skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook intentionally suggests posts that raise engagement, these push people to outrage.

Facebook is curated, it’s on the oposite side of the spectrum from free.
I think it’s very common to think “if I had to RTFM, then so do you!” It’s kind of depressingly pervasive.
I'm excited to see what technology is being brought to the table. I don't think that Nvidia will settle with being only second to Apple's CPUs in performance.
Not to defend Nikola, but people are quick to forget that iPhone's first presentation was a lot of smoke and mirrors?

"Hours of trial and error had helped the iPhone team develop what engineers called “the golden path,” a specific set of tasks, performed in a specific way and order, that made the phone look as if it worked."

https://gizmodo.com/the-iphones-first-demo-was-buggy-as-hell...
Link to paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09275...

Link to recent preprint: http://ses.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Revised-Prison...
I agree with this in principle because the outcome of non-adjusted pay will be a "race to the bottom" on wages, which will get more wages to people in poorer areas that helps them lift those areas out of poverty, while basically making New Yorkers unhireable as remote workers unless they possess extraordinary skill.

To think that anything else would happen, like the ludicrous "Bay Area salary" becoming the global standard offer, is like thinking that anyone would hire a house painter who quotes twice the market price to paint your house, by explaining that he lives in a 6-bedroom posh waterfront condo and also maintains a country house.
Do you have it setup to work if you lose grid connection? It seems like most solar/powerwall systems are not setup with appropriate disconnects and so must be designed to not work with the grid down. Seems like a big waste.

I wonder how much money utilities could save if everyone had a big in-home UPS/Solar and 99% or 95% grid reliability were acceptable.
It will only get worse in the u.s. as the militias recruit regular folks who are just defending themselves from the radical left
This is so melodramatic, and a bit pretentious to think your Facebook job has such an effect on the world.
Course announcement: Math 246A, complex analysis
Reading curated feeds WILL expose you to mass manipulation engines. The power they steal from you and others can then be rented out in bulk for a premium.

That’s why most companies don’t let you turn them off (or make it difficult to opt out.)
This is an amazing story. It's like a variation on the Count of Monte Christo, leaving out the revenge part.
Facebook leak reveals Oculus Quest 2 as a 4K standalone VR headset
That's very cool. I love the idea of doing extension cords + inlets. I've been thinking about how to wire my big TV to my UPS, that's a very clean way of doing it.
> I see no hard evidence that social media has made any of these problems much worse

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-measles-us-california...
I am as well but I don't think that's the central issue here. Some governments don't agree but I believe there's a vast gulf between posting about how much you hate those lazy left-handed people and actively calling for left-handed people to be murdered in the street. Facebook is not a free speech maximalist company. They just decided to operate in this region without bothering to enforce their own rules to it or even publish the rules in the native language. Should we as Westerners punish them for that? Can we, legally? Let's remove all the moral grey area and pretend Dropbox Fake-country was hosting vast amounts of child pornography and doing nothing about it because the local legal authorities let them and Dropbox HQ just didn't care. Could we do anything about it?
Absolutely. Let's lay out traps for the trap layers then, and find a way to do it for a living. You're saying that's fine, so lets do it.
The benefits is secure, nitrogen with renewable energy. it could be anywhere not necessarily in the sea. It could be in a data center as well. A temper proof ...

And one need to dig it out to check though meant it is not connected. Not very useful. Even a mars based one we want them to communicate. Even low end just control signal.
Don't even try to do validation on postal addresses. The postal system has so many corner cases that you'll never be able to correctly handle all of them. Every mishandled corner case will cost you, or your counter-party, time and money.

Just dump addresses into a unicode string and let the postal system figure it out.
Most recently ones shot by 17 y.o. militia kid
It’s safer to distribute and multiply the psy-ops targets instead of having centralized weak points with regulatory power that can be captured. Free speech ultimately improves our information.
Are there any journals that list the reasons why a paper is not accepted? It would be great to see evidence-based counter arguments to the issues brought up here especially since this is so political.
rohingya?
If all of the matter in the universe were evenly distributed, it would be so close to a vaccum as to make no difference.
I am infuriated by the idiotic use of “authored” rather than “wrote” but in this case, as they were ghostwritten, perhaps it’s actually in some sense correct!

