skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish FB had a way for me to disable posts from companies, pages, "shared" content etc.. I only want to see photos and status updates from friends. That is all. I don't want memes or reels. It's sad that in the first 10 items on my FB Home, only 1 is from a friend and its just a shared meme.
Wow, haven't thought about tap tap revenge in a long time but loved it as a kid. Thanks for your work!
Middle Earth in the Content Economy
Ditto re: the PowerBook, and thanks for not leaving us PPC folks behind.
The video is currently overflowing on the left and right on mobile devices :/
Hight quality stuff, especially the animations.
>extracting more money from my pocket and hopefully the game is enough fun to play to keep those dollars flowing

Yet Nintendo has an extensive gacha lineup like Super Mario Run, Mario Kart Tour, Pokemon GO, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp, Fire Emblem Heroes etc.

You might ignore it but don't pretend Nintendo is some holy divine protector of gaming.
That sounds like a description of the team onboarding process, not the engineer doing the onboarding.

Any engineer should be able to do this because the team has written good wikis and has working build tools, tests, etc
Because even now in our so-called "sexually liberated" world, men make the overwhelming amount of approaches that indicate sexual interest. Put simply, "Men make the first move."

In a way, Instagram is the digital / technological pinnacle of the "Personals" ads from newspapers of yesteryear.

I wonder if Rupert Holmes will update "Escape" with the line, "There was this post that I saw... on my Instagram feed..."
The French Laundry is a very niche product, which Facebook is not. I think a more apt analogy is suggesting McDonald's to include more "healthy" options or a coffee bar because the competitors do it and it's a successful business strategy.
Really, you think that?
There are excess deaths and dropping fertility. What is the cause? People have tried every explanation they can think of and nothing adds up except for one thing few people want to talk or think about, why is that?

We’re not talking about speculation, we’re talking about clear thinking and rigorous deduction of potential causal pathways. The drop in fertility is, horribly so, blindingly obvious. In country after country, 9 months after mRNA injections rollout for young people we are seeing a striking drop in births. We know there is an effect on women’s reproductive system and men’s. Men’s sperm counts drop a study from Israel has shown. Many, many reports from women of their periods having been effected.

Unfortunately, there is nothing speculative about this. Nobody wants this to be the case. That this was pushed the way it was on young people is criminal and insane.

In terms of death or injury there are definitely cases where it is entirely clear cut just hours or days after an injection somebody is dead or severely debilitated in a way clearly linked to the shot.

Those are deaths or injuries that had no business occurring and yet they did, why?

In the aggregate/macro overview we’re seeing it in data where it can’t be hidden and in the day to day. Just do a search for something like “unexpectedly died”

Again, who wants this thing so many went fanatical about a year ago to have caused this?

Something did cause it though, and at this point the most likely and parsimonious explanation is the shots. And not for lack of trying alternative explanations. Why stick your head in the sand if that leads to more death and destruction. We’ve found ourselves in a hole in terms of societal health, let’s stop digging.

This is the first I’ve heard of the invisible space alien theory. What is the evidence for it?
Sure, here's hopefully a helpful summary but you can search for your own primary sources.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lasting...

> Virus-specific B cells increased over time. People had more memory B cells six months after symptom onset than at one month afterwards. Although the number of these cells appeared to reach a plateau after a few months, levels didn’t decline over the period studied.

Take the above snippet for example. From this you could make the statement "we don't have evidence for natural immunity lasting beyond 8 months" But that is explicitly a limit coming from the length of study.
They're hard to distinguish in the sense that a colleague might ask something like "hey can you publish a new version of css-script-min" and you accidentally publish a new version of "css-min" or "css-inline-min" or whatever instead.
Here's hoping they'll backport some of the Switch controls to the Steam Deck
If the maker wants to advertise his little game as a metroidvania and the first impression is that it seems like a simple platformer then the metroidvanianess isn't obvious enough and there's room for improvement. If you've made the game yourself you can become blind to little things like this and it's very useful that someone points it out.

"Negative comment" my ass. It literally starts with the words "great work". That's a clearly a supportive comment.
Not sure Erlang is strong on the basic types front on the whole though; I've never been a fan of strings in Erlang. Greatly prefer C++ on this front.
There actually seems to be an investigation into leadership of the energy department of the relevant department. Nothing is proven but some things raised suspicions.
This looks great and cool to see more innovation in the space.

We've been using Rootly https://rootly.com and love it.
We don't know that he hasn't taken a pay cut. Posting about it might just come across as self-serving, but then not posting about it makes it seem like he's not doing it. Lose-lose, it seems.

