skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think his point is that our society is putting too much value in entertainment sorts of goods like art, sports, literature, etc. and not enough in things like infrastructure maintenance, science, teaching, etc. He's not saying we don't need any entertainment, just that we don't need anywhere near as much.

Recall the Golgafrinchans. His argument is that our society is pushing more people out of the "thinkers" and "doers" category into the "useless" category, and that if they had our population breakdown they'd need to shove a lot of entertainment producers on Ark B.

There's some truth to it but also some falsehood. I think the reality is a bit nuanced.
"Wastes" resources better left in the ground -- according to whom?

The same people who decide, for example, that you can't just chop down a forest of old-growth trees so that you can make a killing selling them as chopsticks.

Whom you are welcome to call "communists" if you want.
Absolutely everything has more complexity than is visible on the surface. Just go in with that assumption and you wont make yourself look like a fool. I also often find you only really look like a fool when you confidently make incorrect statements and denigrate others. Making incorrect statements / assumptions with the openness to learn from a small horse instead of a high horse is admirable not foolish.
Even math has the problem you describe.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incompleteness_...
> LMAO we are not even pretending anymore that Canada is a sovereign state

It echoes what a Canadian working in America told me: "you get the privilege of paying 30% more and earning 30% less, and you get to vote for someone who’s not there when the real decisions happen in Washington".
A direct link to the source code, for those interested: https://github.com/AdRoll/rustenstein
Surprised to see FFVI mentioned here in HN. That said, I HIGHLY recommend playing thru the recently released FFVI-T edition that's recently become available thanks to an incredible translation effort by Tomato. It corrects a number of mistranslations and adds a TON of content and scales up the difficulty. I thoroughly enjoyed the replay.

The original release:
http://tomato.fobby.net/ff6-t-edition/

Which now directs interested folks to:
http://ngplus.net/index.php?/forums/topic/1249-matos-transla...
I worked at Facebook thinking it was trying to improve and have a positive impact on the world. Working there made me realize that the #1 goal was to increase active users, user engagement, and profitability, and having a responsible impact on the world would take a back seat to this. Additionally, it was clear that Zuck’s vision for the world is to create a universal platform through which the world connects and socializes, and the recent metaverse push is a dystopian continuation of this vision.
Haven't read the full article but the title resonates with me.

Are you going to spend 100 hours reading a single book? Watching a single movie? Listening to a single song?

Of course not. But you can easily spend that much time on one good video game.

And there are A LOT of excellent games out there. More than what any one person will be able to experience in their life time.

So there certainly seems to be a kind of saturation in the gaming market.
And if you want something in somewhat similar style that looks good on screen, I prefer Slimbach’s Minion typeface to either (Slimbach also designed Adobe’s Garamond).
That's the thing tho. Specialization (in some contexts), versus a general field of endeavor.

Plus you got, "handle themselves", versus, better than humans drivers.

You may be underestimating how hard that is.
it's always like this with earnings reports. pennies can make the difference between 10% moves
Actual North Korean state sponsored hackers operate from embassies abroad, not from domestic locations. They also hire "security companies" in places like India and China to do a lot of the dirty work.
Clicking through the reviews on Rotten tomatoes and it got quite a lot of hate though ending up with a high score. It was novel which attracts praise, but again people genuinely seem to like the look of CGI.

Anyway as long as we are talking animation. I asked one of the Frozen animators why the faces looked so freaky and they basically said meh, needs to be distinct to sell toys. Serious props to their skills and the massive R&D involved but that right there was the core issue. Moana’s water does a lot of cool animations but looks vastly less “real” than the objectively worse CGI water tentacle in Abyss. Again same deal it’s aiming for a style.

