skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/27/facebook-parent-meta-earning...

- Earnings: $2.46 per share vs. $2.59 per share expected, according to Refinitiv

- Revenue: $28.82 billion vs. $28.94 billion expected, according to Refinitiv

- Daily Active Users (DAUs): 1.97 billion vs 1.96 billion expected, according to StreetAccount

- Monthly Active Users (MAUs): 2.93 vs 2.94 billion expected, according to StreetAccount

- Average Revenue per User (ARPU): $9.82 vs. $9.83 expected, according to StreetAccount
Yey for Corporate Welfare
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 150
Twitch has a situation where they are trying to improve discoverability of underperforming streamers. The directory used to just be sorted by live concurrent viewers, which I guess does do a lot to ensure that the front page is full of streams that people will watch (by virtue of them already being watched) but it also leads to the site being dominated by a very small group of people.

Youtube does very well but it's a lot easier to categorize and tag 10-minute videos than it is to do so to a currently active livestream... and I will point out that discovering livestreams on youtube is abysmal. I've got one person that I follow pretty closely and if they arent super good about setting up the stream beforehand it is real easy to miss because youtube will make zero effort in informing you.
As a Chinese, I would like to say that as far as I know, China is investing heavily in semiconductors, but without high-end production equipment, it is difficult to produce high-precision chips
Ok, we'll change to that from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-passes-china-semicon.... Thanks!
Google delays cookie-cutting to 2024
Ask HN: What did you think about working at a FAANG?
Yesterday I met a friend who finished his interviewing process at Google. It's hard to explain how excited he is for the results, which may arrive in a few weeks. For some people, like him, this is more than a job opportunity because it's also his way to move to London and run away from our messed up country.

I've started thinking if I should try it too. I have a solid competitive programming background, and I think I'd go well in behavioural interviews. But is it going to be worthy?

Every day I see thousands of posts of ex-FAANG saying why they left, but I also see thousands of people saying why it's fantastic. They love to say how intelligent people that work there are, and some love to say how you will never grow there because everyone is good and you are just another brick in the wall.

Let's be honest, what are the good and bad sides of FAANGs?
"The General Market's mechanisms are always operating - even when governments like to believe they've overruled it. For guns and bombs and red tape and regulations can only obstruct a consumer's quest for what he wants; they can never destroy his insatiable desire to improve his life and enjoy greater mental well-being.

The self-interest of each human being, his continual search for whatever he wants, is a natural law. Governments can make it difficult for him, but their roadblocks only cause him to seek other avenues in order to get what he wants.

As a result, the General Market will always triumph eventually whenever there's a conflict between consumer desires and government interference. And it's vitally important to understand this. For it's the reassertion of the market's sovereignty as the ruler of the world that's causing today's economic upheavals."

- Harry Browne 1974 (but just as relevant today).
That 8% will continue to show up on historical charts of inflation over time, and if you ask the question what is $1000 in 2015 dollars, today, the calculation will include the 8% inflation experienced over the past year.

Inflation is a measure of year-over-year price increases. How else would you measure it?
As a Chilean, I'm dreading the day their country finally collapse. We will have an unprecedented migration event from our neighbor, we are definitely not ready for that.
Not a bad idea in fact. Any ideas where can I source some that are not jet engines and don't cost north of $10,000?
Oh, I thought the author was saying that "gay" was always a pejorative term. It wouldn't be the first time.
The country is incapable of taxing fairly and efficiently as there is rampant corruption and tax avoidance. This creates a very negative feedback loop, nobody wants to pay taxes as nobody else does so you would put yourself at a disadvantage and the tax money doesn't get put to good use anyway due to corruption, so why do it.

The above means that the government has to run permanent fiscal deficits and get indebted. At some point they are unable to pay the debt and the first temptation is to debase the currency. Rinse and repeat in an infinite loop of mistrust, tax avoidance and default.

It's a very hard problem to solve, unfortunately, as it's at this point deeply integrated into argentinian culture.
> The fed has specifically stated that reducing wages is one of their goals.

Citation? I would be surprised for the fed to have such a thing as their goal.
Very true, but partly due to the broad content variety TikTok has. Their tools to help creators are excellent and they do a lot to promote highly niche content.

Instagram is a clunky mishmash of features rolled out in desperation. TikTok may suffer the same fate eventually, but I think they are years away from that.
From an outsider perspective, I think Meta has been overhiring, meaning they have too many people for the economic downturn and for the product(s) downturn. Old school Microsoft was limited in staff because they insisted on giving everyone an office. Meta was really only limited by money, and even that wasn't a major limit.

There's likely a bunch of people who CTCI-ed their way into Meta. They're not competent and not motivated. They might as well be bank robbers, in it for the money and free lunches.

