skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Oligarchy" is not subject to metaphor or "well kind of but don't you see"

It only becomes an -archy when the actual literal power is openly and legally held

Otherwise, neckbeards would argue that literally every society in history has been a kleptocracy, which is a far more apt description of the sarcastic viewpoint on this society than "oligarchy," which is when rich people are put into office which matches the thing they are good at, would be

Oligarchy does not mean "rich people hold power because they're powerful," or anything even slightly like that

Think about the society that you see in comic book alternate universes every so often, where they make Thomas Edison the chief of industry, et cetera. The nonsense one where we somehow have the ability to divine who's good at what by looking at the history of their wallet, and on that basis make meritocratic elections. In such a society, a lottery winner even who exceeded the wealth of others would wield nonetheless no power, because it wasn't earned.

Practically speaking, there's no way such a thing could plausibly exist. But that's what the word actually means. It's one of those things where people trying to use it to sound deep and wise end up undercutting themselves (like "utopia.")
Haven’t been able to do work all day because policy dictates that we must do all work on a VM that we RDP into. Thing is, remote computers sometimes go down, and today, all of our VMs are down. I’ve tried bringing up the issue but everyone seems to either not care/want me to fix it myself by knocking on the right doors and pushing the issue to leadership. But I don’t want to do all that, I’m a developer, and I just want my work environment to work for me, not against me. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Sigh. Should’ve got out early, but I liked the pay and flexibility. It’s not worth it though.
Same here.

To this day I still don’t understand how some businesses expect devs to troubleshoot in production in the middle of the night, and fix underlying issues the morning after.
I see a lot of young people who end up creating (mostly empty) Facebook profiles jut to use the groups features or for events. There still isn't a good alternative to those on Intagram or other platforms, and my guess is as young people get older they start having to use Facebook in some way.
Yahoo is still around but not as prominent. Could be the same with Meta.
Oh man, yet another Windows only game! I haven't owned or used a Windows system. I would love to play/pay for this game or Anno-1800 and few others.

Is the Mac/Linux community still so small that no one cares about it? I'd think with all the noise & competition for Windows gamers, surely there's an untapped market of other OS gamers!

The reason I love a similar style game, Factorio, is that it runs on Mac and other platforms!
Just kind of seems like they're working on a very expensive, boring video game.

the AR thing sounds cool, but are people really going to pick the Meta one over the Apple or Google one?
Psychiatry observes that in the 20s, most people cannot see their own failures, but in their 30s, most people can.

Think about someone you know who is around your age, and who you knew in your and their early 20s. Now, imagine them creating something that's fit to their personality. Programming, cooking, writing, whatever. Assume that what they created is pretty good for them, and fairly good for everyone. My personal experience with people suggests that the 20s version will be exaggeratedly proud, whereas the 30s person will be asking contemporaries for advice on how to improve.

My personal belief is that this is driven by the 20 year old thinking the work is genuinely great, and the 30 year old thinking "geez, I could do better than this, have I been wasting my talent?"

I would wager that it's likely that you're simply becoming more discerning. It's unsettling, but positive, in the net.

Genuine cognitive decline is currently believed by medical science to kick in in the late 40s or early 50s for most people.

Another significant possibility is sleep quality, which for some people declines drastically in the 30s (often tied to weight.) Sleep quality has a huge amount to do with cognitive performance. Do you wake up tired a lot? Do you snore? Have you ever been checked for sleep apnea, which a little over a third of humanity has? My getting a CPAP really deeply changed my mental state. My doctor said that they thought I hadn't had a genuinely good sleep in more than a decade. It takes about a month to start feeling okay again.

It is genuinely worth talking to a good doctor about this. They will be much better than the wisdom of the crowds.
The problem with non-cloud cameras, I think, is that burglars can, and likely will steal them. This kind of defeats the purpose of a security system.
I disagree with this reasoning. Not to repeat things that were nicely said elsewhere, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31569160 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31568962, but it boils down to "it's none of your business".

I will absolutely not ever be convinced that I should have to account all of my life to a company I'm considering joining.

I may explain a certain gap if I feel like it. But if I feel I'm being put into a situation where I'm expected to explain it, this isn't a company I would like to work with.
If you listen to Lex Friedman, he said the thing that surprised him the most about mark zuckerberg when he met him was his overwhelming humanity and compassion. He said that part of him never comes through the media, but when he interacted with him he said it was undeniable how humane and compassionate he was.
I think the crux of the article is this: they used the protected monopoly on one market (e.g. CDMA modems) to gain an unfair advantage in the other markets (all the other chips in a cell phone).

> Qualcomm's patent licensing fees were calculated based on the value of the entire phone, not just the value of chips that embodied Qualcomm's patented technology. This effectively meant that Qualcomm got a cut of every component of a smartphone—most of which had nothing to do with Qualcomm's cellular patents.
With the Digital Markets Act (DMA) the EU want to control big players - the goal of DMA isn't to improve interoperability itself. But press/marketing say "DMA=Interoperability" (which is wrong).

