skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Guy Rosen and other execs within Integrity team continually skirt their responsibilities here. They claim they're doing better, but the second-order effects of crappy work conditions and demands keep cropping up. Zuck says one day we will hopefully be able to AI-away this integrity work (especially the most traumatizing), but he does not say a whisper as to improving working conditions or pay while the work needs to be done by humans. And I bet Zuck wouldn't be able to handle the content that these people have to view. Sheryl does not care. She keeps referencing the same standard schpiel about how contracting companies have to abide by a strict set of standards, and how they're ahead of the market in terms of pay and wellbeing. But it's still awful. The divide between contractors and full-time workers at Facebook is truly disgusting.

People who work at Facebook should be pushing for change. But they're numb to the schpiel. They're cushy and looked after and don't want to create a fuss.

Rosen doesn't care. Zuck doesn't care. Sheryl doesn't care. What DO they care about? Perception. Sit in any high-up integrity meeting and you'll see the only thing they seem to talk about is how "x" would be received by users at scale. There's no comment as to the ethics or corporate responsibility. You can be talking about something pretty out there like how human rights intersect with takedown decisions and all you've got is a bunch of people umming-and-ahhing about lossy metrics and how Zuck wants this or that so we better hurry up. Or how awwesome it'll look on our PSCs if we ship this thing.

Broken company.
TL;DR: LinkedIn makes it really easy for Chinese spy agencies to identify suitable targets at companies or government orgs of interest and contact them innocuously in the form of recruiters. While this much is by design, a LinkedIn profile also often has enough information to let them deduce that a person's career is not going well or they're in financial trouble, making them particularly susceptible to bribery or blackmail:

> For example, Kevin Mallory, a former CIA officer,
was sentenced to 20 years in prison for handing over
secret documents and confidential information to Chinese intelligence. His career was floundering and he
was in dire financial straits when he received a message from a fake account on LinkedIn in 2017. This fake
contact claimed to be working for a think tank that
was looking for foreign policy expertise. The targeted
ex-CIA officer travelled to China twice and was given
money and equipment to maintain his communications with the Chinese.

One point not raised by the article is that two can play at this game: LinkedIn is allowed to operate in China and has some 41 million users, and there's a local unicorn called Maimai (脉脉) that's increasingly popular as well.
Who said failures are always orphans?
You could just buy some (or one) of the currencies backing Facebook's Monopoly Money. A basket of major currencies is, purely logical, less risky than the same basket plus a layer of Facebook crypto-voodoo.

Considering some rather beleaguered tech company's fancy new crypto-whatever to be more stable than currencies that have decades of rather benign market histories does not strike me as rational.
It would be so easy. If CSW signed a message with Satoshi's private key, it would be enough to prove that he is Satoshi (or at least had access to Satoshi in a way nobody else had).

But no, he's going the legal route for some strange reasons and it doesn't seem he's convincing the judge.

I have no clue what he intends to do. Maybe he got so into his role that he really believes now to be Satoshi?
For one thing, new games on Linux should no longer be targeting a platform that should have been phased out before Steam even launched on the OS.

And people will no longer need a duplicate set of libraries on their machines, all the way down to the gfx drivers. New software, and old stuff with 64-bit support, should have a lot less compatibility issues.
If he sends me a bitcoin from one of Satoshi's wallets I'll believe him. 10 bitcoins and I'll believe him even more.
libchrurl

It's visually more distinct than libcrurl while retaining an appropriate resemblance to libcurl.

One could argue that some resemblance in name is a good thing for curl. But libcrurl is too close and likely to cause confusion.
The inventor of Bitcoin doesn't need to "prove" he invented it and also he did not want to be known.
This is all about exploiting the unbanked and the migrants/illegals that send cross border payments home. This is why Visa and PayPal are involved too, they want a piece of that pie as well. This is FB seeing how well WeChat has done with payments and going after Africa and South America since Asia has already been won.

They have said this will be available in Messenger and WhatsApp.
He's going to have a hard time against google for the trademark after not fighting MS for aliasing invoke-webrequest by default in powershell.
You know that this is not proven right? Or rather, not even a "theory" in the physics sense, there are multiple competing hipothesis, none of them have enough evidence for us to be certain the universe will end... In some ideas the university does end, but in big crunch, or big rip, in others it just starts anew, in others humans spawn new universes, and so on...
I assume by "new API" for VMs on macOS you mean Hypervisor.framework, which is supported by qemu 4.0.0 and xhyve, both open-source. I wrote a blog article about using qemu with Hypervisor.framework to install Debian in a VM here: https://sigmaris.info/blog/2019/04/automating-debian-install...
I recently went the KVM MacOS/Hackintosh route (but not using this exact script) and while it functionally worked great— GPU Passthrough (Used RX580 and Vega 56), PCI Passthrough (USB Controller/Bluetooth/Wifi/Ethernet Card/SATA Controller/NVME Drive), iMessage, Handoff, AirDrop, etc. etc. I found it to be hassle on my consumer AMD motherboard with an AMD GPU.

