skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No not that I've seen. On facebook, most of the people know each other in real life, so it seems like those sorts of feuds don't really happen there as much.

There is a groups of people I can think of who occupy dramatically different idealogical spaces, and they do argue with one another, but it's usually more in the form of giant walls of text back and forth.

The most "dramatic" thing happening in my facebook space right now is that a bunch of my friends worked on building a drive through Christmas light show (many of my friends are artists and fabricators), and then the person they built it for didn't pay them, so they're organizing protests.

Just going through my feed right now it's:

Somebody posting pictures about her adventure van build.

Somebody posting a "shop local" guide for Arizona.

A person posting a bunch of selfies of herself.

Somebody asking questions about a soft egg that one of their chickens laid (in a backyard chickens group)

Somebody posting that she just graduated with her masters degree

A post in a group called "let's really argue about film/tv" about christmas movies.

A solicitation for donations to a charity for the homeless (its' getting cold here in Phoenix right now. It was in the 30s last night)

Solicitations in a "buy nothing Tempe" group.

Ah, the first political post: the headline is: "even with three Trump appointed justices on the Bench, SCOTUS Declines to Roll Back Marriage equality"

Picture of a clock tower

A news article about NZ lifting covid restrictions

A motivational picture/meme about self care

Somebody talking about fasting

Somebody selling their tiedyes

Somebody graduating nursing school

More backyard chickens

I'm trying to find something inflammatory here but honestly my entire feed is basically just this forever and ever. People I know and am acquainted with in real life just posting about what they're doing. A few political posts here and there, and generally those don't get any comments.
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I think they are doing so ("The Netflix application is complex, but at its simplest it streams data from a Netflix server, buffers several seconds worth of video and audio data on the device").

The system was built to fill the (hardware) buffers for 15ms worth of audio. The problem is that the 15ms window was not invoked in time (sometimes it took 40ms). Some suggested Netflix that in that case they could fill audio data for 40ms into the HW, but they didn't wanted to because it required low-level modifications.
> And on the local level, the politicians blame the EU for it.

Ultimately, local politicians are the EU's decision-makers. MEPs sit as members of national political parties; the European Council are heads of national governments.

Passing the buck to the EU is a weak position, and in general a mistruth.

There aren't many issues divides nations in the EU from each other - most, if not all, decisions that the EU takes have divisions within nations (between the political groups), not without (between national groups).

You can argue that "blame the EU" is a position that the UK government has taken successfully - continually blaming the EU for any problems that they have created themselves (sometimes blaming the EU despite incompetently avoiding the EU's clear recommendations).

But, now that the UK has left the EU, they don't have anyone left to blame for their own poor planning and decisions. We'll see how that pans out.
This is a nice idea. It is also applied in a similar way to the so called "SKR Kontorahmen" which is basically a system for categorizing transactions in accounting. see: https://www.datev.de/web/de/datev-shop/material/skr-04-engli...
There's a theory that slaveowners were just outcompeted by machine owners...
Fedora. After using Ubuntu (KDE Neon since it came out) since basically 4.10 I'm really liking it!
And once they're thoroughly shitted up, there'll be some other place to move.

I like what Matthew McConaughey said about people moving from California to Austin - "Remember why you moved here, and understand you're going to have to vote a certain way if don't want to move again in the future."
Add whoever owns all those hotel booking sites. Pretty much the same kind of monopoly as Match Group, but with 10x the dark patterns.
The whole CentOS 6 is *dead* and *shouldn't* be used anywhere at *all
I've seen people blur their keyboard on these parts, I figure they'll start bleeping/muting that portion
that does sound very annoying (although as a Win10 user myself, I can't say I've ever experienced this), but it's not exactly an antitrust issue when edge and IE combined have captured only ~10% of the browser market.
And to personal repos? Yikes. They should learn from the npm left-pad incident..
Well, of course the engine needs to have access to some corpus to search on. So the general answer to your question is: yes, however this step typically not called "training" but "indexing".

Most engines will repeatedly index your contents with crawlers or similar.
The only reason I use Chrome these days is for built in translation. Apart from that it's always FF.
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Yes, maybe someone from Mozilla could explain why they didn't port history and the current web app editing?

