skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You're never as good as they say when you're up, and you're never as bad as they say when you're down. You just have to stay focused and keep shipping over the long term."

—— Mark Zuckerberg, 2024.09.26, After 2024 Meta Connect

# *2012-2018 Planting the Seeds*

Excluding Netflix, from 2012 when Facebook went public to 2014 when it acquired Oculus for $2 billion, Facebook was the FAANG giant with the largest and fastest market value growth in these three years, with an increase of over 110%. However, Zuckerberg remained the most anxious CEO among the tech giants. The reliance on advertising revenue structure, the diminishing effectiveness of free games, and the dependence on the iOS and Android ecosystems all contributed to Zuckerberg's unprecedented obsession with "entry points". With mobile advertising starting to grow rapidly in 2013, using cash on hand to buy computing entry points became a necessity. In retrospect, the $2 billion might have been a placebo for Zuckerberg's anxiety, but at the time, it was the most valuable painkiller for Facebook as a whole.

……

# *2018-2022 Life's Low Point*

The bet on the metaverse began in the two years before the pandemic. At that time, Zuckerberg's anxiety reached its peak. Data security issues, influence on elections, and endless public problems portrayed Zuckerberg as a clown with no bottom line for profit. The pseudo-progressivism aimed at exploiting the middle class made the term "Silicon Valley elite" exceptionally cheap. Children who once admired Zuckerberg because of the movie "The Social Network" all started giving him the middle finger.

……

It also comes with a neural intelligence wristband that supports myoelectric signal input. This accessory was actually revealed to the media by Zuckerberg in February this year. The story goes back to the end of 2019 when Facebook acquired a New York startup called CTRL Labs, which had been researching finger-tracking wristbands since 2015...

Acquiring Quest, stockpiling GPUs, investing in the AI field, acquiring CTRL Labs - a true self-healer of anxiety disorder. Mysteriously, heaven helps those who help themselves.
Two things:

1. After the recent successful growth of Antithesis [1], I'm diving into the topic of deterministic simulation testing. There are some cases (and ready-to-use libraries) where people are doing this in Rust, C++, Go, I'm interesting in this in Java. So I'm up to some experiments. I've also started an "awesome list" of resources about this topic [2]

2. I've made a generated serialization/deserialization library for the Kafka wire protocol in Rust, tested against the original Java implementation. I'll add 3.9 support once it's released and don't see much upcoming changes to the library, apart from maybe working on the Go version.

[1] https://antithesis.com/

[2] https://github.com/ivanyu/awesome-deterministic-simulation-t...

[3] https://github.com/ivanyu/kafka_wire_protocol
Would love to get feedback from book keepers and accountants
We don't need to look at other countries, just look at other States. California is quite poorly run by the standards of other States. I'm a California native but I've lived in and worked with many other States. You don't realize how appallingly bad California government is until you have to work with their counterparts in other States.

It isn't a red versus blue thing, even grift-y one-party States like Washington are plainly better run than California.
Cheers for the downvotes but it’s true
The same could be said of most technical blogs, they are just marketing content to sell a company service...Miss the old Internet...
> superintelligence is still 20 years away, and even then he only gives his prediction a 50% chance

I don't know the details of Hinton's probability distribution. If his prediction is normally distributed with a mean of 20 years and a SD of 15, which is reasonable for such a difficult and contentious prediction, that puts over 10% of the probability in the next 3 years.

Is 10% a lot? For sports betting, not really. For Mankind's Last Invention, I would argue that it is.
What negative effects are you afraid of? I really can not see any downsides to this partnership.
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I was born in Brazil and lived there for a while. Can tell you that the amount of shenanigans that go around grounding is just crazy.

For example I lived in an apartment where the shower literally refused to work until I had to tinker with it and disable its grounding.

Now you are wondering, why I disabled the grounding of a dangerous electric shower? Well, it is no less dangerous than the rest of the whole stupid building, that although it is extremely against the building code to do so, they literally tied the "neutral" wire to the "ground" wire in the whole building. Meaning that all grounded power sockets, were actually not grounded at all and instead had the ground pin connected to the neutral pin.

Yes, it is bad and dangerous as it sounds, got shocked multiple times at that apartment and had appliances short circuit. But did complaining to authorities did anything to fix it? Nope. They don't care until someone die, then they find some random guy not connected to politics to sue.

See lastest supreme court decisions, that freed all corrupt construction company people that have connections to the party in power.

