skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are lots of other ways to coerce human behavior besides violence.

Violence only usually works for a short time, in limited situations, with limited groups of people. Other than that it's largely counterproductive because dead babies photos get folks agitated.

What works really well is economic coercion. Sure, you don't have to do such and such, but then your kids won't go to college, you won't get a good job, you won't be able to buy anything, and in extreme cases, you won't be able to eat.

That is effective coercion, the kind all of us are subject to right now and generally responsive to as well. The issue with breaking the law isn't that you might get shot by the cops, it's that you won't be able to get a good (or any?) job ever ever again after you get out of 10 year confinement. So no women, no wine, no everyone thinking you are really something in your new car. No power. Will get bossed around in some low level degrading position for table scraps, if you are lucky.

It's really the same kind of thing as social credit score in China, just not as formal. And that kind of coercion is how smart people do it, not with guns.
This american system of paying for city services via property taxes instead of consumption or equal share is very strange when looking from abroad. If the city needs policemen, firefighters and teachers, as the article describes, then the city should split the bill to the number of citizens and not to how much they can rip off them. The property is not a city investment, so the city does not deserve any revenue from it. If the city did some investment, that is a cost to reimburse, of course, but not milking the property.
There are steps that Facebook could take to prevent, for example, the use of Messenger and WhatsApp for mob violence.

In fact, I seem to remember they recently did... The idea was limiting the number of possible recipients of a message, and also limiting forward chains. That would seem a promising policy to stop the sort of mass-coordinated eruptions of violent emotions these products otherwise enable.

The second point is rather more subjective, but in my recollection, there was never a moment where there was a collective sense that the internet is of negative net value in the way that is the case for FB today.

When the internet was small, it was also unknown. At the time where it became part of the general dialog, it often came in the form of CompuServe and AOL. Those were rather sanitised walled gardens, and the obvious positive uses had front page billing in the average person's mind. Sure, there were lots of scare stories of porn and whatever, but I don't remember them ever getting close the far larger narrative of the dotcom boom.
Pingly
It's sad you liked ranked choice voting last. That's all we need to end the duopoly.

I also feel, as the supreme court does, that Citizens United is a free speech issue. You should listen to this podcast about it to get some perspective: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/citizens-united

In a beautiful piece of irony, if it hadn't been for Michael Moore shamelessly using his corporation to produce political speech, the Citizens United court case might not have been successful.
Feeling is irrelevant; alternative, supply, is.

If I put every small widget manufacturer out of business, by only highlighting the cost of large (destrtuctive) widget maker, guess what? Small widget manufacturers go out of business. The large widget maker jacks up the price now that all their competitors have been destroyed.

Same way Amazon leverages the US postal treaty, to ship their products from slave-labor plants set up in China, where the same good, even for equivalent labor cost, STILL has to pay domestic shipping rates.

Same way Walmart brings crappy jobs, that pay just low enough, to qualify its employees for state benefits.

At some point, you have to understand, that the world is NOT best served by a single corporation, totally dominating key sectors (such as search, communication, etc).

Personally the single most important thing I want to choose, when I buy a service is:

who gets my money.
There have been forks and attempts at rewriting bits of it since it "died"
https://github.com/ivanpopelyshev/shumway/commits/master

there's also this thing
https://github.com/open-flash/open-flash

Apparently the hard part is not the swf format, or the bytecode interpreter, or the action script language, it's the rendering engine, apis, and the vast number of bugs that content has over the years come to depend on and expect in order to work.
Pingly is a beautiful communication hub you and your team will love.

Use one app and stay focused with all of your company's messaging in one place

Pingly is also a full-featured email provider that hosts email for you on your domain. Get email for your business or side-project in minutes - for free.
I've think I've heard something like employees of certain divisions being required (but not strictly enforced?) to use Android phones, simply because it is a different UX when you're not using the latest and greatest hardware.

Ex. using AR / heavy GPU processing face filter effects on a few year old Android. There's a significant number of these out there in the world.

Mark doesn't strike me as being so petty as to banishing iPhones from Facebook.
That trend is worrying. Old-fashioned ID cards are awesome. They uniquely identify you, so you don't need to give outrageous amounts of data everywhere you go. And that's about it.
This is so sad alexa play despacito
This reminds me of the youtube beauty gurus who will get paid 25k to give a positive review of the client's product, but can make 85k from the same client for leaving a negative review of a competitor's client.

https://www.revelist.com/beauty-news-/beauty-influencer-nega...

Relevant quote, ""A brand I consulted with asked me to inquire about working with a top-level beauty influencer. The influencer's management offered me these options: 1) $25K — product mention in a multi-branded product review. 2) $50K–$60K — dedicated product review (price determined by length of video). 3) $75K–$85K — dedicated negative review of a competitor's product (price determined by length of video). 4) A minimum 10% affiliate link or code to use on IG and YT."
Nah, I'm referring to how you're wildly misrepresenting your position and now presenting an exceptionally poor reading of the objection. If you manage to say anything of substance I'll be sure to recall it.

