skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the wikipedia content or dbpedia ? >90 millions items should able to make you start right away. Or is it just too big to train your system with ?

Or at least avoid the big mistakes it is doing right now
If I type "website" I get a movie and an apple haha
The three critically different things to me:

- they have/had a critical size. No other social media was that big, and size matters.

- they required (still do?) real IDs. Forcing people to use their real name is a special kind of awful, especially when it's the main network

- they push a unified account platform for everything they owned. Other companies tried too but most failed (I also hate Apple for that, if you were to ask).
Where are Americans born? (map)
prometheus + grafana is the standard stack we use for API timings and general API performance monitoring
This has an interesting parallel in the tradfi world in the City bonds robbery in 1990, where back when bearer bonds were still used a messenger on the street in London was mugged for £290 million worth. Several people wound up dead with more imprisoned and 99% of the bonds were recovered... I'm curious to see the outcome in this case.
I think it would depend on what is your definition of “good”.
If it is simply measured economical terms then he seems fine.
However if you care about things such as freedom of expression or political rights, I don’t think Singapore has made any progress in those regards. The government is very conservative, as is the population due to generations of social engineering (conscription, mandatory “social studies”) plus the tremendous control it has over the whole country.
> why would you ever set up a system where the majority of its assets can be drained by a single transaction

Because, as always, if you were competent, you would not be working on cryptocurrencies.
I assume it's possible, the question is what gets crippled. When I last tried this (earlier than android 10), one example that I remember is that you could add contacts, but not modify them without contact sync. It didn't have to be google's ("of course" - I worked it out by setting up davx), but functionality was crippled nonetheless. I was using lineage+microg+aurora for a while, and while I could certainly get around it, it's _not_ what I would expect from something I just bought and want to run without a google account.
I started to use vim because I needed a CLI editor that is powerful and bloat-free. Emacs seemed too much feature creep to me.

I'm not a fanatic, I'm skeptical about the tools I use and I'm feeling like moving to an ide like
Vscode because they seem being much more productive to working with large codebases(has built-in source code navigation tools, etc).
A glorified heads-up display, neither AR nor VR, and well before its time.
Minor note: libreddit and teddit are supposedly privacy-protecting low-JS Reddit frontends, rather than commercial site scrapers. I'm not sure if they live up to their reputation though.
If this happens to a bank (which rarely if ever happens, because few things in IT are as secure as banks), then the transfer can be traced, blocked, and reversed. Since the system is made up of points of control (aka. "gatekeepers"), and all flow, including withdrawal from the system (cash or spending) goes through gatekeepers, there are alot of points of control at whch flow can be controlled, analyzed, and even stopped.

Gatekeepers are not an evil to be overcome, they are an integral part to the security and stability of complex systems.
All network requests share at least the IP address, which is PII, and should only happen after obtaining informed consent unless they are required for the requested user action. Since telemetry would be pointless if its the same for everyone there will inevitably be more information that can ultimately be used to identify users. You can argue as much as you want that you are doing it "better" than others (there is always someone worse and the software industry's disregard for user rights is well known) or that it is useful (many unethical actions can be useful but the ends do not justify the means, especially when alternatives like bug reports often go ignored) but that does not change the fact that you are sharing PII without informed consent.
I strongly believe we didn't have enough hardware innovation. I tried watching movies as well and it sucked.

I would recommend VR videos though, there are a few from Oculus TV which are amazing, they are an entirely new experience.
>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.

I know we're all on HN and know how the sausage is made, but nonetheless that's such a dystopian sentence to have to write! I genuinely believe that the attention (ie manipulation) economy will be today's lead paint and asbestos.
Most of this long-tail stuff we're talking about here had minimal or no web presence before FB created "alternative web publishing" experience for them. And centralized easy experience for their audience to follow what they like.

I still use RSS, but sadly, that's not where I find news from local music school or running group. Could it end up differently if FB didn't show up? Quite possibly.
I just save webpages I find interesting and throw them all into a single folder. When I want to find something I use grep. This beats link rot.
You can live on land or work land to create wealth. Trading crypto tokens does not create wealth, it's simply shifting around bits.
Sure, but the important question is the capability of the Autopilot, not the Tesla driver.
Effectively banning these types of comments is what makes hackernews into exactly what normies think Reddit is like because it trains the readers not to look for sarcasm.
I know too many of my friends only used FB because of the events feature. However during COVID, that usage dropped too.
It's not like Apple gets the cash instead, think this is good whichever you dislike more.

