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The existence of VC funding is directly responsible for teachers starving? I don't see how that follows.
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That may be a confusion of different grades of trust. For example, the difference between trusting someone's intent versus trusting their capability or trusting an outcome in an imperfect universe. Alternately, the degree to which one cooperates in advance of getting verification. A "measure" of trust, if you will.

Either way, if you insist on an excessively narrow definition of trust as being "never verifying", then yes, they're mutually exclusive... but only because it's circular logic.
Very nice. I've had some great conversations recently with HNers and wondered if there could be a "Who's Networking" monthly post for different topics.

Will definitely try this out!
> As recent court finding revealed this is most likely a lie

You can of course link to this court finding, right?
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I'm not sure that example is censorship so much as "You spoony bard" tier creative license with the translation. It added color to the game.

One of my favorites from the same game... When Figaro Castle is set on fire, one of the imperial guards says "Fire! Fire! Heh heh heh..." implying that he is Beavis.
It sounds like you've been speaking in bad faith then, since this is a large reversal from what you'd said earlier.
I disagree. Our tastes migrate, and what satisfies us yesterday may look bogus today. I remember being blown away by the ch of Terminator 2, which looks very pale nowadays. Still a good film though.
Because it's largely not an experimental science, but rather is groups of people convincing themselves they know what someone is talking about.

As the article pretty much says.

The article also suggests an "exceptionalism" of maths in that their results hold up even when their methods don't. In other words math papers are full of "unimportant flaws and errors" but even though that's the case when corrected or verified, somehow the conclusions of the papers mostly hold up, in the author's opinion.

But I tend to think this is more because, math is groups of people (and formal verification systems) convincing themselves they know what someone else is talking about, so confirmation bias is probably in effect.

The limitations of a self-consistent set of axioms after all...

You may say that formal verification systems are perfect oracles... But if papers have "unimportant flaws and errors" it's possible that those systems have them, too, right? It's also possible that as those systems were written by people, they reflect and somehow seek to confirm the biases of those people or their understandings (or misunderstandings) about mathematical knowledge.

So I don't think maths is quite as exceptional as this author hopes it might. Tho Maybe it is
“I’m too busy cleaning up after these old farts to give a damn about which text editor I use. Hell, all of their services are moving to three micro instances in AWS at the end of the year anyway.”
I suppose it would be wise to find out what your local laws say. Whether not doing any of this right at the start could get you in trouble.
Because it's the topic of the comments?

What matters more than the article we're all commenting on?
All sales have an equal amount of buying, and all buying involves an equal amount of selling.

There's never a net movement in one direction.
Friday is spent weeping and drinking.
I did. And I still do.
Facebook used to mean two things
- Facebook.com and the Facebook mobile app
- The company Facebook which owned the two aforementioned products, instagram, messenger, whatsapp, oculus, portal...

The second item here was rebranded to Meta, but the Facebook site and app are still Facebook. It's just the overarching company is Meta
We haven't got to reading the Doom book yet, maybe once we do! Although for now we're likely going to focus on developing this one some more, if we manage to get the time.
The earlier days of big airlines involved mostly pretty long distance travel. So the issues were mostly of a different nature.
>and driving all potential profits to near-zero with zero vendor lock-in.

>Hell, the VCs will run away screaming when you get the 'zero vendor lock-in' part of your pitch.

Well there's your problem, right there. Stop looking at yourself as a financial frigging instrument. You make effing machinery. Not hold people logistically hostage. This is why there is no trust in industry anymore. This is why the same bloody handful of people are sitting on top of everything. This is why people have about had it. Can't solve a damn problem without making half a dozen more. Make tractors. All standard parts. High quality.

But no... Can't do that. Gotta try to exploit the rubes. This is why everyone feels like the damn game is fixed. The same power hungry assholes are the ones all sitting on the damn capital.

Anyone wants to try to compete? Lock em out of capital access! Start organizing? Lobby!
Even if they can't outrun Omicron, the lockdowns got them to the point that vaccines were available.

That's really huge.

Now, even if Omicron rips through the population, you will have a small fraction of the deaths that you would have otherwise.
This would be an interesting but perilous pivot... trying to get into cloud infra at this point seems like an insane idea. What would even be the attraction for company to want to run on FB cloud vs one of the established players that now have a decade plus of real world operations experience from running 3rd party customer workloads?

If we are spitballing ideas, If I am Zuck I'm looking at figuring out how to buy Valve or build a gaming platform. I don't know how they can be successful in whatever the fuck the Metaverse is without a gaming/media platform.
I thought we would never find cure for HIV. This is such huge news.
This was true with Windows 3.1. When I finally installed it I soon bought theme packs and delighted it making it into an expression of my interests. Accessibility was also much improved over DOS and even GEM and Geoworks.

