skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first link mistakenly pointed to the Bloomberg article when it was meant to point to this: https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/facebook.pdf

Some takeaways:

Deactivation reduced (political) polarization:

"The Treatment group was less likely to say they follow news about politics or the President, and less able to correctly answer factual questions about recent news events. Our overall index of news knowledge fell by 0.19 standard deviations. There is no detectable effect on political
engagement, as measured by voter turnout in the midterm election and the likelihood of clicking on email links to support political causes. Deactivation significantly reduced polarization of views on policy issues and a measure of exposure to polarizing news. Deactivation did not statistically significantly reduce affective polarization (i.e. negative feelings about the other political party) or
polarization in factual beliefs about current events, although the coefficient estimates also point in
that direction. Our overall index of political polarization fell by 0.16 standard deviations. As a point of comparison, prior work has found that a different index of political polarization rose by 0.38 standard deviations between 1996 and 2018 (Boxell 2018)."

Deactivation increased "well-being" by about 20-40% the amount you'd expect for someone getting therapy:

"Deactivation caused small but significant improvements in well-being, and in particular in self-reported happiness, life satisfaction, depression, and anxiety. Effects on subjective well-being as measured by responses to brief daily text messages are positive but not significant. Our overall index of subjective well-being improved by 0.09 standard deviations. As a point of comparison, this is about 25-40 percent of the effect of psychological interventions including self-help therapy, group training, and individual therapy, as reported in a meta-analysis by Bolier et al. (2013). These results are consistent with prior studies."
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This looks high-quality. I'll definitely battle-test it.

Also I'm loving the animated favicon.
Not really a comparable company. Quizlet has <100 employees and $32M funding. Slack has <5000 employees and has a $15B market cap on the public market.

I'm sure there are a ton of small-ish VC-funded startups using all sorts of technologies like Hack. As far as big companies though, FB and Slack are pretty much it.
"Hello dear, how was work?"

"Oh you know, some of my larger coworkers pushed me down to the floor and told me how much they hated me. But I sucked it up"

"That's great, get over it!"

"I will - until tomorrow, of course, when it will happen again."

"Just keep sucking it up and getting over it and it will all turn out fine!"

I don't know how it is we think children should be able to deal with things that would be unthinkably intolerable for adults.
This smells of #fakenews. Can anyone confirm/deny?
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Inovio Pharmaceuticals created a vaccine that is going through pre-clinical trials.
I've been in a similar situation, and it does truly suck. Things can be changed, but it can take quite a while and be rather painful.

One thing that's helped me some is the realization that I can simply walk away from almost anything. Kids are the primary exception, and I think as a parent or guardian, you have a deep duty to suffer whatever you must to try to give them a good start in life.
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Similar experience: a different elementary school for each grade. It's hard to exactly describe the impact it's had on me, but let's just say I have no problem letting go of friendships. I was an introvert all throughout school, making only a handful of friends.

Things finally changed for me in college, joining a campus youth group which functioned more like a spiritual fraternity. I was able to finally create life-long bonds with people. Weirdest of all was I actually became an extrovert!

Now I have very little problems making friends. Generally I can chat up strangers. I do have to work very hard to maintain friendships, but it's something I work very hard at.
> If a publisher’s business model is ad-supported then it seems necessary.

If that were true, everyone would simply claim "tracking is essential for my business" and the law would be toothless.

If they want to show ads for Ford in the car section of the newspaper, that's fine. If they want to show targeted ads provided that I agree with it, that's also fine. But showing targeted ads with no way to opt-out is not allowed.
And keep in mind that HN is only able to be the way it is because of constant, vigilant moderation.

The Internet has simply grown too large over the past couple of decades for any unmoderated public space to not be taken over by people who don't care about community norms, individual bad actors, organized invasions, and psyops.

Usenet could handle the first two in small doses: people who don't care about community norms will eventually learn or leave, bad actors will get bored of trolling, and persistent individuals can be killfiled. But both of those two flooding in in large groups can kill a community. If bad actors harass and attack every new person every time they post something, the community can't grow. and enough people in a community who disregard the existing norms will simply cause the Overton Window to shift, establishing a new normal. And a killfile isn't a large-scale solution: when you have to have a triple-digit killfile just to get past the noise and actually see the useful discussion, the community is dead.

Usenet on the other hand has never been resilient against coordinated activity. The Meow Wars were one of the most deleterious things to ever happen to Usenet back in the day, and I'm sure it contributed a lot to people abandoning Usenet for moderated web forums.

Now that the Internet has had 20 more years to further develop invasion techniques, and the invading forces are even larger and more malignant than ever, unmoderated communities can't survive unless they're invisible. Even heavily-moderated communities have trouble handling incoming raids from 4chan and 8chan.

