skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vitriol on HN for FB is something else.

The earnings for this company are truly staggering. They made 11$/user. Their earnings were up 34% year-over-year – on a base of 29B dollars. They made 10B more this year than they did last year, and the comments in here are all about, "boy Apple fucked them, and Meta suxor!"

You people are nuts.

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.
They earn tens of billions in ad revenue. that is not 'dying'.
The average plumber isnt looking for praise - they literally works with shit everyday.

Also is any of this really ever the end workers fault?

Pay a fair wage and people will do the work - but it still has to get organized higher up
The robots. The concept of UBI is precipitated on the idea that the gains from technological innovation have been unequally distributed since the founding of the country. It has just been getting to the point where it is very evident to many people now.

In fact Thomas Paine wrote:

"To understand what the state of society ought to be, it is necessary to have some idea of the natural and primitive state of man; such as it is at this day among the Indians of North America. There is not, in that state, any of those spectacles of human misery which poverty and want present to our eyes in all the towns and streets in Europe,"

[1]: https://heavy.com/news/2019/06/thomas-paine-ubi/
The important part is the reduced expectations.
They messed up their initial move to mobile. They tried to build it as a HTML5 application.
Should say (2020). This technology is huge, and is changing everything from commercials to live theatre. With screen costs dropping I hope to some day stop working with green screen at all, or relying on rotoscoping. A little bit of practical scenery and a decent floor is all you need to make this "Extended Reality" look great.
Just to clarify as it wasn't clear, this isn't an actual sound engine like VCVRack but more a way of creating schematics for your patches?

I'd highly recommend creating a demo sandbox so users can see what it is before giving up their email adress.
They are all kitchen sink apps these days. I want purpose built apps not multi apps. Teams e.g. does not need excel integration. Instead of the engineers moving on to a new app to develop they cram more features into the existing one, until it's a multi app zombocom that can do anything.
Local governments also many times rely on federal government investment however.
Build computer games is both harmless fun and the dream of many people. So surely you shouldn't take a mortgage to do that with so many games in the market, but otherwise this article is the worse motivational talk I've ever seen. Let people buy games. It's harmless, it's fun, and some of those games will end up having an effect on the world.
Computer Modern is too thin for laser printers and uncomfortable on computers screens (low or hi-DPI). I feel it less readable than Garamond for French publications.
Managers who have the power to do this can't allow their teams to work any less than the "default" 40hr week, because then the first time any outcome doesn't go as planned, the person most incentivized to knife them in the back in that company's politics has an easy way to do it: "See, we would have hit goal xxxx if Steve's team wasn't a bunch of lazy SOBs who take Fridays off!"

Heck, in many companies I've been in, I've even been made to feel inferior/lazy for not working a bunch of (obviously free) overtime. And I've never even worked for a startup where there was a realistic possibility of stock-option riches, where I can understand why some would be willing to make personal sacrifices for a couple years in the hopes of life changing exits.
I think this is a safe bet, but I would make it with or without the presence of AI Coders. We're clearly in the middle of Tech Bubble 2.0 and it's sure to pop in the next 10 years (and probably much sooner, given the recent crypto and NASDAQ rumblings).
I think users would overwhelmingly prefer chronological feeds, but that would reduce the time people spent on them...
We're building an open source Postman alternative: Hoppscotch

Web app: https://hoppscotch.io

GitHub: https://GitHub.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch
Contracts would be meaningless without government enforcement, so an even more accurate framing would be "Senate introduces bill to stop helping tractor companies prevent farmers from repairing their tractors".
Aren't you missing the point that even though success percentage is low, it is still same as estimated average human performance? So it is impressive the overall system (however cluncky it is) is indeed able to match human performance. If you don't find this impressive, do you have any other example of system that exceeds this performance?
> Ultimately, it is understood that NSO and the FBI agreed to keep the technology in a large container.
HN is worse than default subreddits when it comes to a handful of topics, and <any big tech company> is the most prominent category. There's plenty to criticize FB for, but the commenter community here gets truly unhinged whenever one of these topics comes up.
And that is why the whole 737 Max fleet got grounded and none of those planes were allowed to be operational until Boeing put in place a fix for the problem.

And most airlines ended up cancelling pending orders for the 737 Max and switched to a different brand that didn't play nearly as fast and loose with safety.
How much would it have cost you to use those applications if you had to offset the ad revenue? 10 bucks a year? 50? Do you really value your attention that low?
King Solomon felt the same way 3000 years ago.

And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. [Ecclesiasties 12v12]
Naturally, that’s true, but it wouldn’t affect my decision. If I could unilaterally ban billboard ads, I would; but the fact that certain kinds of ads are not block-able does not affect my decision to keep blocking other kinds of ads, and limiting the effectiveness of ads I can’t block.

