skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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No, what killed Facebook for me was the 'like' button.

Until the 'like' button, you had to either start or contribute to a discussion. With the 'like' button, the door was open to zero-value 'engagement'.

Skinner tells us that rewards for any kind of conditioned behaviour are most effective if they are delivered on what he calls a ‘Variable ratio schedule (VR)’, meaning that the reward delivery should be proportionate to the stimulus response, but not predictably so. It’s like one-armed bandits in the casino - you put in 100 coins, you’re more likely to get a reward than if you put in 10, but it’s not predictable that every 50 coins you’ll win something. Or if you go and like 20 photos, then maybe someone will like one of yours back.

So I ended up 'interacting' more with likes, hoping for the social affirmation of a like in return. I ended up spending more and more time on Facebook, 'liking' this, and watching that, but I think the quality of personal interactions decreased. Once healthy friendships fizzled out into yearly birthday messages and the occasional like on a post.

But what was once a place to catch up on what was going on in the lives of my friends (even if it was just ‘anyone going to the pub tonight?!’) became reposts of recipes reduced to a minute’s play time. Opinions about divisive issues, boiled down into pithy quotes in curly writing on square backgrounds.

Without the 'like' button, would this have happened anyway? Maybe. But for me, the 'like' button was really the beginning of the end of Facebook.

I've more or less removed Facebook from my life by now, but I do lament the passing of the early Facebook—a platform for people to share and chat and be social, rather than a place where people compete for internet points that only win Facebook more money.
I haven't ever seen anything like I described implemented the way I'd like to see if and the way I think it would work, so maybe it wouldn't work, but intuitively it would make most sense to me and I can personally imagine it working.
It's been acknowledged in the meteorological community that reconnaissance wind speed estimates for storms in the 1950s and 1960s have a high bias in the most intense storms, as the field was still in its infancy during that time period. Further advancement in later decades has improved the confidence in the estimates.

No conspiracy needed. After all, the first time a hurricane was intentionally flown into by a storm was only in 1943: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_Surprise_Hurricane. The 1950s and 1960s are not that far removed from that initial attempt.
> A single number just can't represent the result of something that matters

I just fundamentally disagree with this. One of the most famous examples is the youtube team working towards a billion watch-hours in a day. Does that not matter to youtube?

And if it's impossible for something that matters to be represented by a number, what does matter? I'd love to hear examples of what matters in your companies
Deep Dive into Emotional Flexibility
If you struggle with people and circumstances, this is a must-read.
Interesting. The argument made at the end of the blog is analogous to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. There must be a larger formal system in which the existing system can be computed and defined. The only way out is if the universe isn't fully deterministic and can't be defined formally(1). God/Simulation or Chaos, I suppose.

(1) - This may not hold. If so, I'd love someone to explain to me why Godel can't be applied in this way, or extended to cover simulated systems with formal rules.
OKRs are a fucking cult. They are essentially permanent rolling PIPs.
5M installations, wow!
Oculus DK1 sold 56,334

Oculus DK2 sold 118,930

Rift and Vive together ~1 million

PSVR1 ~6 million

Quest123 20+ million
Ask HN: CI/CD and Hosting for GPU-Based ML Demos
I was wondering what is HN's take on the state of the art when it comes to hosting GPU-based Machine Learning model demos. We are a university unit with a strong focus on Applied ML and the need to host research applications and student project applications that rely in GPU-based models.

We currently focus on the automation of the CI/CD of these demo applications and prototypes that are based on computer vision models or LLMS. We are aware of solutions that cover the pipeline aspect of CI/CD such as Gitlab, Github and the ML OPS platforms.

Where it currently breaks down for us, is the identification of hosting that would allow us to deploy a range of demo or prototype applications.

Our requirements are:

- host a number of applications / demos at the same time

- only prediction is of interest here (training happens on other machines)

- in many cases there is the need to host our own trained models

- GPU in the range of 12-24 GB GPU

- traffic would be minimal

- minimum redundancy or fault-tolerance levels

- would like to keep expense at level of 500-1000$ per month

The hosting platforms we are currently evaluating are:

- https://www.centron.de/en/centron-cloud-gpu-services/
- https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/prices/

To use these platforms to host multiple demos would it be the easiest to run Kubernetes and deploy Pods?
Are there good best practices to host multiple low traffic web applications based on this setup?
Or maybe there exists a much simpler setup to share a GPU between applications.

Thanks a lot in advance for your input. This will directly flow into the hosting implementation but will also find its way into the teaching after review.
WWII was something most Americans only read about in the news. They were still willing to die for the cause.
> But I suppose hurricane categorization and nomenclature would be the least of NOAA's problems in such an event.