(Stomping off now to be pissed off at the odious use of “gift” as a verb)
Yeah, I agree. It's easier to read if you zoom out the page a bit, but perhaps more spacing and slightly visible edges around each box would make it easier to consume.
Ted nugent was not able to get regular Midwestern moms and dads to "like" his civil war calls to arms in the tens of thousands before social media
This is a really cute and informative page. Bravo
It also predates attempts to use dewatering pumps in mines, leading to the snarky variant “nature abhors a vacuum, but only up to 32 feet.”
I had a huge idea for a moonshot project back in 2012 but had to stop working on it and focus on more down-to-earth, immediate goals, such as improving my health. I come from a modest background and can’t afford to quit my day job to start a political non-profit. But it’s still sort of my dream. I guess that’s what makes it a moonshot, it’s (seemingly) out of reach.
A lot of negativity here, so here's some positive feedback:

The UI is very clean and easy to use. I like the minimalism and the restrained scope of the project. A lot of diagram creators try to do too much and end up being confusing and hard to pick up.

Looks like a great little tool!
I understand that, what I'm saying is you'll have to spend some time explaining to the inspector how this system works, and they'll give an immediate fail (unless they're pretty lax—I know in the midwest they are not) unless you're a licensed electrician.

Mostly because 'sparkies' often wire things up like this and use random extension cords in walls and create fun fire hazards.

I agree that the installation is in 'the spirit of the code', but there are enough little variances that I would take a bet that a random inspector would not pass it on first glance.
The year 2020 is providing all the Big Questions we can handle. How do we stop a pandemic? Climate change driven fires the size of a continent? Reforming the police to stop racial violence? Fighting bots and trolls that threaten democracy?
How? If there's no water, how could there be an ecosystem of microorganisms thriving in the atmosphere?
How about a company that faked a working phone? A phone where there is only 1 set of workflow that actually was successfuly. A phone that could not play an entire song. And because the CEO knew the phone would crash, even during the only workflow that worked, he had multiple phones on stage that he would swap out when it crashed.

Is that also a lie? Because that's exactly what Steve Jobs did when he debuted the iPhone.

https://gizmodo.com/the-iphones-first-demo-was-buggy-as-hell...
The kind of issue I see this thread getting at is what I call the "terrarium problem", which is, to make a whole software ecosystem like a language environment or API mechanisms bounded by a standard, one has to build a sufficiently large terrarium for it and maintain that. The largest, most flexible terrariums we use as developers tend to be operating system standards, browser standards, Internet protocols, etc.; in the case of Forth it's defined by the bootstrapping process, since the bootstrapping code can present a Forth that is near the hardware, or one that is embedded alongside another language environment like Lua. It is even relatively straightforward to have a Forth that generates Lua source code, which the Lua interpreter can then apply its own checks to and evaluate efficiently.

Extensibility by itself doesn't solve the terrarium problem because it doesn't define any standard, so there isn't anything to build on. When presented with extensibility, you still build the terrarium, it's just a customized one, and if you do it ground-up like Forth, you can potentially build it smaller and simpler. But in the end you still have a terrarium with assumed boundaries.

This has led me away from Forth-the-language in the last few months to explore the terrarium problem further, and I hit on the idea of treating this as an organizational issue solved at the level of the core UX. If the problem is defining boundaries in software, we should have better ways of doing that. At first I considered this in terms of selection - selection being one of the pillars of structured programming, and many of our improvements taking the form of easier selection metaphors. This gradually led me to explore the idea of document editing with a binder and sticky notes metaphor, with a supplemental compiler process taking the resulting complex, layered documents and processing them into a linear form for consumption. The presumption is that if I present a rich set of tools for defining types of divisions and groupings defined skeumorphically - pages, bins, tape, wire, guides, stickies, overlays - and then add a bit of labelling and indirection on top, a powerful "thinking tool" should emerge where the organization is easy and the compilation system makes it easy to query and traverse it in a customized way.

If I can finish designing it.
1) I have never faked a demo. People who behave unethically often claim everybody else does it too, to assuage their guilt. These people are deluding themselves.

2) The faked demo is only the icing on Nikola's shit cake. I advise you read the Hindenburg report. Trevor is a serial liar, a true con-artist.
That's a bit like saying that fox news has no effect within the US
>> Before a user clicks on a link, they hover their mouse over that link. When a user has hovered for 65 ms there is one chance out of two that they will click on that link, so instant.page starts preloading at this moment, leaving on average over 300 ms for the page to preload.

