skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Railways and telecoms worked out just fine. Sure, in many countries, train tickets have been getting overly expensive under government control but high costs are not such a huge concern in the grand scheme of things. On the other hand, the break up of AT&T in the US had huge benefits for consumers in terms of lowering costs.
If Facebook is nationalized, at least they will not manipulate people to serve corporate interests (that is the main threat).

You should read up on:

1. The history of railroads and regulation in the United States, including their collapse and resurgence in the 20th Century.

2. The history of Bell as a government-sanctioned monopoly, their breakup and subsequent industry consolidation.

3. The disastrous environmental damage caused by state-owned energy companies.
The above statement only needs a minor correction:

> The algorithm is designed to propagate misinformation like crazy because that's what drives engagement and improves Facebook's metrics.

I would put it like this:

The algorithm design causes the propagation of misinformation like crazy because it optimizes for engagement (which is Facebook's core metric).
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It would force users to curate and would reduce time spent on FB - both positive outcomes in my book.

The way most people use Facebook is “friend everyone and let god^H^H^H zuck sort it out”.

(Not a Facebook user myself)
"Anything not explicitly illegal MUST be left up" is an immediately self-destructive moderation policy; your site fills with spam, goatse, snuff images, porn up to the borderline of legality, as well as the ridiculous lies about public figures that everyone wants to protect.
>There seems to be a premise in the USA that if Russia has a hand in true information coming to light, the bigger story is about Russia's hand in it, and not the information itself.

You're absolutely right, and it is frustrating to no end.
I honestly prefer threads and mutex locks to async/async.

Feel free to burn me at the stake.
1.) I forgot for a moment there that the BOC uses fuel prices as a gauge to regulate currency values. But that wasn't my core point, nor was I attributing it to Liberal policy (kinda stated I don't think it has anything to do with that).

2.) I don't mind criticizing the Harper government. In fact, I'd readily place them below Trudeau's. But I don't think Trudeau's would have aggressively pursued Chinese IP theft. In fact, no Western government would have. What did Obama do when the Chinese were stealing IP from Western universities?

3.) Again, as I said, I don't really know about Canadian KYC and AML laws and the "Caribbean banker blush" thing. But one cursory glance, and it's easy to find so many loopholes in the current policy which was created to dissuade investor citizenship.

4.) Canada is only positioning itself for its strongest ally, just as Australia. Till the trade war began, I dearly remember how Canada and Australia had these nice treats and fancy dinners for Chinese investors that weren't available to investors from other places. Not that I'm complaining, but some special treatment was certainly meted out to the Chinese, via regulations and otherwise. Which led to the current shit show.

5.) Vancouver and Toronto are still on the high side. Let's talk when those places become affordable to buy into for native city folks. But as always, for most big issues, we'll continue putting a Band-Aid solution over it.
It was there pre 2016 it just didn't have this catchy term "fake news" yet. Ever heard of Gell-Mann Amnesia?
That's self evident but Facebook could afford not incentivizing political engagement.

It's only fairly recently that this threat vector was exploited. Facebook grew for years without being a disinformation channel.
It was not that and he even published that draft. If this reads as threat to you, then it will be hard to communicate with you anything negative without making you feel threatened.
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Apparently org-mode no longer drives it, from what I read in the link above!

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As we found out when HN tried to ban politics, everything is political.
I think we should be more careful about deflecting criticism of official with foreign or now domestic influences. Even if the material is authentic, it doesn't mean it has to hurt Biden. But the conspiracies from official sources get out of hand. NBCNews was careful here, but it is transparent that they didn't want to neutrally inform people.

