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I really didn't realize until perhaps the last 2 years that Facebook fundamentally tapped some hidden human need/instinct to argue with people who they believe are incorrect. Specifically, and more importantly, combined with the human inability to actively decide to not pay attention when things are inconsequential or not yet worth arguing about.

Sometimes, just shutting up about an issue and not discussing it is the best thing for a group to do. Not more advocacy or argument. Time heals many things. No app is going to help you take that approach -- and that's not what technology is going to help solve (or is incentivized to solve). Just like telling a TV station that's on 24 hours to not cover a small house fire when there's no other news.

People are not good at disengaging from something when that's the right thing to calm the situation. And Facebook somehow tapped into that human behavior and (inadvertently or purposefully) fueled so many things that have caused our country (and others) to get derailed from actual progress.

There is no vaccine yet for this.

And not to dump on the Facebook train, since others would have come to do it instead. But they sure made a science and business of it.
This dynamic is present in FB the website as well. You find clusters or groups of folks who re-amplify a point. It's so effective that you can find "Re-Open" rallies in your state driven by a shady "gun-rights" nonprofit. Even though polling largely supports the lock down and actions taken to curb the pandemic. You also find that outside the group people are a lot more nuanced and reasonable. It's fascinating. What is even more concerning is that a lot of bots drive this behavior.

I think the issue is that in the long term it dilutes FB. I know many people who don't post on FB, preferring Instagram etc... I know these are still FB platforms but it's a big shift. So FB will eventually become Usenet and effectively non-functional.

There's some type of social network that's between Instagram and FB that doesn't exist yet.
I'm no fan of Facebook. But for what it's worth, back when I was still using it in ~2010, it helped me learn a lot about the worldviews of people on the opposite end of the political spectrum who I rarely if ever interacted with in person. The mechanism for this was Facebook Groups - I'd hang out in climate change denial groups talking to denialists and asking them questions. And although it didn't change my mind and I didn't change theirs, I (and my, err, opponents) both actually learned a lot and came to see the other side as more honest and less irrational/evil than we once thought.

I don't know if Facebook still serves this purpose today.
No. Why should the only desirable metric be user engagement?

Is the goal of FB engagement/virality/time-on-site/revenue above all else? What does society have to gain, long term, by ranking a news feed by items most likely to provoke the strongest reaction? How does Facebook's long-term health look, 10 years from now, if it hastens the polarization and anti-intellectualism of society?
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With similar web apps (e.g. hashing of passwords) I was thinking it would be great to be able to show to the user that this web page can't send data anywhere once it is loaded

(I understand that this might be tricky or even impossible (?) to ensure in browsers but it would be interesting to be able to give and prove guarantees like that to the user)
And you'll find the Volt outperforms the i3 Rex in terms of hybrid efficiency and performance. When the i3 is in range extended mode it's pokey; and only meant to go a short distance before one gets a charge.
I have heard someone spouting that but it was all baloney since that person supported actions just as bad.
Use pie graphs to show the original tables split up into thirds of one girl two boys.

Then show two ways of combining two tables.

(>-) combined with (>-) is a table of six: 2 girls, 4 boys show all boys and girls moving from tables with 3 seats to the same table with 6 seats.

Now show a table with three seats, one occupied by a girl.
Show another table with same configuration.
One girl moves from one table to join the first table. 1/3 full + 1/3 full (at the same table) is 2/3 full.
Why does facebook need to do anything about this? People have been disagreeing with each other violently or otherwise for as long as humans have existed. Do they think they can do anything about this?
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> Is there a legitimate reason for some network appliance with any form of persistent storage that you can write to once or more to use different DUIDs through its lifetime?

Even the operating systems, with persistent storage in the form of harddisks get this wrong: a DUID is reassigned on every reinstall, at least. MAC addresses are convenient since they are basically global serial numbers in the form of ROM, fuses or similar. Only later were MAC addresses generated on the device by a RNG. There is just no hope for the DUID situation to ever get better, meaning DHCPv6 will never get useful.

> Of course if there is little benefit to you, replacing your existing infrastructure and processes is going to be a high relative cost. This is true of any new technology

No, it isn't. There are technologies that are designed to be easy to migrate to newer versions. Usually one doesn't notice those, because of the lack of problems. E.g. going from Ethernet to WiFi is relatively simple because of the intentional huge similarities. Upgrading a HTTP server from 1.0 to 1.1 to 2 doesn't change a lot in your processes, although there are huge differences especially from 1.1 to 2. TLS 1.3 looks completely different from 1.2 on a protocol level, but it was designed with upgrades in mind. To an admin or end user, it is practically the same.