No entity has the innate right to psychologically manipulate me into contributing to its bottom line.
I also wish it provided upvote and downvote totals, and not solely the final score - it'd allow more a lot more experiments of differing ways to display threads and comments.
Seems post was deleted, not a great look for the CEO of incident.io
There are additional confounding variables noted in the paper:

- Age of driver
- Specific highways used (congestion, road conditions)
- What is classified as a highway

Overall this is pretty good news for "autopilot" systems. It gives some humans an ego-boost as they clutch to steering wheels like John Henry. It gives others interested in a more relaxed driving experience the confidence that the computer isn't going to kill them any worse than they already do.
> A /48 is considered one "site" in current thinking.

This is the really important part. As they continue to hand out IPv6 like candy, the minimum prefix length will get shorter.

No ISP wants a hundred million+ routes in their routing table, so people will start to drop anything shorter than a /42, /40, /38, etc. until the table gets small enough and shunt everyone elses traffic off to Hurricane Electric or the like as a default route.

People have this mindset of "we added a bunch of zeros, its an infinite resource now!" which is how we ended up in this mess to start with.
The increase has more to do with cellphones, but people don’t want to talk about that because there’s a very simple, easy fix - it would just cost advertisers and anger people who couldn’t use their phone in the car anymore.
Seems like Tether’s questionable activity throws a massive wrench in this analysis. You can’t equate minting to flows if the biggest minter is (allegedly) just printing the things whenever they feel like it
>Later, the tags will be useful because Nyxt also offers features related to information retrieval. Hence, the user can search or filter their highlight and comments.

Will future Nyxt enter the zettelkasten space?
Game devs are the lowest paid developers. And, in my experience, the most talented. Something is compelling us to do it beyond money.

This is doubly true of careers in academia.

Conversely, it’s quite smart to be a plumber or builder in Seattle today monetarily.

We play down the role of cultural values in the choices people make.

Very good builders might not exist today because of the lack of social incentive to get them into the right place. They'll work towards making yet another crud app.
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Compressed gas is not too dangerous to use. It is an energy density problem. There are prototype vehicles that fill the same niche as current EVs.
An ad that is “relevant” to me is an ad that leads me to think “yes, this item is exactly what I was looking for”. Sometimes you know you want to buy something (let’s say a backpack) but you don’t know which brand/model to go for.

This is where ads come in: a backpack company can run ads that should be shown to people interested in buying backpacks, and it’s potentially a win-win: you find a cool item that you buy, and the company gets a new customer.
Invisible hand? Yeah maybe when you're early-stage Capitalism, in late-stage it's all about the invisible knife.
You are completely missing the point of his post. His point isn't that people can't work on what they want, his point is that people aren't working on "important" things.
I think the author has his whole idea backwards here. We should be looking to lift everyone out of having to work in sweatshops so that everyone can follow their passion, be it making games or other art. The author instead believes we should tear down everyone who has achieved their passion and drag them back to the sweatshops. Both scenarios might be "equal" in terms of how much labor gets done, but one is clearly worse than the other when it comes to quality of life.
To me it’s not that they are not realistic, it is that I know everything is CGI and I have the feeling I am watching a cartoon. It isn’t convincing anymore not because of the rendering itself, but because I know it is all fake. I like the roughness of 90s action movies. Think Die Hard 3 for instance.
I don't see why it needs to be a binary descriptor. They can be a platform that's itself built on platform(s): in fact, most platforms are. Full vertical integration is not that common.
>we aren't allowed to blame Democrats for running Seattle into the ground in tech circles

We certainly are allowed. And others are allowed to disagree with us, even harshly. Too often criticism is painted as being "shouted down". What we are not "allowed" to do is be sarcastic/snarky about it, which is, theoretically, good. That way lies political shitposting.
The ads I've been genuinely grateful to see and make a purchase through have generally been for concerts and other live events.
> arts & crafts which has helped me develop tangible skills that I'm rather proud of.

Cooking is an art and craft. One of the best.
I don't believe I'm familiar with an Ingram experiment, any chance you could expand on this? I was also unable to find something with a quick internet search, however Milgram was suggested to me.
Unrelated, but just curious: Why did you get rid of a car because of a bad battery and a $100 part?
Didn't google beat earnings by 10%?
I get the feeling it's a lot of people bitter they failed the interview process
One might argue FB is trying to "clean up" a problem that it caused/promoted in the first place.

Over time they've changed the "feeds" to work on principles that are good for advertisers, "influencers", and viral shit in general... at the expense of regular human contact and normal trusted social circles.
For Mersenne primes M(57 885 161) is the largest without a gap [0]

There is tracking of these [1]

[0] https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?p=595056#post59...

[1] https://www.mersenne.org/report_milestones/
> How does the author propose deciding _who_ gets to make art?

