skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A week or so ago Facebook removed the ticker feature they had in the bottom right corner. This is how I worked around the predetermined algorithm showing me what Facebook thinks I wanted to see. It allowed me to keep up with people I wanted to without Facebook intervening.

Now that it is gone, the value of Facebook to me is near zero. Even if I saw MOST RECENT, posts are missing. When I come back it's switched back to TOP STORIES.

I have no idea why companies decide to make users work hard for what they want.
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I thought the "Most Recent" experience opts people completely out of the curated/algorithmic feed. Or is there still filtering on top?
This seems like a good idea but could be a lot of work. It would be easier to distribute to more people if you had a mailing list/website and open-sourced at least the guiding questions. You could then track user submissions to see how many people complete your questions.
Enterprises are probably using Firefox ESR (version 52 for the six more months) which still has XUL add-ons, and does not have this problem.
Seems like this would easily run on the free tier of Heroku for a blog with modest traffic.
Web push? That's only for Android! This author must not own an iPhone
Again, it's not Facebook. It's the companies using the platform.

Don't blame the tool. Blame the person wielding it.
Facebook sells itself as the tool for keeping in touch. If it sells itself as the tool to sell you stuff, how many users would there be?
That style of post is reminiscent of Myspace. I will read a long text post and immediately skip those vapid 1 sentence "glittery"posts
Your human logic of "should" is meaningless if it doesn't fit into the revenue-maximizing algorithm.
Considering their likely military budget, it's not hard to imagine they could train a small percentage of the military in cyberespionage. Or they could outsource it to other nation-states or organizations. It isn't that difficult to find talented, (ostensibly) nationalistic kids, train them for years, and have them conduct operations like this.
Advertisers don't want to put their ads next to a post about someone dying.
Well, even though their marketing team did break the user trust, I am not moving to other browsers. For simple reason that I owe more to Firefox than to other browsers.

I am sticking with Firefox unless they stoop lower than the other competitors.

Though I liked the backlash over this. Good to keep Mozilla on toes. I'd rather show tough love to Mozilla than accept 'grim' and move to other browsers.
A bottle of wine is less than 26 oz. So the wineries need to catch up.
Interesting. It looks like you only have people in the legislative branches, at the Federal and Canton levels. Will you expand to the lower levels of government and include, at least, people in the executive branches? do you have a mechanism to update over time and keep track of people who were in power in the past?
More like spend $500 for a graphics card and end up with a graphics card and $2000 in bitcoin
Facebook doesn't profit off of targeting things well. It profits off of selling high-value audiences and targeting options to advertisers. There's a significant difference between the two.

Let me be a bit more specific. You remember the weirdness of seeing ads for mesothelioma lawsuits on network TV? It seems way too specific to be worthwhile to advertise to general audiences. But that's missing how profitable each lead is - if a lead is worth a hundred times as much for mesothelioma as buying a Star Wars toy, you only need a hundredth of the audience interest in order for the ad slot to be price competitive.

Essentially, you're seeing the most valuable advertisement in the eyes of the advertiser, given the tracking and metrics that Facebook exposes to advertisers. It gets some weird effects, like getting tracked visiting the website of the coding bootcamp you graduated from, putting you in an "interested in coding bootcamps" category that Facebook sells to advertisers, getting you the least relevant ads possible.
The 900 series is not really worth using but since you pay nothing for elect I City you might make a few bucks over the month. All depends on your hash rate and what pool you’re in. My gtx 1080 pulls about 20mhs and at the current price that’s close to 60-70 dollars a month.
Users? You're the product. Advertisers are the users.
I've bookmarked "most recent" but have long since stopped trusting that it's a pure chronological feed. I don't know how Facebook decides what I do and don't want to see, but they don't get it right.
I have almost come to regret learning Ruby because it is a beautiful language that I wish it would be my main language but unfortunately I think it has lost scripting language race by the look of its popularity among competitors.

Part of the reason I suspect is the development cultural difference brought by language barriers. Without sound development, it surely will struggle to become better than alternatives.

https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/4570470
They work over what baseline? I think they are all treading water, and have to buy ads because competitors do.
- Logic programming: Datalog, Prolog, Mercury, Eve

- Dependently-typed programming: Coq, Agda, Idris

- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

I believe that the future of programming is to describe WHAT rather than HOW.
I was quite un-cooly positive about Facebook for the first 15 years or so, but recently it has become extremely apparent that the algorithms are getting in the way of what I'm trying to do (communicate with a predictable set of friends).
I take your original comment as an indictment that git is somehow broken by design. Which sure, you're entitled to an opinion, but to bring up SVN in the same breath is absurd.

That's why I replied.