We are currently doing the same thing at Our World in Data and discussing this exactly so would be great to learn more about the design decisions.
I got tired of the garbage. First of all, I made a decision Facebook is not the center of my life and decided to stop posting personal things on it except for major announcements. I also started doing the following very aggressively:

- unfollowing everyone who only tended to posted stuff I didn't want to see,

- using the "Hide Post", "Hide All From X", and "Hide Ad" options very liberally - if I had any problem at all with the post or ad whatsoever,

- reporting posts that had content I didn't like and even had a hint of violating Facebook policies--none got deleted but I think this affects Facebook's AI.

I'd love to see a list of everything I've blocked and share it, but I don't see how to get that from Facebook.

It took several months, but probably would have been less time if I was a daily Facebook user.

At this point I have no political or news items (things I hid like crazy) on my Facebook at all. I have fun things from groups I've joined and that's it.

It's boring and quiet, and there if I really need it without annoyances.

But it did take some work and it's true, not everyone cares to put in that work. But they'll repost dumb meme stuff all day.
I totally agree and I think property taxes are way more fair and equitable for a society than income taxes. Usually we tax behaviors we want to curb. Income taxes disincentivize people from earning more, whereas property taxes are a consumption tax. In my mind this makes way more sense, and there's good data to suggest property taxes are the best/most efficient way to gain needed revenue for a city but do the least "damage" to economic prosperity
How does it compare to JOOQ? https://github.com/jooq/jooq
Huge update for users on new Apple Silicon Macs:

> Native support for macOS devices built with Apple Silicon CPUs brings dramatic performance improvements over the non-native build that was shipped in Firefox 83: Firefox launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive

You will need to do a browser reboot after updating to get the ARM64 version instead of the Rosetta version[1]

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrading-new-version-f...
Earn your share of $25,000 wrangling US presidential election data
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As someone who loves trains this is great news. I hope this goes full steam ahead and doesn't derail.
I'm not a GCP user and I'm still trying to get in to it, but it doesn't sound dissimilar to GCP's Cloud Shell so far: https://twitter.com/peterc/status/1338885092412895233
Doesn't concern me. Flash has been on an EOL track for a long time now, and I'm actually pretty happy they're being this aggressive about killing it, as otherwise it could linger on indefinitely, causing security bugs across the web.

Why do you find it disturbing?
You are the one revising history. The christiaindom vs islam story is well evidenced in history. you cannot disentangle western culture from the christian foundations upon which it rests.
Indeed there is nothing new under the sun:

2 Samuel 15:1-6

Now it came about after this that Absalom provided for himself a chariot and horses and fifty men as runners before him. Absalom used to rise early and stand beside the way to the gate; and when any man had a suit to come to the king for judgment, Absalom would call to him and say, “From what city are you?” And he would say, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel.” Then Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but no man listens to you on the part of the king.” Moreover, Absalom would say, “Oh that one would appoint me judge in the land, then every man who has any suit or cause could come to me and I would give him justice.” And when a man came near to prostrate himself before him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him. In this manner Absalom dealt with all Israel who came to the king for judgment; so Absalom stole away the hearts of the men of Israel.
I've found a few "fixes". From recent memory, disabling extensions, and clearing out my profile from appdata. I'll give this version a shot and hope for the best.
Not a single word about PRISM. It appears that Greenwald has finally realized that his reporting on that program was embarrassingly wrong, but he doesn't have enough integrity to issue a correction.
That is depressing, but somehow makes me feel better about not going to law school.
I just came across a NYT article from 1997 talking about the emergence of Texas as a high tech haven, and migration of tech companies from California.

Prominent local superstars included Dell, Nortel and Enron (As well as numerous companies who fared better, admittedly)...

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/30/business/a-new-breed-of-w...
Of course you don't care about it directly, but it is part of a chain that funds things you probably do care about?

Advertisers pay publishers to show their ads to real users. Publishers run their sites because they receive money from advertisers. We visit the sites because they're diverting/informative/useful/etc. If the advertisers can't tell whether their ads are instead shown to robots, the whole thing falls apart.

I like the trust tokens proposal as a way to exclude bot traffic without tracking: https://web.dev/trust-tokens/
Headcrab, a modern Rust debugger library
I think it’s little to do with your local circles and more to do with the content you interact with. I know someone whose Facebook is mostly helpful tips, cooking, and family photos without any politics. Another person in the same household has a very different Facebook experience with lots of politics and religion and toxicity. This is coming from an extremely rural part of Ohio with people who have a very conservative social circle.

The difference is that the one person doesn’t care about politics very much and thus doesn’t interact with political content if it shows up, whereas the other person gets very invested into political content. I myself deleted Facebook because I was getting far too invested into political content.

