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Ask HN: Is Instagram “Dying”?
I saw a tweet from a VC that made a point that Facebook used to be the place to go to when you first met a person if you wanted to know more about them, and then Facebook began to become less popular so Instagram became "that" platform but that now it is slowly dying as we see Instagram recommending more IG reels and less things about your friends. So, the VC is saying that there is an opportunity to create something that will become the go to platform to get to know what someone is like. The VC labeled it "profile of records."

My idea is a social app where your profile has different categories, so for example "Relationship", "Travel", etc. In these categories you can upload content based on what the content is about. So if you're traveling, you would post it and have it under your "Traveling" album. The goal would be to allow you to create as many categories as you want and give you the ability to use whichever medium you want to use as your form of expression (video, text, photo, audio).

This would then show what you enjoy, and allow others to also see what you enjoy. You'd be able to compartmentalize whatever content you choose to put out.

Hopefully that makes sense, and I'd love to hear your feedback on this whole discussion. Thanks!
> You find information on TikTok

Am I old? What kind of information. Not to be on Googles side here but, for information in video form... YouTube is at least somewhat reasonable still. Right?
> solid product on its own

Yet it hijacks command-F to replace it with a crappy search experience
Another reason is the belief that there is a level of safety that comes with living with others in the same culture/religion/etc. not saying that it works out in practice, but it is something that holds some sway.
>and time that would otherwise spent on delivering business value is instead spent on engineering rigor, move that Java monolith to Rust today.

Oh no. I would hate more engineering rigor at the cost of business value! Please, anything but that. After all, that's why I majored in business instead of CS.
Point taken :)

What if "human" would be replaced by "ape"?
Ironically, if they had focused more on delivering a good search experience instead of delivering ads and low-value "AI" features, they might have better prospects looking forward.
I don't disagree, but where do you draw the line from "curiosity" to "I'm letting the herd think for me and anything they dictate as interesting, I am a victim and I must investigate it because they said so"
While you are on your soapbox, I'm down here googling for a way to unstick my van window and the diagram is no longer available but at least I can work out what they were probably doing from the text in the Internet Archive. Yeah try that with a defunct Discord.
How many people are quitting?
Show HN: Hello World Java Polyglot
I wanted to see how much simpler native code integration has become with GraalVM's polyglot, when compared to JNI.

It's less than 100 lines all up (including the POM).

(I feel kinda stupid posting a "hello world" to HN, but this is a hell of an improvement.)

Linux only at the moment.
In 2022 their core business made 27 billion with 5 billion revenue if advertising income falls by ~12% ((27-24)/27) they are no longer profitable.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A421/production/...

Haven't touched their platforms for years. User base in the USA keeps declining.

They need to cut expenses.
Good to know, thanks for pointing that out!
It's really nice to have an alternative to github.

Say what you want about bitbucket, but people have been banned from github for pretty fickle reasons, so it's nice that they can still host repositories somewhere else for free.
There are 22 airports in Taiwan and only 4 with the infrastructure to handle cargo flights.

China has over 100,000 rockets and missiles estimated to be in their inventory, and the best manufacturing system in the world to produce more. A 747 cannot land on a ripped up and shredded runway, and it cannot offload goods into burning warehouses.

Not to mention the ridiculous idea of trying to feed, clothe, and care for 25 million people living on the island of Taiwan with aircraft. It cannot be compared to the berlin airlift which supplied a fraction of the people with a fraction of the goods, and whose flights lasted less than an hour. Flights to Taiwan would likely come from Tokyo, which is an 8 hour round trip. And they would probably need complex refueling operations on at least one of the legs, because Taiwan would run out of jet fuel immediately. The US doesn't have enough of a tanker fleet to support something like this, or enough cargo aircraft fitted with refueling probes.

As for ports, China does need to level them, they just need to place some of their 200,000+ sea mines in the approaches to Taiwan. They can do this with subs, aircraft, high speed watercraft and even with rocket launchers. Luckily for China, the major Taiwanese ports are on the coast which faces the strait rather than the open pacific, simplifying matters.
I earn a living wage working as a software consultant. I work for myself primarily because it's the only way I know of to do software engineering with flexible hours. I work on retainer with weekly deliverables. Within the week I can choose to work whenever I want.

