skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This actually makes me pretty sad. For all of Facebook's ills, it did at least do a good job of keeping me connected with friends before it got weird. Same with Instagram. Twitter is fantastic because it helps me discover new people, new interests, new worlds, in a way.

TikTok doesn't feel social at all. It feels entirely too performative. Everything on there is a performance. Everything is an act. Everything is simply an effort of some kind or another. Sounds more exhausting than fun.

Really wish there was a thriving ecosystem of small online communities that had some sort of financial structure that could collectively create as much money as these larger companies do.

Instead, well, here we are.
Someone need to come up with a new reference book on Linux routing. The last reliable book on the topic is about 20 years ago during Linux kernel 2.X, the time when the Linux kernel has a dedicate routing table as mentioned in the article. Now it is even more important due to the popularity of Linux networking in the era of cloud, edge and container.

[1] Book Review: Linux Routers - A Primer for Network Administrators, 2nd Ed

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6314
I think NES case is more about business practices and distribution problem w/o a digital network. Im sure there was a lot of talent left untapped. If they somehow passed decision making from distributors to end users they would have a healthier ecosystem with a lot of innovation coming from small teams
https://libro.fm has been my go-to for audiobooks in the past. Bonus that it supports your local bookstore too.
Creole, such as Jamaican, are languages that exist - and discounting them is the actual racism. This post isn't even about race, or even a group of people. Take a rest.

You realize I was calling the practice of ignoring facts and bullshitting people "bullshit", right? How is this hard to follow? Next time instead of reacting, try humanity. Creole languages aren't even predominantly non-white. Feels like projection of your own bigotry, honestly.
> Facebook is dying because they stopped being Facebook

a) No evidence they are dying. All we have is a single quarter's result i.e. statistically meaningless.

b) No evidence that staying true to the original Facebook is the best strategy. Unquestionably, Stories has been a popular feature in both Instagram and Facebook ecosystems and perhaps certain features from TikTok will be the same.

But there is plenty of evidence that the opinions of HN, Reddit etc. often do not match that of the broader public and so should be taken with a grain of salt.
That's a strange take isn't it? Facebook has like twice the # of daily users as Instagram, and 6x that of Snap...
Deep breath, no need to rain.
As for your point, in any challenge loss is assured by despairing and giving up. So no, winners haven't been declared yet.
Because the CIA hires smart people who can read and write and think critically and is not so much the bogeyman (though definitely with its problematic legacy) it’s made out to be?
To make even more money
All social networks are fads and generational, Tik Tok is no different. I think Facebook still has value when it comes to private social networking and marketplace. Tik Tok isn't made for any of that.

Personally I don't like Tik Tok. I'm sure there is good content on that platform but I don't like the format, just like I despise Twitter. It's all made for people with a short attention spam and I've seen way too much creepy and unhinged stuff on it.
Australia lifts the UK ‘Mad Cow’ blood ban – what’s the science?
"There's no money in maker spaces."

I so wish this wasn't true. I want to open my own to inspire young inventors to learn and build (because I wish it had existed for me).

A few weeks ago I was talking to the founder of a wildly profitable coworking chain in Ohio.

He broke the code...

don't sell memberships, sell the foot traffic to towns (and malls).

A few local towns even gave him $1 rent on beautiful buildings because the downtown needed more foot traffic. Or $750k non recourse loans for remodels.

In short, he's a damn fine businessman... and he's the one to say that he can't figure out how to make a maker space profitable.

It truly breaks my heart to see maker spaces go under again, and again, and again.

Clearly the standard business model of memberships + classes + fees doesn't carry enough margin. I just wonder what might as I'd love to see a makerspace in every city.
> There’s really no viable platform anymore where you can just go passively keep up with what friends and acquaintances are doing.

Is this something that people really want to do though... I did that for a bit back when fb was still new but quickly and I mean quickly fell off the habit and stopped using fb.
Student loan servicers hold off billing notices, payment pause possiby extended
This is a boring, overplayed, anti-science trope. The uncertainty is even visible in the title: "Romans may have destroyed..." It's a headline to draw interest to the story about a dig. Journalists need a hook. Nobody clicks on "Archaeologists found a pot on Tuesday."
>after a couple weeks of development was more helpful than LT

Wow! If your results generalize to all cases why shouldn’t they scrap everything they have and start over?
CIA employees are “officers”. The people they recruit to give them intel are “agents.”

“Special Agents” is the bog standard title for internal employees of the FBI, where all the agents are special.
No worries — the posts are quite old, some from 15 years ago. It's interesting to see the projects that several people started as productivity tools. Not surprisingly, most appear to have fizzled.
Tesla software locked a few 75kWh batteries in 2019 to 60 kWh because so few people bought 60kWh cars and battery prices had fallen a great deal. They didn’t software lock 90kWh to 60kWh batteries in 2013.
Public Pensions Face Worst Funding Decline Since Great Recession
fwiw I've worked at google for more than 11 years in teams including the tls terminating reverse proxy, and the team that handles government requests for information and content removal. I have never seen even a hint of what you're describing and find this claim completely baseless.
Ask HN: Linux based music creation workflow for 10 year old
My daughter is interested in singing/creating music - recently she showed me how she used web based applications to mix and create music.

