skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anything in my mention of it blew it out of proportion. FWIW, my wife is in the IT department of a school district and this was a major issue for them, nearly every one of their 60-some-odd campuses had at least one incident caused by this trend. Sure, it was short-lived, but it was also very widespread and affected even private/charter schools in well-to-do areas like what my wife works at, not just public schools.

Me mentioning this trend was more to point out that my larger point was much more subtle and nuanced than "Facebook causes burglaries", but that also absolutely crime has been done in some circumstances directly because of social media trends.

Part of my concern about social media is that people with low levels of self-respect and self-reliance are also more generally likely to follow trends... while we're back on the topic of "devious licks" specifically:

"In March 2022, The Washington Post revealed that the devious lick challenge was utilized as part of an orchestrated campaign by Meta Platforms and Republican consulting firm Targeted Victory to damage TikTok's public reputation.[14]"

So, here's one social media company that knows from their own data how influential social media is on society using that knowledge to intentionally cause social harm to damage the reputation of another social media company, by using how people are willing to follow trends when they have low self-respect and self-reliance.

These are the times we live in, and I think being dismissive of this as the original respondent to my first comment was, by essentially saying that pointing this out is "old man yells at cloud" is not a productive way to resolve the difficulties society is facing and will continue to face due to social media and the larger issue of increased mental health issues and reduced self-respect and self-reliance in society.
ESG was quickly gamed by the geniuses who financialized countless now zombie companies.
When Blackrock are pulling back on ESG because it's hurting profits you know the end is near.
https://www.ft.com/content/48084b34-888a-48ff-8ff3-226f4e87a...
> You pretty much cannot get the theatrical release of the star wars episode 4. I think the best we have are the laser disc rips.

There is the "Silver screen edition" of Star Wars (first of the first, even before it got the "Episode IV"), but it only happened due to enormous efforts of fans who got an original print that should have been destroyed, digitized it with a homebrew machine, and painstakingly restored it frame by frame. That's a really fascinating story.
You should have an archives page where we can see earlier paintings with closed comments.
It's algorithm is way more aggressive than other social media. Sometimes it's almost creepy. I don't care about a lot of stuff on there but it's easy to find yourself in very niche communities on tiktok.
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A different type of dance move (2020)
Ask HN: How to shed my apprehensions about self-promoting my startup?
I'm sometimes on an online forum when someone asks for a product recommendation. My (bootstrapped solo founder) product can solve their problem, but instead of plugging my product, I hesitate and do nothing about it. I pondered why I do this and came up with several reasons:
1. There are so many people liking an answer with a competitor's product on that thread, that I feel insignificant.
2. I think people will view me promoting my own product as inferior compared to others being recommended there.
3. My product has a fraction of the features of other products being recommended.

Could you give me a mental model or framing, different from the one I have, so I can think differently about self promotion on online forums? I would really like to put myself out there but my internal objections inhibit any action on my part.
Bug bounties are rather pathetic. As you stated it's doing grunt work for corporations that pay 10-100x less than the exploit would fetch on the market.

I can only assume these capitalize on fame because it can lead to jobs in the industry. If it WAS about the money, and (not that I encourage it) your moral compass is sufficiently adjusted, there is far more money to be made selling the exploits for bitcoin elsewhere.

Companies are saving an absolute metric boatload of money by having people work as red team for free, and only paying a pittance to solve most bugs (with some exceptions).
Like I said, implementing the entire thing is a huge pain but doing the bare minimum to visualize CTs is a lot of fun
It’s perfectly possible that the Chinese government isn’t entirely sure about the origin either, and is censoring just in case.
"For team leadership, it's much better to open up communication, and create team practices called ways-of-working. Team values are big-idea statements of what teammates hold as important. Example: We value courage, collaboration, respect. Ground rules then make the values explicit, by describing the team's expectations. Example: We reject slurs and pejoratives."

One question: Once you have done this, are your ground rules and team values always open for debate (including, say, on Friday afternoon when all your services have gone belly up), or when someone new (a vendor say, or an intern) violates those ground rules and values do you shut them down with some variant of "we don't do that here" like "you have violated the ground rules"?

P.S. As an extra question: Are your ground rules explicitly enumerated somewhere and all team members familiar with them in enough specific detail to know whether or not something violates them?
Wait, so you want to prohibit individual landlords in favor of large corporations managing the country's rental stock? That sounds like a perfect recipe for monopolistic behavior. And significantly raises the barrier for new entrants into the market.
And that’s gonna be cheaper?
That's unlikely to reduce demand though. If the inflation is trigger by a lack of supply for things poor people want, taxing the rich won't change anything
I think Tariq Fancy does a good job of breaking down why ESG and sustainable investing as a whole is bunk: https://medium.com/@sosofancy/the-secret-diary-of-a-sustaina...

