skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And Facebook somehow tapped into that human behavior and (inadvertently or purposefully)

It's not just that they tapped into it, it's the entire mission statement in a sense. 'to connect the world' if you want to treat it like a sort of network science basically means to lower the distance between individuals so much that you've reduced the whole world to a small world network. There's no inhibition in this system, it's like an organism on every stimulant you can imagine.

Everything spreads too fast and there's no authority to shut anything down that breaks, so the result is pretty much unmitigated chaos.

The vaccine is the thing people complain about all the time, the much maligned 'filter bubbles', which is really just to say splitting these networks into groups that can actually work productively together and keeping them away from others that make them want to bash their heads in.
Absolute bedlam in the US. Trump's base would _lose their flippin' minds_.

Would it go as far as an actual civil war? I'm not sure who the opponent would be. If I were @jack, would I be scared for my life? Yes.
Common Beginner React/Redux Mistakes
This is great. Remember me of my early days on Java when I made a Battleship game.
I was recently curious about cobol, after reading that it is in high demand these days. I'll try something myself later.

Good job.
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First off, the west's covert activities are not limited to benign surveillance.

Second off.. aside from the total lack of evidence, why would the Chinese be interested in sabotage here? American discovery of a vaccine means they can rip it off, they're definitely not gonna be paying anyone for it. If we're selling it at exorbitant prices while they give it away practically for free to African countries, that's a huge win for them. Plus, there's the whole taking care of their people thing.

Sabotage just gets in the way, nobody cares who invented it 'first'.
Do you have a reference about those attacks? A press release or a link to a blog maybe?
They decided against paternalistic meddling and let discourse happen naturally? That sounds best to me. I don't want Facebook to be a school teacher hovering over a lunch table to make sure nobody swears. People posting "divisive" content is far preferable to the alternative.
If someone does not make specific and testable predictions which turn out to be right, they are useless alarmists. If you want to read about how to assess predictors (and improve predictions), I suggest you read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superforecasting:_The_Art_and_...
There's a fake Dark Sky app on the Play Store–and people are paying real money
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Great post, awesome project to hack on, thank you for sharing the code.
Not all users who eschew Google Play services are using MicroG. I would be surprised if even a majority were. These days, the sole remaining large community for bare Android is Lineage, and not only does it ship without MicroG, any discussion of MicroG is banned on its channels.

I have set up Android phones with Lineage for several relatives, and if the user is comfortable doing online banking through the browser instead of a bank-provided app, then there is really no need for Google Play services or the MicroG substitute. Whatsapp runs fine without Play services, and in my region OSM-based maps are a viable competitor to Google Maps.
I think you're confusing internet marketing with the people who talk about internet marketing.

Marketing done right is basically the 'what people want' in 'build things people want' with a focus on what they're actually willing to pay for. I routinely kill ideas because the market is too small or profitability is too hard to achieve. Understanding your audience then building content and product around it is harder and more valuable than HN seems to believe. I've been very successful by developing this skill and learning how to build things. Good marketers have domain and industry specific knowledge that doesn't go viral in marketing circles because it's too specialized. I'm also not about to get on a public forum and tell my competition how I'm beating them.

Internet marketers who idolize internet marketing speakers are insufferable, I'll give you that. It comes from a good place of wanting to learn by listening to the experts. Unfortunately, these experts spend more time talking about how to be like them rather than how to build something people want. I think this also comes from a good place: let me help you achieve success like I have found.

Meanwhile the more technical marketers roll their eyes, get to work, and quietly make their companies money.
Why isn't it above the fold in the first place?
> 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.

Funny, years ago, around the Aurora shooting in Colorado, it was Facebook that made me recognize this behaviour in myself.

It's why I left the platform.

Also, obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/386/
Alright, I'm interested: what's your business model that can compete with Z-lib?
That is very silly and disingenuous argument to make and a total straw man.

Swapping gas tanks provides no advantage and you conveniently ignore the whole point of the batteries which is that you don't need any fuel infrastructure to fill your tanks!
I am sorry to say, this seems like a thoughtful answer but there is a lot of nonsense in it is as well.

For example, pluralism doesn't state there is no way to "find truth", but that in light of multiple views, to have good faith arguments, avoid extremism, and engage in dialog to find common ground.

> but there are genuine ethical arguments on all sides.

These ethical arguments, however genuine they may be, are not equal however, otherwise, you would be falling victim to making the false balance fallacy, commonly observed in media outlets, or the "both sides" argument we have so unlovingly become aware of in recent times. The False balance fallacy essentially tosses out gravity, impact, and context.