And then you have the subtle psyops, groups stealthily infiltrating others in order to promote an agenda. Imagine a coordinated effort to have new people join a newsgroup for a TV show and slowly push the Overton Window towards normalizing antisemitism. This is hard to detect and root out even in a place with moderators (see: Stormfront's psyop in /r/videos), and unmoderated spaces are completely helpless against this kind of assault.
One of the reasons why I supported brexit as non UK european. Also their attitude to knives.
Optics are real, of course, but burnout isn't necessarily whining. It can be seen as a kind of "business risk" for your career.

Ignore it or otherwise fail to manage it, and you can end up stagnating instead of advancing, souring your relationship with your employer, or letting the situation build to a crisis where you must have relief and decide to chuck it all and mow lawns for a living instead.

Also, every person needs to understand their own balance between the value they place on dumptrucks full of cash and sacrifices made for work. At some point the additional $50K in salary isn't worth it, or maybe it is. Or maybe $50K less in salary is a good trade-off.
I understand the concern, but [ is one of those idiosyncratic shell builtins that you eventually get used to and the help does point you toward maybe typing "help test". But, yeah it should probably say it explicitly or just append the "help test" content when it prints "help [".
SS is 3:1 now, 2:1 in 2035:

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/fast_facts/2019/c...
Except for a huge number of use cases where they can, of course. Obviously not everything can be abstracted away, but things like Lazarus or HyperCard or even Excel offer a starting off point for people to build powerful tools to solve their problems without acquiring a traditional programming education, and offer a ramp into programming for when people need to do more with those tools.
"It is popular therefore it cannot have these faults." Isn't a particularly strong argument against the critique.
The countries above may be rich, but we aren't! Focusing resources on one country at a time and expanding gradually among neighbors. Our goal is to have data for all major tech hubs globally, not just in US and Europe. And there also isn't anything wrong with building a service for the country you live in.
It doesn't seem as if the first reply to the top comment agrees with you.
Cryptocurrency Act 2020 Thoughts?
The Cryptocurrency Act 2020
The Cryptocurrency Act 2020 begins with the categorisation of cryptocurrencies into three main groups. These groups are then used to determine which agencies are responsible for the creation of regulation and legislation. The first class described in the new bill is cryptocurrencies.

The crypto class includes Bitcoin, Litecoin, and any other cryptocurrencies that don’t fall under the current securities regulations. The bill classifies these tokens as any digital asset that “includes representations of United States currency or synthetic derivatives resting on a blockchain or decentralised cryptographic ledger”.

Smart contracts and oracles fall under the cryptocurrency category as well.

The next class described in the bill is crypto-commodities. A key aspect of these tokens is the fact that they contain some form of substantial fungibility.

Fungible assets are interchangeable, such as the USD. These assets must reside on a blockchain or decentralised cryptographic ledger to fall under this classification.

The final type of coin described in the bill is crypto-securities. These tokens are simply any coin that fails the Howey Test.

The three regulatory bodies mentioned in the bill that will oversee the cryptocurrency space include the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

These groups will gain sole authority over their respective digital asset types.
A good quote I don't have a source on: you do not rise to the level of your ambitions, you fall to the level of your systems. Willpower is finite, but you can maximize it with systems like this.
We self select into our bubbles anyway. Especially amidst an almost subconscious addictive trawl across the internet. There's a stereotype of computer addiction that shows the user as this active, hyper alert entity absorbing everything they possibly can. The reality is that you sit there, numb to everything, barely attentive, clicking over and over again.

The trope of someone closing reddit, only to open reddit again, is a microcosm of that. If you were actively participating in the decision making and thinking clearly, you would never make that mistake. Something else is driving your trawl.
the biggest abuse of the system is public employee pension systems which are a super big time bomb. My favorite example is Illinois[0] but they are not the state in the worst condition.

Politicians bend over to the public employee unions to keep their political support and in turn make very generous pension and health retirement plans that truly are not affordable. Worse, many at the top of the food chain pull down pensions well North of 100k and some hit 250k +. Imagine that, receiving a pension higher than the average salary of a working member of society. However this is what politicians and government employees have engineered behind the scenes. There are two bets being placed here, first being courts will force the states and cities to tax their way back to compliance, the second is a Federal bail out at full $

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2018/10/26/ill...
It's a bit overkill for the elite security research community + Stanford and MIT researchers to assess the security of a v1.0 React Native app that handles voting. Any random white-hat hacker could have done this, thus for them it is a typical security 101 break-in-and-enter task which is too easy for them.