This is implausible to me. Just to be safe, we should get the naming done up front.
Have you had a chance to try out goal? How well do you think suits your … erm, goals?
Buying Spying [pdf]
I serve as tech lead on a team of five people - each with wildly varying levels of experience. Those five people are spread out across two entirely separate projects. Tell me - how does one foster craftsmanship in that environment?
Another Emergency to take care of. This is the reason why TV/movies lost mojo since a decade ago, its a better entertainment to wait for the next emergency (and read about it in the media) than waiting for the next blockbuster.
Resume AI is cool, really nicely done, mate !
Your fuel still gets consumed, so you still can't rely on your fuel as the main form of shielding. Towards the end of your journey, your rocket is approximately 0% fuel. And at the point of highest speed, before you start decelerating, it is roughly 50% fuel.

And you are entirely wrong about the isotopes of hydrogen. Tritium is highly radioactive, with a half life of ~12 years. And it is not just hard, but virtually impossible to isolate tritium out of water. So if any tritium forms (which is an extremely common by-product of any fusion reactions which might happen, and the most common decay product of heavier hydrogen isotopes), it will render your water quite poisonous for human consumption, virtually irrevocably.
Could you please share the prompt for the grammar and style correction shortcut? I've just started using it for the same purpose, but I haven't been able to find a prompt that yields consistent results. Sometimes, ChatGPT completely changes the style of my text.
Ask HN: Shared KYC Between Organizations
Wouldn't it be great to share KYC between organisations to streamline the KYC process and avoid customers having to go through the KYC process again and again?

It does pose challenges related to data privacy, security, consent, and regulatory compliance.

Do you think it would be worth the effort?
Listen, I get it. It would be amazing if every product was of perfect quality, highly repairable, had an instantly available supply chain of spare parts, was 100% carbon neutral, had zero profit margins, could turn itself into gold, and was in fact free!

Am I the only person who is skeptical of how this will turn out long term?

Not every company is Apple with insane profit margins and insane economies of scale.

The only rational outcome for this is increased prices, less choice, more corporates merging into giants, and less competition for EU consumers. You can’t change one side of the economic equation without affecting the other.
Upfront payment does not exclude further monetization at the expense of the user. If anything, it is a signal that the developer is motivated by money.
> My big question with those banners is: what the hell does "legitimate interest" mean?

There is a definition in the regulation, which IIRC basically amounts to a rewording of "strictly necessary". This definition does not cover what companies use it to excuse.

The way the phrase is actually used, for much wider tracking, what it has come to mean is "we see your preference not to be logged and stalked for the benefit of our business plan, but fuck you and your preference we want to do it anyway".

This is why the legitimate interest check boxes are often hidden in nested concertinas or other UX nightmares, to make it extra difficult to opt out of what should be an opt in. Once a body has gone this far to try engineer an accidental opt-in they are _definitely_ not to be trusted IMO. Though it is likely too late if you really care: they may have already dropped their payload & sent at least some information back to base, and will "accidentally" not remove it later or find some other excuse as to why they shouldn't.
I have a hard time caring about billionaires paying too much for paintings.
These sound amazing, if you don’t mind sharing somehow, I’d love to see how these work. I’ve never used shortcuts, but I think you’ve inspired me to try.
But are you doing R&D for your company when you're hiring yourself out as a consultant? Sounds weird if it's so categorical.
Yeah, even if richrichie were correct, they're correct for the wrong reasons

Rich, I might humbly recommend looking up "demand avoidance" as a psychological phenomenon. I have a bit of it myself, that I try to be mindful of. It's essentially a pathology of resistance just because something is requested or required. It's possible to have in a systemic sense, and seems like you're feeling resistant to a popular hegemonic thought on principle, then backfilling with attempts at reason
They have a video of Servo running on a Raspberry 400 faster than Chromium. However there are no downloads or build instructions specifically for the Raspberry in the repository on GitHub or in the issues. Maybe it's just build for Linux.

Googling servo and raspberry together gives a lot of hardware projects with motors, even when including mozilla in the query.

Did anybody here made it run on a Pi?
Agreed, it's limited, ugly, and I'd rather use something else. Everytime I have to use it it's cumbersome.
Yes, but that's intergalactic space not interstellar space. We've not even begun exploring the latter :-)
RNA world is alive and well.
That explains why I had no problems running banking apps on my A2 Lite with Android 13 (with the ROM "Derpfest" since LineageOS had problems installing).
What about 'Hardware Support Applications'?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

I might have to add USB driver support to a Windows native app with Zadig https://zadig.akeo.ie so I'm interested in your experiences.
To answer your question:

To see how far behind everything is in terms of parallelism and concurrency. It's not even funny how primitive 99.9% of everything out there is in this area.
Leaving macOS for Gnome
A small user story about a journey through different desktop environments.
> As in, send an absolutely out-of-the blue message like a table reservation, wait for the predictable you-got-the-wrong-number reply and use that as an inroad to strike a conversation.