> That most of human progress over the past couple of centuries has resulted from companies doing what's most profitable, despite how non-intuitive that is.

Despite the over-simplicity of framing it as companies simply doing what is most profitable, this is, in fact, extremely intuitive, and has been studied, measured, and observed. I am curious what you find unintuitive about it?

> But I am saying that supposing there's some kind of obvious right ethical answer, and implying bad faith towards people at Facebook that they're somehow making decisions they genuinely believe to be wrong but making anyways, is not accurate.

This view may be true in a vacuum, but it is irrelevant. We live in American society, and there is an American ethical framework in which Facebook's actions can be viewed as unethical. Other countries that have this similar issue have their own ethical frameworks in which to deem Facebook's actions ethical/unethical.
And (as you might expect) Cloudflare collects and saves data from the test.
Have you been able to close more business as a result of this switch?
I found it way easier to just write lua externally, and use *_by_lua_file directives.
While it's true that liquid fuel is more energy dense than batteries, you have to remember that most Internal Combustion Engines are only around 20% efficient.

So even though you're carrying around a huge amount of potential energy in the form of gasoline, your engine can only covert about 20% of that into motion.
> I think the difference is that the West is engaging in surveillance and not sabotage.

1. Stuxnet.

2. What makes you think this is not surveillance?

3. What makes you certain that CIA black budgets are not spent on sabotage? They don't exactly let anyone audit them...
Most of .NET is moving towards avoiding heap allocations altogether, the latest versions improved a lot in that sense. A great example is the new System.Text.Json API, that can serialize/deserialize JSON documents up to 1 MB with 0 heap allocations, using ArrayPool
This is why the liberal arts are important, because you need someone in the room with enough knowledge of the world's history to be able to look at this and suggest that maybe given the terrible history of pseudo-scientifically sorting people into political categories, you should not pursue this tactic simply in order to make a buck off of it.
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Measuring and showing jitter by default is nice.

On the online gaming end of things it can be much more important than other metrics, depending on the genre. But there is an unfortunate amount of misconceptions floating around out there, and people tend to default to "higher speed = better" speed test results, when bandwidth doesn't really matter beyond a certain baseline.
Regulators need to stop giving tech giants a pass on common carrier liability. It would solve a lot of problems overnight.
I mean, he's not wrong. Facebook sucks because a lot of people are not-great human beings, and Facebook just allows you to see that. Oops. People might think that peer pressure would shame people into better behavior, but the concept of shame no longer exists in the post-modern world. Everyone feels justified in whatever they believe, and the Covid-19 situation on the platform couldn't be a more perfect example in illustrating the problem.

I say this from first-hand experience. I discovered that people I called friends were racist. I now consider those friends merely acquaintances, and I have since deleted my account. Better to just be ignorant of people's ignorance when I can't do anything about it.
I've gotten better, over time, at typing my heated, emotional response to someone online and then hitting Cancel or the back button and not posting.

Sometimes I do hit the Reply button though. I still have room for self-improvement. :-)
This! You have to admire the engineering that turned a coax cable that could barely handle a few kbps in the early 2000s into something as fast as my LAN today.
Facebook admits to doing large-scale emotional manipulation of its users. They published a 'scientific' paper where they showed that they tried and succeeded to make 1 group depressed (hundreds of thousands of people), and 1 group feel happier (also hundreds of thousands of people).

They psychologically manipulate people into depressions, on purpose.

Facebook is not "just" an extension of open society. Facebook is a specific powerful corporation that makes immoral decisions to emotionally control their users.
>Nothing makes Facebook as valuable as having your friends on it, and no product decisions have gotten as many friends on as the ones made in growth. Not photo tagging. Not news feed. Not messenger. Nothing

Is this certain? The effects of useful features on growth are longer term and harder to measure than, for example, placing and styling friend suggestions in a way to confuse users into thinking they're friend requests.
How many billions do you think will be poured into ICE R&D from 2020-2030?

My guess is virtually none.
That's beside the point, though. The point here is that Facebook executives were told by their own employees that the algorithms they designed were recommending more and more partisan content and de-prioritizing less partisan content because it wasn't as engaging. They were also told that this was potentially causing social issues. In response, Kaplan/FB executives said that changing the algorithm would be too paternalistic (ignoring, apparently, that an algorithm that silently filters without user knowledge or consent is already fundamentally "paternalistic"). Given that Facebook's objective is to "bring the world closer together", choosing to support an algorithm that drives engagement that actually causes division seems a betrayal of its stated goals.
Do keep in mind that intelligence services are probably not being fully transparent about how they know the source of an attack. They wouldn't want to reveal their methods, to avoid them becoming unreliable in the future.
https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/05/18/hacking-streak-forces-eur...
it is positively ancient, but KDiff3 is still my go-to: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kdiff3/
If you have a SaaS application watch this video by Jason Cohen. It's about reaching 10k/month. In short, he says to charge more, focus on businesses and not consumers, and to find 150 customers willing to pay $70/month. It's a realistic number where you can grind your way to finding 150 people by knocking on doors, sending emails, making calls, etc.

https://vimeo.com/74338272

If you're referring to freelancing...

