skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2) they are wayyyyy too big to police content manually

Oh hell no they aren't too big, they just don't want to reduce their profits from the current 18.5 billion US $ (per https://www.statista.com/statistics/277229/facebooks-annual-...).

If Facebook wanted, they could massively ramp up staffing, hire them themselves, and pay them a livable wage instead of outsourcing the cost that their business occurs on society (who has to pick up the slack from conspiracy myths, fascism and other shit), on the users who are mistakenly banned and lose their primary contact e.g. to overseas family, and on the moderation staff that is hired via third parties and exploited.
ultimately some businesses are going to need to feel the consequences of environmentally unsustainable practices. as another example, there might not be a future for cheap cruise ships that burn bunker fuel.

if it would be truly ruinous to the pilot training pipeline, you could grandfather in the smaller flight schools. my main thought here is that we should not continue to manufacture engines that burn leaded fuel. there's plenty of room to compromise over who gets to continue using engines that already exist.
The difference is those examples don't allow the listener to decide how urgent the matter is.

If my boss tells me something is urgent, by definition it is. If anyone tells me it's an emergency, I drop what I'm doing and help—but it better be a real emergency.

Now, if Mike from Accounting wants to talk urgently, I may not be available because I have my own list of urgent things to tackle. I will try to carve out time and prioritize his request, but I am in no way committed to his personal sense of urgency.
While it is true that blockchains themselves cannot guarantee that they're synchronized with the physical world, they provide an irrevocable digital trail that can be used to punish bad actors, one that is relatively immune to tampering. A lot of the world operates this way—simply signing something under penalty of perjury does not guarantee that it is true, but it can be taken to court if it is later found that you're lying.

A blockchain (not proof-of-work, but permissioned/BFT-based) is pretty clearly the optimal way to have an irrevocable digital trail.
Does this have any protection in case the mosquito in over the skin of a person?
There's definitely an anti-trust dimension here, but it's not related to first mover advantage; Facebook wasn't nearly the first mover, or due to capital; Facebook was somewhat widely thought to have over-paid for Instgram, it was Zuck's foresight (or perhaps risk aversion) that gave him the conviction to proceed with the transaction.
Yeah, but this person will probably get prosecuted and fired; corporate attorneys are probably already on hand and expected to fight these sorts of cases. It’s unlikely that this is too common of a situation.

Compare that to fully digitizing. Will cost many more millions in procurement and training.

There are advantages to digitizing. But until they’re really transformative, conservative industries won’t budge. And they won’t budge until the benefits of going fully digital become so large that a competitor/startup comes along and realizes these benefits and kicks their asses at which point they too need to transform or die.
"Hey are you around? I have a quick question that I need an answer for right away. If you don't reply in the next 5 minutes then no worries, I'll ask Jim next. Anyway here's the question: {...}"
Sounds like you're actively trying to annoy your coworkers, you probably shouldn't do that.
Personally, I always try to give people all the details up-front, but here are some rough situations where I'm likely to give people a very short summary instead of a full verbose request for reasons like you asked about:

If they respond immediately they can save me 30 minutes of work, but if not I'll be done doing it the slow way by the time they get back to me.

I'm making slow progress on a tricky problem. If I write a summary now, it would be theories I'm trying to disprove and evidence that currently seems relevant, but that summary will be less useful and accurate as the situation evolves and I better learn about the issue.

I can be unblocked on this task in three different ways, so I've reached out to three different people. I'll ask for help from whoever responds first.

I don't know if this is going to take me 30 minutes, or 3 days to figure out, but I'll keep working on it until I do. If it's still a problem when you get back to me, I'll ask for help then, but there's a good chance I might have solved it myself by the time you get back to me.

I'm dealing with an outage, and it's very time-sensitive. I don't have time to waste writing stuff up if you're not here to help out right now. If you show up while it's still broken, great! If you show up after the outage is fixed, I don't need your help anymore. I'm not calling you, because if you're not currently at your computer, you probably can't help me in the timeframe I need.
> She is a consumer advocate... and psychotherapist

I guess you would have to be, in that line of work, wouldn't you?
Yes text chat tools have too little engagement.

I worked on a startup called Sococo (still exists; pivoted to be a WebRTC clone) that used a map. You could see each little bobblehead on the map, either in their office, in a conference room, in a break room, with our without their headset on.

You clicked your guy into the room to conference with people in that room. If you didn't want to be bothered, you put your bobblehead into your office and closed the door, maybe took your headset off.

You could see who was in meetings and with whom. You could see them flashing as they talked in turn. You wanted to interrupt somebody, you could knock on their door. They could 'let your in' or chat 'give me a minute' or whatever.

It included chat tools in the rooms, so you could have text side-conversations while the talking was going on.

