skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And I feel it's fair for someone like you on HN to accept fair criticism of their comments.

I'm happy to accept the criticism, and I acknowledge that people replying to me are mostly correct on the facts.

However, I think it would be a terrible shame to give into this feedback and refrain from using such literary devices out of fear that I might offend someone who doesn't understand the language.

What really bothers is that nobody would ever tell me this stuff if I had written the comment in some other language. Are we supposed to let the English language rot simply because many people are learning it as a second language?

>Except for the fact that it's a serious accusation that one does not make lightly, and so it's fair to assume no one would simply drop that in civil conversation.

You make my point, it's obvious that no one would simply drop that in civil conversation so there must be a deeper meaning to it (as was immediately acknowledged in the very same comment!)
Just finished the first version of the custom build system for my operating system project. For once, I'm really happy with the design and its flexibility whilst also being quite simple to understand and use.

Next will be applying it to the kernel repository and a few other utilities. This side project is the only thing that brings me joy recently.
I work on a team that builds space mission design software: https://ai-solutions.com/freeflyer-astrodynamic-software/

There's a lot of fun problems involved related to computational geometry, 3D rendering, numerical methods, parser/compiler design, and astrodynamics ("space math").
I've been on a "sabbatical" / gap year for about 5 months now (after ~9 years as a technical writer). I initially planned to take a year off but I'll probably wrap it up when I'm around the 9-month mark. I spent a few months in Brazil, did a lot of reading, got a "social network for book readers" idea to MVP, and just generally recharged my life batteries. You can read the week-by-week updates here: https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical
For even more bang, rebuild LLVM with your custom allocator, profile guidance, and link-time optimization. If you're planning to invoke the compiler a million times, you might as well get it peak optimized.
That's exactly what I meant by parking. Isn't that what it means? Maybe I should have said this letter is the entire company so far.
Adobe is up there too, $1k per seat per year for a business license of Creative Cloud.
The question is really: does your expectation match reality, or were you just uninformed of there being existing issues on ABS systems? Or more generally: have things always been the way we currently see them and we just less informed in the past, or has there actually been a change?
They were using for what?
We have a lot more paid users. A full 100 million more Americans, and even more in the rest of the developed world. And nearly everyone in the developed world has a smartphone.
Without the aircraft carriers, any mildly malevolent nation could print dollars. Some already try. There's no question that a large military is necessary to preserve USD as a world currency.

You can't ignore this cost. Maybe the US would cut military spending, maybe not, but as long as it wants USD to be the coin of the realm, there's no choice in the matter.
As with so many things, awareness is often the hardest part. I don't have any advice that isn't already covered here, but kudos to you for recognizing this dynamic in yourself; that awareness will almost inevitably lead to improvement.
They're already quite frequent, though idk about monthly. These are nice though, indeed.
hey, this is pretty neat!
As an unaccredited investor, your investment funds can only be accepted by publicly traded corporations (with all the legal protections and reporting requirements that entails). Investing in GameStop is definitely riskier than putting your money in a savings account, but fraud is substantially easier in a totally anonymous and unregulated market like the crypto sector.

I mean, just think about how hard the Enron execs had to work to defraud their investors! They had to come up with a novel scheme to hide losses, collude with their accountants to avoid detection, and some of them even had to spend some time in prison. Yesterday, I read about an NFT scam where the anonymous developer just transferred funds to his personal wallet and then disappeared.
Using in what way? Having a domain, no trademark and no product doesn't mean you're using it in any real way.
This reads like a kickstarter scam. Also the "Facebook Instagram Twitter" link at the bottom points to an Instagram account with 0 followers, 0 following.
It's simple - the majority of the population lives in awful circumstances and to allow them to live in better conditions, you have to generate a lot of emissions.
The argument isn't about whether FB is entitled to the name. FB might not be entitled to that name, and I am not saying they are.

All I am saying is that the claim of Meta (non-FB one) about their "name and livelihood being stolen" is ridiculous and difficult to take at face value, given they have no product and no name-recognition.
How is it the default when we are actually on daylight time most of the time now (mid March through early November)? Daylight is the norm, "standard" is actually the exception. What's the point of switching to "standard" time for 4 months?
> Doesn't it seem weird that through this complex system of interactions, we can recreate all of that in Code?

All of these systems are already software.

> If there was no value in it, why did we create all those institutions in the first place?