But really, I'm game! Name a specific program you object to? Single out one of the nonprofits that receives these funds? I'm curious what the nice folks down at Hamilton Families did to deserve this much of your ire.

I mean, it couldn't possibly be sour grapes that those lucky ducky homeless folks get to stay in smoke-drenched SF while you had to bounce to Austin like "everyone else?" How was ACL this year?
Neoliberalism, Milton Friedman and the free market crowd have been demonizing government for decades now and successfully lobbied for the removal of regulations since the 80s leading to the housing bubble, education loans and exploding tuition costs, buybacks and rampant financialization.

This banking crisis, fraud, education loan bubble is the direct result of 30 years of neoliberal free market policies. Yet instead of owning up to their mistakes in an act of brazen revisionism and fraud they are blaming the government for listening to them, and this is taken seriously. This is ideology.

A govt hijacked to promote special interests is not a government, its a plutocracy.
You need to be explained why $1.5B in public assistance to a trillion dollar ($700B+ today it seems) company is bad?

I'll try.

It distorts the competition, ESPECIALLY in the case of Amazon which more or less competes with every retailer everywhere.

It sets a bad precedent (yes, yes, water under the bridge) of big corporations expecting these benefits any time they feel like moving around.

NYC has better uses for the money.

It doesn't need the goddamn money, because it's one of the most successful companies in the entire world, ever. It can finance its operations by itself with absolutely no problem whatsoever. It's ridiculous they're even asking for public assistance.

This is a race to the bottom. Sports stadium construction incentives are good examples of this.
It's somewhat Marxist, don't you think?

The capital from the capitalists is "redistributed", spent by Uber on salaries and various purchases (more salaries). The working class collects their salaries, roughly commensurate with the cost of living (aka "according to their needs").
I have experienced the drive in the wrong direction for >10 minutes uber driver and it is very frustrating. They must get dinged massively for cancelations?
At this point, I would have zero doubts about betting against Uber. The fact that company with ginormous loss continues to pursue loss-making ventures is beyond me. Food delivery was already an established market in India, and UberEats had no competitive value compared market leaders when it came--except, of course, zero delivery fees. The market itself is extremely challenging and not even the biggest companies have profitability in sight, and yet for Uber it somehow fits in their long term vision.

Wake up, Uber management. No company, however appealing, can continue to raise money making a billion in quarterly loss.
I wouldn't say useless, but I agree with some aspects of your general thrust.

I agree that symbolism seemingly matters more. I was actually once on a podcast years ago arguing that terrorism was essentially a solved or non-existent problem because armed with nothing more than a rented truck terrorist could plow through crowds. And in the US it was even easier! They could buy weapons at gun shows! Why did they need to hijack planes?

Ultimately, though, my arguments didn't hold. The terrorists did exactly what I thought they would do if they really wanted to cause damage.

Just because X could Y (but doesn't) doesn't mean X won't ever Y.

I'm not worried about ISIL style attacks where a couple hundred people die. Frankly cutting out one can of cola a week would probably save more lives in the West.

I'm worried about mass attack. We can skate around it all we like, but we're one bad Windows / Dropbox / Tesla / Linux / Cisco / QNX update from hundreds of thousands or millions of people dying. The Windows worm that preceded the electrical grid blackout in the mid 2000s was the inadvertent cause. If an accidental worm can take out that much we should be much more worried about the scale of the threat.

We've also never been able to secure the boarder. With drones this gets even harder because capture is no longer a real deterrent.

Security is an arms race that favours the offense over time. A theatre that strongly favours the offense requires deterrence and intelligence for dominance, but the deranged can't be deterred and I don't think intelligence will work forever. Ultimately the arms race needs to end.

I don't know the solution, but my intuition points to GATACA and UBI. But even with an optimistic estimate I still consider that a stop-gap.
The thing is, Docker Golf is possibly the worst way to optimise the real costs of container images -- because it comes at the cost of maintenance (distributions exist for a reason).

A much better solution is to fix the image format to better handle the usecases that it needs to handle. (This is what I'm working on at the moment.)
They do? Commas and quotes are the two basic features of CSV, so it seems very strange to forget to implement half.
And then there are things like IE6 that they didn't abandon soon enough.
Driving has significant liability costs and you can’t spend your time driving doing other things you can as a passenger.
imo most people fake it, so you're mainly self-filtering for people who are good actors.
Zuckerberg made his execs use Android after Apple slammed FB's privacy approach
I'm not sure I'd call that an invasion, it was a 3 week assualt on the border in response to Vietnam deciding to go overthrow and occupy Cambodia and Laos, both of whom were supported by China.