It was very, very useful. The company that made it, had employees on 3 continents and 7 states. I didn't actually know where my coworkers lived, unless they told me. Yet I could communicate without friction.

I miss the old Sococo.
Every source of emissions is a small amount if you break it down granularly enough. Transportation of people is only ~15% of emissions. Realistically, we need to reduce every major source of emissions.
Perhaps they want to move onto someone else who may be available sooner.
> What have the Swiss ever done for us, in computer science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth
If meta moderators are at the same scale then that’s only 200 meta moderators and only 1 meta meta. The base of a log scaling pyramid is approximately as large as the entire pyramid.
Where's the problem in that? FB makes 18.5 billion $ a year in profit. 250k employees @ 30k would work out to 7.5 billion $ in cost a year, it would hardly leave them bankrupt.

Also, Facebook could offset a part of that cost by charging users a token amount - say, five dollars or something like that.
To muse a bit: a city of 2 billion would need a lot more administrators than just 200 000.

Ofc, Facebook does not provide nowhere near as many services as a city would, but ... it still seems to me that current user:moderator ratio is very obviously insufficient.

In the early 2010s, this sorta worked, because the effects on real world politics were insignificant. Now everyone looks at their fingers and they have a very underinvested infrastructure and no clear idea what to do.
Just remembered: Peter Arnett. He was the only one who had a phone line out from Iraq during the first attacks.
Java bytecode looks a lot like Java, and except for local variable names, Java disassemblers do a pretty good job. Maven also solved this by very strongly encouraging the distribution of source jars. It's very rare that I have issues with missing source code when I use a standard IntelliJ setup.
> I find the idea of Facebook being "necessary" for anyone quite spectacularly laughable.

Facebook may not be necessary, but there is a very high probability it is the only social medium that the majority of your acquaintances & relatives use.

Being forcibly disconnected from humanity is extremely isolating & harsh.
I wish its timestamp type went to nanoseconds.
I'm not convinced that's true. He didn't refer to any specific institutions or subsets of journalists in the quotes I included. Even assuming that he meant to, the examples he cites are CNN, NBC, NYT and WaPo. He also accused editors at The Intercept of censoring him over Hunter Biden stories. That's already a very large group of people to generalize.

He clearly views himself and a handful of others as outsiders, in a crusade against a journalistic profession that he views has wholly corrupted by corporate interests.
Some things to rate next time:

1. "smudge factor" - does this ink dry quickly?
2. "dropped pen on point from distance" - is the pen resilient when dropped on/close its point?
3. "consistency factor over time"- does the pen deliver flow throughout its lifetime?

For #1, the experience is immediately soured if the pen is lifted onto my hand seconds after writing. Some brands have this problem - and it sucks. Ex: if writing quickly in a pocket moleskine, close it, and then open to find lifting on the other page.

For #2, most pens dropped on their head distorts the roller ball action. I've lost a few pens to this problem.

#3 some pens I've had in this list will not last the whole way through - either the ball rolls too much ink, or jams over the lifetime, rendering the remaining experience less than ideal.

I've been journaling for a few years, daily, and always carried a roller pen of various brands. My go to continues to be the uniball vision, which is good, but still is subjected to all above.
Any justice system also has a variety of different judges. Of course in an ideal world there would be perfect consistency, but imperfect consistency would still be a lot better than just letting an algorithm decide. Of course they want something cheap and straightforward, so that's where regulation should step in to make them go against their own interests, in the interest of population at large.
Here are the training sets used for the bot detection tool: https://botometer.osome.iu.edu/bot-repository/datasets.html
You may need to test for confirmation bias. I am sure you and people you know are well behaved and courteous on twitter and social media in general, and so would not trigger any alarms. Have you tried the bot-test on more contentious accounts that you know to be human?
Flattery-Driven Open-Source
100% ;) Still have 99% in crypto. Watch realvision.com instead of reading Twitter or other stuff.

I plan to take 50% out by December, but honestly can't think of anything more valuable than BTC or ETH at the moment. Maybe India ETF.
> Unfortunately, for safety and security reasons, we can’t provide additional information as to why your account was disabled. We appreciate your understanding, as this decision is final. (Facebook team)

Exactly this should be outlawed. Every action of this kind should be accompanied with clear and very specific (including time and date) specification of the reason.

> What kind of %#*& customer service is this that it takes over five months to even try to get ahold of a real human being to help with a problem!!!! This is horrible.

As well as this - not a single banning/unbanning/whatever decision should be automated. An automatic system can only pint to what is suspicious.

> And the unique nature of Facebook makes this type of case impossible to mediate.

It is not unique. And everything has been unique at first anyway. We just need to define and regulate this kind of service.

