skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of small businesses in the UK seem to use Facebook rather than putting up a web page. I can see why they do it, it doesn't cost anything and they don't need to worry about renewing domains or hosting issues. It's not a great experience for their customers though, especially if you don't have a Facebook account.
This could have just as easily been titled "HN comments". The amount of woefully uninformed soap-boxing on here is staggering!
I have a server product. I do packages for RHEL and Ubuntu LTS, plus a Docker image.

I used to do SLES as well, but the major customer who wanted it moved to RHEL, so I dropped it.

A different world than for desktop apps, I guess.
Extremely pedantic.

When people say "PC" as in "PC or Mac?" they do mean computers running Microsoft windows
What little I know on the topic comes from Seren Davies talk "Death to icon fonts" from EpicFEL 2015 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xXBYcWgCHA .

She points out a few failure cases with icon fonts, like 1) uninterpretable by screen readers for the blind, and 2) don't work well for dyslexic people who have configured their browser to use specialized fonts that are easier to read.

How do you handle these cases?
Do you even have any incentive to find employees that won't steal, if you've already made off with millions in pre-mine or up-front no-commitment investment? Cryptocurrency and DeFi is one giant moral hazard.
Of course digital artifacts take up no space and are easily searchable.

So personally I dump a ton of stuff into https://raindrop.io should I ever need it again (which is seldom).
Microsoft has multi-billion dollar branches - Office, OS, Azure, XBox, Activision, I'm sure I've missed one. It also completely fluffed Nokia. And dodged the bullet that is Yahoo.

It's pretty resilient.

FB? Like others have said, the social media FB itself is pretty weak, and like you also said - addiction, and walled garden are the locks in. It can only grow financially by (more) acquisitions.
Apple might actually be helping Facebook. It the industry doesn't regulate itself then the governments will at some point and that's going to be much worse.

The GDPR is governments (the EU) regulating an industry that has failed to regulate itself the last 20 years and most would argue that the GDPR is much stricter than it needs to be.
It's not even just about the lack of innovation, the demographic of facebook has changed and I can't blame people for wanting to leave

It used to be for young uni students and posting photos of your night out, nowadays it's for retirees arguing about politics.
Anyone who’s used Apple 2FA on a Mac would be familiar with this - you can take the code from the same computer you’re using to log on to the Apple service.
My random sample of two contradicting approaches I know about closely-Israel and Sweden.

Israel reacted quickly and severely, forcing hard lockdowns. Sweden reacted slowly, late and with mild restrictions. The results, after adjustment to age, normal mortality rates and maybe removing outliers (Sweden failed to enforce restrictions on elderly care homes) are not that far in terms of mortality and it's too early to judge other effects.

The problem I see with the paper, and I haven't read it thoroughly, is that it doesn't suggest and check the alternatives. A policy of soft restrictions works well in a country with polite introverts that trust their government like Sweden but it might not work that well in Mediterranean countries where being physically close to others is the norm.

Anyway, it is good that there is academic research around it and that we may be better prepared for the next pandemy.
So what do you use on Android? My Markdown-based note taking app was just deprecated.
Weren't there even studies showing, that context based advertising is on par with personalized (based on tracking your every move) advertising?

I strongly suspect that might be the case. I also believe that social networks could - in theory - create effective advertising possibilities without the need to target user properties.

Take my experience with Instagram. When I am looking at mostly typography related posts, it tends to work well if they show me paid ads for interesting fonts. But when they show these to me, when I am looking at gardening content, I tend to be irritated and ignore them.

I know - I am talking anecdata here - but maybe there could be a way to not target users, but target topics and hit the users that move through these topics (so to speak).

One problem, though, I see with this approach is when you want to create a longing in somebody who never before had the idea that he/she would like to have a cool new font (to stay with my example). Or the next "hot" stuff from some global brand (or what they believe that i should want to feel cool).

But as said - I can't find the studies I seem to remember right now on the effectiveness of context based advertising compared to personalized advertising. So I am not sure if this was just my imagination.
I'm no fan of Facebook, but Apple is literally showing the world that their platform can sink trillion dollar businesses with simple policy changes.

When you're "America's Computer" with a 51+% entrenchment, you shouldn't be able to govern commerce. You're a common carrier at that point.

The DOJ better be watching. This behavior makes 90's Microsoft look absolutely tame by comparison. Apple is the new Standard Oil.
I don't know where you get this idea that Chromebooks are secondary machines.

For everybody that I know who owns one, it's their primary machine.

Remember that you can run Docker natively on a Chromebook and you need a VM on both windows and Mac
> In fact as the only big tech company allowed in China, you could argue they have a much worse effect on privacy overall for humanity than any other tech company.

