high-speed rail journey."[0]

You're right, though, that private jets are an easy target for a carbon tax, and I don't know of any climate activists arguing that private jets should be exempt from one.

Perhaps the reason it is not high on people's lists of things to fix, though, is that "the aviation industry only contributes around 2% of global CO2 emissions, with private air travel representing an even smaller fraction." (according to the European Business Aviation Association).[0]

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/should-private-jets-be-banned-to-spare...
Here is their Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_(company)
Not exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License
How does it change anything? If I understand it correctly, they are a company with no existing product, and yet Facebook somehow stole their name and livelihood?

Stealing name implies that the company previously had some value attached to that name, such as recognition or a product. So far they have neither. I understand that it is unfortunate it happened to them, but given that the company doesn't even have a product launched yet, changing the name to something else shouldn't cause much trouble.

But on the bright side, at least now they have an excuse ready in case their company flops. And a lot of people who could sympathize with them too, because "facebook bad". Media loves this stuff, because it prints clicks and views like hotcakes.
> i.e. anything not traditional western European

Traditional Chinese housing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siheyuan#/media/File:Siheyuan_...

Traditional Japanese housing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiya-zukuri#/media/File:Shoi...

A style of traditional African housing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_Africa#/media/... (and many more are like it)

Slanted roofs are super common throughout the world and history.