skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand your hesitation to share your photos (or at least, not based on that criteria). "[wouldn't] be welcome"? By whom? Facebook? Or your friends? Would that imply they'd rather see ads and shared crap content than original content?

IMO Facebook needs an "original content only" setting. I block every single page that some idiot shares, but I'm not sure how much it helps. I will literally never want to see something shared from another page.

It seems like this would be a good thing for FB too. Keep engagement up, keep inserting ads. Hell, they could insert MORE ads if the content I saw from my friends had a greater signal:noise ratio.

Anyway, I recently shared some vacation pictures and quite enjoyed it. So much better than a bullshit "story" that lasts 24h and nobody can engage with except via DM. Such a weird impulse for an app. (okay, I get that they want you to use it constantly so you have FOMO about missing content that disappears after 24h, but I don't get why they don't want any real user engagement on the content).
>Then again I don't run a social media company, so what do I know. ;-)

Maybe not a little as you think. Just because the social media companies are "runing", running into the ground is still running. They just have so much momentum that the ship is going to keep moving along.
No. You could use that as justification for anything. At that point, we could just throw due process in the trash and have government thugs going around collecting blood samples from people or doing random house searches because "we might catch a murderer."

How far do you go? I'd argue that matching DNA from a rape victim to charge that person with a crime is a violation of due process. The expectation with a rape kit is to find the DNA of the rapist. That expectation and trust was violated.

Collect the rapist's DNA and throw the rest in the trash.
I think you may be missing the point. It's a mnemonic, not a rationale.
Few are deleting there account but most are limiting their presence. I never left myspace but never went back either.
Oh, we've talked on a few occasions about it. We even settled the details of it.

Frankly, I don't care. I don't see the benefit to the team eating lunch with the CIO. I'm not special. I won't get "discovered" or whatever.
> We eat 5 times as much meat on average as people did 100 years go.

And yet there are a growing number looking shredded and boasting of their health on carnivore diets.
I agree. Tech companies should never really break off with former employees. Any former employee is a future potential employee that you can re-recruit when the time comes. Also, talent is difficult to find. Which makes people the center. Whatever you build, you will build it with people. So you need people. Be them new employees, be them former employees.
> Imagine a world where ethics considerations actually mattered.

Ahh yes, the rest of the non-software companies in the world.
The government is corrupt and weaponized against Republicans just like social networks are.
The oldest fitting the actual question (though an n64 and GBC can run custom software technically), and the most interesting thing is a 32bit netbook circa 2011, samsung n150. I wish it were more useful but the 32bit limitation has made it not worth the effort for a while. Also fill in the unsurprising collection of android phones, and a handful of older rpis (zeros without wifi and a 2).
But wasn't this inevitable given the declining cost of movie cameras?

After all, I grew up when taking a photograph cost a dollar (including printing). This meant one was very parsimonious that the picture would be worth it. I still have trouble shaking that off when taking pictures with my phone, though I use the phone for all kinds of things I never would have considered before. Such as taking a photo of the back of my head to check on a mole that I can't see in a mirror. Or when I mail a package to someone, I'll text a quick photo of the receipt with the tracking number on it. Or photograph something so I can enlarge it, i.e. use it as a magnifying glass.

(Yes, I've watched Breathless. I thought it was rather dull.)
That doesn't really figure into it. My point is that administrative law has failed. It invests too much power into too few people with nowhere near enough transparency, and the things it seeks to address are so far above the "the people's" pay-grade that it presents an intractable situation with respect to assessing and maintaining performance.

I think a better solution to the problems Spengler pointed out (see below) would be good old-fashioned torts. We have plenty of under-employed ambulance chasers. If only a few of them manage their way to the middle of the big-tech tootsie-roll pop, that would be one hell of a message, and far more effective at improving practices than the occasional $150M slap on the wrist.

PS> Churchill was a fat drunk who went into the war against methed-out nazis with an empire upon which the sun never set, and came out of it only by the skin of his teeth despite plenty of help. The Greeks & Romans will still be quoted long after he has (rightfully, mercifully) been forgotten.
I have heard that the 2009 layoffs were limited to recruiting. If these layoffs occur, they may be the company's first engineering layoffs.

I find it surprising that they are considering layoffs. There have been a number of articles about Sundar's concerns over productivity [1,2,3], but layoffs have a tendency to reduce moral and productivity.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32515458
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32322131
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32816105
The Measure of a Man (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Because Russia has a recent and current track record of behaving this way.
Hosting providers do, and a doctor could lose their career for being found to author and purvey life-saving information on this topic.
Just because it's parked (in a WWW sense) doesn't mean it's unused. I've got a few domains that are used for Azure, Google Workspace, email, or just testing stuff. I don't really have any interest in setting up a web site for those.
Recruiters would fill that gap readily enough.
What would non-“meaningless virtue signaling” look like to you? This seems quite decent as far as these things go.
> Ask your Congressman about pulling out of Guam and closing all overseas military bases.

