skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they're going to start caring about sharing baby photos and travel photos and cyber-bullying their mayor and stuff, for which the only games in town are Instagram and FB

You're assuming that TikTok won't evolve in a span of 10 years.
I have lost track of how many times I have told people: just because you hear a phone ringing on your end, doesn't mean it's ringing on my end. (Verizon US, and yes, you as a caller will hear ringing while my phone sits silent.) Leave a voicemail. It can be short, it can be almost devoid of meaning, but if you send it, I will at least know that you called. If you don't? No record at all. I was out of range, you left nothing to be tracked by...
Well played. Sarcasm on the internet, very hard to spot.
Then there's the sweating and the standing in the middle of the room for hours(?) and the weird, clunky, dissociated controls.
Replace the permanent magnets with coils and you get the fabric/stuff from the batman movie (memory cloth?)
Discourse 2.8 Released
Aye, response was superb! It would've probably been less than 4 days had it not been on a weekend.
> most users don't customize their default fonts, resulting in sans-serif mapping to Arial (unstylish), and monospace mapping to Courier New on Firefox (painfully thin to read)

I lean towards defining a font stack for this reason.

It would be nice if there were a way to specify user-defined font vs. default font in CSS so something like

font-family: user-sans-serif, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif;

would use a user-defined sans serif if possible, but fallback on a font stack for users with no custom font setting.
I ordered mine on January 3 (the same day I rented a new house), it shipped from California on January 7, and received it on January 14. I'm in northern New Zealand.
Why are mathematicians so bad at arithmetic? (2017)
Do you mean that they don't offer an option to route all your web traffic via their servers?

Do you think that this is something browser vendors should do, ie. that the absence of the feature is something that must be explained?
Many murderers and rapists in the same country get less. Much less.
Ask HN: Did you move to Austin? I think I have FOMO
It seems like I made a big mistake not moving to Austin in 2020. Housing prices are off the hook in Seattle. Most of the inventory is old shitty houses, that need a lot of $$$, love and care to make then livable, let alone worth it for the price.

Austin seems to be becoming THE city, lot of good housing, great food, music, comedy and other events. Drive-able to other big cities in Texas. All major tech companies now have offices in Austin. I was there last year, and it was crazy to see everything open people having a great time, while Seattle was still under lock down.

Did you move to Austin? Other than the hot summers what don't you like about it?
You have to sell a worldview in these areas, not 10x or whatever better-ness.
If anything virtual machines have made this so much easier than before, it's like having a $100K CPU emulator on every desktop. You can look straight into the CPU, see all of the registers change in lockstep and the result on memory. I'd have happily killed for that in the 80's.
I don't know, but Brendan Eich (Brave's CEO) [1] is pretty active on Twitter, and I think he used to answer the questions people asked. You could try asking him there. Let us know if you get an answer.

Also, I apologize for being a little bit too harsh in my previous comment.

[1]: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich
Thank you, yes I am aware of that guideline. At the risk of excessive pedantry, I didn't actually say that Hacker News "is" turning into Reddit. You are correct that there are a lot of thoughtful and nuanced conversations on Hacker News. In fact I'd say that it's an understatement—this community is remarkable in how it has managed to defy entropy despite its scale.

Even so, it's not perfect. Certain topics seem to unearth some rather bitter trolls—and I find the lack of push-back to be striking in contrast to how similar behaviour is responded to in other topics.

(As for the guideline, I'm sure whoever wrote it a decade ago was well-meaning in their intent. But in 2022 it reads as reductive, maybe a bit passive-aggressive and, dare I say it, perhaps even a wee bit narcissistic. "Of course the Hacker News audience isn't turning into Reddit, you noob. It's impossible. Our audience is forever perfect.")
The problem with bookmarking overall is that it's very easy to click a button to save it for later, but very little of it ends up actually being read. It's basically a nice-to-have list, if there were infinite time and we had infinite energy. But we have neither, so we end up developing personal folder systems or installing extensions or utilizing SaaS, all in the hope that the links won't be dead by the time we can actually read them.

The lack of adoption for paid services (and lack of development for better in-browser functionality) is just our acceptance and recognition that the things we bookmark don't really matter. Any site that matters to you, you'll remember. Any site that you forget about but may need to bring up later, you can just as easily google for. And anything else is generally irrelevant or accepted as ephemeral, even if slightly stimulating.
I know people who have had the service for months, outside the US, and are happy with it. How can it be a scam? Why didn't they ask for a refund? Was the refund denied or slow to arrive?
It's hard for people to understand that because women have their peak attractiveness earlier than men. Like it or not you are in a race against time to find a partner.