And I don't think they report revenue broken down like that, just usage, but you could check: https://investor.fb.com (I glanced at it, seems to be just as far as 'family of apps' and 'reality labs', which I assume is whatever 'metaverse' nonsense R&D).
Note: it already has a health niche. Now that I think about it, one could create a startup in that space. The health niche will be expanding. I'd argue that Apple is excellently positioned for VR.
Imagine how many people could be fed if people just stopped buying Starbucks… People have varied motivations but reward for self is a pretty common theme across them.
Am241 source coupled to a detector sounds sophisticated, but it matches description of now-outdated type of ceiling smoke detectors. It's probably not that mechanically elaborate.
I've heard that Microsoft have some compilers, seeing how you should have the best possible communications paths to the relevant people inside, I think you should find out who they are and sell them on the idea?
I have a valve index, one of the best VR headsets available. It sits in my closet and I haven’t touched it in over a year.

VR is one of those things that’s really fun to use at your friend’s house, but not something you want to use daily.
Have you professionally used anything other than microsoft products for internal communication?
Not much, huh?

I think you're wrong in saying there's a limit when it comes to AR.

Our smartphones are AR devices, a poorly interfaced cybernetic extension. It's a cumbersome device yet unimaginably successful.

This poor AR device has constraints that will always hamper it. It must be of a certain size to display anything useful/readable and to be a useful touch-operated device.

If people put up with this poor device and it's slow information delivery, due to the poor human-computer interface, then they sure as hell will put up with AR devices of the future.

This new wave of AR need not have near as hampering constraints.

AR has the potential to be more successful than the modern smartphone when products are as uncumbersome, lightweight and comfortable to wear as regular glasses/sunglasses, while having the technical specs to augment reality with razor sharp and useful 2D and 3D overlays, and sound.

I see no reason people will be more reluctant to put on a pair of sunglasses than carry an iPhone in their pocket or purse.

Then there are other AR product forms, like contact lenses.

AR has a wide host of useful applications, both civilian, social (recreational), military, engineering, medicine, etc. That's not the future, for most of these branches it is already in great use. There's a ton of R&D going on in this space.
The biggest asset of Facebook for now is the facebook platform, perhaps a more durable asset will be the social graph sourced by the facebook platform. What would it mean for a durable social graph commercialization model? I'm not sure, but at a minimum it would need to be exportable and portable between platforms and ecosystems.
I would just say hats off to a master mind who did this!
Something like 30MB up/down, drives are mounted directly inside kubernetes pods with NFS or iscsi depending on the application. Not noticeable, everything else is loaded from memory.
There are shops I never go into, radio stations I never tune into, and products I never buy because in my mind they're frusty and old fashioned. My opinions about them will never change. If FB are in this bracket, their long-term growth is dead without major innovation to cause a reversal.
Amazing. Will have to try it then, as it is a bit annoying to have to restart to assign the card to a vm.
Which firm is that? Are there VR specific positions for that I might be able to apply to?
True, up to a point. Taking one of the sibling comments as an example, by the time you have accumulated 20.000 notes the older notes will definitely start getting "crowded out" if you don't review them.
Yes, and it is already being said.

There are a lot of people talking of the problems and reasons behind "investing in Growth" that we have seen the past few decades instead of investing in Value
Sony offers Bungie employees $1.2B retention incentive plan
Hi az_3,

Yes in fact we rely on our community to train our model (they get tokens in return) and we don't have a lot of data yet so it's still doing a lot of mistakes. But as it's written on our website, the search engine keeps improving everyday!
I use FB to keep track of a few old friends, a couple of online "clubs", and to just kind of monitor the goings-on and general sense-of-the-crazy from That Side of the Family (if you have one of those, you know what I mean).

FB is inessential. If it collapsed tomorrow, I'd remove a bookmark.
> It is a fundamentally different experience than reading a screen

It's an interesting thing to say because, one of the pending killer apps for VR is liberating us from our clunky rectangular meatworld screens that can't travel with us. It's still too low resolution now in affordable hardware, but it's at a tipping point and it is going to be quite exciting to see it cross that. I wouldn't rule out that in 5 years from now, a sizeable percentage of the professional computing workforce is using VR just for this reason alone.
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> Of course this ends up being at odds with Web3 ideals

I thought Web3 ideals are "Scam as many people as possible, run away laughing. It's only wrong if you get caught."
Why do people still make jokes like this about marriage? It seems very outdated.
Yes indeed that would be nice source of content but we are just not ready for that yet. The search engine can in theory handle that amount of data but we don't have the infrastructure. Also, getting content automatically doesn't solve the problem entirely as we also have to train our model to filter it. The search engine makes a lot of mistakes but it gets better everyday
You’re describing as profitable lending by an entity funding itself by issuing Treasuries and then ignoring the cost of the interest paid on those Treasuries when deciding if the use of the money was profitable.
Can you define web3?
The difference is that Big Tobacco was regulated by the government. Apple is a competitor to Facebook. Apples ads are not effected by this[0].

