skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Greenwald has been writing about what an terrible enabler of the survellience state Nancy Pelosi was for almost 15 years. She hasn't changed her opinions much in that time.

And to be fair, the Democratic Party, while mostly still tethered to consensus reality, would be a center-right party in pretty much every country in Europe.
I read some of his stuff back then and remember thinking that was being an illogical contrarian. He didn't break much news at all but rather layered lots of opinions that I didn't think we're well supported by facts.
There's an even better reason for databases to not write to memory mapped pages: Pages get synched out to disk at the kernel's leisure. This can be ok for a cache but it's definitely not what you want for a database!
Cool, thanks much. I'll find the link.
Many of the commenters here need to learn how to take a few deep breaths and not take it so seriously. Not everyone is going to communicate the way you want and that’s fine.
>Democracy + Capitalism was supposed to bring freedom to the world.. instead it bought domination

I would say
Democracy + Capitalism was supposed to bring freedom to the world.. instead it was used to bring domination.
I don't think it had to happen that way because of some endemic property of Democracy and Capitalism. The same goes for other ideologies as well. And who is to say they were used to bring more domination than any other timeline which used other ideological frameworks?
No. For the sender, yeah, time and effort is the same (or even less, as it saves hitting carriage return/newline once), which makes it more infuriating.

Because for the recipient there is an extra latency of several seconds after the useless "hi" message during which he cannot sensibly continue with his current task (switching cost), but cannot quickly resolve the interrupt either, because it is unclear what the issue is.
I discovered the effect all by myself. I noticed that I could deliberately make my face beet red (as a ginger, the effect was quite drastic). It was hilarious to my peers, but I was always the wild one, so it was a spectator activity for them. One day, I clenched too hard, or too long, passed out, and fell to the ground. I got up quick as I could, brushed it off... but never did it again.

So in a sense, yeah, I'd bet that kids have been doing this "forever." OTOH, what's missing from my story is the peer pressure (albeit their amusement encouraging me) and the network effect. Social media can transmit memetic disease faster than we've ever seen. Is social media to blame for this behavior? Hell no. Does social media aggravate the situation? Without question.
The US isn't Europe, and in the US, law enforcement has undue influence in government and significant lobbying power. PBAs successfully lobbied to keep marijuana illegal all over the country, and it took public referendums to get it legalized in states that it is legal in. Even then, PBAs had undue influence in crafting legislation so that municipal police could still ticket and jail people in order to still generate revenue from marijuana possession and sale violations.
> Mars in your lifetime is implausible,

Do you say that to mean 'anyone living's lifetime', or on the assumption that GP was alive for the 'moon landing 51.5 years ago' mentioned?
> There is no indication that Swiss Government at the high level was aware. Intelligence agencies were aware.

I'm not seeing how

1. Swiss intelligence is somehow distinct from the Swiss government.

2. this mitigates the risk I described.
Some people say they don’t fear death because they think it makes them sound brave.

So I don’t usually believe what people say about themselves on this topic. Unless they’re quite old or lived through cancer or some similar situation where they had to confront their mortality, I won’t assume they know how they truly feel about their death. It’s just an idea when expressed with words, and simply thinking about it may not evoke real emotions.
ASCII a Human
How's the performance? I'm certainly willing to give up a little computational performance for being able to write my code faster.
> 2) they are wayyyyy too big to police content manually

To be more exact: they do not want to spend money on competent policing. They probably have capability to employ ten times as many human moderators as they do now, thus reducing the blatant error rate (at least in the case of highly influential pages and people), but that would eat into their profits.
Correct. A lot of millennials have a warped view of power. Greenwald is very gen-x: skeptical, questioning authority, seeking out the organic and real ("i listen to 'alternative' music, dude"). Millennial culture is heavily trusting, self-righteous and therefore heavily media influenced. Fertile ground for authoritarian regimes and corruption. The right defends the Kushners, the left defends the Bidens, everyone loses.
Mastadon is federated, so you can be banned from someone else's instance but you can always start your own instance, or join one where you're not banned.
Any single centralised database performs that function though, since supply chains are emphatically not trustless and there's no more guarantee updates to a blockchain corresponds to actual changes to the physical goods. "What if the party that manages the database reverts data entered?" is really quite low on the list of risks involved in transferring goods of value between multiple independent parties, ensuring all contractual and legal requirements have been met and paying separately, and anyone given read access to a centralised database can identify edits anyway.
It's not an elephant in the room if we're actively talking about it.

