skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how is a corporation better? A corporation is made with the ultimate purpose of making money for their shareholders. The wellness of the customers is not a goal at all.

Also, I disagree with the part about a corporation being "elected". If you don't like how your schools run, for example, you can vote for a different government, and at no point you will lose the schools for voting differently. If you don't like how Facebook is run (or any other company for that matter) the only way to "vote" is to be ready to stop using Facebook. In other words, the cost of having a say in how a company is running a service is possibly losing access to the service, and therefore the company has far more power over you than the one a "government" would have running the same service.
You really think that line is "super-optimized"? It generates and executes a regex to check if a string has one of two different prefixes. I don't know a lot about JavaScript internals, but I would imagine that is both forces memory to be allocated (and garbage generated) as well as being significantly slower than a basic prefix check. If doing this is considered "super-optimized", I don't even know what this industry is any more.
I have a collection of climbing magazines from the 1990s, and many of the featured routes in South American ranges like the Cordilla Blanca are no longer climbable today. The glaciers, ice, and snow are gone, and what's left is crumbly, friable rock that is not safe to climb on.

Mt Rainier is also mostly composed of crumbly, friable rock, and I wonder just how climbable it would be without glaciers and snowfields to provide secure footing and keep rocks from falling down on people.
It took me a long time to jump on the password manager bandwagon, but one of the big positives IMO is that I almost never need to type or see my password to enter it correctly - precisely for the reasons you mention. I do occasionally need to see if I made a typo or I don't need the privacy but as you say - it shouldn't be the default.
You obviously didn't read the article.
>libra-bux

Personally I'm fond of zucc-bux
So is the backdated blog posts edited after the fact (thank you internet archive for proving that). So was the fake PGP key, again backdated and created with a version that didn't even exist back when it was dated. Craig Wright is an incredibly transparent fraudster. No one with even an ounce of intelligence believes his claims are legitimate unless it suits their goals.
>3rd world country

These workers are in the U.S. FYI
The point of the feature though is that the trackers can no longer provide meaningful insight beyond what the lack of a bounce provides, since the server will always fetch whether the email is opened or not.
>> "Speagle vividly recalls the first video he saw in his new assignment. Two teenagers spot an iguana on the ground, and one picks it up by the tail. A third teenager films what happens next: the teen holding the iguana begins smashing it onto the street. “They beat the living shit out of this thing,” Speagle told me, as tears welled up in his eyes. “The iguana was screaming and crying. And they didn’t stop until the thing was a bloody pulp.”

>>"Under the policy, the video was allowed to remain on Facebook. A manager told him that by leaving the video online, authorities would be able to catch the perpetrators."

Utterly disgusting and inhumane policy on facebook's part.

Continuing to display abject animal cruelty only lowers the bar for would-be imitators.

There have also been shown to be strong links between animal cruelty and human cruelty, including murder.

To be clear, the ONLY proper way to handle this is to immediately take it down and file a report with the relevant police agencies. Expecting the local police agencies to maintain the same staff of 30,000 people to monitor FB posts for crime is stupidly absurd.

This is at best depraved indifference on FB's part, and more likely a deliberate dishonest rationalization to keep posted something extreme that will get lots of 'views' and 'engagement'.

This is only one of millions of examples, including cooperating with the Russian / Cambridge Analytica / etc groups to corrupt elections in the US, England, and elsewhere.

Simply put, Facebook is deliberately poisoning society for profit, and far worse than any tobacco company ever did.

They need to be shut down. Now. There are far better ways to do everything FB claims to do.

(edit: add police report paragraph)
That must be quite the pedant hat to be arguing that point

especially considering a mainframe and a minicomputer and the decision to label a machine one or the other is almost purely a marketing decision, i would enjoy your justification
I'm still salty about EA getting the exclusive NFL license. NFL 2K5 was a better game than Madden and they made the ballsy move of selling it for $20 brand new the day it came out. EA got so spooked they spent who knows how much locking down an exclusive license.

Though in hindsight who knows what a 2K NFL game would look like today. With the way they butchered their NBA games I don't have much faith that an NFL game would be any better.
Lobbying plays a huge role in how legislative decisions like this are made.

The city of Austin recently passed a mandatory sick leave policy, only to be struck down at the state level after lobbying by employers.

It’s not that companies like Facebook simply fail to protect their people, they’re financially incentivized to undermine their rights. And since money == free speech in the US, it’s perfectly legal for them to do so.
There are enough rules that I'd say it still qualify as knowledge work (not as much as developer, but still some level of knowledge):

-Public (https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards) and private guidelines

- A "Known Question" document (15k words)

- Facebook internal Workplace, with real-time (and sometime contradictory) decisions, for breaking news events

from https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
With water levels going up and climate change patterns, I find it counter intuitive that lot of luxury/premium properties are built close of water. This not only results into higher insurance rates on these properties but in-case of any natural disaster premiums of regular properties around the area would also take a hit because someone decided to construct a fancy build right next to waterfront.
Fraud? It's bitcoin man. There's no concept of fraud. Or are you implying that there should be some sort of regulating body that would enforce generally accepted fraudulent behavior?
This also leads to shit breaking all the time.