These people would be a burden on their team and other high competence staff. I think turning up the heat might weed them out. It's possible it'll have collateral damage, but it could well be that Zuckerberg realizes they should be getting down to their roots. If he doesn't act, the company will likely be synonymous with Yahoo. High performers will leave a company on its way down anyway.
Socialist/Communist countries have repeatedly killed off large segments of their own populations either due to mismanagement or straight-up murder. The magnitude of difference on this metric is so vast between capitalist and Communist countries that there really is no comparison.
Let me supplement the other replies to your question.

The unofficial rate that outworlder mentioned is the dólar azul (blue dollar). As FabHK and jtsummers said, Argentina imposes capital controls, so you can't buy too many US dollars at the (artificially strong) official rate.

The capital controls mean that an Argentinean that buys something from or while abroad must purchase US dollars at the blue dollar rate. Blue dollar is unofficial but so widespread that websites track it.

Russia is an interesting contrast to Argentina. The gap between the official and unofficial exchange rates between ruble and US dollar is much smaller than between the Argentinean peso and US dollar. This is because right now it is almost impossible for a Russian to travel or purchase things from abroad, which depresses the demand for dollars. Argentineans are free to travel and purchase things from abroad, so the demand for US dollars is much stronger.
Facebook served me an ad a couple of months back urging me to apply for a job at the hospital I've worked for since 2015, WHILE I WAS ACCESSING FACEBOOK FROM MY WORK VPN. I have it listed as my workplace and I was coming from a IP addy owned by it and still the computer thought it should show me the ad. I just don't get it.
People harp on social media algorithms but this right here is the actual problem. Your stated preferences, to see and be notified of all those videos, run contrary to your revealed preferences. And services catering to the former will lose to services catering to the latter. By harboring these mismatches we train these systems to ignore what we say we want or risk losing profits and market share.
I want the social network equivalent of "slow food": All social networks try to optimise for very the wrong metrics for the users, but right metrics for their customers (advertisers).

I want a social network where it is OK for people to sporadically add vanal posts. A social network that does not prioritize outrage or contention. And a social network were my close circle is actually discoverable, with high SNR.
Why vi-pipe instead of a combination of tee, <insert editor of choice>, and named pipe?
While amazon may not be as innovative as other FAANG companies, they do have execution down to a science. Supply chain, AWS, etc. all work WAY better than competitors in the market
> Just don’t suggest some type of “communal/socialist” housing. Been there (ussr) - f#*%k that and everything related to it.

is this the ususal government=Communal=socialist=communist brain bug? They are totally different things!

UK has social housing managed by local government, it's been very succesfull and desirable.

Communal apartments are a type of buildding.

Community housing might is 'normal' housing run by an independant charity, you are not against individual people running charities, are you?

Cohousing is a community of independant houses built around a shared space, that originated in denmark.

Which one are you railing agianst here?

Also why should someone be 'investing' in newbuild Apartments they won't live in, what value does that bring to the economy? They are not contributing anything other than speculation.
Details: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jan/25/how-london-mi...

I don't think Wren's plan looks very concentric or ring-like. He also got to rebuild St. Paul's to a completely new design, in those years. Maintaining the original plot boundaries, as the city was rebuilt, naturally didn't interfere with the cathedral.
This is something that Pluton /TPMs can help prevent via attestation. Pretty funny to read comments here saying that they wish there was a way to plug something into a motherboard to verify all of the software/firmware components.
Engineering at FB/Google has not shown any dearth of innovation, even recently. The premise is just wrong.

[1] https://research.facebook.com/publications/
[2] https://research.google/pubs/
Well, the trend is that the successor is worse.

Looks at TikTok...
> Becoming a new contributor to Wikipedia today involves a barrier to entry only zealots will bother to spend time overcoming.

The current editors and admins will die someday. Who will replace them? If only the worst kind of people bother making the effort to become the next editors and admins, then Wikipedia will decline in quality and eventually die and be replaced by other sources, like fandom.
I Loved Graduate School (2016)
I recommend a book called "inside the tornado", which deals with innovation at larger companies.

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Inside-the-Tornado...

His previous book "Crossing the Chasm" was also good, but that dealt with startups trying to find market fit.
Isn't that like complaining that Whole Foods sells cookies? Whole Foods positions itself as a healthier grocery store, but they still sell chocolate milk and ice cream and cakes and all sorts of products in indulgent categories. They just don't sell ones with high fructose corn syrup or saccharin or other ingredients they've deemed bad.