I would argue that it would be far worse for humanity if they decided that they did not have to follow local laws. Regardless of what you might think of our laws here, I do not want a foreign company feeling entitled to ignore them and impose their American views. They do it far too often as it is already.

If you want Apple to provide better privacy, change your laws and make sure they are followed.

In the meantime, until Apple is found to have violated local data protection laws, the whole “but China” argument is a red herring.
Absolute colorimetric intent often appears to be dismissed as undesirable. It's the only sane way for scanning and printing exact copies of old photos. And for matching two different displays exactly. Clipping off some outlier colors is often more desirable than all the colors being different. If your content is authored to avoid the darkest blacks, and the whitest whites, then the whitepoint of the display or media has no business determining your colors if it's not visible.
I doubt most westerners hate their parents. I think the western grind removes any free time for people to look after their aging parents, hell, most barely have time for their kids, let alone their parents as well.
There are plenty of legitimate concerns about the effect of social media on individuals and societies, but as both a smoker and a former FB employee equating them is a stretch.

And IMHO the group most vulnerable to any negative effects of social media are mostly on TikTok these days. Why is no one ever like “ByteDance is a drug cartel”?
Prison time is based on harm (or so the theory goes). How much harm is done by any action to its victim is subjective to the victim's circumstance.

Calculating harm isn't a maths problem, which is why judges exist. Moreover, wishing that prison time were directly proportional to monetary loss would be an abandonment of morality.
Yes - I bought two triple-switch wifi-connected switches and only installed one of those. I rarely use it - the only automation that I could leave on for years was "turn the living room led lighting at sunset". This one works because it doesn't make a diference if other lights are already on, etc. Its "robust".

Every other idea failed in some "corner case" I had not thought about (eg turn off all lights as midnight - until one day you have guests at midnight etc).

You would have to add more and more sensors and logic for that to be robust enough for cases like this. (Or Alexa would get smart enough to confirm with you before applying that logic.)
I'm not debating the mechanisms; I'm after a source that hopefully reliably cites the frequency and severity of it. Wind and solar power drop to zero regularly, as we would expect. If nuclear does the same, then the comparison is totally valid. If it's something else then the comparison becomes less valid or invalid.
Growth means a share bought today will have a bigger value tomorrow.

Investors (people) expect a remuneration for their money. So, a public company can only survive with growth.

Growth and risk/reward balance is what keep companies alive.
Why would that affect the number of users?
I still do not understand how they can construct a roadmap that, in 2022, does not lead to the imminent implementation of adjustment layers.

I mean, forget live filter layers (they are fun and incredibly useful in Affinity Photo). But adjustment layers?

You can make an argument that GIMP users have learned to get by without them, but it's hard to make the argument that the wider graphics editing community doesn't see the need.

It is quietly delusional.
Their users growth has been lowering towards 0 for a few years and it's expected that users will eventually shrink. It's just symbolic when you pass the tipping point (although this might be local and not be the definitive tipping point).
But it's interesting that Nyxt is planning to to have WebExtensions in addition to their own extension system. Feels like the sort of out-of-the-box thinking that maybe didn't occur to Mozilla back then (but I don't know the history). The unspoken presumption that it had to be just one system.
How will the uri links work? I tried one and it gave me an error in safari that the link is invalid. Obviously this is because safari doesn’t support matrix: links. But will it ever? Will other software ever support matrix links?
I think they always had a ton of them, and they did generate money, but I remember a debate some years ago about I-dont-remeber-wich-game with "totally nsfw content" and Valve explicitely said they were open to the genre (probably to contrast with epic game or a platform like that). So developpers published their game on here too.
Yes thats a mistake. Sorry for that. Fixed it!
FB has Oculus, which could be compared to XBox (though not yet in size).
>- Improved huge pages handling and a new "hugetlb" tunable for Glibc malloc.

I remember Ruby had some memory issues with Glibc, I wonder if this will improve things without gong to Jemelloc.
I don't think that is contradictory at all to what I wrote. I agree, many recruiters will try to send you out to every client and every job they have just to maximize their chances of a fee. Those recruiters should be avoided.

If you've gone on 30 interviews and never landed one job, that might be something you need to also consider and look inward. Going 0-for-30 is pretty unusual, unless you were accepting interviews for jobs you were clearly unqualified for.
Major newspapers performed the recount after the Supreme Court stopped it and found Bush won the recount. In fact they tried a few scenarios the Gore team wanted, and in each scenario Bush won.

While the butterfly ballot may have pushed votes to Bush, studies have shown he lost votes when Florida was called premature. Calling Florida before the polls closed suppressed the western panhandle vote which was highly Republican.

