skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kevin Xu of Interconnected wrote an interesting analysis post about Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business[1] its worth a read, he points out that they have the tech for it but they don't seem interested and even if they were the hard part isn't necessarily the technical aspect its building the human part

>>"The tougher part is perhaps not technical, but human. Facebook will have to build out an enterprise sales and support team that is culturally and operationally very different from running an ad-supported social network. Google, also a primarily ad-supported company, suffered from this “identity crisis” and is still trying to catch up to AWS and Azure, despite offering what many believe is a superior technical product."

He also points out they also have a trust deficient due to all the privacy and misinformation scandals.

[1]https://interconnected.blog/why-is-facebook-not-in-the-cloud...
Lol you describes me. I could fly my work routes but I take the car exactly because every reason you stated
Should we be worried that the top comments on so many stories here are dark mutterings about how the forces that secretly control our society are causing the democratically elected governments to intentionally kill the sheeple for somewhat vague and unexplored reasons? It's all got a bit apocalyptic and dark recently.

Is this what we believe as a community? If not, why is it so often at the top? Do most people just not engage with the stories that evoke these reactions. Or should I expect to be reading earnest debate about Bill Gates plan to inject 5G chips into people to track the population on HN soon?
That's a great idea. Practicing our pitch will be important - our instint is to go to only those that are promising but perhaps we should run through before being face to face with our #1 choice.
All companies are sociopaths that are only after the dollar. If Apple does something "good", it is basically benefitting them in some way, if it stops doing so they will change. Name me one company which sacrificed profitability for ethics.
There is no way that getting a satellite connection inside a city is cheaper or more practical than a physical line though. It will be necessarily slower, have worse latency and be more expensive.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johanmoreno/2021/08/27/google-e...

Google Estimated To Be Paying $15 Billion To Remain Default Search Engine On Safari

The 10B estimate from the article is lower than a quick estimate from just looking at the quarterly and the drop in revenue growth. Just looking at that the cost is closer to 20B.
>You conveniently left out how Index is $999 + the cost of a gaming PC

Plus the cable tethers and the need to bolt and wire up the IR lighthouses to your livingroom walls vs the Quest that you can slide into your backpack and take with you and play virtually anywhere indoors.

The simplicity, polish and ease of use of the Quest and its ecosystem really killed the tethered VR future regardless of much more high-end the hardware was, just how the iPhone simplicity and UX polish killed the Nokia and Blackberry power-houses.
I think you'd be surprised. People take a lot of pride in their work and in their professionalism. Crypto has many examples of people leaving $100m+ on the table so they can properly fix a vulnerability.
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committing sudoku?
Archived: https://archive.ph/icTmn
Yes, the West would be happy to fight to the last Ukrainian.

5-eyes troublemakers.
The first year living here was definitely a culture shock, I must admit that people in the country do think differently than in the city. I have over time come to appreciate their points of view though and TBH if I was to show them your comment about Uni Educated people they would just smile and say bless their heart!
The features may be there, but they don't always seem obvious. I've had multiple tasks where I started with Krita and just could not find the obvious flow - reverted to gimp, done in under a minute. The last one I believe was to add transparency and remove background. I'm not the only one either apparently: https://krita-artists.org/t/how-to-make-background-transpare...

Some things are just much simpler to achieve in gimp it seems.
In a parallel world, plants containing caffine are an illegal drug.
Nintendo has historically been decent about not deceiving their customers. Maybe treating them like children, but not an abusive relationship.
> I think the problem is that VR tech and apps will take too long to arrive to gain any traction with the wider public

Provided that it happens at all. People tend to extrapolate too far based on something being subjectively attractive for a limited group. Think of 3D TV hype a decade ago (and we're thinking of technology that actually debuted almost 100 years ago).
Processing hemp for fiber is an absolute bitch; and the market for the fibers isnt big enough to create a market for the processing equipment which could make the fiber cheaper and grow that market and...

Dunno what might kick it off make it viable: new boll weevil, perhaps.
I agree, despite this headline, the more I see fb becoming a part of everyday life for the vast majority of people (in the UK). It's amazing how much of what normal people consume and even buy now happens on fb. I wouldn't write them off just yet
In most of places I have been involved with ServiceNow has been the core of incident management. From alerts playbook to follow up on systems/components uptime and daily/monthly/yearly SLA breaches.

Any system that is offered for enterprises should somehow integrate into that solution.

Generally speaking, I can say that ServiceNow is horrible to work with, use, manage; but it looks like it is the solution that is dominant in enterprises.
Half a litre isn't that much in the grand scheme of things. It's maybe two decent mugs, or less than a pint. Especially when you consider American filter coffee is on the weaker side.
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"regulate" doesn't sound like the correct word in this instance. It's making the process more transparent - all Apple did was ensure users could choose what Facebook does with their data.

