skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "A few years ago some of Mark's posts were mistakenly deleted due to technical errors. The work required to restore them would have been extensive and not guaranteed to be successful so we didn't do it," the spokesperson said in a statement.

> ...

> These disappearances, along with other changes Facebook has made to how it saves its archive of announcements and blog posts, make it much harder to parse the social network's historical record. This makes it far more difficult to hold the company, and Zuckerberg himself, accountable to past statements — particularly during a period of intense scrutiny of the company in the wake of a string of scandals.

I frankly don't believe them at all. This is the same company that implemented special features to automatically delete his old FB Messenger messages in a way unavailable to normal users, so it would be harder for them to come back to haunt him: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/05/zuckerberg-deleted-message.... They have zero credibility in this regard.
Well there’s a healthy demand for the SE. It’s needed a serious update for quite a while and substantially from their current offerings. There’s similar preferences with the older MBPs as well. All widely commented on user forums.
I'm not sure that this is anything new. Apple has been known for decades as a company unwilling to pay top dollar but rather count on their mystique / sense of mission to attract talent. However, with the mystique fading and no longer having a go-go stock price to make options/RSUs as attractive, that strategy is probably not working nearly as well as it used to.
>>Such as?

* Property values appreciating due to zoning restrictions constraining supply growth. This is the finding of a recent analysis that got significant attention: https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/a-26-year-old-mit-gra...

* Increasing regulations resulting in suppression of competition and rent-extraction by an elite: http://cepr.net/publications/reports/working-paper-the-upwar...

* An increase in occupational licensing. 5% of occupations in 1950 required an occupational license. Today it's 29%. A higher prevalence of occupational licensing also contributes to inequality:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_licensing#Evidenc...

>A study from the Mercatus Center showed that occupational licensing can lead to greater income inequality, with each step needed to open a business leading to an additional 1.4% of national income going to the top 10% of earners.

>>Quick answer: Yes. If I create $200 worth of value for my company, and I'm paid $100 dollars and the other $100 is given to the company coffers, I'm underpaid relative to the value I create.

That is a deeply flawed Marxist understanding of economics. The $200 increase in company revenue is not solely due to the workers. If it were, the investors wouldn't be needed. The investment made by the investors is contributing enormous value, which is why investors are valued.

>>That does't tend to be how unions work.

Any rule that is broadly applied to the economy and regiments how labor is to interact with employers is going to be making simplifying assumptions about groups of workers/employers that treat them as homogeneous masses which would benefit from some set of cookie-cutter rules relating to some matter, be it collective bargaining, or union membership, or union dues.

An economy is far to complex to regiment with labor laws.

>>Some simply bargain for benefits that help the masses (grievance resolution, healthcare options, etc).

Regimentation does not help the masses. Mandatory minimum employment benefits like health options seem beneficial superficially, but in actuality they prevent individuals from negotiating the optimal trade off in benefits that maximize their well-being.

You don't increase the net pool of wealth in society when you make benefits mandatory. I might prefer a higher wage over guaranteed paternal leave. It's a trade off. One benefit has to come at the expense of another. Employers have a finite amount of wealth they can expend on labour.

Mandatory benefits are a case of treating individuals in society as cookie-cutter cut-outs, and applying a set formula to all of them. It's central economic planning, and it's destructive.
Section 230 created the internet as we know it. Don’t mess with it
Wait really? How? I thought it was called travel credit for a reason...
The most important question you need to ask is to yourself when you walk out of the meeting:

1- Did I understand their purpose and mission?
2- Was the leader someone inspirational & respectable that I'd be whiling to support during a crisis?

If you don't understand the mission and if you can't respect them then find something that's more suitable.
But why use `go` keyword for go-style routine?

I just realized I maybe have answered my own question but I don't think even Go should use `go` keyword for that.