These are real bad journalists compared to Greenwald.
Thanks for writing this out, I follow what you're saying and I agree on all three points. That quitting your job to care for your mom's end of life would have been disastrous to your health and well being after she passed, that you will care for your spouse, and that you would want your children to not bear the burden of caring for you at your end of life the same way you saw what that burden would have entailed with your mom. These are all very reasonable positions and I commend you for saying them aloud. I think most people feel the same way but have a hard time articulating it without sounding callous.
C'mon, just add a simple shape or an emoji to the color or something, besides, it has to be a collision AND a visually similar domain.
And Facebook has changed the landscape of journalism to favor drive-by clickbait journalism. Does the riverbed guide the river or did the river carve out the riverbed?
Where do you think it comes from? Elephants? Of course it's an inherent human feature.
This story still sounds bizarre and like a load of BS. I wouldn't put it past a low level employee to confirm something has been found just to keep the suspense for the gullible alive, especially when the documents could have been scanned and encrypted.
Tbh I couldn't bounce back out of that one.
Admittedly, if the choice is being a "successful" chemist, and bringing into existence VX gas, TNT, Phosgene, Thalidomide, Teflon, various industrial chemical wastes that tend to end up creating Superfund sites, and being a chemistry teacher... I may be getting pretty lame as I get older, but I think the Teacher strictly speaking has the quantifiably lesser destructive footprint of the two outcomes. Then again, the argument there is likely one against mixing business majors, industrial chemists, and more lawyers than you can shake a stick at. So... Yeah. Take it with a grain of salt and call me in the morning.
Hopefully people do realize that above is the reply to a deleted comment by hluska
I think there's an argument you can never fully ban it and there are ways to subtly inject and influence politics.

But my point was that Facebook could survive and thrive in a hypothetical situation wherein engagement over political content/disinformation was removed.
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Do you have any example ?
They replaced it with a custom renderer:
https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-230
Let's be honest here. Facebook for Zuckerberg is just a political tool for him now. Earlier, he wanted to run for President, which is obviously at severe conflict with the FB board's stated vision. Now he has realized that he can just twist any nation into his image. Money and power, at the end of the day.
Ignoring how these accusations oversell some supposedly uniform position of the the paper, some countries have not completely recovered from either communism or the invasion, so it's not like it's some minor thing.
Thank you. Yes one of the directions I want to take this is to create an avatar you can move around just like minecraft and then interact with your machines like I show in the first video. I always thought educational gamefication is something that could be done better. When I was a kid I knew every pokemon, their evolutions, their powers and I wasn't even trying, I just wanted to play pokered. If I create something that makes people, especially kids, care that much about programming... To storm that castle you have to build a catapult and to do that you have to understand these programming ideas...
Yeah GraphQL APIs are not tedious to work with, I LOVE GraphQL Codegen for TypeScript and it works very well with my DSL. What's tedious is building a GraphQL API, not consuming it.
I would say the BBC is biased towards people holding long-term political office, i.e. the bureaucratic class, not the incumbent party. They're pretty good at bringing the hammer down on representatives.

They were explicitly anti-Brexit, and arguably anti-Corbyn. They're fairly anti-Boris. The common factor is bias against threats to the bureaucracy. It always puzzled me that they could get away with criticizing the people who held power over them, but I think it's just that MPs don't hold much power over them. They're more worried about the branches of government that don't change between elections.
The whole problem is that junk food and overeating feel really good.
Since it doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet, I'll point out this mid-2019 article about Hunter Biden in the New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-bi...
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I don't want to start a meta flamewar, but I don't think HN has ever officially banned political discussion tout court. There's always been a fair amount of it on the site for the past decade, as far as I remember.
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Never said they are a bad tool. Just unnecessary for me if i happen to know the native language those tools are trying to get around. Your extreme example with assembler doesn't fit in this picture, as the degree of improvement of a high level language compiled to assembler and machine language can't possibly be compared to java transpiled to javascript...
I don't think so. We didn't have the free market of ideas. Instead we had engagement optimized content. These approaches are completely different. Most other platforms and forums had a free market of ideas and it didn't lead to problems.

edit: Also, the demographic might be relevant.
> Looks like this library generates static graphs.

It can create interactive charts [0].

> Is there any specific reason to use this, as opposed to say, Apache Echarts

I've never used it, so my initial impressions may be mistaken, but ECharts looks much less declarative.

It's interesting to compare the specifications for a bubble chart in both systems [1, 2].

The ECharts example [1] first specifies a chart-type ("scatter"), which seems to be hard-coded to use the first two elements of each entry in the data array as the x and y positions. This is then customised by writing JavaScript functions to set the symbol size and color.

In contrast, the Vega-Lite example [2] defines the chart fully declaratively - you first set the mark type to circle, then specify the data encoding which defines how each variable maps to each attribute. This mapping is properly declarative - it isn't just a manually-defined function.