Other technologies, e.g. POP3 vs. IMAP or cloud-based vs. physical computing can easily run side-by-side.

IPv6 is lacking in both methods of migration. You can't transparently upgrade (which would be hard to accomplish because of the different addresses). And you can't run it side-by-side easily, because of problems like the lacking DHCPv4/DHCPv6 correspondence. I would argue that IPv6 would be much more of a success if designers had not purposefully ignored that.
Agreed. But this precise usage, "stealing" digital products, is an invention of media companies. A stretching of a metaphor beyond all reasonable interpretation.
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It does get slightly more complicated since those are project level features. I don't know how many users exist that don't have Developer access on at least one repository.

Enforcement of that seems less than ideal. You would have to have GitLab check the number of Reporters and Developers any time someone gets Developer access to a repo. Which means that the repo owner gets the error when you run out of licenses, which is less than ideal. As opposed to a user limit, where presumably whatever team owns Gitlab gets the error when they add the user.
write.as does support custom CSS and JS, so you can, in theory, make look however you want. It isn't quite as light as Bear is, but it's no Medium either.
Send a report to one of the privacy authorities in member states. Several of them accept tips even if you are not directly affected.
https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
Still, though, series hybrids like the Volt and BMW i3 just use regular inline-4 gas engines taken from their other production lines.

The Volt has basically the same engine as in the Chevy Sonic or Cruze, and the i3 range extender option uses the same engine as their C600 series scooters. Those engines are designed with a quick throttle response and a wide power band to operate over an RPM range sufficient to drive a vehicle through a regular transmission.

I don't doubt that for the same time and money, it was far better for GM and BMW to take advantage of the economies of scale around those products than to design an engine specifically to function as a range extender, but if they really took this as a core function or started from scratch I expect they might select a medium-speed industrial diesel engine instead: something optimized for a particular speed and power output that does that one thing optimally.
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In both of these instances, I think that you are using composition to mean iteration. Iterating is repeated self-composition, so it is composition, but it seems likely that you meant the more specific term. (For example, "the successor function is not a composition of anything" is definitely false in the literal sense of composition. It's also false in the literal sense of iteration, but there it's clear what you meant: there's no natural operation which we iterate some number of times greater than 1 to get the successor function.)
> "Stealing an idea" has been a phrase for far longer than that though.

If it was only that, it may be somewhat justified. But in this case the "thief" is not making any profit from the stuff he has "stolen", he has just given away a copy to another person. The correct verb in this case is "sharing".

I refuse to partake in the orwellian newspeak of using the verb "stealing" for the act of sharing. This is a hill I'm happy to die on.
What a cop out. You can't just pass the buck forever. You want to bring shareholders into this? Was exploiting the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness put to a vote? What does it matter when Zuckerberg has a controlling share of the company [0]? He answers to himself.

Facebook spent almost $17MM in lobbying efforts last year [1]. I wonder why governments doesn't exactly have an eagle eye on this...

The rank and file employees at Facebook have no say about this. Tim Bray leaving Amazon to no ill effect shows this.

We're talking about Facebook exploiting the human brain to increase time on the platform. The users have little to say about this, and as long as the users are there, advertisers have nothing to say to Facebook.

So that leaves Facebook answering to their own ethics. Yes. that's the problem.

0 - https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/082216/top-9-...

1 - https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...
> *Edit: To the people giving me shit, I am pointing out that this commenter is using a strategy (I don't know if there's a formal name) to tangentially push an agenda. 1. Sweden did the right thing, and 2. Brown people are 'invading' Sweden.

And this is libel. I’ll be seeking legal action if you don’t remove it (and if you are subject to US tort law). Also the term you’re looking for is “dog whistle”.
I did the same for my site (https://maddo.xxx)

Turns out html covers pretty much everything. Learned a few cool things along the way like:

- `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)` (Still working on nailing down color contrast there)

- doing footnotes via anchor tags that (a) automatically number themselves in text with counters and (b) automatically highlight the footnote using the `:target` selector.

not a single line of JS. The biggest perf issue by far is a font that's 64KB, which is probably including more than it needs to.

