skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our 70s-era national security regime needs desperate Congressional overhaul. I take particular peeve with the prohibitions on judicial review of CFIUS actions.
Nothing is stopping them from doing that. “Political ideology” is not a protected class.
An important note that nobody seems to be reporting on: this is only possible because Apple and Google have control over which apps are permitted on your device.

The US government has no legal authority to ban publishing (including apps) in the US. They do, however, have the ability to regulate trade between the operators of the App Store (Apple) and the Play Store (Google), and app publishers, which is what they're doing here.

Ban the business relationship, and they've effectively banned the publishing. It's an end run around the US constitution, and everyone should be up in arms about it: not just at the US government, but also at Apple and Google for creating a legal chokepoint for mass censorship by the US federal government.

This would not be possible if end users actually exercised control over their own devices. This is how the web works, and it's how everything else on your device should work, too.
And, what is worse, Americans have lost most of their non-monetary social capital: large extended families, neighborhood churches, civic groups, mutual aid associations, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone

Things are never as good or as bad as they seem, but it sure seems bad right now.
> - But facebook taking out fake news based on its own judgement with absolutely no due process is obviously okay???

That's literally the opposite of what is alleged to be happening. Facebook's fact check policy is notionally implemented by third party fact checkers over whom Facebook exerts no control. But the contention in the article is that Facebook executives then intervene in the process to UN-flagging content that fits their personal political bent.
I believe there are no examples of platforms with any significant reach that can possibly take a purely compliance approach. Speech permissible by law in many jurisdictions is well beyond what is tolerable in public forums - or tolerable in your office meeting room.
Fuck this. I don't like Tik too and WeChat, I don't think people should use them, and I don't trust China, but we don't need the government telling us what software we can use. This is not good.
Curious on your thoughts/experience with dosing w/ co-factors wrt to calcium levels (for patients, have you been tracking these?)

Specifically, Vitamin K:

Ballegooijen, Adriana J. van, Stefan Pilz, Andreas Tomaschitz, Martin R. Grübler, and Nicolas Verheyen. “The Synergistic Interplay between Vitamins D and K for Bone and Cardiovascular Health: A Narrative Review.” International Journal of Endocrinology 2017 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7454376.

And Magnesium:

Uwitonze, Anne Marie, and Mohammed S. Razzaque. “Role of Magnesium in Vitamin D Activation and Function.” The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association 118, no. 3 (March 1, 2018): 181–89. https://doi.org/10.7556/jaoa.2018.037.

I'm also curious on your thoughts on what you consider high for supplementation, vs say sunlight exposure, as a single MED of sunlight exposure is equivalent to about 10-25K IU of oral supplementation.

Engelsen, Ola. “The Relationship between Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure and Vitamin D Status.” Nutrients 2, no. 5 (May 4, 2010): 482–95. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu2050482.

On the flip side, I've seen that in a recent RCT, that recommended sun exposure guidelines were not sufficient in reversing deficiency:

Lee, Yu-Mi, Se-A Kim, and Duk-Hee Lee. “Can Current Recommendations on Sun Exposure Sufficiently Increase Serum Vitamin D Level?: One-Month Randomized Clinical Trial.” Journal of Korean Medical Science 35, no. 8 (January 22, 2020). https://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2020.35.e50.
As a Facebook Employee who watched this thing unfold:

His arguments and reasoning were edited for tone and posted by others and HR did not take any of that down.
He wasn't fired for what he said, but how he said it. His post was vicious and demeaning toward other FB employees. It directly attacked the character and ethical constitution of specific employees in the company.

That said, HR did later revoke open access to some of the specific details he used to make his case (conversations around investigating and escalating user reports). FB gives employees access to much more than most companies, so the sort of things HR made secret would not be visible at most US companies.

Although I think at FB there are many things you can't say, his actual beliefs were not bold or rare. Many people say similar things all the time. But you can't go around attacking people like that.
This so much. The economy IS lives! People putting food on the table. I feel like it's that train track problem where you have a train barreling at three people and we just pulled the lever and had it kill 40 people instead.
A comment API makes sense as reddit originally had vibrant third-party app developers. It’s not like it can only be used for bots to post.
Django handles this quite nicely. You get your basic lowest common denominator subset by default. If you want something more powerful, you can explicitly import a db-specific feature.

And for some features, you'll get a NotImplemented exception. In the ten years I've been using Django, I've only seen these a handful of times, and only when using SQLite.
When you're living paycheck to paycheck your IQ and decision-making ability is effectively handicapped from having to constantly worry about eating and security. Combine that with a system that can be brutal if you don't have the means, this stat is not at all surprising.
If Hobby Lobby and Chick-fil-A announce tomorrow morning that they are refusing service to all people who voted for a Democratic candidate in the last few election cycles (something that's within the realm of plausibility), what would be your initial reaction?
> Can we just acknowledge for a moment...