Maybe give it a more technical name?
Just to site an example - handles software like ticketing systems or issue trackers, could be Jira or ServiceNow
How did you arrive at 0.68%? I pay a lot more than that.
What Finally Killed AirPower
When I was going through and manually removing my old posts, I couldn't delete any older than a number of years, and just got an error. I'd prefer the other bug.
I get these once or twice a year, meet the minimum spend, use the points and cancel the card. Repeat after 6 or more months as a "new customer".
OK, I finally did what I think is the real, updated math:

According to [1] from 2018, "Roughly
half of the budget consists of self-supporting
activities at the City’s Enterprise departments"

So that leaves $5.5B in General Fund taxes.

According to [2], in 2017 SF had 884,363 residents with 13.4% under 18, so 765,858 adult residents.

$5.5B divided over 765,858 taxpaying adults is $7,181/adult/yr, or just under $600/mo.

You can roll that up into households if you want, but it feels more illustrative to have the number be per taxpaying adult IMO. Having said that, I'll buy your $1,400/household/month number as being basically about right.

I don't disagree with your point about high taxes, but I did want to actually see what the accurate numbers were. Thanks for the interesting discussion.

I'm in LA so I ran the numbers down here for comparison... We turn out to tax at $262/adult/mo, so SF's effective city tax rate is about 2.3x vs Los Angeles.

[1] https://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/CSF_Budget_Book_June...

[2] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/sanfranciscocountycaliforn...
Sounded like a ton of complexity for minimal gain. If they could for instance create a “magnet disc” phone charger that works like the watch charger, wouldn’t that be basically as convenient (drop your phone close enough to mag-snap to the charger and walk away)?
this is just celebrity non-news though, Zuckerberg's page is merely a museum where everything important has already been announced in official channels.

If you want to store an archive of his posts just so you can say "AHA! Look its different now" then start scraping away
Not necessarily AR. The cameras on the front are going to be for tracking, instead of base stations.
In the past, it was easy to point at prop 13. With the new tax regime, that's less of a thing.
Personal opinion: Straight cash back cards are not exciting at all. You’re better off watching what you spend than getting excited about getting $20 back for spending every $1000.

Credit cards in the US are exciting right now because of premium rewards, mainly airlines miles, credit card points (Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi TY, Amex Membership Rewards), which could be worth 2-5 cents per point. Unlike cash back cards, these usually come with a fee though many waive it the first year.
They don't take the credit back on refunds.
Two completely serious questions here,

1 - Why would you want to replace java on the server? (Seems obvious that it provides the best balance of productivity and performance per watt.)

2 - Assuming a company would want to replace jave, why, on earth, would we not use C++? (Or, perhaps, rust if we want to use a newcomer?) Why are we better off going all the way down this list to go and swift?
Ah, it's a bummer, but sounds like there is reason for skepticism: https://twitter.com/SteveBrusatte/status/1111669545285107714
How do I sign up for the “mistakenly deleted” profile service that’s not backed up on Facebook?

I would pay for this.
I am using Fennec F-droid and some of the things that the developers did are unlikely to be welcomed in the main branch of the FF tree.
I remember when google staged previews on a web page, then asked if I wanted to sync 'that' folder. Near panic until I realized it was not shared.
> They don't have brains or central nervous systems,

I would very highly recommend reading David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster.

You can either buy the book of the same name which includes other essays or here's a PDF of the original article: http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf and here's a video of DFW reading it out: https://youtu.be/_fZOl7C_vDI
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is a quite good novel even if you'd treat it as total fiction.
dumbfucks
I don't think carbon footprint is the be-all end-all you suggest. In a startup that has yet to scale, trading off efficiency for, say, flexibility, safety, or expressiveness may have minimal carbon impact but major benefit for your business. After all, few here will defend the choice of C for web service development these days.
I would think the opposite. Presumably there's zero contention so no need to worry about concurrency control like locking. You're just paging linear blocks of memory to disk and the bookkeeping remains in local host memory, so all you're doing is sending and receiving fixed, independent blocks of memory that are opaque to the remote host. And prior to v4 NFS was UDP and stateless, so the code to do this from the kernel could be kept quite simple.

