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Apple Music does the same thing. I spent a week listening to ambient music at work and it has permanently destroyed my recommendations. I don’t get a single “For You” list that doesn’t include ambient music which really kills the vibe.

That was almost a year ago and it’s still recommending ambient artists.
Not convinced.

First, this analysis was done on Arch Linux, a source-based distribution. Since you know at compile time what your environment is, I would expect the benefits to be smaller. And of course, this means you're willing to do a lot of recompiles. I'd like to see analysis done on more traditional (& common) binary distros.

Second, the arguments seem a little cherry-picked. "Over half of your libraries are used by fewer than 0.1% of your executables." is cute. But modern systems have a lot of executables, so 0.1% > 1, so that still matters, and what about the other half.

Finally, we're already having serious problems getting containers to upgrade when a security vulnerability is found. Requiring recompilation of all transitive users is not likely to win any update speed contests. If it's completely automated then it would work, but any rocks in the process will leave people endlessly vulnerable. See the Android ecosystem, etc.
I still can't wrap my mind around the idea in 2020 we have a super powerful worldwide internet accessible to most with everyone able to make their own website yet millions upon millions insist on congregation on just one or two sites and giving them some kind of imaginary power over everyone.

Just zero out facebook in HOSTS and you are free, it really is that simple, everything else is just a contrived argument.
I appreciate when someone asks such questions as a post here saves 50 readers googling. Also it might start an interesting discussion.
Wow, he created an account just to post that.
Hmm, I have both but I honestly find the Mac more annoying. For people who shut down their computer at night, the Windows updates work quite well - they download quietly in the background and apply quickly when you shut down and start up. I haven’t had a Windows machine restart at an irritating time for years. Every Mac update I’ve done, on the other hand, has taken 30-60 minutes of staring at a screen with a progress bar while the fans spin up to maximum. And weeks of nagging EVERY DAY before I finally give in and update.
One sentence uses 'suppress'. The other uses 'deprive'. Those are completely different things and will cause enormous confusion unless clarified. (ie, there is a lot that suppresses the vote but does not deprive it; will those instances be ignored, as this text suggests?)
See also “micro-trenching” https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9Cmicro-trenching%E2%...
It is an interesting concept. After all, Twitter is a micro-blogging platform, and once you accumulate enough followers, transitioning to a full blown blog with the same number of followers is quite difficult. Also, each sentence structure has to be simple to convey a piece of idea in 140 characters. So basically you can write a small yet effective article, and this website pieces it together. As long as content is curated, I have it bookmarked.
Yeah PA this doesn't surprise me. It's Pittsburgh and Philly with a 3rd world country in between.

The entire state is basically those two islands, and 4 highways to get back and forth from the northeast. The rest is mountains and nothing filled with people fighting over scraps while getting snooty about the, 'dangerous high tax cities.'

Source, grew up in the nothing part of the state. Hit the road for Pittsburgh as soon as I could afford it and never looked back.
What you're describing is a reform of America's drug laws, not of America's criminal prediction problem and they shouldn't be conflated. Police already use prediction models, they just do it in their heads and inaccurately with much more bias and have a harder time adjusting those bias'. I'm all for changing drug laws and trying to reduce recidivism through counseling and means other than pure imprisonment, but that's beyond the scope of this article and discussion.
You might like this address by Nipun Mehta called, "Paths Are Made for Walking": http://www.dailygood.org/story/236/paths-are-made-by-walking...
Sure. But in th he grand scheme of things 45nm is intel core2quads Q9400. My main pc has this cpu and the only thing I miss is not enough ram.
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NPM creator: “Not having children is a form of privilege”
I know. I cannot imagine the petty vitriol that must be the highlight of his day. I am more sad than angry.
> I used to push google chat / video hard, including to external business partners. Then - yoink, google duo was hot, then yoing, hangouts? then yoink, hangouts meet? Then yoink, meet. It's honestly mind blowing. So now we are stuck on zoom.

The Hangouts move is still one of the most infuriating things I've seen in tech anytime in the last decade. Remember how Google was actively contributing to an open and interoperable spec for chat, and then just proceeded to go full Ayn Rand about it?

There's a pretty strong argument to be made that if any major players were still backing XMPP as a standard, we wouldn't all have a bunch of people in our lives who have said some variation of "I would quit Facebook right now if I didn't need Messenger"
> Someone with power will always be in a position to judge

True, but maybe a CoC gave them that power. A CoC is a sufficient-but-not-necessary condition for such abuses.