Brazil has deep, chronic issues, with corruption and the construction industry, you literally can't build anything big without corruption, it is just silly. My father was a civil engineer and the stories I heard from his friends were just crazy balls, not only the corruption people know about, but lots that people don't. Did you knew that São Paulo has some tunnels with MISSING SUPPORTS because people fucked up and let cement leak from the machinery into the river, and the government decision to fix the situation was just tell engineers to not put some safeish percentage of supports on their section and not tell other engineers about it so nobody know what supports are missing? This way the government avoided buying more cement after the last batch ended in the river.
As someone who uses all of web components, react and Vue, depending on the project I really feel like to give such aggressive and opinionated takes you should consider doing it in a mature and professional way that goes into the "why" you feel like that.
READ the full story

https://scented-writer-0cc.notion.site/From-Zuckerberg-s-Anx...
> It's common to feel a tingling sensation while showering if you are in any way tall

Why does the user's height make a difference?
Wealth is a huge enabler for risk taking. If you are on the verge of homelessness, you can’t gamble the rent on a 100:1 bet with 1000:1 payout, even though that is obviously a bet you should always take, every time, no matter how often you lose.

In reality, those bets are all around us. They are the very basis of life itself. Resource scarcity makes us behave as scavengers or hunter-gatherers, depending on the generosity of the environment instead of planting seeds and waiting for the harvest.
Show HN: Visualenv: store env variables in image
Store env variables securely in images using steganography
Japan's Shimano gives cyclists an easier ride with AI gear shifter
I think it's just a common format for podcasts. Sounds exactly like 'No Stupid Questions' to me.
React + classes made sense. Redux was hard to use. All react needed was a simple state management solution that didn't take 500 loc across multiple files and a ton of useless object copying to make a page full of form elements work.

Instead it got a complete paradigm shift to a leaky abstraction. Not that the previous abstraction wasn't leaky, it was alwayz super easy to have components re-render when not necessarily.
Usually killing the leader of a terrorist organization doesn't really improve any peace process.

But maybe that is simply impossible since Hezbollah more or less exists to fight against Israel. Nasrallah was not the spiritual leader, that would be the Ayatollah in Iran.

Him hiding in a bunker as well might finally a sign that there is a way to hold them to account. With violence, yes, but I don't really see many other option with fundamentalists.

I think for Lebanon this is a positive development as well, perhaps their state will become more functional again. And maybe such a development also reaches Iran.
There is something impressive about Lennart’s work, in that treads a thin line between “completely triggering” to some people and “genuinely quite a good idea” to others.

Lots of discussion here has been around the choice of JSON as a format, with some valid points being brought up about specific limitations and possible footguns.

But these miss the point: this massively moves the needle with regard to lowering the barrier to entry when writing services. I’m confident I can write a simple Varlink service in about 20 lines of Python, with no dependencies after reading the linked docs. You cannot in good faith say the same thing about dbus.

That’s nuts. Yeah - if my service is for some reason sending/receiving high-precision 128 bit numbers or huge binary files then it’s not perfect.

But nothing really does that. It’s not worth making the entire stack more complex and less performant for a possible use case that doesn’t really fit.
A different platform doesn't mean third party. It can just mean you have completely separated things so that none of the data tooling discussed here has any ability to access it.
that pretty hostile to leave oldest version and disable everything else: "the steps taken by Mozilla Add-ons Team as a result of the (nonsensical) "issues" was to disable all versions of uBOL except for the oldest version, first published on AMO on August 2023. "
Right?! We call this goalpost moving now, but it is not a new phenomena.

> It is interesting that nowadays, practically no one feels that sense of awe any longer - even when computers perform operations that are incredibly more sophisticated than those which sent thrills down spines in the early days. The once-exciting phrase "Giant Electronic Brain" remains only as a sort of "camp" cliché, a ridiculous vestige of the era of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. It is a bit sad that we become blasé so quickly.

> There is a related "Theorem" about progress in AI: once some mental function is programmed, people soon cease to consider it as an essential ingredient of "real thinking". The ineluctable core of intelligence is always in that next thing which hasn't yet been programmed. This "Theorem" was first proposed to me by Larry Tesler, so I call it Tesler's Theorem: "Al is whatever hasn't been done yet."

This quote is from the 80s, from GEB by Douglas Hofstadter.

(and btw, I just took a grainy, poorly-lit picture from the book, and could automagically select the text from it, since I couldn't find the quote online. Imagine that tech in the 80s. Hell, it was bad even in the 2000s, with OCR being hit and miss for a long time. Now it "just works".)
> For example, if the copyright holder applies a security fix to an old version that had "expired" and is now open source, will that cause old version to revert to source-available?

Yeah, it’s tricky. By default, I think it does go back to source-available, but I would trust the vendor to explicitly release the fix as open source instead. Of course, it should be addressed in future versions of such licenses, and in the meanwhile vendors should promise to not hold security updates out.