Centralization makes them massively more efficient than crypto. If there was a way to make them more efficient that did not involve throwing risk models out the window or regulatory arbitrage, someone could just do that in the traditional economy without crypto.

This is a lot like the programmer tendency to want to re-write instead of refactor because to understand a system is way harder than to set out on a quest to build a new one. Although they always end up the same way: at best what you started with. To me this falls squarely under Spolsky's "things you should never do." [1]

There hasn't been a single actual competitive business built on top of crypto in fourteen years. That's because they're all hamstrung by the massive inefficiencies they boat-anchor to their solutions. Decentralization and trustlessness and permissionlessness don't matter at all to 99.9% of humans. Attempting to offer these is incredibly inefficient and makes it totally uncompetitive with centralized solutions for every legal use case.

I would argue it fails Occam's razor to try and add miners to a monetary system.

The simplest, most efficient, most economical solution to moving value around is centralization. If there's a better way to solve any of the given problems with crypto, there's an easy way to optimize it further: get rid of crypto.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Oh boy! Think how much chia that could mine! (J/k but sorta not)
I dropped out of my theoretical particle physics Ph.D. program when the SSC was cancelled. Experimental results for the stuff I worked on was delayed 20 years.
Actually, there was a complaint (The Beatles).
Do small companies owe their names to big companies who have the resources to look into it and choose a different name?
It's not just meat that will be grown in a lab.
Why do Americans smile so much?
I'm tired of these american fake smiles.
I remember. [0]

[0]http://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2015/06/the-forgotten-...
Oh, I love this thread prompt!

I'm building micro retreat properties in Puerto Rico, for rental income and also to gather great people together to facilitate connections and ideas. May also be used as an incubator location.
"cultural appropriation"? Whose culture is being appropriated exactly?
Please show me a real world use case that's better than the status quo and is not speculation or gambling. It's been over 12 years and I'm still looking.

Cryptoclowns can't use the it's too early excuse anymore.

But they choose to listen to a handful of man children running around promising world peace via a distributed database.
Brother, you simply don't understand. A 50% swing in a day is just volatility.
> In July 2020, Uzi Nissan died of complications from COVID-19.

:(
I love the problem you're aiming to solve with your API. In what stage would you suggest a marketplace startup to hire you? How many listings?
Ukraine has had its own Internet company called META (https://meta.ua/) since 1998, which is a funny wordplay as the name is also read as “goal” in Ukrainian. Eagerly awaiting some drama over the domain name.
That's fine, but big companies shouldn't be able to claim ownership of a common word either, just because they have more lawyers.
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You don't actually understand China or Australia if you think they are similar. They are not.

They have similar puppets they put on their hands to make the general population think a certain way, they may follow the same single act, but they're not similar.
> Then get a different name. Meta clearly had no mindshare

That doesn't matter, they own the trademark.
At least this one does not turn every Confluence server in the world into a crypto miner, like the one a couple of months ago :/.

That time Atlassian refused to let us upgrade our servers unless we renewed our license (a year old), since they no longer sell or support the on-premise versions of their products. Felt a bit taken hostage there.
I never got the point of this thread, doesn't it overlap perfectly with 'who wants to be hired' i.e 'I want a different job'? What's the difference?
Apple Corps and Apple Records. Was founded in the late 60s by the Beatles themselves. They also published solo works and a few other artists.
They should remove the links to their Facebook and Instagram at the bottom of that page. :-)
+1 monthly would respond
What was the biggest factor in contributing to your decision to start taking T supplements? You were already happy with how you looked, so I’m curious to hear why you decided to take them.

I’ve held this idea in the back of my mind that someday, at some point, when I plateau, or when my body starts to deteriorate, I’ll start taking T.
World leaders promise to end deforestation by 2030
Okay but you are not an authoritative voice when it comes to generalizing the sentiment of an entire field against a single youtuber. Your being cited means very little in this context.
There used to be a lot of "special microkernel on compute RPCing to Linux on I/O" on Crays and the like. Hard to say how prevalent it is now, and most annoyingly I can't recall the names. (Charon?)
Project 02
Google data center in The Dalles, Oregon

One of the largest Google data centers is located in the town of The Dalles, Oregon, on the Columbia River, approximately 80 miles (129 km) from Portland. Codenamed "Project 02", the million[60] complex[further explanation needed] was built in 2006 and is approximately the size of two American football fields, with cooling towers four stories high.[61] The site was chosen to take advantage of inexpensive hydroelectric power, and to tap into the region's large surplus of fiber optic cable, a remnant of the dot-com boom. A blueprint of the site appeared in 2008.[62]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_data_centers#Project_02

https://mapper.acme.com/?ll=45.632511,-121.202267&z=16&t=SL&...
Since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan: issues with .af domains and nic.af
The script is definitely coming from America. And the first scene is trial of virtual control.
> I suspect it's an attempt to wage "economic" warfare. Under WTO rules national security is a virtual get out of jail free card for protectionism.

