skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google is not really that diversified, most of the revenue comes from ads. Microsoft is a better example of a diversified business, and IMHO Amazon would be another good example.

Edit: sure, it's true that they put ads on everything, from YouTube videos to Gmail mailboxes, but that's not comparable to the level of diversification that MSFT or AMZN have IMHO.
Paul Krugman recently said essentially the same thing and got roasted for being elitist. I can see both points of view and well, buyer beware...

How Crypto Became the New Subprime

https://archive.is/1SMIy
Humans will run 100 meters in 0 seconds in 2600
Thanks for tracking down the specific incident! If I remember correctly, the obvious cycling issue got figured out pretty early (60’s?) - due to other earlier accidents, that part wasn’t a surprise and they thought they had figured out how to deal with it.

There was a presumption that like steel and several other materials, once it hit a specific low stress point the fatigue life became infinite, and that point was just so much lower for aluminum it just LOOKED like it has no infinitive fatigue life point.

It turns out they were wrong.
Yet, what matters most about flatware, in reality, is whether, put down in a nearly empty bowl, it flips whatever remains onto the table, floor, or lap.
> Facebook’s core business model appears to be in decline.

If you mean the data mining and trading, I wouldn't believe that for a second. Sure, it can't go on so openly and monopolised like before, but there is a huge industry built on it already, each new digital service opening up opportunities for a bit of side income. Facebook was an easy target to aim at - but there's your webshop, food delivery service, electricity supplier in the line.
NK did personally target security researchers for compromise. See the TAG post referenced inTFA.
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Nope, I agree that's a volatile read, and indeed the web page doesn't emit the appropriate intrinsic, nor indeed do small modifications that result in a read of the pointer, cause the intrinsic to be used as I'd anticipated.

Definitely something to be wary of. I assure you the c2rust source code does know about volatile access and Rust's intrinsics (I was looking at that code for other reasons), so if you work with this stuff I'd encourage talking to the people who wrote it to find out what the situation is.
This looks cool, I love fan edits. Kind of depressing it's DVD-quality, though.
Keen to try this, though unfortunately I'm at work at the moment.

On a similar note, is there an (un)official HackerNews IRC/Slack/Discord of some kind? A few times I'll be trying to find an article/comment section of something I remember reading on HN, but can't find it using the search or my upvoted submissions. It would be nice to have somewhere I can ask minor questions without making a post.
> It's not like they claimed they're immune to advertisement.

> The idea of buying something based on an advertisement and not a need is foreign to me.

My point is that despite believing they have not bought something based on an advertisement, they have in all likelihood.
Um, yes. Stablecoin issuance that includes Tether is a terrible metric.[1]

(This is a general problem in some areas of finance - is there new money entering the subsystem, or is it the same money going round and round? Crypto is so opaque that you can't tell. NFTs are worse. Coins at least have liquid markets and market prices. NFTs have high asking prices in stalled markets, and wash sales that conceal whether there's any significant resale market at all.)

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2021/01/11/tether-mints-rec...
Not OP, but I also picked up a Quest 2 and was impressed after finding all previous VR experiences I'd tried gimmicky and not holding my attention for long.

Lately I've been sinking time into:

Half-Life Alyx

I Expect You To Die (and its sequel)

The Climb (and eventually its sequel, I assume)

Creed
How do you know the inner workings of the mind don't operate in a similar manner? How many different solutions to the problem are constructed within your mind before the correct one 'just arrives'?
It underlines the general volatility and uncertainty in the general market rather than a problem of FB.
Recommend you look at something like the Raspberry Pi 400:

https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400-unit/

These are about USD100 a pop and need a HDMI screen and you're all set.