The overall point being that Facebook’s machine learning algorithm is going to increase your engagement with the platform by showing you posts with content you’re more likely to interact with.

So I guess the question is: OP, do you have a tendency to interact and comment on political posts if they ever come up, or do you just ignore them?
I'm using KDE on KUbuntu on my work laptop day-to-day for the last 18 months.

But I've been using it for longer than that as I do recall using it for half of my university too. I recall I was using MATE before switching.
Nice to visit, wouldn't want to live there.

Did I mention it's the murder capital of the United States?
Problem is - by removing sane people the thing will become even more insane... And most people there are unable to notice - they form democratic majority - nowadays things can accelerate downhill very fast.
The First Micro-service Architecture (2015)
Ad fraud is a morally loaded term. What's considered ad fraud is not fraud, but labeling it as such lets advertisers point to individuals running bots and scripts as malicious internet abusers. If I used the term fraud like the ad industry uses ad fraud, I'd probably lose my law license or just get buried under unfavourable costs orders in court.

So why are they deploying the term? Because it's a great way to deflect thinking about a core failing of their business logic. We've known since the day of banner ads that 'views' are a tremendously flawed metric, so blaming online agents for WHY they're flawed lets them deflect blame.

The fact that we're in this thread trying to parse semantics when consumers don't even have a seat at the table when deciding where we should fall on the tracking/privacy spectrum should tell you all you need to know about how the industry operates.
But moving to Texas frees up real estate in the Bay Area for more productive businesses. And given the transient nature of techies, many of those techies would have moved to California will now move to Texas, putting some relief into the housing market and maybe clearing up traffic a bit. I wouldn’t see these two moving as a negative, they’ve long had reputations as bad places to work.
It’s split between Expedia and Priceline.
re. Twitter negative comments: sorry, it's very valuable to me. It's easy to curate: I use LIST. I have a focused list ("story") which provides great, relevant information. It seems there is a subgroup of people on Twitter who understand how to use (& how not to use) it / imo Twitter is underrated.
Custom Operators in OCaml (2016)
I can't understand why they still didn't put a "Support Mozilla" prompt anywhere.
Site seems to check out. State of Michigan's Judiciary staff directory points to it, and the domain has been established since 2009, with regular development and a consistent roster of Judges lining up with other sources. Aside from the horrid lack off https and a .org domain instead of .gov, it seems to check out.
Webots R2021a released – open-source robot simulator with ROS2 interface
Raphael Warnock’s Dog Ads Cut Against White Voters’ Stereotypes of Black People
I've had pretty much the same experience (minus the recommendation for Turmeric).

Once I was lucky enough to get a steroid prescribed and it worked wonders compared to a dose of Ibuprofen every 4 to 6 hours.
> Twitter on the other hand is just pure toxic garbage which seems made to intentionally divide people and incite hatred and eventually violence.

That's also my impression. I mostly use FB for my neighborhood, hiking, biking, bird watching or any kind of nature related groups. It's been mostly pleasant experience for me. I think you can use FB without lowering yourself in all that outrage and drama. It's absolutely doable.

Twitter, OTOH, is a cesspool. I feel the whole platform was designed to congregate the worst of humanity and to bring out the worst in any decent person. It's almost impossible to use Twitter without causing emotional harm to yourself or the others. I find it interesting that FB gets so much hate from media, but Twitter seems to be a media-darling.
More "accept all cookies" buttons on every web site.

Yay.

[edit]: looks like the brits jumped ship just in time.
Loooove this library.
> My biggest issue with calls on Signal is that if the app crashes, the call disconnects.

Of course the app crashing during a call is an issue, but I don't see how the call could stay open with the app closed without security expectations breaking?
The EU is only good at hindering progress these days. The tech market here is extremely dry with only ARM and DeepMind being the only non-gaming tech companies that come to mind that are actually relevant, with DeepMind needing the backing outside of the EU to be where it's at today and ARM being bought by NVIDIA.

The way you improve the tech scene is by providing better alternatives. Music piracy was reduced through services like Spotify rather than some business/political people getting sites 'removed'. Elon Musk creates OpenAI with the goal of building safe AGI, the JS creator created Brave for privacy.
Good luck trying to start any of these projects here.

Laws that try to moderate only create a chase that goes in circles. They are not a solution.
You can also switch to non algorithmic timeline on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

Look, I'm not trying to defend facebook here. I agree that social media is basically a drug, and have said many times that one day we will look back at it the way we look back now at cigarettes.