One time webpack did a breaking change (version 4) right as my team was switching from make + grunt to webpack. It was a total shitshow. Some packages were upgrading, some weren't, some did it wrong and didn't actually work on webpack4. We could have stayed on 3 but then we'd have to figure out which version wasn't broken...
I'm going to start squatting programming language names with lisp dialects. I'll demand extensive lip service and Google Summer of Code resources every time they stomp on one.

Wait, this makes more sense if I do it for chat systems. Google loves making chat systems.
Paris Wants to Grow 'Urban Forests' at Famous Landmarks
I believe it did work 2 years ago, Veertu Desktop seemed to be based on the Qemu with HVF.
For me they feel like trivia.

Personally, I'm terrible at coding trivia.

I'm better with lots of context and what an application is supposed to "do", what problems it is intended to solve in a larger context, and how I can solve them. Personally I've done far better with take home type assignments as I like to sit down, think about things, and write out a couple solutions and think about it.
I had a different reading of parent. It doesn't mean Beckwitt had to hire someone; after all Beckwitt already had decided to hire without any input from us. It means that if you do hire someone for hazardous technical work, hire someone capable of doing that hazardous technical work (which would include the judgment to walk away from unsafe jobs), not some poor clueless guy you can bully.

Yes that would have been too expensive for Beckwitt, and he would have never been able to get permits for it. That would have been society functioning correctly.
Where are the organ harvesting videos coming from, I wonder? Anyone have any thoughts on that?
It's a whole bunch more complicated than that - I'd highly recommend the Radiolab episode Post No Evil and the documentary The Cleaners for the full story.

Facebook doesn't have a blanket policy of removing violent content, for wholly legitimate reasons. Many users in Mexico very strongly want videos of cartel murders to stay on the site, because they feel that they are important reportage of something that the mainstream media is unwilling or unable to report. Many users in Syria very strongly want videos of IS murders to remain on the site, because they want the world to see the suffering that IS has wrought on their country.

If Facebook just delete all violent content, they're robbing the victims of violence of their voice - it doesn't feel like Facebook are protecting users of their platform, it feels like Facebook are complicit in covering up the crimes of drug cartels and terrorists.

It's not enough to identify that a video is violent - they need to know context. Is this particular video in this particular context a cry for help or a celebration of evil? Will removing this video silence the propaganda of a murderer, or will it help to conceal their crimes? Does this video show the death of an unidentifiable person in an ungoverned warzone, or is it vital evidence that urgently needs to be forwarded to the relevant authorities? For now, only well-trained human beings are capable of making that call.

This sort of dilemma points to the fundamental impossibility of moderating Facebook to the satisfaction of everyone. Some users complain about pornography, so Facebook make a policy to take down the porn. Other users complain that these policies are sexist and protest outside Facebook's offices to free the nipple. Facebook end up with several pages of rules that allow their army of moderators to consistently distinguish between pornographic and empowering nipples, but nobody's really happy with the outcome.

Facebook are doing a really crappy job of looking after their moderators, but that issue is fixable if we apply enough pressure. There are many other problems with moderating Facebook that are far less tractable and have far wider consequences.
Exactly the phenomenon we are seeing today. Random people are accused to forming a hate-mob while main-stream media happily paints a target on individuals. Most of them are even innocent and just have the wrong opinion.

I thought the US had finally come to peace with nudity, but that was extremely wrong for every side of the political spectrum as the latest developments clearly show.
Kik CEO says no more ICOs in the U.S. is a “major shame”
> why are people inclined to believe in conspiracies also happen to be hoarders?

Because they are prepare themselves for the scenarios that they believe might happen and will be uncomfortable for them. You cannot mitigate against all conspiracies, but for some, prepping is a form of mitigation against the possible consequences.
Only hacker news can impute so much malice into the plans of an intern. If she can really disrupt free software in only 12 weeks then good for her I guess.
People having terrible economic backyards may want to move near you. Yet you say they should be stopped because they ll ruin your view.

[it doesnt have to be facebook's currency, any cryptocurrency could have major monetary policy implications]
Why would you have a real linkedin account if worked at such a sensitive job.

