skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether you appeal to "democracy" or "free markets" or the trickle down effect or whatever, I think it is incorrect to attribute a weight of numbers endorsing his choices.

The customers and shareholders (and voters and regulators and business partners, etc. etc.) of Amazon did not vote for his yacht.

Bezos is one person with an outsized influence on society and if you don't trust other powerful individuals, it's illogical to give him a pass.

A capitalist and a king and a commissar with comparable powers aren't fundamentally different just because they are labeled differently.
bye bye facebook
Iowa man convicted of lottery rigging scheme granted parole
>Also, I feel like the 2nd amendment should be interpreted to include the right to bear digital arms

The case presented in the article is not at all what the 2nd amendment or any self defense laws are about. This guy was seeking revenge and punishment for an act, not attempting to prevent damage from a imminent threat. The court systems are for dealing with those types of situations. Granted, the court systems wouldn't have helped in this situation, but it's important to make the distinction that this was an attack, not self defense.
Will they be refunding money for the BLM and other similar donation drives?
It was reasonably common for the US left to show American flags where the stars were replaced by or covered by a swastika. The folks showing such flags were saying that the US and/or the US govt was fascist.

I mention that because some/most of the "swastika" flags in this case are a Canadian flag with the maple leaf covered or replaced by a swastika, the message being that Canada/the Canadian govt is fascist.
They finally monitized their products and customers to a breaking point. They run on engagement metrics without common sense or empathy to how fear and anger impact their user's wellbeing.

I most definitely do not need or want a VR immersed version of that toxicity.
>but it shows the lack of discoverability that happens when the list of settings gets long and you have to dig for them. I

A hard to find setting is better than not having the feature to begin with. The main prblen with "modern" UIs is that they are strait up removing feature and acting like its a good thing.

I know it's partially off-topic... but Instagram removing the ability to view content without and account and pretending they did it for the benefit of the users is pure BS and it gets even worse when you consider how agressive they are at requesting your phone number.
This is huge. Facebook is 2% of the S&P 500, it basically dragged the whole market slightly down.
Your examples are not my favorites, but you are right. And even when folks who don't know the field don't dominate, there have been lots of cocktail party conversations that led to massively successful ventures.

I do not go to cocktail parties any more, but I think I was more creative for having endured more regular bullshit sessions with people who thought greatly of themselves, even if I did not. I would not try to "fix" that experience.

But the author did have a number of references and comments about knowledge and knowledge seeking that are useful.
I'm still hoping that Google buys Pinterest somehow and then let it rot.
I got into audax/randonneuring a couple of years back. It's almost just going for long bike rides, but with enough structure to make it interesting and keep pushing yourself. I navigate by GPS (and, frankly, couldn't handle using a paper routesheet like the real traditionalists do), but I love the physicality of having your brevet card and getting it stamped at the control points, and getting it back as a souvenir later with another stamp on (once it's been sent to Paris for official recordkeeping).
The author misses the point that at parties, people are talking to connect and socialize, not solve world hunger, despite the topic at hand.
AlphaCode (DeepMind) Solves Programming Problems on Codeforces
You can also screenshot and print a post on facebook. It's probably cheaper than buying a newspaper.
I agree and disagree. From my view it's like they went mole hunting with a bazooka - and kept making better bazookas. The collateral damage is that many good sites were taken out, or downgraded.

They got a lot of bad sites, but they got rid of a lot of good ones too.

Now google is the modern yellow pages imho. It's more shallow than ever, but it's okay for many, and they can shake down legit sites for adwords to show up.

Totally agree with the main article, sadly however it's like what, 90% of people never go past the first page? And many still assume the top ads are vetted results that are better than all the rest.

Looking forward to leaving google as the yellow pages and encouraging more niche search engines, web rings, and similar.
They don't propagate the same event though. `post_updated` vs `wp_insert_post`.

`post_updated` passes the old and new values: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/post_updated...

I'm the author of a sizable WordPress plugin (in terms of LoC and integration with WordPress) and nothing you are saying is making any sense to me.
FB stock fell today because of tiktok competition. FB is part of FAANG which sets compensation standard in bay area. I think Bay area salaries will stay high for foreseeable future,
Because it is rotten to the core? Because of its utterly unsympathetic upper management? (Ok, Bezos as runner up). Because of all of the deceptive things it has done over the years?
I vote for fireworks at my next party
Ask HN: Effect of Posting CandyCrush to Facebook
What would be the outcome of 1% of Facebook users directly tagging their contacts and telling them to play Candy Crush. Would this drop the stock price more than 20% Does Facebook invest in modeling software to determine scenarios such as these?
I guess the business model of social media companies is coming to fore.