Deploying is 1 line of `scp`. Recently I got all fancy and added 30 lines of bash to support flags for only deploying assets or posts.

all of it is so fast. Coming from rails and react and all of that, it's refreshing.
IPFS isn't http. Web browsers as software are meant to access and render html obtained via http. Content addressing on IPFS is entirely different to how dns resolution works and as such you shouldn't just glue on an entirely different name resolution system to existing software. You want an ipfs browser that is UX optimized for actually browsing ipfs content.

Back in the day browsers supported alternative protocols like ftp but in practice those are largely abandoned to single function as an http browser.

And what in the world would adding PGP to Firefox do? Its not an email client. Its not an IM client. A website that wanted to can already use PGP via wasm. Firefox is not an SMTP client, its an HTTP one.
How much Rust in Firefox? (8.7%)
Glass was never a consumer product. It was only publicly released as a dev kit.
I don't buy it, the OP's first instinct was to see if they can pirate it. Only when they couldn't, did they pay for it.

And how could you even possibly compete with a book piracy site such as z-lib? You can get any book you want, for free, within seconds with virtually no fear of legal repercussions.

>I can lend or give a real book to whoever I want. Forever or temporarily.

Because the physical limitations on lending make it unfeasible to share it with absolutely everyone. The same goes for sales of used books. A 'used' digital book is just as good as a new one and would directly compete with the original seller.
> Why should we even allow our government to tell us ever again what products are “essential” and what are not?

Because, on average, the calculation for each individual does not line up with the calculation for society as a whole and people are going to make decisions that harm others.

Yes, you going to your dentist is not likely to make a difference. Everyone going to their dentist, hair dresser, etc as if it's business as usual will, and the negative impacts of your actions will not only be felt by you.

If government's role is to protect us from each other, then this is well in line with what they should be doing.

I'd agree that specifically how they've done it in the US is... not good. But I don't see the general concept as being without merit.
>> No, it would not be my job to decide which discussions should a user be driven to.

But facebook feels it's their job to drive certain thing to users. That's the whole point as far as they can tell. I disagree too.
So the country that the virus originated from can't/doesn't even want to research vaccines properly? Or is this economic warfare to stop the West from producing a viable vaccine?

Feels increasing likely that the real global virus here is the CCP.
It's incredibly satisfying to reproduce these papers. I now make Rust versions of the most interesting projects. And try to make low-latency inference pipelines for those that show potential for real-time use. Some are sketched out here: https://github.com/Simbotic/SimboticTorch

The bulk of the work to get real-time working is to move more of pipeline to GPU. Mostly things handled by numpy and some image/video transformations.
Both what? You’re not making a lot of sense here.
It grows in the ground, or around the bones of other living creatures.
You work for twenty-some years writing your perfect novel and then some scumbag pirates it, cracks it, and makes it available to everyone for free? That sounds reasonable.
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Thinking in terms of risk can save you from yourself
More concisely, if you won’t do it, then you will be replaced by someone who will.
sorry I meant a centralized server. Storing it in device is not a problem. But when they have already published private details (Aadhar) of millions of people without any sort of care, its really worrying
They did as you say (you are a PM, after all!), and next week they rolled out the "likelihood of engagement" model. An independent analysis by another team member, familiar with the old model, confirmed that it was still mostly driven by politics (there is nothing much going on in Elbonia, besides politics), but politics was neither the direct objective not an explicit factor in the model.

The observed behavior is the same: using the new model, most people are still shown highly polarized posts, as indicated by subjective assessment of user research professionals.

What should you do now?
People are more isolated in the real world? Please provide a source. Aside from the fact that this is hard to measure now that the underlying medium has itself been modified — I would hardly expect this to be the case. Online I am connected to those whom I socialize with or am otherwise professionally connected to. In the “real world” this constraint is largely absent.
You are missing one of the really amazing services: Snowmobile (https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/). It is a real truck, that connects to your data center, copies up to 100 PB of data and drives back to one of the AWS data centers and dumps the data there...
They even have the same business model, in which users are not the customers. If you are Sylvester McMonkey McBean, you do not want to place ad impressions in groups of star- and plain-bellied sneetches who share an interest in underwater basket weaving. You will happily spend to place impressions for star-on machines among groups of plain-bellied sneetches, and star-off among star-bellied.
I think Android is the most important version - about 95% of mobiles are covered. So it is good they are doing that first. iOS is about 3-4% and KaiOS is just 1%, so I think if it takes some more time that's not a huge impact.
And anytime there’s someone trying to give a different perspective on the situation, there’s always someone who points out the political context. Sometimes having these conflicting opinions is conducive for good discussion and reducing echo chambers.
This looks cool, though as a non-Facebook user, I'm not sure of the details here. What does the "We don't." header mean?
Economies of scale is a distinct concept that's different than a flywheel. Yes, EoS plays an intimate role in powering a lot of flywheels. For example, the section of Amazon's flywheel that allows them to offer lower prices as a result of having more sellers works via EoS. However, it wouldn't make any sense to try to describe the entire flywheel concept using the term EoS, because lots of information would be lost, specifically the entire concept of a flywheel: that it feeds back into itself in a loop. Calling a flywheel EoS would be akin to calling a racetrack a curve.