I thought that was “active number farming”. If so, a human replying is the end goal.
Google Fiber was the best ISP experience I’ve ever had. “It just works”. Clear, easy pricing. Amazing, prompt support with an actual human.

Honestly, one of the only positive experiences I’ve had with Google, and based on my experience, one of the few holdouts within Alphabet that’s avoided the Google culture decay that’s been discussed on HN over and over again.
Flathub: Pros and cons of direct uploads
That's a really good example you just brought up, because if your goal is to get billion watch hours a day:

1. Why are you doing this? Is it to get more ad revenue?

2. Considering this metric, how do you know that the extra hours you are getting is the kind of traffic that brings ad revenue? Maybe it's children or folks from poor country. Maybe it's actually costing more than it was previously.

3. Maybe you are getting the same people to watch more, but it won't make them pay more. You are just increasing your server costs. And making those people addicted to your platform.

4. Maybe the algorithm that you produce is actively harmful to people by making them take too much screen-time leading to potential regulations from the government.

5. Maybe the content you provide is of really low value, and in the long run will make your audience really low value.

6. Maybe you just pay too much for that extra traffic, so it's not worth it.

Very simple example when doing ads. If my goal is to get 200% more clicks, and I have been so far advertising in US only, I'll just now make the destination to be India instead. I will get tons more clicks, but I will get less payments than before.

> And if it's impossible for something that matters to be represented by a number, what does matter? I'd love to hear examples of what matters in your companies

If you want a number, profit obviously matters, but everything below that, can mostly be intuitive unless it obviously fits some sort of numerical idea. In such case building a great product matters, but it's much more difficult to measure what makes a great product, so you need this intuitive discussion and people who have great intuition for building a good product. Profit will follow performing this strategy.

You should measure, monitor, use data to be informed and analyze results, but you should not have these as primary goals to strive for. You should use this data to improve your intuition.
Watch-hours obviously matter, but so do other things like "are the best up & coming creators using us?" The danger is the tendency to focus on boosting measurable things at the expense of nonmeasurables.

Often the nonmeasurables eventually show up as measurables, but after too long a time delay to fix mistakes. So you could alienate creators while juicing the current numbers, and find a few years later that all the good content has gone elsewhere.

The above didn't happen at YouTube, but it's the sort of thing that can happen. An example of something that did happen: Facebook found that rage-bait political news created a lot of clicks, but led to people getting fed up and leaving the platform after a while. By the time that was reflected in the traffic stats, it was too late to get them back. But fed-upness wasn't something they could easily measure, so it got ignored.
It's not the first quality Chinese software.
You discount passion as motivator.

But it's not clear what current tech could help with. Machine learning can't be applied to something you don't have training data for.
Perhaps in a near-post-scarcity world, resurrecting dead people is seen as one of the great humanitarian projects of civilization.
Finally, this would enable me to do sudo choco install xyz. I often have to restart my PowerShell, because I forget to start it as admin.
Pendulum seems to be approaching max displacement position with this weird ass convoluted mess - probably sooner or later we'll start to spot sites with names like you-actually-dont-need-css-in-js.com akin to their js-related counterparts.
The Macbook are great because they finally undid the stupid changes of the 2016 models.

Touchbar, no HDMI port, keyboard that sucks... Most of my coworkers prefered to keep their older laptop than getting new ones, even though it was at no cost for them because paid by the company.
Air traffic controller, firefighter, emergency rescue worker, pilot, military or police.

Most of jobs like these are more about being able to make decisions under pressure than about being super smart, though.
I disagree, that the authors aren't serious about it. They are just aware and state it clearly, that it is not realistic with current tech. But I do believe, they would like to see it being build one day. They are from Japan btw. the only country that suffered from 2 direct nuclear hits.

"The whole paper feels like a con attempt by the authors to talk governments into building smaller muon colliders as an intermediate step. Of course these smaller colliders could also be used to study concepts of a higher energy collider that could produce anti-nuke rays. But for the most part, these smaller colliders would be incredible physics discovery machines."

So why a con attempt, when it is just logical to get there step by step by building smaller colliders, that also enable awesome new research?

If they would not have stated clearly, that the concept is too futuristic currently, then it would be a con attempt. But they did.
Back in the early 80s (before caller ID), we’d use a collect call.

“Do you accept the charges from <XYZ>?”
“No.” <then place a call to a known number in the other direction>
Love the pricing references
Or you might want to have redundant cooling.