He also summarizes his thoughts on Doug Henwood's podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9zaG91dC5sYm8tdGF...
>TikTok's only 'innovation' is paying billions of dollars to teenagers to create meme videos

TikTok has at least done three innovative things. One is the frictionless sign in that doesn't require an account, secondly the well done video editing tools and most importantly abstracting away the social graph.

And on the finance site this doesn't check out either. TikTok is on track to triple revenue this year alone and top creators generally make more money from outside sponsors and deals than from the company itself. Of all the social media site TikTok arguably chips in the least amount of money themselves.
I wasn't one of the survey participants but I can't really understand the point of this from their perspective. I have absolutely no idea what I would rate any race including my own. I don't even know most of the people in a racial group.
> Problem is, right now, the second factor is security questions to which I don't have the answers (I probably entered random gibberish years ago).

Cold comfort now, but... don't do that.

Try to keep escalating the issue. Maybe go in person to an Apple store?
One of my memories of my teenage years is a fellow highschool student stringing together random stereotypical nerd words. I assume he was mocking me.

Hollywood gets most professions wrong: Maverick could face up to the death penalty depending on the exact political situation in Top Gun; nobody would send miners into space instead of training astronauts; and the CSI TV shows have very little in common with actual crime scene investigation.

It's easy to impersonate any group when the audience is unfamiliar with that group.

What is impressive is that this fools domain experts:

"""Even knowledgeable philosophers who are experts on Dan Dennett’s work have substantial difficulty distinguishing the answers created by this language generation program from Dennett’s own answers"""
Tariffs on products we don't have immediate domestic manufacturing capacity for will hurt the economy in the short term, which is not a great move during a period of rising inflation. It's a tough decision though, because it does feel like the better move for the long term.
Is the downtime 2 hours or 3 days? They said they pushed out a fix 2 hours after the initial post and root caused it a couple days later.

This title “Dreamhost Shared Hosting Has Been Down for 3 Days” is clickbait and the only customers chiming in here are saying that they’re not affected.
Have the DOD force its suppliers to make their things in the US? Only allow them to import raw materials or low value manufactured elements. Just throwing ideas, might not be practical...
What does it mean to rate each other? Based on what metric?

Is this a general perception? I.e we are good, they are bad?
You really think Google have a failure to innovate? Obviously search was their first, core innovation, but over the years they’ve delivered so many other successful products (many acquired, true, but even those they’ve evolved really well). Off the top of my head:

- Maps

- AdWords

- Gmail

- YouTube

- Analytics

- Translate

- Calendar

- Sheets

- Docs

- Drive

- Meet

- Slides

- Drawings

- Forms

- Trends

- Alerts

I’m sure I’m missing a bunch too. IMO they’ve pushed the envelope in a massive number of spaces, and continue to do so. That’s an incredible number of insanely successful software products for a 23 year old company.

Edit: I was thinking web/mobile apps there, missing obvious big ones like Android, Chrome, self-driving cars, a bajillion Google Cloud products, Chromebooks, Go, Dart/Flutter, AMP, Bazel, Protobuf, gRPC, Quik/HTTP2/3-related innovations, etc.
We avoid talking about morality and morals based behavior in a business context because it triggers feelings of righteousness, and the number one way to get non-constructive fights is to get humans to share conflicting feelings of righteousness.

When our morals are challenged, our lived experience is also challenged, because we've used those morals to make or justify many decisions and feelings.

It should be possible to share personal experiences or points of view. I don't know what needs to change in our behavior to let this happen.
I don't think you're necessarily disagreeing with the poster you're replying to.

I've interviewed at some of the FAANGs and like you said, I didn't find the Amazon interview format any less leetcode-ish than Google or Facebook. However I found that the level of rigor and was noticeably less than what Google or Facebook seemed to expect. Maybe this has changed recently, since the last time I interviewed at these companies was in 2019.
Alternatively, you add a 20% tax on CPUs made outside the US. That would incentivize the fans manufactured in the US even if it’s a foreign company.
Unemployment is historically low.
The US is bankrupt at 10% interest rate. Russia’s economy was in much better shape than us.
I feel obliged to note that for some people, with some lost, it never quite passes. Or, it returns regularly. Or all those losses accumulate.

I don't necessarily mean with me, but there is research to suggest this is true in general. Also, after having reached a certain stage of life, and of experiences, and witnessing others, I think it can be true.
Here, I feel India has found a nice compromise - indian companies are allowed to get license to collect the street data, and others (including foreign companies like Google), can license it from them. This takes care of security concerns of the governments, creates more jobs, fosters a more competitive business environment (Google alone won't have the street data) and western investors can be relieved that the aim wasn't protectionism.
"What works is a free market. Raise import costs on CPUs and you’ll incentivize building in the US and more companies to form."