For someone who claims to want a conversation, you're doing a good job of insulting me repeatedly without actually discussing anything relevant to this post.
Ban reasons also include making a Facebook account just for the Quest and not using it for anything else.
I don't often upvote memes on this site... but this got an audible laugh out of me
Or the current cohort of climate-change policies are deeply unpopular, including among the educated and well-informed.

There are climate-change policies that are not deeply unpopular but it seems the powers that be are not interested in them.
I think preventing FB from buying competitors is perfectly reasonable, but that doesn't really mean much with respect to FB's popularity. It's not as if users have to choose "should I use FB or instagram" they can and do use both, and that would still be possible whether FB owned instagram or not.
People have odd expectations that their new neighborhoods should fit them and not the other way around. I’m reminded of a situation in New York City where a couple moved into a fancy new apartment building next to an active train yard and then proceeded to sue for noise because the train yard was 24/7.

Do due diligence before picking a place to live, folks.
Them: Hi!
Me: (thinks) Aww, how nice! I am thinking about you too, random coworker!

Later when I see the coworker in person...

Me: I got your "Hi!". So Hi! back!
Them: I had a question. Why didn't you respond?
Me: I wanted to say "Hi!" in person! I guess your question got lost, I never saw it.
Banking secrecy was removed due to peer pressure from EU and US, which together form a majority of exports for Switzerland. They just did make keeping the secrecy extremely costly in form of import tariffs on Swiss goods.

Originally intended as a fine example of government actually caring about privacy of its own citizens, then heavily misused by local and international banks, it just stopped making sense anymore at one point. Its still somewhat valid for its own citizens and AFAIK residents.

Banking together is cca 12% of Swiss economy, so the fantasy of some folks who read let's say alternative news about Switzerland ruining itself by losing banking secrecy didn't pan out. Swiss economy is much more reliant on tons of small/medium high quality manufacturing companies, or tourism rather than banking.
It's notable that the US local news landscape is dominated by the Sinclair media group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo
And some of the same people who cheered on the Patriot Act and called Snowden a traitor are now getting swept up by government surveillance, after they committed serious crimes.
Still cannot look at an embedded .webm on my iPad in Firefox.
> There are modern piston aircraft engines that not only run fine on unleaded fuel [1], but are even certified to run on standard automotive fuel ("Mogas").

Note that mogas is not necessarily the same as what one gets at a car gas station, called pump gas by some:

> Automotive fuel from the pump is NOT the same everywhere you go. There are summer blends, winter blends, geographical blends within the seasonal changes, varying levels and types of oxygenates (not just ethanol) and when tanks are switched over a mixture of "in between". The pump labeling is accurate for octane, and in some parts of the world, the maximum percentage of ethanol. It doesn't tell you everything you need to know to make "pump gas" fit-for-purpose for aviation and it's not just about octane and ethanol. We need to control a wider range of fuel properties for aviation. Your equipment, your life and the lives of your passengers depend on it. Let's walk through exactly what Lycoming did in authorizing automotive gasoline - "mogas" - for our engines. It's also suggested that you read Section B of the latest revision to Lycoming Service Instruction 1070 - and read it carefully.

* https://www.lycoming.com/content/unleaded-fuels-part-2
A lot of businesses in the developing world just use messaging apps for effectively the same purpose. You don't need FB.
> Absolutely, but it's still polite to schedule the synchronous call via async.

Maybe this is a failing on my part, but I'm having a hard time understanding how these:

> × "Hello, are you around?"

> × "hi sophie - quick question."

> × "You got a sec?"

(specifically the first and last of these) aren't a form of urgent scheduling. At the very least, the last one is unambiguously asking if there's immediate availability, which generally implies urgency of some form.
Preaching to the choir lol. I've always hated tech companies with misspelled names. Lyft, KoFi, Flickr, etc.

But the .com domain was $9.00! And that was enough for me.

Also your comment is now the #3 result when I google "rysolv". Congratulations!
That drives me bananas too. I had some minor luck by positively calling out people who did provide great details. I’d send a message out to a wider group copying the original request, pointing out what was so good and saying how much time they’d saved us. Also how much effective cost was saved. I’d include a supervisor if possible.

I tried to be really nice about it and was floored by how surprised some people were that those base level details made any difference at all.
It's not that the individual atoms didn't exist before they joined, but it's that they start oscillating in unison with each other in a pattern that emerges purely from wave interactions.