I feel like the author makes it fairly clear: those with enough privilege. If the cost of living goes to zero, we'll have near-infinite art. If the cost of living goes to maximum we all starve to death.

At very least, I was very much in love with a free-living artist who inspired me greatly in my 20s. I moved to San Francisco to hangout with her and her amazingly cool and smart friends - living on couches and doing art. I felt like a sell-out that I couldn't make it in that world and got a "real job". I found out later that she had several million dollars to her name in her early 20s. I somehow had missed the implication of her text "stopping by my dads house in the Marina, be there in a minute".

When you find out that most free-living artists have financial backing - well, the rose-tinted glasses come off quick.

That said, props to any actually desperate-artists out there. I tend to think it's a bit of a mythic trope, but I'm sure some do exist.
Yes they will last. Labor shortages drive wages up. This next part may not be what people want to hear but here goes. The reason for labor shortages of software people is because companies are automating work which makes things cheaper and sometimes has the outcome of whatever person doing the automated job being let go. There for sure are tech jobs which aren’t involved directly with automating but indirectly contribute.

I’m not saying it’s good or bad, it just is what happens. Larger corporations sometimes will seek out cheaper software people in other parts of the world as those areas produce more software people.
We're not doing that. The author seems to assume that so many people are creating new art nowadays that the entire rest of civilization is being left to rot, but that's simply untrue, and a false dichotomy.

Most artists work crushing hours in sweatshop conditions, or are constantly gigging on the razor's edge of subsistence, with what little value they produce going to expenses or middlemen. Then the internet decides everything they create should be free whether they like it or not. We value the companies that distribute art and put celebrities on a high pedestal, but that's a different thing than putting creators and artists themselves on a pedestal.

The reason no one is fixing potholes or bridges or whatever is the taxpayer doesn't want to pay for it. If the pothole isn't right in front of their driveway, or the bridge isn't on their commute, or their kid isn't going to that particular school, then people consider any taxes spent on it to be theft. We no longer have a society, we have millions of individuals that happen to share a landmass in common but little else.
They said impermeable, not impervious.

There are lots of coatings and materials that are impermeable to liquids and gases.
For starters, they did not say it was inert (like say, PFTE, which is super low energy), so just because it's impermeable doesn't mean it won't get attacked by gases or solvents. Most polymers are.
relying emerging markets in developing countries has a lot of inherent risk. For one they have to comply to the local data collection laws or risk being censored or banned outright. Developing nations either see FB as a tool to surveil or a foe to restrict information.
> "Due to limited creator history we're limiting the number of views. Subscribe to this channel to help the creator"

Better yet, do so on peertube.
I don't use the main FB app but when I have before it'd constantly show me stuff from pages/people/whatever that I didn't follow. I think it was mostly friends of friends, or stuff friends liked. Have they got rid of all of that now?
Most people's personal product / leetcode isn't so valuable.
The news reports 1.8M Danes inflected since the start of the pandemic. There is some 5-6M Danes in total, so ~20%.

Note. These are confirmed infections, through PCR tests. They do some 200k test/day, so if sick you can get tested. But yes, it might be an underestimate.
there have been many studies that show that people who consistently work less hours are more productive per hour. generally going from 40 hours to 32 hours i'd be surprised if the difference in productivity was more than 5-10% (it may even be positive).
They're going the wearable route starting with Oculus which is the main reason they missed Wall Street's short term expectations. AR in the form of glasses is their end goal, with Apple trying to cut them off by next year at the latest.

imo Apple will help Meta by helping make XR more socially acceptable, along with Apple's premium pricing which locks some people out. I do not believe VR's current form factor is socially acceptable right now. Even if you remove problems such as cost, tech complexity, and even the toxicity surrounding Facebook's brand; the masses still will not accept it until Apple ships their solution.
We can't be critical of a company that makes people miserable? That weakens democracy? That enables violence and hate? Just because they make a lot of money we should be cheering?

Oh wow, they made $11! Let's forget everything else.
Yeah, the general public has bad priorities, why aren't we spending every cent on finding the cure to cancer? Surely figuring out the cure to cancer is more important than Marvel movies or the next Call of duty? Well, the average person's wallet doesn't think so.

If we take this line of thinking to the extreme we should all be eating soylent brand gruel and eating a couple vitamins and all our excess output should go into finding the cure to any and all diseases.
Creodocs: A document creation platform based on LaTeX
Unless it magically cleans and tidies everything I really don't see the appeal of home automation. Pressing a switch is far more convenient to me when walking into a room than fishing out a smartphone - whether it be through a raspberry pi or otherwise. Same with central heating, I rarely need to adjust it and I don't see the appeal of messing around with some integrated interface, i'd rather an old fashioned radiator dial or an independent reliable digital central heating timer I might have to tweak for 2 mins once a year.

