skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Has Microsoft Windows finally been open-sourced or where did this come from?

This comment on the SO post made my day. :D
Not to disagree at all with the broader point you're making but their last quarterly release says their headcount is like 83k. That roughly agrees with the original article which says 15% is 12k.

https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
What a good read! I went back and started reading from the first of the series.

From the first entry in the series, we have this data on how the founders came up with their ideas:

> Pay attention to your own problems, and solve them (~30%)

> Pay attention to your curiosity, and tinker (~20%)

> Pay attention to what’s already working, and double down (~18%)

> Pay attention to paradigm shifts, and work backward (~15%)

> Brainstorm with friends, and pay attention to the four points above (~15%)

Those all (roughly) add up to 100% (2% is not accounted for). I'm curious about what is in that 2%. It might be me more self-aware if I can detect that I am going down a road less travelled.
And yet there's insane distrust amongst many republicans towards it. Its weird, trump himself is getting booed at his own ralleys when he speaks in favour of vaccination. It feels like a runaway train
Well, I know that it's not a 1:1 analogy, but in more extreme ways this reminds me of China owning ports and railways in Africa, or Europe owning cocoa-factories or natural resources and profiting themselves, while claiming that they're bringing jobs and prosperity to Africa.
Ask HN: Where Are the Developer Communities?
I'm sure it pops up time and time again. Just curious to know what developer communities people frequent and what platforms they are on?
>When I read a work of fiction, I do not want to be thinking about the writer or his stylistic choices.

That's the difference between "reading fiction" and literature: text as a work of art. Great authors are present through their style. How they tell their story is an important as what the story is about. Attributing it to the author being smug is as ridiculous as saying that Picasso should paint his objects in a way that conforms more to how they look in real life.
GoogleTest
I think there are some pretty meaningful differences here where Facebook has been repeatedly made aware of these problems prior to the fact and has consistently responded in the exact same manner by refusing to take any meaningful action and only trying to solve things in so much as it is a PR problem for them.

It wasn’t even indifference, they actively undercut and mislead all of the supposed checks and balances they assured everyone were enough both internally and externally. When confronted they have lied to their internal teams, they have lied to lawmakers, they have lied to investors. It is always the same response. There is no room left to leave this as a “mistake that fell through the cracks”.

It’s a pattern of behaviour that now spans many years and many incidents. All it has shown is that they appear both incapable and unwilling of reform and should be treated as such.
No, he is not.

In fact, Musk didn't even propose anything. He just asked if it would be a good plan.

Noah Smith explains it much better why this plan is not going to work.

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1577120229942910978

“Americans who come up with peace plans for Ukraine are just groping for the illusion of control in a scary and uncontrollable situation. The truth is that Putin has no interest in any such plan, and that it's his decision whether to keep escalating.”
May be 'fn' was a wrong example to highlight, but my general impression was that there was a preponderance of such abbreviations in Zig, as someone who has spent some time in Java shops, where abbreviations are largely avoided in naming things.
Looking back on Steve Jobs' tenure at Apple, it's impossible to ignore the role Microsoft and Bill Gates played. The companies were instrumental in establishing the industry and defining an era.
It's not currently overloaded and overwhelmed with Covid patients. I would argue that this is the fallout of the policies put in place since March 2020 - a deadly combination of less healthcare available due to the increased resources dedicated to Covid protections, and a 2+ year backlog of people who have been waiting to access healthcare. That backlog is also growing, as our GP healthcare system (which is usually the gateway to accessing healthcare) has effectively ground to a halt.

It's hard to see how it would be worse if we hadn't "Saved the NHS".
The mortality data is from a private source, so most likely can't be shared. But the sample size is almost 600k people, and it's comparing aggregate death rates. Any power deficiency would be reflected in the p values and final results.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jung_Gi

Wiki entry for those, like me, unsure who Kim Jung GI is.
Honest question, where is the line here? Obviously we all retain knowledge from previous jobs so what's the line between that and exactly copying a spec?
If you're a capable software engineer, you won't be negatively affected by affirmative action either.

We still care about the issue because it has a profound effect on mediocre software engineers of various ethnicities and with various genitals.
There's a massive difference between constructive dismissal and managing out. Managing out can often be as simple as a manager saying "Hey, your performance isn't great your not on course to get any bonus or raise this year" and the employee deciding "Fuck this, I'm off". Instead of in normal times, where you're trying to retain people and the conversation is often "Hey, you're making really good progress but there's just a few areas we need to work on which is why your compensation isn't quite where you would like it".

There's a thousand reasons people stay or leave companies and just slightly adjusting how much you're working to keep people can often be the difference in the attrition rate.
AI bots vs HR bots, popcorn time.
Ideology apart, Facebook, the product itself is really uninspiring and uninteresting and irrelevant to me and my circle for at least 2 years.

