skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does FTT pay dividends? If not, it's not a stock. Its valuation is what people are paying for it on the market. If it's trading for $25 on every exchange, it's $25. Their valuation was accurate.
Supply and demand are sort of related.
A reduction in net worth (i.e. stock price dropping) is a pretty terrible penalty, because a) it doesn't actually reflect upon the CEO's successes or failures, and b) because any bump in Meta's stock price will bring that net worth right back. And, usually, doing a mass layoff will do exactly that.

EDIT: Sure enough, Meta's stock is up ~17% since a week ago.
> This is extremely common in big tech and known as empire building.

Great companies focus on business performance not headcount. I'm more impressed with leaders that generate more positive metrics per dollar. Sometimes it takes headcount, but most of the time, a really great exec can make more revenue/growth/market share happen with the same or less headcount.
Massively more people invested in Ethereum than the type of scam projects that were most likely to belly flop.

As the study I referenced states, the vast majority of token sale investments were small. This points to a market where people acted rationally, in risking only small amounts on speculative investments, and makes it more likely that a typical token sale investor would spread their investments across a large number of projects.

It therefore stands to reason that there was significant overlap across token sale portfolios on larger and better known sales like Ethereum's.

>>VCs can fire the CEO/founder of the startup. You can't fire anyone and have zero control as an ICO investor.

Not every one can be a VC. Every one could invest in Bitcoin in 2009, and Ethereum in 2015.

The code for these projects is open, with no permissioning on who can release a client or run one. Moreover any one can fork the chain.

It's an entirely different governance mechanism than that of traditional shareholder controlled startups, and the experiment should not have been stifled by SEC regimentation, under the false call of "investor protection" made by those employed by regulatory agencies and venture capital funds who had a clear financial conflict of interest in benefiting from centralized control over investment activity.
It’s probably not worth the hassle to FB, but it is funny to think about how big of a business this could potentially be. But even a profitable business unit might not make enough profit to actually make it worthwhile.

It could certainly work. But it would probably be too small a business for a company as large as Meta. The differences in scales is (I think) one of their problems. At Meta scale (somewhat a pun), many things are just harder/not worthwhile because of their size.
Thanks to both of you for the links. I've read some about epigenetics and trauma research, and Maté's research looks like something I'd be very interested in.
For the reasons you give, it is perhaps more reasonable to say that Lisp is a Maxwell's Equations of software. But there are several. Forth has another reasonable claim to it, despite unpopularity, and Turing Machines have a claim too, despite their extreme unpopularity as a programming methodology. I don't know array languages well enough to know but I bet they have one too.

There isn't really a unique set of Maxwell's equations in software.
it's very nice to see more options in this space. as a user of /e/OS i am interested how iodéOS compares to /e/.
Rebase (non-local rebase) based workflows are just awful. The best git methodology I've seen is (surprise, surprise) in the Linux kernel. I can keep everyones tree as a separate tracking branch and use git work trees to develop against multiple branches on the same system. I also really enjoy using git request-pull, send-email, etc. and I think Github has been actively harmful in teaching people bad git habits.
No, standard is about half of full time employees are programmers. This website has them at about 42%: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/facebook
Yes, see the other comments in this thread about receiving alerts for places 8 hours away by driving, or the other comment where a user researched the alerts for a while.
Why does it matter how long the casket's been open? If it's dead it's dead.
Honest question, why is it gross? Fixing up homes is very inefficient and usually done by mom and pops. Why not find an efficient model to do it, just like car manufacturing, chip fabrication, etc.? It's a massive industry and could be a boost to productivity, which is the ultimate driver of living standards in the long term
It's really weird to me to see so many people discussing Amber Alert spam when I can count on one hand the number of alerts I've received in my lifetime
iCloud Beta
Call it a nature preserve.
> If all you want is solar capacity, wouldn't roofs be better because you don't need the support structures/lights?