Nature settles into the most stable patterns of oscillation it can find, even without anything "causing that". To fully understand this kind of emergence you need to realize even the following video is in the same category of phenomenology called "emergence":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5eBf2KwF8

Atoms themselves "emerge" from probability waves, not the other way around.

On a wild tangent: I believe all emergent patterns represent "negative entropy" so I claim this disproves the Second Law of Thermodynamics, because it fails to take into account (i.e. quantify) "pattern-ness" or "order" in systems. Total entropy of the universe maybe doesn't increase but remains at zero, where the order perfectly counterbalances the randomness. Since there's no way to "measure" order in a system, the Second Law remains somewhat philosophical despite it being consistent with 'gross averages' measurements like temperatures, pressures, volumes, etc., in classical systems for which essentially only one side of the equation can be quantified.
That criteria was always meant to be political in nature.
Probably by real bots. Wish there was a study on what percentage of bot accusations are bot to meat, bot to bot, etc.
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I'm aware of this motivation, and it's the reason that I deliberately delay responding to "hey" messages. If I don't know what you want, then I also don't know whether I have time to think about it right now. It's a bit of an arms race.
> What I think would be a nice approach would be someone creating a new Dataframe class that merely inherits from a Pandas dataframe but just implementing .filter(), .summarise(), .select() etc. as methods, using the dplyr syntax. If they return their own dataframes then chaining follows naturally.
> I know that isn't how dplyr works, but it feels more Pythonic, and this solution isn't entirely analogous to dplyr anyway.

I think I agree. Pandas has a lot of overhead/baggage that I don't want 90% of the time. Being able to chain _simple_ verbs on a data frame would be great -- something like mtcars.groupby(cyl).summarize(avg_hp = hp.mean())
PostgreSQL has two main challenges with direct I/O. The basic one is that it adversely impacts portability, as mentioned, and is complicated in implementation because file system behavior under direct I/O is not always consistent.

The bigger challenge is that PostgreSQL is not architected like a database engine designed to use direct I/O effectively. Adding even the most rudimentary support will be a massive code change and implementation effort, and the end result won't be comparable to what you would expect from a modern database kernel designed to use direct I/O. This raises questions about return on investment.
Ya, thanks to FB, VR in the mainstream is effectively dead.
The numbers are off. You can't have votes be your basis in how many people took the test ( I didn't vote for example) and you can't have the amount of 8/10 comments be a metric for the sole count of people who scored that much. The numerical game can't be played here because the information is too cloudy.

That being said, anecdotally a good number of people got 8/10, 9/10 and 10/10 which anecdotally makes it likely to be statistically significant. Hard to say quantitatively but we can make a qualitative prediction here.
There is a long history of presidentially-appointed people saying they "serve at the pleasure of the President." It simply means that they hold the job only so long as the president wants them there.

This has extended "serving" to broader, more casual usage when speaking about people who work for the president as you can see here. It's not "serving" like working as a servant/a billionaire doing whatever the president says in a controlling/exploitative way, it just means that Larry King thinks that Ted Turner wouldn't turn down a cabinet appointment.

You can also infer from the way King says that "what's he got left in life to gain," and Clinton's surprised "you're kidding," that they both consider this kind of service to be a major downgrade from the billionaire life - King saying here that Ted Turner has nothing left to gain indicates a separation in his mind between personal gain and working for the Clinton administration. Clinton's surprised response tells us he feels the same way, surprise that a billionaire would want to work for the president.
I'm a heretic and you can e-mail me about it if you want
That’s what made it appear fake. Every republican protest recently has dozens of people carrying rifles. Why would it make sense for them not to do this when they are invading the capitol? It doesn’t add up. It’s almost as if they were not planning to really do anything except cause a diversion.
Easy. Don't use Facebook. Problem solved.
The thing is, as mean as this may sound, sometimes whether I'm available for a synchronous conversation entirely depends on what's being asked.

Is a customer pissed off, or something crashing? Of course I'm available. If it's "what do you think about this feature a minor customer asked for", I'm more than happy to answer it, but I'm not going to drop whatever I'm doing to answer it right now.

When you just say "hello" and wait for a response, it prevents me from taking the seriousness of the request into consideration.
Unfortunately, there are no simple or direct instructions to follow in the article - just hints.
Maybe second after "Build your own Twitter"
I agree completely that “increase profits” was a goal for the clinics, but I mean something a little different by incentive. I mean “a behavior that is being encouraged or rewarded by others.”