Copying TikTok won't save it from becoming irrelevant
Then why do it? What for?

It's not like he won't be a millionaire if he just owns a large part of Facebook instead of running it.

I don't understand your argument.
I mean that it's safe to assume incompetent leadership in the future (by those same actors, i.e. commission and member states)

My bet is price controls (and I don't mean the stupid oil price cap) and capital controls next.
Actually, EU put $21.5 millions in this cable: they were given to Saint Helena, that then were payed to Google, after a previous cable project failed:

- https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/systems/brazil-africa/s...
- https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/systems/euro-africa/equ...
There are, but they are for ancient standards and devices:

https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open
I see. Isn't it (non-blocking message-exchanging objects) the most natural way to reason about though? Surely classic types and sequential function execution is more convenient for data processing/scripting but a GUI seems a naturally object-oriented thing and it feels better when the objects act independently.
Question is 'what will replace it?'. Hopefully something better, but current competition isn't exactly better than FB when it comes to morals.
Man… does anybody believe we’ll actually make it to 2027, let alone “want” to be there?
I don't know if I am going to ever fix a TV this way.

But the knowledge of how to create a custom shader is going to come in handy one day. More and more I am finding, most knowledge comes in handy some time. You just have to remember at the right time what is possible and go refresh your memory on it.
This is literally in the abstract:

> Post-vaccines, the excess death rate gap between Republicans and
Democrats widened from 1.6 pp (22% of the Democrat excess death rate) to 10.4 pp (153% of the
Democrat excess death rate). The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats
is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines
became widely available.
My guess is that they have 2 passwords. One password for access to Yotta which is provided by the user and stored securely/irrecoverably (i.e. hashed, salted, and peppered - yum), and another password for actually accessing TreasuryDirect is generated and stored by Yotta.
ISTR seeing some open source medical device firmware on HN, due to vulnerabilities in some existing devices.
They don't call it a widowmaker [0] for nothing.

[0] https://www.menshealth.com/health/a21346168/widowmaker-heart...
He's too busy attending private gladiator-like fights (which the article mentions, btw). I know the FB pay is pretty damn good, but I guess it still sucks to see your CEO doing that while your job with the company might be on the line.
You seem to be suggesting that we're not entitled to opine about Facebook since we don't know the detailed internals or can't grasp the complexity, but I think that OP captures a broadly carried sentiment that Facebook's impact on society, on balance, is negative. And one internal I'll comment on, regardless of not being an insider: the downsizing through performance reviews feels very dishonest.
City's is fully open source now.
Can someone point to some of his famous works? Frankly it is the first time I’ve heard of him.
Enforcing GPL IRL
Georgism now
I wouldn't exclude seeing something worse come out of Russia.
You missed crucisl detail- humans were sorting for free, owner of robots is paid.

Another crucial detail: producers of platic packaging engage is deliberate fraud to conflate recycleable and non recycleable plastic. Plastics that say 'commonly recycled' may be unrecycleable anywhere except a leading technology lab.

Another detail: massive fraud in recycling industry:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/18/uk-recyc...

Most european countries stil do separate recycling, and have much higher recycling rates than UK or US, which have mixed recycling.
vector is a template, at most vector<some_type>::operator[] will be a weak symbol, and I bet it's inlined from -O1 and above.
Lockbit 3.0 case study, Ransomware Technical Details and Security Protocols
Are they ? Seems like we're using just as much fossil fuel as previously, which is still waaaaaay too much for any kind of sustainability

As always the rebound effect is kicking our ass, instead of producing the same and polluting less we pollute the same and produce more
Funny how recent developments in AI have warped our comprehension of what is easy to ask to a computer vs what is hard.

Obligatory related XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425
Very interesting.

I'm very much struggling with some thoughts about life at the moment.

I often keep thinking about how to be 'awesome', how I want to grow, improve, be more interesting, be better at such and such. In fact this is likely why I am on Hacker news, to find insights and articles to help with this, which it can be one of the best places for.

As a result, I then often write down a lot of quotes, things from articles, ideas, questions etc, which end up in my productivity system or note taking app.

I try to write down a lot of my thoughts, work through then, find different questions to ask etc, but although I am very drawn to this because I don't know what else to do, I am not sure how useful it has been.

It's overwhelming me, because I just go round in circles and I still don't really know what to do and things still don't really make a lot of sense to me. I also think I it's making me boring, because i'm spending more time in the system and i'm being more systematic, i'm not doing anything that exciting.

But i don't really know what is the solution, if I just abandon all of that, I won't be very organised, as i'm terrible at this naturally and I feel like i'll just let my life drift by, i'll wake up in the morning, not sure of what to do, so i'll just succumb to wasting time online.

