skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> when you're paying people to do a job, explaining why you've decided a certain way is not your obligation.

Isn’t this at odds with your tagline:

HowTruthful helps you make better evidence-based decisions, and helps you communicate opinions effectively.

Communicate opinions effectively, unless you’re paying someone to enact your opinions, in which case fuck them.
To be fair, it doesn't sound like he has another job lined up. There's no guarantee his next job will pay that well.
I just don't agree that severing professional ties over political disputes is admirable. For society to function, people need to be willing to work with others whose politics they find distasteful.
I'm not sure, but it doesn't sound like much shared among all of them (assuming a good number have popped up). I think many people here regularly deal with those sorts of numbers in legitimate traffic.

> One single website belonging to an unnamed advocacy group

> dealt with 20,000 requests a second.

20k requests per second doesn't sound crazy to re-produce. Assuming you only need a 100 byte TCP packet to make a request [1], that's 800 bits. Bump up to 2000 bits assuming some overheads from somewhere, a 100Mb/s internet connection could send 50k requests a second.

Seems like a single person with a decent internet connection could flood them with 20k request per second. If the attacker picks a page that requests database access or a large payload return, you could easily sink a small web server.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14526139/what-is-the-min...
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Those release notes are a bit misleading. See my comment above
...that we know of
> over lots of people rather than just a few.

This is too soon to say

- We don't know whether different actions would have produced a very different outcome (I don't beleive a Norwegain strategy would have yielded significantly better outcome, for example).

- More importantly it's too soon to say given we don't have the effects of public health on other mitigations which come much later (e.g. GDP for healthcare spending etc). We also aren't even nearly through the pandemic. More outbreaks are likely, and we don't know how much effect the places with 10%, 20% or 30% immunity will have compared to places with places that have a much lower immunity.
Check out `z`. It manages long paths automatically so you can cd quickly. One of the best tools I've come across.

https://github.com/rupa/z
Lol. I have heard that from people who haven’t used it.

It’s lighter-weight. Not as cryptic. Can also hook it up to your makefile targets, make them easier to access.

The other thing people say is “isn’t that same as npm scripts?” — it can complement those as well.

I modify “cd” so that on entering any folder it shows me the available .ok commands, if any.
He just hit one year according to his linkedin. I wonder what he vested into last week.
> Their active users have grown orders of magnitude since then

That's a bit of an overstatement. https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly....
I automatically assumed this was a ploy to dodge unemployment/redundancy benefits for employees. This also happens in the US. Much harder to get benefits if you voluntarily quit versus get fired or laid off.
Well, we live in a time where information spreads faster than the news. We see history developing in front of our eyes on sites like twitter, reddit or facebook before they move through the newspaper filter. It's a wonderful thing to behold.

On the other hand, we also get in touch with radical posts or "fake news" or news which try to influence readers in various forms from all different kinds of sources.

So on one hand, our tech enabled information to move more freely. On the other hand, extreme, biased or untrue information can be dangerous.

But we don't have the means to filter or flag this content objectively in an automated fashion. That's why we have a problem. And as long as humans are involved in this filtering process, we have other problems.

It's very similar to self-driving: As long as we cannot find a way to make this 100% automated and safe according to rules we all adhere to, we won't find a solution.
Social media is fast food. If you eat it all the time it makes you feel awful and will destroy your mental and physical health. But its cheap, easy to get and tastes really good...

So stupid people love it.
Virtue signalling at its finest.
And get a properly fitted bike. Japan, I'm looking at you.
> Interesting. I have a hard time understanding out how it could be any clearer.

Sure, censor POTUS so when the tanks roll in, people have no idea what's going on.

I think it's pretty clear that your national leader should never be censored because the people he's governing have an absolute right to know every single thing he says.
Phones is just one example. I didn't wanted to write "... including, but not limiting to, ...". But I am sure you knew when you read it.

Still being billed for an universal human right (as health) is a problem, but you can use your phone to call an ambulance wherever you are.
I like “small talk” a lot as a great way to know people. I disagree that these questions will make more meaningful conversations.

Every time I see one of these lists of ”meaningful” questions, from people who ”hate” small talk, they fit in one of these categories: it is virtue signaling, to show they are supposed to be more profound human beings than the average person; or it signalizes intelligence, show they can think of smarter things than the regular person; or they are intrusive questions, very personal questions that I would like to answer only to real friends, not strangers, and I would hate being asked that.