Apple's ad system is subject to the same rules. The link you are posting is outdated - since last year's iOS 14.5 the SKAdNetwork has been extended to provide the full API.
It's worth noting that this was possible because OpenBSD are happy to break their ABI in order to improve their operating system. Linux values ABI stability highly, and prefers to introduce new interfaces that applications have to opt into (e.g., as was done with support for 64-bit file offsets on 32-bit architectures).
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That can't really be true. I ordered it in November and it shipped the same day. I was just in a location that had capacity.
Dunno - what Musk says that you can judge it on whether it's safer or not compared to humans seems ok to me. There's no practical way really to go through the mountain of code and conclude much. But maybe the judging should be done by someone independent rather than Tesla judging themselves.
Huh, not that I know of, I’ll ask. They’ve been keeping bees for several years and I’ve never seen the honey crystallized.
That was the strategy IBM tried with the Software Group. Buy several 1 to 2 billion dollar companies every year to see what sticks. Did not work.
I thought it is all decentralized. I thought that it the whole point of Web3. Dou you want to tell me it is not. That there are central instances, which I can control? Wow.
I think the demand for "tangible" proof (if by that you mean, fully mechanically-verifiable proofs and a style unlike anything common in mathematics papers today) is a bit silly and seems to be driven by some ideologies well outside of mathematics, rather than mathematicians themselves.

A proof is whatever convinces sufficient mathematicians that the theorem is consequent! Classical logical systems are a very good way to do that so they get used a lot. But they're not the only way, and involving a computer program makes most proofs less convincing rather than more.
Twitter has enabled me to observe elite academics & lawyers engage in candid discussions of my field.

I’ve learned so many things through observing their interactions. Couldn’t get that anywhere else.
I disagree with your analysis. Yes, they bought great leadership with Carmack and Abrash, but what the R&D division of Facebook Reality Labs has been working on and also delivering into products (i.e. Quest 2) is amazing from a technological point of view. Sure, they have more resources and cash than Valve and can afford to sell it at cost, but still it's amazing technological innovation.

I'm hopeing that Apple, Valve and hopefully totally new players can enter the VR/AR market and make better products than FB without selling out to them. My only realistic hope for a competitor to Quest 2 is Apple at the moment.
Since 1 wallet != 1 unique individual; it could be done. The points you bring up are fair, yes. But I'd also imagine if you were able to pull off a $350 million heist, you'd have some sense about obfuscating your withdrawls.

Not to mention, converting your initial crypto tokens into another currency, and then another currency, and eventually making it to Fiat. For example, converting to Monero and back to BTC would be near impossible to trace.

On top of this, there is Paxful which you can utilize for cash payments.

There are many, many ways if you are determined. I don't think anyone would be silly enough to attempt a $350 million withdrawal from Coinbase.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30191268

I made no arguments for/against decentralization, I didn't mention web3 nor that there is no central instances or that no one controls nothing in the cryptocurrency world. What are you even doing here on HN if you can't actually reply with a good faith argument? Please save that for Reddit or wherever that happens normally.
> Every single requirement is vague and subjective - words like "appropriate", "necessary", "reasonable", "proportionate"

This is how laws work and why the "law as code" people are not going to succeed. The US leaves this to the enforcement stage, e.g. many tests in US law for ascertaining enforcement include things like the reasonable person test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_person). Proportionality is a well enshrined standard in EU law in particular, and cuts both ways - it's why this ruling is not the maximum fine out the gate.

Or let's take this clause from the DMCA (regarding what is considered obsolete and therefore the library may format shift): "For purposes of this subsection, a format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or device necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no
longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace."
> you always hear how fast crypto transactions are

Where do you hear that? One of the big criticisms of the biggest cryptocurrencies as currencies is that transactions are glacially slow for most practical uses (small transactions). Improving on that seems to be the main selling point of Solana.
Instead of interpreters, if one has less of a "must be a full featured prog.lang" mentality and a fast compiler like Go or Nim [1] (or is willing to wait, for slow optimizing compiles to apply against big data sets) then an end-to-end simpler design for "one-liners" (or similarly simple programs) is the whole program generator. Maybe "big IFs", but also maybe not.

To back up my simplicity claim, consider rp [2] -- like 60 non-comment/import/signature lines of code for the generator. Generated programs are even smaller. But, you can deploy gcc or clang or whatever against them and make fast libraries in the host language.

Why, if you are willing to write those little generation command options in C99 then you can compile the harness with tcc [3] in about 1 millisecond which is faster than most interpreter start-up times - byte code or otherwise - and can link against gcc -O3 (or whatever) helper libraries.