Ok fine you say what about CGI in blockbuster movies, except the article again points out how fake they look for various reasons.
This. The amount of real money flowing in supposedly increasing by 5% per month is also not compatible with many real-world indicators of interest showing the opposite, including Robinhood's crypto revenue falling off a cliff.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2021/10/27/robi...
Or buy Škoda which is usually "last year's VW with everything included, for a lower price" :)
That is a fun and good analogy .. that I read at nearly midnight while sitting with my laptop and external monitor at full brightness communicating with strangers in other parts of the world.
It's not an exhaustive list...
Sorry but that simply isn’t true. And I know Lisp quite well, and have written my own Lisp implementations just for fun. I like Lisp in many ways but it is not my first pick when it comes to productivity.
Have you tried selling 24 hours per week at 100% of your salary as a consultant?
All we have to do is restructure our entire civilization to work under Minecraft rules. Everything, literally everything must be made out of modular, arbitrarily attachable cubes.
he should take apart his yacht

the fact that the city agreed to take apart the bridge and spend tax payer money to do it is just another proof of how corrupt the EU is

it is very sad to read
not entirely, but revenue is a huge component of earnings. this might be sort of a miss but not a huge one (from my caveman point of view, but i don't really know what i'm talking about, hence my confusion)
So where authoritarianism doesn't exist they're pointless because they're ineffectual symbolism? In any case it appears they should be eschewed. If something severe enough comes along people will do what needs done, I reckon.

And I dunno, Louis Rossman has a lot of videos up, NYC was definitely impacted.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/hidden-slums-...
I look at it as a value-investing opportunity. Non-investors and vacillating ones can scoff as I laugh all the way to said bank.
To be fair to the other commenters, they're also talking about the nature of the article, but more about what these financials mean for the tracking products, Facebook, and the "tracking industry" broadly.
I presume -P is a hack so that grep does the job of decoding the escape sequences? It seems your struggle here is mostly with the shell, not grep; specifically, with the fact that normal shell syntax does not recognize escape sequences other than \$, \`, \", \\, and \<newline>. Try this, which uses printf to process escape sequences.

grep -larF "$(printf '\032\053\074\377')"

The -F flag should also make this faster as it doesn't actually need to use a regular expression engine, let alone a Perl-compatible one.

Caveats:

1) POSIX only requires printf to recognize octal escapes (\nnn, or \0nnn if using %b specifier), not hexadecimal escapes. Many implementations recognize the latter, but not Debian dash.

2) Shell command substitution strips trailing new lines from the output, so if your binary string ends in a newline you'll need to use extra tricks. E.g. S="$(printf '\032\053\074\nX')"; grep -larF "${S%X}"

3) It's probably a good idea to still specify LC_ALL=C, but because the binary string is now being passed through the shell's innards it might need to be set in the environment of the shell itself, not simply the environments of the printf and grep subcommands. (Also, technically I'm not sure if the C/POSIX locale is required to be 8-bit clean, yet, but in practice it will be.)

Bash and some other shells support an extension ($') for expanding escape sequences inline:

grep -larF $'\x1A\x2B\x3C\xFF'

If you do any amount of shell programming--even if you only stick with Bash--it's worth spending 30 minutes reading the "Shell Command Language" chapter of the POSIX specification: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ The first few sections are the most concise resource available for explaining, step-by-step, shell parsing rules.
a lot of assumptions about productivity being a function of time
Be critical all you want, just don't try to gaslight by saying they're on the verge of collapse and everyone hates them. They're extremely popular and billions log in every day because they apparently get some kind of value out of the product
Delighting? Is that some new framework or something? 2+ years experience delighting or similar?
Did you try changing the CPU governor settings? I've found that light workloads don't always push the governor enough to push the CPU into higher frequencies. I have mine set to 100% CPU, always, for lowest latency. See: https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/issues/19...
Huh, I've always been partial to Mrs. Eaves from the Emigre days which is a derivative of Baskerville.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Eaves
Innovation is going to be around building more yachts like this, not "budget" $1M 15-meter boats suitable for families sailing around the world.

I'd be all in for superyachts like this were they used for public education, tourism, expeditions. Now it's going to just sit with 20 people on crew and be used twice a year.

