skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea - but having a github repository with active development and a meta-logo dating back to early 2021 would probably be pretty compelling to prove active use. This is definitely going to be a headache for somebody but I can't imagine the story as this letter tells it (FB reaching out repeatedly to acquire the name and then going ahead regardless) is a perfect telling of events. Either FB was totally unaware of this company's existence before today or else their lawyers looked over the company and didn't think it was a threat to their usage.
You mean old 3rd party apps such as Device Manager?
I'm working with a few folks on a non-profit. Conduit Foundation’s mission: Make all new construction ready for electric cars.
Yeah I want a team of cops spending hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of a few months to track down some pesky shampoo thieves.
/s

Police are hopelessly incompetent when it comes to solving pretty much anything.
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Hmmm, I'm aware of some that aren't scams. MakerDAO and OlympusDAO aren't scams. They might fail utterly, but lots of things that aren't scams are just good faith failures.
Not sure but it's definitely enabled a lot of new scams.
Not just that. In the worst case, they may have a container full of their devices ready to go with "Meta" branding on everything. That's a significant cost to recall and redo.
I think that quite a few people in power who are pushing for this kind of stuff genuinely believe that their intentions are good, and that targeting child porn / terrorism / ... makes it justifiable.

But that makes it worse, not better - those who believe in their ideology with such zeal are more likely to push it through to the extremes, no matter what.
Open secrets aka secrets for people who can’t RTFM. Good tips!

I would argue that the IDE is the connector of the editing + debugging experience. Otherwise there’s a reason they’re disconnected.
That's horrifying. Every phone I've owned in the last 5 years or so notifies me when my camera is smudgy... it's not exactly cutting edge tech. Does this mean Tesla isn't doing this?
Yeah, but with a product its more of a problem. Calling your Widget Company "Widgets Inc.". Facebook is able to call their product "Facebook Widgets".

The problem is this is direct trademark infringement. The trademark is for a business, and will have overlap with Facebook. Facebook can try and argue that the trademark is invalid, but at the end of the day if meta.company can defend the trademark, there is going to be a settlement because renaming AGAIN isn't going to be very desirable. This could cause an Apple Records vs Apple Computer case where certain businesses are restricted for facebook.

However as both history and this event shows, facebook will just plow ahead and pay the costs later. Given opportunity costs, and everything, it likely is the most economically rational move. Having so much money that they know they can cover any verdict / settlement, and having limited - no personal liability at the director level, facebook can continue to act unconscionably. The only way you will stop them acting like this is to either extend the liability to management or so oversized and unreasonable punitive damages that they actually take a step back.
They still support the on prem version through 2023.
Interesting how you find the single Huawei box surprising but not the two Cisco sites [0] in Switzerland?

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cisco-backdoor-hardcoded-a...
>Your questions are answered in the linked article.

No they are not. Your quote, the article, and the empty social media pages the article links to do not answer the question, "What does meta.company do?".
Good news: This year, we've doubled the revenue in our (now) core business. Bad news: This is keeping me really, really busy. I need to figure out how to offload some of the admin work, as most of what I'm doing is writing emails. My job has somehow become a mix of course administrator, manager, marketer, customer service person, tech person, business owner, podcast host, etc....

Really need to figure out how to rein things in. Like many entrepreneurs, I'm much better at thinking of exciting new things than I am at thoughtfully reducing my workload.
Did you consider that that text is about the video and not about the feature in their cars as sold to the public?
Whether the stories are good or true is debatable, but I thought this was a nice bit of insight in any case:

> Turns out it's really bloody hard to replicate an organisation. You can call this irreplicable part culture, because that's what it is. Which is a way of saying sure you can hire some folks with some data but that's not gonna help you build a self driving car. That's why the loss of a person hurts so much, because they take knowledge with them that's not only not written down anywhere but can't be written down. And yet, just because it hurts the poachee doesn't mean it will help the poacher. The exciting stuff is all culture, which is as numinous[1] and emergent and intangible as it is real.