The functional equivalent to this is iSCSI, which as far as I understand is similar to if not literally what AWS uses under the covers for EC2 block devices.
Robot Reads the Bible to Old People in Nursing Homes
Uber/Lyft count for travel which helps a lot.
The point still stands, I mean if the author didn't want people looking at the page it certainly doesn't have to be public. It is what it is, I suppose; here's to hoping the red flags are misnomers.
Really. They don’t GPS you to know you’re away from home. It’s not _that_ hard. This is the broad categories they cover:

Merchants in the travel category include airlines, hotels, motels, timeshares, car rental agencies, cruise lines, travel agencies, discount travel sites, campgrounds and operators of passenger trains, buses, taxis, limousines, ferries, toll bridges and highways, and parking lots and garages.
Voice quality at that bit rate is absolutely astounding to me. This is one of my favorite things – to see such elegantly applied research.
I prefer cash back cards because I don't fly enough to care about miles. I also don't really want to think about points that I don't get to spend however I want. But I can imagine if you like the other rewards offered on some cards, you're probably getting more value than with cash back.
Right. "Mistakenly deleted", Not recoverable, gone, zilch.

Great way to wash away history.

Why not start a service to take money from FB users and permanently "mistakenly" delete their content too?
Just so everyone is aware, this is more of a toy language that the author makes considerably bold claims about. His benchmarks exaggerate by comparing the speed of print statements, and the language itself is essentially a transpilation (a direct rule based conversion without an AST) to x86 so no other platforms can be supported. He has of yet to actually release any source code so this is just based off of the comments of his I’ve tracked down. If you’re familiar with the author of Iris in Go, this guy is basically that but for a programming language.
Shapiro's publicly stated views literally align with what you just described. This isn't a rebuke of anyone's personal politics, it's a fact. He's a public figure who runs a news site.
Mozilla makes money with a bunch of stuff, like Pocket for instance.

You can throw out crap like that and presto: libre as in free beer.
Clojure has a type system... but I know what you mean. Perhaps you could expense a copy of Martin Fowler's new 2nd edition of Refactoring? It uses JavaScript, so applying the lessons to Clojure will be even easier. Refactoring in dynamic languages just isn't an obstacle for some of us, I don't know why, but that book is the only thing I can think of that might help someone having trouble bridge the gap.
David E. Shaw is living the dream:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Shaw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._E._Shaw_Research
>Are said investors not themselves speculators who would be underwater post bubble pop?

Not really? A lot of the institutional money sloshing around is being invested as a de-risked hedge against more volatile returns. They don't really care if the market goes down temporarily, because their other options would have gone down even more. Additionally, there's a significant chunk of money that's being laundered through these home sales, so they don't really care if they lose 20%. They care that they can now show a source for the capital when they want to funnel it into other investments that have AML requirements. Home owners who are underwater have a disincentive to sell, but functionally unless their income is tied to their home valuation, they can just ride out the downturn, like most people do with their other equity holdings. It only sucks if you're forced to sell.

That said, for the actual small to mid sized speculator, the 'being underwater' fears only hurt if you commence your leveraging the year before the bubble pops. You can just sell some of your portfolio to cover the loss and still end up ahead.

The comparison is between owning 20% of 10 properties vs. 85% of 1. Even if your portfolio takes a haircut, the total volume of equity you build dramatically outstrips the more conservative approach.
Oh, was that a thing? For example was there a lot of outrage and pressure on payment processors to deplatform FetLife, or for Patreon to remove cam girls? I don't recall anything along those lines.
I’ve been much happier with the elegant Apple charging equipment than anything else I’ve used.