It's not like the US has to care too much about the WTO as the WTO has effectively been out of business for these past years due to the US blocking the appointment of new appeal judges [0]

So even if the WTO rules in favor of China, which it actually did on the steel tariffs [1], all the US needs to do is to appeal the decision and the WTO ruling will be stuck for all eternity in the appeals court, as that can't rule on the appeal without at least three judges.

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/wto-judge-blockage-could-prove-the-beg...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/15/wto-trump...
I worked at a place that was paying almost 20K CAD per seat per year for CATIA and some add-ons (PDM, FEA, etc). I hear ANSYS, if you get a few products, quickly runs up in that range also.
My backburner project of providing Clojure bindings to React running in GraalJS has gotten to the point where it technically works, but I'm not sure if the marshalling overhead is worth it. It's been fun pairing it to a terminal emulator and writing a blessed-like[1] using Clojure though.

[1] blessed - https://github.com/chjj/blessed
For potential free PR for their upcoming product launch (which I am not even sure is real) due to this "controversy".
“Face book” is itself a generic term for a literal book of faces that some colleges would print and distribute to incoming freshman classes so they could get to know each other.

And you’re on the site of a company that holds a trademark on “Y combinator,” a math term.

Yes, one can trademark generic words or terms. A trademark must be narrowly defined to cover only your specific markets and uses, and it must be in active use.
can we talk? my website in profile, email on website.
https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.15 (an FS-heavy release - smb and new ntfs got into the kernel)
What made you decide to start with the steroids if you were already gaining? And had you tried in the past to add muscle without success?
I do think it's too easy to do it the Wrong Way, but I've easily migrated from phone to phone several times now with both techniques and think they alright.

Signal presents both a "create account" or a "migrate account" option on a fresh install, which seems like the best compromise for UX flow.

Also, considering their guarantee is to keep your messages secure, of course you need your old phone. If you wipe your phone that securely contains all your old messages they are gone. That is security.

That said, if you have the backup of your messages and the code, then the developers might be able to debug what caused the migrations to fail if you submit a bug.
There are multiple separate registrations of "Meta" and "metacompany" with the USPTO. There is the only one linked to Chicago[1] and if so they have less standing than the others because the name is "metacompany" (with no space). There are five other registrations for just "meta" (or "meta." with a period).
If you have iThings, try using them with VoiceOver and screen curtain[1]. I have a blind friend with absolutely no usable vision, not even light sensitivity. She uses VoiceOver and screen curtain along with a pair of AirPods and uses her device as well as anyone. One thing she does is turn the text to speech speed way up.

Edit: Also as a piece of trivia, the blind community generally uses the term "sighted" to refer to people with normal (or at least correctible) usable vision.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201443
That's not true and you are confusing different features. AEB and Autopilot/Assisted Cruise Control do not behave the same. Here's some articles I found with a google of "radar cruise control stationary object."

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/why-emergency-braking-s...

> But while there's obviously room for improvement, the reality is that the behavior of Tesla's driver assistance technology here isn't that different from that of competing systems from other carmakers. As surprising as it might seem, most of the driver-assistance systems on the roads today are simply not designed to prevent a crash in this kind of situation.

> Sam Abuelsamid, an industry analyst at Navigant and former automotive engineer, tells Ars that it's "pretty much universal" that "vehicles are programmed to ignore stationary objects at higher speeds."

Here's one with BMW owners asking about it: https://g20.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1738458

Here's a review of Cadillac's SuperCruise: https://www.thedrive.com/tech/14830/i-wrote-this-in-a-superc...

> Related: All these types of semi-autonomous systems have a hard time identifying stationary cars—vehicles in stopped traffic on the highway, for example—as "targets" to avoid. Coming over a crest at 70 mph, I pick up the stopped traffic ahead of me far before the system does. I even give the system an extra second or two to identify that we're hurtling towards stopped traffic, but have to initiate braking. However, it's very likely that even at that speed, the car could have made the stop before an impact.