With the AMD GPU, I had trouble resetting the GPU between VM starts/stops without restarting the whole computer. This appears to be a problem with a consumer AMD cards.

It could be specific to AMD Ryzen IOMMU Groups, but it was also pretty annoying to passthrough the PCI devices and still leave the appropriate hardware for the host machine. There aren't any native virtio drivers in OSX so you really need to pass through your sata controller/ethernet card for full performance. Might have been easier with a server motherboard with cleaner IOMMU groups, though.

I ended up just building a bare-metal Intel Hackintosh which was less of a hassle.
In the context of a universal suffrage democracy, everything is potentially political, and pretending otherwise is wishful thinking.
People with higher capita tax receipts are also less likely to be ill, less likely to indulge in violent crime, less likely to hold extremist views, less likely to litter or cause other trouble.

If you want to manage a liveable city instead of a slum, you want that kind of people.
A "huge Ponzi scheme" is exactly what governments and regulators should put a stop to, so I really don't see a contradiction?
And why 50? That's so arbitrary. Why not 120? Or 240? Or 9?
Oh, only non exploiting business models ever get chosen. (Taking notes.)
He's just a scam artist who wants media coverage to further his scams.
That's just wishing the problem away with techno-optimism. When you call someone at a company on the phone to get help, they often need to access your account. If they don't have access to anything, they're mostly useless and you get no help.

We're a long way away from making everything self-service and companies not needing to hire anyone to do support. Until all the support people get laid off, they need to be trusted at least to some extent. (Internal controls can be helpful.)
>Can an exaFLOPS scale Google datacenter with millions of TPUs really be less capable than the 20 watt ball of jelly we all carry around?

It is demonstrably less capable in some important dimensions, yes.
This is not the most money a nation has ever spent on any singular object. I am not saying that. I also firmly believe that it was worth it!

But the difficulty is in

a) allocating this money
b) convincing the public that removing this money from, say education, is a good strategy

A good chunk of people seriously require heat warnings on their hot coffee to realize that their coffee is hot. I don't hold high hopes in making a voting majority of people understand long-term global benefits.
This is probably what you mean:

https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc

It's still a work in progress, with only x86 even supported. It's not a GCC frontend, it generates C, and is based on an old version of rust (1.19). Right now I think it's only useful to bootstrap rust, but that doesn't help you get a backend for another architecture.
>The provocateur is Vitalik Buterin, a baby-faced Russian-Canadian programmer

Very sexist. What would've happened if they had commented like this on the appearance of a female?
Or we could just limit rent rises and allow rent contracts to be limited to 5 years. After all, why does anyone have a higher "right" to live in their preferred place?
Sex doll maker creates replicas of dead partners to combat loneliness
Are you implying that Fedora has some history of being slow to update security vulnerabilities?
Perl Out Loud
Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions
The issue is not as much Cognizant or FB as it is the state of the public. The horrible acts posted online for entertainment by the public is the reason for companies like Cognizant. I hope these posts can forwarded to local law enforcement and the posts used as evidence against the poster.
I think your criticisms are all valid, but I still loved it.

A lot of sci-fi is plot driven, characters are just vectors for the ideas, and I found the big ideas in The Dark Forest really interesting. I'd never thought to critically about the Sagan/space optimist "people in bear suits" view of alien contact before reading the book (in spite of seeing plenty of space horror movies). And for all its faults, it maintained a tension and mystery that kept me interested to the end.

I also had trouble keeping names and even genders straight, the only character I had a connection to was Da Shi (the hard boiled cop).
Announcing VCV Rack 1.0, the largest update since its launch in 2017
They do all the time.
The whole downgrade scandal to me felt like a smear campaign, not something warranted and natural.
It's also people not being paid nearly the value they produce for an organization. Everything is always a race to the bottom for us
It's not like zero-carbon agriculture (hydroponics or not) is impossible.
I don't see how an average person could be expected to witness some of the things mentioned in the article. I didn't have time to read the entire article, but do they have counselors on staff or something?

That one paragraph about organs was enough to ruin my day, and it was just text. I'm surprised such a "rash of videos" wasn't in the news somewhere.
From all that I've read about the founding of Bitcoin, my guess would be that it was the guy in the wheelchair who died before bitcoin got really big. I forget his name, but he was involved early on in crypto, he was a white guy, not Japanese.
Everything points towards the guy being dead.
Probably not the ones—if any—that lurk 4chan and other extreme imageboards, having been desensitized to such content or probably even get something off of it.