The bricks are reconfigurable to use different outputs and different inputs, and the cables roll up neatly with the help of a simple hook and loop cable tie.
An ex-friend and I never signed off. We had an ongoing conversation that died down to only me writing messages, and then I stopped. It's still there in WhatsApp. Frozen in time. (The person is fine and posts public updates on FB and elsewhere.)
Huh yeah I didn't expect they'd count most transportation as travel. Thanks.
In case you decide to try it again, I wrote a little Selenium script in Python that works pretty well (although it took 3 days to complete for about 12 years of FB posts) https://github.com/weskerfoot/DeleteFB/blob/master/deletefb....
It's an anecdote. It doesn't matter if you hear it 150 times, obviously. If you hear 150 people tell you that vaccines gave their child autism, is that your reality?
It's sad because people view themselves as victims of chance with little to no power over their lives, and don't want to hear otherwise.

When I look at my friends, none of them fall into that category. For example, I have a friend who is currently reduced to living in a trailer. He's a serial entrepreneur, alternating between mansions and trailers. I've never seen him discouraged, he just picks up and takes another go at it. He's also (unsurprisingly to me) a heluva lot of fun to be around, always excited about this new venture he's doing.

People who believe their lives are run by (bad) luck never want to hear about the choices they've made, and the choices that are open to them to improve things for themselves. They're boring, sad people.
$95/(0.06-0.03)=$3,166.67

If you spend $263.89 or more per month at grocery stores it makes sense to upgrade to the Blue Cash Preferred. Keep in mind this excludes Costco, Walmart, Target.

If you buy groceries at Whole Foods and are a Prime member, you can get 5% via the no annual fee Prime Rewards Visa, which makes sense if you spend under $95/(0.06-0.05)=$9,500 per year at Whole Foods.
That’s the trade off, yes.
Does it remove the change they made in Firefox 37-42 where you can't run or edit any add-ons/extensions without approval from Mozilla?
I was a student at the time, and all the computer science researchers I knew were maxing out their laptops with 128 MB.

In the June 1998 MacWorld, you could order a 128 MB upgrade for your brand new PowerBook G3 for $389 [1]. Not cheap, but not that extravagant.

[1] https://archive.org/details/MacWorld_9806_June_1998/page/n13...
Surprising they cover taxes and buses and parking etc... cause I have travel cards that don't necessarily include those. Thanks.
I was under the impression that the number one duty of the police is to protect its citizens. I may have been proven wrong, as you suggest.
It’s a parable that illustrates the crux of everyday privacy issues. Maybe it’s intended for a non-technical audience.
There's no antenna, contactless payment cards are pretty uncommon in the US.
I assume that's why the parent said there's little need to carry around more than one
You know 1Password offers a yearly subscription, right?

I too didn’t think I’d switch to a subscription model for it, but it’s such useful software for so many purposes, and I’m very happy if it makes the company more sustainable.

It’s hard to make money with software. I don’t begrudge them at all.
Good for her. She seems like a remarkably good person.
Looking forward to reading the postmortem from Facebook's IT team on why this happened and how they plan to prevent it from happening to other users...
And the police officer got life in jail. I'm just kidding he totally got off with nothing but a paid vacation. This is the US, after all. Our cops are so stupid, they'll kill anything they imagine might hurt them and the laws so cruel and unjust, that we consider that perfectly fine. I'm sure that piece of shit is having a great time right now and plenty of people will come to defend him saying, how difficult his job is. Please. How difficult is it to not shoot an unarmed man? Just how fucking difficult is that? Let's hear it.
I'm starting to wonder if they mistakenly not deleted my profile when I specifically asked them to do so.
If you fly even 1-2x a year then why not fund that trip with one signup bonus from one card vs getting a cash back card (which usually don’t even come with a signup bonus and if they do it’s very small)?

If you don’t want to be tied to one airline card, a Chase Sapphire card which you can use to transfer to airlines or book directly with their reservation portal will give you 1.25 cents per point redeemed on flights or hotels.
This happened to me, too. I only found out when Firefox on my home PC filled in my old user name and password when I logged in, and I didn’t notice.
It's a pity that Apple lets license politics outweigh technological excellence in the software it chooses to ship.