And... I suspect whatever he's doing is also affecting him emotionally/mentally, and... to some extent career-wise. Taking these sorts of public steps may make it harder to be entrusted to CEO someplace else in future. Given patreon specifically, I doubt he's planning to leave and go CEO someplace else, but overall, there's no easy outs in scenarios like this. He'll be getting second-guessed and pilloried regardless of what steps he takes.
Is that just Apple devices or can you connect to non Apple products with AirPods as well?
> The issue was closed for bypassing fingerprinting, a use case that the maintainers feel is not a valid precursor to this feature. Again, that isn’t a no to the feature under any circumstance, just a statement that this use case is insufficient.

I implore you to open a new issue then, under the guise of your valid use case. I am sure that it will stay open, and that it will not be closed as a duplicate /s
> Do you prefer that the companies patenting the DNA never developed the organisms in the first place, and that the farmers are left without the option of using them?

If that's actually the alternative (and I don't think it is), then yes. Patenting DNA should not be allowed.
This made me laugh because of the frankness. I interpreted the above as being more “sustainable small business” than a startup but maybe it’s irrelevant.
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>keep countries poorer

Keep hard authoritarian and totalitarian countries poorer. That's done with multiple countries right now, like North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela.

Keep weak authoritarian (on a road to democracy) and democratic nations richer. EU and NATO expansion have been historic successes, with democracy extending farther than ever in the 90s and 00s. Moreover, US policy on India has been largest geopolitical tragedy of XX century. The largest democracy in the world is relatively hostile to "the west", despite being threatened by China.

Opposite policies - keep enemies close - drastically failed in case of Russia and China, with both countries being especially bloodthirsty right now.
Sometimes I click a twitter link on a devices I don't want to login to (work machine). I ended up creating a second account for this exact reason, so annoying.
I'm not sure an opinion (how fun a site is to use) that surely varies wildly across FB's billions of users can even be a universal "simple truth".
Well, unless some big player forks it and puts the developers on keeping the development of the fork.
I think the largely open source nature of the Godot ecosystem is already the "killer app" and I hope parity in matters such as this expose that
Whatever you get, make sure it has a twist axis. You can control the plane's rudder with it. Most do - even the basic Logitech Extreme 3D Pro is fine - but some don't.
> $8m isn’t going to get you to 1/20th of Unity or Unreal

The size and complexity of these engines can be a disadvantage, because not every game needs the features they provide. For some use-cases, it can be easier to work with a simpler engine with fewer abstractions, a smaller API, and a shorter learning-curve.
Another way to think about it: by 2035, any new vehicle sold in California must also double as electricity storage.

There were some Texans who rather appreciated having an EV during the February 2021 deep freeze driven blackout. Not great for long distance driving, amazing for keeping warm and charging phones: https://electrek.co/2021/03/05/electric-cars-texas-blackout/
If they didn’t want to be tracked they could just turn off their ADS-B transponders
Related:

X-Plane 12 Flight Model Update – Supersonic Transition, Delta Wings and Mass - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31827301 - June 2022 (126 comments)
"Meta is asking its competitors for a wide range of insights, from their best-performing features to the names of their biggest advertisers. It wants to see all business receipts, which to its competitors is seemingly turning the antitrust litigation into a business opportunity for Meta to find out precisely how other companies attract users, scale products, and gauge success."

If the CA Federal Court doesn't squash the subpoena in its entirety, then Snap (and the other 100+ companies) should just say it couldn't identify where all the data is stored across its platform and to do so would take a significant team effort to even be able to answer that question.
>That capital doesn't have to be reflected as a percentage of ownership does it? What if they were structured as loans to the company which are paid back with interest separate from dividend payments from ownership?

Why would anyone want to invest in a highly risky venture (ie. immature tech companies) with capped upside? It's the same reason why VC companies want equity, not debt obligations in return for their investment.
How am I spreading conspiracy theories? You suggest to grandfather the covid shots on the coattails of the flu shots but are not concerned about the combined potential for negative effectiveness on future variants as seen happens some years with the flu shot and the increased infectiousness of sars-cov2 as compared to flu?
Some random tech items from my collection:
A (British) 1920's candle-stick phone count? With a rotary dial, still works just fine.
An Edison phonograph - missing its original horn (I have a homemade replacement), plays wax cylinders just great.
A brass carriage lamp (streching things a bit), and an oil based motorcycle lamp.
A 1960's Teas Maid, in full working condition.
I'm sure I've overlooked various items, but those are the most interesting pre-1980's items I own.
This, I've been laid off about 6 times, only once because of my own accord (and I freely admit my fault there). I've left a company 2x that count. I started my career in 1999. What a year to start...
It's a much harder target to generate truly representative load. Sure, you could make millions of tweets very fast, but is that actually representing what the production service is dealing with?

