skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's also wrong to suggest that fram was only abusive to people who shouldn't have been on wikipedia.

Quite a claim, maybe give some evidence for that? I saw no example of such behavior.

> even people on his side describe him as toxic.

I am tempted to call you "toxic". Terms like "brusque", "rude", "asshole", "harasser", "toxic" are not equivalent, but you repeatedly try to assign some of those labels to Fram based on others.

"Brusque, bordering on rude sometimes" is not even a bad thing for a Wikipedia user. And "like Inspector Javert at times" is not really as strong as "toxic".
This is a well-reasoned reply, but the reason anti-Libra sentiment is high is not a huge mystery. You even alluded to the reason in your final paragraph. It's people who are suspicious of Facebook management's ulterior motives, that is to say conspiracy-type thinking.

The RFID technology that is widely deployed today was reaching wider adoption in the early 2000s and the AM radio conspiracy hosts I used to listen to for fun were spinning wild yarns about how RFID would be going underneath everyone's skin soon and everyone would be rounded up and put into camps.

I think there's a subterranean truth hidden in the ravings of madmen. It is a frightening prospect to empower further the people at the top who make the most impactful decisions in our society. RFID and Libra both make the global economy more efficient and that puts more power in the hands of our financial overlords. Now, it is also the case that financial overlords spend more time worried about themselves and their families than they do trying to control individual people's lives and make them worse.

So conspiracy theorists are wrong about the ultimate outcome of new technology, but I think their fears would be well served by distributing power as widely as practically possible. The principle of sharing power to put people's minds at ease is what you referred to in your second bullet point.
Thanks for replying.

> But programmers proficient with pure functional programming languages are harder to come by.

I used to get a similar argument when pushing Python over Java, and my counterargument is the same: I wouldn't hire a JS programmer who was afraid or unwilling or unable to learn Elm. I would bet that any normal person smart enough to solve Sudoku problems could learn Elm, I wouldn't make that bet with JS/CSS/HTML.

> It might lose steam and go into support mode, or drop support, or maybe they introduce breaking changes in a future version. JS is a much safer bet.

But who is using just JS these days? Frameworks and transpiling are the order of the day, no? Same argument applies to them. And JS is a moving target too. As for "breaking changes", well, it is just version 0.19 so far. Once they hit 1.0 I would bet on Elm being more stable than JS+Whatever.

Weigh this against zero front end bugs. That's a staggering (if hard-to-quantify) cost savings.

> Writing Elm does not guarantee a good polished product. You can write bad software in good languages and vice-versa.

Yeah but that's not an argument in favor or against any particular language, and in the specific case of JS vs Elm I think it's clear Elm wins. If your developers are truly crap then, yeah, Elm won't save them. But then you also have bigger problems than what tech stack to use, eh?
Here's one of the accusations[1] that is posted publicly on Wikipedia:

> A troll on an offsite forum posted a graphic written depiction of myself engaged in sexual activity with another editor. Fram repeatedly posted a link to this depiction on Wikipedia, even after it was revision deleted.

If Fram did this then there should be a log viewable by a Wikipedia admin.

There are apparently over 1,000 admins. At least one of them should be able to scroll back through Fram's activity, find the case cited, and report publicly that they can corroborate this anonymous accusation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
As I noted in another comment, state actors change the scale of incentives and disincentives in academic and corporate IP and data theft. A large corporation is a fearsome opponent. It never sleeps. It can avoid being tired for many decades at at time. It can hire an entire squad of private detectives to find you, and spending tons of money on lawyers is just normal operations for it. These also apply to large academic institutions, and often the IP and data are involved with academic/private consortiums. For these reasons, individuals are usually strongly deterred from such theft.

Add in state actors, however, and the potential cost/benefit equations change. A strong state actor has the power to shield a person from a multinational's wrath. It's not hard to steal such information. What's hard is getting away with it indefinitely.

Disclosure: I'm Asian and my wife was once a Chinese born academic in the US.
Didn't mean to sound grumpy, Lilit looks like a cool product that solves a real problem.
You're absolutely right! This is basically trying to beat WeChat to these markets, but in a less-centralized way.

These markets already have a lot of internet access and mobile phones, just not a lot of banking. This is Facebook's fastest growing market right now, by far [1]. The Facebook app (and Whatsapp) is the on-ramp, that's why this is a good play for them. They have early advantage, but not because they have control of the currency, they have control of the initial users.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/268136/top-15-countries-...
Seems like a well thought out response
I'm not saying any of this in defense of the idea.
Assuming you were right, there'd still a big flaw in your logic: trying to gain a military advantage does not make you at war. With that kind of logic, you could argue that the US, with its massive military budget, is at war with every country in the world (it's obviously not).
You're right. Native English speakers must have some sort of hard time with English words being repurposed.