> an explicit CoC is giving more power to participants

In the sense that it gives an opportunity to self police. The biggest army never needs to fight.
Mincome: Canada’s 1970s universal basic income experiment
Quotes were present at the time of my post; I have updated title to reflect edit of original title.
For policing if you are looking for "what areas have most violent street crime" - if for are actually looking for those areas to devote resources to and you use actual data, then you will devote resources to areas which suffer actual violent street crime.

if instead of using actual data and finding what you are looking for - the alternative is using reports from the population (unless theres some other metric you would like to use? tweets?) And this means that richer and more privileged people will report more as they have 1) more confidence and trust in the police 2) more resources to lose from criminals 3)cultural reasons, and in their own areas which means that you will devote resources to areas which have the more reports and more attention from the police. This is basically how policing worked before 25 years ago.

There is a very big, clear, and obvious reason why using data to base policing decisions on is better than using no data at all, especially as most people will think that the police has inherent biases. Data can remove biases
Timezones matter. London is a financial hub because it's able to work with both the US east coast (NY) and also most of Asia-Pacific. NY and Asia-Pacific though is doable but tougher (12-13h difference).

The toughest is when you need to include folks from SF, London and HK [1]. There's just no good overlap. Either you rotate the suffering or you get disgruntled employees.

One solution is to decide which timezone is most important to you, and then restricting hiring +/- 6 hours from that timezone. Or split up synchronous meetings to two different sessions for two different sides of the world (this might lead to content bifurcation but may work in some instances).

It's a serious quality of life issue that employers ignore or downplay at their peril -- by not respecting timezones, employers are signaling they don't care. Employees on the short end of the stick with respect to timezone feel unimportant and excluded (first hand knowledge of this), especially if it's imposed from above without consultation.

Even small timezone differences are annoying -- I'm in Central Time and people in Eastern Time keep scheduling meetings around my lunchtime. The only way to get around this is to add fake calendar items around lunch time to block off that time.

[1] https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html
I know a lot of people on HN hate VCs, but it is not the role of VCs to invest in companies who build things "the society needs".

They invest in things the society didn't even know it needed.

Of course there are huge flops and failures and near-scams, but I think it's good that these businesses exist, and I disagree with people who stigmatize the entrepreneurs who build the "stupid" startups and the VCs who fund them.

Imagine a world where everyone was building things that everybody already knew they needed. It would be a dull world and very deterministic. Not a world I want to live in.
Wow those Facebook comments on the post... nobody on any side is happy. Is moderation an un-winnable position?
I am not happy with Facebook caving in to activist pressure from a small number of vocal nonprofits and businesses that carry their own political biases. This again is evidence that big tech favors certain worldviews, ideologies, and political opinions over others. The notion of 'hate speech' is flawed. It is a vague term with ever-expanding definitions and will ultimately reduce the free exchange of ideas. Censorship, deplatforming, boycotts, and other such actions will ultimately just lead to the balkanization of our society.

As an example, consider the following paragraph from Zuck's post:

> Specifically, we're expanding our ads policy to prohibit claims that people from a specific race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, caste, sexual orientation, gender identity or immigration status are a threat to the physical safety, health or survival of others.

So what happens when people disagree on a current and controversial topic like gender identity? This is certainly not a settled area of debate. For instance, there are many who think early transitioning and surgeries can backfire, and that children are not fit to make these decisions at a young age. Would such discussion now be censored? More generally, will views that challenge progressive orthodoxy just be banned on the grounds of ever-expanding and variable definitions of hate speech?

Another example:

> We're also expanding our policies to better protect immigrants, migrants, refugees and asylum seekers from ads suggesting these groups are inferior or expressing contempt, dismissal or disgust directed at them.

What happens when you want to discuss the downsides of immigration and how it affects your society? For instance, in Finland a disproportionate amount of sexual violence is perpetrated by immigrants (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_in_Finland#Per...). This is a very common discussion topic in Finnish society and media (https://www.foreigner.fi/articulo/moving-to-finland/crime-is...). Would such discussion or advertisement in favor of changes to immigration policies now be disallowed?

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Even if Facebook only loosely enforces these new guidelines, having them at all can have a chilling effect. It seems we can't trust Facebook to be a neutral owner of such a ubiquitous and powerful platform. So much of society's communication happens on Facebook (and Twitter and Google) that they are really just the new digital public square and should not take sides. We need alternative platforms that value free speech, a foundational part of our society, rather than imposing the views of platform owners, their employees, or a small number of vocal activists on the rest of the world.
Laziness probably. And it works very well.
Facebook is now playing damage control as sentiment of people have shifted or they must have probably noticed some drop in activity, KPI or usage due to their recent stance. There is probably more going on behind the curtains, huge organization generally don't wake up one day and decide to change course.
iTunes is dead on Mac. Assuming it will go away on windows soon.
> If you're an asshole to a coworker and you tell them to get thicker skin, you're likely going to be fired at worst if not reprimanded

what? you are joking, right? This is not how stuff works here...

