skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Facebook already uses some algorithm to prioritize what users see.

Once they are doing that, what's the problem with deemphasizing obvious nonsense?
For any algorithm, any elevated performance over one class of problems is offset by poor performance over another class.
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Perhaps if the entire mainstream media had reported things differently (instead of seemingly all of them being blindly in favor of it), then yes, maybe it wouldn't have happened. That is assuming of course that the US government actually cares what the public thinks when powerful government officials want war.
I don't like the Chinese government at all. But at least there is a powerful force against stopping this company from infecting all of the humanity.

I just wish India would take a similar stand and then game over for Facebook.
How is 20% not a large fluctuation? That doesn't make sense. If you want absolute numbers it's $130 Billions. Almost worth 4 Twitters.
How do U2F tokens accomplish that? It's an open standard; it is basically the open standard for modern multi-factor authentication.
Why wouldn't D work on microcontrollers? Runtime is too big? GC too difficult to avoid? Even in -betterC territory?
I get your point, people should be free from abuse. I agree. I am also asking something you cannot answer, namely "why do they need facebook?" Which is not even what they are saying in their letter to Zuck.

That being said, you are coming off a bit aggressively. Perhaps I'm reading you wrong, but I'm asking a honest question and you are (it seems) just calling me selfish and thoughtless. These questions are not rhetorical, if that was unclear.

Can you tell me please how you use facebook in your daily life personally and professionally? It may not have bearing on the greater discussion but I do want to know, as someone who hasn't used it in years.
but ig is so much harder to advertise / convert on
Its funny how HyperThereading is such a widely used term, being an Intel marketing trademark. (SMT is the computer architecture term - cf. mmx vs simd)
You should look into the career of B.J. Fogg.

https://www.bjfogg.com/

He literally teaches his students how to make psychologically addictive products and is proud of it (and rich). His disciples are the priests of "engagement".
Because the thread you mentioned is about politics. Political discussion may be allowed on HN, but most people don't like them, as they're completely non-productive and just get everyone angry at each other.
Dangerous anecdote: I put down 35% on my house, which at the time was about 20% of my net worth.

2 years later, and the stock I sold to get that 40% downpayment is now worth 8x as much – just under 3x the total value of the house.

I'd do it again because diversification is good, but hurts with 20/20 hindsight.

In regular circumstances, and if I were doing it all again, I wouldn't worry about what % of my net worth it was and put a minimum of 20% down + enough to bring the payments down to 33% of my salary.
Sorry I'm late, but:

> one unfortunately misses out on a long history of prior work... that much of the past 108 years of knowledge and wisdom

Just curious why 1910 is the magic date here for "knowledge and wisdom"?
> I do not have precise references, but I have read somewhere that RISC-V actually has a very good code density, often better than x86 itself.

Unfortunately, that which the headlines giveth, the implementation details taketh away.

The bulk of the savings come from loads and stores to the stack. The remainder of the savings is for destructive integer ops on a subset of only 8 registers.

So sure, if your code can be efficiently described using those restrictions, then you'll have great code density! Many commercial codes do have short stretches that fit this requirement, but they are interspersed with stretches that don't.

This makes it very hard to produce an effective code size benchmark for RISC-V, because it is so heavily load dependent.
Security isn't just "people can't get inside our servers", it's a much broader topic than that — anything that looks like "people didn't something that, in hindsight, we'd rather they couldn't have" falls under that purview, really. I'd certainly qualify working on preventing the next Cambridge Analytica, or preventing the next micro-targeted political propaganda campaign, as "security work" without even blinking.
“If we somehow transplanted Canada’s healthcare system and costs”

Get back to me when you’ve convinced US healthcare workers to take a 30-50% pay cut. Until then, US healthcare will remain more expensive than developed countries that don’t routinely compensate doctors and nurses at the level we do.
Overall what they say make sense. It's coming down indicating that the growth is slowing down? I think 20% correction is huge and just unexpected.
"Literary theory," as it is called, is actually not theory. It's the production of commentaries that are designed to make you say, "ah, yes." In other words it's a derivative art form like collage or remixing. You can tell the difference because there is no way to tell if a paper is right or not other than by deciding if it sounds right to you, which is no less subjective than anything else in art. In contrast, music theory is put to the test every day when musicians become successful with its help, and scientific theories are, well, you already know.
A lot of security companies are like for-profit colleges. They aren’t at all what they say, they’re incompetent, and they make the world a worst place. Hopefully their time will end soon enough.

Just look at what Symantec did to Google for proof of that (sorry don’t have a link, but, haha, just Google it).
Is there any hope that Elixir can be used for client side programs, with GUI windows?

Or will Elixir only be used for server-side programs, that don't require a graphical user interface?

I would like to program video games with Elixir. But the examples I see online are rather immature.