Anyway, I only write this because in my experience few people realize how much development cost they buy into when then insist on a full featured prog.lang, not to criticize Ben's work. You also make users learn quirks of a new language instead of the quirks of a "harness" which may be fewer|easier. (EDIT: Awk is fairly well established, of course.)

[1] https://forum.nim-lang.org/

[2] https://github.com/c-blake/cligen/blob/master/examples/rp.ni...

[3] https://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git
System automation is very “scripty” so the traditional tools have always been in scripting languages (chef, ansible, puppet, salt) and you can have lots of other peoples “code” running instead of doing it all yourself. That is sort of the appeal, enough other people use it so that you don’t have to do everything yourself if you don’t want to.

There are solutions in go, one that looked interesting to me was mgmt [1]. You can look into that if it is to your liking. There is a list of videos and blog posts to mgmt that you can take a look at.

Thing is, if you move away from the mainstream you will find less help and less pre-made solutions. Don’t overestimate the skill of the “average” programmer. For every brilliant programer there is somebody out there that just googles code snippets and haphazardly bashes them together to try to solve a problem. It is easy to reach you limits, if not in skill then in time and that is where a tool with a larger community can save your ass.

[1]: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt
Same for me. I imagine if you do this you'll learn lots of useful word combos for Wordle but it will take the thought process out. I enjoy just taking 30 seconds to a min to think about what my next guess might be.

Also, the dictionary is not the same as Wordle.
They need to be better at paying the right people off.
There is a very simple voxel terrian renderer: https://github.com/s-macke/VoxelSpace
It’s not a pedantic nitpick if the sole premise of your replies is repeatedly arguing the opposite position. This post, however, is a pedantic nitpick ;)

And no, I cannot fool outside observers because I didn’t edit your post which contained the context you defined. To that regard, I’m as much an observer as anyone else.

Honestly, I wish I took my own advice about not engaging in stupid meta arguments.
There was some research to the opposite regarding smoking recently: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jan/smokers-become-lonelier-...
Ehh, the content is the problem because there is a lack of bad content ? There's a heap of 3D content and growing. Like last years Marvell movies, James Bond, Dune. And movie theaters still show those in 3D. Which works because people go to a movie theater for the experience and donning 3D glasses is a minor annoyance with that mindset. Most people don't go to the movies very often. However people wanting to view a quick movie at home don't want that annoyance.
It's a bit the same with VR I think. When you go to an arcade or a friends house the space is already available and you accept being isolated because it's expected. Going for a quick VR session at home is an anti social hassle (unless you got a dedicated VR room or live alone).
Cuba has been under US embargo for 60 years. It’s time for that to end
Can this be used in work?
If people stopped blogging about their trivial complaints I wonder how much blog content would disappear. It reminds me of this from quote from Rick and Morty:

https://youtu.be/YZQ9QqJzGcE
I have always been a bit skeptical of off-site data producing serious lift in VCG auction clearing prices for in-feed units, but I’m also pretty out of date.
Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?(2020)
TikTok highly optimizes to the individual, but from what I can tell there's little toxic political material, partially due to the threat of censorship or reduced reach. Filter bubbles are a thing, but nothing like the rabbit hole of YouTube, and are more benign imho. It's mostly short form content up to 3 minutes long.

It took a lot of effort get my Facebook/Instgram feed to be a mostly positive experience, but TikTok's algorithm did it immediately.

For me it brings back the fun of the early internet.
Even if US govt allowed FB to buy tiktok, there is no way ccp would approve the deal. They have a board seat.
Common problem that words are taken to heart by those that weren't meant to do that in the first place.

But I think there cannot be objective rules. Sure, you can scrap some vulgar words but even that could be negative. It is a problem that has to be solved on the receiving end.

I think indignation of what other people say online is the vastly larger problem than any conspiracy. What we have seen related to comments about Covid was not pretty. It really underlined why content should be as unrestricted as possible.
Replication crisis come down to funding. If you publish bad results in maths, you lose funding and get fired and humiliated. If you publish bad (but exciting or popular) results in social sciences, you get more funding and acclaim. All subjects are basically (sadly) products. Maths, Physics and Engineering are products that have to (mostly, eventually) actually work. Politics, Sociology, Gender Studies etc are more about entertainment. Som fields (eg nutrition) are a hybred of the two: some serious factual research, some fads and fashion.
>Not playable in most apartments due to space needed.