And then configure it to run a Basic or Python REPL on boot, to give that 1970s home PC feel.
People shopping in the luxury market can afford options they want. Did you know that any paint other than basic black and basic white is extra cost on BMW? If your argument about luxury cars not having safety options because they cost extra money had been valid then the argument that there are only black and white BMWs also had been a sensible one.
Before I moved to HA, I was in the smart-things Ecosystem

That was also very easy out of the box, far easier than WiFi Device

I am not sure why you are doubling down on WiFi being easier, it is not

The reason these companies are going for WiFi is because they want to Lock People into continue Telemetry being sent to the cloud, not local hubs.

It has nothing to do with ease of access, or consumer friendly and everything to do with Lock in, and Privacy violating data collection
It may seem paradoxical but also not worrying about sleep itself, not writing down lists, not trying to dissect and optimize sleep, may actually improve your sleep much more. Animals have slept and evolved for literally millions of years. Unless there’s an actual clinical condition, having faith in your own body and just relaxing should be enough. At least that’s my case.
> As someone who's degree had a course in sattelite rangefinding

So you are well versed in multipath reflection and why it makes unassisted GPS in urban environments with tall buildings close together almost completely unusable?

> You don't need to get precision down to a lane on the road for purpose of navigation

If you want to build an early 2000s Garmin competitor, sure. But people don't buy $1,500 pocket computers every 18 months to keep doing the same thing.
Banks, even major ones, are frequently doing business with very shady characters.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/17/hsbc-fined-...

If they smell money, they'll do it.

Just because they do it, it doesn't mean it's not "funny money". Both could be true at the same time.
I think you missed the point that GP was trying to make but, don't worry, I'll gladly explain.

Crypto enthusiasts (in particular those involved with ETH) continuously push this narrative that code is law, code is law. Other people, who are less naive, immediately pointed out how that kind of "contract" would not fly in the real world with real people, because, turns out that real people make mistakes all the time and it is nice to have a social structure behind it (like a true-ish framework of law) to save your ass when you actually mess up or things do not go as the parties involved in it wanted it to go.

I can give you an embarrasingly simple example that I think anybody could understand. You go to your favorite bank to pay for something, you tell the clerk you want to put $400 in someone's account but you hand out $500 in bills. The clerk (or you) could notice this and state "hey you gave me $500, but you told me you only wanted to deposit $400, here's $100 back", and literally nothing else happens. In the crypto world you would've just lost $100. (See the news from yesterday or so, about a guy who accidentally lost half a million dollars like this).

So then, crypto enthusiasts, instead of trying to address this issue, pretty much doubled down on their foolish stance that "code is law, code is law!" and everybody involved in it then knows (or SHOULD know) that they playing with fire regarding this. And people who play with fire shouldn't be surprised if/when they burn themselves and would look quite ridiculous if they start discussing about the ethical and moral implications of fire burning stuff when it does happen.
The results of the Milgram and Stanford Prison Experiments (the amount of harm caused by studying obedience and harm to humans) were instrumental in giving us the very ethics codes that make them unfalsifiable. That makes them an important facet of the field of psychology's history and worth teaching for that alone. If you believe that ethics code is appropriate, then you believe those studies are valid and don't need to be run again to re-verified or falsified. If you really don't trust the ethics code which was produced in reaction to the results of these 20th century experiments, then the authentic thing to do would be to re-run the experiments clandestinely and disseminate the results anonymously.
Congratulations!

Your newborn has a distinct smell at the back of their head. You can smell it when you’re feeling tired and it will give you energy compared to a shot of espresso. Goes away around 6-7 months.

Fully empirical knowledge, I cannot explain the science behind it.
Saw this recently too: https://mattiasgustavsson.itch.io/dos-like

"dos-like is a programming library/framework, kind of like a tiny game engine, for writing games and programs with a similar feel to MS-DOS productions from the early 90s."
Thanks for this, cryptography is a good example where this could be a problem.
It's simple. Most software today is not created to serve the user. It is created to accomplish certain goals (e.g. obtaining money, attention, data, or prestige from the user) and only serves the user as incidental to accomplish those goals.
> The data there suggests it’s highly concentrated from folks that really have no business investing in extremely speculative things

What data?