As Bob Howard says in the laundry files HE and MO have a fake FB profile.
Such moderation has caused a significant degree of political grumbling in the recent past. E.g. where Facebook has blocked women's nipples but not men's, and also photos containing nudity that are politically important. E.g. the photo of Vietnam refugees fleeing a napalm attack, as well as examples of art that are politically important or relevant in an ongoing discussion, +++.

The difference between bona fide political censorship and decency/legality/prevent-minors-from-seeing-supposedly-horrible-things/stuff-we-just-don't-like-and-assign-a-political-label censorship is very much a matter of judgement.
As a Masshole (I don't care if this pronoun offends you, it's what I call myself) who doesn't own waterfront property I'm not going to lose a nanosecond of sleep over the rich Bostonians who their investment in waterfront property tank or lose their Cape Cod vacation houses. Those people are rich enough to deal. If they don't deal in time well then they're paying the stupid tax.

Edit: Sorry, I haven't had my coffee any my cynicism isn't up to normal levels yet. As mentioned, of course they'll get the state to bail them out. There's a chance they might not but as a group they're the ones with the power and the influence. Every few years some houses fall into the sea. It basically always winds up in court with the owners suing the town and/or state. I can't imagine it not going in their favor if the places underwater are in the Boston area. The cumulative political clout would be insurmountable.

That said, so what if they bail them out? If they don't bail them out then it's not like the state won't still take everyone's money and spend a large percent of it on other cause that benefits approximately nobody. As far as I care paying state cops to game the overtime system isn't any better or worse than bailing out people who's property is underwater. The difference is just hair splitting because neither of those should be happening.
It's not "unskilled" so much as (a) it can be learned on the job and (b) people don't see why they should pay more for top talent.

The second one is pretty important. Consider that sales, sports, and entertainment work similarly, where you can make a case that you should pay more to get the best and workers (or their agents) can use this to good effect.
Re: salaries, don't forget that there's also salaries working on the content moderation problem - taking the huge datasets that the content moderators are reviewing and applying machine learning and content ID and I have no clue what else more to automatically filter out a lot of the content, ideally with such a high certainty rate that the moderators don't see it in the first place.

I want to believe the content moderators only end up seeing the 1% of content that is dubious, or brand new content (not published and hashed earlier). I don't understand in that regard why the one video mentioned in the article (about the iguana) wasn't marked as "ok" in the systems, or marked as "on hold for law enforcement" so the moderators didn't have to see it again.
Making 1kg of wolf requires way more than 1kg of prey. A rule of thumb I've heard is a step in food chain has only about 10% efficiency.

If wolves were more prey than predator populations would decline very quickly.
I prefaced the sentence mentioning the invisible hand with "in countries with strong institutions and the requisite checks and balances" in anticipation of that objection. Collective decision-making is open to abuse, but it is possible to create institutions, traditions, and laws that limit that abuse while allowing us to enjoy the benefits of a longer-term view of the public good.
US unemployment rates are lower than they have been in more than a decade. There are more jobs than applicants.

It could be people prefer working at a desk and a screen in an air conditioned office to, say, schlepping boxes in a warehouse.
Yeah, life will find a way, even if it's just fungus and microbes.
This sounds like a fantastic example of basing moral guidelines around what is easy for a computer to detect rather than what is actually moral.

We know that FB has nudity detection systems, due to their past problems with banning breastfeeding discussion groups.
The article I linked is a PR piece. Don’t get technical details from it. I linked to it just to show how they’re proud of their bullshit.

Here’s some better info: https://www.dslreports.com/faq/14520

Relevant quote: “PowerBoost provides bursts for the first 20 MB downloading and the first 10 MB uploading of a file respectively on select Comcast High-Speed Internet services.”

Surely you admit that there is no sensible technical reason for a magic 20MB per-file limit on this.
The Irish Times recently published a similar story:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/facebook-s-d...
Seems like there could be a pretty big gap between "life on this planet is probably going to stick around" and "good." Life made it through the Chicxulub impact but I doubt you would have called it good had you been on Earth at that time.

I'm continually surprised at how often people counter warnings about global warming with comments to the effect that life, in general, will go on. That's a low bar! Way lower than you'd accept in any other context of your life, I'd bet.
I’m glad people publish packages like this, but feel like there needs to be a better way to consume them.

What if you could do `npm install-inline ./src/utils is-windows` and npm downloaded the module and inserted it inline in your utils directory, along with a comment referencing the original package, version number, and license information (if required). There could be an update-inline command as well.

This seems like a ok compromise between “install 376 micro libraries” and “copy code snippets off StackOverflow”.
Do any companies use something more like a blackmailer's NDA, which works without a legal system?

I'm not sure exactly how it would work, and perhaps it wouldn't work in practice, but I imagine it might involve paying the (former) employee a certain sum every month for their continued cooperation, and the employer would reserve the right to unilaterally cancel the arrangement: it would be "discretionary" or whatever. So the employee has a motive to cooperate (unless they're terminally ill ...) but there's nothing to "enforce".
It’s “twine publish”...

