skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Money sitting in a bank account is fine. It's not using any real resources sitting there. Of course, he might spend it sooner or later, which would probably be bad for everyone except him. So even better (for everyone but him) would be if he converted the money to paper bills, and then burned them all. That would benefit millions of people. (Exactly who would depend on which country's currency the bills were in.)
> Just logging in with your facebook account doesn't mean its suddenly sucking all your life from you and piping it right to facebook.

You don't have to login into Facebook to have it build a profile of you: https://www.vox.com/2018/4/20/17254312/facebook-shadow-profi...
I remember when it was still Musical.ly, man I'm old
Well hopefully they don't, y'know.
> 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.

What blows my mind are all of the blatant scam replies on sponsored content. You'll get sponsored content from, say, Bloomberg or CNBC, and half of the replies are cryptocurrency scams. I've even seen top replies that were 'ads' for witch doctors that will cast spells for you if you send them money on Venmo.

It makes both Facebook/Meta and the sponsored brands look terrible.
There's clearly plenty of money to be made in crypto if you're clever.
I have become convinced that words like “lightweight” and “fast” have lost all meaning in software circles. You’ll get two projects describing themselves in similar terms because they’re comparing themselves to wildly different things. (For example: Hexo and Zola both have a heading on their front pages titled “blazing fast”, but for equivalent loads Zola will be much faster than Hexo, probably a minimum of 5–10×, and Zola isn’t even particularly optimised, just written in Rust.)

The WordPress download is 20MB compressed, 63MB uncompressed, containing almost half a million lines of PHP spread across over a thousand files (~16MB; around 55% code, the remainder blank or comments), over half a million lines of JavaScript in over 500 files (~25MB; around 67% code), a couple of hundred thousand of CSS in 700 files (~7.5MB; around 75% code), and the odd spot of other languages. (This is in languages where more code fairly directly means slower, even if faster code can claw that back; whereas in compiled languages, more code just means slower compilation, and runtime performance is comparatively uncorrelated.)

That’s not particularly lightweight.

Conceptually WordPress isn’t lightweight, either. I’ve never used WordPress myself, but I’ve seen three people using it, and in each case they were being drowned in choices and data fields, using two or three fields out of the thirty or more fields it was shoving in their faces; and the themes and plugins and such made matters considerably worse and more complex; and a lot of that complexity didn’t seem well-structured, though my observation has only ever been brief.
I have been thrilled with Home Assistant Cloud (from the HA founders). It made Google Assistant and other integration setup easier as it provides the ingress.

I also use Tailscale for remote access. It’s nice to have dual paths.

https://www.nabucasa.com/config/remote/
You might have good luck reaching out to companies that produce reproduction carts. They'll often flash modded ROMs. I have a physical cartridge for FF6: Brave New World myself.
All parties with food and drink but no other activity are basically being called cocktail parties now.

If you want to be informal about it, it’s just hanging out.
> All follow an index that's market-cap-weighed, benefiting top 10 holdings more than the rest of the market.

Inflows into market cap-weighted index funds should spread the gains evenly.
Actually TikTok is now the leader with teens. [0] And I don't believe the CCP would allow a sale to a US-based company, least of all Facebook/Meta.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/18/tiktok-usage-topped-instagra...
So - you have an open-source smart contract with code that allows you to do “X”. You go ahead and do “X”. Not sure if hack is the best word here. Exploit, maybe?

Interested to see one of these cases going to court.
how does one measure competence in such a diverse problem space and skillset as software engineering?

how is productivity measured?

does impact matter? some may say the PM and accounts folks may be in the hook there as much as the swe is.

apples to apples comparisons even for swes is nuanced
My bad! I meant any exposure outside of mainland China. However it appears as if Alibaba Cloud may have almost none either. I also did not know Tencent cloud was in double digit Chinese market share now. So yeah, incorrect there. On the whole, Facebook is the one web giant across the world that does not do cloud computing at all or much enterprise.
I suspect the small subreddits will be useful well into the future, while the major subs and the front page will become increasingly terrible.
To be clear, by “wave of consensus” you mean consensus as defined by having the most CPU power.

