skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“The standard is a third party project we have no view or control over” is not a standard.
> The market hates innovation - until its successful, then loves it.

What are you even talking about? Huge VC funding is predicated entirely on innovation before proving success. The market loves innovation... when it actually makes some kind of coherent sense.

> Meta making such a big bet on the future, win or lose, is inspiring

No it's not inspiring, it's idiotic. That's like saying "I bet my house and my kids' college money on a new crypto coin, but win or lose, it's inspiring!" It's not inspiring, it's just irresponsible.
I recommend the first account to follow be an engineer. In my case a Google engineer. I quit Twitter more than 6 years ago. Now that it is under new management I might try again. I don't know if I deleted my account or just plain stopped. For all the nasty noise directed at Elon M. he has iterated on the design and usage of washrooms in space that accelerate faster than those you find described on the batwing nuclear bomb bomber Google can see departing from the airfield from space.
I don't know, but for what it's worth, this was probably the single most heavily traded source tree on #hack in the mid-1990s. Everybody had it.
But that's not what's being reported here. If you owned 20% of shares of the most popular sushi restaurant in town, and absolutely nothing about the restaurant changed, but its market capitalization went down, would you say that no value was destroyed?

It is conventional to describe a loss of value in both cases, but the second kind is much more obviously hypothetical than the first kind.
I would love to learn more about people who've put this much thought into mobile work stations. I move around enough that I can't invest in a permanent setup.

Right now, my setup is a macbook in a roost stand, with an ipad propped up side-caring. Decent mechanical keyboard + mouse and a best effort at hiding wires. Would love to hear about other options.
Topton isn't shipping though. Latest order we made was 2months ago and it was promptly marked as "shipped" but not actually shipped. Customer support just says "please wait dear" and nothing else.

Those products you mention will also never reveive any BIOS or firmware updates (including critical security). Speaking from experience with units from 18/19.

Hardkernel with their community engagement is a different story.

I do see the value prop here. Just wished this board supported being driven from 12V but I guess you cant get everything eh
Yes but Horizon Worlds is literally the "metaverse" that they named the whole company after. That's the flagship product it's all for. It's not some accessory app, it's the main thing.

Yikes.
I understand he also laid off the entire data engineering team, that news being sourced from Messrs. Ligma & Johnson, two prankster nerds who went to the vicinity of Twitter HQ and walked around carrying cardboard boxes.

Definitely a story to be careful on
Why do you need RDBMS for it? localStorage/IndexDB isn't enough?
> stable company typically has a P/E ratio of 20

This is a 5% earnings yield. That's a whopping 99 basis points ahead of the 1-year rate and 103 north of the 6-month [1]. One can adjust for growth [2]. But a neutral 20x multiple is not a fact of nature.

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEG_ratio
s/manor/manner :)
Pardon my picking nits:

He wasn't entirely a failure; he was a very successful railway lawyer. As for his loss to Douglass, that may well have been strategic - a design from the beginning to force Douglas to endorse state sovereignty (not slavery everywhere.) That would get Douglas the senate win, but it was also pretty clear in advance that could split his party, the Democrats, in two. It did. That may have been a bigger strategic victory for his party than him personally getting into the White House.
It's also called "contrarian investing"; it does in fact have a decent track record.
When users typed the wrongly spelt names of websites on their browsers, they were directed to the malicious websites.
Epidemiologist Jeremy Farrar on the Next Viral Threat
"Farrar: When the sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was released on January 10, 2020, some features stood out that at first glance looked unusual and therefore suspicious. However, as I see it today, this was mainly due to our level of knowledge at that time. It then became apparent quite quickly that the characteristics that initially looked alarming were also found in other natural coronaviruses. Moreover, in retrospect, we see that the wild type of the virus in Wuhan was by no means optimally adapted to humans; Omicron is much better adapted. Apart from the location of the outbreak, Wuhan, there is actually nothing that speaks for a lab leak. For me, the probability that SARS-CoV-2 originated in animals is over 90 percent."
Practically all of Asia is west of Japan anyway. So Persia is far, far west, and a part of ancient Western history along with Greece.
Antisemitic campaign tries to capitalize on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
What's wrong with screenshots of text? They're easily readable. The white background makes things stand out more than just posting text on stock Twitter. It's one reason Insta story posts and even slides have text.

Technological progress doesn't mean making user-hostile design. If users like a format or medium, you can offer it to them even if your platform is capable of greater things.
If the company is in a time of chaos, one has an opportunity to be an agent of order. This may come in the form of stepping into managerial or leadership roles or stepping into gaps in the talent pool as an individual contributor. These opportunities can often represent shortcuts in a career track, where in simpler times one may have faced more competition for a position or longer delays waiting for vacancies to open up.

