skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook (Meta) cannot innovate. Their growth since inception is almost exclusively through acquisitions. Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus. The core Facebook product is arguably worse today than it was 15 years ago. Meta's response to new market entrants is to just copy their features, and when they do attempt to innovate it's just comically off-base (Metaverse). This entire "Metaverse" play is so ridiculous it's deep into meme territory.

Meta should have plainly seen the writing on the wall with regard to their data collection and privacy practices but either wouldn't, or more likely couldn't, pivot to new areas.

And now Zuck is here saying this hiring freeze is due to the economic situation. Peak comedy. The reality is Meta has no answer for TikTok, BeReal, Apple/Google privacy changes, or whatever else is coming to the market next.

I wish Meta nothing but the worst, but I'm sorry for any unfortunate souls who chose to work their and will be out of a job.
Where do the inputs for the machines come from? ex: having a machine that generates CPUs out of sand and works for free would mean cheaper CPUs, but it would also mean a lot more employment in the sand industry, and there might not be a machine for creating sand.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Hmm? Could you be more coy and less direct in your replies, please?

Did Russia transform from a cosmopolitan, Western European-loving, tolerant nation with fantastic relations to the EU overnight into a savage brute in Feb 2022? Or was it always at least a little bit backwards, clearly not democratic, sphere of influence-envious, and had already arguably been at indirect war with Ukraine since 2014?

To claim that Germany/EU wanted closer relations with the Russian Empire contra the American Empire is clearly asinine if you look at the actions of Germany/EU.
What was a bigger issue in 70s, 80s and 90s? Nuclear power, Chernobyl just happened as did the Pershing deployment, the Ozone layer or climate change? To answer the question, climate cjange only recently got the traction it deserves. Assuming you believe global warming is an actual problem, and not just something evil Greens and environmentalists are scaring our youth with.
The sensors I bought from Microcenter were garbage in the ways you describe. I couldn’t even take readings from some sensors because they were so ridiculous.
Thank you for sharing this. I'm reminded of my surprise when my Russian language teacher at university told me that Russians celebrated Xmas, and with trees no less. This didn't compute with the typical nationalistic propaganda that passes for 'news'.

"The socialist bloc of countries that arose after World War II was not a monolithic entity, it had significant country and cultural differences."

"Unlike the Soviet integrated circuit designation or the East German semiconductor designation, the Romanian government did not set standards for the labeling of semiconductors."
It's not that they're "anti-porn" it's that they're anti-risk. Porn sites have been getting in increasingly hot water for years for a variety of legal reasons, and all it takes is one major lawsuit against them trickling up to the payment process for enabling harm to set legal precedent and then they're getting sued for anything and everything on the basis they are enabling almost all kinds of web content.

It's an understandable fear. It's just a sad fact that they are an effective global duopoly so if they chicken out there's no alternative for people to turn to. More competition would help with this, but the threat of the lawsuit floodgates opening would still be there and create a chilling effect on payment processing. That has to be handled by legislation, but that's going down a whole other thorny road with many possible bad outcomes. The legislation we get may introduce new problems even worse than the ones it attempted to solve.

But I think it's still worth trying. The present situation is very bad for the future of an open internet.
My favorite Stadia story is how when Outriders launched, Stadia was on entirely different code branch and release from the other platforms. Weapon/armor scaling and skill effects were different - leading to an entirely sub-meta for the Stadia platform. Cross-play (eventually) worked and other people were entirely confused why our wacky builds were so effective.

Eventually things were patched to parity but our old armor values didn't get re-aligned so were entirely too high (by a factor of 2-3x) compared to the other platforms.
> Both nuclear and renewables are expensive, when the externalities and hidden costs swept under the carpet by industry lobbies are considered.