But I think it's a little bit ridiculous to see all of the fingers get pointed at facebook when at least my experience has been that facebook is bad, and twitter is infinitely worse to the point where somebody could reasonably assume that twitter was actively trying to create chaos and make people hate one another.
No thats a fair argument. I didn't quite get it initially. I still find the template usefull for my personal usecases but I also get your point
Heh, I feel you. Test were indeed used to verify that your code runs correctly and with edge cases, and stuff like isinstance were discouraged so you wouldn't need to think about types but rather of interfaces. However I assume that a large influx of people who had experience with typed languages had changed general idea of how Python should look and be used. Oh well, times change and we all allowed it so... types it is :/
Thanks! I forgot storage was supported by that.
This works incredibly well.

I hope you realize what you've created (and made available to every person in the world).
Defaults are so powerful. There's a damn good reason Google pays Apple $8-12 billion every year to be the default search engine on iOS.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-apple-search-deal-doj...
It does not look minimal. For example, strip the colors
Cylance is insanely sensitive. In my experience running internal penetration tests, it's been one of the few pieces of security software that's genuinely slowed me down and been a nuisance.

That said, once you figure out its weak spots, it's as useless as all the others, but it doesn't surprise me it'd flag Firefox.
Apple having that information doesn't mean they don't care about protecting consumer privacy...they still have to KYC (Know Your Customer).

The reason you can trust Apple (for now) about protecting consumer privacy is that they aren't selling it to unknown third-parties make MORE money off of you. If Apple has your data its going to ONLY be used by Apple and only in ways you understand (at least that's the marketing push)
I like the readlink command
>This is great for local development.

Not just. There is a niche for mixed web/native apps whereby the page is loaded from the web, but interacts (at least in part) with a locally hosted web-server.
I have known it to happen to friend’s parents that live in New Jersey, as their pension didn’t keep up with the property tax increases. But New Jersey is notorious for their property tax.

I mean, Prop 13 passed specifically because seniors were losing their homes. But in this case the cure was worse than the disease.
I believe the technology has existed for quite some time. I think perhaps the idea was even mentioned in Cryptonomicon. So I think that making it more available/open should hopefully make people more aware that it's a danger.

That said, it significantly lowers the barrier for entry, much like script kiddie hacking.
It's the status quo in their industry.
A lot would also switch to native ads.

For example, if a concert promoter can't buy a 30 second spot on local radio to promote and upcoming show, they will instead pay for the band to be interviewed by a DJ where the interview is little more than the band talking about the upcoming show. I don't think that's an improvement.
Sounds like he made a mistake. If he were truly smart he would have taught you how to load a truck correctly and had less work for him to do next time.
It must still work to some extent because SDKs like Branch.io are able to deliver payload to your application after installing it from a "deep link". You click a link in Safari, which makes a fingerprint of your device from the browser (and bundles your IP) and sends a request to Branch.io, this redirects you to App Store and you install the app from the link. The app the uses Branch.io SDK to make the fingerprint again and asks the server to send the payload back to you. This way you can make deep links work even if you don't yet have the app installed.
To my surprise it still works quite reliably on iOS 14. It has some issues with fingerprinting if there are multiple iPhones with similar fingerprint on same network (same IP).
He made some very suggestive comments last week about Tesla being the last manufacturer of cars in CA.

I might add, the size of the Austin gigafactory is larger than the size of all Tesla factories in the world combined [1].

I will leave you to do the math if Tesla leaving CA isn't a possibility.

[1] https://electrek.co/2020/07/30/tesla-gigafactory-texas-crazy...
Not to go too off the rails, but they only “contributed to the decline” by being a better option for customers that switched from small businesses in rural areas to Walmart.

A lot of small businesses are bad. Bad hours, bad selection of products, bad customer service, bad prices.

They’re often held up in some idyllic form, but it’s clear from the behavior of their own customers that Walmart provides these customers more value.
As that article, and others on this have pointed out, there are a whole host of reasons why encrypting iCloud data is problematic that have nothing to do with law enforcement. As you have read the article, obviously you must know this very well. In many other areas, they absolutely do encrypt. The fact is encryption sometimes carries down sides, such as an increased risk of users permanently losing access to their data.

Web services companies face a ton of problems operating in China that are really specific to the kinds of services they offer. Apple simply doesn't offer those kinds of services.