This sounds great! I immediately wonder how many additional HTTPS requests will hit your web server fleet. Has anyone using this calculated a percentage of additional requests vs additional clicks from their http logs?
Gift has been used as a verb maybe as long as it has been used as a noun. If you read some older British literature it's all over the place.
Isn't org-mode part of emacs now? You don't require the FSF copyright assignment paperwork?
If you are using linux, try Zathura
Not doing violence

Not calling for violence

Should be obvious. I don't want to debate antisocial gangs out for power- I want to be protected from their violence.
Hey Scammer, Prepare to loose. Crypto is complete scam.
> Tail calls are very simple: anything of the form 'return foo(...)'…

It's a bit more complicated than that since there may be destructors (in C++, or C with certain extensions) or stack-frame cleanup which occur between 'foo' returning and the 'return' statement itself. Tail call elimination is only possible when the stack frame can be freed before the final function call; if the address of any local variable escapes the current function then it might not be an option even if the source otherwise appears tail-recursive. TCE is simpler in garbage-collected languages which allocate their stack frames from the heap (and typically lack precise destructors) since these cleanup operations can be left to the GC.
We've merged the comments thither. Thanks!
I see what you're getting at, but I wouldn't consider this very compelling evidence. Plenty has happened in the past ten years that isn't attributable to social media.
Database?! Is it ready for production or still just for trying and teaching ?
No, because there's this weird thing about developing apps.

If you have too few users, this means that you can't afford to eat, while too many users means that other app developers can't afford to eat.
Not saying that they're trying to do the same thing, but couldn't you also imagine someone saying the same thing about FB before the revelations over the past few years?
This memo is from a member of the "fake engagement team", tasked with fighting fake accounts used for disinformation operations. The Rohingya issue was primarily a moderation issue; community and military leaders were issuing authentic calls for violence under their true name.
i mean on rds etc?
You mean Tesla Semi looked similar to Nikola One? As Tesla Semi was announced one year after Nikola One and there was/is even a lawsuit.

https://electrek.co/2020/04/22/tesla-semi-design-lawsuit-mov...
What is a good example of a country drawing strength from diversity?
Agreed. The questions specific to my field do not seem interesting to me at all as a researcher. They are either way too vague and ill-defined to qualify as serious research, or way too niche to have a "big social impact".

Also, IANAB (I am not a biologist), but it surprises me that unravelling the genetic architecture of complex phenotypes is not represented on this list in any way, shape or form.
None of this would be important if social media gave us what they originally sold us: See updates from your friends, family, and people you want to see updates from, in chronological order, rather than based upon weird engagement algorithms and privacy-destroying ad networks.
For some reason what has always worked for me is just abandoning rational thought entirely and working day-to-day.

I go into a project thinking "I bet I can get 50% to 100% of this thing done today" and that's almost never the case, but the thought of it gets me excited. That's all the motivation I need. I work like crazy until I'm ready to stop working. I say "Wow I sure made a lot of progress. Tomorrow I'll probably finish it off." feeling satisfied. This repeats forever. Maybe it's a kind of madness, but it gets the job done!
1 KM squared WiFi hotspot. HD Video/Audio Calling without the internet
With real estate and rent so expensive a protest by a junior employee pretty much ends in moving back with their parents or homelessness.
Is blocking foreign competitors the same as child labor? If you want a reasoned and nuanced solution then you must start with a reasoned and nuanced argument.

What is your alternative?
Ask HN: Accessing personal email on FAANG work computer?
I have a side startup that, occasionally, gets some email to my personal email. I'd like to also check my personal email on my work laptop, but would my IP for my startup get rolled into FAANG if I check my personal email? I'd only read my email, not send any email (i.e. conduct business)
From the article:

>The team is speculating that the greater reliability may be connected to the fact that there were no humans on board, and that nitrogen rather than oxygen was pumped into the capsule.
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>"We think it has to do with this nitrogen atmosphere that reduces corrosion and is cool, and people not banging things around," Mr Cutler says.

Better cooling and isolation from all kinds of radiation seem like they'd also be beneficial.
I am not familiar with Scientology, but you sound like an expert on the matter so I'll take your word for it.
I listen to either at 1.5x or 2x depending on the podcast (The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Adam Savage Project, 99% Invisible). I am able to enjoy a greater variety of content or get through a back log of episodes. I’ve worked myself up to 2x over time to the point where regular speech sounds slurred.

There are exceptions: Pondercast is one where that takes the intimacy you’re alluding to an extreme. The spoken content is tied deeply to the pacing of the music so it would be ludicrous to listen to it that fast.
Clearly companies can take on multi year projects like making a movie and even take on risks when doing so. They also do a lot of things called R&D with similar expectations of direct profits.

However, it’s not clear that Microsoft’s next version of windows for example is actual research rather than the software equivalent of making a movie. As such I think what people are talking about fundamental research not the kind of R&D which happens to qualify for a tax break but is mostly just the cost of doing business.

IMO, the line for what still qualifies for research is basically the DARPA self driving car challenge. Before the event it looked like basic research, afterward it looked like an engendering challenge to get there first. In 2004 nobody finished though several got close in 2005, in 2005 five teams finished and the race for commercial success was on.
Driving cars is violence on pedestrian bodies.

