skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i already use emacs, what’s one more thing?
Can confirm that blocking Facebook on my iPhone makes these crashes go away. All in all I might leave that block up permanently as nothing going to those addresses does me any good
Is this why Spotify is crashing AGAIN? WTF Facebook.
It might come off as an attack on the author, but to me it's a succinct description. To the author, maybe it will be constructive criticism (if they are even reading). In general, people who set out to create something grand or complex fall short. Successful complex projects I've seen have all started off simple and grown complex slowly out of necessity.
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Some action is better than inaction, though
Federal law enforcement occupies a precarious position where both sides of the isle hate them for certain reasons and tolerate them for others.

I'd really love to see federal resources directed at a boondoggle so spectacular that it brings the whole thing crashing down to the point where the FBI is forced by law to spend a much more significant portion of its time investigating official misconduct and civil liberties violations conducted by state and federal agencies.
> (USA has no interest in spending so much money and limited resources on a, say, innocent Pakistani cab driver.)

I would like to educate you. USA has done just that.
Kafka is the futherest thing from a library that I can even remotely think of.
Maciej is an outstanding writer. I recommend reading his blog (https://idlewords.com/) if you haven't already.
I was responding to this:

> In the next several decades there will be un unprecedented number of elderly Americans living below the poverty line with no pension and medical issues they can't afford to fix
Ah, the complex interaction of testosterone. Not only is it inverse, but the cause and effect is also inverse. Aggressive behavior is not predictable by testosterone levels, but the inverse, testosterone levels are predictable by aggressive behavior.

For example, male sport teams that win a match has increased testosterone levels afterwards and reduced levels if they loose. Similar, sport spectators mirror this pattern.

If for example two people have fisticuffs at a bar and we measured testosterone before and after, the winner would see an increase in testosterone secretion while the looser would have an reduction.

And then we come to violent content, and indeed there exist some research on this. The result is a bit more complicated. Only people who are already disposed towards aggressive behavior see an increase in testosterone secretion after watching a violent movie.

So what does that mean? There is a theory called the challenge hypothesis. In this theory testosterone acts as a modulator to how much behavior an individual will spend in order to retain status once challenged. If an individual gain status, such when two males compete and one wins and the other losses, testosterone secretion increase in order to encourage more energy use towards defending that possible short term gain in social status until a new social hierarchy has stabilized. The more sudden the gain the more testosterone is secreted, and the more the relationship between testosterone and violent/aggressive behaviours can be observed.

(for some interesting reading I can recommend The Trouble With Testosterone by robert sapolsky or one of his lecture on the topic)
It's not acceptable.

None of the apps broken on my phone require Facebook features for core functionality. Downtime happens, but downtime due to your non-essential & user-hostile ads/tracking/social SDK? These companies deserve every single cent of lost revenue.
> neural program induction in compilers to try generate faster implementations

Can u provide more details?

I am familiar with garden-variety ML-optimization-of-combinatorical-space in compilers.

How would u even "measure" the expected performance unless these are gradual greedy changes
How do you do that? At OS level with a setting? Networking changes?
That’s why state interests should be below individual interests. Otherwise what’s the point of a state?
Indeed, and if the FB SDK (as used by the Spotify app among others) does in fact call home, it might violate Apple's TOS and give rise to rejecting those apps on the App Store. I'm not up to date with Apple's policies, but wasn't Apple specifically rejecting apps that seek to establish a platform within Apple's platform? Now if Apple are going to play hardball on this one is another question alltogether.
Yes, unlike Microsoft they offer you a choice of interface. I'm sure if MS had done the same there wouldn't be nearly as many complaints.
Previous posts:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23780357

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23777155

The way this result is presented is misleading. Antibodies are just one form of immunity.
How is Apple not addressing this? This seems like a pretty glaring hole in their tightly controlled environment. If the SDK is injecting code, shouldn’t that be an explicit permission?
Yep Delphi 1.0 was launched in the mid-90s and had a good run for some time after that.
Well it could crop as well. Then I'd give you 90%.
I can only imagine one useful reason to force a software developer to use a particular ecosystem: Eat your own dogfoot.

But even there it is helpful to see what other software is around.

I would not accept a job where I am not free to choose my tools.
Waze, a google owned app for the past 4 years, crashes because of the FB app.