From the Bitcoin paper:

> They vote with their CPU power, expressing their acceptance of valid blocks by working on extending them and rejecting invalid blocks by refusing to work on them. Any needed rules and incentives can be enforced with this consensus mechanism.
The government should be creating their own services for both state and local governments to create websites. Instead, you got a 10,000 vendors charging outrageous prices that can't even get something like security right. Something like 18F would be awesome for these cities to start using. Unfortunately, politics is very corrupt so politicians are always going to want to pay a friend of a friend a million dollars to say that it was the vendors fault than to do something right, and the vendor will have some reason why it wasn't their fault. Rinse, recycle, repeat.
Except that you need to buy a _lot_ of stocks to cancel out the non-GME positions. It's probably 100x more expensive to short Game Stop this way. Not economically feasible, even if you could find a broker willing to do it.
Yep. This is a very interesting material, and of course it's a research prototype -- but it's not very strong. They list the modulus as 12.7 GPa and the yield strength (= ultimate tensile strength, since the film tears) as 488 MPa.

In comparison, polyimide (PMDA-PPD), which also easily solvent processable, has a modulus of 8.9 GPa, and a yield strength of 350 MPa.

Less equal comparisons involve polymers that are molecuarly aligned by drawing, spinning, or chemical processes. Dyneema UHMEPE has a modulus of 110 GPa and a ultimate tensile strength of 3.5 GPa. Kevlar is similar; it utilizes interlocking hydrogen bonds to convey strength. Even stronger are glass fibers (>4 GPa tensile strength) or PAN carbon fiber (> 6 GPa tensile strength).

You of course lose some strength when you make composites out of fiber -- but irregardless this polymer is many times weaker and softer.
He wasn't a billionaire for years after SpaceX had its first major successes and the "millionaires bad" narrative got retired since Bernie Sanders became one, so that's not going to work either.
Reddit's been shadow banning forever. HN does it, too.
If I couldn't go more than 10 seconds without checking I'd think I had a severe addiction and seek treatment
You can see a lot of Starlink’s peering at https://www.peeringdb.com/net/18747
Agreed - if anything FB has a harder fight than folks like Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft.

FB is really noncommittal about what a metaverse product would even be, which can be interpreted either as secrecy... or they just don't know themselves. From the little we've seen (notable that it's 100% CGI concept reels and 0% anything concrete) it really does seem like just social spaces.

One thing the game studios have figured out is that simple chat is insufficient - Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite have all developed genuine social spaces that center around some activity. FB's metaverse concept seems to have no unifying purpose and lacks some compelling purpose that the games do. To the extent these necessary unifying activities are discussed it's usually hand-waved away as something users themselves will concoct.

More generally, it seems that FB wants to be the substrate of a new social network - but it's not clear to me that that's what anyone wants? What's the role of FB as a platform when "VR socialization" can just be apps on a device - in which case FB's role is solely that of a device/OS vendor, which clearly is insufficient for their ambitions? What does FB bring to the table that Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft, etc, would care about?

If socializing in VR is going to be a thing (big if, but let's assume for a second), why would I go to FB? Why would I not directly go to any number of apps and vendors who have created focused products? I don't need a single unifying platform when I can just... install a number of different ones?
Same thing, different day:

http://www.juliandibbell.com/articles/a-rape-in-cyberspace/
Hi, I'm Syrus from Wasmer.

Have you tried with the llvm backend? I believe the results might be even better there!

