skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one of those things that works to a certain point. Should you hit that point, the prospect of getting what used to be an enormous amount of money won't hold much appeal to you.

You'll know if you're there. You'll ask yourself how an extra $20k a year would change your life. You'll find yourself realizing that it wouldn't, except possibly slightly fancier groceries. This is the point the satisfaction experts are talking about.
You could search in your browser and copy the "/watch" URLs out of the results page if you wanted this. What would be the application, though? Do you want to download music videos?
Tesla followed the same model, no? Roadster -> Model S/Y/X -> Model 3
A word of caution on hiring rubrics
You should never use sparse arrays though.

Over 7 years as Node.js developer I have never needed to use them and I don't see use appealing use case.
Is this not, essentially, the innovator's dilemma? Facebook has to increase profits at a large scale now, and doubtlessly suffers from middle-management power jockeying, and so is unable to repeat the small market growth process that made them what they are today.
It was at this point in the article I became very skeptical of the author's thought process.
There is sccache (https://github.com/mozilla/sccache) so a first step would be looking to see why it isn't used more to see how to lower that barrier.

Another idea is crate-build caching so local and CI can pull down a pre-built dependency, rather than building locally. This would need to handle rust versions, feature flags, architectures, compiler settings, etc. This would most help CI since the result would get cached locally

The last idea I'm aware of in this area is watt (https://github.com/dtolnay/watt). If the design and implementation was finished to allow proc-macros (and maybe `build.rs` scripts) to opt-in to a sandboxed wasm environment, we could have a local and networked binary cache for these which would dramatically improve Rust build times (and security). Some people outright avoid proc-macros because of the build-time impact.
Same: https://www.tesla.com/nl_NL/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-...
Doesn't foreach expand to the same `for(it = collection.begin(); it != collection.end(); ++it)` loop you'd otherwise write manually?

Or are iterator based loops also avoided in that codebase?
He's talking about states
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Read a Paper: Natural Language-Guided Programming
There are ways. Automate the burger making machine. Reduce inventory, "just in time" supply chain. Pay the workforce less, aka "financial innovation". Substitute lower quality ingredients. Shrink the burger size. Harvard, here I come for my MBA.
I saw your mention of conflict of interest down lower, but you did in fact leave the conflict of interest out of your first summary sentence, the part before “in other words”. It definitely leaves the wrong initial impression, and leaves a discrepancy between the two explanations on either side of “in other words”.

> There's no conspiracy here.

What is your evidence? It’s entirely possible the state threatened the university’s funding. And some politicians do seem to be conspiring to prevent certain classes of US citizens from voting.

*edit BTW, while I agree you should have used “there’s no evidence of a conspiracy” from the start, and I normally endorse editing comments to improve clarity, your edit here seems misleading to make without comment. It changes the context of our entire conversation below. Leave it as-is, or add an edit explaining you meant “no evidence”.
Does the IPCC conclusively prove with 100% certainty that the fraction of the 0.04% of CO2 comprising Earth's atmosphere humans contribute is the main thing which affects the Earth's climate(s)?
Lol, McDonald's is "locally sourced" everywhere. It's been in their branding strategy for the last ten or so years.
Everything I've seen looks like PG-13 Second Life.

Which sort of removes all the reasons that anybody ever used Second Life...
I mean, I have needed ID to vote for 30 years. I don't understand the objection to making some effort to verify that the person presenting himself as J. Random Voter is actually who he says he is.
I'm sorry, but using stackoverflow as a proxy for any "community" is giving that s(h)ite too much credit. It is infected with arrogant assholes regardless of the field.

(I guess I'm old and misanthropic but I would not seek out answers by asking on the internet, but instead by reading one of the many excellent books on C++. It's not some obscure hobby where you need the collective wisdom of old hands.)

Now, I've been doing C++ for 20+ years, and the only real way to get help/mentorship in my experience is people you work with. There are too many ways to do any given thing in C++ and what you want is to follow the coding practices of the team.
And those of us with Privacy concerns don't see this as a bad thing. However, it could be of concern if it is successful, and probably for more than just privacy. If anyone reminisces about the internet of 10-15 years ago, imagine if you will one absolutely dominated by Meta's virtual garden.
Reminder that "VR" and "the metaverse" are not the same concept. VR tech and experiences will come regardless of whether or not there exists some sort of unified metaverse-like experience. It is possible to be bullish on VR while being bearish on whatever proprietary gatekeeper layer Facebook tries to invent.
Isn't it part of the climate models?

There are plenty of feedback mechanisms, some positive, some negative. It is just one of many.