More: https://www.freie-messenger.de/en/begriffe/interoperabilitae...
Even those are huge cities in my eyes. I was thinking something more along the lines of Portsmouth NH, or Ellicott City MD. Places small enough where you can walk from end to end in short enough time, but large enough to have plenty of shops and events. These places are exceptionally nice areas to live.
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Meta became what tv channels like history channel became:

Cheap entertainment for the masses.

Does it make money? Obviously.

And funny enough they have so much money and what do they do actually with it?

Nothing someone can actually name besides: the feed, messenger, occulus and stuff they bought up like insta and Whatsapp.

Congratulations to Facebook and basically no real innovation in the last 10 years.

Besides optimizing the addictiones of garbage which got easily trumped by TikTok.
I have a background in economics and optimization and have not seen a claim as strong as the one you are making. Again, given that you are making an empirical claim about the world as we find it, I would expect you would be basing that on something you could point to - but I guess not.

Not going to keep responding, I've said all I wanted to.
> The metaverse is a real idea yes - but strapping a phone to your face and walking through your coffee table isn’t it.

Face, meet book. Boom.
a) Facebook is not doomed for failure. Their audience just got older and rather than abandon them they acquired companies more suited to younger generations e.g. Instagram, Oculus instead. And it's a strategy that has unquestionably worked.

b) Facebook isn't really pivoting to metaverse any more than Apple is pivoting to services. It's an additional revenue stream alongside their existing ones which are still very healthy and lucrative.
I 100% believe in VR/XR/AR just not one driven by Meta.

Edit: To be clear, IMO most disruptive technologies are not driven by established mega-corporations.
Tail call elimination!!!

I had no idea that this was in LISP 1.5. If you had asked me, I would have sworn it was Steele, 1977. Wikipedia supports that[1], albeit one might not consider it the most reliable source.

So apparently (partial) TCE has been around since at least 1961. In that light, it's baffling that it's not supported more universally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call
"How source code size is measured"

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
If the goal is simple text chat (communication that uses text) - but text can be used in a wide variety of ways!

If some of the many who have reimplemented the same thing on a new platform instead set out to create something new, maybe something new would appear on the scene.
> Why do people always bring this up when people talk about "Facebook"?

Wasn't one of the points of their recent rebrand to Meta to better define "Facebook" as a singular product, and not the company and its other products?
Good god, there's a reason people worship monoliths. And here I think my company's app is over-engineered for using Sidekiq and Lambda for similar workloads.
They also copied the timeline feature from Twitter.

Before that, people had a wall and you could go there and read what they wrote and poke them ... remember poking?

They do seem rather good at buying good product companies or copying ideas, which could serve them well in the metaverse-space (ugh...), once it's established.
ok sure but that was clearly one of them.

pretty clear that she did not want to be the face of a controversial company given that she often leveraged her role to talk about being a woman exec in tech eg “Lean In” and that all but disappeared when the perception of the company completely changed.
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As the butt of jokes and target of mockery, yes.
> less boilerplate and complexity

Kind of lame to pitch this in the comments on GraphJin. Make your own post and try to get on the front page on your own merits without bagging on this.
It helps you "collaborate", if by "collaboration" you mean everybody griping about how awful the working conditions are. It's funny to see people waxing nostalgic about the days in the office - everybody working in an open space, wearing headphones and ignoring one another so they could get some work done, and everybody griping about how awful the environment is.
Back in the 1990s I worked at an investment bank that offered a paid 3 month sabbatical after 10 years of service, and then every 5 years afterwards. I don't quite remember the specifics but that was the gist of it. This was on top of normal PTO. They didn't tell you what to do with the time, but encouraged doing some deliberate personal growth.

It was a rather uncommon benefit at the time.
I’m curios to understand why everything was constantly on fire. Was it too many deployments bringing down stuff? Or flaky infrastructure?
> It's doubtful that TomTom's foray into mobile was 'accidental'

They started as a small company writing random software for palmtops. Until one day they made mapping software. They didn't expect it will be that popular with people. It was popular to a degree that people were buying palmtops just to use their app and didn't care about all other software their new palmtop could have.

It's as if today, small software shop released an app that bumps iPhone device sales by +20% just because people want to use that one app event though they don't care about all other things iPhone can do. Everybody can dream of that, but nobody can plan for that. It was purely accidental.

> When mega corps come in and suddenly make a major part of your business unworkable, yes, companies go into reactionary mode. That's normal.

What I describe as running like a headless chicken started many years before I came to TomTom. I've seen tonnes of internal wiki's that were once created for internal random, ultimately abandoned projects. I even seen two projects attempting the same thing, new one didn't have an idea that somebody, some time ago in that same corporation already tried to build that.

It's standard mode of operation. In corporation you have core business that's kept tight and professional and huge amount of side activity that's just bleeding money trying to discover next big pivot.
I've been, for the last two years, asking my teams business leadership to open up remote hiring and start championing higher salaries for my team mates. My team works on internal infrastructure and we build tools and capabilities that are unlike many/most teams at my company, every one of which are on the critical path. One of the baseline requirements of this team is that engineers pick up four different working languages for our products (which are software development kits, CLIs, and some backends).