[0]https://mobiledevmemo.com/apple-privileges-its-own-ad-networ...
In the UK stop signs are rarely used, they are in places where visibility is so poor approaching the junction that it wouldn't be safe not to stop.

There are definitely places where it isn't safe to roll through a stop sign, unfortunately in the US the system uses stop signs as a kind of traffic calming measure so then there isn't a clear way to mark the places where stopping is absolutely needed for safety. Of course in theory drivers should be able to notice the lack of visibility and drive accordingly but in practice the hazards can be somewhat subtle and many drivers have poor judgement.
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It's the norm in the US too.
Sympathy for _what/who_?

They implemented a unnecessary, ineffective lockdown for two months and a mandatory nationwide tracking system (which differs wildly from the open sourced version they published) without any published efficacy data, went back on their word regarding data collected (without any zero consequences) and will now be using that data for future “policing”.
What do you consider 'as expected'? Personally I want switches that will turn off when flicked down, and turn on when flicked up. On the other hand, 3 way switches have already broken that rule so instead, toggling a switch will always toggle the light regardless of its position.

If that toggling is okay with you, I've heard good things about Shelly which you can use to convert a regular switch to be smart. Otherwise I'm looking at GE Enbrighten switches which looks to keep the switch itself in a neutral position and have two buttons on the up and down rather than being an actual switchable switch.
International Space Station will plummet to a watery grave in 2030
Apparently Chromebooks outsold Macbooks in 2020, and their market share only seems to be increasing:

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/chromebooks-outsold-macs-world...

(That said, ChromeOS still makes up a much smaller percentage of active installations, as Google don't have the legacy hardware base that Apple and Microsoft do)
The algorithm is dogsh*t. It somehow got it in its head that I was a Harry Potter fan (I’ve never read a book or sat through a film - no interest at all). It kept pushing HP fan groups at me. Constantly. I would hide all from them, but there are thousands. It felt like I was going mad.

In the end I just Social Fixered the hell out of it all - bye bye ads too. I can’t imagine what it must be like it wasn’t something so innocuous.
The problem is with tracking, not ads.
> All Starlink customer traffic egresses via Google's network

That’s not true. Customers that were getting public IPs without CGNAT were coming from a non-Google ASN.
I used to work on the Firebase realtime database - many people went to production with public reads/writes. We spent a lot of time trying to educate people not to do that.

Examples: https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/fireba... and http://ghostlulz.com/google-exposed-firebase-database/
I think this is something that can be solved with more investment into electronics, alternative optics and display (e.g. Google-glass style display), as well as UX research.
Local approach is a personal wiki; just drag the page to be 'bookmarked' into a relevant page on the wiki (or just a '/tmp' page for later sorting). I generally add the page title as the link name, makes for easy searching later. For example, I'd file this story as:-

* [https://ruky.me/2022/02/01/ideas-that-have-been-beaten-to-death/ Ideas that been beaten to death] (ruky.me)
** [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30166357 HN discussion (2022)]

This shows up as a list of link in the wiki output:-

* [Ideas that been beaten to death] (ruky.me)
* [HN discussion (2022)]

The link for HN comments is so often used I've got it in a dedicated F key :)
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I think this argument falls flat because for some things (mostly digital, or even interactive, like games) people are more likely to publish them.

I bet for every published indie game there are 50 paintings or drawings someone made and has not published - or musical performances not even recorded. I don't see anyone complaining about those. It's kinda like telling people what not to do in their free time. And I am 100% sure not all of those games mentioned were made as a way to make money or NOT in the creators' free time. Maybe they have aspirations to professionalize, but that's not the point.
This model works well till some big companies get involved and the bean counters of said companies say "wait, we're spending how many millions of dollars on a donation of security guards and servers to a non-profit? Can't we just donate a bit less and other people will have to cover it?"
>>He made a school yearbook on the internet and copied some features from existing social networks like MySpace. Facebook was just in the right place...

Well. That's the key point. Lots of people did social networks. Several had a lot if success with them. Remember circa 2007? FB was one of many. Zuck made a social network that (a) got and stayed popular (b) made no way and (c) successfully changed user behaviour. Before FB, social media was mostly anonymous and targeted at young, fringe or techno-elite online culture. FB are mass market.

I agree that VR is yet to be seen, and that fb's ability to execute is dubious. But, Zuck is more capable than most/all CEOs of social media seen this far.

Twitter us more if a lucky shot.

It remains true though that social media, generally, is not technically demanding. That said, the demands of scale complicate that. Look at Amazon and aws.

There aren't many fb-scale tech companies out there. It's not competition in an infinite field. It's competition in a field of one.. or perhaps three. JPMorgan or Berkshire Hathaway aren't going to beat them at this game. If it's a matter of beating other mega scale tech shops, it may be just a matter of executing better than not executing.