And it doesn't seem like anyone is interested in using Elixir to program desktop GUI programs.
You are not sure where I am getting that the west hates Huawei?? really? Here are some random links.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17532696/sprint-t-mobile-c...

https://www.quora.com/Did-Trump-sign-an-act-to-ban-Huawei-ph...

https://www.lightreading.com/mobile/4g-lte/will-trump-make-a...
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Not only that, but look at the way he bullied other Silicon Valley companies into enteringing no-poach agreements with his companies (threatening some with IP litigation), depressing software engineer wages for years.
>This is not a terribly meaningful metric for tech names with huge growth potential.

Think that was OP's point. That facebook has matured and is no longer a growth company.
> If we could get the top 5 GDP nations to contribute 1% of their GDP to a proper global space program we'd have 400+ billion dollars a year

You know what's more likely than getting the top 5 GDP nations to donate 1% to a collaborative space program? Obtaining peace on Earth, because that's exactly what you'll need to reach your goal.
Perl 6 regexes attempt improve upon this situation by making regexes more like a regular programming language. That is it errs on the side of error detection rather than encoding efficiency.
(It also adds features that would be difficult to add to Perl 5/PCRE regex design)

For a start if it didn't support using `+`, then any attempt to use it would generate a compiler error because it is not alphanumeric.
(regex is code in Perl 6)

All non-alphanumeric characters are presumed to be metasyntactic, and so must be escaped in some way to match literally.
Arguably best way is to quote it like a string literal.
(Uses the same domain specific sub-language that the main language uses for string literals)

/ "+" + / # at least one + character

It really is a significant redesign.

/A{2,4}/ # Perl 5/PCRE
/A ** 2..4/ # Perl 6

/A (?:BA){1,3}/x
/A [BA] ** 1..3/ # Perl 6: direct translation
/A ** 2..4 % B/ # Perl 6: 2 to 4 A's separated by B

/A (?:BA){1,3} B?/x
/A ** 2..4 %% B/ # Perl 6: %% allows trailing separator

/\" [^"]* \"/x # Perl 5/PCRE
/\" <-["]>* \"/ # Perl 6: direct translation
/｢"｣ ~ ｢"｣ <-["]>*/ # Perl 6: between two ", match anything else
# (can be used to generate better error messages)

---

# Perl 5
my $foo = qr/foo/;
'abfoo' =~ /ab $foo/x;

# Perl 6
my $foo = /foo/;
'abfoo' ~~ /ab <$foo>/;
# or
my token foo {foo} # treat it as a lexical subroutine
'abfoo' ~~ /ab <&foo>/;

---

# Perl 5
my $foo = 'foo';
'abfoo' =~ /ab \Q $foo \E/x; # treat as string not regex
# Perl 6
my $foo = 'foo';
'abfoo' ~~ /ab $foo/; # that is the default in Perl 6
I agree with this, interest rates are low. Also keep in mind even if companies have $10 billion in cash, they still take out loans just because they can get them, and then save the cash for a time when the economy is horrible and no one is giving out any loans. Also if this were the 1980’s and home loans were like 12%, then obviously maximum down payment.
Things are probably more nuanced than that. People are also honest by nature.

Telling the truth has way less cognitive load, and people generally aren't going to be stupid enough to get stuck in weaving an elaborate net of lies just to support that one original lie that they refuse to come clean on.

But there's also certain levels of dishonesty or lies by omission etc that people will do at a social level. Sometimes it's even beneficial for greater harmony between people.

I bet game theorists have studied this type of stuff quite a bit.
>I'm pretty sure the last 10 years or so have proven that false. See: GamerGate.

From what I've seen, a lot of GamerGaters actually did leave the "movement" after civil and reasonable debate. I personally know several such people. In fact, partly as a result of civil debate, the movement effectively died, with the only people remaining being the most diehard misogynists and alt-righters. Those people's minds may never be changed regardless of what they're participating in, but many of the more moderate people who participated definitely did shift their opinions and abandoned it.

The idea that you shouldn't engage with people you disagree with (let alone that such people should be banned from platforms you use) because they're irredeemable is usually quite wrong. Obviously there will be certain people out there who are so extreme and so indoctrinated that it's nearly impossible to change their mind, but even then, it happens. Daryl Davis, a black man, befriended KKK members and convinced over 200 to leave the KKK. Phelps family members have permanently left the Westboro Baptist Church Louis Theroux's after calmly debating people on Twitter. Louis Theroux's documentaries might interest you, because things like that are basically his bread and butter.

The post you're replying to is making a pretty ridiculous leap (pro-gun content isn't nearly as controversial as school shooting conspiracy theories and would not be banned in pretty much any hypothetical), but their point is that the best response to speech you disagree with is more speech, not banned speech.
To make more money?
I'm guessing because the one about fake news/free speech is political activism/propaganda?