The very opposite. It makes nuclear even more expensive.
Even earlier: Erlang.

https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
Nice, I'd be interested in a write-up with plots!
Leetcode-style problems yes; "hards" specifically, no.
> I'd argue it's unethical to not provide them that terrible job,

Then why would it make you sad to provide a family member or loved one with that terrible job, say fighting homeless people for the entertainment of those who find their pathos entertaining? Why wouldn't you feel great, providing them with that job that is a net benefit to them? I mean, maybe not as good as if you were able to just give them a gift, but there's no reason to feel sad, right, you've given them a net gain, setting them up to fight homeless people on youtube?

I think if everyone acted according to your principles, there would be a net gain in human misery. Speaking of utilitarian frameworks. Human dignity benefits from, well, valuing human dignity and feeling a responsibility for it.

But ok, this conversation is going as far as it's going to.

If I had realized you thought it was literally impossible for any employer to behave unethically toward an employee, I wouldn't have gone this far with it. Now I'm curious if you are the same Ayn Randian I had a similar conversation with a few weeks ago, looking through my history... nope, that was someone else! It is very convenient for those who profit from taking advantage of desperate people to believe it is literally impossible for this to be unethical; less convenient for the desperate people being taken advantage of.
At this point I feel like it's that Search has gotten significantly worse. I've had pages of results that are completely AI-generated text, with my search query just rephrased as a sentence. As an employee, it's disappointing.
Maybe so, but for the consumer is there any difference?

If you say your product does a thing, and it definitely does NOT do that thing (but you fully believe it does that thing perhaps on the basis of believing really really really hard), and you sell it on the basis of that belief, especially when said belief is easily disproven with a tiny bit of due diligence…

under those conditions I think it’s perfectly reasonable to call it a scam. Especially colloquially, when intent is near impossible to know, and the average consumer does not have the means to launch an investigation to prove intent.
IMO streaming games still has a lot of potential. Too bad Google couldn't pull it off.

The Youtube stuff is only the surface of what would be possible.
Anyone bemoaning a lack of porn on the internet must be using a different internet than I am. Porn is ubiquitous in all its forms and varieties. Anything you could possibly want is just a click away.

It is, however, very difficult to base a business on internet porn. That might be a problem in some ways, but it is a different problem than lack of access.
i see a page that says "upload file"

I have no clue how uploading a file has anything to do with browsing git stuff
We stay productive as a remote-first startup
We really just need a group like ConsumerReports, Labdoor, WireCutter or something that actually digs into the quality and claims of devices. Very few people are going to buy 30 competing options as well as a known good control and compare and contrast them in a scientific context, but that's what's needed.

I remember looking around for a Radon sensor for way too long. An electronic device, a litmus-like strip test, some analog crystal ball -- hell a mail-in lab kit bag of carbon -- but they all seemed inaccurate. The few people that "bought two" always showed heavy variance while the majority that bought and got a number *loved it*. Even buying two that agree often just means the products are consistently and predictably wrong, but most products don't even check this box ffs.

Reviewers that try and apples-to-apples all products by comparing cost, size, advertised features and ergonomics are doing no better than you or I opening up a package and appraising it. For awhile this Google dev was putting up extremely detailed amazon reviews for USBC cables based on their purported features v. reality and it was wonderful, but tucked away and undiscoverable.

The world needs multiple parties providing unbiased in-depth reviews, but there's very little will to pay for even one group to do something like this. Ironically, paying for information in the information age seems almost comical to today's consumers and while there's demand for good information, no one's willing to open their wallets. Labdoor moved from subscription-only memberships to "certified products" and affiliate links because everyone wants to know what's in their multivitamin, but no one wants to pay for an indepth review. We aren't cultivating a supply-side that works for us, but against us.

The result of this is shilling and fake reviews running wild. I mean hell, consumers will buy a product knowing full well they might get a shoddy knock off and yet it's $5 less and they can get it tomorrow so they'll roll the dice. Sadly, we don't live in a world where people are intimately concerned with quality and accuracy in their purchases.

edit: USBC not USB3
Not very relevant, but an observation:

I've noticed that users on HN like to use the phrase "eating their lunch" to describe the dynamic between TikTok and Facebook.