It’s not something exclusive to delayed licenses though: vendor of a permissively licensed software can make a security fix under a proprietary license. They don’t do this because it would be a dick move and the community will fork the software, but this is a possibility.
Having heard some Gen Z terms before, it's probably some initials, like "big old pussy" or something like that.
> it has absorbed loan words from Romance languages

Isn't a Creole defined by its simplified grammar rather than by the sources of its vocabulary?
No other OS is as configurable, adaptable and versatile as Linux. It runs on the biggest super-computers, on the helicopter that flew on Mars, on the server that is hosting this service and on the device I'm typing just now.

Now, just imagine... just imagine how much performance could be gained if game vendors didn't ignore it.
Well, they should rewrite the home page. It says MapBox everywhere and MapLibre nowhere.
Pleased to see Perun being mentioned on HN.
PayPal is updating their TOS to automatically give merchants access to your data
Seeing the constructions makes me think that we're blessed in Germany for getting all three phases even in single apartments.

Here it's quote common (if no cheaper method of central hot water is available) to have on-demand water heaters like https://www.clage.com/de/produkte/durchlauferhitzer which usually have a maximum power output of 21 kW, so they aren't just used for showers, but can also fill up a bathtub quite quickly. They also don't hang inside the shower, but on any nearby wall.

They're connected to three-phase power with a 32A fuse on each phase.
Bold of you to flat out drop down migrations.

I guess having a new up migration to cover the case is better, but its nice to have a documented way of rolling back (which would be the down migration) - without applying it programmatically. But it helps if other team members can see how a change should be rolled back ideally.
Minor point, but the immersion is the heating element that extends to within the tank, short for "immersion heater".

The tanks generally also have a heat exchanger within that's hooked up to the wet central heating system, that way you can have 1 boiler so both central heating and water heating.
In Chinese, it's very difficult to define word boundaries.

Each character is a syllable, with a particular pronunciation and a constellation of meanings, usually closely related to one another. There are very common combinations of characters that appear together, which one could define as words. However, often, you could just as easily view the individual characters as words, or the combination as a word.

In some cases, the combination of two characters means something totally different from what the characters alone would mean (e.g., 东西, where the characters literally mean "East-West," but the combination means "thing"), so the combination is clearly a word. But sometimes, the meaning of the combination is basically a combination of the words' meanings (e.g., 吃饭, where the characters literally mean "eat-food," and the combination means "to eat, have a meal").

Because written Chinese doesn't use spaces, I guess it doesn't really matter what one defines as a word. The issue just doesn't come up, practically speaking.
Is there also some written information to be found somewhere?
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I used all

Ventrilo mumble ts3 skype

Discord was way better and had more features and was more safe than self hosted alternatives
I am working on https://daemonstack.com, it's a platform that lets you run batch jobs on any cloud provider or on your own hardware.
"AI defense corps"
In the long-run, a project can become dependent on such donations and this can give donors power over the project and those donors may want to steer the project in ways that we don't want to see it go. That may not happen and may even be unlikely but it's important to be prepared for that possibility and have contingencies available.

There is already a comment here which discusses one such scenario: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=41695062&goto=item%3Fi...
"border", not "boarder"
Also it's "borderline" one word, not "border line". It's a compound word.
A boarder is someone who boards at a boarding school.
A border is an edge, a boundary.
Couldn't you just use --patch with the alias to achieve that?
How did it happens?
The complaint is they prior to hooks react didn't have any of this complexity. It was pretty simple to understand. Class components works mostly as you expected them to. There are a handful of things that were really hard to do with class components that hooks + function components made easier, but lots of other things became more complicated with each new set of features react has added since then. At this point the solution to "class components are complicate" is far more complicated than class components ever were.
No one even slightly right would vote for him, he is the poster child of the homeless industrial complex, being anti business and generally promoting social policies only the most fringe left wingers are excited about
> gov.ca.gov

Ah, I think now I know why Canada's government website is canada.ca (which I remember thinking was a bit odd or more like a tourism site when looking a while ago, vs. say gov.uk or gov.au).
No, that's a pidgin language. Creoles often develop out of pidgin languages but have full grammar and vocabularies.
I recompiled chromium for Android to activate the boolean option that actives the dev tools. Haha.

https://github.com/laem/chromium

It takes such a long time to compile chromium that this wasn't a good solution in the long term, but worked perfectly.

Don't remember how I did then, long term. But yes, this was one of the major hurdles.
Mostly tangential, but in mathematics, there are sometimes "canonical" objects, typically a 'natural' viewpoint which is proven to be unique and sometimes also 'universal' in a sense. So, in many cases, you can rigorously prove "this is the one 'best' way" (in some sense of best (in some theory)).