Like it or not everyone has to be on the lookout for potential partners all the time.
It would have made no difference: the hang was in the networking code & process, not the telemetry code (and whatever process that is in). Anything that sent a message with the "bad" header type would have provoked the hang.

As to why, dunno, presumably it's extra effort for an unclear gain. Telemetry code wouldn't be parsing hostile input etc. And it doesn't stop bugs like this either.
I've never heard of that and I've lived in a number of "advanced nations", as you put it.

Edit: I just googled and it looks like what you're talking about is common (and done in the US) but it only applies to people in permanent positions with a single employer and who don't earn anything via freelancing, side projects or investments—people who are earning like it's 1955. For the rest of us, taxes and accounting are a bit more burdensome.
Yeah. Agreed. It had stopped working that way for me when I quit, also. And they kept lecturing me and my friends about community standards. I got tired of that stifling, moralizing hypocrisy. I guess I speak more of the original vision of FB.
After 4 long years, today is my last day at Facebook
There may be hope for humanity yet
> you can just as easily google for

I can't find most of the links I saved by using a search engine, and I think that's part of the problem.
I still don't get how this is unique to Facebook or even at all avoidable in the future. Internet facilitates communication. Unless you censor every word, it _will_ be used for pushing conspiracy theories, too, how can you avoid that? If, let's say, the government shuts down Facebook, they will go to Telegram. If the government shuts down Telegram, they will go to a bar and hang out with their tribe. Or find another new service that's not censored. It seems to be a function of communication, especially enhanced by technology, not Facebook in particular.

For me, data point of 1, I don't see a problem in my feed. I use FB to stay in touch with my friends and family all around the world, whom I would very rarely hear from otherwise, I get 0 political posts, if somebody posts something that upsets me, I mute them, yes, including family members. Even if this is your family, you are still not obligated to sign up to every one of their posts, just like you are not obligated to listen to everything they have to say in person.
The reports are useless. I guess the reviewers have to achieve some KPI and have to just click past reports to have a chance.
This reminds me of what Socrates said in his defense at his trial. He told the court that he was wise becase he knew the boundries of his own wisdom; and that when he would speak to experts in the city he found them only to be wise in their own fields, yet suffering with the falicy that they were wise in the fields of others.

"At last I went to the artisans, for I was conscious that I knew nothing at all, as I may say, and I was sure that they knew many fine things; and in this I was not mistaken, for they did know many things of which I was ignorant, and in this they certainly were wiser than I was. But I observed that even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom"

https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/apology/full-text/apol...
> considering kids don't actually have much money to spend

This does presume that the metric is money and not eyeballs; from where I sit tech in general cares little about revenue and a lot about "daily active users".

Despite that, if you can brainwash 0-15 year olds into the belief that your brand is great, the future goodwill may offer significant rewards as you evolve with your users.
Mississippi burning finally has a nicer meaning.
Some examples of things I've used telemetry for at Mozilla:

* Noticed performance regressions not caught by our testing, and therefore been able to fix the regression.

* Noticed an unexpected number of users with hardware acceleration disabled, and therefore been able to find and fix the bug that was causing them to have acceleration switched off

* Figure out which device in a category is most commonly used by our users, so that I can dogfood my work on a representative device

Those are just a few examples off of the top of my head. It's not about removing features because telemetry says nobody uses them. People Mozilla use telemetry to answer all sorts of important questions. We also have to jump through hoops to add any new data collection, justifying why it's needed and ensuring the data is not personal. As is right, because we take user privacy very seriously
Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSKUoczbGAcMld7HjpCR8OA

Seems like some kind of game engine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Pwi1KRkhk

Live session:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=patXA9ZDQXk
The only thing your benchmark proves is your Java could was not as optimized as well as your Rust code. Java has overhead, but certainly not two orders of magnitude.
but TikTok comes and basically wins the war because it is as un-facebook as it can be. It can be enjoyed, or better if you follow nobody.

Whatever FB's innovation is, it doesn't age well, otherwise fades so fast
I hope platforms that are focused on topics instead of people will prevail. There is still some exaggerated self-promotion, but it is far less pronounced.

Oversharing is a really bad idea in the long run. Your opinions from 30 years ago are probably hated today. Imagine the trauma that is caused if you could read what your parents thought before you were born.
Rust takes an absolute eternity to compile code.

On that count alone I would never-ever consider it in hobby/games project of any sort.

It doesn't matter what features a programming language has, if it takes seconds if not minutes to compile even relatively small projects (less than 50-100k LoC).
I have the same pet peeve. It irks me that Patreon takes pride in not accepting one-off payments.
I think the core part of this bookmark problem and dilemma is the fact that browsers execute their bookmarking functionality poorly.
A true landline, very few people. But setting up a cheap VOIP line is not very expensive on a month-to-month basis, and it's useful to have a phone number that you can give to any person or business that can't bother you at work. We have poor cell service at my house, so the VOIP line is my preference for most calls at home.
It was a while ago (2009) so I can't remember the exact process, but I seem to recall that even back then it was quite convoluted, and differentiated between deactivate and delete.