Roofs are smaller than parking lots, and it's usually cheaper to construct panels on parking lots since you don't need to work at heights and you don't need extensive certifications to make sure the added load from solar panels and their wind exposure doesn't threaten static integrity of the building.
The same price gets you Creative Cloud for 2 months. What exactly is the point you think you're making? Because people earn different amounts in different countries is not a revelation to anybody here, nor to Serif.
Yep - and it's not whether data transmission is necessary for what you want to do; it has to be necessary for what the user wants you to do.
Adding liquidity to the real estate market is actually a good thing.
Please don't comment like this on HN. This is not reddit or Facebook.
Or maybe it's controlled by many different individuals and organizations, but very few of them want to cooperate with fascist tormentors.

https://xkcd.com/1357/
I don't necessarily disagree with you, and we will see FB's stock bumping back up again now that Zuck's make the "hard decision" to lay off employees.
This really is a feature I seem to lack. Standing in a line without at least listening to music makes me really uncomfortable. I don't know where to look, what to do etc.
Another delusional CEO practically
Yeah, so after working their asses off to repay debts for years, for something that should be free or very cheap in the first place (and in other parts of the world is), they plan to spend some on themselves. So?
Show HN: Promptdb.ai – Free prompts for your projects
I have this (maybe wrong) opinion that Meta can't be the one to bring an actual VR/Metaverse project because they are too "on the radar" of medias. Adoption of new technologies is always done by more fringe members and then picked up by critical mass. You can't successfully build a metaverse without accepting the kind of weird deviant stuff that goes on in VRChat and Meta can't accept the weird deviant stuff because they will immediately get called out for it.

So you get "Horizon" and its assortment of low-quality games that feel more like a tech demo than an actual world that you could lose yourself in.
OP is sour-grapes, saying the world doesn't run on search is an unbelievable statement in 2022.
Those German car manufacturers are also taking advantage of ex-FAANG in the US.
lol of course
Yes it's phishing
Their MAUs have been declining consistently.
Parking lots have lots of externalities not borne by the parking lot owner. This is an attempt to internalize some of those externalities to make the system more economically efficient. If this causes fewer parking lots to be built the system is more efficient, not less. Marginal parking lots shouldn't be built, only the ones that are truly needed.

OTOH, if a law causes fewer buildings to be built that imposes costs on society. It's harder to argue that a building that becomes infeasible due to the extra upfront costs of solar shouldn't be built.
Companies are surprisingly good at avoiding opportunities they're not familiar with. If it is actually profitable for them already, but they're not doing it, then a law mandating it may still be a good idea.
The default tone on iOS is a cross between a smoke detector and a baby crying.
> The USA, where phones apparently randomly go off at any time for no good reason at a loud volume

FYI, this isn’t unique to the USA. Canada has serious problems, too, especially in Ontario. There are also various references to Belgium and other countries in this thread.
Before you declare this important find out if the product is any good. Any sweatshop can cut some jobs and replace them with a shit ai artist but how are the storyboards and how do they translate into the final product. There are many companies that do foolish things to replace a cheaply paid artist because they can't see past the savings and into how it affects the product.

If their storyboarder could be replaced completely by AI they needed a better one.
Hey! Sorry I missed this. I've pushed a few fixes since then and I am able to get your poem working now. Here's a link: https://css-magnetic-poetry.tone-row.com/#gqR1c2Vk3AA3g6R3b3...
> Therefore people who want to force things that require money to implement go to who they perceive to have the money to burn.

There exist a number of companies that build out solar on a rent basis, i.e. a supermarket hands over land usage and power sale rights to this company in exchange for a payment, and the company builds and maintains the solar panels.
How is push origin HEAD --force-with-lease different from normal git push? Can someone please explain this to me?
I mean, given the extra debt servicing required as a result of the acquisition, it's not inconceivable that returning it to profitability is simply _impossible_.