Practically everyone I know owns crypto at this point. Me and many of my software engineer friends have had a pretty significant amount of our portfolios allocated to crypto for over a year now. Some have quit their jobs to work full-time in crypto.

Painting crypto investors as "folks from high school that barely passed basic math and never left their home town" sounds not only insulting but comically inaccurate. I've been invested heavily in crypto for over a year now and definitely don't fit to that ridiculous profile you derived from your Facebook feed (who even goes on Facebook other than baby boomers these days anyways?).
In some cases money definitely does flow into asset classes; people speak of money flowing into ETFs, for example, and in those cases ETF units absolutely are being minted.

More fundamentally, money can flow into and out of assets simultaneously -- for example, money flows from scam victims into scams, and from scams out to scammers.
If it's going everywhere, making a detector won't be very useful. Perhaps a jammer / shield.
No, these are Zen2.
Both Zen2 and Zen3 single-socket systems are not NUMA systems in the traditional view (i.e., w.r.t. DRAM).

The L3 is CCX-local, but with Zen2 they re-introduced a separate northbridge die for each socket, integrated with the CCDs as a separate chiplet.

Dual-socket systems remain NUMA, and for workloads that feel L3$ more than DRAM, treating CCX-as-NUMA still helps (but that's a scheduler thing, where kernel-level threads/processes (Linux barely distinguishes) that do fine-grained shared memory with _collective_ temporal locality should be accessed from within a single CCX).
This is really cool, thanks for making it!

I wonder if it would be possible to limit Oauth access to accounts with a minimum karma level? Maybe it's a problem that doesn't exist yet, but I could imagine it would help defend against spammy throwaway accounts.
Nearly every one can be bought. Choosing to be holier than thou while drawing a line of Facebook is awful, they can’t buy me, but otherwise not doing the same to the majority of public/big companies who are also ethically compromised, is not so much better.

Yes, I’d take a high paying job at Facebook. I live in a status quo, unfair, corrupt capitalist society in the west. I know I have to play the game.
You're absolutely right. I'm supposedly a "night owl" and "not a morning person" but it's total nonsense.

I've spent considerable time in my travels in tropical nations. Two days there and I'm a completely different person.

The day starts at 5:30 AM, as soon as light arrives. And will you look at that, I'm jumping out of bed full of energy. Absolutely unimaginable back home. It's made possible because life slows down after 6PM. You eat, relax, and go to bed around 9pm. For the simple reason that there's nothing to do, and nobody else is doing anything either.

Unlimited light and distractions has made me a night owl, it's not a natural thing or character trait.
IMO this is the toughest thing to solve.

What somewhat works for me:

* My GF cuddling me. I just think about her, and sleep and nothing else, it's a bit pavlov like. I'm fairly sure I get a lot of "feel good" chemicals when this happens.

* Sounds silly but... build a buffer for 12 hours, and stay in bed for longer until you properly fall asleep again.

* If I wake up after 4 hours of sleep and really need the sleep, I do 0.3mg melatonin. Not ideal, but it does the trick.

* Meditation: sometimes (20% of the time) it nudges me to sleep. In all cases, it leaves me a bit more well-rested than if I'd not meditate.

* 0.6mg melatonin + CBD at the beginning of the night. I'm not a fan of this solution. I find 0.6mg a bit much, but if I need a blunt tool, this would be it.
The Secrets of Space Invaders
So if you learn Italian hand gestures you don't need to remove your headphones to tell people to fuck off
Your assumption is correct, user retention is difficult. I've been running LinkLonk for a year now and out of >1000 users that created accounts we have ~9 daily active users on the site and 43 users are getting recommendations by email. But I think this is in part the chicken and egg problem. The more users join the more useful the system should theoretically become.

If you don't want to create an account, consider creating a guest account - it does not require any personal information from you. The account is just a number that is issued to you and is stored in your browser cookies. If you don't end up using it - all information associated with your guest account will be deleted after 30 days of inactivity.