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/us/examining-vote-overvie...
That doesn't explain why someone who has an Index doesn't use it. The setup and expense is just one time. The updates are all automatic via Steam. It's just a matter of putting on the headset and go. And yet, just like @wayoutthere , I find myself using it less and less. Not because lack of content either. It's just so inconvenient and awkward to isolate yourself from the other people in vicinity. Plus you'll be moving your arms without regards of your physical environment. So basically you need a room with a 2 meter by 2 meter clear space and no other people available. Most people don't have that.
I used the quest 2. Personally I was not impressed. Graphics are soft and simple compared to the Index and the field of view is so small. You can tether it to a PC for better graphics but then you loose the main advantage of not having a cable. And you still keep a small field of view.
I’ve always thought one possible next step for Facebook would be in the cloud business. Among the big tech companies they are the only ones not reselling their platform expertise but perhaps it’s just not worth it
Given your nick, do you happen to know of a map where stop signs are plotted? I can't think of a single stop sign in my city..
FBI Confirms It Bought Spyware from Israel's NSO Group
Ask HN: Any other social media platform you think will lose users like Facebook?
I'm honestly not sure if facebook is a sort of unique case here.

Did they just make some mistake/mistakes that led to this, or is it more of a natural decline, with users going to other platforms or quiting social media platforms altogether?

Do you think other social media platforms will experience this decline as well soon or is it more of a facebook only privilege?
Hi.. no sich experience. I take my lappy always in my backpack with me. Though, I'm not running but rather walking.

Nevertheless, as long you don't have a HDD built in, all the other components are not sensitive to bouncing. Since I changed to SSD I always throw my lappy onto the bed, etc..

So. 99 percent no problem. I did not experience anything in the last 5 years. Laptop is already 12.. my old friend.
The Hiller flying platform is a rather cool gadget and Bay-area folks can see one at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos. With all of the wacky vehicles people have made using jumped-up quadcopter designs or small jet engines I am really surprised no one has tried to make a new version of this aircraft.
It's not the GUI that needs redesigning and modernising.

It's the fundamental goal of the project. I know it is a depressingly overused expression but if any open source project could be said to be "skating to where the puck was", it's GIMP. And they've made a lifetime's work of it.

As a scriptable editing platform for producing graphics, it's probably usable. But interactively, non-destructive editing is now part of the basic mindset of the graphics or photography worker. And this stuff just gets kicked further and further down the road.
Java's Streams Feature
you can already see your keyboard, table, sofa, as well as have multiple floaty screens.
I'm curious if you have any thoughts on why VR remains so niche. Decent VR hardware has been available for years. And yet relatively few people use it.
States don't exist in a vacuum, they exist in a complex web of relations to other states. North Korea is in a particular intersection between South Korea, the United States, Russia and China. I think if you do anything with NK, you also signal something to these others. If you look at it like this, it becomes apt to say "poking the bear".
Welcome to the Burner Phone Olympics
The exploiter could have generated any arbitrary amount of wETH. The limit is the actual ETH held in the contract. They used their fake wETH to exchange for real ETH.
> but how can these people be anti-vaccine mandate (pro-choice)

The context of “pro choice” referring to abortion is not the same context as “pro choice” referring to vaccinations.

Abortions do not affect anyone else, certainly not physically relative to the woman going through the pregnancy. Infectious diseases do affect everyone else. Using the term to equate the validity of the two positions is incorrect and misses the reasoning.
I dont like big frameworks like django, I worked with python and flask in the past. Why?
I guess you don't want the employees to steal from _you_?
I disagree. The time pressure makes it better because now you have to actually think of words quickly. It takes more skill.
Private companies are usually not allowed to make you disappear
I agree, I really don't get why they're being so negative about something that's just meant to be a nice thing while you do your hike.
That is strange. My Windows is in Spanish and 2 years ago it found everything in English with no issues and today it still does (Windows 10)
I personally like how social it is. It's fun to play while video chatting. From what I understand about the health mechanic, it's based on the speed of the other people playing as well.
Then we can cram people into even smaller cubicles.
>> I was paraphrasing your argument. AFAICT, it remains faithful to what you are saying.

No, it remains faithful to your interpretation of what I said, which is designed to support your opinion rather than mine.

Also, basic manners: if you're not quoting, don't use quotes.

>> It isn't.

Is too!

We could do that all day. Or, we could look at the reported results which are, well, crap.
> Then there are other AR product forms, like contact lenses.

This seems far-fetched to me.

Mojo (https://spectrum.ieee.org/ar-in-a-contact-lens-its-the-real-...) claims to be on track for this, but:

- their "working demo" is apparently not actually wearable

- it has no built-in battery -- if I have to wear an inductive charger around my eye, I may as well wear smart glasses, right?

- the whole thing has a bit of a Theranos feel about it

I'm skeptical.
~Isn't marijuana possession decriminalized in Mississippi?~

Never mind, I see that it's decriminalized only for 1st offense and under 30 grams, but pretty harsh otherwise.
Yes, but the stock market works on the premise of growth, they try to raise money by virtue of being on the stock market, in order get the money required to finance that growth.