FB has a captive audience, that is aging with facebook and will continue using it.

It is clear why FB purchases IG / WA. They are paying money to capture audiences with money earned from FB.

Going ahead, the cycle will repeat. Once the teens in IG grow into adults, FB will use money from that to buy / make another platform.

In this context, the metaverse makes sense. It is a virtual world, where new SM platforms are churned, with all future populations being part of one or more platforms. FB wants to be the owner of all the platforms.

From a business point of view, it makes more sense, in that, FB can now target ads across platforms, meaning, they target the same number of individuals, but with ads being channeled through different platforms, the ad density comes down, and the feeling of "the feed is all ads" might reduce.
Absolutely false. Some BMW are luxury cars. Some BMW are business/premium trims, and some are fleet rental trims.
And it worked perfectly fine, they only missed TikTok. Whatsapp and Instagram were perfect acquisitions.
No, I don't think that. I didn't even mention that.
Because other companies can also give sizeable sign-on bonuses and they don't inflate their RSU values.
Personally, I applaud decline in engagement with any of the social networks, not just Facebook.
reddit wouldn't be so bad re: free speech if you could ignore all of the non-sense, sadly they push it out to everyone by design
Not true. On Dec 27, 2020, they made it all deductible
No, 200 each way (2 100gbit links).

Not really sure why this is a big deal - IX bandwidth is very very cheap. It looks like seattleIX charges $7500 as a one off payment to add a 100gbit link: https://www.seattleix.net/pr20191218).
There are definitely parts users of HN that are not same, but the conversation is normally at auch higher level and most people welcome a different viewpoint instead of seeing it as an attack.
Her article on 500 lines or less is a great read.
> What features can you really add to Excel at this point?

Aren’t there actually lots of good features Microsoft added in say the last 19 years (office 2003 having, for this argument, a perfectly capable Excel with all the features)? Off the top of my head:

- Ribbon and context-aware toolbox made it easier for infrequent or novice users.

- good default styles for tables, which is what lots of people actually use Excel for

- Better support for actual tables (ie defined extendable ranges of cells)

- OFFSET/MATCH instead of VLOOKUP (maybe this was a culture change. Not sure when OFFSET or MATCH were introduced)

- improvements to default graph appearance (though I still dislike them for just showing the data)

- Lambda functions

- Relational models for data

- bigger spreadsheets

- flash fill(?) which is a magical programming by example thing

- fancy conditional formatting with colour changing smoothly with values

- possibly faster evaluation. I don’t know if it was actually improved

- maybe someday: collaborative editing

I’d like to point out that some improvements were made for power users and others for more ordinary users.
For me, Facebook used to be a place to connect with people as I met them IRL. Now LinkedIn has taken over this purpose of being a digital address book.

But sometimes I get stuck scrolling forever. Maybe that ad revenue is enough for them. I still go to FB for groups and business' pages.
Man, every time I see the total compensation for someone at a FAANG I wonder if I should switch. I get like 205k (cash+bonus, we don't do stock or RSUs) as a senior software engineer at the southern california office of a bay area company. Admittedly we get a truckload of PTO and company holidays (30 PTO and like 17 holidays) and the work/life balance is fantastic, but sometimes I wonder if I'm screwing myself over. All of my friends moved to the bay and took like 300-400k tc jobs at FAANG...
Can I work that role at Amazon (I suppose get fired quickly) and get some value of having that on my resume? Seriously asking.
> The worst one was the derivative of a derivative

What you are talking about already exists, in many different versions at that. I think you really underestimate how varied objects mathematicians works with, they work with so many things that it is hard to come up with original ideas, this idea was already explored close to 200 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_calculus#Fractional...
Funny, most of the pollution of modern cars comes from tires and brakes. Tesla may remove particulates from brakes, but any mild hybrid+ does.
Most network links imply duplex. From this (and the description detail in the OP), I would say they have added 2 links (to the 2 they had previously), each link will have 100Gbps up and down through the IX.
Due to past behavior and FB's justification of that behavior, I quit using the company's services and products years ago. I remain unwilling to be a FB user of any kind.

Good. Keep going. Facebook, doing harm at scale.
Many soft drinks are sugar-free and zero-calorie.
I went to jail. One of the things that I didn't expect is how little sleep it is possible to get in some cell blocks.

In prisons there are often lots of jobs or programs available, so people have to be able to get up in the mornings, but in pre-trial detention there is often nothing, so some people tend to stay up all night long.

And if you want to talk to your buddy, but he is on the other end of the cell block, then you need to scream at the top of your lungs for him to hear you. Especially if many others are trying to talk at once. So you basically get a cacophony of people screaming at each other all night. If your block has a TV and a radio, then those might be on maximum volume right outside your cell too.