I remember at work a colleague asked "how do I kill chubby slave?", which didn't sound strange at the time, since Chubby was an authentication system (IIRC).

But, when thinking about it, that's probably a very offensive sentence in English.
Those other stable-coins don't have the level of capitalization FB is targeting, don't have buy-in from existing payment networks like Libra does (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Stripe, etc.), and don't have a massive network of already deployed apps that will surely integrate this (FB app, Whatsapp, etc.).
The addressbook, contact matching and public email are pretty low value from my perspective.

I'd much rather personally validate and match my contacts on my own and I really think this should be the default with huge WARNING to people that want to share their email globally and addressbook with the server etc.

"Users don't care" is largely because developers submarine the issues with "UX flow" reasoning.

Excusing this toxic data exfiltration with "UX" really doesn't hold water.

Edit -

Specifically looking at

https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/10167

This looks like industry standard bury the issue in unreadable TOS boilerplate.

How about "Hey YOU PROBABLY DON'T NEED to share your email globally unless you expect to meet your long lost cousin via the matrix.org social graph"

This is a place where ADDING friction makes the world better.
Assuming you're not making a joke regarding procrastination --- a way that worked for me was to take a mindfulness class that met regularly for a few months. The contents of the class was largely meaningless to me, but having it on my schedule every week and then attending the class, saying hello to the instructor and then spending at least 45minutes meditating helped get me started.

Good luck.
i think Agda has a whole bunch of Unicode operators, and you can define your own. you can do that in Haskell as well, but it's pretty uncommon. Perl 6 has some Unicode stuff too
That's quite emotionally immature really.

Yes, you can choose to be an asshole, regardless of your intelligence, and others can choose to reciprocate in kind. Worst case you're lynched and gain some sort of martyrdom people might or might not care about. Best case you drive everyone away and end up abandoned and ignored, left to your own bitterness.

Or you could try communicating your genius idea, improving people's lives in the process, if its a worthy one. But that only makes sense if it was about the idea in the first place. If it was about proving everyone else wrong you might want to reconsider your motivations.
Looks like a marketing strategy, more than lots of real genuine grassroots enthusiasm. Don't get me wrong, they are doing better in some respects recently, but I use Microsoft Windows because I have to, not because I love it. I won't be trusting them until the updates and telemetry are fully transparent and fully controllable.
That also sounds illegal.
It's sort of like an arbitrary mesh with lots of layers of plugins providing primitives like private key-based identities, a decentralized DNS alternative, block storage, tunnels, etc, and these combine to build more complex tools like filesharing, chat, etc.

It doesn't do onion/garlic routing, although that's planned to be added in the future. It is possible to make a service available over GNUnet like you can with i2p, and with the name system you can give it a convenient name and add it to your address book like in i2p. That being said, this service in particular offers no real anonymity at the moment, and is currently buggy. Filesharing is its most mature application in my opinion, it doesn't have any severe bugs I'm aware of and it is optionally anonymous (although the network only has a few hundred peers at the moment so its anonymity isn't as strong as it will be when more people use it).
Income inequality comparisons are full of problems like this. Reflecting your intuition, I’d imagine most people would conceive of increasing income inequality to mean increasing gaps between people in the same station in life across two time periods.

But demographics have changed dramatically since 1970. For example, immigrants make up almost 3x as large a fraction of the population (from 5% to almost 15%) than in 1970. Obviously, if you add a large number of (typically) economically disadvantaged people to the population, income inequality is going to go up, even if there is no change in incomes for everyone else: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/sites/default/files/source_i....

Likewise, peoples’ incomes increase with age. The population overall has grayed significantly. Again, even if wealth inequality wasn’t increasing for people of any given age, changing the age distribution of the population will affect income inequality.

Finally, a larger fraction of the population now comprises historically disadvantaged minorities. While the income gap between races in the US is a huge problem, it’s a different problem than “income inequality” genetically, deserving more targeted solutions. (And even that income gap is hard to analyze, because the ages of people of different races in the US differ quite dramatically). The median age of non-Hispanic whites is 42. The median age of Hispanic people is 28. The median age of African Americans is 33: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/07/07/biggest-sha...).

Income inequality probably is going up. But I’ve never seen a study that actually holds demographic changes constant so the result reflects peoples’ perception of what income inequality means.
You have to turn though.
I agree with you on the reasoning, and I absolutely believe that is why Facebook is doing it this way. They know people would never trust a currency soley backed by them to start, so they solved that problem from the get go.