Boats like these spend more on fuel while idling or relocating than when they are actually used by owner.

IMHO if you can't handle it by yourself then it's just too big.
Exactly, and unlike, say, Google or Apple, I don't think Facebook has really ever had more than one big payoff idea. If that core business model/idea has seen most of its growth, and may even decline, then there is really not much reason to expect it to find any other way to keep growing. They are big, they are profitable, but they are not going to be growing fast in the future, and one could argue should be valued (in terms of earnings/share) more like a utility or a consumer commodity manufacturer, than a technology firm.
I thought OP was saying that they did not use WP for blogging, from the start, which always felt like a hack since WP was focused on blogging, but OP made it work anyway.

Did I misunderstand? I don't think so. OP says:

> I build websites for a living. Lots of them. These websites are designed by a team of designers who design complex, bespoke, heavily branded layouts. I take those designs and my team of developers and I turn them into corporate websites, generally for medium sized industrial clients.

> Sometimes the websites are big brochures, sometimes they have complex functionality. Sometimes both. They run to hundreds of pages and posts, composed of multiple layouts, templates and using, typically, 20 or more discrete modules, each configurable in multiple ways by the end user when the sites are ultimately turned over for the marketing staff of these mid sized companies to edit.

> Many of them use WordPress as a CMS. From the beginning this has felt like a hack

OP does not describe what they do for a living as blogging or providing blogs. I see OP saying that they always used WP as a general "CMS", for "websites" that may be "big brochures" or "have complex functionality", which are not mainly blogs. Right?
I'd also add

8. Don't eat within 2 hours of sleep (at least, maybe more).

9. Exercise earlier in the day, rather than later
> We should be looking to lift everyone out of having to work in sweatshops so that everyone can follow their passion

Except this is a fantasy - no ones passion is being a garbage worker, road worker, or plumber. They are hard dirty jobs. Hell, I'd even argue no one really wants to be a doctor or a nurse - because they are equally hard, dirty jobs - often dealing with death. Without the promise of payment, none of those jobs would be done.

The reality is we need to better compensate "hard jobs", so that people strive to do them.
Honestly just being able to get work done without blocker after blocker appearing is "delightful"

Too many places have horizontal silos, elaborate bureaucratic policies, throw it over the wall mentality

It's surprising some places pay engineers so much to fill out e-paperwork all day
For example, my example above is spoiling this logic a bit :D. I've mentioned three projects that are neither alternatives nor similar ones. However, their mentions have been tracked and used as a signal. Yes, it's imperfect, but it works "good enough" in most cases.
For me the biggest change in sleep came when I started exercising on a daily base. I started boxing and fitness couple of years back . I sleep 9 hours everyday. Never feel tired during the day, except when I go to bed. Normally takes about 5 minutes to fall asleep. Whereas it used to be hours sometimes when I was younger.
You’re actually supposed to intervene anytime it does the slightest thing wrong. It’s the interventions that signal to Tesla what to improve.

I’ve seen many testers letting it “play out”. That’s probably dangerous and no help towards improving things.
FB represents everything that hackers despise. That is why a site full of hackers despises them.
Like I said, I'm a huge proponent of a an at cost Medicare option. I don't understand why this is a poison pill for so many people on the left especially. In my mind it is the way the government should operate: provide a non coercive option that helps people.

It can be easily separated from the economic redistributive function of government and stand alone. If at a later date, the Feds decide to Levy a tax to cover people that can't afford it, they always can. Seems like a perfect test case to see if the gov can compete with the private market on cost and satisfaction.
I've been using a roommate's Quest 2 for a few days. A few years ago I was using an OG Oculus. The Quest 2 is so much staggeringly better in every way. So much so that I can see a future where people are spending hours in VR games rather than hours playing games on a monitor.