$ time ./wasmer run --llvm fill_buffer.wasm -i fillBufferWithSIMD 1000
Hate has always been popular, the punching bag just changes every few decades.
Please test it using Idiocracy's IQ test question:

If you have one bucket that holds 2 gallons and another bucket that holds 5 gallons, how many buckets do you have?
Yes I am in your favor. The joke for the montage I brought up was -- of course you can care about something you aren't personally invested in. Punch line being "if you have prostate cancer, the doctor won't say yeah but I don't so what do I care"
Obligatory https://twitter.com/qrs/status/1395784294451265536

> Smart contracts should be considered self-funded bug-bounty platforms.
Drugs, punk rock, and handmade street pasta
He only target external facing sites, so no doctors were affected.
I've been blocked twice from using Facebook. The first time was when I tried to register with Oculus to unlock my Oculus Go. I only check Facebook once a week, but still keep in touch with some people, so I went through the process of submitting my ID and phone number and recovered my account. It happened again, because I used a non-standard browser, and this time they can shove it. If they want to keep users they shouldn't block them from using their product. It's abject stupidity.
> Until the computer starts telling people what to do

My phone has me well trained. All it has to do is play a short message tone and I'll come running...
The revenue guidance for next quarter is not very great either, so given the user numbers ARPU is not growing
I remember when AOL or Yahoo or MSN was the place to be.

Then myspace or Hi5 was the place to be

Now it's google and facebook.

How long will they last?

Nokia was the phone to have

Then Blackberry was the phone to have

Now it's iPhone

How long will this last?
When you're young they're just called parties lmao.
Which just KILLS me. They’re clearly on another level with the Oculus hardware, it just feels like a deal with the Devil that’s going to have a downside sooner or later and they’re trying to get you locked in before that.
A "straw man" is an intentionally weak opponent in an argument. I don't think I've done that (where, in this thread, would I have the occasion to?)

I'm not comparing physical newspapers to Facebook. The Internet has obviously won. What I've said is that governments of all levels should not be allowed to solely distribute important public information solely via private platforms. A newspaper was just an obvious example, one that already has a legal precedent.
99% of what you see is updates from friends, but are you seeing all of your friends updates?

When a friend posts, I want to see it. Simple. Sometime, years ago, FB decided to pick and choose what to show me from my friend's feeds. That's when I skipped out of FB, deleted my account.
Cash-rich companies (especially the large tech ones) do share buybacks very regularly. Facebook bought back $14.4B worth of shares in Q3 2021, and announced a further $50B worth of buybacks in the coming quarters (https://www.yahoo.com/now/facebook-warns-fourth-quarter-head...). Diluting existing shares to give out employee bonuses are comparatively a drop in the bucket.
Apple gives rare $180k bonuses to prevent poaching
If only banks could say they are sorry that they lost your money cause they accidentally left the vault open for their friends to come raid it.
Money is only one part of the equation, You think regulators in either country will sign off on a deal like that ?
I suspect there is some similarity between language models and the structure of language in the mind, but there's a whole lot more going on behind the scenes in the brain than simple runtime statistical model output. Intentionality, planning, narrativity, memory formation, object permanence... Language models are exciting and interesting because apparently they can do abstract symbolic manipulation and produce coherent text, but I wouldn't call AGI solved quite yet.
Google Does Data Engineering at Scale
Hard to explain! I think I picked up a taste for soda as a kid, I love me a Barqs, any sort of Cream Soda, and a cold Coke on a hot day. That said, I can't drink soda daily or I feel I'll, nor do I drink beer or other carbonated drinks frequently, maybe tops once a week. I drink the most tea out of anything (herbal, green, white) besides water.
No i mean literal space...

I want to build my own PV array and storage as well..
Iris: Student-built robot rover on track to explore the Moon
Is this including all facebook owned platforms (such as instagram and whatsapp, or just facebook.com [and the associated apps])?
Thanks! Another product that I've built, SaaSHub https://www.saashub.com, is an alternative to alternativeto.net :D
I'm hoping for a better looking second life. If they can achieve that..
https://ethereum.org/en/community/online/

Did a google search and also searches on ethereum and ethdev subreddits listed as part of the community, the stack exchange and research board from the link above. There were a couple legitimate discussions about it, none of which really came across as described by the OP.