Further, these are great and rare times to learn about aspects of the business to which one has not hitherto been exposed, which in the long term is incredibly valuable practical education. When filling the breach, during mergers or downsizing, one finds many opportunities to wear multiple hats outside of what one’s traditional qualifications would warrant.

I can’t speak about Musk, obviously, but some people will leave because they feel Musk does not sufficiently “care about them”. Others will step forward into those vacancies potentially because they don’t need Musk to care about them, but recognize that Musk cares about the job being done, and they are in a position to get it done, and are willing to do it particularly if getting the job done represents some measure of reward (promotion, accelerated career, exposure, etc).

My own career advice would be that Musk “caring about you” is a ridiculous distraction in the short term, and that you should look at the professional skill development, education, and trial by fire opportunities with very lusty excitement. Truly, IME these are some of the most exciting times in a career if you can stand the heat and they produce very long lasting professional relationships and bonds that may pay dividends down the road.

Alternatively, a boring job with a CEO who pretends to care about you is an option too, but “wherever you go, there you are.” If one has issues with high blood pressure, anxiety or has a busy life outside of work, this may very well be a better option.
Maybe it would be even greater as a free speech paradise, where we could express opinions in the words and manner we choose.

Perhaps some kind of "HN gloves off" mode might work. Or HN After Dark. Then the traditional civil mode could be retained, while allowing the more wild tangents to run their course in a separate but related area or mode. I think this is inevitable for online discussion. Politicians have their formal, respectful discourse zones, but gloves come off in certain places and contexts where heated exchange is not only acceptable, but expected. And these are the people running things. So to deny the same for the general population, will never sit well.
You have a very good point in it being a red ocean. I am trying to see what hackers envision of a much-better software, before I jump in :)
Fair points, there are a lot of intelligent minds here. Personally, I'm thinking about the viability of metaverse concepts beyond the walls of Meta, while the bearish concensus I've seen in media and comments seems to focus only on them. Maybe that is an unfortunate side effect of the branding exercise. I appreciate your opinions.
> he knew the valuation was too high (because of bot farms, managerial bloat, &c.)

"He knew the valuation was too high" is really not an accurate way to think about it. It makes it sound like he successfully proved those claims, when in fact he failed to present compelling enough evidence in court when he tried to use legal action to back out.
Prosecutorial discretion is how one does political favors.
> investors’ short-term squirrel brains don’t realize that XR is the future

The animal best known for building up huge savings over the summer that it can live off of over the winter?
Hurry up and make it happen then.
Hopefully not that but it could happen. Typically you’ll have a lock up or the company has a right of first refusal to repurchase the stock.
Mine stopped charging and broke years ago. :(

I couldn't find a smartwatch I like since.
Joan Didion’s Life in Objects
If 'robot's could imitate and exceed people's actual life and being --what should we do about people, virtualize all of them, most of them? They're better off living a virtual life than life in dirty reality.
It’s inevitable.

The share of, at best clueless, but more likely spiteful and cruel, old people who ensured the absolutely inane brexit majority decision, before they unceremoniously were reduced to the fate of just dying off, is monotonically shrinking.

While the share of young people who weren’t even allowed to have a say in the rest of their future life, is monotonically growing.

It’s by far the most crystal clear example of the old desperately trying to eat the young, incontrovertibly to feed their petty greed, but it obviously does not have any effect on the biological realities.

A Norway style arrangement, while far worse than the previous deal, is and will always be better than the current quagmire.

Unfortunately the psychotic sadist in the ERG still have influence over British politics.
Mostly the fact that they completely ignore accessibility.

In fact, if Twitter did want to improve the user experience, automatic OCR of such text and generation of the corresponding alt tag would be a practical improvement. In fact, general recognition of the content of an image and auto generation of an ALT tag would be a significant improvement.

... But that require them to do actual machine learning as opposed to being the internet's bathroom stall wall.
In what universe are stock investments not equivalent to cash, for nearly all investors? You buy, you sell, same as forex or gold or turnips.

This is real-life loss of value. Saying it's "paper value" makes as much sense as saying the money in your bank account isn't cash because it's just "numbers of a screen".

I'm astonished that somebody could think stock losses are somehow less harmful than losing cash. That's just wrong.
Honest question, do you use GnuCash yourself, or just referring to it? Seems like you like it?
Well the story started > 10 years ago, I think.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473941

It's mostly the latter -- a better GUI.
I don't understand. Artists can also use these models to generate art, and looking at other industries, there are significant differences between professional output and "machine generated" output. Sort of the difference between a fullstack developer and no-code platform. Do developers fear no-code platforms taking over their jobs? Sure, yes for the menial tasks, but definitely not for high stakes complex products. Same as generative art - it may replace the need for those filler banners, stock photos, redrawing characters a little bit differently for that last panel - but no, you don't generate a coherent, entertaining 100 chapters manga with generative art.
It’s not just what content they’re next to, brands don’t want to be associated with certain types of content in any way. Because to a lot of consumers a brand is a part of their identity, and most people don’t identify with Nazis.
> Republishing those screenshots could run afoul of copyright restrictions, but no more so than embedding currently does.