Moving to OS X was such a disappointment in comparison.
If democracy can't survive Facebook then it probably was doomed already. Similarly with trying to live in civil society when there are already fellow citizens full of violence and hatred; FB might give voice to what is already there and already broken but isn't really the cause.
> While I don't love FB as an entity, as a business they are making fucking bank. They are running a printing press, and the world is eating it up. Y'all need to switch to decaf or something. Their numbers are truly staggering.

Precisely. It's actually a very long term battle between Meta, Apple and Google. Not even a widespread outage can stop them.

It would be a mistake to write them off immediately over this atrocious earnings call, no matter how much I think of them as a mafia. Business-wise, it is far from over.
> my house has race conditions after power outages

I'd be inclined to find something with an SNMP counter that counts up either "seconds since boot" or "megabits of traffic passed" or whatever else and have a script that runs shortly after the RPi boots to reboot the Pi if that counter if below some threshold.

Running this from the pi will query the uptime on my router in milliseconds:

snmpwalk -v 2c -On -c public 192.168.2.1 .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.1.1.0

You could have a startup script on the Pi do something like "wait until you get a valid reading of this uptime and if that reading is less than 180000 [3 minutes], then sleep for N minutes [long enough to not double/triple reboot on a power outage] and reboot the RPi (or restart HA)"

If HomeAssistant needs to be recycled after every router reboot (not just on a power dump), have that script run in a cron job looking for an uptime less than some threshold and rebooting the Pi.

It might feel inelegant or even "gross", but I look at it as just reliably automating the fix and therefore better than what you're doing manually already.
> closed source Javascript codebase was taken

The full Javascript codebase is downloaded to the client upon loading the original Wordle website, only code directly available to the client was ported over to GitHub.

> It even contains the original 'Copyright 2021-2022. All Rights Reserved.'

The copyright part has been updated to instead give full credit back to the creator of the original Wordle site (copyright is a very loose term when it applies to websites - derivative works are typically fine as long as source is disclosed, credit is given, and there aren't any advertisements/paid upgrades).

> the privacy policy contains the original 'wordle@powerlanguage.co.uk'.

That was a bug in the way I ported over the code, I accidentally included a Cloudflare proxy email that I must have missed, it's been updated now and thank you for pointing that out.

> made open source under a different licence? Also using the same name? How is this not theft?

This isn't a Wordle "clone" and doesn't blatantly rip off the original Wordle site (unlike many others), rather this is a direct fork of the original project. I have multiple mentions crediting the original creator and linking back to him (within the README on GitHub as well as on the website itself). The purpose of [redacted] is to ensure that there is always a version of the original Wordle site that will remain available for free. As for the licensing, I chose a license that would require anyone using [redacted] to give credit and disclose source, ensuring that all further forks and derivative forks would point back to the original Wordle site and would have to use the same license to continue the requirement of giving credit where credit is due.
A well-designed home automation system will still work with manual controls and/or if the system is offline.

I have smart devices everywhere yet I can still adjust the thermostat manually, turn on lights using a normal switch, set the house alarm using the keypad etc. However, I also have a 'Night' scene in Home Assistant which sets my alarm to night mode, turns off all the lights in the house and sets the thermostat to night temperature all with a single tap and all over the local network.
Most people aren't engineers. Depending on the software you might have people begging for settings.
Opera seems fine, though it may have been fixed.
Most of these are severely exaggerated, in practice (in the context of your starting assertion). You can find individual cases to support any assertion against either party.
Everyone that knows the extent to which they're complicit in destroying societies does hate them. As for their popularity, yeah I guess you could call a monopoly "popular" but that's just because there isn't effective competition... because of Facebook's anti-competitive practices.
Try flying in 3-dimensional space in real time without both a conceptual and causal systems understanding of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila_melanogaster#Connec...
I read a lot that Amazon has a challenging culture. Is it just in dev/tech roles or is it a culture thing?
I wouldn't go so far to say that FB would ever be a resume negative. It really depends on what their experience there was like. Some really great people went to work for FB after making bank a Google in the early days and I would gladly work with any of the folks from that stage of FB. Post that period there was some serious internal culture problems (performance culture SMH) and yeah... I would say most of the good folks (that weren't properly isolated from that misery) left and there was a dark age of FB engineering as a result.
I think they recovered from this somewhat but these days it would need to be a case by case basis when I interview a candidate and get an understanding of their time at FB, what they worked on etc and with who.
Speaking of censorship, I swear there was once a parody of Right Said Fred that went "I'm too meta..." and yet Google finds no evidence. Not even when using keywords like "yankovic" or "demento". I want the lyrics!
Facebook out of FANG in a couple of years.
Well I ditched windows in '01 having used it since the 3.11 days, and have never looked back. Even when I had to compile Slackware from scratch. I guess like any OS you need to stick with it. If the graphics card isn't compatible change it out.