Way back when, the first thing I'd do on any non-GNU host was to install a full GNU userland. I could write a book on my issues with GNU tools, but they are on balance preferable to the alternatives. All IMHO, of course.
Interesting. I have a similar Amex clear plastic card and I don't recall anyone ever commenting on it.
Fibonacci with memoization breaks at 48

Clearly this advanced language is too much to handle for mere mortals like myself.
That's assuming every millionaire wants to buy a house, and doesn't already own one. I think it's a bit charitable to say 100% of newly minted IPO millionaires are willing to extend themselves that far, especially with the widespread belief that we are are on the verge of a recession.
https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-new-iphone-screen...
Do people in this thread not realize that Facebook users have been able to delete old posts for years already?
JavaScript usually runs quite a bit faster than other dynamic languages (after JIT warmup), not because it's fundamentally any faster, just because modern JS engines are so good. Browser competition has meant that the amount of engineering work put into JS performance is much, much more than just about any other language.
Can't run Rust without powering the HN servers, to host the screeds of its acolytes.

I jest, (and I'm a Rust admirer myself), but my more serious point is: so many different kinds of electricity go into a plush tech company with its well paid developers and our copious brain food that powers us through all our developing and debugging. If you want to talk about sustainability, ask about the lifecycle maintenance of a software base. These benchmarks are cute, but academic, and only tenuously related to any green solutions. Especially if people in this thread are taking this seriously in terms of "This is exactly how we should all be thinking about server engineering moving forward, as we aim to drastically reduce carbon footprint within 11 years", then this is an feels like an awful, awful way to measure it.

What language is most conducive to writing algorithms that are smart in terms of Big O, or designing systems that can be refactored intelligently instead of throwing boxes at the problem?
> Which is 2x faster, but not "order of magnitude."

Well, it's a base-2 order of magnitude!
But if your 'one' is the '6% on groceries' AmEx, you do need to carry more than one (or accept that there will be places you can't spend money).
There is an Amex clear card with antenna. They kind of built it into the design. I can't remember which one is was though.
Repeat swatter? 20 years is absolutely justified.
Airpods 2 do not cut out when the microwave is turned on now :D. I've also found the signal stronger and passing through walls a bit better.
> In a startup... few here will defend the choice of C...

Not sure what you're responding to but I specifically said "at scale" and "developer productivity / friendliness is important to overall success."
Show HN: Ember.js Angle brackets invocation codemod using jscodeshift
Calling the police on someone in the US is a specific intent to kill, thus murder. You know what's likely to happen and you make that call. That's murder.
Most people in Germany lost everything in WW2, I mean everything. They were reduced to beggars.

But it wasn't long after the war ended that the people who had money before the war had money again, and the people who didn't before, didn't again. I.e. some people know how to make money. They make their own luck.
Which is exactly why I don't think all of these IPO millionaires are going to buy. They're going to park their money somewhere -- whether they continue to hold company stock, or sell it in exchange for index funds -- there's a multitude of other options for what to do with their new-found wealth, and it's an unrealistic to think 100% of them will buy a Bay Area house.
With Guns Drawn, Officers Raided Home to Get Feverish Child
Yeah he might have billions of dollars, but it was just too expensive to restore his data. Might've cost something like hundreds or maybe even thousands of dollars. Who can afford that in this day and age? We say data should be ephemeral and easily forgotten so everyone isn't held to account for every little thing they do in the past on the social network.
Same thing happening with my MacBook. Typing “.” yields “..” half the time.
Watch a few of the 'what would you do?' videos that put you in the cops' shoes.

It should be an eye opener.
I will check it out. Looks awesome. Thanks for sharing!
You don't. It costs at least a few billion dollars.
The PowerBooks weren’t that far away from the Sparc boxes. I used to sell them at retail in college to doctors and similar folks. They’d frequently walk out dripping $10k on the Amex on the device, software, gear, etc.

I had a Toshiba Tecra that was loaded from a memory perspective and that device retailed around $4k.