I can't really address p4 because I haven't used it for any real world use cases. Only to prepare for an interview. With that limited use, I can't come with any reason to think it's superior.
It looks like we don't know, excluding some very specific sponge functions, based on some quick research.[1][2]

[1]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/771.pdf
[2]: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/419/what-security... (NB: comments)
Very sorry for her loss as well.. and her pain in not knowing...

It's interesting from a social science perspective to have the expectation of the system / algorithms that it would have notified you of a friend's passing. This is an expectation that the model understands what is important to the user - something I doubt the model is optimized around completely.

Before Facebook, I think not knowing would be even more common than we realize - unless you had frequent contact with your friend. In a world disconnected, no email, no Internet, maybe only a telephone, or even further back, a telegram, or even less - it might be many, many times much less likely you would find such a thing out. Going back to the times of villages with no electronic technology at all, communication would have been only through immediate knowledge, written / recorded information or word of mouth.

I used to work for a website that tried to digitize obituaries, to serve as a replacement for the newspaper, way before that was really a "thing". It never really took off, because, the people who wanted to publish death notices in newspapers just kept doing that. Most people who wanted to read them preferred holding a newspaper than reading a website (although, it did help disseminate information quickly). Eventually, newspapers simply published the obituaries and death notices online themselves, and it all went to a big aggregator of obituary postings (or got indexed by Google), and then it was no longer much of a thing.

The most interesting thing, for me, having worked in this area, was seeing how users have taken to Facebook as a sort of memorial to those who have passed, help spread the news, etc. But with the conflux of marketing and so much personal news... I'm not surprised that this information slipped through the cracks.

I recall a book on this topic - "Bowling Alone"[1] published in 2001, before social networks. The excerpt from Amazon.com -

"Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work—but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, which The Economist hailed as 'a prodigious achievement.'

Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans’ changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and how social structures—whether they be PTA, church, or political parties—have disintegrated. Until the publication of this groundbreaking work, no one had so deftly diagnosed the harm that these broken bonds have wreaked on our physical and civic health, nor had anyone exalted their fundamental power in creating a society that is happy, healthy, and safe.

Like defining works from the past, such as The Lonely Crowd and The Affluent Society, and like the works of C. Wright Mills and Betty Friedan, Putnam’s Bowling Alone has identified a central crisis at the heart of our society and suggests what we can do."

Even with Facebook/social media, I wonder if the same thing is still true, or if we have begun to heal the broken bonds of our disconnected nature the book identified.

[1] ISBN-10: 0743203046
There's another story buried in the Twitter conversation:

> Pretty sure this is what killed my friend @shanecomix by proxy. I and numerous other friends of his never saw his GoFundMe campaign for insulin. He died $50 shy of his goal. I'm very sorry for your loss, especially complicated by such esoterica.

Why exactly does somebody need to start a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for life-critical medicine?
Assuming we're really talking about sleep apnea, which snoring is a symptom of, and does affect your sleep in some really nasty ways. The prevalence of memory problems goes beyond what apnea would cover.

Let's talk stats for a second:

There's a buildup of fatty tissue as you age. The soft palate changes in shape, and you're more likely to gain weight. Weight is the largest component, gender is secondary, and age is tertiary. Interestingly, while sleep apnea is more likely to occur as you age, the severity goes down.

Incidence in male population goes to about 20% after the age of 75. For women, it's a bit over 10 - though that's just an estimate because women show symptoms at a different rate.

I somewhat wish apnea was the cause, for selfish reasons. There would be more drive to improve the machines, and as a bonus, these people could start getting treated.
I have lifelong friends in meatspace that I don't talk to for months at a time as well. What make the online aspect any different?
The peak of Facebook's usefulness was, for me, some time around when I joined in 2005. I don't think there has, in that entire span, been a change where I thought "wow this is great!". Everything I've noticed has either been neutral or negative.

The best thing I did recently was turn on 2-factor auth for Facebook. Now, because it's mildly annoying to log in, I haven't logged in in weeks. I still can, but I don't.

Facebook changed from an extremely high engagement niche product to a nearly free-of-utility product with the goal of capturing the entire planet as users.
> Electoral college is giving more and more power to low population states and somehow that is by design despite the house being capped for a century.

I'll agree with your second point, but not this one.

In the Constitutional Convention of 1787, one of the issues ("how to elect the president") was tasked to the "Committee of Eleven on Postponed Matters", which came up with the Electoral College. The founding fathers gave the low-population states a bone in order to create something that all of the colonies/states could/would ratify.

It is affirmative action for states where few people want to live. And it was "by design" at the time of ratification of the Constitution. It was, however, designed as a compromise, as was allowance of slavery and the 3/5s of a person that each slave represented for Congressional Districts.
I concur with Ava, it's very cool and has clean syntax and is well featured and documented.

