skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a very large group of people that when you bring up working hard to be successful they start talking about how you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
What a huge recovery from last year. Funny how people keep blaming the buybacks or layoffs. Those helped, but what is overlooked is just how insanely profitable and dominant Meta's core advertising business is, both Facebook and Instagram.

The momentum is clearly bullish, and it looks like it's going back to $370. Wall St. no longer cares that the Metaverse is burning money. That was last year. I remember all those 2022-2023 YouTube 'mini documentaries' about the 'death of META' or about Metaverse losses. So much for that.

Such as this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuqBRN5SJZ8

Mobile ad spending is insanely high, especially CPM and CPC rates. Huge multinationals spending so much money on ads, such as healthcare ads, retirement planning ads. Same for cloud, B2B..everything. When it comes to consistently high profit margins, cashflow, and market dominance and moats, Meta is close to unrivaled. It's hard to do better. Own FBL, which is 1.5x Meta.
Reality Lab (VR) revenue is down +50% YoY which seems surprising. I know VR is not doing great but 50% is a major drop.
Yeah but they have a billion more people.
But didn't net income go down by 24%. Isn't that the one of the main things that matters?
> the qualifications for being a professor should be related to your capability as a scientist your ability to teach and your quality as a mentor.

> should not be related to your parents income or education level but unfortunately this is the case

His initial assertion is that being a professor should be related to your ability to teach, but he cannot see the relationship between higher parental income level or higher parental education level and a person's ability to teach.

Nor does he pay much attention to the idea that a parent with expertise is like a very motivated private tutor for that expertise.

> this would ignore the economic component as the study also found that on average academics come from wealthier families this would likely mean that they went to more expensive schools and could afford more expensive colleges previous

Here the guy in the video catches a brief glimpse of awakening, an understanding that economic factors make you (in aggregate) a better candidate.

This is the core idea of the liberal definition of woke. Without understanding this core principle, you can't see the systemic racism. You can't have a cohsive, coherrant, or convincing narrative.

> the more money we receive from our parents the more likely we are to continue on to do a PhD

Here again the guy in the video is dangerously close to understanding that people who aren't spending time meeting their basic needs are more able to spend time becoming qualified to be a professor.

> the more prestigious the university the more likely faculty is to have a PhD parent this means that more prestigious universities are hiring from a smaller pool

Here the guy in the video contradicts himself. Prestigious universities have way more choice and therefore they are able to be more selective. The demographics the candidates come from are smaller, but that does not mean the pool of options is small. Here we see again, that the author does not understand that more money is the same thing as more meritorious candidate, by his own definition of merit.

If the most meritorious candidates come from a narrow set of people then we would expect more selective institutions to have a narrow set of staff.

Since the guy does not see that that the distribution of merit itself is not equal among various sets of people, the guy is prevented from seeing the truth.

> diversity is so important we want people from different backgrounds as they bring a different way of thinking which is crucial to science

Here we see the author starting to change his definition of merit. Merit is no longer scientific capability and ability to teach and mentor alone, but also defined by their diverse perspective.

> this means that when hiring new faculty committees should consider all aspects of diversity gender race socioeconomic status country of origin and many more this will help to maximize

And this is the contradiction that so enrages conservative people. The video starts out saying choose professors based on merit, and ends with lets choose factors other than merit.

The guy in the video is still sleeping while dreaming of being awake.
Flush with rain, CA plans to replenish depleted groundwater with floodwaters
Because a promise that imprisons knowledge indefinitely has no integrity. To me, it's clear that it is absolutely in the public interest to - perhaps not go out of one's way to spread, but at least feel free to - explain the conditions and inner workings of large and impactful organizations.

We're all thinkers who are asked to apply our minds in exchange for money, not slaves whose brain is leased to or owned by our employers for the duration of our tenure.

Even when asked to keep things secret, there's still no way for a company to own every last vestige of knowledge or understanding retained in our minds, and there's still an overwhelming public interest in building on and preserving knowledge, to the point that, in my opinion, nearly any piece of human knowledge short of trade secrets should eventually be owned by humanity as a whole. (and there's even some moral arguments to be made about some trade secrets, but that's a much deeper discussion)

I personally find that people who are overly concerned with secrecy view their integrity from the lens of their employer, but not at a human interest level. To be clear, there are still times for secrecy or the security or integrity of information to be respected, but it's nuanced and generally narrower than people expect.
I'm sure Colorado will be rewarded with cheaper food and more efficient agriculture.
I can't say I'm very well versed in all of this but I was asking my coworkers today about whether embeddings were the way forward or if doing your own training would be more beneficial. Or even yet, could you take an open source model and train it specifically on just your content; would that wield better results?

