skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been a year, every single prediction made by the weird GME cult has been disproven and they keep digging a deeper hole with ever more far-fetched and all-encompassing conspiracies. Textbook flat-earth nonsense.

>If you honestly believe front-running doesn't happen

This is also textbook conspiracy hogwash. "You really think that illegal things don't happen? How naive of you. Clearly that justifies our bonkers thesis about how millions of people around the world are conspiring to hide shorts for a single random stock". What does front running have to do with the insane theory that billions of short positions have been hidden for over a year now?

Last year's price action was a short squeeze that morphed into a pump and dump as retail poured into it (fueled by boredom and stimulus checks at the start of the pandemic). Then some low cost brokers ran out of liquidity which forced them to disable the buying of the asset, which paradoxically probably saved a lot of retail customers who otherwise would've been holding much heavier bags if the pump-and-dump kept its momentum until even higher valuations. This plus the general (and probably warranted) anti-wallstreet sentiment gave rise to all sorts of conspiracy theories.

That's it. Literally every single data point out there confirms this scenario. GameStop themselves said as much. The GME doomsday cult has been saying that the rapture (uh, sorry, "Mother of all short squeezes") was imminent based on ever more tenuous and far-fetched theories that always end up failing.

>If you're not digesting what you read and your thought merely mirrors what you're told

Top tier projection right there mate.
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TikTok wasn’t impacted by the iOS tracking update in the same way that Facebook was, in a way that it drove users from Facebook to TikTok?
You're very confident in thinking you know the future.
I don't agree. I don't know your work, but the approach in AlphaCode and Copilot (or the Codex model behind it) is a step backwards for neural program synthesis, and for program synthesis in general. The idea is to train a large language model to generate code. The trained language model has no way to direct its generation towards code that satisfies a specification. It can only complete source code from some initial prompt. The code generated is remarkably grammatical (in the context of a programming language grammar) which is certainly an advance for language representation, but some kind of additional mechanism is required to ensure that the generated code is relevant to the specification. In Copilot, that mechanism is the user's eyballs. In AlphaCode the mechanism is to test against the few I/O examples of the programming problems. In either case, the whole thing is just hit-and-miss. The language model generates mostly garbage -DeepMind brags that AlphaCode generates "orders of magnitude" more code than previous work, but that's just to say that it's even more random, and its generation misses the target even more than previous work! Even filtering on I/O examples is not enough to control the excessive over-generation and so additional measures are needed (clustering and ranking of programs etc).

All this could be done 40 years ago with a dumb DSL, or perhaps a more sophisticated system like a PCFG for programs, with a verifier bolted on [1]. It's nothing new. What's new is that it's done with a large language model trained with a Transformer, which is all the rage these days, and of course that it's done at the scale and with the amount of processing power available to DeepMind. Which I'm going to assume you didn't have back when you published your work.

Honestly, this is just an archaic, regressive approach, that can only work because of very big computers and very big datasets.

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[1] Which btw, is straightforard to do "by hand" and is something that people do all the time. In the AlphaCode work, the large language model simply replaces a hand-crafted program generator with a lot of data, but there is no reason to do that. This is the quintessential problem where a machine learning solution is not necessary because a hand-crafted solution is available, and easier to control.
by 'broken links' i guess you mean https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/3628? it's a bug on the new spec website; we're working on it.
To your point I've always felt the low fidelity/pixel-art of JRPGs in the 16-bit days allowed your imagination to fill the gaps to create a special impression. It allowed your mind's eye to create something special - between the graphics and accompanying artwork - that was lost as the series advanced visually. While FF7 was a special entry in the series, the shift to a more traditional anime style was completely inconsistent with the visual themes & aesthetic I'd built in my mind with all the previous entries, and it just went downhill from there. Even as a pretty die-hard JRPG fan at the time, I couldn't get through FFX.
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Are the different laundry programs on a washing machine due to the design failure? My oven has separate knobs for temperature, heat distribution and grill; is that a design failure?

My car has both a steering wheel and a separate indicator light control; rain sensors and a manual wind screen wiper setting; light sensors and a manual setting for the headlights.

Are these all examples of designers' inability to make decisions?
I wish there was a straight forward, linear way of calculating prison time for dollars spent. IMO there should be a 1:1 correlation (or something along those lines) for how much prison time someone does for each dollar.