I'd love to bootstrap a SaaS that would replace this income. I've actually started multiple, profitable SaaS, but they don't match anywhere near what I can earn as an engineer. Total addressable market is a real bottleneck. Sales/marketing is a difficult challenge for solo developers since there's no leverage. Unless you have a very expensive product or a huge funnel and market, it seems impractical to scale to engineering salaries.
No, you spreading Chinese propaganda lies. I am much better educated on the subject than you.
How does Glicol compare to Pure Data or Csound?
By what measure? The headset is tethered, bulkier, more expensive, came out two years later and only has slightly higher resolution. It's good and I expect it to do well but it's not definitely better.
Good catch, hun.
How does finding info on TikTok work? Is it like, vidoes of teens talking about the subject you search?
Most companies with lots of cash during the inflation years overhired, those workers left smaller or less profitable companies that do not pay as much. The population of engineers did not grow that significantly IMO.
And my point was people are saying it when they don't mean 10x!
I used to use source tree. It's good
It's basically true. I get the best support from some official Discords... A lot of it is from just searching and some is from just posting a question. It would be a pity if it were to just go away and never be recorded for all the smart answers would be lost.
You can't count? Huh

3% sided with Russia on a UN vote, all shitty countries.

Some may be neutral, but even they laughed with Russia when they said they had to invade.

Russia is a terrorist state
Of the studies I've read, its my opinion that we actually have the knowledge to drastically expand lifespans, but because resources are finite and strained, the decision to use man made drugs to alter certain chemical reactions in the body which fix one problem but cause others, is what's limiting our lifespans, along with glyphosate added to the supply chain at different stages. If you cant afford to go organic, your lifespan and your kids lifespans and their number of offspring will be reduced.
TikTok is a holy grail of distilled information. In two short years of TikTok recipes, my wife has learned how to cook better than almost any restaurant we eat at, and we're serious foodies. Zero to one hundred, just from TikTok.

There's everything from OSint TikTok to finance TikTok to archeologist TikTok... It's crazy, and it's good.

Once you find your niche, the information density approaches that of a black hole. It's really high quality.
A MUC on a modern XMPP client/server can do most of it. There are XEPs for reactions, stickers, threading, etc. and it still works well for small voice and video chats. The voice chat for gaming though is better handled by Mumble.
They've been trying to fix the "MR/productivity path" for years without much success.

Perhaps there is some future in industrial assistance but not clear if that translates to the next generation platform to subvert a teenage girl's self esteem.

They could never make a convincing MR/productivity headset because there is absolutely no consumer demand for an inferior experience.
Except Florida and Texas have actually been part of the USA for centuries, while Taiwan has never been part of the PRC and has existed as a de facto sovereign country as long as the PRC has.

Plus only a clear minority of the people of Texas or Florida actually wants to secede, whereas a large majority of Taiwanese wants to remain an independent country.
I can't decide if I would enjoy reading real examples of these cycles. Just knowing how precarious the supply of natural rubber is, and how inadequate artifical solutions are (including prospective ones from continental), makes me uneasy, but I'll be damned if there isn't some kind of allure there as well.

It seems almost certain that climate change is going to severely disrupt several of these cycles in decade or two, and a slightly different failure mode of what you allude to in C. is that our tech and processes become capped before we adequately scale up renewables, and overshoot kicks in and it's actually a negative feedback loop that certainly doesn't just stop with computers.
Or your company hasn't paid for the 'good' version and the all the old conversations past a certain date are consumed by the Langoliers.
Original HN title used the information in the second line from the blog post, something like:

"In 2021 Amazon ad revenue [was] more than the entire global newspaper industry."

Hence some of the comments focus on newspaper business.
Trello is not really their product. They acquired that company.
Just wait... In the eyes of many OpenAI caught Google (especially) flat-footed with ChatGPT. I know six year olds that use ChatGPT as (more or less) a fun toy. You can hear them say "I want to play AI" which in their minds (whether they realize it or not) for the time being is OpenAI. There's a lot of reputation, valuation, and mindshare on the line here.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta, etc are going to be tit-for-tat slugging it out on "AI" for the foreseeable future with pesky things like bias, safety, etc going further and further to the wayside as the race and pace heats up.

It's going to get wild.
I agree. There's a lack of quality, comprehensive UI libraries with ready-to-go, composable components. And the ones that do exist are tied to specific languages/frameworks like React.
Ah, I missed that. Thank you!
Actually the most widespread form of Buddhism in India at the time was Theravada, and they dont worship gods like other religions do. Buddha vandana is not actual worship, because there is no concept of God in Buddhism, truth is the most basic tenet of Buddhism and God cannot be proven to be true. Same applies to Jains no concept of god.

Buddhist Viharas and Mahaviharas (Universities) like Nalanda, Takshila, Vikram shila were places of learning. So no they were not places of worship like Hindus do in their temples.

As a matter of fact more that 70 Buddhist Universities have been found till date.
IRC never persisted anything so nobody used it as information source.
If you have to say it you must think it's not obvious to me - for some reason.
> There are no free domains without a catch.

It takes less than 5 minutes to get one.

> Your example happens to be "free domain, when you pay us money", which is stretching the definition of free.

