skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and I used to feel tired all day. I didn't include this in my original list but eating at the same specified time every day also helps with tiredness and keeping a sleep schedule.
Thanks for clearing that up. I have a memory of reading some conversation here that explained that Lisp usually refers to Common Lisp and people refer to Scheme specifically. It was long ago though. In any event the topic of the thread is definitely Common Lisp and I suspect that the parent was not aware
I don't use the main Facebook app much, but I use Instagram and Messenger daily, Whatsapp sometimes as well.

What do you use for your friend group chats?
It’s time to stop Facebook buying companies then - how anyone approved them buying WhatsApp is beyond my understanding. I really don’t like TikTok, but I really don’t like Facebook (the company) a bit more, so I hope TikTok does well and will not be bought.
The year of the Linux desktop in what way? I find it hard to believe Linux desktop will have any kind of massive growth this year.
Source? That sounds like fun information to track.
I should have said "central authority for arbitration of disputes."
Apparently people have been experimenting with magnets in football helmets for several years now, albeit much larger ones: https://leaps.org/this-brain-doc-has-a-repulsive-idea-to-mak...
this looks interesting. seems to work the way i think... with decision tree's
I don't recall a company ever the size of Meta dropping 20% in one day of trading. That's immense. People must think the company is broken in some way, or I might be over-reacting.
Wasn’t ReasonML different from BuckleScript even then?
> I still remember it and the changes that came after it, the McDonalds of today is nothing like the McDonalds of 2003.

Building remodels aside, what are you referring to? They have chicken wraps and salads? Otherwise it seems more or less the same McDonalds of my childhood?
I also see them using "Family daily active people (DAP)" and monthly active people (MAP). https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...

I wonder if that counts unique/distinct people, taking into consideration a person with multiple accounts -- FB, IG, WhatsApp, etc.
There is a lot of noise and his sample size isn't good enough to properly evaluate people from many of those companies.
> Peak coffee consumption (per capita/US): 1946

This one interested me. We're at a local maximum in terms of coffee consumption in recent years. After WWII coffee fell off in popularity and due to the substitute of carbonated soft drinks. Most likely in simplest terms it was a cheaper energy drink for the poor.
They actually started this in 2017 or so, so this has been going on for a while. I know someone in the department but they work 40 by choice.
when I was getting my PhD in chemistry, the replication crisis had not been recognized (widely anyway). as it has become more widely discussed I've vacillated between annoyed that people don't make the distinction between the hard/simplef sciences and the fields that study much more complicated, multi-casual topics and being self critical that perhaps chemistry also suffers from a widespread problem.

I still don't know the answer but I suspect there is something to the simple/complicated distinction.

I do recall that there was this one professor that couldn't replicate his seminal work that basically got him tenure and it was all very dramatic. the kind of story that we would share with each other as a byword.

Aslo, I wonder if the errors get caught more quickly because in chemistry and physics to a degree, most progress is built directly on previous results. so you can't have bad results just floating unnoticed for very long.
"Because they do" is really vague, but a more useful way of saying the same thing is "repulsion is an observed property of some physical objects due to the force of magnetism" is a better answer. Feynman was creative and coy with some of his answers. That doesn't mean we all have to be.

The "Human Rights" discussion is different from a law of physics. It is a human-curated list of rights and they all have restrictions and exclusions, which is core to the "censorship by private companies on their properties" discussion.

It's helpful to discussions of "Human Rights" or "Natural Rights" to point to a written document that disambigautes the terms and enumerates the specific rights, so we know we are discussing the same thing.

The UN Declaration of Human Rights Article 19 says

> Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.[1]

[1] https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
What the hell would be it’s point? Why would it need Satoshi’s Holy Blockchain? Nobody in the mainstream consumer space wants an irreversible cryptocurrency.

Why not just use a database?

FB picking up Libra is just another loop in the blockchain’s solution in search of a problem.
With work from home it would be hard for the truckers to embargo GoFundMe headquarters. GFM has a history of collecting then freezing funds for causes which don't align.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1011
Yes, I agree!

Kind of!

I was developing neck pain from Pokerstars - it's not exactly table tennis. On the other hand, Moss was a very cool game but I found it annoying on my joints to reach under virtual corners and even get on all fours to look under something. Amazingly cool concept, but it's not exactly physical therapy after a computer posture.
TikTok has plenty of misinformation, Twitter too.
see also: a series of posts (with accompanying code) on rewriting the doom engine from scratch:

https://github.com/amroibrahim/DIYDoom
This was my all time favorite game.
Rossmann: Right to Repair Bill Presented by Senator Jon Tester
There are plenty of stories out there about teams hiring people for the sole purpose of having someone to fire to meet a culling quota. If there is a company initiative to cut dead weight every year, it's going to develop cliques and clubs of people who want to keep their jobs above all else.