If you don't want to create a guest account then the best I can do is to show generally popular content - which is what the home page is filled with for brand new users.
> he opened a file sent to him by a fellow hacker, who had described it as an exploitation tool.

Is it not potentially their mistake in the first place? They opened themselves to becoming exploited via social engineering. And if that is the real reason why, they were not really hacked. So can we stop using the term "hacked" so ambiguously?
The point or question I was raising was specifically about UX. Design, which includes UX, isn't done in a vacuum. There's many competing interests and environmental considerations that ultimately influence a product. Norman spends a good deal of time reinforcing that idea, I think mostly to drive home the point that reality doesn't match the platonic ideal. That's what I was alluding when I said "I suppose I can see the business justification for that."

Carving out a niche when getting started is probably quite prudent. But, that doesn't mean it's a good user experience. There's a lot of retorts in this comment section about how any amount of settings is tantamount to total design failure. I think that's too reductive and I'm trying to reconcile that research on the topic.
Didn't they do the same thing when Snapchat took off and then blew it out of the water with Instagram Stories? There is a track record.
I have heard the same kind of claims about Ruby, Python, JavaScript, non-typed languages, functional languages etc. as well. I still have seen zero evidence that any of those claims are true. I think those claims are often made when somebody feel super productive using language/technology X, and then jump to conclusions about X based on that feeling. Seriously, if Lisp was indeed 10x more productive than competing languages, I would have switched to it a long time ago. It would be silly not to!
So 0 should go into any experiment? That doesn't even make sense.
What a great website. I'd been thinking of how to find such info. We buy lots of kids games, and this is a great 'cheat sheet'. It is great that you spell out the dark patterns.

Who reviews the games? Upfront, it seems like they have done an excellent job.
Why not? It worked when they copied Snapchat's stories feature.
Mother opens up about being ‘virtually gang raped’ in metaverse
Where do good engineers go, in your opinion?
The "ct" ligature is enviable. I persuaded the creator of Linux Libertine to add that, and one for "st", albeit as an "optional" form. You can edit the file to get them used by default, which I do.
I have also found this to be the case. I can easily sit down and read something enjoyable for hours on end, but I try to watch a movie and within 20 minutes I'm wishing I was anywhere else. TV shows inhabit a kind of middle ground between the two, they're still tolerable but I find myself enjoying them less over time.

I can't say I really regret this change, I haven't noticed any real downsides. There's too much content and not enough time these days.
The stress concentration became a big problem because of the fatigue cycles though didn’t it?

The manufacturers you mentioned are all military or regulatory sop manufacturers no? Though I guess Boeing isn’t much better, so meh.
I mean, if you don't have a stock position, why parrot the same tired narrative? It's not adding any insight and it's not like their stock never had downswing before.

At one point the crowd here was like oh fb ipo so embarrassing, to oh fb eng so hot much react, to oh fb so evil now, crash and burn pls. Such fickleness. Surely we can do better than that.
Facebook loses users for the first time
Yeah I'm very much betting on the null hypothesis when it comes to fancy machine learning-based methods and implementing the most bog-standard keyword search you could imagine.

It's not perfect, but it's scary how well it works sometimes.
Otherwise the AI will just over-fit the unit test case subset.
It becomes obvious this is the way the world works the more you start to generate unique comments rather than simply agree or upvote other people’s comments.
I again don't think you're grappling with my point. There are certainly differences between each of the 5+ waves of excitement over stereoscopic 3D. Each time people argued that really, those differences made the difference. And each time they were wrong, because they personally found the idea exciting. Instead of addressing the pattern seriously, to me it seems like you are repeating it.
I rarely use Facebook, but recently got into ebikes and it seems the best communities are using Facebook Groups, so I've been using FB more in the past month than in the past decade.

It's awful.

Rather than just showing me a chronological feed of new group posts, Facebook wants to control the stream so they can 1) monetize it with ads and 2) increase engagement by suggesting other content. And they're so devious about it - the first half dozen posts in your feed are from your subs, but then Facebook starts to slip in recommended content in the middle of your subs.

