skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who has been proven wrong are all the pundits who proclaimed their monopolies were unstoppable.

Other giant companies have fallen as well. RCA, Xerox, GE, Kodak, on and on.

The reasons are well known. They become bureaucratic, wasteful and ossified, and become unable to adapt to a changing marketplace.

I've seen this play out again and again and again in my lifetime.
Everything has to be salt-proof. Corrosion even in coastal homes is huge. On water everything starts to rust within days. Plus exponential growth in size - larger boat means bigger masts, bigger sails, bigger winches to move it, more power to winches, bigger generators, larger fuel tanks.

You should compare it with airplanes which would make it sound like bargain...
> Turning onigiri into donuts is one thing

Good old Brock and his homemade jelly donuts
Agreed. Science itself has nothing to say about that though, and I fear castigating everyone to "believe the science" and censoring antiscientific opinions are two deeply counterproductive activities, in that they give people the impression that that is indeed what science is about
I've never heard of a single movie made by Ghibli.

Not that I'm a fan of Marvel, far from it! Apart from a few exceptions, they seem mostly geared towards kids (and adults who still inherit fantasy worlds).
Michigan to Build EV Charging Roadway
One reason given, indeed the first, is that the taste qualities of alcohol are a marketing fabrication. This is nonsense. A high quality wine is heaven in the mouth. A high quality gin and tonic is nature’s beautiful gift.

I won’t argue with the other reasons though.
i think that most of things discussed here pertain strictly to cl. also implementing some random minimal lisp does not make you an expert in common lisp at all. try to implement common lisp and tell me how it goes
The first appears to be Adobe Garamond. The fourth looks like Simoncini Garamond.
Its already frustrating enough having to use Facebook just to look up a restaurant's information, the set times for a concert, or whatever about a local business or event. If all that stuff starts to disappear behind a meta-verse wall, I might just leap off the nearest bridge instead.
I have similar services running on my synology nas w/ docker.

Where do you get the LXC container images from? I build most of mine from scratch because people on the Internet have no sense of propriety or taste, but now that means I'm maintaining a pile of Dockerfiles, which I never update in practice.
>their demographic is not the TikTok demographic

In other words, not the youth, which is an existential problem for a growth oriented social media company no?
Maybe I'm a generation younger than you, but if you were young when Snapchat was cool, then you probably transitioned to stories from the "main" IG content and dropped Facebook altogether. I spend 90+% of my time on IG on stories and it is a really good way to keep up with people as far as generally knowing where they are/what they're up to. I probably post once a month for reference.
As part of some genealogy work, I’m reading documents 200 years old - but digitized as searchable PDFs.

Without that, I can’t imagine how much slower it would have gone and how many more dead ends I would have got stuck in.
of course they do. they just chose evil-mode
Profanity in Oscar Winning Movies Visualized (1927-2021)
One thing I wonder about the safety of Autopilot (because I have never used a Tesla).

Doesn't the Autopilot sometimes just give up in difficult situations? Either explicitly, by stopping behind parked cars or things like that, or worse, by behaving so badly that the driver has to take back control for his own safety.

The worst case would be: autopilot doesn't see an obstacle, driver sees it at the last moment, takes back control, but it is too late, and crash. Is it an autopilot crash or a human crash?

Or: there is some road work, the autopilot cannot maneuver around it and gives up, the driver takes back control and crashes. It is clearly a human error, but still, the autopilot leave the short part where accidents are the most likely to happen the driver.

It things like that happen, it is almost as if the autopilot is to be used only where accidents are the least likely to happen, which can obviously explain why people on autopilot have less accidents.
Homeland Security eyes robot dogs to patrol the southern border
This game is fantastic, I was fortunate to go to the 25th Anniversary concert in Chicago. It's reportedly Nobuo Uematsu's favorite game as well.

Also, FFVI is the only game (to my knowledge) officially released on 8 different platforms across four console generations: SNES, Playstation, Wii Virtual Console, GameBoy Advance, iOS, Android, Steam, and SNES Classic Edition.