It seems that a decent number of people do relatively little prison time for stealing millions of dollars while others that steal a much smaller amount still spend a long time in prison.
you know what you're right. now that I think about it nothing in computing can ever be considered a hack, because computers are merely following the (poorly construed) instructions given to them. your post meaningfully adds to this discussion

furthermore courts all operate on phoenix right "gotcha!" rules where one slight mistep in a business contract means the other party can go Scott free off the hook, and not have to worry at all about reasonable intentions or fairness
don't know about the downvotes, maybe it's the use of the slang. I guess I like SVG fine enough, but probably that is because I am unfamiliar with working intensively with other formats.

on edit: when saying maybe it's the use of the slang it's just to indicate my general feeling that HN downvotes are an insoluble mystery, even someone as wonderful as I gets downvoted at times, and is that fair? The answer is no, it sure isn't.
Wagtail core developer here – here are our sprint notes [1] that demonstrate what this funding means for us in practice. The TL;DR; is being able to address long-term technical debt in the UI, improving accessibility throughout, having proper UI customization capabilities – as part of a redesign & new features.

[1]: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/discussions/7739
I can't imagine not using on Arrakis any head cover and sunglasses.
It’s called “human interaction”. People ask things, sometimes they are annoying. You know, “humans”. It seems every annoying/uncomfortable thing nowadays is automatically oppression. What do these people want, some kind of law to suppress other people’s expression?
Opera used to be an amazing browser that wasn't open source. I view Vivaldi in a similar manner.
My job is to develop solutions, not to write code. I'm using GitHub Copilot today and I will gladly use the latest and greatest AI to help me in my work.
Never heard this, thanks for sharing.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_bonds_robbery

Pretty crazy they would just walk around with £300M in a briefcase.
You wanted to say: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-57520169
Facebook has to wake up. You're not a serious company anymore if you don't build your own phone, running on your own silicon.

If you want to control eyeballs, you have to control the device.
I haven’t worked at FB in almost 5 years, and it’s definitely a clear milestone on growth not being massive always, but shaving 2 dimes off the market cap seems, abrupt. You’d think the cap might slow its growth more gradually and (if DAUs go up again) gain more gradually.

I appreciate companies only release rock solid figures on a certain cadence, but there’s like a zillion analysts who can read tea leaves.

IMHO tech equities are pricey in general, but for someone who wants FAANG exposure this might be the bargain at Barney’s Upper East?

I hold no FB stock btw.
> 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.

I agree. I disagree however that VR is already here. It isn’t, not even close. And it will keep getting further away as we push for higher resolution and higher frame rate displays.

I think there needs to be some way to power this thing all day long. Maybe Apple was onto something with its Apple Watch strategy. Create a minimally viable product and only introduce new features very slowly so you can still claim all day battery life in a happy path. Tl;dr I don’t think the limiting factor is VR itself but rather how do we power it. I don’t want something on my head that I have to charge every fifteen minutes.
Bureaucracy is white noise no matter what language is used.
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It can’t. Period. That’s simply not how conversations work.

I mean if you cannot agree in that basic premise then there’s no hope in ever having a contextually specific conversation because someone can just shift the goal posts whenever it suits them and claim that was always the narrative.
Corporations exploit the benefit of the doubt. It mustn't be extended to them.
Reconsidering where I call home: I want a three-bedroom house near a ski resort
OP here. Happy to answer any questions about the post.

On the other hand, if you have experience building links and see any red flags or have suggestions, please let me know. I’d appreciate any feedback or pointers.
Oh oh, they're coming for the shape rotators!
What’s so hard about understanding consciousness?
The standard advice is that you're the one coming up with the list of tasks required to achieve an agreed upon goal, and concocted features to be added are a new, additional contract.

Stick to your list, practice establishing boundaries. If you're just working on whatever their whims bring to the table on any given day and can't control the tasks and outcomes to which you've already agreed, you aren't a contractor, you're an employee without benefits.

"Banging out code" is nothing special, yet here they are knocking at your door?
Of course not. But comments don’t have to be hate speech to be damaging nonsense. And things don’t even have to be damaging for them to be too stupid for me to want to read.

I only have a finite number of hours in the day, so why would I waste them reading stupid comments from people latching onto conspiracies because they need some form of belief system to cope with the chaos?
ads don't work without tracking. that's the whole point
VR/AR is already an established and necessary modality at several industrial use cases. It's definetly NOT a gimmick. Think of it as a HUD with situational awareness.

Games are not really a good example of why you would want to have that. Not at least yet.

See for example

https://sitevision.trimble.com/

VR as a new way of human existence as the current metaverse hype claims - for that, I've not seen any concrete proofs of yet.
I'd love to now see Google follow suit for Android. They have air-cover now that Apple has done it.

