skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'democracy' was just not internally robust enough to deal with the lowered barrier to dissemination.

since we've already conceded that votes can be simply bought through advertising, the whole thing was already looking pretty sketchy.

its kind of pointless to rail at the parasites feeding off the open wounds.
I agree with this.

At the same time these large platforms have played a huge factor in the death of many local newspapers. Local journalism is pretty much no longer a viable career. And so no one is reporting on the actions of most state legislatures which is a big problem. The platforms have not really stepped in to fill this void. In the long term journalism as a whole may be at risk, leaving even larger and more important voids.
It’s an absurd comparison by any measure
The world is in the midst of a critical thinking crisis exacerbated by the gutting of humanities education.
> Implying lung cancer can happen because of smoking. In fact air pollution and a bunch of other things cause lung cancer too.

This is one of the most disingenuous comments I've ever read on HN.
I guess that trick would be harder to reproduce for my problem - bringing down compile times from 4 hours to 1 :)
Consider putting the "edit" at the top of your first comment---noting it upfront is important, IMHO.
And the British

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/arti...
But most of the atrocities in china in the 20th century were committed by the chinese against other chinese? And most of the atrocities in the 19th century were by european imperialists. Also, everyone committed atrocities against everyone else. Using your logic, we should all be stealing from each other since it is all justified because of historical wrongs. Sure you can't be arguing that?
Couldn't agree more. I think Facebook is kind of crappy. But there is basically zero scientific evidence that Facebook is destroying democracies. That's a media narrative at this point. There's a bunch of anecdotal evidence that matches up with a particular view point of the current political landscape. It confirms how people are feeling and therefore is accepted as true. Nevermind that it would be virtually impossible to actual tease out how much misinformation and social division to lay at the feet of Facebook. Nevermind that democratic states throughout history have radicalized, polarized and disinformed themselves without the help of Facebook or even the internet for that matter.
Interview with Saminda Wijegunawardena, VP, Engineering  Box
There's a management anti-pattern called "management by aggregate statistic"

It goes something like this: take a large human population doing something, like working at Division X. Take a multivariate problem. Abstract out an aggregate statistic along one variable. Report that one data point, generalize, then assume some correlation-causation magic. Manage to make that number better.

This causes a lot of the pain and suffering we see in large companies. People are working and managing to a number that's supposed to mean one thing, but it doesn't. (Whatever metric you manage, they'll game). And it happens over and over again.

Worst thing about it? The smarter you are, generally, the more difficult it is to see yourself engaging in this anti-pattern. Sure, it's easy to spot others. But for some reason, it's nothing you'd ever fall for.

It's the way our brains are supposed to work. Guess the "right enough" answer from lots of noisy, inconsistent input.

Intelligence and education are not magic fairy dust that prevent us from being human. They may make it easier to describe what's happening in general terms, but they don't upgrade us to Human 2.0 or anything.
> I'm pretty sure tabbaco has killed a few more people than Facebook, so this is a ridiculous comparison.

There are worse outcomes than death.
Transferring process knowledge is why, until very recently (Tesla, others?), all companies have been required to minority partner with a Chinese company in China and thus transfer their process knowledge along with IP.
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

I don't think it's that far apart.
In the US, 75% of those who die of lung cancer are smokers. This is exactly the toe of misinformation promoted by the tobacco execs were talking about. The link between lung cancer and smoking is extremely well established.
It's the difference between consuming and creating.

Smartphones are for consumers of information.
Computers are (were?) for creation of information.
Feel free to offer a counter evidence using subjects you've evaluated and published the results.

Claiming something is a farce with zero evidence to back up it up only speaks volume for the hive mind present in HN.
Gil Fronsdal's intro to meditation is a great series - https://www.audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1762/
The challenge here is that ZFS is dominate by Oracle right now, and if anyone thinks that Oracle is going to act in the best interest of the community, rather then killing the golden goose to peel the meat off it's bones, take a look at what Oracle has done with Java recently. Or what they did with Solaris. Or what they do with Oracle Cloud.

in addition, we know that there are patent landmines out there because NetApp and Oracle have a (undisclosed) settlement on the issue. Using ZFS is a probably good way to get a visit from your legendary friendly Oracle sales agent and auditor. Oracle could fix all of this with a quick re-license or patent indemnification, but they haven't and almost certainly won't.