If you had a multidimensional dataset and wanted to change which variables you want to plot, it looks like you'd need to reshape the data array if you were using ECharts, whereas you could just change the "field" attributes in the encoding part of a Vega-Lite specification. This makes Vega-Lite more convenient for exploratory data analysis.

The way Vega-Lite represents these encodings is convenient - a recently created library by Krist Wongsuphasawat tries to expose a similar interface to other visualisation components [3].

[0]: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/#interactive

[1]: https://echarts.apache.org/examples/en/editor.html?c=bubble-...

[2]: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/circle_natural_dis...

[3]: https://encodable.vercel.app/
2017. But I'm just picking when Human Rights Watch reported on the internment camps. I'm sure I could be convinced that the date is earlier.

I don't understand why everyone thinks they would boldly oppose Nazis like an action star hero, but when millions are imprisoned in concentration camps in China they're kind of like "meh."
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I was thinking of a more featureful markdown-based rich text editor, like you might see in a proper CMS.
Although that is true, and the Biden story is pretty suspiciously timed and probably not as serious as it sounds (or fabricated). But it really is rather noticeable that the Biden story is being suppressed. Newspaper articles are being removed from twitter, journalists are resigning from their organisations. It is largely unclear that a similar story about speculation of a Trump-Ukraine story tied to Eric Trump would get this treatment. Years were spent on that Russia business that turned out to be largely baseless, and nobody was suppressing articles on Twitter for baseless speculation.

That level of bias is well worth highlighting. This is material information for voters in future elections (after 2020). I wouldn't know about this story at all except for the backlash over the censorship being news. That is pretty impressive from an information-flow standpoint.
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Because the speculative version is much less trustworthy - and because this kind of service is prone to data lock-in, trust in pricing/profit-models is particularly important.

Consider this: for an existing service with lots of data to back up its pricing, a price list can be treated as an effective guarantee of what the service will continue to cost into the long-term. The company knows that the pricing model is profitable - and therefore, raising prices won't be worth the massive customer outcry.

For a new company, a price list is speculative. There is no way to do accurate long-term extrapolation of profitability. If the prices turn out to be too low to sustain the business, they will have to be raised - and while there will be an outcry, the business will simply have no alternative.

And since it's really hard to migrate all your data/workflows/integrations/etc. away from the service you first decide on, you're incentivised to never join a new service - because the price instability might come back to bite you, let alone if the company itself doesn't collapse later.
The RISC way is to prove the exception is worth it. There are a lot of possible specialized instructions that are useful for some workloads.
Ah I see, thanks for running it! Yeah so it's not this particular loop that's interesting (there's probably always going to be some simple-looking loop a solver can't prove—and I'm sure we could come up with simpler examples), but rather, the interesting question is whether it can figure out anything that doesn't map directly to bounded for/while/do-while loops. It's interesting because:

1. If the answer is no, then what is the precise reason? Is there a legitimate reason for it? After all, a bounded loop that loops for too long is just as bad as one that never terminates, so clearly they need a way to upper-bound the instruction count for any loop—at which point, why is the bound even relevant? The only reason I can think of is that they do simplistic analysis (e.g. multiplying the bounds on nested loops to naively approximate an overall bound), but your examples suggest they have more sophisticated (SMT/BMC?) solvers, and it's not obvious to me why a modern solver would fail on all unbounded loops.

2. If the answer is yes, then it would seem they actually do allow unbounded loops after all?

The other possibility is they're using the word "bounded" differently (e.g. maybe as a synonym for "terminating"), in which case it would be true that they would need bounded loops by definition.
> a game that he could look over someone's shoulder playing it, and know them better than if he'd spent an hour talking.

If I think back at how my various friends played The Sims back in the day, I think that's a pretty high contender of meeting that goal.
Did you read the e-mails Greenwald posted? He comes off as rather unhinged in his eagerness to claim censorship.
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What concrete problem did Facebook cause on that matter?

I don't use facebook, just passively through contacts, but that is very limited. There are opinions that are wrong. But where did it lead to a real problem?
I used to work for BT a while back and on the "Engineering" side there where many problems with the drawings of plant being wrong or lost.

Also workmanager aka workmangler was known for sending linemen (engineers in BT speak) to the wrong place and also sending multiple teams to the same fault
I remember in one of his interviews, Rich Hickey mentioned that STM isn’t in the language to be used all over the place, it’s there to make some very rarely used things possible, which otherwise would not be possible at all.