And, if they don't, I hope Apple beats them up on how this is a unique feature of iPhone re: protecting your privacy - the value of which was just quantifiably proven by how much it impacted Facebook to block it.
Meta is the most owned stock (2% of all invested) by institutional and superinvestors with an hold medium price of 339$ (source DATAROMA https://www.dataroma.com/m/stock.php?sym=fb). This crash would not be painless for the whole market.
What rules of the game? Apple has no obligation to make Facebook a profitable company. If anything, the lesson here is to not tightly couple core parts of your business model to a third party.
I've commented on this earlier as well (and so have a lot of HN users) . The problem isn't ads (at least for me). It's the pervasive surveillance and tracking that FB et al use. Good riddance if another player changes the rules.
Is "code is law" also valid in real life (TM)?

It is quite catchy, "code is law". But law where? In some virtual crypto land?
https://jobs.lever.co/woven-planet?

Currently we are using 2 ATS's - this will be consolidated at some point in the near future. Level 5 is all on Greenhouse.
>Or Linux but even that requires getting a PC anyway

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here, if I buy, say, a Dell computer with Linux pre-installed then I don't think MS gets a cut? They don't own the PC platform.

Or maybe you mean that most prebuilt PCs come with some OEM Windows license even if you don't intend to use is, which is fair enough I suppose.

Not that it really matters for desktop PCs where Windows is king anyway. Although from personal experience I'd argue that the "essential product" these days is less Windows itself than the Office suite which is still the gold standard in many institutions.
This comment sums up the state of consumer tech so well.

"Consumers don't want it, but they will use it anyways, because Apple/whoever said so"
Who would want to buy a Facebook phone and with what operating system? I think “Social OS” could have been a good idea, but the actual Facebook App sucks.
The number 1 reason FB has missed is the IDFA change from Apple. It has completely crippled their ad business and their effectiveness and the majority of spend I know has gone to Google.
When FB was clearly 1st or 2nd in all GEO's around the world, they now are not even in the top 3 in many GEOs.
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Thank you, will check it out!

Some of these raw looking indie games have turned out to be gems. Thinking of Faster than Light, Loop Hero etc. It's hard to gauge the game-play from a quick look. Not even "similar to" searches help too much. It's not really about the money spent, but rather about the time both finding and then playing. I wish I had a list of curators that I really dig. So far, hit and miss.
They're effectively a kind of bulk resellers. AWS may choose to be happy about it (happy customers keen to spend more on services) or not (less AWS income). It really depends on how the management sees it.
It's funded by the US army. They clearly want a material they can coat their tanks, etc with to defend against anti-tank missiles.
Who in their right mind would buy a device from Facebook, it would be surrendering your own, and the right to privacy of anyone around you.

I'd almost say any device by Facebook should be made illegal unless you notify people close to you that you're "monitoring".
Make sense thanks.
This, absolutely nobody thinks solana is decentralised
I've been on it since February of last year. My day job uses a remote desktop and I'm on video conference calls 4+hrs a day. Starlink was unusable until late summer because I would see 50+ outages of 3 seconds or more during the day. (3 second blips are where it seems to really interrupt zoom and vdi)

It really started coming together in the fall and I would say since November it has been very usable. I would say it's easily as stable if not more stable than the 10/.7M dsl it replaces.
Except Google isn't like Apple, their business model depends on harvesting Android users, see yesterday's thread about force activation of movement tracking.
I wasn't aware of the name of this. But often during code review have asked why some code is being removed, and asked the developer why that code was there in the first place.

Some googling found this article on the origin of the phrase "Chesterton's fence".

https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
> Math can be checked nearly instantaneously, so the "might" becomes inconsequential my small.

Can it though? Pickovers 2013 edge response comes to mind, can hundreds of pages of a proof based on axioms that require particular expertise to understand be checked instantaneously? I think it would easier to replicate the typical psychology experiment than to check the math in that case.

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23670
Good on Apple, I'd buy a new iPhone immediately if it wasn't for CSAM.
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why be part of the solution? This is great work, much nicer than the so many predatory sites that claim to list alternatives only to pump up some trek they built and try to charge for....

Keep up the good work!!
How can there be errors in math papers if math formulae are trivial to check formally using a computer?
Did the Pelosis have comparable positions in FB and PYPL?
As a longtime non-tech Austinite, I would say the things that made Austin weird and affordable—and wonderful—are fading fast despite the hype. City leaders hyped a $7.1b transit tax package (my taxes for the year went up $800 for it) but it seems to only (literally) pave the way for developers to tout promised rail lines without the infrastructure (bus circulators) to even get to the grocery store, there’s a plan to build a tunnel through downtown and under Ladybird Lake for a rail line while plans are being made to widen the highway running through town to many as 20 lanes in places. Central neighborhoods with tree-lined streets are being targeted for massive development even as city ordinances prohibit a homeowner to rent space as a garage apartment. Many longtime favorites, restaurants, music venues, have closed. The best barbecue joint left for a small town a couple of towns away from here. The city is looking to loosen the protection of trees so developers can chop everything down. The Almighty Dollar is more important than local color or the urban canopy. Affordability is becoming a crisis for anyone not working tech. So, please stay away—unless you’re willing to work to make Austin do the innovative things it only says it does. And y’all, it IS really hot here…!
because we haven't learned yet how to prepare for and maintain a good relationship to have a happy marriage.
> Expect about $50 to 55 per IP now.