I'll have a think about this, but I think something to consider would be a way to cut back on all of this, but first i'd have to find something that makes more sense to me.
I'm still working 20-something hours at pushing 40 precisely because that stock had been the retirement plan. I don't regret it, it was the wrong place to be at the time for me after thinking deeply on it.

And people with more knowledge throwing up a caution flag when people with less knowledge go all 1-bit is a pretty core value on the site. It's not a high horse, I get out of line on here more often than I'd like, but I also appreciate it when people tell me to cool it.
> > less likely to follow modern knowledge on healthy lifestyle

> Seems like a claim that was invented.

You do realize that you ignored "This may suggest"? Also, the text we're discussing points at differences in being vaccinated. Which you also omitted.
Can you provide examples of UB that could be unspecified behaviour, where UB does anything other than cause harm?
Those projects aren't unprofitable because production costs are too high. The projects are unprofitable & failing because Facebook is struggling to execute on their grand plans, and are having their traditional core business eaten by a more nimble upstart competitor (TikTok).

I'm sure FB would love to be able to spend 2x on salaries if it came with a guarantee of turning the metaverse into a successful business venture, or of grabbing all the attention hours currently flowing to TikTok.
Duh, me stupid. true, I didn't catch that and thought it was a belated aprils fool!
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
sounds really neat, i would try using a lisp that is closer to the metal though, something like microlisp or, my favorite: janet

coupling clojure with python sounds like a drag, even using graal i dont think this will be easy. but janet you could bind as a dll and eat your cake while having it as just recently FFI was added. if you are interested, i can probably help a little as im working on an integrated (game)development repl myself. not sure how to classify what im working on but i think its close to your domain as i want to change my hotloop during runtime from the repl and from inside the running game. i just wrote you an email.

EDIT:

ah, just now read that you want to make this a webapp, in that case being closer to the metal isnt really helping, so nevermind ^^
Tell HN: Twitter suspends arrested Iranian tech blogger’s account
[IMPORTANT EDIT]: as stated numerous times in comments, this is fine. It is often done to protect victim's account from being further compromised by the adversary, for example for protecting their DMs, or collecting further material from their online activities. So, no need to try unsuspend his account. Thank you.

Jadi (Amirhossein Mirmirani) had 133K Twitter followers. He is a lovely computer geek and open source veteran from Tehran, Iran. He has been active educating youth for many years. He was arrested yesterday.

His account is suspended after his arrest, which is most probably due to fake reports from the cyber army. If you work at Twitter or Facebook, please help unsuspending his account which is vital for him to reach his audience and give him visibility, even when he is arrested. They want to remove his internet presence.

Profile screenshot: https://twitter.com/KavehMadani/status/1577695715131899904/p...

His Website in Persian: https://jadi.net

Instagram (suspended): https://www.instagram.com/jadijadinet/
> renewable ethanol

Is it really renewable? (I don't know, but I assume biofuels are only viable with massive fertilizer subsidies. Also, I hope "renewable" doesn't mean "let's cut down the Amazon rainforest and wait 200 years for it to grow back".)
Man that is heartbreaking, I hope his mind put on an absolute banger of a lightshow for his road out. RIP
I proposed that the GP should strive for a more substantial critique, not that they should say nothing.
It's kind of sad that fear for your personal safety causes people to endanger their personal safety in changing world in which intuitively prefered "as it was before" is no longer safest alternative.
>So I want to make it clear that you can think nuclear is expensive and too slow but still be in this camp. This camp is just believes that you shouldn't remove a zero carbon emitter from the table. Why tie a hand behind your back? You don't have to use that hand, but it may come in handy every once in awhile.

I want this "hand tied behind our back" for 3 reasons:

* It inefficiently consumes public money earmarked for fighting climate change because it demands lavish subsidies.

* Nobody builds it because they give a damn about the climate. The government is keen on it exclusively coz it shares costs with the military industrial complex.

* They refuse to pay for > 0.1% of their own insurance while running massive PR campaigns telling the public how misinformed it is about the risks.

So yeah, as far as I am concerned it needs to die.
Probably better served by the direct site:

https://www.kimjunggi.net/

--

Edit: ...which still does not contain this critical piece of news. I cannot avoid thinking of that of Martin Perscheid, which on 5 August 2021 had an update "Unfortunately I currently find myself incapacitated, and responding to your queries will take a while". And ended with the same formula of former posts: "Thank you for your attention".
Ok that sounds plausible but there is something being scanned from my Swedish passport that is not NFC. Every time I use my passport to identify myself they scan it with a red light scanner, like a barcode scanner, and they can hold it like 30 cm away so I don't think it's NFC.

That same light is in the little ticket terminals at the Copenhagen airport when you scan your passport there.
Do I understand correctly, you are saying that 5-20% of your employees will quit after having a conversation simply noting that he or she will not be receiving a bonus or raise this year, or similar? That’s really quite tenuous, especially in this economy.
It don't see how this works out. React uses a virtual Dom.