I resent Microsoft for releasing that software when I was in college because it was adopted so quickly I was forced to use it rather than a unix based system, and that did real damage to by professional development. As an OS, Windows 98 was incredibly bad software, crashing constantly with technicians reduced to what can only be termed 'strategies of superstition' to repair the never ending stream of downed machines. It was a total nightmare for everyone involved and Microsoft proved why to never, never, never, never use their product again.
This is a venture-backed tech community, so it's pretty much about making bank. Also, it regularly celebrates big rounds and exits for other ethically questionable companies, so there's really no moral high ground to be had here.
And that is the serious problem in this world.
It's not about Nyxt "entering Zettelkasten space", since it's philosophically not an island "app". It's a well designed tool with powerful interfaces to pass data into and out of the application.

For example, some power users already integrate Nyxt captures with org/org-roam, so it's "already" Zettelkasten friendly, in a sense. Whether the devs plan to branch towards that, I have no idea, but it should be already possible to integrate Nyxt with org-roam (maybe even some spiffy interfaces like the one demoed in OP).
They don’t have a very diversified revenue stream despite trying various side businesses.

Google and Microsoft have had the same business model forever .
I admire how focused you are on drive & gmail search quality. I have a lot of concerns about using user data to improve search that are larger than this specific feature or discussion. This leads me to implement strategies to reduce new data generated, such as loading URLs directly instead of accessing them from search. I’d like to conclude by conceding your approach will generate the better results, but that the best search results aren’t what I’m optimizing for.
I agree. And I think that the constant BS claims of certain Lisp advocates actually damages the Lisp community. Especially the silly “I am smarter because I use Lisp” claims you often see in Lisp articles. My answer is always: OK great. Why don’t you instead first build some impressive stuff in Lisp and then show us how Lisp made it possible for you to build it 10x faster. Then you might actually make people believe you. Especially given that pretty much all successful software out there is written in (or run on top of) C/C++.
Criminal proceedings launched against Facebook over false cryptocurrency ads
> The addictions you describe, porn, YouTube, gaming and what you are doing here are in this theory related to dopamine. You seem to have kicked it or you can't reach your level anymore.

I felt uneasy about my relationship/marriage before going heavily into gaming and youtube. I think those two just were a way to not listen to my own thoughts and continue with normal life.

> Sometimes you need to do something extreme, shake things up or pick a fight and feel alive again.

I did something extreme last week which not even in a throwaway account I feel comfortable mentioning (nothing illegal of course) and I haven't felt this alive in years. Hell there are some nights I haven't been able to sleep remembering what I did last week and remembering with a smile.

> I don't know where you are at with this, but love does not rekindle on command. Just some chemical in your brain and everything is different.

Very true

> Others gave you some really solid advice here, sorry I don't have any.

Thank you, your post was very insightful nonetheless.

> Just be careful, this can be a very lonely planet.

Quoting myself from another comment:
"I've never understood the worry of how you die. Yes if I divorce and never marry again I'll die lonely, for sure. But should I be miserable for 40 years of my adult life just to not die lonely? I prefer to try to be happy for the good years that I have left instead of worrying and acting now in preparation for my death."
People who are turned off by this language are not the people the team wants. They want engineers who feel deeply satisfied when things work and work well because those are the ones that will obsess over the consumer experience.

If you aren't the sort of person to feel any sort of "delight" about good tools, then the job probably isn't a good fit for you because the responsibility of the job is to build tools.
Social media represents everything I hate, but Twitter's usecase & userbase is further up in toxicity than Facebook imo.

I wouldn't say FB represents everything I hate, as I mainly use it as a contact book.

"Hacker News" also hates crypto, Tesla, Brave, and other random things and I don't think the same way about. (I wonder why that is? </rhetorical>)

TLDR: speak for yourself, not all "hackers".
paypal also had a really bad dip (again) for really no good reason. everyone i know in the US uses paypal to split payments and to send money to others.
Stocks are always very sensitive to the slope of the profit curve. FB didn’t just miss earnings they also said next quarter will be lower than projected that’s generally going to see a significant drop.
With the help of the FCC (1968 Carterphone) and US Justice (1974 US v ATT), no?

If Apple (and IBM) had been banned from communicating through long distance lines, except with ATT's permission, then it's hard to see how Western Electric (aka ATT) wouldn't have taxed all the nascent PC companies and retained enough profits to remain larger.