They are not "weirdly rogue political activist type employees". They are normal people reacting to the abnormality that is Facebook. I mean which tech company has ever produced the kind of polarization, fake news, Brexit and Trump type events all over the globe?

If Intel or IBM or AT&T had produced these type of outcomes you can bet your ass "weirdly rogue political activist type employees" wld suddenly start popping up all over the place.

Facebook will continue to be a highly abnormal place to work for anyone who isn't mildly conformist.
So is it Golang’s varint or protobuf/grpc varint that had the bug? It’s not clear to me.

Edit: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/247120/
It's amazing that even years later people are still mischaracterizing his argument in the exact same way.
Oh no they implemented cap and trade, the horror.
This is really scary to me. I don't like the idea that some apps might be dangerous but I like even less the idea that the government gets to choose for me what apps I can and can't run. It's not just that. It's also arguably going to escalate.

I be much happier with technical solutions I think. Better app sandboxes. Better permission models. I don't know all the things a corp profile can set on iOS or Android but if they wanted a pass-list (apps your allowed to run) or a ban-list (app you're not allowed to run) or even by publisher or permissions your not allowed to give that seems like a much better solution to me.

For example: Based on corp settings, disallow users from giving any app that's not been pre-approved, access to low-level networking or bluetooth or NFC.

Also the OSes IMO should implement strong network permissions where an app can ask for full network access OR the can ask for say only http/https to *.domain.com. with the latter being pushes as the norm and the full access being rare, marked as "danger" and blockable by a corp profile.

Maybe I don't understand all the issues.
It's not most Americans, it's "77% of low- to moderate-income American households fall below the asset poverty threshold".
First, only Apple devices have the issue of limited store access, which is a tangential antitrust problem unto itself.

Second, despite the claims of the president, the white house does not have the power to block TikTok or Bytedance from the public. The president can only block armed forces from installing apps on their owned devices.
Similarly, and I honestly feel a bit silly asking this, but does this ban US investors from purchasing Tencent stock? It doesn't seem so - are these literally just bans on app transactions? Or does this also mean that, for example, WeChat couldn't host infra on Azure in Africa?
To an extent this bottom up approach is somewhat how American federalism has historically worked. Chances are if you are to be stopped by a cop for breaking a law in the US, you're probably breaking a city/county/state law and not a federal law. The rules which touch people most often are largely the ones which happen on the local level. Things like theft, assault, speeding, blasting your music at 3:00 AM and keeping the neighbors up and what not are not illegal federally (unless you're stealing from a federal building) but are usually illegal at a more local level.

For example, when Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy in Dallas Texas, Oswald did not violate a federal crime. There was no law on the books at the federal level which made it a crime to shoot the President. However, murder in the State of Texas was illegal, which is what Oswald was being charged with by Texas courts and by Texas law enforcement.

This has become more and more muddied over time with the expansion of federal powers. More things have become illegal at the federal level, and federal courts have expanded the influence of the Bill of Rights over State laws (see Incorporation[0]). There is a good bit of debate in the US about this growth of federal powers and the role of federal laws in day to day life. Sometimes it is obviously a good thing, sometimes it a bit more complicated. Note in this comment I am not attempting to argue either way, just trying to share knowledge with someone not from the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...
And what's a "transaction"?
You could presumably come up with similar arguments for why Word (or equivalents) isn't "too complicated for simple tasks" and "not sophisticated enough for complex tasks", but, from experience, I'd argue that's also incorrect.
It is different from state to state, but when I found myself on unemployment many years ago, it was less than my already meager earnings. It helped float us, but each month was negative cash flow.
Funny... filtering out these type of extensions was my intern project 2 years ago at Google.
The videos in there are oddly satisfying.
You did not answer the question - Do you want to take that freedom away from American businesses?

Political party is not a protected class, so those businesses are well in their right to do so (despite being sued by shareholders for eliminating half their revenue).

It's the same way that those businesses reserve the right to kick out Nazis and alt-right scum.
When is America going to wake up to how it's becoming a failed state? Keep electing nincompoops and science deniers. So many are struggling because there does not seem to be a functional government or a society that is striving towards the overall well-being of its citizens.
Sorry for the negativity, but the pandemic has exposed how truly dysfunctional this society has become. Unable to ban together to take care of a common, global health emergency. I've seen people disregard health department orders, and guidelines for stupid, selfish shit like keeping their kids in sporting leagues. Meanwhile, schools cannot open because infection rates are too high.