A top-of-mind example is how a tuple `(A, B)` is "obviously" the (minimal) way you would have both objects A and B within one object: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_(category_theory)

I find it interesting that the author mentions "nonscientists", as those seem less likely to be equipped with the experiences of simple/well-defined problems with "global optima". And in mathematics, the "what if there were another way" questions get followed by "suppose there were another way _W_...".
I hadn't understood the social power of smoke breaks until my welding instructor admitted he had been convinced for the first week or two of class that I was a tweaker because, given a bunch of rods to weld, I'd disappear into a booth and not come out again until I'd welded them all[0], no matter how many smoke breaks the other students had taken in the meantime.

It's a pity that when we realised the cancer sticks[1] aren't so healthy, we just got rid of them instead of trying to replace them with an activity that also allows colleagues to down tools and socialise for a well-determined short time.

(in the Old Country, anyway: over here, many businesses have a coffee break/round of snacks at ~9 and ~16)

[0] apparently one of the prereqs of becoming a welding instructor is knowing all the places in a booth lazier students will attempt to hide their unwelded rods

[1] see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41318314
Ok, I’ll rephrase: how do they make money with Pylance?
Ask HN: Had enough – a need for a new beginning
I'm in my late forties and have wasted over 20 years of my life developing services and solutions in the advertising and web industry that enable companies to sell as much as possible. During this time, I was always expected to deliver more performance for less money. Maximizing profits for entrepreneurs who have no qualms - their sole goal (with exceptions proving the rule) is to accumulate as much money as possible, to the point where they no longer know what to do with it. I didn't really have a choice because in the heavily contested agency business you have to be thankful to find any clients at all. With my work, I have contributed to advancing surveillance capitalism, developing software that serves almost exclusively to promote sales and spreading worthless content. All results that exacerbate rather than alleviate humanity's problems. Lately, I've been trying to sell AI (specifically LLMs) that don't really work well in any application and waste enormous amounts of energy - and in most cases, classical, algorithmic approaches would be significantly more efficient.

I've had enough. I want to do something in my life that truly benefits humanity. Something that helps people live better and more sustainably. Something that helps save our planet. And something that contributes to my children having a better future than currently seems likely.

I'm very good with computers, have experience in system administration (primarily Linux) and can program. I'm also a good writer and able to communicate very well in English and German. I would also like to continue working with computers and the internet, but on projects that have real value, meaning, and dignity.
And all of this should also bring in enough money so that I can provide my family with a decent standard of living, without us having to turn every penny over twice. And that seems to me a pretty hopeless endeavor. Or does anyone here know of any project or company that aligns with my values?

Anyone else share my experiences or feelings?
I think you are meant to commit to using the value of the beacon at a future point in time, e.g. when you're preregistering your trial methodology.
"8.39mb sounds a lot smaller than 8388480 bytes. "

I don't follow?

(Assuming you meant MB and not millibits - if the latter I definitely agree!)
Reminds me of GTA3 radio - can we retrofit this somehow? I miss driving around mindlessly and now we can get actual quality podcasts too.

I wonder which successful game will make use of AI generated content next.
yes, I recompiled chromium for that https://github.com/laem/chromium

But it's a heavy task in the long run.
Thank you for saying that, it was always a background task thought, but now that you put it in words. This. The churn shall burn..
And now Real-Time support is getting mainlined, which means we might see even more stuff like Mars Rovers running Linux.
https://medium.com/@l4em/theres-a-computer-in-your-pocket-67...
The device seems fine; but as he said, it is insane that it is sold with the short wire attached. This is a clear extra cost for the manufacture and can only be to encourage wire nuts or other unsuitable joint just next to running water.
There is a reason for that. People who inquired into the actual functioning of the world used to be called philosophers. That's why so many foundations of mathematics actually come from philosophers. The split happened around the 17th century. Newton still called his monumental work "Natural Philosophy", not "Physics".
cljs.user> (re-seq #"\s\w+\s" "やり直して")
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Joking aside, is it common to use regular expressions? Seems like the method only works for languages with spaces. I think a more sophisticated lexer may be necessary, but are there are non-regex, "fast approximations" that work across most languages? This is a problem that I have not tried solving before.
> I'd be curious what similar caveats may apply to that editor?

Exactly the same as to VS Code, anything that is special about it is "closed" (as a service) https://zed.dev/blog/zed-is-now-open-source
And the RT patches are making it to upstream, which together with the userland sched can make a huge difference in frame rates and latency when gaming.