I would much rather engage with a simple person that asks those regular questions to start a conversation and it is there to actually talk to you, not put up a show to impress you on how profound and cool they are.
Are you really going to buy, charge, supply with data and carry around a second phone, no matter how cheap, just so you can send blue messages? That attitude is, like many american ideas, really whack.
By the way, both of the recent black men who were dealt with by police were FELONS with extensive criminal records.

George Floyd once terrorized, robbed and beat a pregnant women at gunpoint for money and drugs . . . he had at least 9 run-ins with the law . . .
https://twitter.com/i/status/1267678541602308096

Ahmaud Arbery had an extensive rap sheet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwIazUQWRtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqHMM5G8Hn8

. . . and in the case of Manuel Ellis death of March 3rd, he walked up to Tacoma Police Officers and said, 'I have warrants, I need to talk.'
As soon as the police officer got out of the car, he assaulted one of them and slam dunked him into the ground.”
What do you expect ? Police are supposed to give him a lollipop ?

Also, this isn't a "black" thing, many more whites are killed by police each year:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...
They make all their money on the "value add" services. Things like insurance, loans, cryptocurrencies, fees for a shiny metal card, etc.

Even so, I can't see how they can afford ~1,000 support agents employed with only ~1,000,000 daily customers. I don't want to pay 0.1% of my income to pay for tech support for my bank account!
Possibly worried about the money and status bump from having Facebook on their resume.

But having on your resume that you left Facebook because of this would be the biggest status bump of all.
Sure!

For example “AI Writer” is built on GPT-2 transformer-based language model with 1.5 billion parameters, trained on a dataset of 8 million web pages. It is trained to predict the next word, given all of the previous words within some text. You can read more on it here: https://openai.com/blog/better-language-models/

Another interesting feature is “AI Heatmap”. Basically, we took two different datasets to train our model: a dataset from an eye-tracking device and dataset gathered by using BubbleView methodology. More on BubbleView here: https://bubbleview.namwkim.org/
Listening to that argument is a clear “catch 22”. If he quits his job, it’s not much of a stance but obviously staying is not a stance either. What was he supposed to do? I think that in a capitalist country we choose who we buy from and who we work for. These are two powerful choices that can shape society. He’s doing the right thing.
I really don't know what it means in practice. I don't have a silver bullet in mind.
You would at least need to tell HR.
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If the bad behavior is skirting the labor reduction laws, we should get rid of the labor reduction laws to reduce bad behavior?

This argument doesn't make sense to me.
I also appreciate this quote, because it sets up a mature way of looking at things, categorising, and dealing with them.

However, I'm less of a fan of the opening words; it's not so much that this should be magically granted on to us with a wishing wand, it's something we need to consciously work on, from within. Somehow that slogging, gritty aspect is less represented.
Yep. The "New IP, Shaping Future Network" presentation was made to the ITU.

The shutdown you're thinking of was from the IETF [0], who of were publicly responding to the presentation publicly forwarded to them by the ITU [1].

Of course IETF are incentivized to think the process of protocol evolution they coordinate is the right place and way to set standards (but that doesn't mean they're wrong). Now ITU stakeholders are chiming in, and we can expect to see more over the coming months.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1677/
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1653/
using it for years, great plugin for task/todo list and notes/documentation
The driver of innovation isn't lone geniuses but state investment (2019)
>having the skills to be payed $250,000 is not a privilege

It is privilege having a stable life to get there, but we're calling out this dude's privilege like he's Jeff Bezos throwing a million dollar coin to a witcher.

It's definitely a sacrifice to quit a nice job during a pandemic and nationwide riots.
> Well ... it might just come a little sooner than that ;-)

Why would it come sooner? You think they would fire him a week early just so he can claim unemployment from them?
It's a privilege when it is relatively accessible to some and not to others. Given that it's much easier for a kid in the Western hemisphere to learn coding than for a poor kid in a remote village in Bangladesh, it is a privilege for the former that the latter doesn't have.
There are a lot of things that are even more work but don't pay nearly as much. It's a privilege. I consider myself lucky to be born in a time where what I like to do (programming) aligns with what pays well. This will not last forever.
I hate how the internet makes everyone think they're smarter than everyone else. Scheming malicious losers write fake news and propaganda to incite anger in stupid and naive people, then skeptics come across it and become paranoid and angry, and then they make fake news and propaganda to incite anger in stupid and naive people. But in the end, everyone involved is a stupid naive scheming malicious paranoid loser.