That was just one example, which is what I wrote. There are many others that don't require website hosting. [1][2]

[1] https://www.getfreedomain.name/

[2] https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-get-a-free-domain-name-f...
There definitely has been a sentiment change on meta, but I think 'COVID-tech-mania' is a poor excuse for them failing to effectively diversify.
I went to Amazon without an ad blocker for the first time yesterday (wanted to try the fakespot service, but it requires an extension and "access all" so I created a clean profile for it). I was surprised how many ads there were on Amazon, I thought the situation was already bad with an ad blocker, considering they show a lot of hard-coded ads, but wow.
Half of all engineers also cook at home(1) and nearly one hundred percent use plates and cutlery.(2)

1) I pulled this number out of a hat.

2) We likely don’t care about the opinions of people that eat food raw out of the garden using their hands only, at least with respect to dishwasher design.
It's saying that because that's closer to what they explicitly taught it, but I think it's a sensible answer because this one could actually come up, unlike the nuke.
> The results show that rewriting the packets is quite a bit more expensive than just allowing or dropping a packet. For example, if we look at the unidirectional test with 10,000 flows, we see that we dropped from 14M pps [packets per second] to 3.2M pps, we also needed 13 cores more to do this!

https://atoonk.medium.com/linux-kernel-and-measuring-network...

Just speculating, but I believe the cost comes from all the memory operations of reading/editing/writing every packet, not from the NAT table lookup.
Buddhism is not that different from Hinduism. Both coexisted and debated with each other for centuries until islamic invasions started. Buddhism being a pacifist sect fell first.
Uweb browser: unlimited power (newbing/chatgpt access in censored area)
Not at Google. Most of those things are decided for your manager with no knowledge of the person they're for. Your peers can affect your total comp by about 3 figures. Your manager can directly affect your total comp by about 4 figures. If you really go above and beyond your director can bump that to 5 figures. For anything bigger than that you'll need a promo. Bonuses, refreshers and raises were all clockwork.
It's enormously funny how you say that a document that you yourself just cited to support your argument has no actual meaning.

Try harder, little propaganda bot.
I'll say it, it sucks and its slow. The company I started at recently uses it and I hate it so much. Scrolling through a PR, viewing comments in a PR, adding comments in a PR, its all so clunky and GH Actions destroys BB pipelines. It's crap.
It doesn't need a raft consensus algorithm, but corrosion does converge to a consensus, doesn't it? In the OSPF example, that does needs to converge to a state that is consistent and replicated on all the routers, otherwise loops and drops will occur. I'm curious if any convergence benchmark has been done that compares raft to corrosion.
Making a faster dishwasher is exactly what engineers are trained to do. They get paid handomsely to optimize and improve existing forms and problems.

Sure it's good to say engineers optimize the wrong stuff... but what's the solution? Be someone else? Start the dishwasher again from first principles?

I love opening up the discussion with awareness, but a suggestion on the next step is helpful too.
Respect the post, building your own infrastructure provider is playing on hard, the big players have had armies of engineers iterating on their stacks for a decade+
2.88 ED disks were available in the US. They were obscenely expensive and few stores carried them.
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I own my first name .net… this could finally be a good use for it!
Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter (kinda), Valve all have not been acquired and have existed for a long timescale...
Awesome. Been waiting for something like this.

I look forward to this feature mentioned in FAQ: "Soon you’ll be able to submit a sitemap and chatbase will create a chatbot using the data on your website."

It's quite a thing seeing all these new paid AI services pop up. For some reason I want to trust them quickly. But if I install this chatbot on the company website for customers, I probably should slow down and give these shiny new AI tools time to mature.
I've heard much fuss about 4), but i'm still skeptical. Google makes most their money on commercial searches such as "what is the best TV", or "where to buy football tickets", not "please do my homework". And AI will have a hard time returning superior results on the former, because many people are looking for human reviews rather than an AI output.

In this sense, Amazon ads will continue to a threaten Google, but not some future edition of ChatGPT.
I don't think it's the X-risk AI threat that should primarily concern everyone. I'm not suggesting it should be ignored; some like Scott and Eliezer are working on trying to reduce that risk (or more accurately, trying to figure out ways to understand the alignment problem well enough to develop ideas to reduce the risk), but it's out of the hands of most of us. Either AGI instantiates and kills (most) all of us, or it doesn't. And, as Scott points out, humans—due to various technologies and psychosocial problems—may be running headlong into a great filter in the near future without AGI, so an AGI might be an improvement in that case.