Now it's just a PR problem of everyone believing they are in full control, when they actually aren't.
But what is the last mile plan - you're standing in rural India with a phone and a rupee, how do you turn that into a libra?
>As pointed out in the article, you have to trust any third party you hire. This isn't unique to electronics.

But the whole point is what about 3rd parties I don't hire? The point of "right to repair", at least in the formulations I've seen so far, is that the manufacturer must offer privileges to any 3rd party to perform repairs. How well though will all those 3rd parties that can now perform repairs verify that it is, in fact, the owner that does it? How does the owner really verify things? In the real world amongst normal people, how well can it really be expected vs the first party, which is the one with the most easily understood incentives?

As I said in my original post, I do not oppose people that want to be able to grant 3rd parties the right to repair. But I also want to make sure that, like right now, owners can also forbid anyone from having the cryptographic rights to alter their device hardware except the original manufacturer. As-in, even if it's stolen from them or they later decide they "want" to give permission (which isn't distinguishable from a social engineering attack). That's why I propose make it a build-to-order option, with some small external identifier the case. I don't simply want Apple or whomever to be forced to give keys away to any that ask.

>Just don't take your electronics to unreputable service centers.

This is a very shallow snobbish tech elite answer, and the same one our whole industry gave (and in many cases still gives) to people when it came to malware and the like. "Oh, just don't go to disreputable websites. Don't go installing software willy-nilly. Haha dumb lusers, PEBKAC." And then Apple came along and offered something different, the shocking concept that maybe it shouldn't be regular users' fault, that they're not fundamentally stupid, that why shouldn't they just be able to browser anywhere and install absolutely anything that catches their eye and never have to deal with any long lasting unknown effects? Even when Apple's execution has failed, the fundamental question there has been pretty successful.

Of course, Apple has also destroyed a lot of valuable freedoms along the way, many of them unnecessarily I think. They clearly also have cross incentives to misuse their control, and have. But I can't help but think that a lot of that is our fault, our industries fault, for not trying to find a better balance of answers and making it standard long, long before the iPhone.
Oh no. I didn't read your comment that way at all. But thank you anyway for being proactively courteous about it.
developing markets probably also have less electronic medical records. maybe facebook can create a decentralized electronic medical records custodian for them too...
Sounds like quora implosion v2
You will need a blinding-strong laser.
Yarp.
Code splitting can be a nice optimization but it can also be a lot of effort for little gain as it is in our case. It is an optimization for the few times a user hits our app with a stale or empty cache. And we have no mobile users, this is an enterprise analytics app.

We do not grow organically by people stumbling on our app and thinking "wow that was fast". We go through months of enterprise sales process to ink a deal, then onboard maybe 20 key users at the company.

To put the effort into code splitting would be purely an exercise in keeping up with the new hotness. That's not to say we don't keep a close eye on the package size, just that it's not much of a great optimization for a regular user's experience in our case.

Also serving all assets from the same domain saved us some time in domain resolution.
Oh they're certainly not monsters, and I don't think they are fundamentally evil

More like extremely self centered
On the last point, true, but even before that, they only have 1 vote of 28 (100 by next year) companies.
Game of Life in 3D
And it's going to stop by doing what exactly?

The West has had a head start in science and tech. But China and soon India will catch up. It's a simple numbers game. They both have a billion MORE people each than the entire American population. You can't fight that and remain king of the hill forever. Archimedes, Pythagoras and Euclid weren't born in the US. Maybe the Greeks should have thought like you declared Geometry a national security matter and hidden it away from the rest of the world.

Most people understand why Greeks don't rule the world today and most people understand the more interconnected everything gets the less one country is going to dominate anything. The best strategy is to actively push for more and more multinational collab till it gets harder and harder for anyone country to dominate anything.

But ofcourse that requires balls and imagination.
So what you're saying is that you don't think there need to be any right to repair at all right? Because by your very argument here, none of it can possibly get in the way. Which means that no legislation is required and companies can keep on locking things down as hard as they want because you say that can't possibly ever work.
I'm not looking for false equivalency. I'm looking for accurate journalism.

I doubt either of these parties would find these descriptions agreeable, not because they have negative connotations, but because they fail to encapsulate what these men stand for and what their body of work suggests.
Well they’re in the hills. The deer, i mean. As to grille guards: I do agree they’re frivolous and dangerous, but you’ve been living here long enough to know those are very Texan qualities.
I don't really understand that point.

If facebook wants to control users and their financial data, wouldn't it be easier to simply make a fintech?

I mean, sure libra gives them more data, but the same could easily be reached if facebook founds a fintech?

With the current libra afaik they only have 1 seat out of 28 so less control than with a fintech.