There's not enough room in the comments to write down the last 50 years of US and allies boots on ground adventures bringing "peace" to the world.
The employers were able to get them to "critical mass."
Navigate on Autopilot is Useless
> Facebook is a tool

...and so are its users. In any case: people are arguing specifically that the negatives outweigh the positives. While that is obviously subjective and debatable, there really isn't any argument defending Facebook under the assumption that they are net negative.

In fact, there is a rather long list of precedent. That's why you can't really enrich uranium even if it would make a really cool necklace.
Let me condense that to the relevant bit. All emphasis is mine.

> How Information Is Shared

> We do not share your personal information except in the limited circumstances described below.

> For External Processing

> We transfer information to our corporate affiliates, service providers, and other partners (so, basically anybody) who process it for us, based on our instructions, and in compliance with this policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. These partners provide us with services globally, including for customer support, information technology, payments, sales, marketing, data analysis, research (so we can ad target you), and surveys.

If I buy a gadget to track my personal exercise routine, it is definitely unexpected that my whereabouts are being monitored by advertising companies. Does Apple do the same with their fitness data on the watch?
Thanks! I love all the Sega-era "billboard" style of games. There was actually a set of SegaScope 3D Glasses for use in the Sega Master System that could render a stereoscopic effect right on a NTSC-standard television set!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_shutter_3D_system
It depends. At my company (70,000+ employees the last time I checked) even the CEO doesn't wear a tie, much less a suit (usually he wears a t-shirt and jeans). A sales guy wearing so much as a tie would not be taken seriously.
Wrong. Chuck Schumer called it a "one-two gut punch to the middle class". Nanci Pelosi called it "simply theft — monumental, brazen theft — from the American middle-class and from every person who aspires to reach it". And that is only if the tax cuts are not renewed in 2027 - which the democrats voted against making them permanent.
Is it that simple? Empty space has energy (dark energy) and E=MC^2 means energy and mass are interchangeable. Hence infinite space does imply infinite mass.

Not a physicist, so I'm probably dead wrong. But I would like to be enlightened.
+1 for immer. I love it.

If anyone here ends up using it, make sure you learn how it works first. There are performance implications. It may not matter but it's important to know what they are. Also it's generally best practice to learn how magical utilities like immer do what they do before using them!
But they generally still function right? They're just not "the way you should do it anymore".
You're just missing some terminology. This stuff is surprisingly complex -- which gives technical people used to worrying about mind-numbing levels of complexity an edge ;)

"Revenue" is confusing for business like this. More precise reporting usually reports either "GMV" (gross marketplace value, all the payments Uber took in) or "net revenue", which would deduct the amounts paid to drivers. If an article said "revenue" without further qualification and it was a marketplace business, I'd probably assume they were talking about GMV.

"Profit" is to some extent a fiction of the accounting department -- the relevant question is actually cashflow. Money in, money out. When you need to make a payment for loan service/payroll/etc and don't have the cash, you're headed for bankruptcy; that's pretty easy to understand. By way of comparison, whether or not a firm is "profitable" requires making a bunch of complicated judgments about whether you've actually "earned" the cash you've collected (e.g. gift cards, multi-year software contracts) and on the expense side, how to spread the cost of large, long-term, fixed assets (like code development, PCs, etc) against what they productively delivered (revenue-wise) over long timescales, potentially decades. That's called depreciation and amortization and it's a big topic in accounting school.

One thing many developers forget is that customer acquisition, especially in marketplace businesses like Uber, DEVOURS cash. Uber spends like crazy on everything from conventional advertising (digital, TV, radio), referral/sign-up credits, rider incentives, cross-promotions with other brands (stay at X hotel and get uber for 10% off), etc.

Uber is uniquely complex because it's sort of an aggregated conglomerate of a bunch of markets with differing stages of maturity and profitability. Think of each of these as different businesses, where the older, more developed (e.g. Chicago, New York) ones are putting cash into the business, subsidizing the spend (investment) on developing a good competitive position in later markets.

And yes, there is absolutely truckloads of money available if you can show you can reliably acquire customers on a business with good economics.
Except Lyft has probably 1% of coverage that Uber has.
Because it guarantees customers for a product that - sans compulsion by law - would not have been purchased due to its high price.
Depends, where I am there's Uber or Traditional Cabs. My experience phoning for a cab is pretty pleasent though (quicker than using uber). Although their app is unusable.

(When it comes to dodgey companies CabCharge is pretty terrible)
My experiences with Oracle databases back in the late 90's is partly what drove me to really strongly adopt open source. My webdev company was doing a contract for Ascend Communications who made ISDN modems, to build their whole website content management system.