For example, they proclaimed that they 'found API keys in the app' as a security flaw when it isn't. Nearly all apps do this standard practise. It just depends how far you want to go to hide these keys, where this 'find' isn't a security flaw. The solution isn't obfuscation, as that is not security either. The real solution is to version the API and rotate the keys on each release and later deprecate the endpoint if is too old.

I'm sorry but you don't need to be legendary MIT/Stanford researcher to find the bugs in this app. This voting app has so many security holes, even the bugs are complaining.
This seems to rank nearly everyone as burned-out. Reeks of agenda.
I got a ‘mid risk’ at 1.3. All of my ratings were low except ‘exhaustion’ which was a mid.
Reporting your kid to the police for non-crimes will not have a positive outcome. Your kid will be on a list, never trust you again, and have to overcome so many more obstacles. Every generation of parents finds something that is "over their heads" and they need to deal with it like responsible adults. Know what your kid is interested in and not fear monger it. Deal with issues like an adult with educating yourself.
> A large majority of people who use Slack disagree with you

How do you know? Most people I know, uses Slack because that's the company policy, not because they find Slack the best option. But I don't think that's the majority of people, because is just my biased view, but probably it's the same in your case.
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/direct-current/ this is the one I used, very comprehensive and useful.
I sincerely hope people at FB come to the realization that they can do something powerful to dramatically change the world IF they are willing to forgo the money.
If you found one, you get to brag about it. Give regional ted-X talks. Schmooze with people closer to the money than usual. I presume that's the main point.
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Righto. I've found that I'm much happier and have more "life satisfaction" when I use Facebook.

But I also use Facebook primarily for organizing events and group activities.
Thanks for reading and providing feedback. Yes, it definitely could've been shorter, but everything in it is intentional. Many longer pieces suffer from lack of editing, which was definitely not the case here. Looking forward to your book!
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People can feel obligated to post those pictures. There's social pressure to respond to posts. Deleting Facebook can be easier than the social friction of using it but breaking perceived social obligations.
It's because gtk+ 4 will no longer support general-purpose loadable modules – the very feature which makes the palette possible. Also the maintainer is disappointed with the attitude of GNOME to third party developers: https://github.com/p-e-w/argos/issues/75#issuecomment-475844...
This seems a good starting point for a complex yet possibly constructive tool-related discussion.

I recently started building a bunch of personal productivity and hobby apps using Lazarus / Free Pascal, because there are quite a few things I didn't want to deal with from the web development world:

- Constant browser upgrades that can instantly change how well your JS tools work, especially if you integrate third-party components like CKEditor

- The sheer number of different types of updates that are spread across various front- and back-end contexts: HTML, CSS, JS, and PHP/More JS/whatever, but then you've also got to consider your choice of editor / coding environment, whether you're using SASS, any deployment tools, fonts and font services, etc.

- Having a single binary to use vs. needing to open a web browser which will then try to tie everything together for you, meanwhile maybe you have good reason not to be using a web browser at all

- Working with tons of files that exist locally, and will always exist locally, and which you don't want to add to a server or the cloud (doable via the web tools but just a bit weird in its way)

It's been nice to just build a thing I need and see it immediately fit into normal native desktop app characteristics, meanwhile I can focus on the productive logic and workflow. But that doesn't really even sum it up, does it? You can do _something like that_ on the web...it's just different.

I found myself with ample time to design an icon for my latest desktop app, having completed all the main functions, and caught myself smiling at the thought--it was a good feeling.
This is the exact opposite of clean multi tenant login.

A "clean" multi tenant login separates the user from the account, i.e. the same user has different rights depending on the account he is using.
Am I daft? How do you drag/reorder components? Tried Safari and Edge :(
I could be getting it wrong, but I thought this was part of the wordplay of the poem. It's not necessarily what your soul wants, it's what the small sorcerer inside you wants. The one that when you get hungry says "You know you can just stay in and have someone deliver it", or when you see an interesting book mentioned in conversation goes "We can have that on our shelf in less than 2 days!".
Ah, and this is why I despise working with CSS/layouting/etc. Thanks!
Do it outside the law! I have a 15 watt FM stereo transmitter that I run on special events....
> It's too bad it looks like a gas station chain and not the gravitas and sense of place one wants for a US state, but it's pretty.

Not to be the devil's advocate, but these days many corporations are equal or even more powerful than states. Not sure if this was a consideration.
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Well for the remote control, I already had the one I used. I started a wireless electronics company in 2013 (and eventually failed), so it’s a point of pride to use my own remote. But any RC remote would work.