Nevertheless users who are stupid enough to actually rely on Facebook without having backup communication channels and backup picture storage just have to be educated about this is stupid. Whenever somebody says they want to communicate via the Messenger I don't even consider this because this is just insane, even to install this app is crazy. Sadly, too many people say this nowadays.
Nice try FBI cockwad. But to be objectively-compatible: my party-pass, my nude-photos of J edgar hoover, what more do you need to know? Fucking asshole kind of request.
> You can't leave the pump running outside of the US, the fuel nizzle won't lock.

There might be places where locking nozzles are indeed uncommon, but I don't think you can generalise this to "outside of the US". I'm living outside of the US, but gas stations still commonly have locking nozzles.
The comment is indeed flagged right now, so this intended essentially a private reply: this is just depressing. We literally just saw a clear-as-day incident of political violence in this country, and it was inspired by rhetoric just like the above: general, abstract, yet absolutist remarks that paint the commenter's (and your) enemy as worthy of death for reasons that aren't ever quite elucidated but seem extremely important nonetheless.

We need to stop that. We need to stop it everywhere. Trying to excuse it is just buying into the frame that your enemies are existential threats and not just your neighbors.

Please stop.
Thanks. I haven't seen it, but this looks like it might be the full documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlJkgQZb0VU

Here's the part where the documentary explains how he got all the behind-the-scenes footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlJkgQZb0VU&t=3m58s. TLDR - raw video from remote studios were first beamed via satellite to the Network's HQ for editing and "packaging". But back in those days, people with satellite boxes could intercept and view the raw pre-packaged feeds.
I've been struggling with this concept for a while and I'm not sure would be best. I want to allow people to raise and issue, and then crowdfund a bounty for it. And I think that adding a minimum dollar amount would limit people posting new issues.

But I also don't want the site filled up with $0.00 issues.

If anything, I may do a small minimum. Like $5, so that way every issue has some value to it.

And for #2: I'd like to add in some collaboration features so people could split the bounty if they both worked on the solution.
What's sad / frustrating / predictable is that they had an open API until early 2016 to export contacts. No mistake they shut that down to lock folks to the platform I'm sure...
tldr plz take this very short survey: https://linkto.run/p/SXDD5T38

After reading many of the comments here, it actually seems like most people think there is good enough reason to still use a quick hello (as do I). I’m curious though... so I made the survey. With the result I might just change my ways :)
This. We are being too much overloaded by information and tasks nowadays. There was even a time we take our time just for chatting and it actually felt good.
You'd need a way to indicate when you start and end overwriting the page. You need to avoid the page being swapped out mid-overwrite and not read back in. You'd also pay a penalty for zeroing it when it gets mapped pre-overwrite. The map primitives are just not meant for this.
Yeah they gave me a 4.1/5 on account of not being active enough. Their method is sketchy for sure.
CTO at a non-tech company (~75 people) that's trying to become more technical. On my own for a year, just made my first hire. I choose what I do and set my own deadlines, no-one else in the company has any idea about the stuff I work on (besides for seeing the results.)
It's kinda funny that the Keystone XL Pipeline has been canceled, but the oil will still reach it's destination at a higher cost on trains and with additional damage to the environment from the locomotive diesel engines.
And the JVM was seen as cool from the start, even though there had been various noteworthy bytecode/p-code/etc. virtual machines before it. There were already a few books on JVM coming out. And while the JVM spec was still in draft, Jonathan Meyer had already released an assembler for the it, call Jasmin, and I wrote an Emacs mode for it: https://www.neilvandyke.org/jasmin-emacs/

(I'd been doing some early desktop GUI application development in Java (writing my own widgets, since AWT was too minimal), and I wanted to get into the JVM, to play with implementing some higher-level language features that couldn't necessarily be implemented well in Java. So, of course, the first thing a person needs, before it is possible to start using a language, is an editor mode for it. :)
You are correct, this works. There even is a file system built around this idea: https://github.com/fangfufu/httpdirfs
Who really cares ?

You can openly buy as little as 10 phone pre-verified Facebook logins on the web for less than $20 to use as your own.

I never have "officially" joined Facebook and never will - - I get too much pleasure and smug satisfaction trolling Zuckerberg as it is.

Somebody will create a decentralized "peer to peer" version of Facebook soon enough . . . that's what keeps Zuckerberg up awake at night
I disagree, because putting the whole request in at the outset puts the responsibility on me, even if I'm not available.

Consider the following exchange:

Co-worker: Hi, AA.

Me: Hello.

Co-worker: I need some help, are you available?

Co-worker: Well, I'm actually past my shift, and you probably saw me available because I was reading an email. Can I hit you up in the morning?

Coworker: Sure.

---VS-----

Co-worker: Hi, AA. We have a client with a problem, and I could use your help. Please do X, Y, and Z. Okay thanks, bye.

Next Morning,

Boss: Why hasn't anyone responded to the client yet!?!