Cooling system prices seem to scale fairly linearly with the cooling power above a few kW, so instead of one 100 kW system you could buy four 25 kW systems so a single failure won't be a disaster.
I'm one of those (there are dozens of us!) who actually liked the Touch Bar and not only that, deeply regret Apple giving up on it. I found it eminently useful to have contextual controls I could use rather than those non-descript Fn keys I don't really ever use.

It wasn't perfect, for example the fact that it was just a single bar meant it was hard (but not impossible) to use accurately without looking, but to me it really was a step in the right direction.

I hope they bring it back at some point, maybe in a way that appeases the Fn crowd as well so we can all be happy. Maybe a few physical buttons with an embedded screen a la stream decks, and a smaller bar in the center for more fluid things? I don't know. All I know is I miss it dearly.
Standardized test scores are objective qualifications not subject to racist prejudice.

Racist prejudice invades every step of admittance to college, subjective grading, scholarships, hiring, promotion, and firing. Therefore qualifications like education, worke experience, references, and salary history are racist and must be disregard in favor if objective qualifications.

A fair employer would only look at SAT, ACT, and industry certifications that are awarded solely based on passing an exam.
Alternative ROMs immensely prolong the effective life of Android devices. Not only you get newer features, but my two recent phones both got noticeably more responsive and snappy when upgraded.

The only problem is that the process of installing an alternative OS on a phone is very technical -- much more than installing Linux on a PC, and even that is too much for most users.
A 100% Rust based browser engine is sorely needed.
If I were to start again from scratch, I'd likely use Zola as SSG (https://www.getzola.org/)
Nice visualization except for the fact that traveling backwards does not show anything...
Won't 4 x 25 kW systems mean also 4x the installation cost?
Mind sharing what gives it away for you?
If this satisfies KYC requirements, then they’re not doing any real KYC verification.
The rest of the three body problem series.
The best part of Johnny Mnemonic (film) is what it is based on Johnny Mnemonic (short story) which is just 41kB or ~10 A4 pages at 12pt. Not so much to fill 96 minutes of the runtime.
That not using nuclear weapons is a rational choice, but somehow using conventional is, is far from clear.

That we are alive now is a fact. But that we have nuclear weapons to thank for it, is not. It is a common argument that the cold war would have developed into a hot war otherwise, but we don't know that. That it feels right is not a good argument.

But irrationality of nuclear weapons aside, it is also a fact that whole nation states act irrational from time to time. Invading Ukraine certainly wasn't, but it happened anyway. Taking both of these facts into account it is increasingly unlikely that nuclear weapons actually protect us from conflicts going hot.

Too bad we don't have similar planets in a comparison group.
Well, that's definitely not the case here.
That’s what the brightness slider is for.
Well, as long as they are only doing those in papers!

With regard to hurricanes, we are an active participant in creating the level of need for new terminology.
Essentially they are bullshit. Every company implementing OKRs literally has no clue what is going on in their business, so OKRs tend to be some disconnected bullshit where someone will pretend they have any relevance, when actually not a single person really understands why the company has customers, or makes money, etc.

OKRs are usually just pretending you have a clear understanding of that notion, which always is a lie.
> What I've tried to build trust is to open source our tracking analytics

That's like being upfront about what kind of getaway car you are going to use for the robbery.
Slightly related: I still use a Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical (WMO) 1.1a, from the early 2000s. It's become a bit of a cult-classic in the online-FPS scene, due to being a real game changer for Quake and Counter-Strike players when it was released. I still love its shape, and the 2000s aesthetic.
Isn't that correct though? The light gets redshifted away from the visible spectrum quite fast and after not very long there's nothing to see. Unlike when going forward where there's plenty of extreme red light that can be blueshifted into the visible spectrum (and eventually past it).
So the 70% is to 100% as ten is to eleven[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMSV4OteqBE
No, ePrivacy article 5(3) always had an exception for strictly necessary purposes, with clear guidance of what it means from DPAs and WP29 (now EDPB). I agree with the rest of your message though.
Tox is alive again? I thought it was abandoned when the protocol was thought to have insurmountable security problems.
You might be interested in this SFI Complexity science podcast episode

Fractal Conflicts & Swing Voters with Eddie Lee
https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/39-9ugXDtkC/trans...

It basically asks whether conflict is fractal, or whether it's patterns of outbreak are self-similar at different scales. Is it like forest fire where, if you suppress it at smaller scales, it eventually reasserts itself at larger scales?

This leads to interesting hypotheses on the evolution of language (which is certainly conducive to less destructive conflict at smaller scales) among other things
Drag and Drop from Files Between Browser Windows
Is there any solution to Drag and Drop Files between two Websites?

I.e. Drop Gmail-Attachments to a todo-list should be easy. From a Desktop-Client it is, but not between websites you have to download the attachment and drop it then via html5 into the task.

Are there solutions for that?