The story is so good, I've thought they should make a movie or TV series from it (though such FF movies have had a bad track record).
You do realize all these platforms ramp up ads the more you use them right?
> If Marginalia because the #1 search engine in the world tomorrow, I suspect SEO spam would start trying to beat it a few days later, and the results would be crap inside a month.

This is only actually a problem if there is one big search engine. Monocultures of all varieties are vulnerable to specialization, this is as true in a country that grows nothing but wheat to a world where every computer runs Windows XP. If there would be two or three big search engines with conflicting means of evaluating a site, it would decimate the effectiveness of SEO.

A lot of what I'm doing to find good results is promoting the sort of sites that Google rejects. While there are search engine optimized sites that aren't SEO spam, there is no SEO spam that isn't search engine optimized.
What could go wrong. . .? I, for one, welcome our new robotic dog overlords. . . ;-)
Which is impressive because I still have Facebook I just don't login and never use any of its services - the account now exists to simply hold a lock on my name on the service.

I suspect I'm not the only one doing this.
> Daily active users dropped from 1.93 billion to 1.92 billion, with the drop coming from Africa and Latin America.
Seeing as how this is Amazon, I'm assuming reduce hours means expectations of 60 hours a week, and not 70.
I think their brand is the antithesis of the data protection wants of the majority of cloud webservice customers.
This is good news. Facebook has proven itself to be a negative influence on people and countries.
It's great that something was built. Amen.

Similar problems to chatroulette, i.e., cyberdisinhibitionism, backgrounds/communication impedance mismatches, although hopefully not as many flashers.

My luck, I'd get the homeless guy at the coffee shop breathing into the microphone saying "I never use my real name. And, I always wear extra tin foil in winter when the mind beams are stronger. The FBI has a file on me a mile high. They're out to get me. Do you hear those voices too?" (This is based on the personality of a real, harmless person who did live in 24 hour coffeeshops in SV.)
https://archive.md/PPaDg
I mainly use it to sell things locally. Or maybe there's a local apartment rental group. That's about it.
MCM but only one I/O die, but has multiple "quadrants" in single I/O die that makes multiple NUMA domain depending on configuration. See https://developer.amd.com/wp-content/resources/56827-1-0.pdf
And here I thought the goal of hiking a long trail was pride of achievement when you get when you finish it. Silly me.
I am not on FB but I use Reddit and I’m a little worried about how they will try to monetize when they go public. I have a feeling eventually it will become unusable. I’ve been a Redditor for 10 years now and I really hope the marketing via outrage culture doesn’t make its way there but I feel like it’s only natural.
A meta-verse bridge or an actual bridge?
> Tesla owners absolutely can be habitual speeders, people who drive without sleep, road ragers, and drunk drivers.

The average Tesla owner may well be those things. But I know that *I* am not those things.

I know my own driving record well. I know my own accident history well.

So you don't have to convince me that Tesla is better than the average driver. You don't have to convince me that Tesla is better than the average Tesla owner. You have to convince me that Tesla is better than *me*.

Now, apply that same analysis to the 88% of drivers that think they are above the median [1] in terms of driving safety. It doesn't matter if I am _right_, it matters what I think about my relative driving safety.

[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/1981-svenson.pdf
> If you believe that ethics code is appropriate, then you believe those studies are valid

But why? The standord experiment was performative, it wasn't even an actual experiment, as shown from the experiment notes. How did you come to believe that it is mandatory to believe that study is valid?
That’s how it works now though. So it’s not a solution to the proposed problem in the article.

I agree though, there is no problem.
check out https://kagi.com/faq
No need to risk that. Just impress us by telling us about the awesome software you have written with your 10x more productive language. I can’t wait.