Guam is a US territory - not a foreign base.
Sorry but the first part you wrote doesn't make much sense. To the best of my understanding, you're just saying that you want diffs to be stored instead of a full copy of a document?

If the whole point is to skirt around broken legislation/executive power not enforcing fair use as it should you've already lost on the fact alone that courts can interpret your layering as infringement; courts around the world have previously rule linking to be infringement as-is. But if you believe that'll actually solve things you could easily build an extension that layers HTML patches on top of another base HTML via XPath "coordinates". Of course I'm sure you've realized that if your base HTML is hosted by a hostile entity, good luck keeping it up to date with their modifications, and that's not limited to HTML as it would be a an issue regardless of whatever system you come up with and expect "the bad guys" to adopt. You either have copies, which means hosting copyrighted material, or you have references, which can go out of date.

> HTML links are blind, unidirectional, fragile, and can't go to an arbitrary position in a document.

Blind/unidirectional is fixed at the client level (e.g. the back button, history, you could do something like what this extension did if you want trees: https://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/09/display-firefox-browsing-h...). It doesn't make the slightest bit of technical sense to track backlinks on every hosted document because the incentives don't align and you'd be wasting a whole lot of space. You could have a separate service store this in a graph much like a web crawler. Don't need to reinvent HTML for that.

Fragile, you fix with copies. You can't force people to host an immutable record forever and yes this is abusable by copyright trolls, again, can't fix the law with tech.

As for linking to an arbitrary direction, you can href to a an ID and that's good enough a lot of the time. If you want any more than that you don't have to re-invent HTML: you just have to extend it with support for XPath targets. And that's something you can easily do with a browser extension all while keeping it fully backwards compatible with the web.
Yes. Naming is hard, but it’s easier when you aren’t using pop culture as names for things. Shelob service only makes sense if you are a Hobbit.
I did this on purpose. I muted almost every actual person from my feed and all that remained were a handful of pages I chose to follow. Mostly tv/media related pages and retro video game groups, plus some local groups. Now, instead of looking at the random crap people I barely know decide to post, including their ample complaints about anything and everything, I mostly just see relevant content I'm actually happy to see! This change got me checking FB again regularly for the first time in years.
Language has idioms and phrases, and over time these connect generations.
Can we all agree to call them FB friends, not friends.
The German situation was even worse then you describe. They decided to move out of coal and nuclear, but at the same time made windpower significantly more difficult and reduced investment into solar. If you look at the installed windturbines (https://www.wind-energie.de/english/statistics/statistics-ge...) you can see an initial boom around 2000 and a large reduction after 2004 similarly things picked up again in 2014 only to be reduced very low again 4 years later.

Coincidentally the first reduction came with a change of power from the SPD/Greens coalition to the CDU/FDP and the second slump when the energy and business ministry went from the SPD in the coalition to Peter Altmaier of the CDU.

In a recent debate on energy in parliament the current chancellor from the SPD (labor equivalent) responded to criticism from the CDU (conservatives), that the current government is fixing the huge mess left over by the previous governments (lead by the CDU). I'm not a big fan of Olaf Scholz (the current chancellor) in general, but rarely was there a truer statement.
The other commenter was obviously interested in the record for high-temperature superconductors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconducti...

Or perhaps more generally for materials with a high Curie temperature, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature

Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about this field.
Others already mentioned built-in combinator logic and moon logic addon, there's also addon that let's you write in a simple assembly language - think having few bytes of memory for program and data and connecting to the same logic network as combinator logic does.

You can do fairly complex stuff this way.
Even uncertainty about enforcement can motivate companies to lock things down.
Quite unfortunately, I think, given a choice, most people will tend towards doing as little as possible to survive --not all people, there are some who just want to create and others provide services (volunteers come to mind).

It takes community and building mindset to fend off the tendency toward minimum level survival. It takes having a certain ethic to transcend that. Of course people don't want to plough in the muddy soil and tend to sick animals and harvest in the heat, if they can get away with it. If they instead could drink, get merry and play all day, many will chose that option if not inculcated otherwise.

Who knows, maybe we will go back to permanent mediocrity by most once the drive to succeed is removed.

A progressing society needs constant effort to keep it alive. It's not self-perpetuating by itself.
Every SV company:

1. Start a company that does a thing well

2. Hire enough people to do the thing well

3. For some reason, hire more and more people to do more and more random things

4. Hire more managers who hire even more people

5. You are now a complicated mess and can't get anything done

6. Run out of money

7. Fire people and write a sad post. Continue to collect hefty CEO salary.

Why not just stop at 2?
This doesn't make sense to me.