It would be interesting to search HN comments from the past 12 months for "eating their lunch" and analyze what proportion of them refer to TikTok.
Offsets are important in a programming language where you are regularly dealing with memory addresses, not nearly so much in one where memory access is almost completely abstracted away.
Are people generating their read/write results by install & running the 'smartmontools' utility?
What does “best” mean here?

AI is the winningest in chess, but the real life purpose of chess is to produce interesting gameplay for people to watch, and so AI is less good than Magnus at that. You’d need the AI to throw games and write press releases.
Pretty weird browsing HN and seeing a pictures from the small mountainous parts of Norway where I grew up!

Fun fact about my local "stavkirke": there's a hidden urinal up where the priest is preaching, with a pipe leading to a whole in the outer wall. Rumored to be because one of the old priests long time ago had these incredible long sessions and needed to relieve himself midway but didn't want to interrupt.
Could you use this to detect flatulence in adults?
The IRS is adamant that the only communication from them you should trust is physical letters. Everything else they warn you to be wary of. Google is probably helping people here. Grandma and Grandpa get swindled for millions every year from Social Security scams and other "We promise we are from the government" scams.

A .gov address is NOT PROOF OF OFFICIAL COMMUNICATION
Mobile apps are so bloated and intrusive these days that I vastly prefer the web app version of most social media sites even when they're feature limited like Facebook.

Originally I switched to using home screen bookmarks to save some storage on a cheap iPhone but now I can't go back.

I wonder how long it will be until a popular social media site avoids the app stores completely due to content and payment restrictions.
When I was a developer and engineering manager, we used Qt for many desktop and embedded (not microcontroller) applications for many years. It was a bit cheaper than today (~3K EUR/seat) but it paid by itself due to the increased productivity. It was a no brainer.

With mobile platforms, I can imagine the same is true: you can save a ton of development time money.
Actually I think I'm wrong on both accounts, as my Samsung TV runs Tizen, not Android. I believe I was thinking about the old FireTV that I put on the C2 at first, as well as the DirecTV Stream device, which both run variations of Android.
It's a bit “rougher” than pink noise and resembles the roar of a river current or strong wind. Common benefits associated with brown noise are relaxation, improved focus, and of course, sleep improvement.
?? Integrated development environment -> S/W development text editor ??

So, assuming looking for something that can take a language description plug-in and high light different parts of a programming language. aka google "programming language editor highlighter"

humor note: not all languages in the 9m x 5m poster are supported ( https://web.archive.org/web/20220913143129/https://hopl.info... )

Just a few ideas from google search:

* Commercial :

** jetbrains resharper ( jetbrains.com ) can be used stand alone or with various IDE's.

** visual code studio : https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/syntax-highlight-guide

" Non-commerical":

** Pygments has various language sytax files which can be used in various ways (command line, ide plug-in, editor plug-in, etc)

on-line : https://pygments.org/demo/ command line: https://github.com/dedalozzo/pygmentize

*** sublime text, atom, gnu nano, vim text editors also have syntax highter plug-ins/packages.

** https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/code-highlighter

** https://highlightjs.org/
Just needs a stock photo of some business people shaking hands, and maybe a pic of a laptop with some code and it's all set.
My impression is that Google actively tries to hedge. They are aware of the fragility of the ads business.

But it's difficult to set up a business when your baseline is "Google Ads".

I thought they have it with Cloud. I'm still puzzled how it went wrong.
I'm not so much talking about the type of token issued (JWT/Opaque), but more about the service that manages issuing and revoking keys. (i.e. something similar to what Stripe has on their developer portal https://stripe.com/docs/keys).