Is the market really free with tariffs?
"Now just about every website on this here internet will tell you that the DNS uses UDP port 53, and that any response must fit into a single 512 byte UDP packet, and of course that answer is right. Except when it isn't. But let's start with that assumption and see how much data we can then fit into a single 512 byte response:"
Hah, for some reason I stood over one of these once and got a rocket in the eye. Fortunately I only got a few scratches... on my eyeball. I'm guessing it went off prematurely and wasn't near full pressure.
I think this is an underrated comment. It's hard to innovate/apply divergent thinking if you're so far from the user.

Adtech as an industry would also be a factor, since it's not only not aligned with value/user goals, but working actively against them. I'm saying that as someone who worked in the domain.
That's a great theory. But judging by the number of people I see mindlessly scrolling instagram and TikTok I think they are going to be just fine.

I think YouTube might be the one with the problems in the future. The younger generation seems to prefer the 30 second video clips, rather than the longer form YouTube videos. I think at some point Youtube is going to have to start deleting content, or restricting uploads. Their unlimited uploads for everyone strategy doesn't seem sustainable to me.

Facebook is absolutely dead. Nobody under 25 cares about it.
Reading my answer after posting, I think your confusion is really coming from the way bond pricing works, not anything to do with central banking. The price of a bond is determined by a pretty simple formula, P = M / (1 + i)^n, where P is the market price, M is the redemption value at maturity, i is the interest rate per period, and n is the number of periods at which interest is paid. Since interest rate is in the denominator, this means a higher interest rate bond has a lower market value and vice versa. Thus, boosting the market value of a US Treasury instrument by buying them decreases the interest rate they need to offer to sell them. But, boosting the market rate also increases the capital gains of current owners of the bonds who sell them to you. The "yield" on a bond is only fully determined by the interest rate if you actually hold it to maturity.

Some of the mechanisms at play here overlap with cryptocurrencies, but a lot of them don't. Cryptocurrencies have no maturity value or coupon payments, so the yield on holding them is entirely determined by capital gains. Nothing else. This isn't the same thing as an "interest rate" in the sense that it means with bonds. The Fed is decreasing the interest rate of new Treasury offerings, but also increasing the capital gains of current owners of Treasuries. So the interest rate decrease is a bad thing for people who want to buy new debt, but a good thing for holders of current debt.
dang routinely does so when moderating things here in HN. It's explicitly in the guidelines.
I have a feeling that from Meta's perspective, that is the right metric. It's probably also a decent metric for that guy, because his influencer business depends on people wading through his content.
There wasn’t that many D services at Facebook. There may have been more outside buzz about its usage than reality.
This was the survey used to generate the data:

https://electionstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/anes_...
There is some way to mute it. I've already forgotten how exactly, but I think you have to open a non-reel video and mute that. Then all the reels are muted.

This means that I now have the opposite problem. I can't selectively unmute reels in my feed even if I want to. Instagram is 100% silent for me, even though my phone is not muted and doesn't have the volume turned down.

I really don't get it why they don't have a mute button on the reels themselves.
Death usually is not that sudden. Only 20%-25% of deaths are surprising and occur 24 hours or less according the Nuland's "How We Die" and other studies. The other 75% are slower processes giving us plenty of time to contemplate death, make peace or anger.
Tommy Marcus, the content creator from Brooklyn, probably doesn't get much of a say in what Meta optimizes for. Glad you got your insult in, though!
Google pushes back timeline for deprecation of third-party cookies
Or, chips just become 20% more expensive in the US and the consumer loses... and the US still doesn't gain supply chain security.

I don't think tariffs will work when the alternative requires massive outlay of capital and decades to recoup.

Not to mention, there is no reality where manufacturing these chips in the US costs less than Taiwan, for example. There is no reason to build a fab in the US with the current economic and regulatory climate. So... we have to force it to happen... which is what this bill does.
The article is paywalled, but this seems like a nothing burger.

The point of ESG isn't to save the planet, it's to make the world a better place to live/work in. Union busting is bad for workers and therefore society at large. What's the article's point? That point shouldn't care about social issues? Agree to disagree I guess.
I'm pretty sure it's a timezone thing. Devs in Colombia are working at the same as the devs in the states or Canada.
Nope. I entered engineering expecting to work in the Defense industry because at the time that seemed like where the best engineers went.

In the end I've never worked for a defense company but I have worked at two medical companies, so go figure :-)
The sane way to do this would have been to give the handouts on condition of no stock buybacks for 10 years and cap total exec compensation for similar amount of time for any company that accepts the handouts.