Edit: And on the later, iPhone side, that was the luck of power dynamics (single strong device manufacturer, bargaining against multiple competing cellular providers) coupled with phone company executive shortsightedness. If the cell phone industry has been less diverse (e.g. original ATT above), nobody would have felt the need to grant Apple any concessions.
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They have only 2 DC, what exatly can they sell, on top of that they built it for Facebook so how is it marketable?
I consulted long ago, but I just didn't really enjoy looking for clients, thinking about taxes/deductions, invoicing, and the like. I'm always open to helping out with consulting, but it isn't something I want to go out of my way to seek out.
Literally nobody was arguing this, though. The OP's outburst about the "vitriol" on this topic also seems pretty overly dramatic, tbh, and has done wonders to derail things because it hurls personal insults.
>thinking it was trying to improve and have a positive impact on the world

Were you like a very early employee or are you just that naive?

FB's intent became quite clear, quite fast in their history. Like, remember when they became so famous for their lack of ethics that even a hollywood movie came out whose plot is pretty much only about that?

And that was 12(!) years ago ... so, I am truly wondering, from where exactly did you get this idea of a company trying to change the world for good?
I used to work in AWS, and had a less-than-positive experience with the amount of hours I worked in Amazon. I hope that reduced-hour work becomes successful inside Amazon and out, but I worry that those in the position will sleepwalk into working far too many hours, as is what happened with me.
I've been trying to figure out why I don't like the new Star Trek shows and I think your thoughts explain it. The old shows had plots. The new ones are just pretentious and try to get us to like them because "look, I mentioned Picard and Voyager, so I'm cool, right?".
In Iceland, 1 in 10 people will publish a book. Very few of them will get rich off it.

The human need to express is older than agriculture. It's older than civilization. Creation is an essential part of what it means to be human.
Yes absolutely since that field will only continue to grow. Make cloud computing super beginner friendly like Heroku.

I think an opportunity can be found in approaching search. They already have so much data about what people are interested in, and they can start by perfecting Facebook Marketplace to a simple user-friendly successor to Craig's List.
The stress only increases in the next stages of life (spouse, mortgage, kids).
I disagree. The vast majority of SWATting has not been considered worth prosecuting, much less targeted hate speech directed at women. We are nowhere near the absolute minimum that societies enforce in-person.
The phone carriers. They charged a fortune for data, restricted useful features on your phone (I remember one model which wouldn't play non-DRMed music because they wanted to boost their revenue), and things like mobile apps were held back by the way the carriers would look at your finances and decide how much to charge just for the privilege of being listed. When Qualcomm was getting started with BREW we looked into it for a few customers but even a modest business would get something like the _MINIMUM_ $50k listing fee for each carrier, adjusted up based on your perceived ability to pay, and they wanted more than 30% of the app pricing, too.
I've been pretty lucky getting 4 days a week at 80% plus health care, at several locations. Some of them had existing policies that 80% was the least you could work and still get health care though.

It may be that 3 day is pushing it too far, even at 50% instead of 60% of salary (or that may be too confusing to not have the salary be proportional).

I am pretty confident that I am 95% as productive at 4 days as I am at 5 days (and I'm a fairly productive engineer). But I take 80% of salary anyway, cause it's worth it.

(I also don't, even at 100%, make the 99th percentile incomes that many on HN seem to).
Too bad Bungie and Activision are off the table!

I like these Zuck spitball ideas tho.

Is the idea really that the metaverse is their big next market? I like VR but who the heck believes FB will lead it?
True, but Alibaba does do cloud. Facebook and Tencent are far and away the biggest web companies that don’t do some sort of B2B cloud offering.
I don’t think the author understands how open source licenses work. They indeed seem to taken someone’s copyrighted work and published it as open source.

If the author wants to create an open source version of wordle they could start a clean room implementation as well as introduce a new ui and name. If they want it to be compatible with the old saves I assume they could reverse engineer them rather than looking at the code.
Don't we need strict copyright enforcement because otherwise nobody would be crating anything?
The article is about stablecoin minting and redemption, not purchases or sales, so I'm not sure where this is coming from.

The article also doesn't have anything to do with buying things or the prices of things rising.

Stablecoins are very simple to measure inflows and outflows on, as explained in the article. When someone exchanges a real dollar for a USDC token and the dollar goes into the stablecoin issuer's bank account, that's an inflow. When someone exchanges a USDC token back for a real dollar out of the stablecoin issuer's bank account, that's an outflow.

> except when new assets are being created, via a new offering

That's exactly what's happening here. Each stablecoin mint is a new offering.