I would say over eight years I got an average of four hours sleep a night due to these issues. God knows what effect this long-term sleep deprivation has on all these prisoners, but it can't be good for everyone's mental health.
This was surprisingly persuasive. You're thinking about actual productivity and not just dreaming of avatars sitting at a virtual conference table. (Ick.)

I agree with the other commenter that people are going to keep showing up in factories and repair shops, but there may be a decent sized niche of genuine utility.

Do us a favor: stay independent and stay interesting. Don't get acquired by Zuck. Maybe the MechE's in my family will use your stuff one day.
It’s one of the best 2D RPGs made at arguably the peak of Squaresofts reign. It holds up very well because no such high budget and high talent team has built a 2D RPG since. Closest is of course their own Chrono Trigger
More importantly it's probably to 2 redundant routers on SIX side also so that both can handle HW failure.

On the SIX side the ports are probably already in a redundant chassis but having 2 ports probably still scores you connections to two fully independent chassis in different failure zones.
So do you work for facebook or is your only purpose on HN to try to defend the company?
How is AWS so valuable if the engineers are trash?
And here's to the crypto skeptics who were saying the number is going down
I've been posting a lot of comments recently about how much Half Life Alyx disappointed me, not with any sort of motive but here we go again.

I felt incredibly lame shooting the headcrabs in half life alyx. They were fat and slow, and when I felt like they were going to hit me I tapped the left stick twice to teleport 20m away while they waddled towards me hopelessly. When they hit me, I just kind of shrugged because the experience of being hit in VR is so uninteresting. A lot of the times I would just be annoyed that aiming at a headcrab 10m was hard so I just waited for it to fall close to me then shoot it at point blank range 4 times.

In resident evil 4 (which is now vr but I've no experience with it) the zombies did this thing where they ran at you really fast, but when they got close, they walked slowly. This was because you had low mobility when aiming, so the enemies had to play nice to give you a chance. Half Life Alyx felt like that but way more so. Everything coddled you to the point of seriously breaking immersion for me.

Electric dog? Warns you that it's going to zap a path for like 10 seconds before doing anything.

Machine gunner guy? Shoots for 10 seconds then sits still for another 5 in plain sight while reloading.

Normal combine guys? Mostly just standing out in the open or failing to use cover effectively so you can casually snipe their weak spot.

Felt to me like a poorly curated house of dead line gun game.
But it is doomed to fail unless they act like a startup and can be nimble and pivot quickly. They should have at least had something to demo that anybody could play with before talking about it publicly. This whole thing reeks of "big design upfront". They are gambling tons and tons of money and political capital on something that is completely unproven.

When is the last time a huge company really went "all in" on a completely unproven idea and have it become a success?
A little bit of structure and tradition enhances the experience. You feel more part of a shared culture, and it gives you a reason to stretch a little further than you would otherwise.
Firefox Reality (Firefox for VR) being spun out as “Wolvic”
Circa 2005 reddit was a forum for nerdy young tech people, talking about miscellaneous web links but mostly focused around nerdy tech stuff. Nobody I know who read reddit circa 2005 wanted it to become a white supremacist hate forum. When it started to attract large numbers of white supremacists who deposited their steaming piles of bullshit (hate speech, vicious personal attacks) all over the site, lots of people reading the site (including those who had been there since 2005) were appalled. Obviously advertisers also don’t want to associate their brands with hate speech (or child porn, etc.).
In case you are unaware there is https://hypothes.is which might fit the bill. It has the same issue with sparseness of annotations that you mention for epiverse, but I don't see any way to avoid that.
There definitely are, especially if you have a track record with them and negotiate the consultancy and end client toward it.
You 'get it' in a way that most PMs and designers don't. As a senior product exec in a very large public company with software products used by tens of millions of people, I've been continually stunned by the sheer arrogance of supposedly "user-centric" designers and product managers.
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Why do I feel like I've read hundreds of comments saying "is there a strange lack of criticism about China?"

We literally almost banned TikTok, and statements were made about the necessity of doing it from the President of the United States. For weeks. Almost resulting in a government mandated forced sale.
FBI urges athletes to use burner phones during Beijing Winter Olympics
This shows there are 4 BGP peers at SIX https://bgp.he.net/AS14593#_ix
Your comment is an excuse, not mine: “ignore how good the advertised model is, because a different, much smaller version without all the techniques merely does pretty well on an extremely tough problem set.”

> Any claims to the contrary need very strong evidence to support them and there's typically no such thing in papers like the AlphaCode one.