Which is a very reasonable way to see it, in my opinion.
A string of before and after balances is still a ledger. This is distinct from just 'account, current_balance' tuples like a more typical schema would have.
I'm curious, which parts of the story can be easily refuted?
I m sure they have performed their experiments.

They know they can't lower engagement, these are positive feedback loops, and attention is a zero-sum economy. If they give up even a tiny bit, they 'll lose out to competitors.

Subjects must remain fixated until the end.
Of course I am not going to say that. There is a precise, empirical, causal account of how mounds are built by termites, we can actually see them during the build process, and we don't have to do any category jump in order to understand that process. It's definitely not a good analogy for the absurd category jump which posits that an electron jumps to a different potential orbital and I experience redness.
If that's true, why did Apple ads start showing in iOS? There's now a promotion for Apples services in iOS 14 settings, we're getting notifications about Apple arcade things, the Apple Ads tracking setting is ON by default and split from 3rd party ad tracking settings...

Not to mention their actions like political censorship (just from today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24939717 )

Your narrative fits Apple marketing, but not their actions anymore.
Seeing routing in action like this is very satisfying
I self learned pygame in high school, 15 years later I’m still using it for mapping and rendering - I probably shouldn’t, but I find the library just so damn intuitive.

Congrats To the pygame team, and thank you for being the core tool which truly taught my objective code, and many UI design concepts (:
Crash it into The Moon instead... What a spectacle that would be for Earthlings.
Write a blog post if you can. Chasing a boat on the water because the program used the wrong coordinate system - sounds like an amusing debugging story.
Could you expand on your first paragraph? What would it have meant for them to become a platform? How should they have dominated (sow, sow, sow)?
Then stop paying them $30k! Cussing at their underpaid support staff is pointless. Companies are not human; they only understand money.
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How does this viscosity compare to gold or silver? Those also have brownian motion under the force of gravity.

I bet it’s higher than 1 nm / billion years.
We're really sleepwalking into a dystopia.

Maybe some, but most people are aware. They have very little to zero power to fight back the abuse.
> I play it for the same reason I first coding.

I'll go on a bit of a tangent and say that I don't play Factorio for the same reason that I keep coding.

The gameplay gives you creative choices and sets of rules, and a satisfaction of working within those rules to get things going by reflecting your head inside it, much like programming.

I bounced off of it after a few short hours, with a deep sense of lost time. If what I do in the game is the same I would do for work or as side projects, then why am I choosing the game, which has no outcome in the real world?

I went back to my side project, and never played Factorio again.
Yeah, I learned this "fact" in school as well. Later I found a simple refutation: If a church window pane would deform by a measurable amount in 1000 years (say 0.5mm), then a 100-year old telescope or camera lens would be totally useless, and yet they seem to function all right.
He didn't say that such a person is or should be elected. Its just rhetoric, no need to imply something into it that he never said. Hes obviously aware that the first amendment can not be overruled by anyone elected or not.
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Quite a lot actually.
'Super Spreader' hardly describes Facebooks reach. It's an entire (miss)information pandemic in its own right.
The term wasn't there but the phenomenon was.

Obama was probably the first candidate to win thanks to social media and facebook groups.
Partisan Facebook groups post a lot and it's 50% your party's interpretation of reality, 45% outrageous claims, 5% pure fake news.
I don't even think the fake news spreading is done maliciously, the groups are probably maintained by radicalised individuals who believe whatever news fit their narrative.

Trump (who often retweets fake news and even retweeted a website similar to the onion, once) equally calls fake news on opposing publications.

Still, I think fake news is a vastly overblown problem.
Fake news is merely the scapegoat left wing media use to explain why Trump/Brexit won, even if it's represented so poorly in media.
You can call it populism or far right extremism or Nazi, but outside of the rich tech community bubble, outside of universities, poor people want less government not more.
The socialist message is lost on them, that's why Trump and Brexit won, despite the media coverage.

If we look at similar cases, like Berlusconi in Italy 30 years ago, it's just a matter of time before Trump understands fixing the government is hard, if not impossible and get caught in some corruption case himself.

The parasitical nature of the state just allow for the state to grow larger until it destroys its host.
Spending in the USA is still at record highs.
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