We've had nearly an entire year of that nonsense and I think most of us have grown tired of it already. Go to reddit if you enjoy propaganda.

I hope we don't go back to the time where half of HN is facebook nonsense pushed by god knows whom.
Because I grew up in the Ottawa region and many of my friends parents worked at Nortel.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.1137006

Someone was hacking into Nortel and stealing R&D, trade secrets, the hard work of the research division. That someone was in China. Soon after, a competitor named Huawei with a minimal R&D budget was selling very similar products at lower prices. It put Nortel out of business. My friends' parent all lost their jobs.

This is why I personally won't buy Huawei products.
Yes, it definitely is.
Do you have some examples? I'm not super well informed but 300M seems like a pretty small investment, given a single drug could cost >500M to produce and yield 10B+ in _yearly_ revenue. I'm not claiming one's genetic data is perfectly safe with any company, but that a for profit drug company would use it primarily for drug research seems reasonably sound. In some aspects, I'd expect they'd even have a vested interest in keeping it secure from other drug companies.
>Could be true, I guess. Everyone has "perspective" about what is important. That still doesn't seem to be a reason to disbelieve a fact checker

It gives reason to doubt based on a known political bias.

>How exactly does that have overtones of centrally enforced authority?

Because it implies one is unable to determine truths and falsehoods for themselves
Thanks for the userscript! I'm going to try it out.

edit: fun note, we joined HN basically at the same time
Why'd Steve call Bill about TrueType? Apple invented TrueType and then licensed it to Microsoft.
That's basically just what GPG mail is, right?
Universal health care isn’t magic pixie dust.

The way UHC costs less is by paying doctors and nurses less. Negotiating lower pharmaceutical rates and reducing billing costs is nice and all, but it’s tiny compared to labor costs.

It turns out, doctors and nurses are very popular, and they vote their economic interest. Good luck getting UHC in the US that pays them less.
Easy fix: Require, maybe also supply in-car cameras and require footage as evidence for reimbursement. A very inexpensive fix to a burgeoning problem.
It's not about how complex the component is. In my experience what matters is how easy it is to use. With React it's easy to build a world in a teacup, and that's mostly a good thing.

For "regular CRUD developers", the vast majority of us, I have zero concern about how big or crazy component code is until it's so huge it impacts page size. I'll use the easiest most feature complete library out there.

React does encapsulation like jQuery never could. I don't care if I have this vanta black box on my page as long as it's easy to mess with and gets the job done
I have considered the ethical issues. Not my problem, it’s my DNA.
I know right? There is so much literature and speculation on what it will take to live on Mars that "source of liquid water in quantity" is a greatly simplifying step that knocks a dozen different failure scenarios off the decision tree. I'm guessing that people aren't seeing how big a deal this is for future colonists.
Word is Nvidia overproduced and is sitting on a lot of current gen stock.

Miners bought AMD because AMD cards are usually better at mining for the money. They started buying more Nvidia when AMD didn't make enough cards.

In any case though, the success of Ryzen is the interesting thing, not the mining sales.
That 20% drop brought its stock value back to where it was a year ago, which was an all-time high for it then. Investors that have held it for longer than a year can still sell it at a profit.
> As the years have passed, I'm a bit less sure about the motivations however.

If you've got evidence, or even a coherent rationale, that would cast doubt on his motives - I'd love to hear it. No, fleeing to the only country that would be out of the reach of a president who prosecuted more whistleblowers (and reporters) than every prior administration combined... that isn't evidence of Snowden being a Russian spy. That would be like insisting that a prisoner who accepts food from his captor is also expressing approval for his captivity.

BTW, looking back at all the articles about Obama's legacy in regard to whistleblowers, written after the election - darkly predicting that Trump will start jailing reporters because Obama had established the precedent... lol.
> I, as a 20 year SF resident, would much prefer Aaron Peskin do something about the feces and hypodermic needles before he worries about cafeterias.

But that would require him to deal with various unlawful behaviors and individuals! Much easier to pass some law, when you know law-abiding corporations will respect it.
Ask HN: Would you do a beautiful whiteboard text and diagramming skills course?
Presentation is everything. When users see a beautiful user interface, they feel intuitively that the software is valuable and of high quality and can be trusted. Same thing goes the other way - poorly presented user interfaces lead to user distrust and disinterest.

Same thing goes for your workplace whiteboard diagrams and written text - if you draw and write poorly on the board then your message will not be received well by the audience, they will be less likely to trust what is written, and will be less likely to be persuaded by whatever is being communicated on the board.

Whiteboard diagramming and text is increasingly important in establishing your professionalism, and critical in your ability to persuade in the workplace.