I don't want to debate antisocial car gangs out for blood, I want them locked up where they can't hurt anyone else with their murder machines.
Many companies were already doing that before FB and before Covid.
I agree that Github is not the solution the open source community is looking for, and feel the pain of the lacking privacy controls. Still, I feel that development on Github is much more accessible than that on a mailing list, and there's probably a solution which would be more accessible but still encourage people who aren't part of the mailing list culture to contribute.

For example, mrsh has its development on sr.ht[1], but accepts pull requests on Github or the mailing list for the project[2]. This seems like (almost) the best of both worlds to me, where people who want to use a mailing list can, and people who want to use a GUI can, though there is overhead for the maintainers to fuse together the results at the end. An alternative like Gitea or GitLab might be better for your mentioned privacy concerns while still lowering the barrier to entry that a mailing list workflow presents.

Design is not my passion, so I'm drastically underqualified to comment on whether any of these websites is an effective implementation of their ideas.

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/mrsh

[2]: https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/mrsh#contributing
Are coffee grounds good for the garden? yes, how to use it?
You would also want to break out CDN requests versus http server requests; theoretically, CDN requests are cheaper than requests to your server fleet.
When creating a visualization for your database design DO NOT under any circumstance cross relations as they go from one table to another. The client will get confused and frustrated. Looking at this article's visualizations hurt my eyes. Very bad choice for what's suppose to be a "good" design.
They didn't take 4 years more to get something working afterwards. Nothing that was promised or shown didn't work, even if hacky
Great idea, thanks for sharing!
If you read the latest statement from Microsoft of how they'd have made sure to implement all the latest "privacy" features for TikTok, it's actually a really great news that ByteDance knows better.

What was the most visible outcome of Microsoft's takeover of GitHub? Some software engineers who happen to live in a wrong peninsula in Europe had their GitHub accounts shutdown with no advance notice and no recourse. So much for the rule of law and for social coding!

I think it's great that people from all over the world have a choice of who to give their data to. If there'd be a worldwide antitrust body, US would already be in trouble! Remember when China blocked Twitter and whatever else? Yeah, aren't we the China now?!
Great demonstration!

I wrote a bit on it few days back- https://lafolle.ca/blog/broken-resolution/
This woman, for example: https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/young-mother-24-shot-de...
I'm not denying that ageism exists, but this proves nothing. There are many reasons why young people outnumber over-40s in programming roles:

1. The size of the field has increased exponentially over time. Far fewer programmers started their careers in the 80s or 90s vs the past 10 years.

2. Many older programmers have transitioned into upper management or other roles - for example, product/project/people management, sales engineering, customer success, technical writing and so on.

3. People leave the industry due to family or health reasons, windfalls/inheritances leading to early retirement, burnout, or career changes. The longer someone has been working, the likelier it is that people from their cohort have left for one of these reasons.
<I wouldn't be surprised if when historians look back in 50 years, that they determine that the Pandora's box of free information interchange from the Internet hastened the end of free society.>

Exactly. And they'll say internet-spread panic caused the unnecessary collapse of the world economy in 2020 -- very similiar to the panic of Y2K, but amplified by 20 years of progress in social media.

Meanwhile, in other non-reported news, ~2.7 million more humans were born this week. And about ~1.2 million died this week from regular non-covid causes. [1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths
its sad getting readable fonts in linux is still a bit of a waste of time
There’s probably a hard limit to the amount of information you can take in a day or between sleeps. This is based on personal experience where I can’t focus on assigned readings if I read too much of “hobby” reading.
Why would the entire world be affected? It's the US applying specific protections against China, which has already isolated itself. Nothing changes for the rest of the world.
> instant.page’s script is hosted serverless with Cloudflare Workers so that there’s no server to hack into.

There are a lot of reasons that this software is "safe" but this absolutely isn't one of them and highlights to me as a potential user that you haven't thought through your thread model. The subresource integrity line should absolutely be the headline here.
Thanks.
Friend in her early forties stage 4 kidney cancer. Too young.
Our other friend died last year from another type cancer, also in his early forties. So yeah.
Are Turing Machines Programmable?
WSJ has ads doesn’t it?
The title seems like it was written by a competitor
I'm getting an SSL negotiation error. I don't think it works. They might want to have their SSL checked out.
Use IPv6.

It doesn't have the address exhaustion that caused providers to implement CGNAT, and dynamic IPv4 addresses.

No need for VPS management, DynDNS, port forwarding, hold punching. You still need public DNS, but you can use public DNS as your internal zone as well (no need for split DNS). You also still need PKI, so maybe setup a reverse proxy for SSL termination with a wildcard certificate.