… crickets …

Still waiting :)
Theres so many ads on instagram Im considering dumping it. Thats the only social platform I ever liked because I dont have to hear peoples opinions on things. But Im at a breaking point.
I don't speak for the op, but the current recommended z-wave integration is via a sidecar javascript service: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/zwave_js/

One of HA's selling points for me originally was that everything was written in Python. It's frustrating that I am now faced with pulling a javascript service into the mix. Most of my devices are z-wave and I'm still running on the legacy integration and dreading this migration.
When the metaverse actually launches they will skyrocket. They were smart to pivot early. Saying the 'metaverse' is on FB right now is similar to people selling acres on the Moon before anyone landed. FB is planting an imaginary flag on the 'metaverse' hoping they can technically catch up to their claims and capitalize on it.
There is a strong correlation between neck weakness and brain damage in contact sports

Search "NFL neck" in a search engine and look at the images
I understand this won't sit well with a lot of people, but reading a chapter or two of the Bible before bed totally resets my mind and helps me fall asleep almost immediately when I am ready. It calls you to a different realm. Especially the historical books like Judges, Samuel, and Kings.
I don’t work Fridays either. Invest in your negotiating skills!
Having never used Nyxt, I’m curious. Is the context lost when the page changes is the future, or does Nyxt capture it in time?
OP seems to believe that people avoid going into valuable, practical work because it's too demanding, or because it doesn't pay enough. Yes, the roads in Seattle are full of potholes, despite the wealth of Amazon. That doesn't mean that every Seattleite with a trowel and an asphalt bucket is in a position to do something about the problem. Has OP failed to notice that this sort of matter is controlled by enormous bureaucracies, and that the average member of such a bureaucracy--to say nothing of the average citizen--has hardly any power to effect significant change? Or accomplish anything that they can look back at and say, with satisfaction, "I did this?" It's not unreasonable for people to expect that sort of satisfaction from their efforts, and it's not totally unreasonable for them to look for it in the arts, video games, etc.
Hahaha you are funny.
> And don't give me homilies about [...] "All creation is precious." [...] None of these things are true.

the statement "all creation is precious" is true from the perspective of someone else that also likes to "create" things by rearranging/juxtaposing/building off of content that already exists. the more "content" that is out there, no matter how trivial it may seem, increases the amount of source material that can be sifted through to find the perfect building blocks for something else.

random examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endtroducing.....

https://www.tommoody.us/archives/2012/03/28/guthrie-lonergan...
Those are just more disgusting fumes, I prefer no fumes entering the cabin of my car and into my lungs from the car in front of me
Oh that could be great, especially if there were someone (like the submitter, or just with the right personality) to get people talking.

Would hate for something like that ever to detract from the reading experience though - e.g. someone with something great to say or niche experience etc. tells their story then feels no need (or lacks the energy/motivation) to write it out again.
I bought a ton today, but just to close my short. Huge profit there, I'd probably never long FB though.
It really gets me down when local/state emergency services etc. use it as their primary means of news/updates.
I think they will restrict it at first, to control the user experience. In the starting phase it'll be crucial to avoid bad reviews due to substandard hardware. Google did exactly this with their cardboard headset. People lost interest in VR because they watched a rollercoaster vid on a crappy cardboard setup and thought they had seen it all. All these $5 eBay headsets flooding the world didn't promote VR at all. They just imprinted the idea "VR is just a gimmick" in people's minds. As a VR enthusiast I still need to explain the difference between 3DOF and real interactive 6DOF all the time. It took a long time to build interest in real 6DOF VR back up.

But I think once (or, if) the metaverse has proven its value to the consumer their goal is to be the leading platform and opening it up would make sense there, it would be key to maximising marketshare. Especially as they're not even making money on the hardware, it's being sold at a loss. That'll change too once the platform proves itself but still I don't think they expect it to be a major money maker.

Zuckerberg mentioned in his keynote that they want to go for a different business model. They want to sell the platform and enable creators to sell their designs, taking a cut in the Apple store way. And they can still take a cut on third party hardware by licensing. Which means revenue without even having to bother manufacturing anything.

I think hardware to Meta will be what hardware is to Microsoft. Setting a good baseline standard, promoting new designs and usecases (e.g. the surface pro convertible) and directing the market. But not being the sole vendor.