Of course we know that losing a strong colleague or employee is a terrible experience, because they know more than they could ever share through documentation. The novel bit for me is thinking about that employee’s next employer. There’s no guarantee they can make the same outcomes happen again.

[1] “having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity.” Context had me thinking this word meant “myriad” but I’m glad I looked it up.
Octal as a base is fine, but that misleading notation where starting with a 0 means octal is not.
https://llvm.org/docs/BuildingADistribution.html
Maybe companies shouldn't be allowed to be named commonly used word.
This is probably very literally true. The vast majority of debate on cryptocurrencies is solely informed by bitcoin.
It's not all that difficult if you have the money to pay for a pre-packaged solution.

https://thehelm.com/
> Is it strictly-true that anti-spam algorithms must be hidden to be effective?

No. But that "no" is missing some qualifiers. It's not strictly true since you can implement some out-in-open options such as paying money, requiring a phone number, validating your physical identity, delays of use on new account creation, etc, that will make the barrier of entry for spamming much higher. There will still be spam, but it'll become more manageable to manually monitor and take action against. The downsides I feel are obvious based on the service we are talking about.

But I would say it is strictly true that you cannot have a free, anonymous, low barrier to entry service without hiding your anti-spam algorithms. There is fundamentally no difference in such an environment to differentiate a bot from a human besides the message content and patterns in who they message. If bots know what content they can't send or what patterns in messaging to avoid, they can still spam.
This is intuitive but wrong, in three ways.

(1) Domestically, the US Army does not enforce law or make sure the dollar is the "coin of the realm." That would violate Posse Comitatus act. US domestic law enforcement enforces laws, domestically - including legal tender laws. I agree you can apportion some of the strength of the US dollar to its legal system, which makes sense, as the currency is an emergent property of the state. However, shifting to BTC instead of USD will simply reallocate the expenditure not reduce or remove.

Counterfeiting is an issue broadly. A small one. Of course, the expense of a Bitcoin transaction (literally 60 days of power for an average US household and 1 iPad of e-waste) far, far, far outweighs the expenditure of the secret service whose job it is to act on counterfeiting. AML and KYC rules, and a counterfeit detection pen will prevent this fake money from turning into a digital representation.

The army isn't generally called in to stop counterfeiting because nation-states have basically zero incentive to counterfeit on a large scale. What good are a few fake paper bills, when the Treasury would just cut you off from the entire world financial system?

(2) How do you explain that countries that do not have armies at all, like Iceland, are able to issue their own fiat currency with value?

(3) If you cannot draw a direct line between switching the currency and reduction in military spending, does it really make sense to apportion value that way?
The flip side is that they were buying these things when other interest rates were also correspondingly high due to inflation, so they got hosed in other ways (think mortgages).
Can anyone comment on how the price of programmers has changed over time?
I have a strong dislike for facebook, but I'm not sure what the "OG" Meta did or why they existed.

I almost feel like it is a bigger deal that some little company wanted my personal domain because the founders happen to have the same name as my wife and I. At least I use my domain and have for decades. I refuse to sell because my email used on accounts everywhere. That kind of change isn't worth a few hundred dollars.

They went and picked up a domain with the same two names, but reversed the order and were unhappy because people confuse our domains. Not my problem.
How does not requiring a phone number help fight spam?
Higher quality meals on one side vs the risk of serious food born illnesses and death on the other.
Some of the software in the list should be compared with "enterprise software sales". $335 for a ledger software isn't bad when you think it is bought by a company/business. Moreover, there was a certain amount of hand-holding, service & support implied with sales in those days.

If you want to talk of rip-offs, in early 90s, I bought a casio organizer with my hard earned $35 only to realize the connectivity cable+software to a PC costs $150+ more
Having recently read gradus for the first time, I'm excited to hear that strict counterpoint has been implemented in this way.