Expanding context seems like an approach, but if you're trying to get an answer about your company's documentation, why would you need the entirety of GPT-X?
> I expect it to cause all sorts problems in the future, caused by frustrated men willing to take greater and greater risks to get access to women.

Those are exactly the men that would severely abuse wife if they were married. The only difference is that now, it is easier to escape them.
Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger come together to launch Risant Health
Stranger Things is generally a much better show than Game of Thrones (in my opinion of course, but I’m pretty sure I’m objectively correct). But Game of Thrones seemed to make a much bigger cultural splash. Stranger Things—a season comes out, and then we all binge it, talk about that season, and it it all done in a month or so. Game of Thrones had weekly episode-by-episode articles written about it.
For whatever reason, my Facebook feed still isn't too bad. The few friends I follow on Instagram however.....damn if that platform is neigh unusable. I think my feed is 70% ads and if I scroll enough it turns into 90% ads.
Yes, the vowel matches, but you could imagine the original authors had chosen NRF, pronounced "en ar eff". But the fact that the e from Neural was there, and the word nerf was there, just a perfect alignment.
> I think it's perfectly fair to judge the OS based on the biggest install base.

And not the designer of the OS? I guess that's fair enough, but you should be mad at Samsung then. Google licenses Android to thousands of manufacturers, and all of them can modify it. That's a non-argument though, like I was saying. Again, you don't need a Pixel to argue in good faith here, you're just being mad at the entirely wrong party.
And Postgres.
I've got two houses across two states where any one us (four) can be at any time. If they start blocking based on IP geo-location, I'll drop them immediately.
Here's a statement from 2022. They had a labeling team of 1500 people and they laid off about 200 after the labeling infrastructure team finished an auto-labeler, so it's not just a bloated team. Do you think they are keeping 1300 people busy correcting labels on purely internal data?

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/tesla-lays-off-over-...
"Conflict is essential to human life"
This can't be a satisfying answer, otherwise you could "own" your land now, by your understanding, as long as it's done through enough overseas shell corps and so on. And still have to pay property taxes as per usual.
Let's say that I agree with you, teaching is a highly-skilled profession and millennials are bad at interpersonal skills. All millennials? All genZ? I've read a while ago "The shock doctrine" from Naomi Klein, and there was a part where schools exploited natural disasters in order to fire all long term employees and hire new temporary employees with worse pay / benefits and contracts, I was wondering, is this lack of quality related to 2 whole generations of people being bad or is it that the offer doesn't attract people who would increase quality... because millennials are a lot of people, if you count genZ they're even, is it possible that billions of people are just bad point blank? Wtf.. maybe they poisoned the running water with some anti social germs that affected the whole generation... or you just said something extremely stupid classifying under a umbrella personality trait a lot a lot a lot of people
Interesting!

Unfortunately I developed a searing hatred of VIA hardware back then. Besides the slow CPU and buggy board, I also managed to run into the SB Live + VIA chipset = disk corruption issue.
True, but to be completely honest, that sort of thing is more hassle than it's worth to me.
> Necessary does not mean sufficient. In biology, necessary doesn't even mean harmless

Has anyone even used the word "necessary" in the entire thread? What are you on about?

> It's not nit-picking if you're giving blanket advice that's misleading

What advice am I giving that's misleading?

I am stating: in general, carbs are unnecessary for your health, and the goal behind consuming them should be to acquire nutrients, not calories from carbohydrate sources. Carbohydrate sources can help with energy, but little else. Eating healthy proteins and fats should be prioritized.

Thoughts of eating processed bullshit with full of saturated and trans fats is only coming out of your side of this conversation.
You make a great point. X-ray is a prime example of the potential for extending and enhancing the viewing experience, even with something as simple as a persistent character/cast sidebar. Netflix has a version of this but as a separate site called tudum that feels more like a information dump. And Disney has disney extras which is primarily behind the scenes videos. I suspect it's harder for them to do in platform-agnostic way. Amazon has the benefit of IMDB as you noted, while Netflix, Hulu et al would have to build from scratch.
It's worth pointing out that for this issue in particular (unsubscribing online), different customers may get different experiences, even if they went to unsubscribe at the same time. Some states (notably California, but I believe there are a couple more) have passed legislation in the last few years that requires sellers of subscriptions to make it as easy to cancel as it is to sign up in the first place. NYT was, at least for a while, looking at your billing address to decide whether they'd let you unsubscribe online or not.
Why do you care? Unless you work for Google Legal, you're in no position to scold OP about anything
Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/420F4wd

Spotify: https://bit.ly/moxicity_spot_e1

Sorry for the delayed reply!
It's very easy to measure revenue and how you are doing against the monthly or quarterly goal. It's very hard to measure whether you put so many ads on the page that people get fed up and don't come back. So the end result is you put more ads on the page, and month by month people drift away.