As I understand it ESG rankings are generally done relative to other companies in a market segment. They aren't saying "this airline has a high ESG score, they must be less environmentally damaging than this farming company with a lower ESG score". They're ranking which airlines do the "good" things (for some value of good).
The one that sticks out to me first and foremost is the assumption that a tech business (they studied the top 120 websites, by what measure they don't say -- Alexa? -- anyway let's assume most are tech companies) is run in a top down fashion. That policies drive all activity and therefore the only hammer for this nail is the policy. When in actuality, many big tech businesses are bottom up. One doesn't need a policy to fix authentication, one needs smart engineers that understand authentication. A policy saying "it must be like this" doesn't make the authentication good, a good implementation makes it good. Sure, we can imagine that this is dictated from the top, but it isn't.

I call that one first because it is a basic assumption of the paper as a whole.

The next huge glaring flaw is that the authors talk about authentication flaws in the top 120, and that SIM swap is a big factor here because even when 2FA is in place, SMS 2FA is fairly weak. (They don't actually say that -- they studied some OTHER undescribed set of 140 companies that use SMS 1FA or 2FA.)

While focusing on the top 120 tech companies' lack of policy that SMS 2FA perhaps be disallowed, are they really insinuating that the phone companies, which are in fact top down and have a vast body of policies and procedures, themselves haven't solved the auth problem by which SIM swaps occur? That SIM swapping occurs because they lack policies saying don't swap SIMs for people that don't properly authenticate? Clearly the phone companies have very strong policies, that agents violate frequently. So much for policies being the fix!

The last flaw I would point out in limited time I want to spend here is that they don't consider that the top 120 are the top 120 not in spite of, but perhaps _because of_ (in part) their policies or lack thereof? In the first section, titled _security policies matter_, at least they do contrarily note that a "vanishingly small number of people are actually harmed". So do policies matter or not, at the end of the day?
Not too impressive. I wouldn't really give it much thought until it learns to misinterpret Foucault.
The reason why non-US cities manufacture so many semiconductors is that there is simply no profit. Capitalism has pushed manufacturing overseas. There are roughly 100-1000 more ARM chips than Intel chips in the world, but the profit margins are miniscule compared to Intel. If Intel made commodity chips, their shareholders would lose value. This bill basically subsidizes the already wealthy to get more wealth and probably won't do much since China will continue to expand while US fabs come online. Free hand of the market my ass.
> Putting 1k bucks in a lense [...]

The one linked by the parent is $5.5k.
Please provide data. I live in TX, I see how much it costs, and I see what happens when the wind is blowing at 8% of nameplate.

TX for all the shit ERCOT gets, is very open (a google search will give you a bunch of data dashboards), very unregulated and capitalist driven power grid.

The weather is incredibly hard to predict and no one wants to take worse case projections against wind, because they don't look pretty. Instead in the case of ERCOT when the weather isn't cooperative, we get calls to conserve, and when that fails rolling blackouts. And we also get financial destabilization which leads the reliable operators to skip out on maintenance and things like weatherization.
They’re still printing money. It’s hardly the end. People said this about Microsoft for years when they missed mobile, and look at them now.
So you should, most companies insure against crimes their employees commit
Tribalism Culture in Tech
It's a crazy time to be in tech. Not three of four months ago, the great resignation had most managers fearing for the loss of their best devs. Now, more and more companies are reeling from layoffs. I think both probably push these "loyalty" buttons.
Here’s hoping for a large U.S. company to go under for once.
Meta Reports Second Quarter 2022 Results [pdf]
That's not a very comforting thought...
The price of the stock is not based on "business as usual." It is based on relentless growth.
Such a serene idea; no "like" button, no "see more works like this one" ... not even an option to buy the image on a T-shirt :-)

Really refreshing, and I look forward to my daily fix. Thanks.
'Jeopardy ' announces Mayim Bialik, Ken Jennings as official co-hosts
Yes words are tools to convey information. If by default all information is dishonest, the entire purpose of using words is no longer useful.
That would be nice if it were the case, because it would mean that things are going to start improving soon. But no, the current generation is at least as bad, which was a main point of my comment that seems to have been less obvious than I thought.
That's nice, but what does the future hold? Companies aren't valued on the here and now.

This is after all the company that is betting its future on clown shows like this: https://twitter.com/MetaQuestVR/status/1551943338038726657

It's hard to decide what is the more inept management between the Twitter crypto avatar bros and the meta "meta" verse people.
Except they do care how popular the musician is. It's just that instead of setting the threshold themselves they choose to pass the buck and defer to journalists and other groups.
How would you approach building an authorization-aware search/filtering functionality? It seems like you'd either need to ship all of the search/filtering attributes into the authz system, or you'd need to materialize a view of the access graph back into the product's database and join on it when searching.
Hopefully 'farewell'.
> It should be noted that the US decided not to extend the universal free school meals program, because it was "too expensive" at $11B.

Tragic, yes, but note that you can’t compare the price tags directly on bills like this because the headline number tends to be a mix of tax breaks combined with spending authorization stretch out over many years.