And yes the setup is more extensive than NPM, which is exactly why the PyPi ecosystem isn’t the steaming pile of shit that is NPM.
Perhaps these cities should raise money to convince the US government that climate change is manmade and a real threat and urgent, massive action is needed to prevent it from becoming even worse. A few billion here and there for lobbying might in the end be cheaper than building ever higher berms.
Using it right now as well as MacOS/Darwin, Linux, Android, Win10.. there is no true and perfect OS, the world consists of multiple interoperable systems made for different use cases. Win10 for SteamVR, Android for mobile and GearVR/Oculus Go/Quest, BSD for networking, MacOS for the polished feeling good programs.. GNU/Linux for an OS desktop
his nickname within crypto is fraudtoshi
I'll take your word and skip on the googling myself. Seriously disturbing stuff.
As evidence of what?
“We’re proposing infrastructure that we believe will protect the city,” says Richard McGuinness, a senior planning official working on Boston’s response to climate change. “How do you retreat from billions of dollars of assets? It’s not practical.”
[...]
The city still needs to raise as much as $1 billion for Seaport defenses.

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Having lived in the city during the Big Dig, I'd wager that's a lowball estimate.
I was about to write an impolite response. Let's just keep it at: Your thought is not that deep that it is original or something other people do not understand. You miss the point where your Existenzangst is applicable and where it is not. Jumping on meta-levels and missing that we talk about the time period where consequences matter - like for how much fun there is when you play the game during the period our universe actually exists - is not profound. Looks like a bored effort to derail the discussion to me.
They will expect to be bailed out, both literally and financially.
They want to be trusted.
It's not a crypto currency in the p2p sense. It's federated, and the servers are run by the initial investors. It's world-Venmo.

1. All the interest from the reserve (which isn't all hard cash but also low risk securities) goes to the investors. No ability to create your own bank offer interest and compete.

2. Undercuts sovereignty. The HN crash may laugh but ask Yanis Varoufakis what it's like when you can't do your own monitary policy. Would you rather deal with the IMF or Facebook?
They literally do. Nice post there champ.
everyone who hes building on the Bitcoin SV chain believe craig wright is satoshi. Some a very smart people.
Like your dream life—I bet facebook is hiring.
Walmart has filed for 97 drone patents – nearly double the amount of Amazon's
Great article. Back in the 80’s Scientific American magazine published much more substantial articles than it does today. Nowadays, its articles are very much watered-down and superficial.
My city deploys sidewalk sweepers that they use in the bike lanes.
How does that change the problems in the article? You would still need people looking at questionable content to decide when to call the police.
This cite says the average daily volume of EUR/USD trades is half a trillion a day:

https://www.currenciesfx.com/index.php/eur-usd

So hundreds of billions of dollars a year is small relative to the volumes being traded.
RBA not fazed by Australian $50 note typo
If they made engineers take turns working in the content moderation you would soon see all sorts of improvements (like the aforementioned ability to recognize duplicate content for starters).

They would hate it so much, that would make better tooling. But now they don't have to know about it, just send images to the moderation team over and over like they are robots.
There are several rings of anonymous HN accounts which are guarded such that anybody (who knows a bit of a trick) can use them to post whatever they like. These accounts aren't official, but grey; officially, there's not really a way to prevent such a thing.
Here is a list of all his forgeries and fakes. He is a fruad

https://github.com/kosinusbch/cult-of-craig
In the same way that cryptography and distributed ledgers create a way to validate property ownership without a central authority, signed messages provide a way to validate identity without the need for courts. There is definitely a framework for identifying truth versus fraud using solely cryptography. I don't understand your point.
Oh I agree, and definitely don't recommend using Result in JS, the language is just not tailored for it. I was specifically addressing

> I never understood the love for Either-based error handling in Haskell and other languages.
Interesting. I have seen password masking being used for OTP SMS codes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the password field in this case, does not make it more secure.

It is just about giving the impression of being secure?
It's nice to hear the original meaning of that. I almost forgot it! Good pun.
Sort of. The USA you can claim trademark rights without a registered trademark; that's the difference between ™ and ®.

But the law follows "use it or lose it" rules. If you don't defend your trademark, then in the eyes of the court it is no longer a trademark.
Imaginary Time Travel as a Leadership Tool
I mean they really should be in this case. This is not a normal job.
TL;DR: Someone has submitted a pull request that replaces the Libra source with the source for Bitcoin.
I would have thought they would have the best filtering AI and dataset the world has to offer, to avoid having those moderators to work like this.
bureaucrats tend to underestimate costs and durations of projects
Zero is even.