I would think, that a company that has plateaued should take itself off the stock market, however this doesn't seem to be happening. Such a move would probably imply some drastic changes in how a company is goverend.
And if the systems are as vulnerable as one would think, then they are also an attractive target for a false flag operation, I'd think.
But some of it is just poor UX - like one thing I repeatedly come across in both win10 and win11 iterations of settings is the really poor scrolling UX. First of all, the scrollbar is quite thin and easy to miss entirely. That also makes it hard to click on; which may not be the normal way of scrolling, but is sometimes handy - and settings need to be accessible for all kinds of people. Furthermore, the new larger and prettier padding between UI elements inside the scollpane makes is more common for the last on-screen element to have enough lower padding to make the page look visually complete, even though you're missing half (win11 isn't quite as bad as win10 here, but both are clear regressions vs. older versions).

But worst of all on the scrolling front is the auto-hiding behavior for the scrollbar. That's is just plain user-hostile. The number of times I've had to help non-techies find settings over the phone, vidchat, or even in person just to discover that the person hadn't noticed the small black scrollbar in the second or so it remains visible on screen, and they just couldn't find the setting they needed even after explanation because it had not occurred to them to even try scrolling. What inane designer thought it was a good idea to needless animate something in the first place, and then additionally to hide critical UX for anyone that merely looks at the screen without interacting with it for just 2 seconds or so? A clear, sad case of form over function.

And that's just the scrolling; the incompleteness is a big issue to (though I'm not yet sure how bad win11 is on this front, so let's hope it's at least improved).

Also, at least in win10 there's the inconsistency between settings that are immediately applied, and those that require you to apply them. Most apply immediately, which sort of makes sense, but that makes the rare apply button (which also visually is not really an eyecatcher) easy to miss, and there's no warning when you exit without applying. So far I get the feeling this is better in win11, but I haven't tried actively looking for problem cases yet.

All in all: very much meh, and I'd rather they made settings obvious, and made it easy to review what you've changed, and which settings differ from the defaults, and in general optimize the UI not for making settings changes quick for those that do this all the time (like, nobody?) and rather focus on making them clear for those people trying to change something they rare change and aren't quite sure what they're doing.
I haven't used TikTok, but I wonder if it is flooded with filter-bubble fueled politics? That my primary concern with Facebook, Twitter and Youtube (and others), and I honestly think the world would be a better place if that could be turned off.
Jeff Bezos' superyacht will see historic bridge dismantled
When you added all necessary features and don't know what to add you start to optimize and imporove existing features. Really, Excel could work faster and eat less memory.
Add to that space requirements and lots of people find them nauseating to use.
This is true of Facebook and many other tech stocks, but that is because these companies have never paid dividends. Investors have put up with that because the expectation of higher future profits (and thus higher cash piles for dividends or stock buybacks). A shrinking company that has never paid a dividend is much less attractive from this point of view.
>That doesn't explain why someone who has an Index doesn't use it. [...] It's just a matter of putting on the headset and go.

It definitely is not (saying as a PC gamer for over 15 years). If you don't already use your gaming PC regularly for other stuff so that the whole loading, update and maintenance is part of the daily experience anyway, then, you first have to fire up the gaming PC, wait for it to load, login to Windows, then you might have Windows nagging you for an update, then maybe Nvidia gaming hub or whatever they're calling it nowadays nags you for an update, then maybe you have to reboot, then open the steam launcher, then maybe that also want some updates, then fire up the game, then you have to clear your surrounding environment to make room for the cable tether and make sure you don't trip on it, then put on the Index, then finally you can play.

To most people that wohle ritual gets annoying and puts off the casual gamers who want a quick gaming session every now and then without dealing with any of that crap. The Quest is literally just put on and go since it's just like a console, which is also more popular for gaming than PCs for the convenience and the lack of friction.
For a long time, I needed an access point + VPN client, and I've considered the Turris Omnia.

Ultimately though, for this type of job, any SBC with Linux does this job (and more); the differences were:

- USB wifi cards are unstable and unsuited as access points, so for stable connection, SBCs require a separate access point

- one must configure Linux manually, while the Omnia is ready out of the box (but it's relatively easy to configure Linux)

- for the price of the Omnia, one gets a more powerful (and more flexible) SBC

I think generic SBCs can comfortably cover a number of Omnia use cases (and do more). On the other hand, ease of use is obviously a winner for Omnia, were required.
RIP Adobe :D Darktable is great.
In fairness all the FAANGs are crazy big and powerful by historical anti-trust standards.
This is an important point. The experience that people have as children defines their understanding of technology to some extent. Getting children used to your hardware and software is a major investment in the future. And lucrative school contracts are an investment in now.