I have now lost all of the original engineers I joined the team with (minus one who was promoted), my team of five has shrunk to two (twice), and management has been riding "people only use us for counter offers" (which can't be true because we're several orders of magnitude under our peer groups in competitive offers - ask me how I know). I'm now trying to interview, handle incidents, develop features, and release patches with the help of one other engineer.

Please, for the love of god, take me out back and fire me like Old Yeller.
Not that bad, depending on your value system, but I like not sending more requests to e.g. Google's servers. But of course, definitely use the bookmarklet if you prefer that over my extension!
Yes, they're the same measurements.
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Again, hyperbolic nonsense.

Your government has millions of people working for it that do innumerable things from water works, electricity distribution and regulation, policing, defence.

You already depend on them intimately.

The naive, glib view that somehow 'we can't trust government' is blatantly contradicted by your very existed.

We want to make sure oversight and controls are there, but it's bonkers to suggest we don't want health officials to understand how this pandemic played out, so that they can figure out how to deal with the next one.
I built a website to track monkeypox case data from around the world
TBH, I've stopped believing that a job will give me meaning. I have to give meaning to the right job.

Learned that this is easier when:
- company is small enough for me to be in direct contact with customers vs. seeing quotes from user research
- time is spent mostly to help customers vs. show how smart we are to leadership
- everyone can challenge each other to improve vs. stay stagnant
- we have enough funding / cashflow to be able to look forward vs. worry about surviving today

Also a growing number of companies focused on sustainability, which is easier to project meaning onto: https://topstartups.io/?industries=Sustainability
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Ask HN: Is Tether Under Attack?
I have been watching Tether ever since the Terra implosion. As you know, shortly thereafter tether flash crashed to 95 cents. It has since recovered but it seems to me that it hasn’t recovered all the way. Disclaimer, I have just been checking in on tether on coinmarketcap.com. I have no doubt this isn’t the best way to get an accurate reading of the state of tether.

That being said, since the flash crash it looks like tether has been averaging just below $1. Somewhere around 0.9995. That might seem like close enough, but prior to the flash crash tether would regularly fluctuate above $1 by minuscule amounts. It doesn’t seem to every go above $1 now. Does this represent constant slow downward pressure on tether, maybe even traders take advantage of small arbitrage opportunities when the currency fluctuates lower?

I’ve also notice that in coinmarketcap there have multiple step-like movements, always downward, in tether’s market cap. These step down movements are roughly in increments of $1B. In total it has lost about $10B. I realize that this is superimposed on the background of the broader crypto ecosystem losing a large amount of market cap. But I guess the worry with tether is that some of it is probably well back with actual USD and some of it is probably backed with sketchy corporate paper. If they have to redeem to cover market cap loses, won’t they have to redeem the high quality backing first, meaning over time the percentage of tether that is sketchily back will increase?

Again, I realize the coinmarketcap probable isn’t the best way to be tracking this. What does anyone thing is going on?
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I dont know if im interpretting this right, but this seems like she is leaving immediately just a few weeks after it was clear her next vesting tranches of options/equity etc. were heavily devalued or worthless as the impact on them from the privacy stuff was possibly outdone with the broader tech decline?
what are some of the developments you find most fascinating ?

i own two vr headsets but don't really use them for more than casual gaming with friends. haven't really seen the killer use case yet

google glass style AR still has the most "futurey" appeal to me
WordPress powers still more sites than every other solution (> 42% of websites worldwide). Imho WP is a great example of user driven innovation along with advances in web technology. And the example that you can use GPL and make a good business and community! To build real simple things using WP as low code platform makes sense nowadays. Great release, congrats!
Because K8s is the very end of a long road, and even when that is done and setup, cloud eng work, shifts to CI/CD, data eng, significant networking maintenance, and IAM/account wrangling will keep the devops'ers employed. SRE is a golden goose job IMO
I was once in a similar position as handmodel, for about two years, and absolutely terrified that my skills would atrophy. But now I realize that was just fear-driven and everything cycles, or is replaced, every five to ten years. So if you can skip one of those cycles you can avoid wasting a lot of effort.
This is just the appeal to tradition fallacy in long-form as a comment.
this is not the fault of kubernetes but of microservice architecture gone horribly wrong
I mean, yea, earplugs and a blindfold work too, but how do I feel like I'm walking through a pasture with wet dirt between my toes if you cannot simulate the sensory system? That's what people imagine. A home-bound person wants to feel what it is like to skydive, not watch a POV video.
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In the 90s, the internet was very much being used. It was so exciting that my friends and I sat waiting for 20-30 seconds to see content. We exchanged messages, played each other on Comamand and Conquer, looked at edgy content on forums.

Now, my Oculus headset sits gathering dust in a cupboard. Nobody I know wants it because it's so boring using it for more than half an hour.
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Yeah but that isn’t what I’m referring to. It’s clear FB is investing billions to build their vision of the Metaverse in house, at least for now, and my point is that they haven’t actually proven to anyone that they are capable of building a brand new thing from scratch that reaches critical mass without acquiring it elsewhere. In that sense I agree with investors who have sold the stock that this is a big risk.