WhatsApp, a Facebook owned app, will not give you read access to your own chat database - it’s encrypted. But they have an arrangement with Google where it’s will back up unencrypted to your Google account (though, Google won’t let you retrieve it ... only the WhatsApp app can)

Everything about this duopoly, their cooperation and lack of competition stinks to high heaven.
I agree, the main point I would expect from "The next five years of LibreOffice" would be a self-hosted competitor to Google Docs and Office 365. There's definitely a place for a local application editing documents, but I don't think that's what's going to matter the most five years from now when compared to a solid web based alternative -- and I also don't think a "code freeze" for the "normal" LibreOffice (not that I'm advocating one) would make the product unusable five years down the road.
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Do you know which domains one would need to block?
One programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code (2016)
the sdk initialises itself just by being included. this is why the crash happens on startup. even if you only use it for login, it will still crash.
LTO tape shipments hit capacity record in 2019
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You're thinking like an SV webdev who's largest concern is to onboard as many new users as possible so you can flip your startup.

Office is a professional productivity tool that's been around for decades and is used by millions of people for their entire workday, every day.

Learning to use a new tool takes a tiny fraction of the time you're going to be using that tool. One should make the tool best at actually doing what it's going to be used to do.
Didn't they also use to home in information about surrounding bluetooth devices? When iOS 13 beta dropped, half of the apps suddenly asked for bluetooth permissions because Google/FB SDKs attempted to use it on app launch.
People will judge you on many things, so what's one more item on the list. If you like the hat and think it makes you look good then wear it and damn the judgemental types.
It's not new. It was huge when religion was more prevalent, for example, but it was becoming less of a problem as society became more educated and secular. Now there's a new wave riding on top of social media like Twitter, and as it gains more popularity it's becoming more about flaming vs virtue signalling than making actual progress.
>>We currently live in a "there is only one correct opinion, all others must be canceled" culture.

>We really, really aren't.

Yes, we are. Example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299156
If the federal government merely abided by the constitution and ended all of its activity in relation to the use and trade of drugs, that would go a long way in reducing the intensity of the War on Drugs and giving states space to legalize it.

Each state can decide its own approach, which I think is the appropriate principle for governance.
That’s because anyone who writes about a SaaS, failed or not, is ultimately successful.
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Exactly. A lot of what's available to men these days is former athletic/sporting wear turned "athleisure", then sometimes losing much of the original association: button-down collar shirts (there's a reason they're traditionally made of relatively tough Oxford cloth, and the collar's buttoned down so it stays that way during vigorous activity), polos (invented for tennis), sport coats (hunting, riding), "rugby" shirts (obviously).

Then our most popular outerwear shirt, the T-shirt, used to be underwear with a strong military association, and came into common use the same way much of the rest of our modern fashion did: youth culture, which AFAIK is also how we got the blazer (dad's orphaned suit jackets) and two-button and especially two-roll-three suit jacket styles (kids wearing hand-me-down 3 and 4 button suits and orphaned jackets "casually" with fewer buttons done up).
Before that they'll use simpler methods. Twitter and Reddit have all the categories you'd ever need. And they won't get blocked / filtered for technical reasons.
James Damore certainly lost.
You can’t, it’s against their policy, if they catch you they’ll revoke your access.

developers.facebook.com/policy/
8.2 (which states “Native IOS and Android apps that implement Facebook Login must use our official SDKs for login.” This has a help icon next to it that opens a dialog on their site that shows a couple pictures and then explains “Android apps should use the default login behavior defined by the SDK, which may use the web-view Login dialog. On iOS, only kiosk apps may use a web-view Login dialog.”
Imagine if 50 years from now the thing Trump is most remembered for is ending the US' blind eye towards China.

Imagine if he's celebrated as the politician who finally acted on principal in a time when the rest of Washington was looking the other way because of cheap manufacturing. Hollywood was tailoring their products to appease the Chinese government and be allowed in the market, anyone who wanted to do business there like NBA owners and players were biting their tongues and hiding their political opinions. But not Trump, he turned the tide and made America care about human freedom again.

Ok, fine, crazy thought. But it raises the question, why aren't any of our other leaders even pretending to try and be that person?
If the last time this happens is anything to go by, a lot of apps have the FBSDK to facilitate their "Log In
with Facebook" functionality. The issue is that you have to include a monolithic SDK that initialises itself without your control just for simple functionality like that.

IMO, blame Facebook.
It’s “for the web” but where does one find a web example? Client? Server? ELM equivalent perhaps (a guess)? None of that on the landing page.
basically true, but speed isn't the only reason why jets have dominated; being able to fly above the weather, noise, and (perceived) safety are factors too.
>I find your use of "we" interesting because you clearly identify as part of the group that committed those acts hundreds of years ago. How long should a child be responsible for the crimes of their fathers?

As long as restitution has not happened and you are still profiting from the act of wrongdoing and the victim (or their descendants) are still suffering from it. It's pretty simple, isn't it.
I always wondered why we don't have keys for Copy and Paste.

We have "Print Screen", which is a function I don't use that often.