But one thing for sure, because it is just a negative feedback mechanism, it is not enough. It can only slow down atmospheric CO2 accumulation, not stop it, and if we become really good at carbon capture and manage to reverse our emissions, it will work against us.
> What exactly is the innovation? Don't get me wrong, YC as an investor is truly compelling but I don't see anything uniquely innovative about their "schooling aspect". They are commercially successful because they have the largest and greatest deal flow engine in tech venture.

I think it's in the "here's how to do it" aspect that's innovative, if you can call it that. Before YC you easily ran into the myths like "you have to have a great idea" or "keep everything secret or you'll get scooped". There was no player that was clearly and loudly saying "It won't work every time, but here are some learnings about capital structure, marketing, hiring, etc, and here are some people you can talk to, now go and give it a try."

Was YC the first? Probably not. Was the message new? Probably not. But it was out there being very open about it, and I think that helped a lot of people.
I already live in the Google metaverse and fear everyday that an algorithm decides to ban me for no reason.

More seriously even after reading the article I don't understand what is the metaverse and why I would want it.
> with red colored text that is difficult to see on a black console.

Thanks for your honest feedback. It's only errors that appear in red and you can disable that feature if you want[1]. However it's pretty standard these days for DevOps tools to output errors in red but I appreciate that is still not to everyone's tastes.

[1] https://murex.rocks/docs/user-guide/interactive-shell.html

It should also be noted that I'm honouring the terminal emulators colour palette. So if a colour isn't readable then it's the terminal emulator you're running that has caused that issue. Personally I recommend the Solarized colour themes because all 16 colours are equally readable but your preferences might differ.

> There is little incentive to switch and lots of incentive to continue toward mastery of the ubiquitous shell, the one I have to use on POSIX-like OS, on computer of all sizes, like it or not.

I do get that sentiment but more and more these days most of the console work is done on your local machine and you rarely SSH onto remote hosts (some orgs even go as far as to disable SSH access entirely since everything should be managed via Ansible/Puppet/Chef/SSM/etc). The problem murex attempts to solve is to be a better shell for local development / DevOps tooling. There's no point trying to get murex pushed as a default shell on servers because no security team would authorise it. But for local tooling there are still a lot of gains to be made.

This is why you'll see features like errors highlighted in red and spelling errors underlined. murex takes as many cues from IDEs (local development) as it does from POSIX-shells.
Pilgrims did it before it was cool

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Stone
GOP has the majority of state governors.
GOP has the majority of state legislatures.

Both of the above are currently drawing Congressional districts based on the latest census data.

Both of the above are currently rolling out voting rules that are nominally about preventing fraud (of which there is zero evidence of anything widespread) but will impact the ability of people to vote.
I think the fundamental flaw of C++ is the bifurcation of its target users into elite (i.e. library) programmers and "average" programmers. It makes the C++ standard library incomprehensible for normal users. The C++ committee members are composed of elite programmers, of course, so they keep adding features which are inscrutable to most users, and the complexity of the language spirals out of control.

I have a soft spot in my heart for C++. I have used it on and off for about 30 years, 8-9 of those years professionally. But the complexity of the language has increased so much that I am actually looking forward to not writing it anymore.
What's heretical about asking honest straightforward questions?
It would be appropriate to start such a discussion once a single court ever has accepted such an argument and it gets appealed and starts a years-long process where it might become precedent for some wider area; it would be absolutely ridiculous to consider every theory put forth by a litigating lawyer as worth of a public discussion - I mean, there are so many of them and usually the judges shoot many of them down without a discussion because it's not worth a discussion even for the people it directly affects, much less general public.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a...

> For Settles to get one of those, his name has to match his birth certificate — and it doesn’t. In 1964, when he was 14, his mother married and changed his last name. After Texas passed a new voter-ID law, officials told Settles he had to show them his name-change certificate from 1964 to qualify for a new identification card to vote.

> So with the help of several lawyers, Settles tried to find it, searching records in courthouses in the D.C. area, where he grew up. But they could not find it. To obtain a new document changing his name to the one he has used for 51 years, Settles has to go to court, a process that would cost him more than $250 — more than he is willing to pay.