Yes, there are issues to work out with the headbands, weight, general FPS and battery life, but I finally _get_ it. The amount of badassery you feel as you shoot headcrabs and combine in Half Life: Alyx is hard to describe in words.

Maybe that's not Metaverse persay (is that like, VR chat or something?), but it is the equipment that Facebook is selling, and they've got their own set of games that're pretty fun too.
Lots of funds are prohibited from trading after hours. There’s also low liquidity in after hours. Very easy to push the price however you want because NMS protections are also off during those hours. Reversal after overreaction like this is one of the strongest market anomalies you can stick to EMH fans.
> It's either "computer says yes" or "compu'er says noooo".

Sadly not sometimes it is just:

computer says
Ulysses: Celebrating 100 years of a literary masterpiece
The APPS benchmark was for a “small 1B parameter model”, fine-tuned “without using clustering, tags, ratings, value conditioning, or prediction”.

> Overall, that's a brute-force, almost random approach that is ignoring entire decades of program synthesis work.

You don't get answers to these questions by random search. Not even close. I have looked at non-neural program synthesis papers. It is not remotely competitive.
I invite you to try it. We truly wanted this plugin to happen, we finally found a niche where there wouldn't be a zillion competitors, and we found out that WordPress's software design currently looks like it's been all hacked together.

This "hacked-together" situation is not their fault in the sense that they have lacked engineering. I'm sure Automattic has some world-class engineers there. However, their codebase lags by years because of their legacy users. From a business perspective, they are hands-tied because any breaking change will bring hate towards them.

Their userbase is too big to make any significant change, and Gutenberg already fragmented their ecosystem badly. They will need to create a new next-generation product from scratch, just like JetBrains does with Fleet instead of IDEA.

For a more technical answer, I already gave detail at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185809
Not really. I watched "Star Trek II" and "Ronin" on HDTV and found it painful. The sets on STII looked cheap and the uniforms looked like costumes. "Ronin" looked like a soap opera. I found it hard to watch old movies on HD.
I was recently in a similar boat, I didn't like the themes on Themeforest, so finally I used the Blocksy theme (free version) and it was perfect for what I needed. Really recommend it: https://creativethemes.com/blocksy/
It is a no-brainer that software must, in fact, have settings and the modern UX principles are heavily in the wrong.

Having too many options is a curse too however, so that doesn't mean that one should add options without thought nor that sane defaults are unimportant (in fact, they are extremely important). Like most good things in life, the solution is not in either extreme but in the golden middle.
Actually, I kind of think maybe we are sure. Not the way MZ wants it to.
Or old woman, I guess, yelling at cloud.

Comment is WIP. I may add more comments in or below as I think about it.
I agree with you on almost everything but we can't blame meta for weak democracy, underpaid teachers, private schools, lack of social programs, absent social services et al are weakening democracy
I've worked in a place where test suites started in postman because of the lack of skill in QA.

For us, the fact that you end up writing "code" in postman meant it had a learning curve anyway, so it was a really short sighted win.

For everyone smart enough to write postman code, especially postman code that leverages the scripts and storing variables, a simple test project set up by a dev is going to be very worthwhile. Postman doesn't have a linter or compiler, and it doesn't enable easy viewing of changes in source control because it's just one big json file.
Yes. I wrote that without looking at the article. However, having now done so, I see nothing there of substance. The author is claiming that non-check films look more ‘real’. Amazing…. Apparently reality can now be measured in degrees of intensity.

The author buries their best point, which relates to The merit of non-cg is the merit of performance. We may be able to see through the smoke and mirrors of the transformation scene in the American Werwolf, but it has the appeal of the stage magician, an appeal rooted in immediacy.

Here is a paper I wrote on the subject… a bit dense but I believe I made a few good points…

https://www.dropbox.com/s/759kvcnot4abaey/Constable_HEAD.pdf...
FTA: Oceano and Bezos will reimburse the costs
For me, I have noted that it is not. Even after long periods of going to sleep at later times. I have always found earlier to bed and earlier to rise is much better. My problem is I am never tired or motivated to go to bed before 00:00 or 01:00. I don't really get sleepy or yawny. I really only go to bed because it's getting to silly o'clock.
As someone that has recently perfected their sleep I'll share my approach for anyone willing to try.