Alcohol binds to the GABA receptor mimicking GABA, hence providing a calming feeling. It allows people to feel less anxious in situations they might normally feel awkward. That is definitely not cultural.

Drinking regularly may desensitize your GABA receptors and hence cause a person to end up with more anxiety as a result of drinking. I rarely drink because I found it was exasperating my mental health issues.
If it is intentional, that's a no-no IMO (like the oft mentioned Canadian farmer). If its unintentional, there can be no claim of infringement. Lots of grey area in intent, but heirloom and landraces should have just as much freedom to operate (grow) as bred/biotech varieties
The vast majority is not enough.
The phrasing isn't "innocent until statistically guilty".
This is pure negativity and not true. Hiring might slow down because of seasonality overall, but I was hired the last two times end of year. It's a great time to get new employees ramped up when things are slower.

A polite reminder that some companies are growing really fast and are even struggling with hiring.
> In return, they maintain the history and legacy of the UK: palaces, museums, and castles are maintained on the royal purse, but often open for tours to the public.

This perpetrates the idea that UK would stop having history & landmarks without the royal blessing. Other countries, with rich histories & tourist landmarks, survived the transition away from monarchy just fine.
Do you not understand what being a celebrity means? Yes, more money and popularity are the goal.
I think it happened enough that some newer compilers actually post a warning message when it is encountered. Just like switch statements when you don't have a break; statement for every case: clause. In some cases you want the logic to fall through, but it can cause havoc when you didn't want that and you just forgot the break.
I think how much compensation they end up with from their ex-employer is likely top-of-mind, actually!
Tumblr - banned 18+ content in 2018(?) in an attempt to make their site more advertiser-friendly and lost most of their userbase within a couple of months. Site was thriving before that.
I suppose it was easier to share books with tables of positions than photographic plates. Easier to copy as well, and it does not degrade quite as much with time.
The government is absolutely granting Google a monopoly today. They own the browser, your email, and search. If antitrust had any teeth in this era the company would have been nuked a decade ago if not even sooner.
I do send postcards and people like it so much they ask me not to stop.
Google Deepmind Researcher Co-Authors Paper Saying AI Will Eliminate Humanity
I just watched a romance movie where the plot was one was dying of a terminal disease. I watched it because the protagonist was Feynman, otherwise I'd have turned it off because watching people die is not entertaining to me.
Can't find a link, but there have been some studies on students and schools that show the students near the top of their class in not-so-great schools tend to be more successful than kids who are below average in elite schools, even if the latter have higher test scores. It really shows you the power of comparison and the importance of choosing the right pond for the size of fish you are.
> "The Measure of a Man" has been seen as highlighting themes of slavery and the rights of artificial intelligence.

This was hands-down my favorite episode of Star Trek. Perhaps it will be timely in the not-too-distant future. I don’t personally believe AGI is around the corner, but I’ve been known to be wrong a time or two. Regardless, this is a fantastic piece of sci-fi, and I wanted to share it with you all.
Its very micro but also some macro. Very factorio-esk. When they add combat and hopefully other ways to use energy I will return and waste vast amounts of time again trying to avoid spaghetti (unsuccessfully).
The water in SoCal has been quite warm this summer reaching as high as 74 degrees F - maybe it's attracting species that it otherwise wouldn't.
Why do we need to wait ten years? He's building Second Life with a higher-resolution mesh. Is that visionary?
So, Stockholm syndrome?
> too bad all the margin profits will end up into JDs pockets

The reason these tractors sell is they have positive ROI. That doesn’t justify the tying. But assuming they’re money losers will lead to poor decisions.
A lot of the underlying principles of journalism are the same regardless of your focus, though. I can't imagine a journalist being at the site of something as momentous as 9/11 and not paying attention to it. Especially knowing you are the only resource your paper has in the area.

>How often do we tech people get irritated by pointy-haired bosses saying "hey, you're an IT person, can't you just do (this thing that is not remotely related to your skill set)".

I don't get annoyed when I am asked to do something in emergency situations of significantly smaller scales than 9/11. I'm not an electrician or electronics engineer, but I have to apply troubleshooting methodology in a way day to day that a lot of people don't, so there have been times where I was the best suited person to try and figure out Weird Electronic Issue X when shit hit the fan. It doesn't annoy me, I just set expectations that I'm not an expert and I might not be able to fully resolve it.

And a lot of the fundamental principles of journalism are just as, if not more, applicable when crossing between fashion and the massive world event happening right beside you. This sort of event is outside of her area of expertise, sure. But no one is knocking her for having attempted to cover it, and not doing so as well as a news reporter or war correspondent would have.