Embedding should be fine because that's being "published" by Twitter who you have already given permission to publish (cf [1]) although I'd have thought (IANAL) that a screenshot would be a good example of "fair use for commentary" except when e.g. news services embed tweets, they're often not commenting on those tweets specifically, just giving a general flavour of sentiment.

It's a minefield, probably.

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jwherrman/want-to-publi...
> AFAICT he's planning on folding to any authoritarian governments demands

citation needed
The harder I worked, the luckier I got. - Henry Ford
Let's ask the opposite question. Why was Hawaii absorbed but not the Philippines? Who's in Hawaii today that's happy with the status quo, and whose sacred lands are being turned into a road? Did the native population choose to join as a state or was that imposed on them?
A lot did change though. Apple changed settings on its tracking which made it harder for Facebook to charge a lot for ads. TikTok became bigger than people were expecting (like a rival sushi restaurant opening next door). And they spent a lot of money on the metaverse that appears so far to be a complete waste.

I agree there is more speculation but overall its cash flow went down a lot and thats not that speculative.
Ask HN: Space for Vanilla JavaScript and Serverless?
Hello! Wondering where else can this stack fit.
I (and some colleagues) have been exposed mostly to vanilla JS for library-like component construction and usage, and also running JS scripts in serverless environments (Netlify, Azure Functions).

So no traditional React/Postgre/Next etc knowledge.

Where can I take these skills and put them to good use?
I thought about constructing API's and placing them on RapidAPI or similar.
I think that's a lot more than Rob has done. What did you learn?
That sounds self inflicted.

Any security architecture that requires every single engineer has to do everything exactly right 100% of the time is bound to fail. The order to put in reasonable privacy protections doesn't say "and do it in the most expensive, error prone fashion possible".
Before UPGs, every user would have `users` or something similarly generic as their primary group, and it was intentional that everyone's homedir allowed read access to that group for the purpose of sharing files between users.

With UPGs, every user will have a bespoke primary group, so having group access to the homedir is not a problem. Whether the distro still keeps the other-readable bit is up to the distro. For example, OpenSUSE used to be in the pre-UPG 0755 camp, but switched some time ago to the UPG 0700 camp.

The default UPG usage and homedir permissions are controlled by USERGROUPS_ENAB and HOME_MODE in login.defs (under /etc or /usr/etc, depending on your distro).
Animals in Rocket Flight (1953)
Full of spite. We'll see. But moderation was kinda solved at Something Awful by demanding to pay 10 bucks at sign up. Mr. Musk may use something like this; he can demand 10 dogecoins in order to unblock someone mischievous. Hell, it could even be proportional to the reach of the account.
While the article does mention the latest earnings report as part of the story, it's about valuation going down. Title is incorrect and misleading.
Off-topic: This thread has a cool id (33363333)!
Yeah, I know what an analogy is. It's a bloody stupid analogy because it's making a mountain out of a mole hill, when we all know that moles dig tunnels.
I guess, but how does the camera know whether you have consent or not?
Using Blockchain Technology and Stablecoins in Third-World Economies
But he posts memes and makes fun of people!
Intel Extension for TensorFlow Released – Provides Intel GPU Acceleration
The ideal is to be over the horizon and receive an infinite pipeline of new project work that pushes your envelope, your team's error bars or the state of the art. You don't see that on jobad sites where a skill is sql or xml or articulate.
I mean... Broadly gestures at Musk's string of behaviors over the last 20 years
Metaverse != Horizon Worlds
https://ourworldindata.org/fertility/#what-explains-the-chan...
Netscape had it for a long time.
Unless you are really good, a big name, or willing to draw porn, it's quite difficult to make a living with art. Fortunately, AI doesn't quite know how to draw penetration yet -- and even when it learns, the big money is in furry porn so it will have to learn again how to draw convincing animal-people engaged in convincing coitus.
Can't you solve the moderation problem by simply having the default view be the social graph of depth N of people you subscribe to?

In that case, unwanted comments actually provide useful information about your social graph.
High Pressure, Part 2: The First Steam Railway
> Perhaps the two people don’t have knowledge of the situation.

How about the photo of the Twitter engineer holding her printed source code?