1. Always go to sleep within 30 minutes of a specific time every single day. If this ever starts to drift, take a pill of 100 micrograms of melatonin 3 hours before you intend to sleep to get back on track.

2. Get lights that turn on and off via a smartphone app. Set them to turn on 30 minutes before you intend to wakeup. No alarm.

3. Before sleeping supplement magnesium (most americans are deficient).

I wake up with 0 grogginess every morning. It's amazing.
Options do become dangerous to the team building the UI, though. It's easier to add another option and the keep the previous behavior as default than to do the hard work of figuring out what the best behavior is and then, if the new behavior is better, having the courage to change the default. Having no options is good for discipline as it removes the temptation of doing it the easy way.

There's also the problem of bugs. Software with more settings have more code paths. It's harder to test, and harder to refactor.
I've been doing the same thing for a few months now. At first I had it set up to shut up after 6 pm, but these days it's just completely silent. I check it every so often, on my own terms, because there are some things that I do want to engage with—a call or a text message, for example.

Still, I've had to push back against the expectation of being available 24/7 and responding immediately to everything. A text that goes unanswered for a few minutes becomes a phone call or three, to ask why I'm not responding. It's bloody exhausting sometimes.
If I am given the ability to produce a program by formalizing the fuzzy requirements I am given, I will not hesitate to abuse this option. I can see a future where there is be a "market" for specifications to be composed together.

Analyzing the requirements is a hard problem when we do it with our brain. But our job would be very different if all we had to do it to write down the constraints, and press a button to see an error: invalid requirements, can't support this and that at the same time.
It's been like this on HN since at least 2018: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/11/14/is-there-an-actual-facebo...
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. If more people sell fiat and buy crypto, money is going "into" crypto. If more people sell crypto to buy fiat, money is coming "out" of crypto.
Perhaps the people in this field would like to experience the tastes and norms of a different culture, so they don't appreciate this Bowdlerization. Would you edit Faust or the Illiad to "better fit regional tastes and cultural norms"? How about the Godfather?
No average sailor will ever use these "innovations" tho.

Also you don't necessarily want to innovate too much when you want to build something reliable.

Boats at this calibre take months if not years to iron out all the build kinks - it's custom made after all.

I'd love someone like Bezos or Musk to build a robotic dry stack of e-boats for public to use by subscription basis - something that can actually take innovating, can be scaled everywhere in the world, has positive impact (grid balancing) and is useful.
I find this comment repulsive
It's like the rule I forget the name of - if a sentence has a but in it, everything before the but is filler :)
A good "setting" is something that's part of the normal UI. Take brush size in Photoshop as a simple example.

You obviously don't want to set that in some control panel. So you just integrate it into the main UI.

I think one should strive to do the same with most settings.
When I started work at Amazon in 2001 we had a "gonefishing" page for outages that a human had to flip the site to manually.

We actually stopped doing this a year or two later because reporters were setting up monitoring on that page showing up and were reporting on outage statistics based on it. So we just left the site up in whatever degraded state it was in and that made the problem of measuring www.amazon.com uptime externally that little bit more difficult.
A lot of us work for tech companies we may own shares in, or have options to buy. Knowing where the leaders in the market are going (up, down, flat) is, at worst, a weak signal of how tangential markets will trend in the coming months. Maybe this is less relevant to someone under 30, but as a lot of us creep into our early and late 40s, having a clearer picture of where we might end up in retirement is something many people have a keen interest in.

FAANG stock trends, like it or not, dictate the larger tech sector, and right now 2/5 just took a 20% hit in the space of a week.
It required maintenance, sure. But most of those extensions can be safely ignored.