So 254 * 50 or about USD 12k to 13k? That’s the only cost and you get to own 254 IP addresses? Are there ongoing costs?
It can be trivial to see an unfixable problem.
Nonsense, it was a straight-up troll. The fact a comment can masquerade as sarcasm doesn't somehow rehabilitate it.

There are a million permutations of unproductive contribution which are already "effectively banned" and those haven't turned Hacker News into Reddit. And your belief that readers need to be trained to look for sarcasm is rather paternalistic and a touch condescending. (Sarcasm has been largely ruined by the internet anyway; see: Poe's Law.)
I agree the approach itself is quite brute force heavy. There is a lot of information that could be used and I’d hope is helpful like grammar or language, traces/simulations of behavior, etc.

But when I say alpha code/copilot is good I’m referring solely to the difficulty of problems they are doing. There are many papers including mine that worked on simpler problems with more structure used to work on them.

I expect follow up work will include actually incorporating other knowledge more heavily to the model. My work was mainly on restricting tree like models to only make predictions following grammar of the language. Does that parallelize/fit well with a transformer? Unsure, but I would expect some language information/genuine problem constraints to be incorporated in future work.

Honestly I am pretty surprised how far pure brute force with large model is going. I would not have expected gpt3 level language modeling from more scale on a transformer and little else.
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I am a new user and wanted to know the easy methods to forward Hotmail to Gmail
can you name some of them?
What’s unique about your solution?
Because 99.99% of the population don't really need a VPN on their browser: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
> the fact that a company can do this to another company

I don't necessarily believe Apple are being deliberately adversarial here. Perhaps I'm being overly naive, but to me Facebook's woes are a side-effect, not the primary aim. Apple's change is to improve privacy for their paying customers, and if Facebook (or anyone else) relies on invading that privacy to make money ... tough. The window has closed. Time to figure out an alternative.
In some cases they are. Global config needed to support a local module(As in a PHP app depending on proper Apache conf) kinda sucks because it can create conflicts that can only be solved manually or with a container.

Settings that can't be done via GUI suck. I shouldn't have to dig through some other app and copy and paste an IP address to use your thing.

Settings should not have to change for common activities. US vs Metric should be a document property. I should not have to change settings to properly view a certain document.

Settings without sane defaults suck too.

A good setting is "Here's a discovery server, but you can change it". A crappy setting is "Select an API version for this global daemon that 5 other things use, and only 3 can work at the same time".

Anything that can by dynamic and autodetected... probably should be unless there's a really good reason.
I think you are forgetting a gigantic market that is worth billions upon billions of government funded cheese: schools. Chromebooks have the education market down. Damn near every single school that wants to upgrade its tech is getting a chromebook. Schools need google docs. Schools need a low cost machine so that they can buy a thousand of them. Schools need something incredibly locked down. Schools are a source of income that is not only great but also gets people used to using google products as that is all they have learned (you ever wonder why Adobe and Microsoft work so closely with education?). To say that chromebooks have an "unimportant" market share is just flat out wrong.
Because the current state of the art of automated proof checking is still trying to check all the proofs you'll see in a undergraduate program and nowhere near able to check state of the art proofs.
All the world’s Bitcoin can only pay 2.43% of $30T US national debt
> I'd love to now see Google follow suit for Android

You hope that google, an advertising company, will follow apple, a hardware/service company, to block trackers and diminishes the effectiveness of ads?

Even if, by any chance, google made a move against tracking, I only believe in google reducing the effectiveness of their adversaries (like removing third party cookies) not themselves.
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I'm not surprised. The complete company doesn't provide any actually required product or value, just aggregating "users". And the company has the worst imaginable reputation (closed-source, awkward and stupid censorship, clear name enforcement, advertisement, users are not customers but a resource, and much more).

Interestingly this article was featured here recently:
https://luttig.substack.com/p/dont-forget-microsoft

It doesn't talk about software, development, technology or service. Merely, buy others. If you don't innovate yourself you have to buy quickly everyone else before they can harm you. That is what Facebook is doing.
There's a colorblind mode in the settings.
As it is said here frequently, if your revenue depends essentially on a single actor (as is the case), your business is doomed by definition.

Cf: all those people who depend on a google project to survive.

This is the same, but at scale.