I was wondering if there is a workflow that she can use on her laptop (running Pop!_OS which is based on Ubuntu) to easily create, say, remix of songs. I have heard of Jack and have occasionally used Audacity but I neither have any background in creating music nor any specific equipment that is needed (I'm not opposed to buying if this turns out to be a long-term interest for her). Also, it doesn't have to be offline - purely web-based or combination of online/offline is fine.

My main goal is for her to be able to create quickly and easily while keeping the complexity low so as to not scare her away.
I like to go for a run. Usually that helps slow down the part of my brain still cycling through work concerns.
A growing share of Americans say affordable housing is a major problem
Yeah, I've read a fair amount about business, and I have to admit you're right--I referred specifically to the tech industry, but it does seem to be corporations, generally speaking. I actually work for a medium-sized corporation, and it's the same issue, just not to such a grand scale--plenty of fuck-offs around me, but they get a decent amount of work done.
Yes, otherwise it’s basically back to the dark age where I have no idea what other people are doing because I have no close friends.
Even then what is the goal?

That's hard to know. How would one even go about finding out such a thing? I can only see physicists as the only ones having the right tools to get a glimpse of an answer to that question.

If you can simulate a universe then you've figured everything out already.

Maybe. Maybe not. See it as an app you're developing and the code-compile-test cycle. Maybe we're a buggy version. Maybe we're not. Maybe there's a typo somewhere. It's hard to know. Maybe the Big Crunch will be able to tell them (whoever or whatever they are if they exist at all).

Alternatively, our reality could be just ourselves and everyone is just a NPC (or ourselves in a different state of entropy) and once we die the simulation ends and someone will get the core dump and see what went wrong.

Anyway, it's fun speculating about this stuff but it's real frustrating not knowing what exactly reality really is. Oh well, maybe the next version will tell us. :D
> monopoly

A word reduced to meaninglessness by surveillance capitalists and useful idiots who are furious at people being able to hire a large company to protect them from Facebook.
Yeah, and you used it in a way that made it sound derogatory.

"Creole bullshit"

I expect the Yankees and the city folk to do this unintentionally, but not one of our own.

I have never lived in Silicon Valley.

My parents are from N'awlins (New Orleans, Louisiana).
I feel that Facebook really hurts lots of small organization. They fell into a trap of using a free website...instead of building up their own members, email lists, content.

For instance lots of birders post their pictures to Facebook, it helps to connect with people and get tips about birding locations. But...at the cost of depth. The pictures look good, but you don't learn very much about nature. It's like fast food, not nutritious.

It also sucks the air out of the room, and prevents other sites from growing. Sites that could grow into something more useful.
It’s too bad when countries like Germany haven’t learned to live within their means. Decades of mismanagement have a price.
Maybe now I can get a 2TB SSD for my Steam Deck.
Am I the only one who found the article's formatting confusing and unnecessary? The bullet points don't seem to be used for lists, and it isn't clear to me why many words are bold... can someone educate me on this formatting?
There's been a solution for this forever.

If someone sends an email with most of the words just being "unsubscribe" or "remove me" then at the least you don't send it on. Added points for auto-replying unsubscribe instructions or even just do it.

Fairly basic for a mailing list program.
One way to put it lol.
Facebook was at its most useful when everyone was on it. They didn't need to buy everything but they did need to be worldwide.
A Tale of Two Mice: Sustainable Electronics Design and Prototyping [pdf]
I set an alarm for when I'm supposed to stop work, close everything and then set it out of sight (my laptop goes in the closet). I find the Pavlovian conditioning helps stop my mind from ruminating after a certain time of day.
Obviously infiltrating corporations in order to spread foreign and domestic propaganda, and in order to improve foreign and domestic surveillance capabilities, is right in the CIA's wheelhouse. If you could not name a single Google employee who was current or ex-CIA, you would still be safe to assume Google was right up the top of the agency's list of corporations to get their claws deeply into, and that they quite likely have done so.