"The development of the procedural music system was undertaken by Kent Jolly and Aaron McLeran with Brian Eno acting as consultant...

A melody generator is included that is based on Markov models. A further routine implements a simplified counterpoint based on Johann Joseph Fux’s treatise Gradus ad Parnassum."

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We Need to Talk About Authorship Abuse (2019)
The Quito stock exchange consists of over 300 companies in farming, forestry, power generation, medical care etc. They have physical and human capital and earn profits from their paying customers, whether or not people want to buy stocks which offer them a share of this profit

The AAVE platform consists of individuals lending recently printed tokens to each other to buy other recently printed tokens in what is essentially a zero sum game with no connection to the real world unless they can convince outsiders to pay even more money for some of the tokens.

The fact the latter is notionally valued at higher than the former pretty much underlines the OP's point about the lack of "real value" underpinning the whole thing...
If Meta Company didn’t own the rights and the trademark then FB and their lawyers wouldn’t have spent so much time making offers and hounding them. FB knew they had to do stuff the legal way, and now are probably just hoping to bully their way in.

There are laws in place. Also international trademark law.

HN is very two-faced. If it was your beloved startup then you wouldn’t be very happy about the situation if it applied to you. Also, many startups operate in stealth mode while they build and get ready for launch. That could certainly mean they have their livelihood wrapped up in it, just like we often read about with other startups.
By a large margin yes.
"Adventure" for $30, that's a steal.

If should've cost as much as $6 ase game was free as in freedoom.
-1? ok, why? i thought my comment was reasonable but i'm willing to see it found to be unreasonable
Electric vehicle maker Rivian seeks to raise $8.4B in IPO
The issue with trying regulate this calamity is that this is inevitably going to lead to a bail out of this scam when it collapses.

It’s worse than the rail road trusts in the 20s
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Getting Slackware from cdrom.com was a bargain.
This is a squatter "company" with no accomplishments whining that they couldn't squeeze FB for enough $$$. Why should anyone else care?
It's new, I felt the same way for a long time.
Context for those who missed it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/viewing-website-...
Probably this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=29074448
Tonight I'm adding auto-update to this little website I made that lists book likes from the popular blog marginal revolution http://mrbooks.io/
A further note: I worked on Reflex (by Analytica). That product bombed at $495, which was a price set in envy of Lotus. The company went under and got bought by Borland for pocket change.

Phillippe cut the price to $100 (still a lot in today's dollars), sold it by mail order, and made it a best seller.
plivo.com is good at anti-bot, i tried many method and some residential proxys . there still blocked me out .
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It turns out that schools can indeed move start times. All it takes is a bus driver shortage - and lots of hand-wringing.

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Apple keeps detailed metadata records of who sends messages to whom on iMessage, when, and how often.

Signal does not.

Apple backs up iMessage plaintext contents to Apple, via non-e2e iCloud Backup, bypassing iMessage's end to end encryption.

Signal does not.
What is a fed trader?
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They're generally not fake! I'm pretty happy walking around and I smile when I make eye contact with people. However, creepy old men telling me "Smile, beautiful!" at the gas station always get the stink eye.
Mainly because it'll be hard for folks to take it seriously when discussing it, and Googling for it may result in the wrong result. I can get over it, didn't say it was a terrible name or anything. It's hard to come up with a name that communicates a relationship to an existing thing while sounding interesting.

If anything I think it's a shame that the joke MangoDB took the name.
> Crypto continues to help nobody and achieve nothing in the real world

It's kind of surprising how little progress has been made.

It is absolutely possible to use privacy-respecting low-fee tokens to purchase ebooks, purchase "no advertisement" article reads, or subscribe to periodicals.

Even something like Taler is better than Visa and Mastercard. I would love to know why lwn.net, ars, or the register don't try. I would absolutely pay $0.25-$2.00 per read for the ~50 articles I read per month on these websites.