You read that i always said 'self-identified' transgender, right? Because i know that the majority of transgender people aren't like that

> Usually I find when people say this, they don't actually leave the community. They're usually chasing off other users, often causing other drama in their wake.

I left without saying a word. Its not my style to announce myself when entering or leaving a community. Why do you assume such a thing about me?

> The fact that you choose to think that I'm 'looking for something to get offended about' just further proves my point.

I told you that because you started to make unfounded accusations towards me. Check the thread history, what did i accuse you of? Compare that to what you accused me. You are more emotionally charged than it is good for any discussion.
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That’s the city’s entire budget for 4 years. Even if you spread it out over a decade it’s over 40% of the city’s budget each year.
These over-reactions are bloody stupid. All technology comes with issues. But don't ban it, fix it.
I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but if you're going to do forced updates then you might as well spend some time making the entire user experience nicer. I don't know what the technical challenges are exactly, but not forcing a reboot unless there's really a critical patch might be a good start.
To get these stats, Drew used 5 different scripts in 5 different languages. Awk, sh, C, go & python. Well, the C program isn't a script it's a test artifact. Drew must subscribe to the "best tool for the job" philosophy rather than the "use what you know" philosophy.
I'll take that one! Sure it is. It's a web of interlocking double binds that squeeze you like a python squeezes a rat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bind – a concept, btw, that Gregory Bateson came up with to explain what makes people go crazy.
> at least these days with how anti-science a segment of the population seems to be

Considering the truly abysmal track record of the social sciences [1], this seems at the very least understandable with regards to the "non-hard" sciences.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
If anyone thinks that anything Zuckerberg says isn't based on makes me money = good, doesn't make me money = bad.

He's like a cartoon villain.
I can't figure out why Facebook attracts so much negative attention. Facebook does a great job at removing violent content. The most hateful content I see on the Internet is on Twitter. The violence and hysteria are so much I'm thinking of deleting that platform.
ghost kitchens can absolutely make money. Them being done at scale with VC money, most likely not.

But as the below commenter said, if you can use same ingredients across multiple dishes, it reduces waste and can reduce COGS. A small restaurant can do it, the issue there is establishing a brand, but if all your orders are coming via 3rd party apps. not sure how much brand awareness you actually need
AV1 Decoder Model
I think the sadder aspect is that they probably _have_ a main account here that's active, but was chicken shit enough (and know it's wrong) that they had to create a throwaway to say it.. Sigh.
When during Solaris 10 development the "unified process model" was introduced, and static link archives for all system libraries removed, boot times improved dramatically because all the programs that run at boot time were then dynamically-linked and started faster than their previous statically-linked selves because the C library and such were already loaded. Later of course we had even more dramatic boot time improvements via SMF (the Solaris/Illumos predecessor to Linux's systemd).

That was an apples-to-apples comparison of pre- and post-process model unification performance, and it was a win.

Now, this was back in... I want to say 2003 or 2004 -- before S10 shipped. And it's possible that the same experiment today would not have the same result.

I'm not sure how easy it would be to construct a distro with only dynamically-linked executables (at least for core libraries, like the C library) and then the same distro with only statically-linked executables. The S10 work was done by Roger Faulkner (RIP) and it was a huge change.
There was a "Byte Store" on Queen West in Toronto in the early days of personal computers.

There were--cough--a number of teenagers hanging around like groupies. One of them--cough--may even have installed their heavily customized SuperStarTrek game, and had it become the store's favourite demo.
In general yes. But then again I rarely see tons of happy social media comments under anything even remotely controversial.
I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off commercially. I did some attempts at stand-up at local open mics and it was brutal (mostly). It also taught me that the crowd is unpredictable (the success of a joke depends not on how good the joke is). Creativity and coming up with genuinely funny shit for me is linked to not paying attention to what your audience might want to read in the same way as an author who "writes for an audience". It kills your authenticity.

while pandering to your audience is bad you _do_ need feedback - so a catch 22. If you have a chance to play with ideas with a couple of other writers/comedians who take the process serious, feedback worth gold because nothing beats bouncing your ideas off one another. the other route is to try to do it all by yourself like Stewart Lee[1][2] who is imho a comedy god - but it requires insane levels of dedication, self-control and tenacity to get there (alone). Whether you're into comedy or not, Stewart Lee's "Content Provider" (imho) is a must watch for anyone who thinks about digital media (most people who reads HN).