I did do a search on twitter and also greater reddit, but those posts were in the same vein as wallstreetbets memestock investor posts which I assume people aren't using to base their opinion on this subject.
I largely agree with you, though I'm also rather skeptical.

> Facebook is dying slowly in the developed world, that is true. However it is still growing in emerging markets.

+1, though this is a slow and not necessarily viable bet. Meta makes about 12x more revenue from their USA/Canada ($52/Q) users than their Asia-Pacific users for example ($4.3/Q).

Market share in the USA is extremely valuable, not only for Meta, but for a lot of companies. Apple for example sits at a $3 trillion market cap in spite of Android dominating the global mobile market because iOS captures not the most users, but the most valuable.

> WhatsApp has basically zero monetization right now but billions of users. Huge potential cash cow.

I agree with this. I think there's a lot of potential in WhatsApp, though I also see two shortcomings with betting too much on it:

- WhatsApp is largely used in countries where users are harder to monetize. As stated above, user count matters, but it's not the only factor when it comes to generating revenue.

- Messaging is very competitive. A change in WhatsApp's TOS was widely reported to have triggered millions of new user sign ups on Telegram and Signal after just a few weeks [1]. I don't how accurate or overblown this correlation might be, but I do know anecdotally I text people through many different apps, and have switched the primary app I used to text different people multiple times in the last few years.

> Instagram still has a ton of potential for further optimized monetization.

I think this is still the most straight-forward path to increasing revenue Meta has, and I imagine they're trying to make sure it doesn't fade away like Facebook is.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/24/whatsapp-...
The groups aren’t segmented by freeway vs. non-freeway use, but it’s an important omitted lurking variable. After conditioning on the variable, the takeaway changes.
I used to play team fortress 2. In TF2 whenever you hit an enemy a bell is rung.
I remember laying in bed one night and all I could hear was that bell ringing and I felt like one of pavlovs dogs.
Spouses work these days and more and more people choose not to have kids, optimizing for _their_ life quality rather than someone elses. So I wouldn't say that stress only increases. Stress only increases if you want the stress, otherwise I'd say stress decreases and a person has more and more savings, can afford better life quality, etc.
Happy to be educated if that's what you're here for. I also don't mind being insulted, as that usually functions as an effective signal that I'm not missing an educational opportunity (unless it's a very clever insult, of course).

There's plenty of domain specific information I'm missing regarding cryptocurrency and I welcome discovering more. But when it comes to dealing in definitions -- examining what things are -- I'm plenty happy to continue to go to bat for observations that flow from relevant definitions: where the crypto-supporting bullet points tend to pile up around removed review/accountability (as with KYC) that seems likely to be more fertile ground for scamming, and where they pile up around reinventing existing functionality with marginal-to-questionable improvements (as with international transactions), it's easy to wonder if it's hype.

And when evangelism gets extra aggressive or resorts to tactics of high-control social groups, that doesn't help.
My phone is always with me so it’s just a voice command with Siri of top down swipe to access switch on the phone “dashboard”
For a platform built on user contributions, they got too big (everybody ends up saying the same thing and getting downvoted as a result) and the moderation got hostile to the point you don’t WANT to contribute. Eventually you find the site that used to be fun, with lots of interesting things from interesting people…turned into a chore.
Yes but lets not talk about fb's harming algorithm that amplifies dumb views
> “ETH will be added over the next hours to ensure wETH is backed 1:1,” the protocol wrote.