I actually wonder now how much of their workforce would fit in that demographic.
These still exist in the form of corporate newsletters filled with high-production videos of very serious people saying very serious things. It's still considered a musical, it's just you hafta have the right Dadaist frame of mind to get it.
This is done for Youtube as well btw. Not a FB only problem.
I visited a few African countries in April, they call it "mobile money" Mpesa, MTN mobile money, and then there's Wave, Xoom, etc.

To my knowledge you don't even need an internet connection for mobile money.
I really don't see what all the drama was over. Those aliases are incredibly valuable to me. I can never remember the PS equivalents of unix-y commands and those aliases let me use my current muscle memory.

Sure the options are different but it's really not all that different than switching between GNU/Linux, MacOS, and BSD and having to deal with differences.

PS> cd C:\Users\
PS> ls
PS> wget https://example.com

And it makes discovery super easy when you can Get-Help just about every unix command and it will show you more-or-less the appropriate equivalent. The thread just looks like a bunch of people with a bone to pick against MS trying to take some moral high-ground with a change that was added to genuinely help users.
> It sounds like the job absolutely sucks but these contractors need to have a little bit of personal responsibility for their own mental health. I suspect they do but the article gives the impression they are all trapped there with no way out.

> Tampa is a major call center hub so I imagine contractor positions are opening up all the time given general churn rates.

What matters is that you've come up with a narrative that convinces you it's the workers' fault.
I don't understand your opposition to the name. The three body problem is so named

Look at my first objection, that the problem described in the book has (at least) FOUR bodies. Yet the idea that it's a three-body problem is pervasive throughout the book.

Surely that in itself is enough to justify some aggravation.
If the game does not meet Nintendo's standards they will kill a project. Even if the game is almost complete. They just killed Metroid for switch.
According to a 2018 survey from an industry analyst group, 52% of active gamers play on pc, 90% on mobile, and 41% on console.[1]

1. https://www.pcgamesn.com/pc-gamers-vs-console-gamers-numbers
Yep - bank transfers are free and fast, all my bill payments are automated, contactless is everywhere - it's great.
> Saying growing populations disprove Malthus is like saying since smoking one cigarette didn't cause cancer, cancer from smoking is a myth.

No, because people who smoke do die from cancer. The earth has never hit a hard limit on how many people it can support. We are no where near the physical limit of how much food we can grow. Not even close (hence the actual population gain that only slows due to cultural changes and not resource limits).
> The online community doesn't even need real reasons to be angry, they'll make them up at they have to.

The online community consist of millions of people, of course some of them will always be angry. However when you have millions of people hating you and very few defending you then there are usually a good reason to it, otherwise they don't unite like that.

Example: Nintendo announcing that the first game to use their paid subscription pokemon storage system wont actually be able to use all pokemon, and that no game in the future will either, meaning that some pokemon people paid to store and reuse later will never be able to be used. This lead to a lot of hate on the game, including some over the top criticism of the graphics which otherwise wouldn't be an issue but now most of the energy goes towards hating the game so nobody bothers to defend it.
No, its more like the devs have the necessary marketplace leverage and fallback to either put a quash on that notion or move on to another less ridiculous job. Don't think for a minute devs wouldn't be treated the same (and in some places ARE) if the corporate c-levels could get away with it without bleeding talent that is expensive to re-acquire. I am not, by any means, a Workers of the World Unite kinda person, but group negotiation and gasp unionization is becoming more and more necessary - if ONLY to get the beancounters to consider labor in their souless cost calculations when making decisions that lead to the conditions in the article.
https://www.idiosyncraticwhisk.com/2016/10/housing-part-183-...

Kevin Erdmann agrees with you. Here is his blog post about the housing shortage associated with the 2008 bust
Creator of anarchist cryptographic money resorts to using the law against his enemies? hmmmmm...
This is industry standard in businesses with limited sick day or leave policies. Especially in call center type environments.

Once an employee has used their allotment, they receive a write up if they take off again no matter how ill. Too many write ups and you're fired. Managers have no discretion in this process, so they can only mitigate the impact by doing something like bringing the trash can over or buying hospital masks.

Not saying it’s acceptable! But this isn’t a facebook problem specifically.
Hal Finney!

https://twitter.com/halfin/status/1110302988
> While computers ended up using the generic double-quote symbol " for both opening and closing quotation marks, in printing quotation marks are expected to be two different characters. To get around this, reporters were instructed to use two grave marks to open quotes, and two apostrophes to close quotes:

> For example: ``When we talk to God it’s called prayer. When God talks to us it’s called crazy.''

> As bad as that looks on a modern digital screen, it was absolutely jarring to see coming out of a teletype.

Is this why some people mix up grave symbols and apostrophes today?
You should sue him
Make the users do a little every so often. Like Slashdot's "hey, go moderate some posts" thing but forced to before they can use the platform anymore. That'd be fun.