Since aman-pro is working on a large project (with multiple devs and continuous integration possibly?) keep in mind solid reporting too. Check my profile for my highly biased opinion on what's best for that, but seriously feel free to contact me, I can provide hands on help.
The thing is, these places aren't monolithic. Real people work there and are making real decisions. There is more than enough room for Facebook to be reasonable and still have plenty of pie, it's just that employees need to actually make themselves heard or make the right decisions.
It's incredibly liberating in fact. My life is so much better without it. And I'm not missing anything of value. The people who matter can get a hold of me if they want.
Because ad targeting algorithms are limited by the data that's available to them. And most of the data they can get by watching your browsing habits produces terrible, near-useless signal, like a list of all the random bullshit you browsed to from sites like Buzzfeed. Or Facebook. Or Hacker News.
Ya, but you need enable actors to learn. This is the dichotomy I too don't understand about NK - how do you presumably give software engineers access to the internet, while still restricting them to your firewall and still be able to create sophisticated malware. At some point those engineers will "stumble" on information that says "you're not free in your country...get out"...no?
And yet, somehow, black people get killed by police a lot more than poor white people.
For other folks (like me) who weren't aware of this change (Ticker has been around since 2011):
http://observer.com/2017/12/facebook-ticker-removed-news-fee...

> “We’re always listening to our community and working to make Facebook a personally relevant and real-time experience,” the spokesperson said in an email. “We’ve heard from people that News Feed is the best place to stay up to date with the people and Pages they follow, so we are removing Ticker.”

Reports of the ticker disappearing can be found over the past years. Presumably they've been doing A/B testing to figure out how many people actually use it, compared to the potential of using that space for something else.

For those (like me) who forgot what the ticker looked like on the web: https://techcrunch.com/2011/09/20/facebook-news-feed-gets-sm...
Pretty sure BC-Tel only has the one L in it.
In America, we hate poor people. I mean, none of us say it. In fact, most of us state the opposite. However, a good chunk of us vote for politicians and work for companies that exacerbate the problems of the poor.
Reminds me of the scene in The Big Short when the pole dancets each "owned" multiple homes and the guys came back to the office and exclaiming, "Yep! It's a bubble!"
34 years ago, Canada began a program to replace their outdated Anti-Submarine helicopters. 34 years later, they still don’t have mission operations replacement helicopters - A major reasons is putting trade polictics ahead of actually getting good military equipment.

You can read about the ongoing disaster here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Sea_King_replacemen...
They will be employing black hats from around the world and paying them a lot of money.

Suddam Hussain used a Canadian to build his supergun for example.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull
There are larger wine bottles: magnum, double magnum, jeroboam, ...

http://www.wrathofgrapes.com/bottles.html
From all the reasons to claim that "the Internet is broken", I think the worst is that most services today apparently do one thing; but in reality do a different one.
And if you want it to do what "is supposed to do", it is extremely laborious, or literally impossible.

The facebook feed is one example.

Recent changes in google search, another.
This is a bullshit clickbait title. They warned of nothing of the sort. There is no new evidence being presented. What was published were guidelines for those wanting to minimize their exposure to cellular phone radiation, and they specifically say within those guidelines that there is no scientific consensus that cell phone radiation is harmful and they are publishing them to help those who still wish to avoid it out of an abundance of caution.
I've noticed this with Instagram too. I don't know what the algorithm is based on, because 2 months ago I stopped seeing posts from a couple of local stores I used to (until they stopped showing up in my feed when scrolling until I got to posts I had seen before) interact with A LOT. When I finally noticed I hadn't seen them in a while I checked their pages directly. Turns out a big ticket item I've been thinking about getting had just been on sale at a significant discount. Thanks, Instagram algorithms. Good job. Instagram and Facebook now removed from my phone and I haven't been happier in a long time. Good riddance. Distractions that stopped adding any value to my life a long time ago.
What reason could that be? I thought maybe there was a way for a user to post something on their profile timeline that wouldn't show up in their newsfeed, but it appears that you can only do the opposite, i.e. post something that is seen in the newsfeed but won't be attached to your profile timeline: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/facebook-now-lets-you-post-to-th...
Today I got an email from a female friend of mine who passed away 4 years ago. Apparently they used her facebook info (email, display name) with the subject being 'Fwd for 'my facebook display name' followed by terrible spam .. Ohhhhh how I long for the days that we weren't hooked on social media.
From what I've figured out, on top of your "top stories" feed, you might see something that's 15 or 16 hours old, while on "most recent" you'll see the almost exact same stories in newest-first order.
Wait, so theoretically, suppose that a deep learning algorithm figures out that if they bombard someone with tons of images of other people happy during an acutely sad event of their life that they can drive them to suicide, and that this causes a massive peak of engagement from all the people expressing sympathy on their wall, would it do so? Given the fact that facebook is engineered to be addictive and holds the dopamine button on so many people's brains, wouldn't this practically be manslaughter?
There have been defectors.
Firefox has been shit since their founding CEO resigned over political/social view.