For the ESC it’s more complicated. The VESC is off the shelf, but it has a feature most ESCs don’t. The VESC supports encoders. The use of an encoder is very important to get full motor torque on the brushless motors even at zero velocity. This allows Rover to slow down or stop even on a slope. The encoder is also used for precise velocity control, which keeps all the wheels spinning in concert. Additionally, the encoder data is sent up the CAN bus to the raspberry pi so my program knows wheel velocities.

You could certainly build a rover without encoders and with a regular ESC, but it may have trouble starting from a standstill and it may not always drive in a straight line if the wheel velocities are not all the same. Another thing to note is that if you spin the motors really fast you’d probably melt the gearboxes. I’m moving the motors pretty slowly compared to their maximum speed. But a regular ESC might work fine! I’ve not tried it.
I think the first link mistakenly pointed to the Bloomberg article when it was meant to point to this: https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/facebook.pdf

Some of the interesting points from the paper:

1. Deactivation reduced (political) polarization:

"The Treatment group was less likely to say they follow news about politics or the President, and less able to correctly answer factual questions about recent news events. Our overall index of news knowledge fell by 0.19 standard deviations. There is no detectable effect on political
engagement, as measured by voter turnout in the midterm election and the likelihood of clicking on email links to support political causes. Deactivation significantly reduced polarization of views on policy issues and a measure of exposure to polarizing news. Deactivation did not statistically significantly reduce affective polarization (i.e. negative feelings about the other political party) or
polarization in factual beliefs about current events, although the coefficient estimates also point in
that direction. Our overall index of political polarization fell by 0.16 standard deviations. As a point of comparison, prior work has found that a different index of political polarization rose by 0.38 standard deviations between 1996 and 2018 (Boxell 2018)."

2. Deactivation increased "well-being", by about 20-40% the amount you'd expect for someone getting therapy:

"Deactivation caused small but significant improvements in well-being, and in particular in self-reported happiness, life satisfaction, depression, and anxiety. Effects on subjective well-being as measured by responses to brief daily text messages are positive but not significant. Our overall index of subjective well-being improved by 0.09 standard deviations. As a point of comparison, this is about 25-40 percent of the effect of psychological interventions including self-help therapy, group training, and individual therapy, as reported in a meta-analysis by Bolier et al. (2013). These results are consistent with prior studies."

3. After the experiment ended, people in the treatment group didn't feel like they needed to go back:

"As the experiment ended, participants reported planning to use Facebook much less in the future."

"About 80 percent of the Treatment group agreed
that the deactivation was good for them."
> Back then these were not really separate concepts.

That was not my impression. It did also ship with MSX-DOS, which very much wasn't a way to program the system. And, sure, BASIC let you launch programs and manage files, but it was cumbersome at best.

It's as if you get a Chromebook and it contains two manuals: one for Chrome ("how to open a web page") and one for the Devtools ("Chapter 1. HTTP")
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759
That's because it comes with stuff pre-installed and an easy interface. Apparently, this is enough for people to ignore that it uses root as the default user, is not at all stable, etc. It shows up on all the crummy "Top 10 Hacker Systems!" listicles as the top entry, so people use it. I guess no one wants to install ubuntu and add katoolin repos, because that's not leet enough.
"an engineer that has so little empathy as to not understand why the use of gendered pronouns is a concern almost certainly makes poor technical decisions as well."

lurker resembles this remark.
Thanks. Must have been nice, but I suppose the cost was experiencing the change to the way things are as an adult (which I think is a very common experience). In my case, I've long since adapted to a near-solitary existence, and I'd say it doesn't particularly bother me anymore.
It's still possible to get 99% of the results with 1% of the effort using something like parcel+(vue/react).
Relating to the article, that quote always makes me sad. I moved at 12, I didn't have friends. I feel like I missed something I can never get back.
I'm very happy that there are those that can interact with Facebook without negative side effects. If you're in that category, I hope the site adds value to you and you enjoy it.

I can't. Yes, it's a failure on me, but my experience is better without Facebook in my life.

You mention negativity, and that's part of it. I saw a steady stream of "the world's on fire" type posts. The other side, the rosy view of my friends and family also wasn't great. It was a steady stream of my brain using this as a chance to remind me I can't live up to these people, that I'm falling behind, and that in general, I suck.

It's not true. I could have crafted an equal fantasy and posted it, but I'm not that person. I could let the positive and negative posts go without influencing my mental well-being, but I'm apparently not that person.

All of this is a long way of saying, for me, Facebook is baggage I had to carry around with me. I didn't need to open it, but I knew it was there, ready to mock me at any time. Now my account is gone, and that bit of unnecessary baggage is gone. It added nothing to my life, only made it worse.