I remember watching Shark Tank (TV series where small businesses pitch to investors), and a lot of people would come on the show asking for 100-300k. When asked what they wanted to do with the money, it wasn't uncommon to hear they wanted to setup/update their website and online presence.

To me, that sounded absurd at the time. I'd be thinking in my head, they could setup a WordPress site in a couple of days, or grab some off-the-shelf shopping cart software and have it done for 1k. If they wanted something more customized, they could probably find a developer to do everything for less than 5k.

Then I realized they're a very small business, they're doing a million a year in sales, and their new site would be one of the most important aspects of their business that would directly impact their sales and how their business is perceived. 100k to set that up suddenly seemed very fair and reasonable. The outcome of that site could make or break their business. Why on earth would they only invest a few thousand into such a thing?

Or think about any small business with a dozen employees. They're spending a million a year on payroll. Is redeveloping their entire online identity and user experience worth a one time 100k expense? I think so.

Also, if you charge enough you can start bringing in outside help. For example, you're a programmer, but they also need a logo refresh on the project. If you're charging 100k, you can easily budget to bring in a designer that focuses on brand identity. You'll end up with higher quality work for your client, a better portfolio for your business, and in the future that'll allow you to quote higher rates. You can step back a bit into management and take on more work since you're not personally doing everything.

In short, recognize the value you're bringing to a business. Working closely with them over 6 months and building out a solution that helps them grow, reduces their headaches, streamlines their existing processes, and increase their revenue is very much worth 100k. If you're trapped in a bubble charging businesses 1k for a site you're never going to grow or produce the caliber of work you're capable of developing because you need to bang out one or two a week.
>In large projects like the MAX, there are always people raising concerns.

Does that mean that people raising concerns can be ignored, or does that mean that most large projects only get by with luck?
Why would anyone want to sell their books under this model? There's virtually no reason for anyone to buy from you rather than a buy a 'used' book.
A lot of the commonly used speed tests have a start or Go button.

This isn't bad behaviour, people just may not expect it based on what they are used to.
Podcast: Was open source inevitable? (Part 3)
the faq on the cloudflare website answers that: they dont publish datacenter locations for security reasons so mostly show the nearest airports on maps
>What is the point of a token if its actually centrally controlled like rental properties?

This goes down the rabbit hole of crypto a bit and I don't want to drone on too much if it gets annoying, sorry in advance.

Most tokens will not be centrally controlled in the future (I can elaborate if you're interested). During the transition period there will be centralized tokens like RealT which have similar properties to the paper forms we use today but even in that state they do offer improvements such as integration with DeFi products (RealT tokens can traded on Uniswap and will likely be integrated into Maker allowing for using your property shares in a collatorized loan), easier accountability/auditability, and other use cases (Let's go a bit sci-fi and say your car lock will open for you as long as you prove you own the car's ERC-721).

>Presumably those spending limits and indeed ANY limits are user configurable with a token that could itself be stolen or just used by software instead of a person on the machine in question.

This stuff does exist and there's some really good documentation out there that's not just me rambling :) Changing or turning off the spending limits or whitelists comes with a user-defined waiting period, so even if a virus somehow accomplishes this feat you would still be notified and have a day or so to cancel the changes and recover your wallet. Your original example was a browser extension which cannot fake keyboard or mouse input to your wallet. It would need to be a real virus of some kind which is rare on desktops in today's world and basically impossible on mobile platforms. I'm not saying the risk is 0% but it's not like mass numbers of people are going to just get their crypto stolen willy nilly, especially if they use their phones like the majority of the people in the world do.

>Credit card transactions are tolerable because the financial sector takes in a huge chunk of the value of the economy and writes off losses out of that huge pile of money.