That said, I certainly haven't touched it since 2009 to check if it really was deleted.
You wait for a week for items to get delivered and pay for expedited shipping each time? What a wonderful world!
Competitors to any bookmarking product include: social media / Reddit / HN, messaging / Slack, and of course Google.

I used Google to find an old tweet of mine to get a link to an old product today. It was very easy.

Any specific bookmarking app adds an extra step to any URL you would record on any other website in its context. So the solution is basically amounts to organizing uncontextualized URLs (hard to remember anyways) or make a somewhat useless record when there's a more contextualized record elsewhere.

A better tool would be something which captures URLs in their context. Like dated list of HN posts/comments I upvoted. Dated list of interactions with Jira. Etc.

Same thing with Spotify Liked Songs. That's basically bookmarks for songs. It's just A) better integration and B) social-it is it's own contextualization.
Usually there is this thing called transmission in a car that effectively make the car able to accelerate enough for most of the situations. The only problem with having less horsepower than other cars is that the maximal achievable speed is lower. But for sure riding above 100mph is much more comfortable in other brands.
Pay rates in Austin are a fraction of SV.
> 11,500 wind turbines

That's a lot of space used.

And don't forget those wind turbines will have to be replaced after 20 or 30 years while your nuclear plant is good for 50 to 60.
AFAIK solana has been a darling of investors the past year who propped it up a lot. Is this their money that have been stolen?
Hi Olumoye2001,

I checked your app. It looks very simple and I guess the success of the project will depend on your ability to gather good content and people to rate it quickly.
What's your strategy regarding that ? Are you going to list content automatically from different sources ?

Also, how are you going to deal with spams and people voting for themselves ?

Keep building!

Romain
(Leaked) NATO's written response to Russia [pdf]
It sounds like your damages could have been much higher, and I'd imagine there are some other laws that they probably broke that may include statutory and possibly punitive damages. If it is a national bank, then they probably have offices where you live now and you can still sue there.
> companies already have established tools for collaborations and meetings and for capturing planned work.

Until the incident takes down those tools and the doors to get into the building.
Thanks. I Actually did that long before Yoga was a thing. It only works for about 10-30 min. Then it is blocked again.
The other idea / product that has been beaten to death would be note taking, todo lists, and similar... illusory productivity tools. I say illusory because writing down notes and tasks feels like you're being productive, but they really aren't.

I think these are really popular to be built because they are simple in terms of technology. Most early developers can fit the concept of a todo list in their head - it's what a lot of examples are made of.

And once that technical thing is solved, the emphasis is on design.
>> "NVIDIA Omniverse™ is an easily extensible, open platform built for virtual collaboration and real-time physically accurate simulation. Creators, designers, researchers, and engineers can connect major design tools, assets, and projects to collaborate and iterate in a shared virtual space. Developers and software providers can also easily build and sell Extensions, Apps, Connectors, and Microservices on Omniverse’s modular platform to expand its functionality."

Is this their version of Metaverse? "Come here and do all your work in the Omniverse"?
Very interesting. If you've found a good enough way to import Chrome bookmarks into Zotero, please share how you do it. (Ignore if you haven't, or don't use Chrome). Thanks.
> If somebody came up with a revolutionary new way to browse bookmarks, then this would also be a revolutionary new way to browse the web (or your filesystem, while we're at it).

Hence the list of bookmarking apps mentioned, :p. I think they're all trying to solve this problem in one way or another.
> Without a stream of new ideas and products (unlike, say, Apple)

Apple has no new products in a long time, just overpriced toys that are sold due to good marketing. Most of their money comes from market positioning and closed eco system.

Thry were innovative in the past (that first iphone reveal), but for last years they basically are an app store that takes a 30% cut.
My take: Settings are a last resort. The more settings you have, the less likely a user is to actually find the one they need. So some settings are good, but too many are bad. E.g. dark mode is a setting that just makes sense because different users have different preferences. But it's quite easy to measure what settings almost no one is using, and to axe those. In other cases you may be able to figure out a smarter way to offer the functionality without a checkbox hidden away in a settings page
There is nothing wrong with configurable parameters.
What users hate are fighting with settings.
In my experience this involves two things: more technical people know what they want to configure but don't know "where the fuck in the settings it is" or less technical people who know what they want to do but do not know that it can be configured/where to do so.
> primarily personalized algorithmically generated infinite feeds of stories

Man I'd love this for actual stories. Turn the Facebook advertising AI on finding exactly the right passage of the right book at the right moment.
Yeah, I really don't get this all or nothing approach. Either I'm on Facebook reading every single piece of crap whoever throws my way, or I'm quitting the evil social media cold turkey. Why?
I agree it's a risk inherent to the ISP business model generally. I was asking if there was any evidence that was specific to Starlink "trying to maintain an unrealistic QoS".
> I'd rather tolerate false information from the contrarians than risk a false mainstream view that can never get corrected. That doesn't mean contrarians are automatically (or even usually) right, though

I don't. I think it's reckless to tolerate contrarian information (and in fact, it's causing a much higher death toll during this pandemic) in public.