What makes it worse is the putrid Orwellian stench of Tim Cook's obsession with gay "rights" issues. He should be fired for using Apple as a soap box to promote gay political views as larger than life issues at the risk of alienating consumers and sacrificing apples brand and profit position.
They’re trying to force the business to pay to advertise rather than using their platform to do it for free.
I can delete it for myself, but what about all the people that are addicted and don't know any better?
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15957268
It's also interesting how difficult they can make comparing sizes/prices for even the simplest things, like for example toilet paper.
Even comparing similar quality rolls with each other can sometimes be quite a math exercise, as different manufacturers sell different numbers of rolls, with different numbers of sheets, sometimes even in different sizes per sheet.

So how to calculate the best value toilet paper? Based on sheets? Based on average area of paper you get per roll?
And who wants to do all that when you are simply looking for something to, literally, wipe your butt with?
Sometimes I think having choices can be a really bad non-choice.
There has been a lot more research recently about the neurobiological effects of sleep. A good summary: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5501041/
This was discussed here on HN recently. It was deemed a result of the failing health care in the USA. (I do not live there so I do not know the exact details of how particular cases like this happen).
That's kind of how texas works though
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Seems like an odd choice. It's specifically a privacy coin, not meant to be centralized.
More typically than in response to someone saying "user," I see this in response to somebody erroneously saying "customer" or similar. I think "the user" is pretty valid, but "the used" makes for a good smirk.
Probably because navigating the beurocratic landscape of any government assistance program requires levels of patience, assertiveness, and guile that anyone fully capable of utilizing the services will already have a job that will net enough that they don't need to use the program.

Having experienced such programs through others' experiences, I can say that they are very often staffed by underpaid, incompetent employees whom are trying to execute complex programs with perverse incentives designed by compromising committees. The people that need these programs the most are the least capable of dealing with these problems, but almost nobody knows or cares what their troubles are.
Yes, in a capitalist system, money comes from somewhere, and there's no ethical consumption. It's possible for that to happen and Mr. Robot to still carry strong anti-capitalist, anti-1%, pro-digital freedom messaging.
So far I've found:

it's reasonably fast until I throw it at a huge monorepo :) but it still works (~2fps)! even `gitk` errors on this one.
missing some hotkeys (like prev/next commit buttons in preview)
freezes on remote-repo actions like fetch/pull/etc. likely due to our enterprisey ssh setup.
generally missing a bit of polish. click targets are small, could use some more config (and only in one location, "search commits" is in its own thing), etc

Aside from the remote repo freeze-up, I'm liking it a lot. Way better control than others I've tried (i.e. it has nearly all the features), undo support, and a much better mental-model for Git in general.

If I can figure out how to fix the remote freeze-up, it might become my daily driver, which would be a first for a Git GUI.
What's really the big deal? It was sent out disabled. They didn't get payed for it. It's like if devs snuck in an Easter egg for their favorite show in a video game.

Everyone keeps calling this the "end if Mozilla" and all that, I think people are overreacting juuussstttt a bunch.

Chill out, put down your pitchforks, and keep the flag disabled.
Could you share your setup?
Happening every day at the penny stock stalls in small doses, but in crypto currency, these guys get off scott free with huge sums
It varies upon user and friend activity. I just checked my "Top Stories" feed and the top post was from one of my best friends on Dec. 14 (3 days ago) and it wasn't even the most recent post/status update from her -- I assume it was placed highly because it got a decent amount of engagement (likes/comments). My "Most Recent" feed contains a few dozen posts/updates within the last hour.
My app currently parses all the data automatically from the respective federal/cantonal government websites. I thought about getting the politicians from the local communities, but then I would have to parse the websites of ~2400 communities. Also I do not know how many communities even publish this information. So for me it is currently to much work, unless the government enforces a law to publish this data in a standard way.

The app does not keep track of people at all. Each new parsing deletes the old data.

Thanks for the point about the executive and judical branches. That would be something interesting to add.
It must be just me from the other side of the world where GoFundMe is not popular at all, but I don't recall seeing any GoFundMe campaigns that don't follow the "something really bad happened to me" pattern.
My wife and I use LastPass for our personal stuff. I use 1Password at work. Both have pros and cons. Both have a good web interface. Both are easy to use.
Maybe move the beer and wine to lunch giving the body time to break it down?
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