My Synology (and all modern Synologies) uses BTRFS, and it seems pretty solid so far. I would have preferred that ZFS had matured and been dominate in FS, but there are some really risky things that come with ZFS.
If you want to propagate the exception, you don't need to write code, just to declare the method as throwing. Sometimes people don't want to do that because they don't want to declare the exception, but that means that you've decided that that should be the point where the exception is handled because the caller is not written to expect exceptions, and therefore the code is not unnecessary. It's true that in some cases this is forced on you because of how some of the standard library's higher-order functions work.
you need an HR department too! very important

also you will need lots of project manager's and maybe 1 or 2 full time developers
The FB media onslaught is getting a bit overdone at this point. They aren't the worst company in the world. They probably have figured out that connecting everyone doesn't necessarily make the world a better place immediately but I applaud the effort and I think long term it will make a difference. So they make money selling ads which they display by algorithmically sifting through metadata. Around here I know it's not a popular practice but for the vast majority of FB's 1.5B DAUs I think it matters a lot less than the media would like it to. All ads are annoying but I personally prefer the targeted ads of today to the random banners ads of the late 90s early 2000s. I know they aren't a perfect company but who is? I think the media just smells easy traffic here.
There is no doubt that smoking can cause lung cancer.
"Smoking is by far the biggest preventable cause of cancer. Thanks to years of research, the links between smoking and cancer are now very clear. Smoking accounts for more than 1 in 4 UK cancer deaths, and 3 in 20 cancer cases."
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-canc...
Then maybe people should ask why democracy is so fragile.
Stepping Over Dollars, Grasping at Dimes
Of course there is. Reading and understanding bytecode isn't hard. Lots of people do that for a living.
I wouldn't call GC's non-technical. They know all of the pieces that it takes to get the thing built and the community of construction workers have multiple general skill-sets. The best part about your GC might be that he knows how to hire the right people.
I'm a consultancy owner where our engagement mode slightly resembles a freelancer model. There are a few things you should keep in mind (some of which have already been mentioned in this thread):

1. Don't participate in the race to the bottom on price. The goal with most MVPs, in my experience, is to build something that can feasibly be expanded beyond the MVP point. If you work with someone inexpensive, you're likely to wind up with something that, even if it meets your goals, will be difficult to expand upon beyond the initial scope. Of note, you should bear in mind your growth plan beyond the MVP. For example, do you want this freelancer to stick around long enough to help install an internal team? If so, you almost certainly want someone with management/hiring experience, not necessarily a recent code bootcamp grad.

2. Don't work with someone on a fixed-fee if your business has any possibility of adjustment. There are plenty of shops and freelancers out there who grossly misunderstand what it means to be "agile." Agile software development isn't just about the tools and processes one uses to build software -- it's about alignment with the business at any given point in time, and an engineering team's ability to adjust as your business realities change. For example, as you're building your MVP, if you discover that feature X is critical to a large customer using your product, you're logically going to want to introduce it to your MVP scope and prioritize it accordingly. Working with someone on a fixed fee incentivizes scope-freezes when the work is started, which might have financial advantage for you in the short term, but can greatly hinder your ability to adjust as the world changes around you and your business.

3. Work with people who are aligned with your business. Someone who isn't willing to understand the actual business machinations at play behind your MVP is not going to be understanding of your priorities, and won't be able to make informed technical recommendations. You might not think you're looking for a CTO-like figure or anything of that ilk, but when first building out a MVP that you hope to grow beyond that, this level of insight is extremely valuable.

3a. When working with consultancies in particular, do not try to offset monetary payment with stock/equity. It's a clear red flag for us.

4. Work with people you can trust. If you don't have someone in your network, go out of your way to build that trust.

5. Have an idea of what you want, but be willing to listen. Some of us have done user research a million times and know what people don't want to see in a product, and the good ones are going to bring such things to your attention. You know your business better than outside people/organizations, but they might know something you don't.

I'm happy to have a conversation about this with anyone interested. Email in profile.
The point above is correct in very broad strokes, but they’re still different languages. It gives you the kind of background understanding for what problems the languages are trying to tackle, and many of the idioms are related, but there’s still big differences.
True as long as the representative democracy doesn’t infringe on the individual’s constitutional rights. That’s where the democracy bit gives way to the judicial branch. Of coarse with a politicized court you’re right back to the ills of a democracy.
I think this is an interesting perspective but I need more clarification. Let's take these cases:

1. I am the only user of my logicallee front-end on a server somewhere. Nobody knows who I am. I'm also a shitty admin and don't have ssl enabled properly, everyone between me and the server can see everything between us.