Where would the ETH come from?
>The limitations to GPT3 codex and AlphaCode seems to be they're relatively weak at selection

This really does seem like the key here--the knowledge apparently is all in the language model, we just haven't found the best ways to extract that knowledge in a consistent and coherent manner. Right now it's just: generate a bunch of examples and cherry pick the good ones.
And C is written in C, and Haskell is written in Haskell etc. etc. :)
IIRC Garamond looks great when set by TeX.
Huh? I typically associate Reddit with the far left, not the far right.
(IANAL) Don't contracts have intent of the contract and in some courts the interpretation of the contract is as important as the contract itself. What was meant versus what it literally says so to speak?
Facebook has been losing users for a long time, but has kept this hidden by only removing bot accounts sparingly, to mask their decline.

But I guess the decline has become undeniable, but I suspect even now they're manipulating the statistics to dampen their fall.
> It seems like many journalists are failing in their primary responsibilities to keep the public informed.

Journalists themselves do NO say that "keep the public informed" is their primary responsibility.

The dominant "why are you a journalist?" answer is "to change the world."
Spare data center capacity is worthless on its own. AWS and others have 15+ years worth of investments in infrastructure and services on top of it, and Facebook needs to have all of that and more to become a real public cloud. It is going to be next to impossible for them to catch up to the dozens of players already in that space.
I think the exploit took place using Rust contracts on Solana.
I don't like to fling poo at anything people are putting their heart into, but... I've been wondering who to be annoyed at about this.

libhunt (along with joyk, giters, pythonissues, libreddit, teddit, opensourceagenda, githubmemory, maybe some I'm forgetting?), is on the list of content-repackagey sites regularly eating up slots in the top 2 pages of search results for the exact name of my wee attention-starved project on ALL of google, ddg, and bing (it even eats 2 of the 5 paltry entries bing bothers to show on the first page of results!)

And, of course, none of the comparisons are relevant.

Constructively: it would be great if the developer would, at minimum, figure out where the roll-off point for not-popular-enough-to-get-decent-results is, and discourage search engines from indexing pages under the threshold.
More likely FBs network effort is the weakest in those markets: less internet penetration, weaker brand loyalty, Fb is also relatively new in these markets, more competition from tiktok and others.

These markets likely to first have user attrition
Hah, the engine that tracks mentions was a separate product. It was built to track brand mentions on social networks. i.e. the reason you'd be coming back to this page. However, as I couldn't market it, I repurposed the whole project to be used as a back-end engine only.
No, what banks do is take most of the money you deposited and make high risk investments with it. Then when the unthinkable happens, and that 0.001% chance that their models said could happen happens, they turn to the government (which means taxes and debt for you) to bail them out.

Neither scenario is good.
"You won't succeed trying to make social media into a video game"

The comment that tells me facebook is on to something.
> most users, of course, are not qualified to do so, and stand to make more from exploiting any vulnerabilities they find than they are pointing for them out.

The incentives are even worse then that.

Participants who aren't active crooks are actively incentivized to not look for vulnerabilities, because the easiest way to make money in this space, but to sell to a bigger fool. The quality of the underlying 'investment' doesn't matter.
It's funny because Zuckerberg isn't even a public figure. I'm sure someone will make some ethical claim, but I've read all the articles and they are hardly conclusive. It's probably better to just wait for a regulatory decision, otherwise you're just going to be reading someone else's agenda.
The 2020 valuation implied that it's very likely Gamestop won't ever make much profit again, whether it bankrupts next year or 20, if it never makes profit the stock is worth $0. And as we've seen through the cycle, this was actually true. Gamestop hasn't made an annual profit in over 3 years. With this "undervalued" gaming cycle you talk about, they made $80m in a quarter which they promptly blew in losses the next quarter and are increasingly losing money, to the tune of $100m/quarter. Instead of a typical small cap value company that is making 15 P/E, Gamestop is doing the opposite and losing that much money, -15 P/E, in a dying, declining growth business. Feel free to buy shares for $100, where every year they give you $94 value back, to sell physical copies of video games... Those are the actual fundamentals.

Gamestop stock value represents a lottery ticket that they will ever make some money again. It's not worth much.
But coffee has just been replaced by sugary soda drinks, laced with 4x the caffeine...
Code is lol
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