I've also heard that people on those teams can generally be happy in their roles as long as they feel secure they aren't on the chopping block.
DoorDash sets their own prices irrespective of restaurant pricing (not just say a flat rate % increase across all items). Maybe a restaurant that works with DoorDash can control but more often than not, the two differ.

To be fair, this is not just a DoorDash thing. Most food delivery apps do this. GrubHub seems to be the cheapest near me right now, besides ordering directly.

I try to order my pickup orders directly over the phone. The apps take a serious cut from the restaurants... most of which are probably already struggling right now to begin with.
Tbh, you don’t have a point of view on Facebook that people have come around to. You didn’t like FB for their condescension. Today people are walking out of fb for their business practices (and ppbly a myriad other reasons).

Your reason and theirs have little overlap though it could be argued that condescension is a symptom of internal malaise which is also reflected in shady business practices which is causing users to now abandon FB.
I am a fanatic of embedded stuff and home automation. I love the RPi to death but am wary of wanting it to run its programs from an SD card. Any pointers to alternatives?
Well again, it can be a local profile or a Google profile... but that's neither here nor there in regards to the profile UI.
Yeah, I was confused by this too. In my line of work, we use solenoid as a shorthand for hydraulic or pneumatic solenoid valves.
Yeah man, definitely.

But from what I know, once you grind out a good enough game engine, essentially you can reuse the same code base again and again. The same with tools. For example Romero's Tiled served all Softdisk games plus Wolfenstein. The only new code is some new functionalities and a lot of new game logic code. Nowadays, you need 6 months just for the concept...

I bet nowadays if a two-programmer team (one for engine and one for tool, both do some designs) with some C++ and game dev experience goes into jam mode, with proper asset support (say he/she downloaded/contracted the assets beforehand), he can pop out games similar to the Softdisk ones in even shorter timespan. After all nowadays computers are much faster and we don't need assembly any more.

The tricky part is to stay on jam mode, and I believe the Softdisk team did wonder back then. Everyone was highly motivated and worked probably 80+ hours per week. They believed they could change the world and they did.
Saying Google is "just" ads seems a bit disingenuous. Google controls the entire stack for ads, from the all important search, to Google network and YouTube, all the way to operating systems and the browser. That last part is important because Facebook got absolutely fucked by apples privacy changes on iOS. Google has diversified, but more importantly they're not reliant on another company's users.
Thanks for putting into words what I've been noticing and feeling. There's something dreadful that ephemerally appears whenever a service or someone links to an FB page.
That's an interesting comparison, I never before thought of AOL, Prodigy, and CompuServe as belonging to the walled-garden.
There are morning w/coffee books and, nighttime books. For me, history works well for night time. The 18th or 19th century. Ancient works. YA novels. Something which will take you out of your day and into another place mentally. Examples of bad books to read before bed: business books, technical books, self-help.
Soft drinks mostly, but even that appeared to be in the early stages of tapering as of 2005. What is next?

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/charts/58920/finding_buzbyf...
Is this the beginning of the end we've been all waiting to see?
(Bridges) (Open Now)

<< We found this slower route instead >>
I'm surprised that message irked you that much, doesn't sound that bad to me. Almost sounds sincere, rather than sarcastic.
Don't worry, tik tok is just new. Wait a few more years and they'll be put through a similar rigamarole, although I don't think it will be as severe as FB. Maybe youtube level?
"...they could buy"

Nope
This is probably just a psyop to embarrass them.
Steam VR has a player that can use your PC to stream stuff, including even controlling your PC desktop. I don't think it's comfortable to have a screen right in your face with a heavy thing on your head, it's easier to watch something in a relaxed posture, moving your neck how you see fit.

I think it will take off when the gear becomes slim and light - like a much newer generation of glasses. Something that as far as I know is still in the realm of sci-fi - but not far.
It dropped 20 percent in after hours... Volumes are different than regular market hours. Nbbo doesn't apply. So prices can be pushed around easily by relatively few players.

Also now retail platforms give the r/WSB crowd even more ways to punt and gamble in the after hours.

Point is, see where the stock ends up over the next day or two...
Any PC built int the last 15 years.
VR is gimmicky, like the Wii. Its full of worlds with great freedom of movement that are designed to hide the fact that you have very limited freedom of movement.
Facebook has been primarily displaced by Tiktok, which is considerably more addictive than FB. It's like zonking out in front of cable TV in the olden days, if the cable TV had access to an essentially unlimited content library of short-form dopamine hits, was capable of determining exactly what you like, and showing you exactly that forever.
Back in the good ole days when people drank coffee after dinner.
Have you tried out Github Copilot yet? I find it super interesting. It turns writing code into more of a write some comments, let it write the code, review the code, realize what I actually need it to do, revise the comments, then tighten up the generated code.