2. Same thing but now I'm a good admin and the conversation with the server is private and nobody can break.

3. Same as 1 except this time instead of being the only user, 1.2 billion other users use it too. Google is a shitty web admin and anyone can decrypt my gmail session.

4. Same thing as 3 except this time Google is a great sys admin and so people can't decrypt session info.

Can you talk about the privacy and anonymity levels of these 4 scenarios? What about a scenario 5 where Google is the world's perfect possible admin and their servers are coded to be so secure, nobody at Google can access anyone's inbox or what mail they're sending in practice. Obviously they can in theory, but assume their practice is perfect and doesn't do that.

Really interested in your answers.
If you cheated on an exam, it's a very bad negative signal for integrity there's no question about it.

This is not very grey.

If you were caught you would probably be kicked out of your Uni, this is a serious thing.

I understand there are extenuating circumstances, people are young, they do crazy things, we all have. But it's not something we run around talking about, certainly not in an interview.
You live in a bubble that reinforces your views. It's a problem everyone deals with.
The Future of News on Smart Speakers
Like having a shadow profile on Facebook.
r/humblebrag. BTW, it was you who made GraveCave? Hello!
> For the mobile app especially, startup can be slow

PLEASE fix this! "Startup" is basically "any time I click an e-mail notification". Having to wait 5-10 seconds to see the end of a one-sentence e-mail is incredibly frustrating! Every time I recommend FastMail to a friend I have to qualify it with a "but" because of this.

That said, I love the responsiveness of the web app. I wish all websites were that responsive. It is the reason I'm a customer of probably 5 years now. Keep up the good work!
You don't need to go to extremes to find this process happening. Like I said, it's already happening in the West, right here, right now. Plenty of sciences have been damaged or almost destroyed in the West by creeping authoritarianism and even now the sights have been set on the "hard sciences" and engineering. There's little reason to believe it's going to be any slower in China than where there at least the residual fumes of openness of inquiry and thought, and some people who still operate as if that's the order of the day.

Knowing it's a bad idea doesn't seem to stop anybody here, because the driving forces of politics and power don't care. Submission is more important than correctness.
I would note that they’re not comparing the effects of the two businesses, but rather the PR decisions made under fire.

Not that I necessarily agree that the comparison is completely apt, but it’s certainly a much closer one.
I'm only fishing for understanding.

I'm not judging you but it is honestly shocking to read Facebook's crisis framed as, "Sure it has problems but...".

I appreciate your honest feedback.
Sounds like Trump. And yes, TI was falling and have you read the article?
Facebook accepted more money from the Clinton campaign though right?
Cooley and DC’s Tech Elite Host a Networking Party
I don’t think it’s a matter of weight so much as people just having different priorities. There were only 4 declarations of causes despite 11 states secession.

4 of them seceded specifically in response to being requisitioned for troops without congressional approval. Virginia’s articles even went so far as to say they would rejoin.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/uk-tech-sec...
In the case of cigarettes, the companies had the answer to these kinds of questions for decades and used it specifically to mislead the direction of public discovery. In their case, they had to risk their own studies in almost all cases instead of just monitoring their own distribution system.

When Facebook says they don't know something there are a few possibilities, the least likely is that they don't know and don't have a reason not to find out.

I do agree with you that it is not up to them to fix. They should be limited to whatever extent possible in what research they can do on their own discretion to prevent them from staying ahead of public information and misleading research.
This must be one of the greatest examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect [1] in action that I've seen on HN in recent times. Pretty much everything in your analysis is misinformed, and you even explicitly mention in an aside that you are "not too familiar with Tor", but still state everything with an almost absolute certainty.

You could have made the argument that allowing a single bridge makes it a bit easier to do traffic analysis attacks against users (instead of having to do DPI), but the ISP interception model is pretty much what Tor tries to protect you against, as long as that ISP isn't also (aided by) a global passive adversary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Smartphone no, but I’ve written thousands of lines of code and hundreds of thousands of words of material on an iPad, because it’s what I have with me on the train. Context is everything. I have written a few small programs on my phone too. Google Docs makes writing seamless with the desktop, and I can ftp my code out of Pythonista. Probably not a typical setup, but I find it very productive. They’re just tools.
Under that logic (which I don't dispute-- it might be true) all such platforms are ultimately doomed to irrelevance and failure. Some even start out that way (Google+) But I do wonder if there's a model out there that could have longevity. If so, I have to think it's success would in part be predicated on not stuffing every other interaction with ads and paid content. Facebook's mission is to "bring the world closer together", but they really don't do that. Even at their best they've only been a showcase for trite, shallow interactions. That may be an over generalization, there's probably some few who find more value there, but I've seen it cause more conflict and social rifts than getting people closer together.
Feasting on me with down votes . Please why?
I'd say being a junkie or alcoholic is pretty fringe and extreme. I don't get your point.