As for whether or not "flywheel" is the best term, I think it's pretty good. Yes, real-life flywheels lose momentum due to friction, unless outside force is exerted. But the same is true with marketing flywheels, which is why all of them will have at least one step that requires the injection of outside energy, e.g. bringing in new customers.
This goes back to the argument of first to market or best. I have yet to see a definitive answer.
Look, if it was up to me, all of the senior members of the CCP would be tried and executed for crimes against humanity. But that still doesn't mean that anything and everything the Chinese state does is reflexively bad.

I really don't see any ethical reason that publicly funded Covid research shouldn't be publicly available. Hoarding research data may potentially delay any vaccine or cure by months, leading to millions of unnecessary deaths. For what? Some national bragging rights that "[Country X] alone discovered the vaccine! We're number one!"

To the extent that other countries are hoarding Covid research data, I very much hope that the CIA and NSA are doing their damned best to liberate that data. (Data tampering is of course a separate issue, and unequivocally unethical. But the FBI only mentions "review or theft" not manipulation.)
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I would think engagement would be a core metric you would be measured against in this example. And if that’s the case, this certainly isn’t a side effect.
Imagine an average level of civility in a society `C`.

Lets say users of your product, due to your product, operate at `0.5 C`.

Is changing the product so they operate at a higher `0.75 C` or back to `C` "paternalistic"?

Why?

I can see the argument for moving `C` to `1.5 C` as paternalistic. But when you're already actively affecting `C` in one way, why do we moralize about moving it the other way? What makes down OK, but up BAD?
The US was probably not the safest place to be with regards to covid, but it's ridiculous to imply that our leaders are all idiots who messed it all up. The data just does not support that no matter how you look at it.

I was replying to this:

>It's been far worse for countries peopled with and led by idiots, like the USA.

Maybe this person means that the majority of western europe as well as The US is peopled with and led by idiots, but it seems much more likely that they are just incredibly misinformed.
I think the difference is that the West is engaging in surveillance and not sabotage. If the CCP was found to contaminate or corrupt data, that is a far step above Western norms. Also, the West mostly focuses on international relations and national security concerns, whereas the CCP also participates in economic sabotage and IP transfer.

For example, it would be big news for the US to have been caught hacking Huawei, but, the CCP does this all the time to US companies.
How precisely did they pinpoint you on the map? 100m/300ft here in a chromium derivative i reserve for stuff like that.

/me feels im/depressed.

edit: Latency varies but goes down to 6 to 5.5ms, similar for jitter, but even lower to just above 4ms. Line almost maxed out. Just missing 5up/2down. On really ancient HW :-)
Apologies, I didn't communicate what I meant clearly. I meant that our customers would accept us blaming human error easier than they would accept us saying it is by design.
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> video games have the additional constraint of packing as much as possible in the least amount of text

But then again, after that super short text, there is 10 minutes long cut scene followed by another cut scene.
Perhaps important journalism, but it is behind a paywall, so apparently WSJ is satisfied that only their subscribers know this information about Facebook.

Meanwhile, Facebook is not behind a paywall, so they can monitor the conversations of billions of people despite monthly stories that circulate illustrating gross misconduct.
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Tutorials on the web show creating a users table seem to cover just the bare essentials, what does a real production user schema look like for your company?
I'm not a money laundering expert but I thought the point was to get a bunch of cash, from drug sales or whatever you don't want anybody asking questions about, turned into legitimate-looking income. Income from Patreon might look legit, but how would you funnel your cash into Patreon contributions without putting it in a bank account first (and setting off the very alarms you're trying to avoid)?
How does insurance work?