Amusingly, because I've got ad blocking at various levels (browser and DNS), Facebook's systems apparently have no idea of my preferences or even my general profile or demographic. If an ad does sneak through because it's served off a non-blacklisted server, it's always completely irrelevant and many times offensive: Meeting singles, anything MAGA, essential oils, etc. The group recommendations and inserted posts are random as it gets: Spider-Man Fans, Kittens, Dallas Cowboys, Love Quotes, Old School Hip-hop, Soup Lovers, and more. (These are real suggestions I just pulled right now).

What's amazing about this is that Facebook has all my info. It knows where I live, how old I am, what topics I've explicitly chosen to follow. And yet it ignores all that and relies on data gathered from spying on you instead.

Add to this the fact that scrolling for any amount of time through my groups will 100% crash the tab in Chrome on my Android tablet. 100% of the time. This is all Facebook is! How can their development be so bad for their basic functionality? Because they hate the open web and want you to use their app, which I refuse to do.

Facebook's number one priority before anything else is monetization. Any feature or setting which may be beneficial to the end user is secondary.

- Why can't I pay money and turn off ads?

- Why can't I set my feeds to chronological order
permanently?

- Why can't I turn off suggested content?

- Why aren't my profile information and interests I explicitly entered respected?

- Why can't I filter my feed to strip out any news items and only see updates and photos?

- Why does Facebook's web app crash so much doing basic scrolling?

I've been amazed for over a decade at Facebook's continued growth. But my son and his friends never use it, so I think like all social networks, it will soon go away. Another 10 years and they might literally have more deceased users than active ones.
To quote Blindboy from his mental-health podcasts: I am better than no one, and no one is better than me.

Intrinsic worth, like how all newborns are endearing, wrinkled oddballs, seems a fine place to start.

It won’t be easy to do something I think others will judge negatively, and that’s okay; they’re free to feel their feelings.

The best time to make mistakes before today. I’m thankful for all the mistakes I’ve made and that I’m still alive to learn from them as awareness bubbles up.
Not really. After-hours "mostly" set the trajectory for stock's next day journey. It rarely reverses, but often times just continues the path set earlier.
I've found myself using speedup controls to watch movies and TV shows faster and it's actually helped me concentrate on them more as there are fewer "lulls" where I'll pick up my phone or something.
How to fix your scientific coding errors [pdf]
Very interesting, thanks! This is indeed how I tinker with my .emacs file, though I’ve only done relatively trivial stuff there.

What do you prefer about using C-x C-e on individual sexps rather than reloading everything and keeping the entire program synced between source files and the running environment?
Bitcoin not blockchain. I'm gonna get downvoted like crazy, but the innovation is bitcoin not blockchain. The more people realise this, the less scams and ruined lives we're going to see.
That’s the thing. Not everyone wants the same thing. Provide useful settings, but try to pick the defaults such that most people won’t have to change settings.
They are technically at war[0].

> acting like they are at war, thus they aren't at war

It matters legally that you are technically at war even if you aren't acting like it. It allows the specific wartime actions.

South Korea this matters and the UN as well. North Korea is actively sanctioned as a result of not being at peace.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_conflict#Korea
I think that’s a good idea. Shopify would integrate well with Instagram.
If you are concerned that authoritarian regimes would de-anonymize us and the responder thinks that all authoritarian regimes have already effectively de-anonymized us then... what is there to fear? You could attack their statement that is has already happened or you misstated your concern - possibly by including some entities in the list of authoritarian regimes that the responder doesn't consider to be authoritarian.
You are absolutely right. Looking back at the days of Mafia Wars and Farmville. For these games social was a core aspect of their success. Now Roblox, Minecraft, and Fifa have incorporated similar features already. In 2022 it's not that hard anymore. So, what would FB's moat be? How large is the overlap between FB's current customers and new Metaverse customers?