Maybe in places like Tokyo or Hong-Kong as even in my small European apartment, I could find the 2x2m space needed for VR.
Modern IDEs have made this less important than it used to be, but it still matters. My quick rule of thumb would be to follow the mental model of your code. Things that you need to read to understand a given aspect of the code should be close together.
There is almost no THC in hemp fiber to speak of. Any THC in papers would need to be added during manufacturing
Imagine what sugar and alcohol could do.
It'd be good to show the word on game over.
These seem like the least-chill cocktail parties ever.
Maybe because blockchains are just a Ponzi scheme while Facebook may have some actual value?
I generally like Gnome but I do find the lack of consideration for extensions when making updates more than a little frustrating.

For context, I use Arch so whenever I do a system upgrade which includes a gnome package, it often results in me having an unpleasant experience the next time I have to reboot and suddenly all my customizations are missing till the extensions get updated to have compatibility with the new gnome version.

I generally like the UI paradigm that Gnome has (including the lack of desktop icons) but certain things are a nuisance such as the lack of system trays without extensions. I fail to see exactly what I'm gaining from their absence especially in the context of apps not built specifically for Gnome - such as steam and many torrent clients.
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lol in their heyday it was virtually impossible to find a computer you didn't build yourself that didn't include a Windows license. Regardless of whether you ran Windows on it Microsoft got their tax.

I can't remember if they actually did this or were just trying to but I recall they wanted Intel and AMD to charge a license fee for every processor they sold.
Localbitcoins won’t.
Talk about click-bait. It’ll be taken down and put back up over the course of one or two days.
Maybe regulators don't want to over regulate? It's not like the current situation of a million road deaths a year is great.
It works already on my phone with Edge
>SpaceX - Starlink (AS14593) has added 2x100G bringing their capacity to a total of 2x2x100G

Why not 4x100G?

>Welcome Apple Inc. (AS714) at 2x1x100G.

Why not 2x100G?

>Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AS20940) has added 3x100G bringing their capacity to a total of 3x100G and 2x100G

And why not 5x100G.

How does one read these numbers?
Personally I have not heard about a great game or experience in VR yet. Nothing I would like to call fun gaming or exploration. Put some VR chairs like in Tom Clancy's Special Netforce youth novels by Diane Duane and that might grab my attention. In a VR I do not want to walk around, but I want to control the character and feel like I am really there. And then of course that FB has its hands in play makes the whole thing stink from the start. Who would engage in any kind of personal interaction with that? At least not I.
I think the Internet rewired my brain. I find it much more comfortable to read a book using the Kindle app's Continuous Scroll setting.
I can confidently say that lockdowns although almost impossible to implement in India did flatten the curve. The surge in hospitalizations during second wave was the real killer. Lockdowns when done with some coordination were more about controlling the response and distributing the cases over more no of days.

I always feel that in developed countries with 'space' lockdown should be much more effective but unless you are living off grid it is entirely possible that you will definitely get infected.

A lack of lockdown or any attempts at controlling spread is also political suicide in many places.
> Did they just make some mistake/mistakes that led to this, or is it more of a natural decline, with users going to other platforms or quitting social media platforms altogether?

Natural generational decline, and it is basically one generational tyrant (TikTok) dethroning another (Facebook). Same thing happened with MySpace.

> Do you think other social media platforms will experience this decline as well soon or is it more of a facebook only privilege?

Every single social media platform will experience a decline of users, especially through new generations. It is not exclusive to Facebook. That's why they are focusing on Instagram instead. Sooner or later Instagram will 'decline' in users. Then on to the next.

Either way, the creators always lose as the platform either goes on the public markets or the small creators start to lose money to corporate users / businesses jumping on the platform.
> I really don't get why they're being so negative

Complaining is a national sport in Hungary, it's in our DNA.
Quite a few people do here. I doubt I could wear them for extended periods either. I personally have to take a break after wearing headphones for a few hours, I couldn't imagine wearing a VR headset of all things.
> Also, it would seem self evident that Apple’s ability to influence Facebook comes from having a novel product, that people like to use compared to the alternatives.

Apple controls 50+% of American computing. At this point it isn't just a "novel product". They own the American internet interface and it takes a nation state level of effort to compete. Facebook can't even keep up.

Android is a fragmented 40% and relies on advertising. Google locks it down so hard with their Play Store Services stranglehold (no YouTube/Maps/Gmail if you disobey), that there's no room for real competition to emerge and make any money doing something unique.

None of this is healthy for the world. Both companies need a hard slap from the DOJ.
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That video is amazing. Play it back at low speed, the airbags are fully deployed before the hood even begins to crumple.

Additionally, we see just how a real human reacts to a real present danger: confusion. After identifying the threat the pedestrian instinctively runs into the path of the vehicle, just to run.
It previously went through a major renovation which saw it out of action from 2014 to 2017, when officials said it would not be dismantled again.

5 years later it will be