(Not a Mac user, so I'm talking about regular PC keyboards).

In the old days I had a Sun workstation with Copy and Paste keys.
Do you have any single example where Rust+WebAssembly are 100x (or even 10x) faster than JavaScript?

I did got to the page you linked, but also there is no actual "proof".
I'm in a sad situation where I want to support GOG but choose Steam because of their superb (just click Play) Linux integration. After many years I'm just tired of tweaking Wine/Lutris profiles.

I'm really hoping GOG will one day provide a Linux client with Proton inside.
It's "inside" the application and the code is injected at build time, by the sounds of it.
as I said it was done by mistake and dug a bigger hole by not wanting to admit wrong etc etc. They are /were only a few hundred placed in Guantanamo so why would they want to fill them with innocent people? Its not like they didn't have enough Al Qaeda and Taliban over there to catch
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I don't really use Windows any more... so i'm not super familiar with how things work today.

With the new Linux subsystem, does Windows even need separate support for PHP anymore?
The old discussion about that issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23097459
> If the immune system can't learn immunity from the full virus itself, virus fragments or a weakened relative won't suffice either.

There are currently some 8-10 different kinds of vaccine for COVID-19 in development right now, and only two of those are based on virus fragments or weakened relatives.

It possible to induce temporary immunity, which would be adequate as a vaccine during pandemic, although annoying because we'd have to keep taking boosters. The history of this goes back >100 years, it is hardly "breakthrough" level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_immunity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_induction_of_immuni...

Some R&D is towards gene-editing or other means of RNA/DNA transcription to cause the body to produce passive immunity antibodies continuously, rather than one-off infusion. That would be breakthrough level, but it's not so implausible that "we might as well give up and accept the inevitable now" and let millions die and millions more suffer the disabilities.

If these fail, regular antibody infusions or other therepeutics may be required. Not a vaccine, but similar in practical effect while being more expensive. We might as well give up if the US insurance system is in charge of that.
> I'm glad HN doesn't have profile pictures and things.

THIS
if it weren't for the concorde, airbus wouldn't really exist and be able to compete with boeing. so while your point isn't untrue, it's also fair to say that it ended up paying huge dividends and was worth it.
facebook.com
fbcdn.com
fbcdn.net
fbsbx.com
fb.com
instagram.com

WhatsApp can work without these, but maybe a smaller subset would suffice. NextDNS[0] for iOS can be used for the blocking.

[0] https://nextdns.io/
Content Moderation Service with Node.js, TensorFlowJS, and ReactJS
Sweden is absolutely a success in every way.

Firstly, it's not actually true that Sweden had far more deaths than its "neighbours". This is a bizarre form of cherry picking. Look across Europe and Sweden looks unremarkable: there are plenty of nearby countries that went full lockdown and saw far worse results. For this "neighbours" talking point to mean anything would require that physical proximity to Sweden meant something important, but it doesn't.

Secondly, "deaths from COVID" data is all horribly corrupted. It's actually "deaths with COVID" that gets reported, but that isn't obvious because it keeps being mis-labelled. We have no idea how many people have died from COVID. Only total excess deaths seems reliable because it doesn't have a definition that can be tampered with.

Thirdly, the idea that lockdowns are about reducing total deaths with or from COVID is not correct. That was retroactively invented when it became clear what a disastrous policy it is. Nobody claimed they could do that except by ensuring everyone gets healthcare, which is why they were justified on the grounds of preventing hospital overflow and nothing else. If everyone gets access to healthcare then the grounds for intervention evaporate. In Sweden everyone got healthcare, their hospitals were never even stressed. By lockdown's own logic, this proves Sweden's approach was correct. Hence the furious attempts to rewrite history by claiming lockdowns can save lives even when hospitals are quiet.

Sweden is seeing some economic disruption, partly caused by neighbours who cannot accept that they wrecked their own citizen's economy and civil liberties for nothing. Norway has publicly admitted lockdown was a mistake, for example, but has restricted travel from Sweden anyway. And of course the rest of the world committing economic hari-kari simultaneously will inevitably effect Sweden: it doesn't change the correctness of their response.

But arguing that not only no international coordination is required but no coordination of any kind, just people acting as their own personal epidimiologists based on what they read on social media... well, let's check back in a couple years and see how we think it's working out.