Was hoping Auth0 had a solution for this but Auth0 but doesn't look like they do: https://community.auth0.com/t/how-to-implement-api-keys-usin..., https://community.auth0.com/t/how-can-i-generate-api-keys-fo...
This is the "race to the bottom" that occurs here. Because someone trying to make a buck bought it and decided that it could probably make more money this way. That's all this is.
They should start looking for something else as a backup.
If you actually get access for the term of the subscription you paid for, I don't see an issue with not refunding subscription fees.
Following the rules isn't enough. Being an active participate in your own safety is just common sense.

For example, once the traffic in front of me came to a sudden stop. I braked hard, and stopped in time. I looked in my rear view mirror, and realized the guy behind me wasn't going to stop in time, so I pulled off onto the shoulder as fast as possible. That guy rear ended the car in front.

The damage was minimal, nobody was hurt, as my pulling aside gave him an extra few feet to slow down.

I've avoided other accidents even though I was totally in the right and the other guy was totally in the wrong. I just don't understand the attitude of no problem, it's the other guy's fault if he hits me.
A Forty-Year Career (2019)
I guess ads in mobile apps are worth dramatically more than Web ads.
I did that merge-as-cherry-pick thing, but my change didn't merge correctly
How is a link to a 404 error on the front page of Hacker News? Do people upvote without actually clicking the link?
Not having to keep up with hardware is pretty much the main selling point of games as a service and it's still not worth the tradeoffs.

I'm what they call a patient gamer anyway. I'm often 10 or 15 years behind, but I've never once run out of games to play and the savings are substantial.

Consoles (which have many of the same problems Stadia did) aren't usually terribly expensive if you're willing to be a generation behind and used console games are insanely cheap with the exception of certain franchises (Nintendo titles and JRPGs are notorious for staying expensive. Castlevania Symphony of the Night came out in 1997 and can still go for well over $100 for a copy!) but thankfully emulation covers a lot of that. By the time I picked up a PS3 I was picking up 10-15 games for the same cost as just one game at release.

As a bonus, waiting a few years to play the latest title means that everyone else has finished beta testing it for you and the entire experience is much improved. You can also usually get all (or most) the DLC included with the already low price of the game.

Point being, you don't have to spend a fortune or have a blazing fast video card to have a nearly endless selection of exceptional games.
All executives exit effectively immediately!
Someone has already mentioned this deep in one thread, but I am genuinely worried about the fate of Flutter given Google's reputation.
What a useless article. How about some evidence and pointers to things that aren't?

Humidity/pressure/temperature are actually the three measurements that probably aren't a scam. The sensor chips you can get are generally well-calibrated and do what they say. Do read the datasheet, though: there are lots of ways you can screw them up (soldering them wrong, for example).

The CO2, VOC and particulate sensors seem to be absolute snake oil, though. I have yet to buy any device that "senses" these that has any correlation to anything resembling reality. Which seems kind of stupid because CO2 and particulate sensors shouldn't be that difficult. Volatile organics, though, tend to be difficult as they have a lot of confounding factors.

I'd really love to have a recommendation for something that's been validated that isn't $10K+.
EU wouldn’t ban homegrown technology. They’re making up laws an an excuse to punish Google for not being EU based, it’s not that Google happens to be violating the law.
Wonder if the CEOs can be made to sign (and stand behind) such statements, like CEOs/CFOs were made to stand behind financial statements.

Although I guess financial statements are quarterly, PR statements are dime a dozen.
> The Texas jury found that Facebook Live and Instagram Live incorporated two pieces of Voxer’s technologies that involve streaming media over networks

I don't feel sorry for FB at all, but patents for streaming data over a network seems nonsensical, at best. I just picked out a random patent from the lawsuit (https://ia801906.us.archive.org/16/items/gov.uscourts.txwd.1...), and the claims are so dumb.