Realistically, the only way for Twitter to increase revenue significantly is probably to add users. But the trouble there is, it's _Twitter_. It has likely already more or less saturated the market for _people who like things like Twitter_. It's really hard to see a world where everyone in the developed world uses Twitter, but that's probably what you need.

(This has been Twitter's problem for a long time, IMO; Twitter execs looked at things like Facebook and TikTok and Instagram and said "~everyone in the developed world uses those things, thus they can be made to use our thing" without necessarily understanding how different it was. Twitter should probably never have been a $40bn business).
"Desk sharing"... I wonder with the cost-cutting appeal of smaller real estate footprints and remote work if the huge campus era is actually drawing to a close.
Tiktok isn't yet peak engagement.

They should add eye tracking so that they know which part of the video you're looking at combined with facial reading to detect your emotional response. This saves users from the enormous effort of having to swipe or like. Fully effortless auto learning.

Holding a phone is also kind of tiring so let's project it into your eye balls using AR, plus you can't really look away.

You'll now have the ultimate human reprogramming machine. You can now change their opinion, culture, perspective, shopping behavior, or any behavior.

Pretty much any conspiracy theory you could think of would not be crazy, actually attainable. Technically, we're about 5 minutes away from it.

Given Facebook and Youtube's panicky response to this success, you can be sure that the model will be rolled out across tech. You'll be doing music and reading in a similar way soon. And that doesn't even take into account AI content generation, which is another revolution on top of AI recommendation.

I'll end with my final prediction. Some 10 years from now, when society is pretty much wrecked beyond recognition, there will be a hearing in congress: "so uhm...what is Tiktok? Is it like a website? Does it work with a mouse?".
To expand on why, what often happens after these is there now a round of "cost cutting" which on the surface may look like ok we just don't get as many, or any of the cool perks we used to- which will be true, and you will suddenly realize that work doesn't feel like it has a fun aspect to it anymore. But that's really nothing compared to the next step- when they start squeezing you- and everyone for more hours.

And more hours may not be a direct request- anyone at the periphery of the dev process- in the past this was QA, now gets cut because devs can do it, SWE roles might have to start doing more ops work, etc...

When I last left the financial industry, it was so bad, that VPs- and that was back when it least had some meaning- at least it did when I first got the title around 2010, started having to do mundane weekend work like checking out the system after network/firewall changes, etc.

It can be death by a thousand cuts. Now the financial crisis was way worse because essentially everyone was hurting, and losing money- and interestingly I "got out" of that bad situation by going to tech. But that's just how these bad situations play out and deteriorate.

That said, companies are still profitable. There was a LOT of overhiring in the past few years. I don't expect things to get so bad, at all.
Not at the same scale. It's been accelerating and continues to accelerate. From another announcement today:

> "We continue to anticipate that Reality Labs operating losses in 2023 will grow significantly year-over-year,"

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/meta-lowers-expense-foreca...

Everyone wants to dance on Meta's grave, but it's way too soon. Yes, the Apple change gave them a top line haircut, but if the RL spend is excluded, they are making a ton of money. I'd also argue that the real headwinds are the general economy and TikTok.
CRISPR System Used to Befuddle Bacteria
I would like to see the same study done with a drastic change in exercise and muscle mass.

I have always struggled with my weight. I find that the solution is always diet. Exercise does make me feel better, but doesn't seem to have much effect on my weight loss, if at all. At least in the short term.

I assume more muscle mass, would mean a higher resting metabolic rate. But how much. Is the effect large or small? Is it like this study, where sure it changes, but not enough to ever be able to eat like a "normal" person?
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Does anyone know what the reduced heating effect is of solar panels vs tarmac? Intuitively I'd have thought it was about 20%, the amount of energy extracted for use.

It's also interesting that France, home of nuclear, is doing this - probably linked to the extent to which their nuclear plants are offline simultaneously for maintenance and they're having to import power.
It's hard to understand why you would want to close one jail and open 4 smaller jails further away. That is going to be a lot more difficult to manage. Not to mention crime has been increasing and the total jail capacity will be a bit over 50% of Rykers.