We don't need to wait two years. The armchair epidemiologists who argued against lockdown already won completely. There is no remaining argument, no debate to be had. Lockdowns were meant to avoid overflowing hospitals, places that didn't do them didn't see overflowing hospitals. End of story. Why: because every model generated by so-called experts was wrong. Every prediction was false. People were flagging this as a likely outcome immediately once the models were published. The countries that said actually this is trivial and we should do basically nothing, like Sweden and Belarus, have seen average outcomes even by the highly dubious standards of PCR testing. This suggests lockdowns have no effect at all (and which in turn suggests the testing might mostly be measuring noise).
Did you mean "Eat your own dog food"?
#DefundFacebook
As soon as one participant decides to give it away for free to increase market
share, then every participant must do the same. So the cost of intellectual
property goes to zero, and everyone now competes in a decidedly less lucrative
market of service contracts.
Does it, though? He's sold SaaS businesses for non-trivial sums (though much less than you'd expect if you read strictly his descriptions of it), and spent most of his time consulting and writing before going to Stripe.
> There is reasonable agreement among taxonomists that a species should represent a distinct evolutionary lineage. But there is none about how a lineage should be defined. 'Species' are often created or dismissed arbitrarily, according to the individual taxonomist's adherence to one of at least 30 definitions [2]. Crucially, there is no global oversight of taxonomic decisions — researchers can 'split or lump' species with no consideration of the consequences.

The referenced book Species Concepts in Biology [2] by Frank E. Zachos looks like an interesting source on this topic. In computer science we know that naming things is hard; slotting things into hierarchical categories is hard too.

[2] https://www.hugendubel.info/annotstream/2244011436320/PDF/Za...
a server providing 64 virtual machines in the cloud
Some time ago I visited some Italian cities from Germany by train. I could have done that tour with little changes 2000 years earlier. Of course I would have to get over the Limes first to enter the civilized parts of Germany in Mogontiacum. Augusta Raurica is not far off present day Basel where I spent a day. The Swiss train through the Brenner base tunnel was certainly preferable to a mule trek across dangerous mountain passes. But al the cities were there, Mediolanum, Florentia, and Roma.
Which road?

The one referenced by SeanLuke, the via Emilia is some 300km North of Rome. (and I suspect that now what is visible from space is the highway that is practically parallel to it):

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.1843668,11.5422195,10z
I use an app called AdBlock
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id691121579?pt=425087...

It creates a local VPN that sets up a local filtering DNS. I just added the following domains to the block list:

facebook.com
fbcdn.com
fbcdn.net
fbsbx.com
fb.com
"better UX" is not a thing I [This comment uses cookies to enhance the user experience. Click :HERE: to accept] would ever say about websites over desktop software.
Violent people watch violent porn, who would have thought. Then increase vanilla porn to offset violent porn, maybe this way people will be more exposed to non-violent content.
Apple should ban these SDKs, period. If a third-party entity fucking up their backend can bring down the whole ecosystem then they've lost control over iOS.
Thank you for this conception. Metaphor and analogy are vital in every human endeavor.

As for my reasoning why:

Analogies and other figurative speech is important, not just as conversational tools, but also in thinking.
Language is a metaphorical tool we place on reality to manage and interpret it. This is true for human languages and programming languages. Take Python. This is a high level language which an interpreter uses to help a computer parse it into the needed lower language for its understanding. The language alone though does little on its own without the multiple layers computers use to apply given instructions.
Human language is multiple levels higher than computer languages when it comes to interpreting reality. Pretty much all human language is a metaphor because it doesn't directly mean what we are referring to. It instead refers to our mental conception of what we are attempting to relate to in reality.
I have a few questions that don't seem to be fully answered in the post.

> This “Personal Edition” tag ... has the purpose of differentiating the current, free and community-supported LibreOffice from a LibreOffice Enterprise set of products and services provided by the members of our ecosystem.

Will this "LibreOffice Enterprise" be Free as in Freedom? Would I be able to package it up myself and call it "Community ENTerprise Office Suite"?
> “But I learned something and applied it to make the next effort a success” is the natural valuable contribution...that we (quite tellingly) almost never hear about.

This is literally every "success" blog post out there. They always start with an early failure and how that launched/pushed/pulled them toward later success.
>Do you really want to take the position that the government cannot monitor any group until it commits a crime?

Yes. That's better than the alternative. So many things can be construed as criminal that I don't think it's an impediment to the investigation of actual criminal in practice. If anything stops police from wasting our money surviving groups that are not actually threats to anything but the government wants under surveillance for political/ideological reasons.
> With the new Linux subsystem, does Windows even need separate support for PHP anymore?

For Windows client, maybe not.

But some people run PHP on Windows Server in actual production scenarios (using either Apache or IIS) and those people absolutely need a native solution: WSL[2] has too much overhead.

SHOULD you be using PHP on Windows Server? Likely not, but it is more common than you'd think, I've personally worked at multiple companies that had a Wordpress based site running on IIS for example. This was pre-Cloud though so YMMV.