That's a pretty clear illegal poll tax, if you ask me.
Every public entity I've ever encountered past high school has failed miserably at getting even 30% participation in fire drills.
Yes, really. State schools are public institutions. Their employees are public employees. As public institutions, they are not legally permitted to enact policy that infringes 1A rights. A private school could have more leeway on this—subject to employment law, union contracts, etc—but a public school is very limited. A public professor could be censured for expressing testimony that, for example, reveals that they are likely to treat students in a biased way. If they testify with something like “Racial minorities and women aren't qualified to have a right to vote,” that impugns their ostensible fair treatment of their students and fellow faculty, and that is actionable. But testifying about how a state's voting policies disenfranchise legitimate portions of its population? Not at all actionable. Testifying that election integrity demands that certain practices be established even though practically speaking it could result in disenfranchisement of certain minorities? Also not actionable.
Amazingly over-simplified, tech-drunk mess. Wow.
Facebook probably can’t find sellers in the acquisition market due to its negative reputation. They have to spend that money in something internal and this is the best they can do since Zuck is living in some fantasy world.
> to a degree that Western companies simply aren't.

NSA paid RSA Security $10 million in a secret deal to use Dual_EC_DRBG as the default in the RSA BSAFE cryptography library[1]

Juniper routers had an apparently deliberate Dual EC backdoor allowing VPN traffic to be decrypted.[2]

I'd say that there is probably more evidence of the west putting state-level backdoors in things than there is of China doing so. (although there may be sampling bias in this!)

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9...
[2]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/376.pdf
I am so turned off by the metaverse hype. The idea clearly aims at dominating our lives in order to squeeze money out of us. I despise that kind of dependency. It's just an awful idea. On the flipside, Facebook should burn some billions on this idea and finally fail at the complexity of realizing it.
If you just use chrome and visual studio, you won’t run into half of those apps. But ya, any old app that renders directly to a bitmap would have problems if you sneed to use them.

I used to write a lot of WPF apps and the resolution independence was a real thing. I guess I just got lucky in that car never used any legacy apps.
Considering those are guesstimates, you are probably right. Probably porn estimate is off by up ~2x. Most of it is high school and early uni, and how much time exactly it took back then is hard to remember by 30.
Given that the kind of behaviours described are ones that our MPs engage in all the time, I’m predicting some incredibly partial application of said laws.

It says everything that the narrative in the U.K. for the last month is “How dare people keep on pointing out I voted to dump human excrement into rivers.”
Microsoft is not betting billions with hololens on it's core windows desktop userbase.
I wonder if this takes into account multitasking.
If I poop for 1 hour while reading HN, I can't just add the two percentages separately or the total will exceed 100%, so I have to count the 1 hour twice to normalize. If I do this every day, I get that I spent 1/25 of my time reading HN; however, it's really 1/24 of my time (since pooping is essentially automated away). Same for washing dishes etc.

Could be interesting to add a field for simultaneity and then removing the "boring parts done while doing fun parts" bits to gain another point of view.
you can limit your code to a subset of c++, make it like a c with free ctor/dtor and simple classes, then it's not that complex.
I haven't made any claim about performance.
They could cut costs and just try to be good at being a better Facebook. I know that is heresy in the stock world.
So what you're saying is that 2041 is The Year of Mastodon Social Network?
The biggest threat to democracy has occurred from people who espouse language just like this, in several recent instances: the insurrection attempt on January 6th, where conspirators attempted to use violence to overturn a free and fair election, in Michigan, where factions of that same ideology planned the kidnapping and public execution of democratically elected leaders, and spates of domestic terrorism across the United States, notably in California and Minneapolis, where far right paramilitary fighters firebombed police stations and executed federal officers.

It’s always concerning to see such hardline rhetoric being propagated without being disputed, especially as it just implicitly assumes that completely unfounded claims of fraud are being used to push extremist agendas which have been found in multiple jurisdictions to be little more than re-enactments of 1960’s era disenfranchisement.
I understand the point you're trying to make (e.g. making a hyperbolic claim and leaving the onus on the accused to disprove it), but I think if you wanted to avoid downvotes while making the same point, you might have better luck saying something like:

> How would you feel if I said "<username> is a pedophile! What are you going to do to fight this? Maybe it's just not something worth pursuing?"

And then spend a bit of time explaining why this reasoning doesn't make sense to you. I'm a relative veteran of HN and even I had to do a double-take because I thought you were genuinely accusing the person of being a pedophile.
Because capitalism never settles. It always crave for growth.
North Africa is mostly the Sahara desert (check a map). The article indicates that areas that are barren, built, covered in ice or mostly water (e.g. lakes and oceans) are displayed as white.
It is now a question of the lesser of two evils between world destabilization or surrender to the dominant Chinese.

We should not expect tender mercy after surrender to the Chinese overlords, based on past behavior.

The question then is will we still fight with the possibility of a world extinction as a probable outcome of an eventual armed conflict.