That said -- and I'm not defending or denying CIA influence in Google, or saying that hiring ex-CIA is not problematic for such a corporation -- but seeing a rash of ex-CIA hires doesn't really mean much. You see the pattern all the time, some influential person or well liked and connected manager moves into a different organization and not long afterwards they pull a lot of former colleagues over to their new company. I've seen it happen from both sides, and I've moved company because a former manager was there and contacted me. People hire and get hired and value opinions about employers and employees based largely on their network.
It is no more (or less) a religion than what we have now.
To quote the article Facebook really has "unleashed waves of democratic empowerment" among the youth in certain countries where democracy is not present or is under serious assault and the domestic media is censored. If some random dictatorship has strict anti-speech laws Meta is way more lax about following them than the domestic media (who are just going to get arrested if they don't). This really has created a generation of young people in some places who have a less censored view of the world and have a more pro-democratic, pro-egalitarian, anti-dictatorship bent. The only people who miss this are the ones whose reality is generally confined to an e.g. US-only point of view where democracy is secure and stable and the only "threats" to it are basically a joke, like the whole panic over January 6, and you've never seen tanks roll into the capital and depose your elected officials.

In countries where real threats to democracy like that exist, Facebook and Twitter have played a huge role in communicating suppressed information, aiding protest organization, etc. and by and large the kids are into it.

As for a pivot to a Tiktok-style experience -- that's a hard pass for me, it's like mixing cocaine with television. The kids are into that too and it's pretty scary to watch them switch off their brains, set aside their humanity and obediently wait for the ML algorithm's function calls to twitch_human_thumb() that arise every few seconds. Of course people were saying something similar about MTV, remote controls and the boob tube back in the day and somehow we survived...

Ultimately if you're Meta and the government tells you it's OK for you to sell cocaine, after all they're OK with your Chinese competitor importing it -- who are you to say no?

Under the current climate my only confusion is why we haven't let Coke reintroduce their namesake ingredient to their formula. Or to use your example yes I could totally see Taco Bell lacing their meat with drugs if it was allowed!
The biodegradable PCB material looks interesting, https://www.jivamaterials.com

Seems at an early stage of development (fairly low accuracy surface?), but seems it would simplify recycling a lot. Just need waterproof enclosures for more things!
I did this because my relationship to social media was unhealthy, and now it feels much better.

Hacker news, because duh.

Instagram is for softcore porn.

Facebook I deleted years ago, no regrets. (I'm aware they own Instagram, and I don't care. This is just a personal issue for me.)

Tiktok I watch funny videos when people send them to me, I feel no need to install an app.

Twitter, I read tweets when people link to them, and every time Twitter reminds me why I'm glad I don't use Twitter.

I understand why other people use them, and some people can do it in a healthy way, but for me, this is the absolute maximum I can use social media without losing myself.
>Maybe you can still order the <burger> if you know to ask for it, but most people won't, and they'll leave disappointed instead of getting what they wanted.

You just described In&Out
This sounds like the "waterfall" model of project management. I could see it working in some areas and not others. In fact, a friend of mind wrote a thesis on a re-analysis of an existing data set from one of the big physics experiments, looking for a new effect that he had proposed based on theoretical work.

But I come from a background in small-lab experimental physics, and my spouse from synthetic chemistry. In both cases, a model of planning, followed by execution, followed by analysis, doesn't work, for a number of reasons. Often, an experiment fails, over and over again, until the design and operating conditions are refined to the point where the data begin to make sense. In my experiment, the equipment didn't even exist until I built it. And in experiments such as mine and my spouse's, the researcher (grad students) are also developing and refining their own abilities as they progress. I was my own electrical, mechanical, and software engineer. Sometimes, preliminary results change the direction of the project.

An additional issue is that experiments are rarely documented well enough to hand the data off to another team to analyze, without significant back-and-forth.

What little I understand about the "agile" model, seems more applicable to this kind of science.
Which company is this, if you don't mind me asking?
Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable – build interoperable systems
All: the hellish flamewar that many of you descended to in this thread is off topic for HN, and also shameful.

If you want to keep commenting on HN in the future, please review the site guidelines and make sure you're using this site as intended: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Note this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

We all know there's a war going on. That doesn't mean the rules here don't apply. It means we have to work harder to stick to them. If you don't want to do that, or feel too strongly to be able to, please don't post until you do and can.
How do you get any work done with a big heavy uncomfortable weight on your head?
Facebook hasn't actually showed me a timeline of what my family and friends have posted in YEARS.

I stopped using FB years ago because of this. I've also stopped using instagram on the last couple of years for the same reason. I'm constantly being shown recommended posts from either random people or ads rather than a basic linear timeline of people I actually give a fuck about.

FB can go die in a fire.
The Biden Proposed Policy to Reduce Student Debt Will Make the Problem Worse
> What's going on with Facebook product management?

The culture of Facebook is to drive metrics so they're doing their job just fine according to this.
> People were on facebook for the features facebook had.

People were on Facebook for the people that were on Facebook.
It piques more people’s attention if it is attached to a famous name.
You also have to remember that the WinSock API had to be implemented on cooperatively multitasked Windows 3.x. So some of the weirdness is due to that - async socket IO had to work in that environment.