It seems like they are waisting time and resources with dreams while neglecting basic needs.
Not sure if you're being sarcastic. The comment you are responding to is specifically saying that by doing all those things that it makes the nominal prices of homes more expensive. It's basically identical to the idea that by guaranteeing/subsidizing college loans (and disallowing most borrowers from discharging loans in bankruptcy) that the government has been instrumental in the skyrocketing cost of college.
I might have answered my own question - perhaps it's when we see corporations speculate and win it adds no value and is gross? But if they actually do come up with a better way to price houses and fix them efficiently it's a positive right?
And are you sending and receiving often 50$ worth of assets? It's one thing to say it's possible (and everybody will agree) and another thing is that sending it this way is "better" - for whatever definition of better. But back to my question: are you using this mode yourself? Often?
Cryptography’s Future Will Be Quantum-Safe. Here’s How It Will Work
ARM supports both big & little endian, but basically everyone only uses little endian on ARM.
Agreed but You still haven't explained why I should be choosing a lesser paying option between the two ( coding vs management). Whats the logic here?

Are sure seriously suggesting average big corp programmer is it for passion?

Again, there is nothing wrong with comparing yourself to your peers. Its immature to have an adverse reaction to it. Comparison is like A/B testing for your life that helps you course correct.
I created a Shortcut for that, essentially a button on my homescreen I can press which actually disables bluetooth and wifi. And when my phone is connected to wifi, mobile data gets disabled.

It's not perfect, but at least I don't have to open the settings app each time.
You believe that a company with plenty of privacy concerns and/or user data handling would've been successful on cloud?
Is there a minimum KW output? Otherwise seems like this could create a market for super cheap low output minimum viable solar panels?
Why? If I were working there and on that tech, I’d stay.
It’s a cool project and I like working on cool projects while being able to live a comfortable life.

What are you working on that’s more fascinating than VR?
Binance says FTX going down ‘not good for anyone’, did not master plan the deal
Its not the same - I know, but you can try these options to get a similar experience in obsidian:

- https://forum.obsidian.md/t/zen-focus-mode-with-automation/3...
- https://github.com/deathau/cm-typewriter-scroll-obsidian with Zen-Mode enabled.
Stable Diffusion legal issues: Non-free license? Is it copyrightable?
The profit from home flipping comes from asset speculation not construction. Only one of these creates net value.
The Stripe people did it right, or at least as right as you can under these circumstances.
https://stripe.com/en-au/newsroom/news/ceo-patrick-collisons...

Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33450753
Squashing is rewriting history.

It sounds like the grandcomment had a ban against rewriting history across-the-board, which would help make git idiot proof. I love rewriting history, not because it's what I wished I had done but because it's what I am going to want to review when I have to.

Rewriting history is a great way for gitiots to shoot themselves in the foot.
Yeah that’s about it. He’s lost about $90b in net worth. I suppose you can debate whether that’s punishment enough

He didn't pay a fine, it isn't any sort of punishment. He tanked the value of the asset that is the primary component of his wealth. That money is gone whether he "takes responsibility" or not.
Interesting. Are you referring to Windex or one of the optical-grade solutions? I used to use dish soap but I found that I can just run mine under warm water for thirty seconds or so and that gets them pretty clean.
And that includes all platforms (Mac, iPad and Windows). Really great value.
Binance chief says near collapse of FTX eroded confidence in crypto industry
"Occasionally, someone poor makes money and tells his friends about his new lambo - hoping to get others into the scam/ponzi."

You missed the mainstream media's role
It's gross in my opinion because they drive prices up. Not only the companies, but also individuals that purchase multiple homes to run a rental business. I want to see legislation that prohibits orgs from purchasing home to flip, and individuals to be taxed heavily for their 2nd+ home.