Source: I worked at yahoo! way back in the day and lived through exactly this.
Nintendo would be successful even without hardware. Their IPs have firmly planted themselves in global awareness to an unimaginable level. They'd give Disney a run for their money.

Then on top of that they built an ecosystem of toys and software to monetize their adoring customers.

Nintendo recognized the deadend of the hardware race in the early 2000s, and continued developing their "mascots" while Sony and MS abandoned theirs. I don't think Microsoft and Sony have the DNA to pull of something like this. They are still software and hardware companies respectively.
or your children
It’s all true and you know it. No more excuses folks.
This explanation assumes that Microsoft is accurate in its assessments of value.
Because they’ve identified poor performers or products / teams that no longer fit the strategy or market and need to be shut down.

The answers on here are ridiculous.

Flip the question on its head - why did Microsoft hire like 30-40k people the last 3 years?

Because they were staffing for projects and teams. Some projects got shutdown so the teams / staff is no longer needed.
TBH this makes me want to buy some Intel.

Seems like TSMC's days are number, so... is the entire western world just gonna accept a Samsung Foundry monopoly? Feels like Intel is Too Big to Fail (even if they keep falling behind their own timetables).

Also it feels like a make-or-break moment for a lot of things like Gaudi, Xe, and the chiplet focus.
The HN headline edit obscures the point of the article, which amounts to an argument that prototaxites were basically fungus.

It's like taking an article that says "dinosaurs are related to birds" and changing it to read "the ancestors of birds are related to birds." It reduces a new, interesting claim to a tautology which is not, in any way, what the article concerns itself with.
I read so many docs when I was trying to implement OAuth and got more and more confused. This video was a huge help though for explaining all of the concepts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=996OiexHze0
I don’t understand what you’re saying is dangerous exactly, because the thread you’re replying to is full of people pointing out the ludicrousness of “terraforming Mars” compared to doing anything-at-all on Earth: pointing out the massive gulf between “massive” human impact and what is necessary for Mars (far, far greater).

I interpret this as you misinterpreting the opinions here, confusing them with the opinion of unrelated colonization-fanatics, via an unknown mechanism; I will not attempt any defense of either perspective right now.
I lost 80 pounds eating hot dogs and kimchi for about six months. No exercise at all.

I don’t know what this means exactly only that people act like I’m crazy when I mention it.
_And_ it wasn't even originally designed to be used for concurrency control at all...
> Like what? Everything you do as a tradesmen can be done safely. They aren't moving their bodies in ways that humans aren't supposed to.

They actually are moving in ways people are not supposed to. Repetitive movements put massive strain on body, cumulatively. Add to it heavy weights and bad weather (in some professions) and damage becomes predictable.

> I don't meet many tradesmen that have heart attacks at 40.

Office guys do not have heart attacks at 40 all that often either. But if you think they have them more then tradesman, then you probably do not know much about tradesmen.
Some people are fundamentally product-brained and fail to metabolize the concept of federated social media. That's fine, it's better without them.

> You can say "oh what a tragedy", but I'm easily in the top 1% of users on reddit with nonzero karma by either post/comment karma/number of comments/amount of text typed; so people like me are what keeps a platform alive.

I'm sorry but I audibly laughed when I read this.

Mastodon is where you go to hang out with friends, colleagues, and fellow hobbyists. You go there to have a good time and learn from others. People obsessed with building their personal brand or audience or upvote score embody much of what people hate about other forms of social media. The platform is much improved without them.
In the 70s and 80s, these leapfrog events would sometimes happen. One fab would find a way to get a huge lead and others would go bust. A chip would have 10 or so masks and a wafer might take a week to go through the fab before you could fully test it.

Nowadays there are 80+ masks and a wafer takes 4+ months to go through the fab. There may be 100k process parameters to tune, and if any one of those gets too far off your yield goes to zero. Finding process improvements is more difficult with these slow iterations and everything is so tiny now it is a miracle the chips work at all. Gradual improvement is all that is left.
Yet for some reason OP and everyone here are supposed to care what YOU think?
I disagree.

Increasing ad impressions to make up for waning user growth is what a late-stage tech company does.

You can only increase impressions so much… it’s not a long term growth strategy.

Ads declining in cost is another red flag about the value of the platform to advertisers. But they made up for the decline by showing more ads.

Lastly, increasing profit with layoffs is another stop-gap solution, not a long-term strategy.

Meta is moving from an innovative growth company to a stagnant mature company looking to extract maximum value before the party ends.
This specific case (EXPO) is a grey area.

I personally don't like overclocking, yet I've always enabled EXPO, for many reasons.