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is it just me or would it be very hard to work at Facebook these days without constantly experiencing cognitive dissonance day in and day out?

feels like the only way to enjoy working there is to either be someone who only cares about the money and prestige and/or convince yourself that the criticisms against Facebook are invalid
The (US-HQ'd) company I work for has a small but significant office in China. We are not a household name, even within tech, so I doubt we'd be a target of any retaliation by China.

However, my worry is this: Whilst we have a lot of really good people in China, we don't do any business in China (and there's no realistic prospect of us doing so). So at this point operating in China seems like a huge exposure to risk for relatively little reward in the long term.

But I don't see an alternative for us. Pull out of China and business continuity would take a huge hit; stay in China and accept the risks & uncertainty.

Basically, I'm torn about the whole situation.
I find it difficult to believe that the average Facebook employee is exposed to less media coverage about their own company than a member of the general public is. So the remaining possibilities are that the employee either agrees with the policy (in which case, we can question their judgment), or they're just trying to keep food on the table (in which case, we should wonder about how healthy the job market is).
Trump issues executive orders with effective bans of TikTok, WeChat
They'll just start marketing the gel strips more heavily.
What happens when that applies to ISPs determining what goes over their wires? We have a privately owned public square at this point. Further entrenching that power seems unwise.
I mean, that's basically another way of stating the same point I'm making, except that I think "legal minimum" is also non-viable for similar reasons (unless you're 4chan apparently). I can't see any safe ground, any way that for-profit social media can scale sustainably.
I don't think he argued that anyone was inherently less competent.

From what I understand it was about preferences not competencies.
And how would we prevent the Chinese from simply subverting our democracy?
Laws and law enforcement are the only sane ways to deal with espionage or whatever the accusation is. What Trump is doing here must be illegal, I hope it is challenged and defeated in court.
Don’t know that specific story but the culture at FB is pretty open and people ask hard questions all the time on workplace and at Q&As. So it’s sad to see some people abusing this knowing that not that many companies are open to such internal dialogues. Tragedy of the common.
The study focused on low-moderate income households and whether they had any financial assets like stocks/bonds and mutual funds. That this segment has low representation in this respect doesn't surprise met at all, given the level of education / discretionary income needed to pursue such investments. Also, Western capitalist society saturates the populus with consumerism (which to be fair supports the economy), so there's that force at play as well.
> - Government taking out fake news is actually bad??

Government definitely shouldn't be the one to decide what is and isn't fake news [0].

> - But facebook taking out fake news based on its own judgement with absolutely no due process is obviously okay???

Since it's a private company I feel it's ok. Personally I'm more right-wing / libertarian oriented and I feel my Twitter account got banned because of me expressing more right-wing views. I tried to ask Twitter employees what was the offending post that got me banned, but never got a response. At that point I stopped using Twitter altogether.

I feel Jack Dorsey himself is more open to different view points, but perhaps many of his employees are more left-wing oriented and might feel it's their mission to curtail right-wing views, but this is just my gut feeling that I can't proof.

Since it's a private company I feel it's ok they operate like that. But at the same time I won't bother with Twitter anymore (I also don't use Facebook by the way).

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[0]: https://euobserver.com/opinion/141458
Can someone explain the motivation?
A vicious mischaracterization.
Political PACs were openly bragging about manipulating reddit's political subs in 2016 with thousands of accounts and reddit did absolutely nothing. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/david-brock-hil...

[2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/hillary-pac-spends-dollar1-mil...
My wife’s business had to shut down due to COVID-19 in early April. We filed for unemployment through PUA at that time and have yet to hear ANYTHING other than “your claim was accepted and we are processing it”. On top of that, the phone lines are totally backed up.

We’re extremely fortunate because my income covers our monthly expenses, but it was a huge financial blow for us and we are conserving cash like crazy. I can’t even imagine someone who lost all their family income going through the same thing.

So, yes, there absolutely is need to worry.
Virtue signaling is strong here, even with the downvoting.
Which workarounds you suggest around the Great Firewall of the United States of America?
Is there any precedent for a president to do such a thing? I am completely astonished and dumbstruck that everyone is ok with this.
It's so stupid. Spend less then you earn, save, don't buy the latest shit. So many people waste their money buying new toys like the latest iPhones or Androids, fancy ass cars and expensive vacations. All my neighbors make like blue collar salaries; $50k at the most, but they have the latest treager grills, fancy infinitis, audis in their driveways, new tvs every year; and guess what tens of thousands in credit card debt
It is difficult to understand. I know that when I worked there the way advancement worked (the only way to get a raise) was that you shipped a "new" thing. People who just fixed bugs never got recognition company wide, but people who shipped a new thing FULL of bugs? They got to go up on stage with Larry and be held up as some who gets things done. (and get promoted)

That had started changing by 2010. They at least had an official way to recognize one person a quarter, if they were nominated, for doing solid infrastructure work.
They patent it, sell it to Gilette and we never ever hear of this tech again.
Yeah but abrahamic religion believe mankind is a some chosen life form, children of God, that the earth was made for us, etc.