Credit cards will still exist in a crypto world. Banks will still exist too. You will be able to reverse those payments just like you can today even if the credit card company backs their operations with ETH/DAI/BTC instead of USD. On top of that, it's actually really easy to develop a payment system on top of Ethereum that contains the ability to reverse transactions for a period of time with complex logic such as different amounts of time for different merchants based on a calculated risk score. For end users this isn't much different at all in the short to medium term.
Any crypto-currency that is not controlled by the community using it is a red flag by definition in my book. It defeats the purpose of a crypto-currency and opens you up to a lot of risk, which is unacceptable for any financial solution.
We were heavily inspired by learning about the Metaphysical Club. You could say it was a sort of book club. Some of the United States' most famous philosophers were members. They named the club ironically, because they hated the idea of metaphysics. One of my favorite anecdotes was when they considered changing their name to the "Whiskey Punch Club."

The Metaphysical Club
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000OI1AF2
Oh poor China... They just want to do whatever they want without anyone messing with them and publicizing it.

Maybe because as opposed to Chinese and other oppressive governments, the western press actually makes the people informed. Sometimes.
They won't. Twitter needs those views.
The problem is that this administration has shown time and again that they're willing to corrupt American institutions (like the FBI) when it suits them.
It's funny to think about, but if you do the math even dozens of humans riding bikes contribute so little energy compared to what a building requires it is totally negligible and would never be worth the cost beyond a gimmick.
Free tool allows you to isolate the instrumentals on any track
And the corrolary: just because the other party walks away from the argument doesn't mean that you are right.
I agree, as long as you can find time to research and understand if you’re really correct. This way you avoid conflicts but you still learn if you were wrong.
No. The mental model was exactly correct. Their assignment of notation to the model was non-standard when they wrote "+" for the operation of merging the wholes.

The confusion of what is wrong with what is correct but non-standard is in fact quite standard and quite wrong.

The confusion of the mental model with the notation is also a standard mistake.
> So now I'm the vegetarian that always gets a meat lovers and she makes the joke every time I come in.

I've seen that before, and I've also seen the opposite where people buy the veggie pizza and then add a meat or two on top to get a cheaper supreme pizza.
I think you're not quite hitting it on the point. WeChat itself doesn't offer or bundle any of the mini-apps or services it hosts as a platform (and then behaves anti-competitively against its competitor mini-apps).

i.e. you can order meals, order taxis, read blogs in WeChat but doesn't prioritize an "Internet Explorer" taxi company above all other results.

Sure the Tencent company invests in a whole bunch of other companies like Comcast owning The Verge etc, but that has nothing to do with super apps.
The word didn't even exist in common lexicon 25 years ago or you are an authoritative source and need to update wikipedia and stackexchange...
When starting a new project, when wouldn't you want to build in a cloud?
My background:
As a newer face when it comes to software development, from the onset AWS was pretty much what I learned and has been my go to since for deployment. I'm certified with them, and feel competent with the basic IT principles the core products are built on.
My Question:
While cloud computing has obviously created opportunities for products of all sizes, it typically come with trade-offs that are very unique depending on the products composition and demand. What kinds of products or projects have you worked on where cloud computing didn't work out or was unviable?
Well this is clearly a hostile act during a time in which several European countries have declared medical emergencies. They were not just "attacked" but have been completely offline for almost two weeks now (https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/05/18/hacking-streak-forces-eur...).

In Germany it is (incident was 15.05)
- NEMO (Freiburg)
- bwUniCluster 2.0 and ForHLR II (Karlsruhe)
- Hawk (Stuttgart)
- Leibniz Supercomputing Center (Munich)
- JURECA, JUWELS und JUDAC (FZ Jülich)
- Taurus (Dresden)

Switzerland shutdown access to all of CSCS (16.05).
I've been using kdiff3 for like 15 years by now: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kdiff3/

and still feel most at home there.
That's it? They found that women are more visible than men on Wikipedia. Like the results where they find that woman are less central etc, the differences are rather small. Given that it's a 9:1 split in genders, you'd expect a bit more obvious results if that was the reason for the results and not e.g. society at large, which Wikipedia largely mirrors. And you'd especially not expect that women are more visible than men. Alas, if you so choose, you can of course interpret that as "the male gaze" and the patriarchal conspiracy keeping the women out of the spot light by ... putting them in the spot light.

It seems you focus on one small part of one study and make sweeping declarations about Wikipedia by and large.
Either way your point is valid :)
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All of those tests show your actual upload speed. The whole concept of "upload speed" or "download speed" are incompletely defined questions. "Upload... to where?"

The number that your ISP gives you is likely what they provision for your connection between you and your ISP

The number that a speed test gives you is the measured bandwidth between you and the server on the other end. This is expected to be different for different routes across the internet.

If you want to test just the pipe between you and your ISP, many ISPs provide their own speed test servers for this purpose.

examples:

https://speedtest.xfinity.com

https://www.verizon.com/speedtest/