For example, $100 billion of the bill goes to domestic funding scientific research and fostering technology hubs. It’s spread out over 5 years.

I need to read the fine print of how this is all spread out, but it’s incorrect to read the headline and assume that chipmakers are getting $280B of checks next year.

For comparison, a bill authorizing the domestic lunch program over a similar 5 year term would likely be said to cost $65-70 billion due to the 5-year term and the inevitable rising prices over that term. (Note I’m not making any moral judgments about this, just putting it in context. I also didn’t verify any cost numbers from the parent comment, so don’t take my example as a fact)
This is always framed in terms of USA vs. China/Taiwan but what about Europe?

AFAIK (I might know wrong) the consensus among macroeconomists
is that "social market economies" like European ones are better suited (compared to "liberal market economies" like the USA) to investing in large scale manufacturing (see e.g. Varieties of Capitalism [0]—though it is a bit controversial).

Though I do wonder if chip manufacturing might just be too large for the EU to handle.
Many people in Europe keeps saying that e.g. Ericsson could start a fab but I'd be curious to see if a bill like this would succeed in the EU.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Capitalism
Do you get the same "No painting found for today" error as well?
I'm fetching the artwork + metadata myself in advance to avoid any throttling on the API.
I don't see any error on that endpoint in my logs, this is strange. I will investigate it further.
No, lettergram is misusing the term 'free market'. Free marketeers don't just want less government enterprise, they also want lower tariffs and light regulation.
For your convenience, the text of the bill is here: https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20220725/BILLS-117HR434.... Relevant text for semiconductor funding is on page 10.

The bill says "for section 9902/9906 of Public Law 116-283". This can be found on page 1460 here: https://www.congress.gov/116/plaws/publ283/PLAW-116publ283.p...
Because the main use-case of a privacy coin is for illegal transactions such as drug sales on the dark web, so co-operating with law enforcement entirely defeats the point.
Okay at the danger of outing myself as financially incompetent at big company level, the difference seems neglible?
Should have put it into fundamental STEM education
Show HN: JSON-Safe Lisp Language
Relatively simple currently, but figured I'd post for some feedback. I started this project last year but somewhat abandoned it. This feels like something which most likely already exists, but I couldn't find anything at the time I made it.

I feel like my write up on the repo is pretty good at explaining the inspiration and purpose of this package;

"Let's say you have an API, and you're looking for a method by which you can increase performance of your app via doing transformations of the data directly in the API. In this scenario, you would middleman the API returned data through a Fluxduct parser in order to get the data in the format you would like. An important distinction to be made here is that you are not changing the raw output of your API, but rather defining explicit values which you would like back in the app.

These values are much more versatile than a pure API response as well, as they can be compounded with operators and conditionals to return computed values not otherwise returned in your API. Even more, the number of fields is completely up to you! If you only want 3 fields, foo, bar, and baz, on an API endpoint that returns more than just those 3 fields, you can explicitly only request those fields back.

As icing on the cake; Fluxduct is made from plain javascript, which allows for implementation either server-side or client-side, on top of this, Fluxduct is JSON-safe, meaning all transformations can exist as JSON, making these transformations able to be stored in most databases without the need for any additional transformations."

All criticism is appreciated.
Things were more relaxed back then.

This is really well worth seeing, pharao's serpent <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQdK7gaZS0k>. Some of it even looks like CGI but it's not.

Pharao's serpent when lit gives of vapours of metallic (elemental) mercury. In some youtube vids you can even see some of it condensing on the glass of the enclosure.

You could buy this stuff over the counter at joke shops back then and I did. The instructions said "windows and doors should be opened wide". People complain about health and safety regs now, but...

Edit: seriously, if you've never seen this before, watch the vid
Google Maps, the web application, was not an acquisition. Google bought two companies that made desktop mapping tools (One of them lived on as Google Earth Pro and was a commercial product they kept selling for years) and used that as a basis for developing the web based Google Maps.

Also based on everything I can find, Gmail started as an in house project. reMail was acquired 5+ years after Gmail launched.
It’s amazing how otherwise competent engineers will look down on technology that so many use all around the world when generally their contribution to society is a few buggy Python classes in some internal codebase.
I believe Nikkei total return, i.e. with dividends reinvested, is higher than in 1989. So even money invested in 1989, if not touched, eventually outperformed cash. But it took a while.
This one will be interesting. On the one hand, still hugely profitable. An operating margin of 29% is insane. On the other hand, people expect growth and no revenue growth and a large drop in income is definitely not what investors want to see.
> Freedom of speech means putting up with people saying things that you don't agree with or want to hear. Deal with it.

Did you have an account on Parler, by any chance?

You're not making a distinction between expressing yourself and imposing yourself. One is fine; the other is rude, inconsiderate, and frankly alienating.
good thing we have product managers whose entire job is to herd us cats :P