I agree that specialists should still be allowed to discuss contrarian information, via papers, peer review and the overall scientific process.

But should Software Engineers (like most of us here) really be warranted a platform, a listening audience on their ideas about virology?
My take away from this is amazed they have had increased daily user activity for 18 years, that alone (whatever you think of FB) is pretty amazing from a business perspective. Which is probably why this is an eventful news worthy note.

I'm now wondering if such a blip could snowball via the markets and see a tech crash at some level and a sign of that will be how this news from Facebook plays out upon the other social media outlets. Will TikTok, Twitter and in-part via YT, google, also see a dent in share prices based upon this! Maybe, given how much of the market is based upon perception and momentum. Though that is just my thoughts upon this and certainly I'm not burried into the markets knowing every nuance and sign.

[EDIT ADD] I somehow missed this poignant aspect in the article "Shares in other social media platforms, including Twitter, Snap and Pinterest, also fell sharply in extended trading." So does somewhat lean into my thoughts upon how markets operate in some ways. How that holds and if this blip is just a knee-jerk reaction over a period of time is more the indicator in-play here.
Yeah that definitely smells like someone was watching the commits for a security patch so that they could exploit it quickly before it deploys.
I didn’t find any alternatives, but I did find that my library has brought joy to the world.

https://www.libhunt.com/jezen/is-thirteen
Microsoft, for all its flaws, has strengths. They're grittier than most and ultimately, know how to deliver software products and build businesses around them... very different products and very different businesses. Leadership was a lever to these, but there was something to lever

FB have never built a successful product besides Zuck's original. They have never created a good business besides the FB and program. They pushed both to the max.

FB pushed the walled garden hard. They pushed hard on acquiring the competition. They pushed hard on making the product "addictive" and optimising it on a "what FB wants from users" basis.

In its ad business FB pushed hard on leveraging data. Google's AdWords was always based on user intent. Someone searches for "divorce lawyer," and AdWords finds them a divorce lawyer. FB ads are premised on targeting, not intent. So... leverage data to create a segment with >n chance of wanting a divorce lawyer. It worked.

That's FB in a nutshell. They push hard on simple things.

What they need is something else to push on. I agree on making WhatsApp a payments app. IMO, retail finance would suit FB perfectly. They'd be better at it than Apple or Google. Look at retail banks, like Citi. It's all about pushing for revenue. Some newly invented fee that most customers don't know they're paying. Some new way of charging both sides of a transaction. More of something. Generating revenue from customer data, float, 3rd party deals... taking advantage of moat. FB would be really good at that.

Controlling the VR metaverse... I just don't see it. Too much innovation. Too much invention. Too many elements to balance. Too avante garde. It's not Zuck.
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Security updates for the browser, certificate checks (so you know it's the right website you're connecting to....) you can't get away from.
Could it be that bookmarking is something people often think they need, but actually, even if they remember to bookmark something they will rarely revisit their bookmarks.

What people really need is a way of recalling instantly every snippet of information from every website they have ever visited on any device in a timely fashion. Which sounds tricky to implement.
We know how the pandemic originated, let's stop spreading FUD and propaganda

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-762/
I think Your reaction is why this blog post is on point. Everybody is thinking about themselves and their innner emotions, nobody is thinking about the system. Author is right that the sheer amount of artistic content created at this moment is unsustainable. And sooner or later this all will end when people doing actual work will come with forks and torches (this is of course a metaphor - I personally rather expect getting rid of dollar as global currency than actual people attacking artists)
Other people point out shoes, but there's also these contraptions that are basically springs / elastics inspired by kangaroos; I had to google a few times, but their common name seems to be "jumping stilts" [1]. There's also more compact variants, jumping boots, that look like leaf springs underneath skeeler / ice skating boots [2]

[1] (no affiliation) https://www.amazon.com/Air-Trekkers-Exercise-Entertainment-P...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Jumping-Shoes/s?k=Jumping+Shoes
Hmm, I would say the process of note taking is an important part of my retention.

I refer to my notes a lot. I worked with a guy who never took notes and was able to remember everything. I’m not that smart!