But what happens to society when all non-face-to-face communication becomes saturated with unlabelled AI-created and AI-assisted content, which may or may not be trustworthy or correct, but which we can't separate from human-created content? What happens to economies, governments, countries, and geopolitical stability? You don't have to believe in a large-scale AI replacement of human work and massively increased unemployment to see the problems AI is already creating, and LLMs will only get better.
Embark, once a $5B SPAC, is shutting down
Certainly this was a University, even metallurgy lab has been found in Nalanda. Many chinese Scholars use to come to Nalanda and Study, we know this because of their notes and their day to day life in the university. Xuanzang lived in Nalanda for about 15 yrs and studies and he noted a lot of things in his notes. He even explains about Brushing the teeth and morning cleansing rituals. Like how too do bowel and clean the hands. How to use the toilet etc. And when he returned he took bak 10000 Books back with him.
There is a mode of UBSan that would catch it, but I don't think you could run it on SHA code because that uses unsigned overflow for the hash.

Basically, this is why you shouldn't use unsigned types unless you explicitly want them to overflow.
If it's so quick and easy and free, please prove it.
ping6 news.ycombinator.com
ping6: news.ycombinator.com: Address family for hostname not supported

And it's not even the worst possible example. Try github.com.
>What I don't want from a streaming box: Install updates, have a bulky laptop stand next to my tv, install an ad blocker

You don't need an ad-blocker: you can just watch lots of annoying ads.

If you don't like that, you need an ad-blocker. Almost no one wants to give you a service that isn't full of ads. Remember, they promised this with cable TV back in the early 80s: "pay a monthly fee for our TV service and you'll never have to watch ads again!" It was a lie. Anyone promising the same today is also lying.
Although technically, its not piracy, I cant see why anyone would want to stream a movie or subscription series to their phone and watch it. I think this study highlights some people watch any poor quality movie in order to take part in conversations with their peers.

I'd rather go without because the CGI is detracting from the experience and the story lines are all variations of others.
I'm so tired of programming communities using Discord in an official capacity. We are the folks that know better and what it means to lose this information and what it means to require sign-ups and giving private conversations to proprietary entities. If you're choosing it as the sole community of your project, you've alienated folks that value their digital privacy—and it was just as easy to set up an IRC room, Matrix channel, or XMPP MUC on a public server which offer broader platform support and a wider array of clients, and some are even decentralized. Do we not believe in FOSS software for our FOSS software?
That style has became ubiquitous for TED-style talks and most American non-fiction books (even technical ones). The chapter uses an anecdote, if possible name-dropping a known case or famous person, then shortly expands supporting research to the general principle.

That style is very persuasive but unscientific. It is precisely designed to lower psychological defenses against the idea, which can leave the spectators dumbfounded that they did not find any counter-arguments when they heard it.

I suspect this is also while this style has high short-term information retention but a poor long-term one. A strong idea is one that withstands all attacks (coincidentally there is also "Cargo cult science (1974)" on the front page).
Discord is a horrible echo chamber for gamers. It is responsible for many of the social contagion-based mental issues and political confusion of our youth and young adults.

Not only FOSS projects should stay away from it, but everyone else too. Don't let your children use it.
> What do developers want?

Linear (linear.app)
Can you please list some features Discord has that IRC lacks?

(Since IRC is a protocol, let's use the mIRC application for comparison with Discord.)
I'm actually okay with Jira. I can't understand why they don't address performance, but I can roll with it because its not that abysmal. I honestly haven't seen something much better out there so it is what it is. It's confluence that I absolutely hate, thats where the performance and generally sad state of the UX gets to me. Bitbucket is even worse, but I had forgotten about its existence until recently because the company I now work for uses that clunky POS. There are good alternatives to those products, but somehow companies get roped into that garbage because they are already using Jira.

How can Atlassian have all that staff and such shit products?

Edit: I know the answer because I've been a company that did all of this. Build new shit and don't focus on the main product, then lay off your staff.
We can all debate the quality of Netflix or Prime but the cost is about the same as renting a VHS tape from Blockbuster once a week 20 years ago. Not even adjusting for inflation.
I wonder how much of that is because the way such questions are asked is so formulaic that it's possible to "guess" the response from that information.

If you were to ask a truly nonsense question, like "Which is more powerful, a GTX 1070 or an F-16?", what would the response be?
Incredible gear shift into the board games. I bounced right off of the first part but dug in and flowed with the board game part and maybe I also learned something. At the end, I was like why did I dislike this writer to start...
Oh stop with the virtue signaling.

We are in IT business for God sake. We make crap ton of money, we can work from pretty much anywhere in the world and the market is still undersaturated by a lot.
Obviously loosing job always sucks, but this social movement of caring about workers who were let go was meant to be about poor, low skill laborers with no viable alternative in sight, not heckin programmers lmao
It's less about forensics and more that the statute of limitations, so to speak, has run. What's the point in holding some regional director responsible for something that happened four levels and two teams ago?

(It's a rhetorical question.)
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Loom has been working on an SDK which has been in BETA forever. Hopefully this could be a good alternative if it can be easily integrated into other products.
The why of whys of platform engineering
It's always about speed and quality at scale.