None of these things are analogous to the TV remote control, there's a reason why we haven't seen similar precursors such as radiator switches on extension cords, we don't need to constantly adjust these things at high frequency... and when we do, we are literally walking past it (light switch).

</rant>
Volunteer hobbyist bridge clubs would be kinda cool.

That said, part of the reason you don’t see them is because of licensing and certifications. And people don’t want to be responsible for peoples lives for free.
Here are the results that caused this:

- Earnings per share: $3.67 vs $3.84 expected
- Revenue: $33.67 billion vs $33.4 billion expected

Facebook also missed estimates with user numbers.

- Daily Active Users (DAUs): 1.93 billion vs 1.95 billion expected
- Monthly Active Users (MAUs): 2.91 billion vs 2.95 billion expected
- Average Revenue per User (ARPU): $11.57 vs $11.38 expected

Future guidance was the biggest miss.

- Q1 revenue guidance was $27 billion to $29 billion, while analysts were expecting sales of $30.15 billion
There is still a big blue F on facebook.com and the app. It doesn't seem that different to me.
Used Tiny Core as a daily driver for nearly 5 years. While it certainly is good at running on older hardware, the title is a bit misleading as that's not really the focus of the project... It's just a consequence of it being such a lean and nimble distro. It is blazing fast on modern machines.
People with different opinions than yours are not a monolithic entity, so please don't paint me with the same brush as others just because my opinion has more similarities with theirs than with yours. Similarly, regulators are not a monolithic entity, and it is completely possible to want regulators to do one thing while also criticizing them about other things. Otherwise, your post has big "You criticize regulators, yet you want them to do something? Curious!" energy.

> Kinda makes it easy to see who has irrational hate for Tesla/Musk versus those who actually care about technology.

Another broad brush stroke and false dichotomy. It's entirely possible to care about safety before caring about TSLA's shareholder value, which has nothing to do with "irrational hate" or not "caring about technology".

For example, you won't see me complaining about Waymo's self-driving cars, because their program prioritizes safety instead of moving fast and breaking things/bodies. Does that sound like not caring about technology, or can you only care about technology as long as you're completely uncritical of Tesla's blatant disregard for safety?

> The correct thing for the "regulators" to do is to make it mandatory that every car has the same set of cameras and instruments that Tesla cars do, and that data is streamed to a publicly funded data warehouse where its open source and available for anyone to use.

That's just your opinion, and it's certainly convenient for Tesla. The "correct" and ethical thing for Tesla to have done is to keep their beta testing to closed tracks where all participants agree to be experimented only after giving their informed consent and just compensation for the risks involved. Instead, the entire public is being experimented on without their consent, and they're being experimented on by untrained non-professionals.

The "correct" and ethical thing for regulators to do is ensure that Tesla ceases experimentation that can get the public killed and maimed, that the public never consented to.

Similarly, the "correct" and ethical thing for Tesla to do is to not try to portray their Level 2 autonomous system as being Level 4 or greater. Regulators, ideally, would handle that issue, too.
I've silenced my phone 8 or 9 years ago and it's been like that since then. (With unmuting it very occasionally. Like a few times a year, maybe.) The notification frequency must have grown a lot since then.

I have no idea how people can deal with their phone beeping and vibrating constantly. Actually, I get annoyed pretty quickly when e.g. my partner leaves her phone in the room.
The emerging markets *currently* do not have as large of revenue potential for advertising as the western markets.

Meta made in Q4-2020 53.56B in ad rev in the US and Canada. Meta only made 4.05B in Asia Pacific in Q4-2020.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...
The real secret is to be the guy who can fix the robots - the new blue collar. Doesn't matter which way the world turns out - either way you're living comfortably and coasting below the radar.
Apple dislikes ad-tech for reason x because it's a fundamental threat to their business from their compitators making money though it or mindshare being pushed towards other products; the further the reach and the lower the cost the worse it is for them
If you care about value, why do you wear ironed clothes?
I bought 0.5 shares on Revolut :)
This has been obvious for a long time, because if it wasn't true it would be trivial for Tesla to disprove it, and they haven't. Allow me to quote myself (from a discussion about an Autopilot related crash in 2019 [1])

"The fact that Tesla consistently refuses to share full data on identical models driving with autopilot turned on, enabled but not turned on, and not enabled is extremely suggestive that the overall safety rates for autopilot on are not better."

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19929793
It not that simple. Most engineers still want to get a good perf rating. Amazon plans projects with the assumption that everyone works 5 days a week. Therefore, 4 days a week means you plan at most 4 days a week. If you choose to take a day off every week, then you will be at least 20% more productive than your peers to output at the same level. Unless you assume that your peers are 20% less productive than you, you will be at a disadvantage by working only 4 days a week.