Would you pay for a course that teaches you how to improve your whiteboard writing and diagramming skills so you can effectively present well, draw beautiful whiteboard diagrams and persuade others? To draw attractive and interesting flowcharts, software stacks, network diagrams, architectures and text & fonts that surprise and delight your audience.
Z1d, R5 and R5d are publicly available now

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Linear regression makes a lot of sense since it can be done streaming in a single pass. We have it as an aggregator in Hail: https://hail.is/docs/devel/aggregators.html#hail.expr.aggreg...

I wonder how they're doing logistic regression. It doesn't have a closed form and normally solved with an iterative, multi-pass optimization. edit: Read more closely. They're using (non-stochastic) batch gradient descent.
How is AMD doing in the GPU for deep learning business? Have they completely ceded that market to Nvidia?
They're hiring 2/3rd more employees to act as content moderators from the sounds of the guidance.
I have many triggers. Some foods (probably histamine/tyramine sensitivity), smells, and weather. After a few years they became chronic and almost always had a migraine.

A combination of Zonegran, Botox every 12 weeks, and sphenopalatine ganglion nerve blocks and naproxen for acute migraine have them under control now. Topirimate negatively impacted my language skills and memory, but Zonegran is more tolerable and effective. SPG has a long history for TMJ and facial pain, and the Allevio and Sphenocath devices make the procedure easy. Other nerve blocks and Cephaly have been helpful in reducing the severity of the pain. A lower carbohydrate diet has also helped.

Vaping medical CBD has aborted a migraine immediately multiples times, but is not available where I live yet.

There are new CGRP blocking drugs that are supposed to be on the market soon. Aimovig is the first, and it's a preventative.

My doctor actually wrote an app to help people track their headaches:
http://www.iheadache.com/
i.e. market saturation.
20p discount on FB today
I'll check it out tonight!
There are tons of patents out there for the circuits which efficiently implement some instructions. Most of those patents have expired by now, but new ones pop up every once in a while. One recent example would be the circuit which computes steering bits for implementing pext and pdep on a butterfly network.

There are also plenty of patents for particular descriptions of instructions. They may be fairly narrow in scope, depending on how close they are to prior art. But they don't have to be particularly wide in scope in order to prevent cloning. It would not surprise me at all if the x86's encoding choice for `reg + reg * scale + displacement` was patented.

Emulators can absolutely require licenses. The ARM emulator shipped with Android for x86 is licensed by ARM, for example. While there aren't very many (uh, any at all?) x86 phones, x86 Chromebooks with Android support is a thing.
You should have seen how much harder life got at our company when we discontinued a common root password across the back office. Things that used to take 5 minutes to fix by self-service now take a ticket to the owner of a system, which can take days.
Note that Vanguard requires you to enable SMS two-factor authentication first. Security is only as strong as the weakest link - even if you use U2F for the security challenges, an attacker can still hijack your phone number and use that to answer the challenge.

It's still a good sign, but not good enough IMO. Unfortunately other places aren't any better.
Does anyone know what this means?

"Such magic does not come for free however. If we look ‘inside’ a std::shared_ptr, it turns out it carries a lot of administration. First there is of course the actual pointer to the object contained. Then there is the reference count, which needs to be updated and checked atomically at all times. "

My impression was that simply dereferencing, which is going to be most of the use of it, is not checking that counter at all. Only things like assignment modify it, which should be more rare.
STDBUF=U is one of the benefits of using NetBSD libc.

This solution is however limited to applications compiled with the libc C "standard" stdio.
IMO, Google put a new stage on embrace extend extinguish I call "neglect". Make everything open source and nice, then continue to update G specific functionality by simply not maintaining good support for anything else.

Google probably has the best engineers and greatest minds since IBM in the 60's, possibly ever. But great engineers are attracted to shiny objects, and if all of those are Google objects there's suddenly no reason to use anything else
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Why don't they just put you in charge.
IMHO it's big news signifying a possible end of an era. We reached peak FB. What's next? Is it going to implode as fast as it exploded, or is it going to be another tech dinosaur dying slowly?

The financial consequences will also be big. A lot of people have invested in FB, probably you too, through your 401k. Also imagine what will mean for the SF Bay Area a FB that is laying off or cutting down on expenses/compensation.
Seems silly to think that politics goes away if you just don't talk about it. Facebook recently had an entire ad campaign around reducing the toxicity on the platform - surely a discussion of that has a place when talking about earnings or lack thereof.
Amazon should figure this out soon. They just need to improve the way to get after counterfeits by having a clear and concise way for attorneys and manufacturers to report what fake stuff is being hocked. Right now Amazon is too segregated internally to get the guilty parties off their platform (quickly). Consider how many of those there might be. Meanwhile the manufacturers are too paranoid to sell on Amazon because they view them as competition. Once walmat and microsoft team up for some bar lifting you will only see a better version of Amazon with respect to counterfeits.

-3rd party Amazon seller.
I tend to agree with you on both counts.
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