Most surprisingly I can quickly tackle domains that require libraries I don't know because a combination of code generation and IDE hinting means I can write comments and pseudo code and the tool then provides at least a first pass best method to use.

Can't say if I write better code with Copilot but it's worth experiencing!
Too bad he's not Senator Jon Repairer.
Right, if anything -- coffee consumption has only gone down because we've moved on to more efficient stimulants. Either higher concentration/lower cost artificial substitutes or prescription drugs.

Hardly the best example of America getting over an addiction.
Isn't it suspicious that the losses conveniently happened in Africa and Latin America which contribute to a smallest share of their revenue
Despite the fallibility of "our interventions", they have to be weighed against the fallibility of a small number of billionaires.

We don't live in a world that's big enough for millions of Bezos's to average out, so I think it's a fallacy to appeal to a laissez faire, free market approach. To the extent it works and seems logical, that's in the context of a huge economy with millions of people.

Bezos being the product of a (sort of) free market doesn't make his actions free-markety once he's attained his current level of power. Treating him as different from "politicians, bureaucrats, economists, and ideologues" is wrong because he's not fundamentally different.
Ok, thanks for the clarification. That makes more sense.
This was released on iOS a couple of years ago. Still a lot of fun.
I went back to my forums, find myself easily disengaging from Reddit (around the election, Reddit was nothing but stress), Check Twitter maybe 10 minutes a week, go to Instagram once a week because my kid posts his artwork there.

But in general, ALL of the sticky sites aren’t…sticky anymore. I took 2 weeks off at the worst of it and it did an amazing job of breaking the feedback loop.

Facebook tried to take over forums and mailing lists, their market was full of scams (which had me going round and round with Paypal and the bank when ‘Sally’ selling an iPad from Massachusetts sent a receipt with an email from a Guy in Turkey.

Then they started poking around with VR and Meta and man, I really don’t want to use this headset if I’m forced to log into Facebook and you’ve got 6 outward facing cameras, Zuckerberg.

Good. Can’t come soon enough.
I also want everything and everyone to just start working like a well oiled machine as humans live in Utopia, but that is a discussion about fiction, not reality.
Big difference in comparing an entire product area with a specific company and brand. Individual cigarette companies, coffee shops etc. have been going in an out of fashion the entire time. Similarly, the total number of social media users is nowhere near its peak.

I'd say it is actually remarkable just how long Facebook (the site) has been able to maintain relevance, whereas people should have been bored and migrated to something newer and shiner a long time ago (as is now finally happening with apps like TikTok).
I am assume this doesn't refer to "volume of coffee beverage" consumed. As far as I'm aware only the US seems to gravitate towards these extremely large coffee beverages. Other nations drink more coffee, but in smaller serving sizes less diluted by milk/sugar.

Perhaps the US used to drink espressos in the 1940s, I'm not sure. That's if this fact is even accurate.
This is probably already the case : I can access my local government entities' FB pages without logging in to FB. Google indexes the pages so you don't need the FB search feature to find them.
See also: PeerLibrary[0]

[0] https://peerlibrary.org/
The starter for me was that my solar inverter (Fronious) wanted $199 per year for more than three days history, but exposed a very readable JSON over http interface. I had low watt PC handy (HP Microserver G7) doing nothing, so installed Home Assistant for long term tracking instead. After that, it kind of just snowballed.
Interesting that you would name a newspaper of record as a valid outlet for government news/updates. I feel like Facebook could make an argument for being essentially that today - after all, it is where the eyeballs are, which is why people use it for marriage announcements, birth announcements, classifieds, obituaries.... and on and on.
Just get a battery powered rotary smart switch and mount it on your nightstand! Game changer
I think that's probably true in the SaaS world. I'm seeing the same mentality take hold in the open source world with "opinionated" or "curated" software. Tools that have limited options or actively remove options and expect the developer to conform to them. I think it's being driven by this same notion of "options = bad" that we see in UX in general, but maybe they're coincidental, but unrelated phenomena.
i wouldn't for sure, but flexible hours would be a good hint that they cared about what i did more than when i did it.
What are the legal grounds to sue GoFundMe for even allowing this donation drive?

This, btw, is a great reason to look at Bitcoin as a means of raising money for a cause, even if the point is to swap the BTC for local fiat and not to hold long term: BTC cannot be deplatformed short of making it illegal to exchange BTC for CAD.
Again the old tricks, from "How To Lie With Statistics."

I get you a perfect Sample around age, income, sex, nationality, times of day and others. Prove to you 98% of people in this Town love Romantic Comedies.

The only thing I am not telling you, is that I am running the Inquiry at the exit atrium door of a Romantic Comedy movie...
Re: practical effects...

The video "Boston Dynamics Robots Can't be Faked - VFX Artists Explain Why"
https://youtu.be/HQ1WEiMwV7Y is also really interesting to watch.
Rebelle: Experimental online paint software
Your point is taken, but I think it's kind of clear Facebook's only strategies are "lie" and "copy/buy everyone else"
Yes, I think it really depends on what the software does and what I'm using it for (my willingness to invest time).