And the feature you're thinking of, AEB and its limitations are here: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a24511826/safety-featu...

> If traveling above 20 mph, the Volvo will not decelerate, according to its maker.

> No car in our test could avoid a collision beyond 30 mph, and as we neared that upper limit, the Tesla and the Subaru provided no warning or braking.
Are you implying that ethnic cleansing is not underway in Xianjing, or that there undue media coverage compared to US torture? Because neither one is accurate, in my opinion...
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Imagine that you run a business where it is important to properly check the ID of your customer. You need to know two things: the photographic ID matches the person, and there is a real living person present there, not just some scammer who stole the ID.

In real life this is a simple task. You look at the photo on the ID, then you look at the person and check that they match. You also would immediately notice if something is weird, like they are wearing a lifelike mask, or they are a plastic doll.

Why does this not work for businesses then? There can be two reason: either they want to check the customers ID remotely through the internet, or the customer is present in their office but the business does not trust their own employees to check them.

Why would a business not trust their own employees? Because the company employees are in the best position to perpetuate some fraud on the business. Very often clerks receive some direct compensation or bonus based on how many new customers they subscribe for example, and if not properly checked this can incentivise the employees invent fake customers for you for example.

So you want to check the ID of a person in some way you can conduct remotely without trusting anyone physically present. Simple! You ask for an image of the ID and a photo of the customer, then a remote employee or machine learning model can decide if they match up.

But there is a problem with that! Anyone who is sophisticated enough to scam you with a fake ID will also be able to give you a matching photo. Ugh oh.

How do you solve this? You ask for the ID as previously, but instead of asking for a photo you ask for a video of the customer. Maybe you even flash the phone’s screen while recording the video with random colours and ask the customer to read up randomly selected digits. This way you can be sure that the video is not just some previous stock footage, or plastic doll or who knows. This is what is being refered to as “app-based liveness verification”

Now of course you might notice that this is an arms race. You make a better verification tool, and the scammers make a better scam. I bet that there is already someone out there training a neural network to create an animated deep fake which is convincing and can reflect the flashing colours appropriately and can read up the digits too. Likewise there is someone who is working on detecting that. What matters is that the business is trying to keep the cost of deception high enough so it is not worth doing at scale.
Hmmmm... https://i.imgur.com/MUXyZSk.jpg
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The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (part-owned by Mark) bought a company called Meta along with its trademark in 2017.
For the last 100 years or so, yes.
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And don't forget the telephone charges. Even if you weren't dialing a different area code, calling further than your local exchange or set of exchanges could be >$1/minute. (Indeed, intrastate calls could cost more than interstate calls.)

So there were a bunch of apps for both commercial services and BBS systems to let you get on, download messages, and get offline as quickly as possible. You then could read/reply to messages offline and log back on just to upload them.
Which part? Could you say more? If you make a comment like this, I feel like it should be obvious what you mean, but it isn't at all obvious to me in this case.
"Squatting" a trademark generally isn't possible; if you can't prove use of the mark, the USPTO will simply cancel your registration. I imagine their activity related to the mark would be covered in any potential court proceedings and would be Facebook's primary defense.
It sounds like they do have a trademark:

> At least two law firms were involved: One in the USA that requested our trademark and domains

But everything else you say I agree with. And the trademark was probably on MetaCompany since that seems to be their brand.
If that's accurate they've had eight years to produce some product/service to establish a strong commercial claim to the name prior to Facebook getting there. They appear to have failed at doing that.

If you're going to stake claim to such a common, short term as your corporate name, it's definitely obvious that you're risking legal conflict with other entities that may claim that name. There's no way they didn't know what they were getting into in trying to use that name (with or without Facebook wanting it).
Did they not mention owning the trademark?
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For those commenters insufficiently impressed by this company’s online footprint — a few days ago, former Greek minister of finance Yannis Varoufakis admonished Facebook for appropriating the name Meta, which is the name used by the Center for Postcapitalist Civilization: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/29/hands-varoufaki...

Facebook can afford a different name.
Venezuelan here. You're exaggerating the use of bitcoin in Venezuela. You might have paid some people with it but on the streets you use and want USD. Zelle, PayPal or USD in cash. No one wants another volatile currency, we've had enough of those.