Of course the real answer is that this sort of site is a bad idea and shouldn't exist. Wide-open signup and public visibility of content, or ease of sharing it with strangers. Bad combo, don't care how much money it's making them (and other, similar sites).
Improve them how? Also, if they become more powerful than governments, they don't have to answer to no one. Once they control your livelihood, you wouldn't be able to even complain. It's basically putting them at the doors of an authoritarian government.
The stated reasoning behind this seems pretty vague to me, and this follows an increasingly common business pattern in the software industry: clone or fork an existing free software solution, and then fund it massively so that it pulls ahead of the original free software.

In the most extreme cases, i.e. FreeBSD->MacOSX, the free software is replaced by software under a non-free license. If there is mention of how libcrurl will be licensed, I missed it, but there's actually a subtler attack on free software which has happened with i.e. GCC->Clang or Konqueror->Safari/Chrome. What makes this attack subtle is that it allows companies to release under a free license, while not actually making any commitment to a free ecosystem. By providing massive amounts of funding and manpower to these projects, large companies can ensure that their version of the software remains dominant, and they get to choose what to include and exclude. This has predictable results: breaks in support for related free software[1] and pressuring the introduction of non-free components even in otherwise free browsers[2] after people have committed to the new, corporately-controlled platform.

As noted, I don't know what license this will be released under, or how this power will be used if they supersede the original curl tool. I'm just saying that projects like this should be seen as attacks on free software and viewed with suspicion.

[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365327

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/10/30/video-interoperabil... (note: OpenH264 is free as in beer not free as in freedom, a.k.a. gratis not libre).
The only problems I see are that someone could potentially upload a lower resolution version of the video a moderator has seen and then perhaps bypass the content id system (I don't know how tolerant they tend to be for situations as that).

There's also the aspect of if we make it search out for distinct frames (like "scene change" type things), there's the possibility that some safe things could become auto-moderated which would be another controversy. Perhaps if they could locate start/stop times for inappropriate elements of the source video and then check for videos containing any of those in a later uploaded video, but then instead of asking human moderators to discern "is this video good or bad" we're now forcing them to get timestamps of when bad elements take place which would force them to really watch the video.

Dunno, I'm of the belief that it's just not an easily solved problem. I hope I'm wrong and they can toss money at the problem to fix it, but I genuinely don't know how they could.
The charting vulnerability discussed in the article and found to be introducing vulnerabilities in 90 crypto coin sites remains 100% effective if you never eval server side and only serve bundles from your own domain with appropriate content security policy. Worse, now that the bug has been fixed in the vendor's distribution, your customers would still be at risk if you were self hosting the old files. There are no simple solutions to securing large complex systems. It's simply hard and takes lots of work, and you will almost certainly still be vulnerable in the end. That's why physical locks are rated in terms of time for attackers to open not inability of attackers to open.
Are you really trying to gaslight me here? Why not address my argument instead?
Meta: when did this clickbait formulation of headlines become the norm even for serious, reputable news?

I still find it grating, and avoid articles headlined this way.
It seems like content moderation is just a crazy wicked problem. And the company is doing the best it can with a lot of constraints. Better communication with the workers sounds like it would help, but what else should they be doing realistically?
I was thinking about this more but you’re right. I doubt there’s any acquired knowledge needed to know what’s repugnant to the human mind.
None of the popular options sound like your choices will matter a lot in the end:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_universe
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They wouldn't be allowed to.
I don't think that happened in the US, and I don't think they immigrated so it's not really an effect on US colleges.
Media keeps complimenting this guy as subtext - he's considered a super villain, or a brilliant scam artist. Which part of his playbook is impressive in any way?
If Google is just hoping to get their new protocols implemented in something curl-like, they ought to implement them in curl and send it upstream.

However, it's totally fine to provide several implementations of the same API. If it applies to Oracle's Java then it applies to Daniel's curl, even if we like one more than the other.

HOWEVER, that name has got to change. If an unambiguous pronunciation is not evident then it comes off as a deliberate attempt to muddy the waters and capture mindshare of an open source project.
Well: Either it is crypto, in which case policymakers are going to dislike it because of how crypto is linked to these aspects that policymakers dislike. Or, if they called it crypto when it's not really crypto then that play clearly backfired because instead of lessening the regulatory scrutiny it's actually increasing it.

Either way, I think my point is valid: Cryptocurrency is in this state of limbo where it's something that policymakers dislike but they haven't yet gotten around to making the laws that say so. I can't see into the future, but I am hereby going on the record by saying that this is something I am expecting will happen. And facebook entering the scene serves as a catalyst to accelerate the lawmaking. Them kind of saying "hold on a sec..." is what I see as this process kicking off right now. Will be interesting to see whether it holds true or not.