Co-worker: Gee, I dunno. I told AA about it hours ago...
The person said "who cares?". This is an issue about people who are still alive and their attitude towards death. What you're saying doesn't apply.
This. Exactly this. It wasn't that Java was a "different" way of doing things in business software that had pros and cons, it was that its adherents thought it was THE way of doing things in business software.
Maybe. The outcome of banning "connectors" typically reduces connectedness between cliques, rather than within cliques themselves. (In graph theory, when a group of people are well connected that share similar interests, we typically call that a clique.)

When people complain that people are increasingly finding themselves in echo chambers, and that "people don't talk to people from the other side," connectedness across the graph is dropping, while connectedness within cliques remains strong or increases.
So the correct conclusion is not necessarily that most climate change skeptics are bots, but rather that climate change skeptics are likely to be characterized by the software as bots. I wonder what else makes you more likely to be characterized as a bot?
This is pretty disturbing tbh. I really can’t believe someone thought it’d be a good idea to make this. I have no confidence that they’re distinguishing between rioters, and media, passerby’s, police, and genuinely non violent people. If you’re someone cheering this on ask yourself how long before it happens at a protest you support, your kids are at, your friends or you. This is a pretty fucked up thing these people made.
Yeah you see programmers do this sort of humble brag all the time, like "I was lazy so I wrote strong AI to do the work for me."
It was on the front page 10-15 minutes after submission, and removed from the front page 2-3 minutes later
A very substantive comment.
> Meaningless blanket generalization and definitely false.

You're just parsing it uncharitably. Saying journalists are authoritarians is like saying turtles are slow. The fact that you can find the occasional turtle with a rocket sled and is thereby not slow doesn't really disprove the general principle.

The context also indicates that he's referring to journalists at specific enumerated publications, in which case it might reasonably refer to the entirety of them if the structure of those institutions is pushing out anyone who isn't.
Slight correction: Legal automatic weapons. It is hard to estimate how many people have or could retrofit semiautomatic weapons into automatic weapons illegally. There are public plans for such modifications floating around the net, and at least some of them actually work, with some guns. And that's not counting the quasi-automatic stuff like bumpstocks or gimmicky 'trigger cranks.'

I once met somebody who wears a lightning link as a pedant around their neck. Probably it wouldn't be compatible with their rifle's receiver, but who knows.
Although currently abstract, I think it's going to be one of the most important ethical questions we face in the future. If we create machines that can suffer, then we've got a profound ethical responsibility to make sure that we avoid this outcome, since the magnitude and duration of that suffering can potentially be much larger than a human's
capacity for suffering.
34-year-old Grizzly bear spotted in Greater Yellowstone area
There was a patch set (introducing the RWF_UNCACHED flag) to get buffered IO with most of the benefits of O_DIRECT and without its drawbacks, but it looks like it hasn't landed.

There also are new options to give the kernel better page cache hints via the new MADV_COLD or MADV_PAGEOUT flags. These ones did land.
Siuba uses type hints to dispatch the appropriate versions of custom functions!

For example, siuba allows users to create custom functions using a thin wrapper around functools.singledispatch.

When deciding how to run...

df >> filter(my_custom_func(_.x))

It requires that the return type be compatible with the backend being run (e.g. pandas, a SQL dialect).

Would be super interesting to try and lay out what would be needed to do static analysis via mypy. I think it'd require some plugins for singledispatch at least, probably some reworking things in ways myoy expects.

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/machow/siuba/blob/master...
The fabrication of trust in various types of dollars
I went from SE to Solutions Architect role. Many big US companies start a "Professional Services" divison where they help other big corps integrating their products.

These roles are, especially now, mostly remote. So it depends, this company wasn't afraid of big numbers and hired me. I get paid 120k Euro per year and 40k in stocks each year.

I have a family and we don't spend more than 3k each month all together. So 120k boils down to around 6.2k each month, plus my wife earns ok as well (teacher).

I know a few CTOs of smaller gompanies who make 120k without stocks.

So for me, that's a decent pay.

So yeah, look for other roles than SE.
> If people could use Alternative X without losing their Facebook/Instagram connections

They can already do that. Using an alternative does not cause someone to lose access to FB.

> There's absolutely no technical reason for everyone to have a separate Facebook/Instagram/Twitter account with dozens of other IM services instead of picking one and communicating with others regardless of what they've picked

This is already a thing.

https://www.pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type=
Many large unions are like small empires and are self serving.
The first electrocardiogram, recorded in 1887
The amount might make a decent difference esp, if you come from a 3rd world country.
> Them being authoritate is their problem.

Well, you're obviously not making good faith arguments. An authoritarian regime with 1 billion subjects and the world's largest intelligence network is definitely not just 'their' problem.
The effectiveness of cryogenics goes way down when you don't freeze yourself.
That is a thin reed to keep holding on to a losing ideological point.