This is the opposite of how burden of proof works. You are the one making a claim with certainty based off of guesswork, not me. And the paper does actually have a section on this, and finds copying isn't pervasive outside of utility snippets and functions, which also occur in human solutions. It's a weak objection anyway; just the task of translating english prose into the general algorithm you want to apply is already an impressive feat.
Nah mate, sorry. We won’t be doing any banning today.
Exactly. It is no different to the rest of them. This game is simply one tyrant (TikTok) dethroning another (Meta) and all of them make money out of our personal data.

Facebook (the social network) was known to be in decline for years. The real attention is on Instagram and WhatsApp are still adding users. I wouldn't rush to rule them out yet over this.
Reddit should break off all political content into its own site, porn into another, and keep the rest in place. If a post is porn or political, mods can click a button to move it to the dedicated site. This would be similar to the “move topic” functionality from phpBB and vBulletin.

This might solve a lot of problems, but it would create issues on the edge, like r/pics content that may not be overtly political but clearly has an agenda.

Personally I use Reddit exclusively for political flamewars on one account, and in-depth technical content on another account.

I’m starting to feel pretty unwelcome, though, when it comes to anything “misinformarion” related. Once you get banned from one subreddit, if you have a post reported on the same subreddit from another account, then both your accounts get banned site-wide. Combine this with the dragnet, unsolicited bans that some mods are sending to anyone who posts in certain subreddits and you have a real chilling effect.

The average IQ on Reddit is also about 110, which is just boring in most cases. When you can predict the top comments on a thread, reading them is probably a waste of time.
I hope we are saved by the crypto folks aversion to existing institutions such that they never mingle their ideas with the our present legal system to mechanically enforce their social constructs. A base under the control of a crypto superstructure is a form of hell I wish to avoid.
You can download scanned versions of respectable local newspapers for free (or at least, already paid for by taxes) in many US and Canadian cities if you have a public library card, by checking if you have a PressReader resource with the library. For example (just because it's a big city), the New York Public Library offers the service [0]. This is useful if there is interest in reading in-depth content about local news.

[0] https://www.nypl.org/research/collections/articles-databases...
Considering how long I have been sitting here to have a chat with someone makes me realize this is one of those "everyone would like to use but nobody has the time to use" kinda project.

The nichification of social networks suffer from this problem of loving it vs having the time/effort to use it. Maybe a button on HN here would make it more approachable to people but not as a standalone site. Funneling people outside of their common interest space is super hard and unsustainable without appealing a to a boarder group and forming a unique community within itself. But in that process you just lost your original vision.

For this app, I would suggest incorporating features from Omegle. Having a chat section and having a status section would be nice.

Not being dismissive at all but this is just a rant :/
Every social network (including so many bulletins and forums from ≤90's) models the relationships and culture of its initial cohort, and it always becomes self-isolated to that imprint, so as people change their life priorities they leave and the network dies. The same will happen to hacker news.
One of the scary things (for me) when it comes to home automation and DIY smart home tech is that there's so many options that I feel totally overwhelmed. For the last few months I've wanted to do a small setup with sensors around my apartment that measure temp, humidity, air quality - and a few more for my upcoming chili pepper growing setup in the kitchen. There's so many options each with their own advantages & disadvantages - even on the air filter side there's pages of discussions about the various filters possible and how some don't collect particles below a specific size. I certainly miss the geeky/tech circle of friends I used to live near which would always have an friend (or a friend of friend) who was an expert on basically any matter!
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Is coffee stronger now? If you have a latte do all of its gallons go towards "coffee" or just the shot?
It feels like reddit changed in line with the rest of the Internet though.

In 2022 you have the choice of a) "suppressing free speech" or b) "platforming racists" and there is no middle ground and no way to win. You can't pass the buck to moderators.

The choice did not feel so stark in 2005.
I have an index with a ton of room. I've tried a quest 2. It all still kind of sucks. I've also done a VR warehouse thing with the gun. It also sucked. Admirable efforts on the game designers to overcome its limitations, but the limitations are real.
It sounds like it’s more of a digital restoration of some original Japanese content
What if you have two separate ISPs at home (for redundancy) but want your home devices to have stable IP addresses?

Couldn't you achieve this with a simpler/cheaper setup (a single Vultr server set up with their BGP service), and your home devices tunneling everything through it?

And doesn't this use case warrant your own address space?
Sure, but there's no mention of actual working hours, other people are saying that you just have to put in longer days on the other four.

In the EU it's pretty clear the hours a full-time job takes so this - even in a US context - doesn't mean much without the specific detail.
And same lead architect, incredible that both system suck so bad while having so many users.