This should be true for any company that accepts gov money.

The gov doesn't give money to benefit the stockholders, they’re doing it to benefit the larger economy and country. Stock holder shouldn’t even be considered as beneficiaries in these deals.
Isn't snap known as being one of the most innovative social media platforms? e.g. creating stories before anyone else, bitmojis being popular, innovative filters, etc. I don't buy this tenuous connection between leetcode and innovation lol
Theres a difference between creating beautiful creative code and creating an innovative product that people want to use. Its a different type of intelligence, and why you dont see Math professors starting ecommerce/product businesses.
As @jf93ap29sh mentioned above, credit card issuers can inform vendors that make recurring changes when the expiration dates and status on a card are renewed.
Ted Gioia is a prolific author on jazz musicology and history; I have several of his books and find them to be informative and entertaining.
In case you’re also confused as to what the ratings are measuring, from the comments section of the original article:

> The items are feeling thermometers, asking participants to rate the groups from 0 through 100. The items are on pages 121 to 124, here: https://electionstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/anes_...
Does ReasonML have a server side, more general purpose, ecosystem?
It definitely isn’t, but at this point “free market” has been watered down so heavily it gets used improperly all the time.

It’s more of a political slogan than an actual policy.
> The dog has a lot of false positives from the cameras being triggered by car headlights or small animals.

My real dog has the same feature, so you’re at least doing a good job mimicking nature, heh.
> Are you saying that the movies/trailers/TV shows should be retroactively edited to re-include the towers?

I didn't get that from their post at all. In fact I think you are in agreement.

If your movie is set before 9/11 it should include the towers.

If your movie was released before 9/11, it shouldn't be edited to remove the towers.
Data doesn't lie is, in itself, a lie. Data has to be collected, so it's biased by what you choose to measure. Data has to be interpreted, so it's biased by how you interpret it. Data is only a snapshot in time, so it doesn't predict the future. There are many, many ways to make engagement metrics look much better in the short term while absolutely destroying long term engagement. Whether that's what Instagram is doing is still up for debate, but I think there's a very real chance it is.
You can approximate this already: forget Rust references (borrow checking + lifetimes; in other words, raw pointers) and start hacking with Rust using its shared ownership (reference-counted) smart pointers, immutable Rc<T>[1], mutable RefCell<T>[2] and the combination of the two[3]. The syntax will, overall, get considerably more dense than Go, but otherwise analogous to Go. Instead of GC cycles, memory will be freed incrementally, immediately when no longer in use.

[1] - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-04-rc.html

[2] - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-05-interior-mutability.h...

[3] - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-05-interior-mutability.h...
> we (the west) did that

Some countries implemented capital controls in the crisis. Some haircut depositors, which is akin to (but still quite distinct from) seizure. Neither happened in America.
It's interesting to read this, and they did a great job nailing the common talking points coming out of Russia, for one.

And it hits like quite a different POV after watching e.g. Niki Proshkin's latest trip to the Russian grocery store, and thinking, "that's not THAT bad, I could live off that". Though, having to pay 200 "units" per any in/out bank transfer was pretty wild news to learn about.

And beyond paying from 20-50% more for some products, or downsizing on others, I guess there's still a huge risk of there just not being a store there at all, tomorrow. Big waves that operate under the little waves.
Easiest is probably a dedicated WordPress hosting provider like Kinsta or WPEngine. More expensive, but they definitely take away $20-30/month worth of hassle and worry. Stick a free CloudFlare plan (they have some WP-specific security and caching options, IIRC—if those are available on the free plan, make sure you turn them on) in front of it and block admin and API paths except from allowed IP addresses, then turn on auto-updating (plugins and core) in WP itself, if you want a reasonably secure and low-effort site that can survive occasional large traffic spikes without sweating. May have to tweak a couple settings to make sure it's serving from CDN nearly 100% of the time, but once that's done, it's done.
There is a lot of research suggesting that housing is not the best investment compared to equities. Many people conflate leverage with real-estate investment. If you apply the same leverage to equities they will far and away outperform real-estate. Try S and P 500 calculator with dividend reinvestment to get an idea. In my opinion, if real-estate out-paces equities or other forms of investment, then we barrel towards a world where no one can afford to save for shelter any more which doesn't make sense, but that's just my opinion. Unfortunately, real-estate is still a profitable investment, and small piddly fed rate hikes won't change that any time soon.
Why don't they use these engines in standard cars? Or are there some shenanigans involved that do require some electrical power?
It does seem very appropriate though, doesnt it?
Did you intentionally make a list of google acquisitions as a joke?