Micropayments for tech readers seems like a good place to start. Tech readers use ad blockers, but are also willing to try new tools with janky UX.
Continuing to add Ableton Live "clip launching" features to Ardour, and along the way fix bugs with our new time representation implementation (which features such things as an int62_t).

But also, over the weekend, helped construct a new 2m diameter horno (outdoor oven) from adobe bricks and mud mortar for the Santa Fe Botanical Garden as part of Santa Fe Community College's ADOB-112 (Wall Construction) course.
console.trace() looks nice, except it doesn't work for async functions (i.e., functions that call each other through an event loop), which is how many function calls happen to be coded in practice.
I had exposure to cats and dogs and a filthy house as a child, and I'm still allergic to cats, dogs, and dust.
I've been creating an annotated disassembly of the Yamaha DX7 synthesiser's firmware ROM. It's been going very successfully.

After this project is complete, I plan to build a small platform for people to host webrings. I know it's not going to revolutionise how people use the internet. I think it will be a nice service though. I loved this era of the internet. I have a great domain to go along with it.
Dreaming of permacomputers.

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Kinda just stare at the sky a lot. Went from a job working 60-80 hours a week nonstop with no expectation of time off if you got a call to one with 1/10th the effort needed for the same pay.

Feels surreal at difference in compensation vs effort in, especially because I’m more productive at the new place.

Not really sure what to do with all my free time when there’s no fires to put out
So this is basically a technical PR blog post promoting Windows Edge?

Never used it, but it looks pretty much like chrome dev tools, which might be, because they just copied it, when they forked chrome/webkit?

Well, why not copy what works, but is there anything edge dev tools are now doing better than chrome?

(there seems to be a connection possible to VS code, is that useful?)
What Does It Take to Make a Universe? – With Harry Cliff
Agreed. We need more of this stuff regarding things with very high sugar and calorie content: sodas, cereals, etc.
This is what the left has been advocating for for decades.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/build-back-better/

> Ensures clean energy technology – from wind turbine blades to solar panels to electric cars – will be built in the United States with American made steel and other materials, creating hundreds of thousands of good jobs here at home.

> The Build Back Better legislation will target incentives to grow domestic supply chains in solar, wind, and other critical industries in communities on the frontlines of the energy transition. In addition, the framework will boost the competitiveness of existing industries, like steel, cement, and aluminum, through grants, loans, tax credits, and procurement to drive capital investment in the decarbonization and revitalization of American manufacturing.

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> The framework will also fund port electrification; facilitate the deployment of cleaner transit, buses, and trucks; and support critical community capacity building, including grants to environmental justice communities. In addition, the framework will create a new Civilian Climate Corps – with over 300,000 members that look like America. This diverse new workforce will conserve our public lands, bolster community resilience, and address the changing climate, all while putting good-paying union jobs within reach for more Americans.

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> The consumer rebates and credits included in the Build Back Better framework will save the average American family hundreds of dollars per year in energy costs. These measures include enhancement and expansion of existing home energy and efficiency tax credits, as well as the creation of a new, electrification-focused rebate program. The framework will cut the cost of installing rooftop solar for a home by around 30 percent, shortening the payback period by around 5 years; and the framework’s electric vehicle tax credit will lower the cost of an electric vehicle that is made in America with American materials and union labor by $12,500 for a middle-class family. In addition, the framework will help rural communities tap into the clean energy opportunity through targeted grants and loans through the Department of Agriculture.

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Clinton's campaign had similar promises around retraining coal miners to provide them good jobs in Wind and Solar.
Our long journey to try and make the Logo programming language useful again continues. We recently added environments to try to inspire users to make things, which are themselves created in Logo...

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Keep in mind it was not just some Huawei executive. Huawei is a private company, and Meng Wanzhou is the daughter of the founder/owner...
Cats aren't clean after grooming, in the sense we mean by "clean laundry".

In fact, cats are much more dirty after grooming, given that their saliva is a primary contributing factor to the contaminants that they spread everywhere they go.
You clearly aren’t in New York