Sycamore:

> Write code that feels natural. Everything is built on reactive primitives without a cumbersome virtual DOM.

Yew works more similar to React
Tiktok hires a lot outside China. They want to appease the customers and investors who want to distance themselves from China.
2mm squared graph paper (A4) and a decent biro.

I write the date at the top right of each page (in ISO format as god intended) and when I'm done with the page it goes on the pile.

That's as complicated a note taking system as I've ever needed, if I need to find something I just flip the stack looking at the dates until I find what I want - requires no structure beyond that - in the very rare case I can't remember the date even roughly I have to go through the whole stack but that's rare since I normally have a date on an email, ticket/slack conversation to get me in the ballpark.
>I've got kids to support - and that means having parents they can trust, and look up to in this chaotic and morally ambivalent world.

that's a high level of Maslow's hierarchy there, especially in the U.S with few support nets heading into what will probably be a really bad recession.
Nim has hot code-reloading. See: https://nim-lang.org/docs/hcr.html

Also, for anyone interested, Casey Muratori implemented such a system (though very simple) on C for his Handmade Hero game. It works by reloading a dynamically linked module on every frame. It's a model that should be adaptable to any compiled language.
Does the iBond value decrease if the FED continue to raise rates?

The Fed's goal is to have interest rates above CPI so the iBonds is expected to lose value in the medium term, isn't?
Unspecified behavior and implementation defined behavior are distinct in theory. The latter requires the behavior to be documented by the implementer, while the former does not.

In practice I dare you to find compiler documentation for each implementation defined behavior.

https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/n4868/intro.defs#defns.u...

https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/n4868/intro.defs#defns.i...

edit:

C wording:

https://cigix.me/c17#J.1

https://cigix.me/c17#J.3
Memento mori.

rip
It’s just less interesting. If I want to see random people navel gaze about Facebook’s general impact on society there are lots and lots of places for that. HN is one of the few where I’m likely to hear from people that spent a decade there. Also interesting would be someone that studied the impact deeply from the outside. But a thread started with a slightly wordier version of “F Facebook” is just not likely to be very good.
Here's a sped-up video showing him in action: https://twitter.com/jesawyer/status/1577731089602265089

Absurd to see that kind of detail emerge like that.
The headset is the reason why they are doing this in the first place. Nobody expected people to buy a $300 iPhone in 2007 or a $500 iPad in 2011, but when they did they gave Apple money-printing machine that can also bankrupt competitors.

Meta just needs a killer feature for the Metaverse. During the pandemic they bet hard on office-by-VR, but they moved too slowly missed the pandemic and many other deadlines before making a good product.
Hey, you haven't chosen the betting site yet. Which one do you prefer?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33102761
It’s an interesting read but the author could have just used Kolmogorov complexity to explain all this.
Ask that to ecologists, pro nuclear people don't care if renewable are used in combination with nuclear, but pro renewable are very adamant about the fact nuclear is bad and shouldn't be used at all

Take germany, they prefer to guzzle on russian gas or choke on coal fumes rather than admit they fucked up. They've been lobbying against nuclear for years and now they blame france for their electricity issues: https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-set-to-extend-nuclea...
I can imagine Russia conducting as 'nuclear test' in or near Ukraine, but I think the consequences for Russia would be dire, and I hope the Russian leadership realise that.

Ive been following the author's currently ongoing Yale course on the history of the Ukrainian state on youtube, it's excellent. The latest lecture dropped yesterday and I just finished it a few minutes ago, so it seems weird to see his name again here so soon. Here's a link to the first of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJczLlwp-d8
There are huge amounts of fake regular stamps being sold on e.g. eBay. I guess the damage those cause, is higher than the costs of the swapping.
Elixir too. https://medium.com/@fxn/how-does-elixir-compile-execute-code...
You make an assumption that using “weird” language is new and shiny when those are generally older than “established” languages of today. You can end the day with getting something done in “weird” language too, again generally faster than in some obtuse Java or Go codebase.
I believe with the way amazon comp in structured, not getting a bonus or a raise is actually a pay cut for many people, because they have vesting equity that is offset by front loaded cash bonuses.

Even small pay cuts are pretty good at getting people to quit. (uh particularly talented ones that have many options ...)
The fall is relative. Zuckerburg himself is still filthy rich. Only some of his employees suffer. So it is still worth to have a startup and make it mega, if you can pull it off.
With everyone criticizing Facebook for bad it is for society, are there examples of Social Networks that you think do good?
He is all over YouTube and did exhibitions around the world -- I'd check out his drawing show videos.
Laying off 15% of your staff is huge. If it's driven by a hire-and-fire approach, then that's even worse, because that shows Meta can't manage their way out of a paper bag.