I also saw tweets from other Twitter engineers talking about printing out their code.
I bought 1000 shares over the last 2 days for exactly this reason.
Does anyone know what whether the default apt repositories for Ubuntu 22.04 will be updated right away?
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33330752

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33364183
Walking streetlamps for hire in seventeenth-century London
Or was it overvalued by $650B? Like crypto and Zoom.
What do you mean a real website? What difficulties do you see? Lots of sites are hosted on IPFS today
Best comment I saw on this was it's like trying to reinvent VR.

We already have VR. Incrementally, maybe there will be some sort of popular VR chat down the road, but it's just too expensive at this point for mass adoption. The distance between getting a Twitter account and hopping on the Metaverse is over $500.
Maybe it is too much data for devices that have to share a channel. But lasers (think: old TV remotes using infrared) do not have to share channels with each other, and can be very high-bandwidth and more difficult to snoop on indeed. Mirrors could even be used for relaying, to save lots of compute. Like fiber cables piercing through the air itself!
Yet those are probabilistic heuristics, not things which grant certitude.

(Also, Russell's Teapot is not at all a fair comparison. A vast, incomprehensible, inconceivably simple unitary consciousness as the fundamental substrate of reality is much closer to most religious conceptions of God than is a teapot in orbit.)

(...and, of course, a single entity which underlies reality is ultimately simple. Push it pantheist and you reduce the number of entities to one - no other worldview can reduce the number of entities further.)
That's what they said about sheet music. Bring music into the home was not sometime artists who performed live wanted any part of because it was feared that people wouldn't want to go out. The same was said about recorded music, radio.

In the end it allowed more wealth and created more demand for music. There will be more demand for art.
> You want to go tkl and pull out your number pad when/if you need it more power to you, but anything smaller than that and your working against yourself in my eyes.

I'd put it the other way: if you have a keyboard where all your thumb can do is press the spacebar, you're much more limited compared to if each thumb can hit 2-3 keys.

With keyboards with 2-3 thumb keys each, suddenly it's possible to use layers to bring many keys to within easy reach of the hand. -- On a standard keyboard, you'd either have to reach or move your hand to hit the ` key; whereas with layers, no hand movement/stretching is required.

Layering trades-off hand movement / stretching, at the cost of being more complicated to use. (Not having to stretch your fingers is an increase in comfort).

The only real downside to small-keyboards-with-thumbkeys I've experienced is for one-hand-on-keyboard usage; e.g. FPS games pretty much need to have a number row. Though, I could do CAD okay without a number row (e.g. by using a numpad layer).
Tell HN: WhatsApp getting slower on macOS despite “performance improvements”
Every update description says "bug fixes and performance improvements". Yet, WhatsApp has gotten slower over time on my M1 Pro Macbook Pro. I see more loading screens, more stutters, more jitters.

Is the update description lying? Maybe it should say "bug fixes and performance degradation".
My recollection is the original graphical browsers were all editors. I’m pretty sure for example ViolaWWW was an editor, and directly referenced HyperCard too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW
> Odds are most are still up on their investment.

Facebook IPO'd in 2012. The stock is down to its price in October 2015. There are a few people who own lots of shares obtained before October 2015, and they are up. There are probably more people who own a few shares obtained after October 2015, and they are down.
are you mounting with noatime, cuz you should be.
I have been pretty vocally opposed to systemd's gradual takeover of core Linux systems that I was previously familiar with, but it's clearly not going away and I'm gradually getting up to speed on it. In your example, I'm super comfortable with iptables and it would probably take me less time to solve it there than it would to discover that a systemd service could have ip address filters added to its unit file.

When people say "just read its documentation" ... that seems really dismissive of both the volume and the inconsistent quality of it. I spent hours about a week ago working on a single service file for an encfs mount (not a mount unit, which is a different thing, which I also spent hours reading documentation on!). Ultimately it was only through trial-and-error that I discovered that it would only work with "Type=forking". The systemd docs do a fine job of describing the different "Type" values and how they matter to systemd, but don't fill in the blanks that certain things require certain Type values.

Most of my interactions with systemd have required time with its documentation. It's fiddly and quirky and not a big improvement over historical tooling in that respect.

But I recognize that it is capable of doing some things better than the old tooling could, and it's not gonna go away, so it'll just be another volume of arcana to memorize and I should get to it.
You're in a bubble. I've never seen a 3D TV IRL and I live in one of the more affluent countries.
For comparison: here is the DALL-E 2 prompt book: http://dallery.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/The-DALL%C...
Seems really strange that this would work on a per site not a per domain basis.
https://github.com/Arquivotheca/SunOS-4.1.3/blob/413/sys/spa...

and here I am lazily blowing cache lines with `new Object()` in Java