But I may be wrong of course. It'll be interesting times ahead!
I don't see how that could possibly be true. AWS must be much bigger than Facebook
Nope! When you don't capitalize lisp, it refers to a speech impediment.

LISP in all caps refers to classic Lisp, and was once widely used for the family: all kinds of dialects and implementations used LISP in their names, even Common Lisp ones. "Common LISP" was a thing; e.g. in the title of the book Common LISPcraft by Robert Wilensky.

This situation was similar to how other languages were capitalized: FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC. I suspect part of the reason for all the shouting was the limited support for lower case characters in some printing/terminal equipment. Many of the names involved were acronyms, or near acronyms.

Today, and for probably at least three decades, those languages have been called Fortran, Cobol, Basic (e.g. Microsoft Visual Basic, not Microsoft Visual BASIC). It's the same situation with Lisp.
I feel like "selling acres on the Moon" and "smart" are at significant odds with each other...
I predict the Metaverse will fail, and fail early. It will be Google Plus, but worse.

No one I personally know cares about Metaverse, including young people and Facebook users.
> Im considering

In poker they call this a bluff
I now wonder how the quality of FSD changes when you're cruising in a road with blue houses vs. red houses on the side. I'm not being snarky here, that's the kind of thing "AI" is known to do.
I wonder if they tried to buy wordle...
What's the hottest social network they could buy?
Interesting. I find that Google is retirement home engineers. Netflix is top quality if they didn't join first in 2020. Meta is same as you. Microsoft is questionable.

But the Amazon thing is surprising a little. Some of the guys I've spoken to from there were fantastic!

I guess I could be a terrible judge. Or I could be over-indexing on the guys I've encountered. Or there's some team effect here that I'm missing.

Well, thanks for sharing! It's useful.
There’s an active truce that keeps the belligerents from killing more people than died in WW2.

Ya, if I were the State Department, if be pissed
Is there a The Onion equivalent for programming and engineering related news?
I think it's a convention, but I could well be wrong. Maybe it refers to LISP. But maybe it's wrong too. Nonetheless, the lisp being discussed in this thread is Common Lisp
I think Georgia is highly underrated.
We just built a dumb house (intentionally). The electricians put in Lutron switches everywhere.

Each one seems to contain a computer, as do some of the LED fixtures.

You can turn on the lights in the bathroom, and start your business before the lights come on. Some of the other switches simply don't work at all (motion detector in the garage? Bypassed! Auto humidity fan switches? Always the wrong policy, haven't figured out how the override button works 6 months in.)

Don't get me started on the compatibility issues between the dimmers or the LEDs, or manufactures endeavors to "minimize nuisance trips" because the new AFCI breakers hate high torque motors.

If humanity ever masters time travel, I'm going back to the 80s to buy light switches!
Proposed: That we are far enough into the 21st century now that “turn of the century“ should default to meaning 2000, not 1900.
I dumped facebook, linkedin, snapchat. I can dump another.
#15: Nuanced communication; On Seriousness; Rorschach; How to become the best
I just glanced at mine and it's like 90% people I used to know posting pictures of their kids. The rest is stuff like my buddy's mom posting a recipe for 10 minute Roti.

Overall not bad to be honest. Still not much I'm actually interested in but far from cancerous.
I've played a bunch of them, but never actually got to try FFVI... From what I hear it's quite a few people's favourite though, so I'm probably missing out. This looks like a nice ROM.
Sure but is it legal if you’re not in the act of defending yourself? If you just walk up to someone who made you mad, and shoot them? No. Which means there are legal limits on how you can use your guns.
What a bizarre argument. Have you implemented Common Lisp yourself? If not then you know nothing about Lisp then?
I think they only lost a half million users (which wouldn't even show up as a blib on that number)
That actually gave me chills. We're doomed!
In principle we could calculate the weight of oxygen in half a fuel tank's worth of air, and work out how much energy that would release if it was used in combustion with the fuel there.