Regardless of who is behind these cyber attacks, whether its white supremacists, BLM protestors, anarchists, foreign state actors, or edgy 15 years olds in a Discord server with waifu profile pics, the end goal is the same: to make people angry, and possibly incite more riots. And it's going to succeed. And if you think about it too much, you'll just turn yourself into an angry paranoid wreck.

Maybe the internet (or social media) wasn't such a good idea after all? The technology moved faster than our monkey brains could keep up.
• Don’t panic about cooking: get free dinners with Deliveroo
• Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals

So basically we expect you to be on site before breakfast and stay until after dinner
Stunning and brave!
What is left to prove about (Gaussian) blurring?
In vacuum, yes, in medium it's more like 200 km.
I don't understand why doesn't Facebook just:
-Allow all posts
-Allow users to customize what they want to see (e.g. "dont show me posts that glorify violence" or "only allow covid posts that match WHO guidelines" or "allow exceptions from political figures or of historical significance") and allow users to ban hide posts that are found untruthful by third parties (snopes, etc).

To me effectively everyone wins. Facebook users who want to curate their experience can do so. Facebook gets out of the censorship business so governments can lay off. Governments will have a hard time objecting because it is the users controlling their information, not the company. "Sources of truth" have to compete to get the customer's business.

Its hard but not that hard, and its Facebook's core business.
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>it lessens the value of the stance given that he’s not sacrificing much and won’t suffer for his cause.

You are literally the only person who thinks this.
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I adopted vim-wiki a little while ago and have really appreciated its functionality. I like that all files are plain text and located in a single folder. It is easy to reach from anywhere in vim, providing simple means to quickly make a note of todo/diary items during work.

Also, I greatly enjoy that it allows for making local references in between your wiki files. A simple link towards another wiki- or diary-entry allows you to jump to that note. It is not only nice for navigation, but also to explore connections between your thoughts. To understand those connections better, I create a simple script (vimwikigraph [0]) to draw these connections using the DOT language [1].

In that way it is similar to Roam [2] I think, although I have not used it myself.

[0] https://github.com/maxvdkolk/vimwikigraph

[1] https://graphviz.gitlab.io/_pages/doc/info/lang.html

[2] https://roamresearch.com/
This is what solidarity should look like, It takes courage to walk away from a company such as Facebook but it's a great move nonetheless. We should not become complicit
So it would be more valuable if a janitor quit their job at Facebook than if a developer quit?
Agreed.

I don’t think that’s their fault, I’m happy they=’re leaving, but the people commenting and upvoting these threads should question how much attention this one person deserves. There are people working jobs in far worse conditions with far worse bosses we never hear about.
Unfortunately they stopped producing StreetScooters this year and will only service the existing fleet in the future. What a pity.
America's rate was kept under control ever since the lockdown. As planned.
Yeah I'm fine with that proposal as well. I think that existing wiki solutions could do what you suggest. I'm not sure if any wiki systems use git as a sort of backend and I have a feeling that a database is better suited to the task. I think you might be overestimating the need to revert to older versions to more than the level of specificity that something like Time Machine or File History provides. I also think that merges and diffing aren't necessary or useful compared to the collaborative simultaneous live editing features that Docs has.

I understand and completely agree with the core premise you're getting at here though. You want mainstream collaborative learning using proven open source tools and formats either directly or as a backend of sorts.

I thought the idea of students using git or markdown directly was silly but there is merit to using those as the backing structure for a more user friendly (and hopefully also open source!) frontend.
A game about convincing your friends to invest in the most ridiculous startups
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He would stand even taller if while he was quitting Facebook, he was running in to a burning building to save a child. Of course, while saving a child is to be applauded, it lessens the value of his stance that he's not also saving 10,000 from starvation. Of course, that would be nothing next to achieving world peace while eliminating corruption in every government in the world. I'm not saying he shouldn't quit Facebook over his convictions, it's just that it would be awfully nice if he solved every global problem and then was crucified on an actual cross for doing it on the way out.
I was listening to my local NPR station when I heard a news story about how Colorado secures their elections:

https://www.cpr.org/2018/10/25/colorado-is-a-pretty-darn-saf...
Public resignations are an honorable form of protest. There is probably some consequence for doing so publicly, but suffering isn’t a requirement.

Resigning isn’t about sacrifice to the volcano god, and if that is what you’re looking for, you are not the audience.
With the amount of fame he is getting with this post, I would be surprised if he did not receive 30+ offers that pays well yet.

Edit: Of course, the big 5 (FAANG) will not touch him even with a 10 meter pole, but there are other places also pays well.
> Their active users have grown orders of magnitude since then.