If it's something I use every day for years on end to make a living, then I probably want to be able to tweak and customize it (and I won't mind doing it). Just don't make me keep doing it because your evergreen software keeps updating and changing how things work.

If it's something I "barely" use, then I have absolutely no interest in customizing it. It should just work.

For example, if all I want to do is securely share a file with someone, then don't make me jump through hoops to use it. If however I was looking for software that let me share organized groups of files, should sort in a specific way, would expire after a certain amount of time, and to track engagement with these files (downloads / views), then are probably a few settings I will want to tweak.

What I think often happens is software will evolve / pivot to do more (maybe sometimes less?) then it was originally designed to do. Unfortunately that evolution some times lacks a different design perspective. You might have been religious about clean and simple in the original product, but now it's a bit more nuanced, and you'll need to be more flexible. I don't think there's an easy solution. We just need to recognize that as features are added, design still needs to be part of that process.
Audience network just took a big hit from apples privacy policy changes. Google controls the entire ecosystem for many users and most of the ecosystem for pretty much all of them, so they can never get blindsided like Facebook did.
You sound like an NFT believer
Yeah you're right. We're essentially entirely in agreement. However, we both see the way Israel [and America and others] are able to use what makes them victims to their advantage. To the point where it is hard to parse through all the data and history of this century and not see it as Israel wants there to always be some one shooting [feeble] rockets into Israel.

I didn't cite the "cutting the grass" quote. My bad.

I don't want to pick a source that others will view as me being biased. I chose Daily Beast and News Week:

"The operative metaphor is often described as “cutting the grass,” meaning a task that must be performed regularly and has no end. There is no solution to security challenges, officials here say, only delays and deterrence....What is "cutting the grass" if not a metaphor for unending conflict?"

"Cutting the grass"—reducing or eliminating actual military threats as they emerge in real time—has been Israel's preferred method, and can be coupled with either of the two others."

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> I'm not endorsing that outcome, I'm just pointing out that when the US does it, it's considered de rigueur, but when Israel does it, it's considered barbaric.

> barbaric

Children keep getting killed :(.
I bring up Yemen quite a bit with recent Russia Ukraine talks. You are right, people quickly overlook things like that. I think that's general tribalist behavior. Not because of the US specifically.

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Is this true? The only downvoted comments or attacks I've had on Reddit, HN, IG, & Twitter have all been the few times I've discussed the Palestine conflict. There's only one other instance on Twitter where there was enough attacking on me that I had to step back, which was about local US socioeconomic politics. I'm not active on any social media so the sample size is not big or even moderate, but stretches for a decade.

I now never favorite/heart/star/bookmark any Palestinian or Israeli related content on any social media just as a rule of thumb. I had also made it a rule of thumb to never comment on it in public either. I forgot you can't delete HN comments after a short period of time.

I co-founded a non-profit, organically growing, camaraderie driven online co-working community. Politics is no place for a community like that, but one off or short discussions can happen. The only topic I can think of that I would never touch with a 10 foot pole in any capacity is Israel/Palestine.

AOC had to take back any thing she said about Israel. Ilhan Omar has been skewered so much by a large portion of people, even when Israeli and/or Jewish people defend her, it doesn't count or what have you. I heard of cutting the grass from Noam Chomsky who was citing it from the person who either coined it or coined it for middle eastern politics. It is not uncommon or strange these days that citing Chomsky's, who is Jewish, views on Israel/Palestine can be seen as indicative of being "anti-semitic". Which of course in my case is not true at all. As I've said, I support Israel and Israelis right to their current land. However this also shows why this is such a hard thing to ever bring up.
I just use a simple group SMS.
I agree, but I’m still very bullish. I think the disconnect is:

1. A lot of people saying this are just older and with less free time. Do you still play video games a lot? I think the question is in part whether VR can engage kids for as long as video games do.

2. The headsets are still too early. Wireless latency is almost there, but not quite. The headsets are too heavy. I think the Quest 4 or 5 are going to be so vastly better that users won’t mind staying in VR for longer, and won’t get bored of it.

3. Content, content, content. Alyx is awesome, but there needs to be 10 of those per year. And with better headsets, and an ever expanding user base, I think content will continue to explode.
I’ve had luck with valerian root and melatonin getting me to sleep, but wake up 12-2 am, even with a “slow release” formula.
> designed to hide the fact that you have very limited freedom of movement.

That highly depends on your setup. The more physical space you have, the better if you want to move.

> VR is gimmicky, like the Wii.

Have you even used modern VR yet before panning it? Google Cardboard is ancient and doesn't count as modern VR. I ask because this answer tends to come from people who haven't tried it.