In any movement with a spiritual basis you're going to find zealots, fundamentalists, cult leader megalomaniac, etc. That's all I was saying. Your comment that synanon folks think "mainstream" aa is weak is in agreement with the point I was attempting to make.
Has the author tried the Pilot precise v7? I'm sure there are more brands with a similar performance that provide low pressure writing without smudges. There is a HUGE selection of pens these days and I would think nearly every issue has been resolved.
Rehabilitation is no doubt in order.
Another "facebook is the devil" propaganda hit piece. This is getting to be so freaking exhausting and so obvious.

You know what's becoming worse than facebook and their execs? The news industry and their editors.
Some sustained attack against a core function worries me. DNS, BGP, etc.
I can't explain the reason for this. But you describe me really well.
Realising the problem is first step to solving it. And I am going to make this post my homepage to remind me When I'm goofing off. Thanks OP!
The frustrating thing is that tobacco execs are still around. And that there is no hedging or context given so it’s pretty easy to come away with the impression that it’s something more broad than just the PR tactics. In fact I think that’s pretty open to interpretation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37988095
They didn't pay market prices. We gave them most of the stuff via the Marshall Plan. (You could say the same thing about Japan. We gave them all the stuff they needed to rebuild.)

I'm wondering if anyone has ever actually paid for the stuff they need?
"Which important societal construct rests solely on the assumption that no students cheat "

Society does not depend on wether or not a few students cheat.

But society definitely depends on the social and moral contract that we do not cheat, and that it is wrong. If most of us cheated, the system would definitely fall apart.

Have you ever visited a developing nation? Where outside of small villages it seems like everyone is cheating at everything, all the time?

It's like pouring sand into the gears of an engine: everything starts to break down.

I would not hire someone who admitted cheating during an interview unless they talked at length at their remorse, how they learned from it, how they grew from the experience, and there were exceptional circumstances.
Philosophically speaking, we can never fully trust our memory’
If you have open source projects, then I would like to join
Yeah it should be standard. Equally crazy is that APFS is brand new and didn't add it. I belive the justification was that the hardware does it on flash memory for their devices, but ZFS really exposed how unreliable hardware is.
Why not create a text file that encodes the structure of the desired output instead of having a CNN inferior it
Not true. The linked government page says they're "thinking about it and taking suggestions"

A decision has not been taken. They're still taking suggestions until Nov 20.
> Realize that you actually make the problem worse by suppressing information

I'm not taking a position on your larger post but this is a bit of a cliche I'd politely suggest you stop using. There are numerous historical examples of the successful suppression of information and the impact of said suppression frequently helps the suppressor in exactly the way they intend.
It's reached the point the inefficiency of humans reduces the overall fuel economy of a manual to equal or below a modern automatic

https://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/18/greenlings-why-do-automa...
The internet has made the world a smaller place, I’m not sure local newscasts would have survived longer anyways just like local ironsmiths and cobblers disappeared in a world with a global supply chain.
No, I wasn’t clear enough. We should be pressuring Facebook to fix this societal problem. They -are- disseminating a ton of bad information.
America owes its very existence to the land it stole from Native Americans. It owes a huge part of its prosperity to the entire lives it stole from generations of black people by using them as draft animal (hence freeing the white man to think about science, mathematics, whatever). The entire material infrastructure that enabled the production of these fruits of the intellect is stolen, with direct violent human consequences (by comparison, the consequence of "IP theft" is that certain already well-to-do entrepreneurs make less money than they think they are entitled to). It's like if I kicked someone out of their house, adducted someone else, put them in my basement in chains to work for me. I then did a bunch of experiments and came up with some nice designs. But as I was the process of monetizing them I realize someone else stole the design for me, and now I suddenly feel morally outraged. How can he do that to me? The injustice!!

(To anyone who's prepared to invoke 'whataboutism' or whatever, note that my point is that the US's moral outrage is hypocritical, given its extensive history of (much more violent) theft. It's not about whether "IP theft" is morally permissible.)
The second, because when the first fails, you're left with an ls command which is spewing some binary format you can't read without... wait for it... the tool which just failed.

I'd like to ensure my tools are all speaking a format which is too simple to ever fail.