Unstable connections. Traffic spikes that can be highly localized or nearly system wide. System maintenance, planned and reactive. Poorly behaved clients. Malicious traffic. Many more similar factors...and yes, each of these you could throw engineers at them and get solutions eventually. You might also end up with a testing engineering team that dwarfs the product engineering team.

Also, Twitter doesn't make money. $5B revenue vs $5.5B opex in 2021. They can't really afford to run the actual system, much less a fully representative one. Even a 1/10th replica, which would be unable to find some classes of problems no matter how many engineers you throw at, would further break the bank. As would the engineering staff to support it.
Is this going to be the "interstate commerce clause" for the left, by which absolute interference is justified because everything, even non-commercial private actions, are interstate at some point, or displace something which might have been interstate. Because nobody is ever exactly "equal" to someone else, in ability, resources, etc, nobody but the most victimized person can actually vote.

By this logic any difference in equity absolutely demolishes the concept of democracy thus before the people can be trusted with any input they must all be "equalized" and placed into an economic system that keeps them that way. And before then, any inequality or privilege discovered or invented can be used to entirely negate a person's opinion.

That's the only way you can have it. Either billionaires have the same rights we have, and more resources, or we've all got a boot on our necks that takes away anyone's freedoms whenever they become inconvenient for the state.
I think the crux is do users want to see in-network or out-of-network posts?

FB's bet (that tiktok user behavior validates) is high quality out-of-network creates higher engagement than in-network content.
It's probably more like a plea deal negotiation. They pay for the info not just the conversation.
I would guess >300 of those employees aren't working on the core product.
Thank you for the kind words, Aaron. Been a pleasure partnering with the Taplytics team!

We work with 100s of companies like Canva, Grammarly, OpenSea and others to help build a consistent incident response process on Slack if you're interested. Happy to give you the no-BS sales demo.

FWIW - we are big fans of Grafana and have a native integration (think automatic Grafana metric/dashboard snapshots into #incident channel.
What headset do you use or recommend? Thx
Distributed Wikipedia Mirror Project: Putting Wikipedia Snapshots on IPFS
Very little to do with twitter, and a lot to do with ADS-B data, which anyone in the vicinity of the aircraft can track and post online using a $15 device.
I can't believe I am the minority on this, but I don't see a problem. This woman volunteered her DNA. She has committed a crime in the past. Is it a misuse of DNA if a criminal is brought to justice, where that DNA was literally volunteered?

This does not undermine the fact this person was raped, and that is horrible, BUT justice will be carried out in that case. The justice system cannot overlook a reported crime when there is evidence to persecute because a criminal involved in that crime has been hurt.
I am surprised that the NHS let him leave the country. They have a poor track record of using the courts to assert their medical authority.
Creativity is a different beast i must say, and it has not much relation to the environment!
Submitted title was "Increase: Become your own bank". Since that seems to be a bit confusing and I don't see that text on the page, I've reverted the title to what the page says.
Yes, but it is rarely explained as what it is when it gets talked about. I think most people would assume that this is a prediction.
Yes, here is a chronology of key events:

2020 — Facebook launches its TikTok rival, Instagram Reels: https://www.axios.com/2020/08/05/facebook-launches-its-tikto...

2021 — TikTok overtakes Facebook as world's most downloaded app: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/TikTok-overtakes...

Feb. 2022 — Facebook loses users for the first time in its history — https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/02/faceboo...

July 2022 — Facebook and Instagram are going to show even more posts from accounts you don’t follow — https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/27/23281451/facebook-instagr...

July 2022 — Instagram knows you don’t like its changes. It doesn’t care. — https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/27/instagr...
I loved the CYOA series as a kid, and every trip to the library involved a stop at that shelf. More recently I enjoyed "To Be Or Not To Be", which is Hamlet redone in that style by Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics/Adventure Time/Squirrel Girl/etc.).
This is correct as all governments are immutable constructs incapable of being changed.
> Try to figure out why the meeting is happening before you’re in the meeting. It’s much easier to prepare if you understand why it’s happening.

As a general rule for Executives, whenever you want to talk to ICs even if Senior ICs, _always_ provide a one-liner on the topic.