I wrote an adapter that tied PHP (pre-1.0) and Java together before we had servlets and Tomcat. We used Java for the ‘backend’ and PHP for the ‘frontend’ rendering. Java talked to Oracle, pulled data out of the db and sent it to PHP for rendering the HTML. Oracle was forced on me because Ascend had a contract with them. This project was a nightmare on many levels, but Oracle was the majority of my drama.

Eventually, this project drove me to figure out servlets and Apache Jserv (first open source servlet engine)… which then led to myself and a couple random guys from Italy who had joined to work on JServ, to get Sun to open source Tomcat and create Java Apache (later renamed to Jakarta). If it wasn’t for all that, other Java stuff might not have happened at Apache (Hadoop, Lucene, etc).
Agree. You see this clearly with videos on there that are hard to close - bad UI, but surely bumps up their total hours of video served stat.

But I I get the odd feeling using Facebook that the content is not even so data-optimized for engagement (because surely if that were the case I’d find my feed more interesting than it is) but rather that it is optimized for revenue in ways that are actually negative in terms of real engagement. Example - if I see an interesting article and stop 5min to read it, that’s real engagement for a significant amount of time, but I might see only a couple of ads in that time. Whereas If the content is really dull and I’m just scrolling mindlessly, I’m seeing a lot more ads, and the gap between how interesting the ads are and how interesting the non-ad content is is much smaller.

Does anyone else get this feeling? Ie that facebook is almost intentionally boring?
How does SV have so much more hashing power but so few network nodes?

Also what portion of the BU/ABC hash power are malicious SV nodes? Or will we not find out until the hash war begins?
24 Amazing, Homemade Dungeons and Dragons Maps
> I've heard people who don't use or don't show enthusiasm about the Facebook platform are screened out before hiring as "bad culture fit."

Maybe just the people that don't know how to fake it?
Header files absolutely are a hassle to keep up to date. Besides, they're a terrible experience. You have to pay attention to include order! You have to write forward declarations! You have to write include guards, in 2018!

They're also bad as an overview. They may have been good in the 1980s, but nowadays a proper documentation generator gives you better formatting, search features, and cross-references. Inline documentation is particularly obnoxious in header files: I like seeing function-level documentation alongside interface and implementation, but if I put the documentation in both the .cpp and the .h file it's duplicated in two places and easily gets out of date.
Agreed. Just for starters, there are two tied bad practices here. One is that the "creepy mater" is based on "user ratings" apparently despite being a curated Mozilla branded list. That immediately opens it up too all the normal random masses using it as a medium for non-relevant opinions, trolling, etc. Further it means that they have a list with nothing at all that isn't "A little creepy" so even if someone thinks "well then what should I buy?" there is no answer, which invites a "well whatever" attitude in and of itself.

Further as you point to, a lot of the "creepiness" factor is a function of the delta between expectations and reality, ie. how surprising it is, and the extent to which it's perceived to be avoidable. That can be different then absolute measures of how objectionable something is. To take your example, an internet connected game console these days has some upfront expectation of data collection by virtue of the profile and social features that are right there front and center. Since it's also generally static in a fixed location and used only for a specific purpose, the surprise factor of most of its privacy issues is inherently lower, and the data collection less passive. A cooking tool though might be a lot more subject to surprise at what it's doing.

This list definitely feels very shallow and disconnected from any deeper reasoning about specific security practices, business models, whether a net connection is actually required or not, etc. It's a popularity poll at best, and the actionable advice is minimal. It's a bit disappointing coming from Mozilla, at least to the extent that it's a wasted opportunity on something that the public is growing more aware of.
Did you know that Google Maps shows both Uber and Lyft price at the same time? Very handy for comparison.
I don't think we have to think of it as a binary opinion. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) realizes that the supply of doctors is an issue - but anyone can already start a medical school (California Northstate, for example).

And to address your point about "awful doctors", people are also starting to realize the shortcomings of the previous system - filtering too heavily on test scores/grades, for example, meant that many medical schools churned out graduates with great test scores but relatively poor interpersonal skills (which is a travesty since you're dealing with people all day) for a while. Nothing is changing overnight, of course, so the jury is still out in how things will be in the next few decades.
Actually, cell-level endosymbiosis seems to have happened a bunch of times. Chloroplasts in plants are basically the same deal. The amoeboid paulinella chromatophora seems to have an independent lineage of chloroplasts. The Wikipedia page on endosymbiosis has more examples. It's starting to look pretty common.

Also, complex multicellularity (IIRC defined as differentiated cells) has evolved (according to the latest theory) six times. So that looks pretty likely to happen eventually, as well.

Human-level technological civilization, yeah, that looks like a one-time thing so far.

Edit: check out this article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3910982/ They just casually mention "diatom-derived plastids", which are basically organelles that used to be diatoms, eukaryotic organisms in themselves!