Patent (https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=...):

> Users are empowered to conduct communications in either: (i) a near-synchronous or "live" conversation, providing a user experience similar to a standard full duplex phone call; or (ii) in a series of back and forth time-delayed transmissions (i.e., time-shifted mode). Further, users engaged in a conversation can seamlessly transition from the live mode to the time-shifted mode and back again. This attribute also makes it possible for users to engage in multiple conversations, at the same time, by prioritizing and shifting between the two modes for each conversation. Two individuals using the system can therefore send recorded voice messages back and forth to each other and review the messages when convenient, or the messages can be sent at a rate where they essentially merge into a live, synchronous voice conversation.

Hmmm... this sounds familiar... (stripping away all the nonsense patent language). So people can send voice messages or text messages, or both, or call. Wow, such innovation.

> This new form of communication, for the purposes of the present application, is referred to as "Voxing."

Thank god this never caught on.
My impression is Jubilee is not generally known. Probably knowledge varies a lot by cultural context though (for me: American, non-Jewish).
Poisoned apples and organic oranges. The petrodollar system is explicitly underpinned by fossil fuels while bitcoin just wants the cheapest electricity.
Quantum computing division will soon follow!
Why the downvote? I wasn't being sarcastic, it was a honest question, I'm really impressed how far this technology has come since GPT-3 2 years ago to DALl-E and Stable Diffusion ro Meta's text to video to this...
> “I had hoped the economy would have more clearly stabilized by now, but from what we're seeing it doesn't yet seem like it has, so we want to plan somewhat conservatively,” Zuckerberg said. A Meta spokesperson declined to comment.

The economy is stabilizing. It's being weaned off of ultra-loose money for the first time in years. The stock market is starting to behave more rationally, demanding that a company whose earnings potential is sinking and which offers no dividend be valued accordingly.

> ... Meta had more than 83,500 employees as of June 30, and added 5,700 new hires in the second quarter. ...

FWIW, 28 % annualized hiring growth for a company the size and age of Meta is not normal. It's a sign of mismanagement and especially loss of focus.
I worked with a nationwide lottery game in Sweden called Limbo around 2005-2006 that used this concept. I believe the winner each day won around $1000 and had the ability to turn it into $10000 in a weekly final doing the same game in a tv-studio.

The game was completely shut down after people in a small little town won three times in a row and they started to suspect foul play. Turned out to be the local store asking people to join and the store distributed the numbers for the people to make sure they had an even distribution across a huge range.
this does not sound too far-fetched. the paper says anonymous authors pending review...
Economic estimation of Bitcoin mining’s climate damages
> I would not at all be surprised to see it end in a Microsoft acquisition or joint venture of some kind, given their current appetites.

This is absolutely what will happen.
Ask HN: Async online book clubs focused on software/technical books?
I'm reading An Elegant Puzzle and want to discuss it with others who are reading it. I found https://onlinebookclub.org but after searching their forums for several well-known technical books (Mythical Man-Month, Elegant Puzzle, Phoenix Project, etc) I found no results.

I do not want something synchronous where everyone reads the same book at the same time, such as https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/131006-tech-book-club.

Does such a thing exist?
Sadly I’m on my phone and some stuff I want is locked up in Jstor , but look into the France-Germany-Russia troika in the run up to the 2003 invasion. Schroeder was pushing a bigger gas deal with Russia at the time and selling it on the basis of European independence.
Warning: always get a second opinion/source. I planned a trip to north Georgia based off of this exact website three years ago and it ended up being about 3-4 weeks before the leaves turned.

Worst website ever.
Scaleway, Hetzner and OVH don't. I'm not sure about other hosting providers but I think they're all mostly the same
Feature-wise, wxwidgets and gtk+ are a joke compared to Qt.

Electron is not just a joke but a fat pig.

Truth is there's nothing comparable to Qt in the cross plataform world today, unless you are willing to take the risk of Flutter, JUCE, some web technology (which would be regarded as obsolete by the time you ship your product), etc.
Consider having separate top-sheets + blankets, perhaps with an over-layer blanket over all of it. Then, your partner's tossing and turning will jostle the bed, but won't pull on your cocoon of blankets (and vice versa).