So many times I had the secretive email or IM from VPs or CTOs "Can we talk? When is a good time for you?".

Often they have an agenda in their heads but not expanding on it is anxiety inducing for someone working under you in the hierarchy.

It's similar to that rule of thumb that you don't joke about firing someone if they are your direct reports (or even if they are not really).
> What I do know is that the certainty was not at the threshold which justified mandatory vaccination

Why do you feel confident in saying that? Because I still don't.

I feel like it's still unknown to me how many lives or hours off work, or side-effects were avoided by the mandated vaccines, or were not.

And similarly, I feel it is still unknown how many lives, or hours off work, or side-effects were caused by the mandated vaccines, or were not.

Personally, I can't say if the threshold for mandatory vaccination was met or not until I know these things unequivocally.

What I could get behind, is an unrelated moral argument that would simply claim that free personal choice always trumps collectivism. But this would hold even if say COVID was super deadly to everyone and the vaccine prevented it, it would still hold that in the end it is each person's choice to get vaccinated or not, even if not doing so can contribute to the spread to others or their own death from the virus.

If instead we say there is a threshold at which indivualism has to yield to collectivism, I'm not sure I know where to put that threshold, or if the one that was decided for vaccination was wrong.
Yea, wow, I had no idea someone would pay that much simply for an ex-employee to spin a bunch of bullshit about their former company or colleague. Incredible!

I remember a surreal experience after having left a Silicon Valley tech company. I was contacted over LinkedIn by someone wanting to "do research" about that company. Reading between the lines, he wanted company dirt, secrets, and so on. Having no intention of violating my (very serious) NDA, I declined, but he was insistent and offered to buy me dinner. I figured I could just go, chew my food and not answer questions, so why not get a free meal out of it? We met, I started chowing down, not answering anything, and just treating it like a lovely dinner date. He eventually excused himself to the bathroom, and then disappeared, leaving me with the bill. So, I guess my plan didn't work, but I got a stupid story out of it so I've got that going for me.
Mario's movement is an odd design. He runs like a hyperactive toddler, his arms flailing out to the sides. But his other moves, especially his advanced jumps, he does with the precision and grace of a gymnast. It's like a simultaneous expression of the fantasy of navigating the terrain through acrobatics and "weee, this is fun!" spontaneous whimsy.

If you look closely enough, Nintendo design is oddball, but very purposeful.
It’s not “are”, it’s “were 90 years ago”.
Sure does seem like a ton of effort to try to "expose" those trying to stop all the far right influence campaigns.
You are speaking from the alternate universe where people care if any of this stuff is ethical. In reality only a tiny cohort of message board nerds (I'm including myself) care and 95% of twitter users, if they ever hear about it all will be over it in about 5 seconds.
>Chomsky made a nice comparison with Palestine. Do Palestinians have the right to defend themselves against Israeli apartheid by shooting rockets at them from Gaza strip?

How does that defend Palestine in any way? It's a stupid revenge targeting civilians. If you're so helpless you can't act against military or targeted collaborators then don't do anything at all.

I would be the first to suggest to drop support to Ukraine, and even support acting against it, if they started to deliberately target Russian civilians - Belgorod is very close. Even more, they could produce large amount of chemical and even nuclear weapons if they chose, yet they don't do it.
Years ago, when I lived in SF, a friend of mine invited me out after work on a Friday evening. Exhausted from the week prior, I declined. "Oh but it's a party at The Singularity House, in the south bay" my friend replied. "The Singularity" was something that smart people had mentioned to me during my time in SF, but I never understood what they were talking about. For whatever reason, that was enough of a novelty for me to change my mind and head to the party, to see if I could figure out what The Singularity was. I met my friend at the SF Caltrain station and we headed towards the "singularity house" in Atherton. It was the strangest party I've ever been to. It seemed like small groups of people who didn't know each other had gathered there, in all sorts of strange outfits and the lack of coherence was quite something. I remember someone dressed up as a victorian queen. Despite the massive mansion, the party was pretty lame. I made a few laps before deciding it wasn't for me and headed back to the city.

Whenever someone mentions the singularity, this is what I imagine.
> You can argue that the company is using Akka so much so they should be paying that much, but at the same time it means that maybe the company would have been better hiring a different engineer that would have used anything other than Akka. If the company had gone with Go or C#, they wouldn't be spending that $3.2M. The company would be better off if they hired a different engineer who wrote the system in Go rather than someone who decided they liked Scala and Akka.

Or even fork it, continue development and just hire few more engineers. There is no amount of consulting that you can provide for a library that would be worth the money