First, because the producers of my RAM modules advertise it very clearly as feature; AMD advertises it quite loudly (https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/expo) as well. I think (not 100% sure) that it's even often set in RAM benchmarks .

Modern systems have very aggressive frequencies/dynamic frequency scaling, which blurs the limit of what constitutes overclocking. Intel sells unlocked models of CPUs that are supposedly can be "overclocked" (https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/uk/en/gaming/overclockin...).

Many RAM producers sell modules based on their tolerance, so the fact that they're pushed to the limit - within the spec - is part of the sale.

Having said that, I definitely draw the line to using voltages (or anything else) that are outside the specification, and I consider crossing it overclocking.

Ultimately however, EXPO is a specification, so I don't consider it overclocking.
GN seems to think it is Asus's fault, possibly due to bad firmware/BIOS
You ask a really deep question of whether an object is limited in its definition by what can be observed about it. You see to believe the contrary i.e. object is more than what it appears. But then, how would do you distinguish when all you have is observation to reason about? How do you tell if a given purple is of a Locastae or of the Pointakr if you've never seen either of them in your entire life?

You'll perhaps say Mathematics but you yourself admit that it's only the best we can do, and inherently has its limitations.
How do they even make 339m? I've never heard of a single person interacting with the Meta-brand metaverse.
Interesting. Does this actually have any security implications or is my paranoia for nothing?

In my head, “normal“ CAs used by browsers for example are held to a high standard of digital trust. Whereas trust in the US military as a CA sort of implies blind faith. But I honestly don’t feel that I know enough about TLS to know why I should trust, say, digicert or identrust, more or less than the US military.
Anything as large and hodgepodge as the Internet isn’t going to change in a day. I’d say that the writing has been kept fresh [1] and the underlying need hasn’t gone away.

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
That doesn't mean it's not evil though?
Maybe poor sales? And why they cut prices so significantly on all their VR headsets.
More importantly they missed the opportunity to call it NeRF-HDR, pronounced Nerf Herder.
Naw, the same applies to oidc. Especially in the browser.

The issue itself also sounds easy enough to implement that you might get suckered into rolling your own (you only need to do a redirect and a request every n-minutes) ... But it's surprisingly hard as there are a lot of edge cases with long running timers and potentially multiple browser tabs/windows etc.
That's an important part of the performance story, but Apple wouldn't have switched architectures without a clear leap in pure performance even if performance-per-watt was better. Apple waited to transition desktops/laptops to Apple Silicon until they could demonstrate a definitive performance advantage over Intel.
No new hardware?
Rust protects against most memory safety vulnerabilities: use-after-free, out-of-bounds accesses, returning dangling pointers. Probably the memory safety vulnerability it's the least protective against is using uninitialized memory. And recall that memory safety vulnerabilities are the vast majority of software vulnerabilities--somewhere in the 70+% range.

But Rust doesn't only touch memory safety, it also has some measure of protection for other vulnerabilities. It's somewhat stricter on integer overflow vulnerabilities. Newtypes can be used to provide protection against validation vulnerabilities (e.g., SQL injection). Send and Sync traits can provide some measure of protection against data races: it takes a little bit of effort to use an object on a different thread if it's not able to be used from multiple threads. You don't hear as much about these protection efforts because, quite frankly, memory safety is so important that it alone is sufficient to drive many decisions.
(Not the person you responded to.)

I will actually execute the program in most cases. Most of the development I do is in the context of a web request (server) or browser DOM (client) so running some quick snippet of code might be as simple as initiating a request from my browser to see what the server does or interacting with it in some other way which triggers the client-side stuff.

You're going to have "something you start with" (input) and "what you want it to be" (output). Understanding these things will go a long way to reason out what you need to actually do to accomplish your goal. Usually a program's "goal" is to "output the correct thing" and the programmer will have to know what "correct" is.

Certainly no formal proofs and I usually work things out "in my head", as it were, because it helps me to understand the problem that I'm working on. See also "rubber ducking" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging). It might help to try to build a small program to better wrap your head around "what" programming is.
Sounds reasonable, if someone hasn't bought oculus quest 2 so far I don't see much of a reason they suddenly will.

It's like a gaming console with no new games.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm going to be working on improving this so hopefully It will be up to your standards very soon. I do have some ideas to check and the comments from today helped a lot. Also, I'll ask my native friends for some help.
Only if the replacement rate is higher than the cost of extra materials for each unit. Otherwise, the opposite is true.
That's not really responsive to the concern. The issue is that we've already had decades of experience with the existing sudo codebase looking for logic vulnerabilities. And, in fact, that's what the overwhelming majority of sudo vulnerabilities are; they're not generally memory safety bugs. So rewriting in a new language to get rid of memory safety vulnerabilities is not, in fact, an obviously good tradeoff.