With libra you could at least control more than with a fintech.
After the training is done, does the algorithm use a dictionary file to generate haikus, or is it allowed to use entire lines from the dataset? If the former, I’m impressed. If the latter, I’m just annoyed that this is being presented as something of any significance whatsoever.
It's the fastest growing, but the average ARPU is much less than that of US / Canada.
Large portions of content copied from https://wccftech.com/review/rage-2/
Can you imagine getting a mortgage from Facebook? Or having your salary paid into your WhatsApp account directly? Having Zuckerberg maintain your pension? Now imagine doing that and being a non-US resident.

Who are you going to contact when something goes wrong? Facebook won’t pick up the phone, you can’t vote for regulation or changes, at best you’re a number.

Just try and use PayPal as a bank account and see what happens.
PES 2020 Demo Details: Teams and Release Date Announced for PS4, Xbox One
It's live in a "test net" at the moment, so developers can build on it. The test net is hosted by Facebook, through this year.

When the "main net" launches, it'll need all 28 members to run validator nodes to start it up.
Strictly speaking, the Canadian Aboriginal syllabics is an abugida, not a syllabary.

In the categorization of writing systems, alphabets (such as Latin) encode each phoneme as a distinct letter; abjads (such as Arabic) encode only consonants, with vowels as optional diacritics; abugidas (such as Indic scripts) primarily encode consonants but mark vowels in some systematic way; syllabaries just encode each syllable as a unique glyph without any systematic modification; and logographic systems don't have any systematic phonetic component (although they usually are influenced by phonetics, e.g., the rebus principle of diagramming abstract concepts by use of homonyms).

Sequoyah had access to an English-language Bible, so although he couldn't read the Latin text, he used several letters as inspiration for Cherokee, which is why you see Latin characters that correspond to completely different sounds.
I have a friend with a German shorthair pointer. Whenever I hear him refer to the dog as a pointer, I briefly wonder if he’s referring to his dog, or if his dog actually represents the location of another dog.
I don't necessarily see how that solves the problem, but I concur that these could be valid points (e.g., a higher market cap). Users still need a way to physically exchange their paper currency for Libra. Do employers switch to paying in Libra, so people having something to use within Facebook's platform? Will these people trust Libra more than their paper currency? I'm curious of what the migration strategy could possibly look like for the bankless.
> they need a majority of the Libra Association members to do that.

Don't you find it odd that all of the member companies either (1) are based in SV and/or (2) have strong ties to SV? You don't think these people would collude with each other "offline" if they needed to?
Can't read this apparently.

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I don't use AdBlock. I even consent to some tracking, because I know economics have forced these websites to resort to such things and I want to support them, but apparently this isn't good enough for Wired. Oh, but ads loaded anyway I see.

Edit: Apologies for off-topic.
The Fairphone seems to offer the option to buy it with an open Android OS and no Google apps preinstalled. It also has the added benefit of trying not to kill people in its production process.
Ask HN: Why do new(ish) programming languages eschew OOP features?
Some relatively new or popular languages are not object-oriented, although they may have object-like features. Examples include: Rust, Go, Julia, Nim.

I have always struggled with OOP and have never found it a natural way of programming. But many other programmers will disagree of course.

I find it fascinating that some new languages have chosen to eschew the OOP model. Why do you think that is? And what do think of this trend (if it is indeed a trend)?
> MMR vaccination is for young children. At 11 it's probably TB?

If the child hadn't had any of his/her MMR series, a doctor would absolutely want to get the child started on the series if possible, regardless of the age.

> At 11 it's probably TB?

Few countries routinely administer the TB vaccine. It's too low efficacy.

> Tetanus isn't a routine vaccination. You have it if you need it.

In the US, and in most western countries, a series tetanus vaccines is absolutely given as part of the TDaP/DTaP childhood combo series, and then boosters are administered later as needed. In the US, it's a series of 5.

And indeed, it appears as it's given routinely to children in the UK, as well:

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/

In New Zealand as well:

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/preventative-health-well...
The Open Society does give money to moderate and center-left groups but it has also regularly given grants to far-left redistributionist activist groups, Anti-Israel organizations, and Marxist protestors. Not quite the western status quo.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/open-society-found...
I would become a vigilante hacker, blackmailing the worlds most nefarius characters into servitude of myself forcing them to do good. Slowly moving their wealth into my control, then after a decade, cut their heads off.
Since no one else commented on that yet; I just wanted to say that I like the simple layout OP is using.

Not much clutter & straight to the point. Loads fast and it’s under 630KB.

Could certainly be improved but it’s nice not having to load >25MB just to read an article.