Competition at the ground floor (say series A) is brutal. Even if you're brilliant, you probably need a great strategy and greater luck. Competition at the mid range is meaningful. A Zara, Boots or OnePlus or whatnot still need to beat other players. At the FB/google level... there just aren't enough players. They don't necessarily compete at all, against other players. Products can succeed or fail, but it's not about head to head abilities. Where competition actually exists, like azure/aws, at best it's usually a field of 2 or 6 possible competitors with a chance of outside disruption. They're not in a "beat restaurant in town" game.
The whole thing is based on them declaring the IAB the controller of PII data (in this case the consent string). If upheld all the things you list will apply because these are the responsibilities of data controllers as per GDPR. If the TCF string was not deemed PII data then there would not be a controller because the GDPR would not apply.

IMHO, if they were really serious about this, they would have to go after the actual controllers (not the inventor of the spec) - mainly the actual websites that implement these (misleading) banners in the first place. It's beyond me how they can qualify the IAB as a controller when they never collect, process or store any of TCF data.

If this wasn't so politically charged I'd say the IAB has a solid shot of getting this overturned in court.
You're not anonymous to the lottery, just to the general public.
Passive vs Active exposure is more the problem. If I walk past a graffiti wall that has conspiracy theories on it along with everyone in my city, the effect on my is very different from the post office choosing to deliver only pamphlets from conspiracy theorists to my mailbox instead of the mainstream newspaper.

Actively targeting fringe ideas to people to the exclusion of other mainstream ideas is different from the general availability of ideas and lack of censorship.

London has Speaker's Corner at Hyde park, for instance, where anyone is free to come and loudly discuss whatever crackpot ideas they have without censorship. Think it's been active for hundreds of years — but it does not overwhelm society because it allows the ideas to compete fairly on merit and evidence. Same for the salons of Paris, the tea shops of Calcutta and any other forums. The internet also had this mechanic during its beginning — anyone could say whatever they wanted on their geocities, myspace or livejournal, and all these ideas competed on fair terms with everything else.

Social media is a different beast altogether. Actively pushing whatever ideas are algorithmically calculated to achieve engagement is not a fair fight.
Some of the effects this creates look "realistic" in the sense that they resemble real watercolors. However, the painting model seems rather unrealistic, or at least how it relates to the settings. E.g. I put "water" on 100% and "pressure" on 20% and get a weird spotty dry-brush effect. That doesn't make any sense. Not even sure what "pressure" here means, as you usually would only apply pressure to a brush in order to widen its stroke width.

The other thing is that colors don't interact the same way they would in reality. You can paint an underlayer and then paint over it with a very watery other color, and it just covers it up - in reality the watery color on top would a) be much less saturated and b) let the underlying color shine through or if you're unlucky c) smudge the already applied pigments below.

I also noticed that the water dripping seems pretty random, something I painted a few minutes ago suddenly starts flowing down the canvas for no particular reason.

The description says "with a focus on real watercolors and acrylics", but then again those are quite different painting models, it's unclear which one you are even using here.
I have no objection, but I am pretty sure he was not rewarded for this feat, but for his lifetime work, contrary to what the exact sentence I quoted made me believe.
“Medicare for All” can’t be hidden from the taxpayer though. Also it doesn’t exist.
The NYT article says:

"In Iowa, which has indeterminate sentencing, a 25-year sentence could mean Tipton is released much sooner; Sand expects Tipton to be released by the Iowa Board of Parole within seven years."

Turns out that "indeterminate sentencing" works by giving a range (min to max years), and after min years the parole board will evaluate the case and, apparently, often release people well before the max years.
The upside that I hope to see from this is that the faster Facebook loses its shine and becomes a negatively viewed legacy product on a downward trajectory, the more likely Meta is to make good on relaxing the Facebook account requirement for Oculus.
I either watch a netflix series that I've seen multiple times before (Office/Parks & Rec/Superstore/Arrested Development) or read a book series I've read before (flip flopping between Harry Potter and the Discworld series). They're not boring, but they don't stimulate me as much, and if I miss a chapter, or a half an episode, so be it.

> but I can't just close the book and forget about it.

When I'm reading for sleep, It's closer to reading to the point of dropping the book rather than closing it and deciding to go to sleep fwiw!
Openness as a key indicator for Sustainable Investment
To be fair Big Tobacco has had a lot more time to adjust to the health problems. They too spent a lot of time hiding their own reports of the dangers of smoking.
This seems more of a cultural thing than an obviously morally terrible act.
Incredible post!
Hi,

Can you fix the colors please? I have colour deficiency (red/green) and the yellow/green look almost identical to me.

The original worlde colours work very well.
Facebook Marketplace is pretty awesome. I see it as a potential Amazon competitor.