If an org really wants to profit from real estate, go build new homes, there is a huge shortage, we don't need to competes with rich companies when trying to purchase a house.
Maybe calculate the same thing for the parking lot itself, then.
I don't think I denied that "cancel culture" is a thing. The quote are because I have very limited exposure to social media (this site and some limited reddit) and don't follow any popular news (cnn/fox/abc/nbc etc), and don't talk politics socially- so I'm not comfortable that my definition of 'cancel' is the common definition. My intended point was this behavior is on both left and right BUT but more importantly, it is the extremes of each that are the problem and 'canceling' drives greater extremes. that is not good. I intended to make the point that the folks at Williams are likely extreme due to the bubble that they live in- and I don't support that at all. Fwiw: I'm neither Republican or Democrat either. I have deep distrust in anyone with power, which is dark soul of both of those organizations.
This entire comment lacks evidence or data to support it but I used to work in SFR and still keep tabs with several companies on a personal basis.

Redfin and Zillow are not the problems in the SFR industry. These are tech companies that were trying to capitalize on the PE flowing into SFR. Their lack of success is not an indicator for the industry as a whole.

Make no mistake about it: SFR is alive and well and increased rates will not hurt them. Most have paused acquisitions but their cash flow is still fantastic. The outcomes over the next 24 months will play in their favor and those companies will grow as the economy pulls back.
Prop 13 was voters, not "the government". You realize that, right? Voters amended the constitution to lock in low property taxes for themselves.
At least I know that those 5€ only change on a term of months, or with inflation.

Last time I looked at ETH and BTC I spent a good 30mins trying to figure out how much the transaction would actually cost me and if it depended if I clicked GO at an opportune moment. And yes, I admit that this might have only been a difference of cents, but I wouldn't know that beforehand.
for those unaware, even in deep blue New York, Riker's has been run as a Guantanamo-style prison camp where there is no civilian oversight over conditions or corrections officers. to me, the most appalling aspect has been the amount of people locked up indefinitely over misdemeanors and thrown into gen pop to basically die
Why shouldn't it be a function? The global namespace is a scarce resource.

constexpr can't be a function because it is not used a such. Nullptr could have been std::nullptr, but it is used often enough that it made sense to put it in the global namespace (but note that it had to be nullptr instead of null to avoid collisions, so only two chars saved). The type is still std::nullptr_t.

The C++ standard doesn't really use __ as a prefix, it is a namespace reserved for the implementor. The _t suffix in the global namespace is from POSIX originally then adopted by C; C++ still puts _t names under std.

std::unreachable is a very obscure functionality, polluting the global namespace for it wouldn't have been a good idea.
On the surface this will not cost anything to the taxpayer since the cost will be borne by the carparks' owners.

But this being France, my cynical side thinks that the next step is lobbying and complaints by businesses until the government comes up with subsidies. On the other hand, that's not completely unreasonable since this new law means businesses will have to shell out hundreds of thousands of euros...
Here’s SBF describing that he totally understood the ponzi nature of these coins but that he basically didn’t expect there to be “people calling bullshit in a coordinated manner.”

https://nitter.it/coryklippsten/status/1546902114550439936#m
If given a choice, I think I would opt for the "decentralization with a mishmash of the averages of society" over a dystopia. The "centralization with selflessness, benevolence, and competence" path toward utopia seems like wishful thinking to me. You can never legislate morality, and without a non-secular religion as a guide, a default moral people is not a reasonable expectation.
Look at the companies on http://layoffs.fyi

Lots of small and medium sized companies, and I know for some that it was not their last move before going under.

We had a hiring boom driven by cheap money, which is now ending. Now we get the inverse.

Has nothing to do with insane large corps and saintly SMBs.
But why, it's a free product. I used it for some time but then switched to Logseq.
Looks like v86 doesn’t implement the INT 3 (0xCC) opcode, which the debuggers use to step through: https://github.com/copy/v86/discussions/653