I think this view has something to do with how humans are absolutely dominating the earth and collectively killing ourselves. collective suicide.
Tencent is a particularly interesting selection given their stake in Riot Games, Activision Blizzard, Epic Games, Supercell, and others. https://twitter.com/Slasher/status/1291565115670695936?s=19
Proto has a different structure with a fully unrolled loop. It could never read more than 10 bytes. encoding/binary just looped as long as the more bit was set, which is a hazard of more-bit encodings (which suck; unary-length-prefixed codes like UTF-8 are strictly better in every way).
After watching that video:
Why did no one build the application that tied your personal photos with a global database of all the other public photos taken in the same place?
Seems like it would have been an amazing application.
Couple of thoughts:

1. Although I agree it’s a problem, this isn’t new news I don’t believe. I don’t have good references to point to right this second, but I swear I hear almost monthly if not more often that most people couldn’t come up with $500-1k in an emergency, much less multiple months of expenses.

2. The article points to COVID-19 exacerbating these findings, but on top of the cash every US tax payer received who made under the defined threshold, there were a ton of things put in place or implemented like aid, loan forbearance plans, rent extensions etc. as apart of COVID-19. It seems a little (but I guess not totally) surprising that this crisis is what brought to light this issue.
I worked a "9/80" schedule for a few years, in which we nominally worked 9 hours per day, but had every other Friday off. Even that was enough to significantly improve my quality of life.
In the JS version (MIT), we're currently doing bug fixes only. Hence, we've marked it as deprecated.

The new features are in WASM repo, which will be open source later.
> Who can harass Facebook employees the most will probably win the shouting match.

Or who spends the most on ads.

> Citing “partner sensitivity," the rep noted that PragerU runs a lot of ads, and argued that the content in question qualified as opinion and was therefore exempt from being fact-checked.
You won't be able to play overwatch anymore.
Where I work they use a password filter to stop you from doing that...

But it doesn't stop you from spelling out the numbers instead, plus that makes your PW longer
Windows development seems to be fun as of recently. Didn't touch it for couple of decades.

Sometimes I think that modern Windows is a nice platform already, even comfortable. (Like, you know, C++17 is very unlike C++98.) But then I'm reminded of the necessity to run an antivirus in front of it in a corporate environment.
thats not at all the same thing.

granted it is cool that you get 3 days off every week, but the other poster (and me) would much rather work three 8 hours days than four 10 hour days.
> the Dutch West Indies Corporation ever had even a patch on the cultural influence that Facebook has though the behaviour of it’s algorithm

Sorry, where are the armed men operating directly under Facebook’s officers’ command, raining down atrocity and terror on entire subcontinents of humans?
Doesn’t this eviscerate Chinese investment in SV?
You are far too optimistic with how wrong things can go.

The economy running smoothly is what keeps revolutions and wars from happening. The last time the wheels fell off as badly as they did over the last three months we had WWII happen within a decade. We are lucky that it is a sharp shock and it is probably recoverable, but the longer we keep this up the slower the recovery will be. And given how popular extremist ideas were even before a 25% unemployment wall it is not something I want to play with.
> First, only Apple devices have the issue of limited store access, which is a tangential antitrust problem unto itself.

Android is also problematic on that aspect, even Epic Games gave up on distributing Fortnite outside the Play Store.

If the most well known game in the world can't make it outside the Play Store, who could?
> A look at other regulatory law, such as California's CARB and more stringent emissions standards than federal would seem to make Pai's position an uphill battle for the FCC.

I think the FCC position is wrong, but the Clean Air Act has an express allowance for California Waivers (for which there are limited reasons the feds can deny) to issue stricter standards (and for other states to adopt exactly standards for which California has received a waiver) notwithstanding general preemption of state regulation under the Act.

So that's not really a good analogy, since there's nothing parallel to that with regard to telecom law.
I would argue cannabis is not competitive, other than getting a license. All you have to do is produce and test a product and it is usually sold. The players not making it in production usually cannot produce or have problems during production (low bag appeal, bugs, genetics, employees, quality of cure, etc). Sure, it costs a million in business licensing and fees, but if you can competently do it, you will succeed and your competition can't do much [legally] to stop you.
Sounds like the James Damore event for Facebook.
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