Live as a fief of China, with the possibility of genocide, or fight with the possibility of world destruction. Peace may never be achieved as long as one country seeks to dominate.
Facebook thinks about social networks in two dimensions:

1. Audience size (eg <50, <500, 1M+); and

2. Format (eg text, images, video, VR, AR).

You can go through the exercise of placing every social network on this grid and there are gaps. Implied in this is a progression in formats and we've certainly had that from text to images to video.

In this framework, the acquisition of Oculus makes more sense.

I personally question the premise that formats will evolve from into VR. VR seems to be viewed as a mere stepping stone to AR. I agree that AR seems more likely an outcome. I just don't see VR going mainstream in a way that FB seems to be betting on.

Disclaimer: Ex-Facebooker. Opinions are my own.
I think it's common across Europe (was the same with my Estonian and now French contract) but wasn't in the US because it's "at will" hiring in most states where they can fire you anytime... so why have a contract?
What do you think will happen if you start campaigning against a certain interpretation of the law now?

The court will still decide based on what is actually written down.

If it needs to be changed that has to come from the politicians.
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Doesn't matter which side of the fence you fall on, it's good practice to validate the conclusions--and to continue doing so regularly. Please don't discourage people from asking for the data and the facts, no matter what your perspective is.
Also see

John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans (arstechnica.com)

46 points by AlexandrB 2 days ago | 21 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042945
You misunderstood my point:

>> There is only ... that should ever be allowed...

What I am saying is someone decides to code in a non-english language (which is completely reasonable) they should define a subset of unicode characters that is acceptable. Additionally, the allowed characters should not permit tricks like these.

As for excluding entire languages... well, yes. This is already the case today. But OTOH it's not like understanding what "if" means gives you any special advantage in programming.
Apple is on the way to having the same problem as Facebook - becoming an uncool brand for older people.

The under-30s increasingly care about climate change and other more immediate threats. Unless they have Type 1 diabetes, blood glucose is not an issue for them.

Apple under Jobs did a solid job of making cool lifestyle accessories for all ages and genders.

Apple under Cook has drifted towards a kind of white picket Disneyfied techtopia, where the sun always shines, people always smile, everyone is very creative and colourful but also professional, fit, and focused. And it's somehow very sterile and boring.

As a result Apple missed out on the user-generated content wave, which was owned by YouTube and then TikTok. Apple already had some of the basic infrastructure in place with podcasting, but a middle aged outlook meant it missed the (mildly but interestingly) anarchic possibilities.

And that's going to be a problem for the future. Jobs was anarchic enough to want to shake things up but stable enough to make the shaking work (mostly).

Cook is small-c conservative, safe, and suburban in outlook. And now Apple is too.

Asking what The Next Big Consumer Thing will be is already missing the point because it assumes a model where there is a Next Big Consumer Thing and it's important enough to matter.

Ten years from now that's going to look like a weird and dated assumption. There will be much more chaos and uncertainty, and I suspect Big Consumer Things will be less important to everyone than they are now, and the people who are in their 10s-20s-30s now will be looking for something entirely different.
I agree with you for the most part, but what the companies you gave examples of lacked is a Zuck. None of them had someone who could execute as effectively as he could.

https://stratechery.com/2021/meta/
Confetty: Confetti Inside Your Terminal
The “Financialization” of Society
I think they effectively cannot. There would be a shareholder's revolt.
> Why are fruit feminine and pencils and pens masculine? Is it because writing instruments were the tools of men or because they're phallic? […] it's arbitrary and I would assume, like many things in our world, they were chosen based on some gender association that often boils down to misogyny

A suggestive and imaginative theory, but wrong. Reality is always much more boring. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29043881>
It is so far as U of F is willing/unwilling to have its reputation put on a particular side of a particular political issue.

Frankly, I think "if you're getting paid you can't use our name" is a sane policy for all issues on which professors may testify.

It shouldn't be hard to imagine the shoe being on the other foot and some energy company paying professors to testify that some new environmental law is asinine. But of course just because it's not hard to imagine doesn't mean everybody participating in the discussion doesn't have the amount of cognitive dissonance that prevents doing that. It is 2021 after all.
Good lord who poops for an hour? It takes me about 60 seconds including clean-up.
We'll have to see how the lawsuit pans out, but I doubt you're right here. Public institutions are in no way obligated to let their members serve as expert witnesses in their capacity as an employee. See Garcetti v. Ceballos.

However nothing is stopping them from testifying against the institution in their capacity as a private citizen. This is why whistleblowing is possible.

UF is saying they cannot be expert witnesses affiliated with the university per their process explicitly outlined in the article.

It would be another thing if they were trying to testify in another capacity and UF was trying to stop them.