In practice, though, you're right, that we'd have to think about the oxygen concentration, which would immediately start dropping as the fuel burned. Also, it's not easy to calculate what temperature the tank would reach, and for how long, and whether that would cause it to rupture.

For reference, though, the testing process for fuel tanks can include: "the tank being exposed to a pan of raging petroleum coming through specifically designed firebricks to intensify the effect of the naked flame. The tank has to be capable of securely containing diesel during the test for 90 seconds."

https://corillaplastics.co.uk/rotationally-moulded-diesel-fu...
Well, diminishing returns

Mark Z talked about S curves 10 yea to ago
She did go to the police with the threats. They sent her away. Now what's the plan if authorities won't act? Wait for congress to hold hearings on one's behalf after the violence is done? Most police wouldn't be happy with their personal and loved ones' information being posted online with the purpose of making threats of violence or other harm.
The 'metaverse' in terms that there will absolutely be a VR cyber/world/land/facebook/sims2/second life experience. Will it be what FB wants it to be (they want to cash in), probably not but this is 100% coming. Looks at every immersive games (WOW, Second Life, etc...) in the past, even if its just that it will be hugely lucrative and successful.
I wonder if Textquake for the 7090 would break .00000001 FPS.
> I wonder if abandonment rate is a metric too.

Apparently they categorize the type of viewer you are based on when you abandon the content. [1] mentions starter, watcher, and completer as viewer categories based on how much of the content they view.

[1] https://www.fool.com/investing/2019/12/06/how-netflix-decide...
Would you bother to check something you distrust? I wouldn't, it would be a waste of time.
(off topic)

I read that at first glance as

> Probably not the last, either, those joints ain’t gonna roll themselves.

and thought, hm, I need to remember this debugging technique next time I'm stumped.
You definitely didn't heard of the US military-industrial complex: (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_...). Also, most cutting-edge technologies tends to derive from US academe and research facilities, so they can block non-US companies from using it.
It is just me or there seems to be a strange lack of criticism about TikTok on the same or stricter level than FB. Especially that it is a Chinese company HQ’ed in Beijing. Neither do I ever see discussion about the asymmetry in China’s trade policies with regards to FB/Tiktok. Tiktok enjoys free market access (except India), whereas FB is banned in China just like many other US-based platforms. On the contrary, there seems to be praise about TikTok on HN!

How come we don’t see scathing articles on NYT about TikTok but on WSJ? Has this become a partisan issue (Trump wanted to ban Tiktok)?
Ive done that to the point where it frequently says "there's nothing to show here" instead of a feed. I know people I'm interested in hearing from are posting things, but Facebook will never decide to show them to me, regardless of my settings
20 years ago, you could improve a lawyer's contract workflow in three ways:

Make Word load faster.

Make Adobe Acrobat load faster.

Make the printer print faster.

This hasn't changed much since 2002. If you are to reinvent the wheel, you really need to see it turn.
Yes, it does, which is also a great way to avoid "being active in a crash". The model of "a human must being completely focused 100% of the time while also not doing anything to control the vehicle and ready to take control" is not a reasonable model, and is why all the "partial" self-driving rules are nonsense.

It also helps statistics both directly: crashes are more likely in the snow and rain, but Teslas don't do self driving in those conditions (that's one of the things this paper addresses).

Tesla has in numerous cases blamed the driver for not taking control of the unsafe "self driving" when crashes occurred, how many near misses have occurred due to drivers intervening? Airlines and aircraft manufacturers are required to report events where a pilot how to take over to prevent an accident but Tesla and co don't
This would be reflected in change to Monthly Active Users which seems way more relevant than total users.
Odd that there aren't tech consultancies that launder the job, then.
If someone asks you for $25.00 for an acre on the moon, you'd probably pay it just in case its a future lottery ticket.
that's until you get accessible haptic feedback devices and realistic comfortable VR
Except dark chocolate :)
Why I love retro DOS and Window games. Basically none of this nonsense.
I basically still log in for interest group posts (e.g., photos from my son's preschool) and to RSVP for party invites. I'd love to see alternatives take over for these.