one of my favorite sources on how to constantly be creative (not just in in the space of comedy) is John Cleese[3] and Keith Johnstone's "Impro"[4].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uovt1sC3rtM&list=PLWsk2FPzPs... (sharing this list feels wrong because jokes on stage live on back-references to previous jokes so much is lost)

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/profile/stewart-lee

[3] https://www.amazon.com/So-Anyway-John-Cleese/dp/0385348266

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Impro-Improvisation-Theatre-Keith-Joh...
I'm not disagreeing with you. I think "fix the police" is a more accurate slogan. But slogans are intended to prime someone about an idea (not to convey!) and generate emotion. But trying to read any slogan as a literal meaning is simply naive. Slogans have to be smaller than a tweet and look at what a clusterfuck conversations on twitter are. Hell, even here where we can type hundreds of words it is difficult to accurately convey complex ideas.

I said in another comment, communication has 3 components: what is said, what was meant, and what was heard. We have to recognize that these are 3 different things and frequently all 3 are different. Communication is extremely difficult. So try to say what you mean and try to hear what was meant. (obviously this is a saying and in of itself is limited and should be taken more as a baseline idea rather than a literal and absolute point to stand on)
I do tend to agree with your desire for law and order, but not at the cost of public safety. The police are arguably more of a threat to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness than protesters removing racist statues and protesting via nontraditional means.
What is the price of an unlimited 5G connection? If it is being provided by a telco I imagine that it will expensive and have limited data caps.
This already happened on Twitter, where Trump said "There will never be an 'Autonomous Zone' in Washington, D.C., as long as I'm your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!" and he was warned for "inciting violence". Presumably, this post about law enforcement using violence against unlawful behavior would just be deleted on Facebook under this new policy.

To read Facebook's policy literally, police departments warning about unlawful behavior would be "inciting violence" because they of course have the monopoly of violence behind them. Even posting the law, and saying that someone is violating it, would be "inciting violence" under Twitter's definition. They don't draw any distinction between lawful and unlawful violence, and every law on the books, whether it's re-selling loose cigarettes or catching too many fish, carries the threat of an officer with a gun using force against the alleged violator.

This is all an interesting thought experiment but in practice, I'm sure this policy will be used to punish people the moderation team doesn't like, and will be ignored for people that they do like.
Not trying to start an argument with you, but this is incorrect.

Essentially all major vendors have this license, and essentially all major vendors do their own heavily modified designs. They have different goals,priorities, budgets and abilities but if you buy a COTS soc from a major vendor you can bet your neck it's not original arm hard macro or even a lightly modified custom version.

In fact, the only major 64-bit pure-arm soc I can think of right now is the Hisense (Huawei) Kirin 960.
The thing that's missing is static link semantics that don't suck.
Same issue on Windows. If you are adding new context items automatically, please have decency to add option to remove them, without hacking the registry. Also, please do not add it back in later update, which happen quite often.
Unless it’s making you money, it’s an expense not an investment. Unless you own the domain, your address is not portable.

Everything else in the equation varies case by case.
Sigh, I guess I am one of those lonely voices that says let em say whatever they want. FB should be little less than a dumb platform for anyone to run their mouth.
> but the WHO and CDC famously told people not to wear masks for way too long after data was distributed showing mask's effectiveness for preventing infection

Do you have links to that data? For you to make this claim you'd be able to link to a meta-analysis or a well run RCT.
I’m going to call evolution “Mr. R&D.” When he finds a problem, Mr. R&D tests things out in different ways to come up with a solution. But sometimes those solutions have unforeseen consequences. So here we go!

(not quoting every other part of the article where plants form committees to decide what to do next and receive "lignin" as a ready made thing, not as an emergent result of its own evolutionary process)

Oh, no. These kind of weird anthropomorphic ideas - that evolution is actively "finding problems" and "testing solutions" - take years to remove from students' minds. And make it very unclear whether the author themselves actually do understand what they're talking about or just parroting the same story they heard.

Cue the "but it's for kids!" arguments. Kids aren't dumb, and perfectly capable of understanding selective pressure - but you are doing them a huge disservice by making them feel like they understand something when really they understand your inaccurate (yet entertaining!) story.
This is all about ads.

So you want people to be able to post ads that say that people of certain races are inferior? I don't understand.

This is not a free speech issue. This is a paid speech issue.

(I say this not as someone who wants to censor all kinds of stuff, I totally understand your idea that all kinds of ideas should be able to be discussed, but I do make that distinction)