There’s some story I heard at Build or another conference about them implementing sockets on Windows NT. I think maybe it was Larry Osterman who had to
implement them. His boss told him to do it without another ***ing driver and tried but couldn’t do it. So the driver implementing sockets was AFD.SYS

I think that’s well behaved with respect to WriteFile, ReadFile etc. One thing they did get right is using sockets with IO completion ports. That was a great design.
That’s the kind of thing that’s useful for some random blogger’s personal domain and largely academic at Google’s scale.
Lack of exposure in Covid lockdown likely a cause of child hepatitis outbreak
>guidelines are for submissions, not comment links.

As I Stated, in my humble opinion;

>I think it would be prudent to applying a warning to the link, as HN truncates the displayed URL

Safety First.
> However when you take all this as a reason to not take this industry as serious as they would like they get all offended.

Just because there exists valid criticism of a thing, does not mean all criticism of it are valid: and in my experience, I mainly roll my eyes in exasperation when people criticize science for unfair reasons.

What the public thinks is broken in science is very often not what experts think is broken in science.
Apologies - this wasn't clear. I didn't mean to say we generalize to all cases. I should have said it was more helpful for some of the common cases that plague language learners.
I bought 3 expensive HP headsets, these were different models I gave to some family members, so they could differentiate them. Only one of them worked right, the others had muffled/low volume and adapter problems. It seems the only way to buy the right audio set is thru recommendations from others that have tried them before. I was able to get my money back for one of these only.
What can they technically prove in this case, though? That you bought a Mullvad card in the past? Big deal. Nobody knows who used which card, so they can't track it to you unless you are the only customer who has ever bought a card.
Although it has both advantages, disadvantages and it's still being in an experiment phase, it's definitely a refreshing feeling in terms of syntax compared to C++. Tried with various different examples with different basic usage and wrote a detailed guide. If you want to get a quick feeling of how it looks like in terms of syntax, check this beginner tutorial.

https://tipseason.com/carbon-language-tutorial-syntax/
Pretty much all cars in new york are like 2-6k over MSRP, and thats for non-luxury brands.

The best I've been able to find is 1.5k over msrp with some other restrictions.
I just checked facebook newsfeed and it looks the same.
> Has he ever done anything memorable?

Yes, his sitcom influenced a generation of TV and was one of the most highly rated and watched shows of all time. It introduced a number of phrases that are still part of the common lingo. He was at the forefront of the "observational" style humor.

You don't have to "threaten the corporate hierarchy" to be funny, you just have to be funny. I love Carlin too, and Bill Hicks and a lot of other comedians that are known for criticizing the establishment. They're funny too, but that's not the only way to be funny. Comedy is about being funny, not just being edgy.
Yeah, human technological progress has come a long way!

The human mind acclimates to improvements remarkably fast, and the joy found in such novelties tends to be fleeting and quickly fade as it becomes just another normal part of everyday life we take for granted (e.g. fancy new tech, or really anything new and nice). I like to frequently reflect on how amazing it is I am alive and even exist at all!

Gratitude is truly the only effective counterdefense I've found to reduce the fade of true joys in life, like my friends and family.
Trs80gp – A TRS-80 Emulator
It's definitely a passion project on Zuckerberg's part. Were he not CEO and controlling shareholder, it's definitely the kind of thing that a new CEO would cut. (Just like Blue Origin is a Bezos-personal-investment thing, not an Amazon thing.)
Or any virtual mailbox, except Amazon lockers can only be used for Amazon packages (unless your place happens to have Amazon Hub). And I do admit postage stamps will add some bits of entropy in terms of datetime and country (couldn't find a list of countries Amazon lockers are located), though much less accurate than a monero or amazon transaction.
Science is not a belief system in the same way that religions and political ideologies are belief systems.

Science reigns supreme in epistemology.
Just as myself and most of my friends and acquaintances all started using FB because we’d all started using it, we also all stopped using it because we’d all stopped using it.
I'm always amazed at how Noisebridge seems to survive. It's grimy, chaotic and in an expensive city. But it always survives somehow.
> Scientists used to be aristocrats interested in truth. These days they're just
> interested in grants.

I'm not sure if that's actually what you're advocating, but personally I'm very much against science only being the domain of rich people who can afford to do it as a hobby.
Reversal is fair. I assume it’s permanent.

> This poses a catch-22: young women are denied the care they request because there is not enough data on the care they request. Surely, the nature of the circular logic must confound you as well. Functionally it's the same as simply denying care.

Lack of evidence of no harm is a hard sell against priors that assume harm.
It also doesnt make much sense. You'll just optimize for red X's. If anything it will encourage bad writing.
Tens of millions of people around the world would disagree if they hadn't been killed by CIA operations.
Yep -- postgres enforces, while config-as-code can inject as usual bc the whole point is it is just SQL, so policy changes are just migrations (and subject to SDLC)