The underlying problem with this piece is that it isn't really about fashion, and it isn't really about 9/11. It's a journal of her day, with weirdly tone-deaf bits about riding in expensive limos and raising glasses of appletinis and then being thankful that she is Canadian.
Are you kidding me? The major credit bureaus have had just as many fuck ups. You don't see congress doing anything to fix it. There was a major utility shutdown due to security issues where they paid a ransom. Did you see Congress doing anything? This isn't exclusive to Twitter. Congress will use any situation to push their opportunistic rhetoric, and for them Twitter a social media company is more important to spread their propaganda than a credit bureau breach where everyone's personal data is compromised. What values does that show and teach, and why is that your talking point?
Naming things is hard. I still get it wrong after a decade+ of building complex systems.

Naming things is also very important. Having some common language or way to refer to the various abstractions in the business is essential for basic teamwork. Even if the name is a cringetastic take on a comic book character. As long as everyone agrees on the string literal, you will be able to make forward progress.

If you aren't absolutely certain what something should be called (i.e. maybe you are prototyping a crazy new idea), just invent some crap to keep moving along. I've got a shitload of odds and ends in static classes simply named things like "Utility" and "Hack". When you aren't so invested in what something is called, I have found you are much more willing to get "creative" with it. Naming things can also start to imply some sort of structure, so keeping it flat like this helps reduce the cognitive load.

On the other hand, maybe you should consider more precise, deliberate naming if the business at hand is relatively stable and complex. Banking is a great example of a domain where very precise type names can make a huge difference in productivity. There is a gigantic difference between a "beneficial" owner and a "beneficiary". Applying reductive/creative naming schemes to this domain would likely cause more harm than good.

You can always rename stuff in the future. Even database schemas can be migrated over time without impacting live customers. You can even rename an entire company (i.e. Facebook => Meta).
I absolutely hate the unwanted recommendations and Reels, but I currently still find FB useful for staying in contact with extended family and friends, so I use this "Facebook Hide Recommendations and Reels" browser extension to keep FB useable:

https://github.com/mrinc/Facebook-Hide-Recommendations-and-R...

Even with recommendations and Reels disabled, other aspects of FB have also degraded significantly:

- Friends don't share original content there as much as they used to, a sign that FB's relevance is dwindling. I suspect people have also grown wary of Facebook's privacy practices like I have.

- FB's features lack taste. For example, its knock-off of Bitmoji looks terrible.

- Increasing prevalence of scammers. I tried to sell some things on FB Marketplace last week and was contacted by a dozen fake profiles trying to scam me with fake emails from Zelle. I also frequently get friend requests from profiles where scammers created a duplicate of a friend's profile, copying their exact name and pictures.

Taken together, my feeling is that facebook.com is (and has been) on a downward spiral toward irrelevance.
I only use FB for the market place. I have not really noticed the feed.
I always thought it was awesome that a company to support creators was creator lead. I came across Jack Conte in 2010 before Patreon existed. He was a music creator on YouTube that made what he was calling Video Songs, songs with each instrument part video'd and mixed together, and selling his music collection through e-junkie at the time. He was one of the first creators I ever financially supported. Some of the videos are still up on YT: https://youtu.be/D2PwVkQBp5o

Despite not knowing Jack personally pretty much everything I've seen from him over the years has reinforced my generally high opinion of him. In this case as well. As lay-offs go Patreon seems to be trying very hard to do right by their employees.
Agreed, its not ideal but there are things a company can do to put their money where there mouth is in this situation. This seems to be the new playback for doing it right. I appreciate that.
My stable diffusion output looks awful. I've been trying to recreate the xkcd about Joe Biden eating sandwiches, so I try something like "Joe Biden eating a sandwich in the oval office, 4k render, photograph" and I get nightmare fuel with pieces of bread attached to his head, faces that dissolve into random geometric shapes, toppings that melt into hands while a sandwich sits on a plate in front of him, etc.

I had high hopes based on posts from the SD subreddit, and I figured Biden would be well represented in the training data. Am I missing something?
We don't need no security. Just here to remark that I quite like the tone of GP even though I kinda fail to see the point being made. Fuck what Web services have become and fuck the people who piled all this accidental complexity on top of what was essentially a very elegant kind of software, and could've remained one
So one person said creating the rust interface is very difficult to do correctly and the other said rust bare metal isn't complete enough for his use case

I called both of these (and compile times) when people first tried to get rust on the linux kernel. Maybe it's better to acknowledge these problems before you start instead of beating your head? I'm no psychic and I know I wasn't the only one who called these