True if we are in base 2. Well, actually that would be "order"
True. Most likely he was well educated and taught skills that enhanced his ability to work hard in a stable enviroment.
Regenerative braking isn't nearly as efficient on something like a UPS truck or semi, compared to your Leaf. They use hydraulic-based regenerative systems instead.
Well, the issue is that if you accept that brain state will always be different then there isn't much predictive power in the measure.

The conceit was always that you could measure it across a bunch of people and find the commonly active areas across enough datasets. Even with different baselines, the areas critical to the task would elevate above that baseline.

This paper finds that even in a single person, activity (above the baseline) is poorly correlated across recording sessions. They use a technique called intraclass correlation to measure this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intraclass_correlation
>Why should their privilege on social-media be diminished?

Why should a president, prime minister or government/parliament member should have "privilege" ? should they be allowed to swear or show their naked ass on public TV because they are special? The rules should apply equal to all citizens no exceptions for the ones in power.

IMO the algorithm that decides if a post should be banned or not should not have as input who is the author.
I'm sorry I closed this repository because of what the other user mentioned.
Flags are generally from user votes- so probably too inflammatory/political to some here.

Per the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
And yet, the machine keeps churning along. Facebook is what it looks like when an open democratic society develops cancer.
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This is all nonsense to me.

Trump said if you loot, you get shot. Isn't this how our society works?

If you steal you may end up getting shot.

People are trying to react as if he said "if you walk down the street you'll get shot".

Sensitive topic, I guess.

* EDIT:
The nonsense part is people calling Trump to be censored, like OP.

I am not condoning violence but I do think looting may lead to it, it's not too far from the truth.

I think the argument is that he wanted to cause violence with his comments, which could be true, but seems like an idiotic to argue over that.

What he said seems to be a fact, so I am not convinced he should be censored
So true. I realized recently that social media makes me think that I hate people that I actually like! You get a quick hit of superiority, but it's the problem the most effective tool I've ever seen to divide us.
You only could carry sidewinders on the lower difficulty/realism level, on the higher one you could only carry "bomb-like things" and only two different types.
I find I like lots of "menial" work a lot better than programming. As long as it didn't wreck my body (I like doing construction labor but it'll destroy you) I'd much, much rather do that than programming. Food delivery seems like it'd be great, bonus if it's bike delivery. Clerking at a small non-chain retail business would probably be a great time (if the owners weren't dicks—always an important qualifier with these sorts of jobs).

But, money and easy to find a job.
How do you go from "this article has too much human interest and not enough details for my taste" to "this article is for stupid people"?
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Additionally, there is a tear-off strip with a barcode that you hold on to, which allows you to follow up on the status of your ballot online.
Currently he's leaving his ~250k job with no other job lined up. I don't think it lessens the value of his stance at all.
The crux is whether mail delivery of the ballot can be executed securely and verifiably, and whether failures can be corrected in a timely manner.

A few examples of where this can go wrong:

* Introducing third party ballot collectors risks bad actors manipulating the ballot pipeline, for example what we saw in 2018 in North Carolina's 9th district.

* The US mail is mostly reliable, but lost mail (in my experience) is still fairly common. While this would be a random occurrence, every election cycle involves several tight races, and a lost ballot can flip the results.

* In the event errors in ballot transmission occur, you need to correct them in a timely manner. This requires someone to put in the effort to proactively watch out for missing ballots. Individuals are lazy, and it might not be in the interests of partisan officials to try.

The severity of these and other issues largely depends on the volume of mail voting; the more mail voting the more incentive to try to subvert it. As with any security issue, the defenses against them need to be strong enough to make the attacks too expensive to execute. Just because we don't see fraud yet doesn't mean mail voting won't be targeted in the future.
Repairing roads, you're an accomplice of gangsters, murderers, rapists, extortionists, ... /s
My serverless infra costs me 0$ per month.
Personally I find it great that Facebook allows this kind of open speech and open approach from their employees (both in the OP post but also in Abramov stance).

I hope one day this work openness will surface to be seen on their products as well.
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You may be getting stopping power, but the issue is whether you're stopping gradually enough for a meaningful amount of that power to actually be captured in the battery vs. dumped to the environment as heat. I notice this on my electric longboard as well— longer, more gradual brake actions are way, way better for range than stopping more aggressively.

I think to get the power from more sudden stops, you'd need to have some kind of intermediate storage (like a capacitor bank) that could hold that energy for 20-30 seconds while it's streamed at the appropriate rate back into the main battery.
What's the ML part of Zyro? Website text generation?
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