You are asserting that the government’s policy was sufficiently specific regarding “medical necessity” that would clearly show these claims would not qualify. If that were the case, then the government itself should not have paid out those claims in the first place. The fact that they did pay the claims (at least until someone blew a whistle) suggests either that their policy was vague enough to not be so enforceable, or that their review and enforcement was lax (or both).

That’s my point - if the policy and enforcement had been clear from the get go this wouldn’t have been so big a deal. One or two bad apples try something and get sanctioned and the whole thing stops being an incentive to bad actors.

We agree that something changed in the situation such that this is no longer occurring, right? What was that change, and why was it not so in the first place?
I read somewhere (?) that firecracker has poorer io performance than KVM/qemu. Is that still the case, or has it been fixed?
Well I think Google is a better choice than FB, but I can't think of any services I use where one or both of those are the only options and email signup isn't.

The only one that comes to mind (and that annoyed me the other day) is ProductHunt, which has 4 options for signup, but not email.
We research this stuff - a lot of nation-state and financed activity is farms of low-paid people assisted by software running multiple and shared accounts. Misinfo analysts (including ML tools) can suspect this bc the accounts clock in & clock out and follow a talking points script. Except bc a low paid person is adding a human touch, account abuse teams see it and do nothing due to uncertainty, despite being against TOS.

Sometimes it is more obvious. People had MAGA campaign apps that lets Trump's team remotely activate otherwise-legit social media accounts. So the account is real, but popular messages were bot behavior. Twitter is even less likely to want to take down such an account, despite the prohibited behavior.
by moving to live aboard a sailing boat, and thanks to the golden rule you very soon must put into practice:

"for every item that comes into your boat, something else should go out in turn"
I tried to read the paper but I need to pay €45 for it. Thanks but no thanks.
This is an annoying way to ask a question, but it makes sense for answering one. ("Hey dkarl, can you reach out to so-and-so; he needs some help with the plagtron events tables.") If you're there right now, we can chat for a few seconds so I can clarify your question and give you exactly the information you need. If you're not there, I'm going to spend twenty minutes writing something comprehensive, especially if we're in different time zones and your day tomorrow will start six hours before mine.

Sometimes it's good to default to a comprehensive write-up if it will be useful for a long time to multiple people, but it can be a bit wasteful if you write up a thorough description of a relational schema and it turns out they just wanted to know why there was a particular index on a particular table.
sounds like the ones i get when i register a domain.
OMG! Thank you for this. I've disliked Java for years but really couldn't put into words exactly why. Reading you comment I started thinking about all the time I wasted chasing down error messages that were spread across 7 different classes. And working with TLS in Java? Nightmares abound!
+1 you're not alone; seconding the request -- and esp the kudos/praise for Julia, one of my "secret heroes"
Savants are mentally impaired people with unusual abilities perfect memory and calculator-like ability to compute math operations, etc. Calling people mentally disabled is not a compliment.

Then, anatomically modern humans did not start expanding millions of years ago. And most species do not have an innate fear of humans.

Pretty much everything you said is a bunch of nonsense. I regret having read that. Clearly the educational system failed you. I do not have an agenda. Preserving the environment is not a political agenda (or at least, it should not be), it is an extension of our survival instinct. Just like food security is not treated as a politically charged topic because everyone can agree that they need food.
Now there's too much carbon greenhouse gas spew because of all the global shipping.
Shut it down. Buy and make local.
It costs $100,000 to defend, so you buy a licence for $10,000
It is easy to file, these trolls self file for peanuts and accumulate licencees...
> it's cool that it exists at all, but I don't think it would be some enormous injustice to price a few more people out.

Except for all the flight schools that are part of the pipeline for training pilots. A lot of smaller shops use airplanes from many decades ago, and mandating that they swap in a new engine (at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars) for each plane (in their fleet), could be ruinous.
That's a blanket statement and Greenwald is still connecting a lot of unconnected dots and then adding a completely subjective assertion on top of it. Obviously there was a ton of reporting on the spread of disinformation, hate speech and even foreign sock puppeting on social media because it was all 100% true.

If you want to blame "journalists" or "the media" then blame Greenwald too because he's one of them. Otherwise you have to acknowledge there was wide range of public and professional opinion. And that social media orgs have all done what they felt they had to do to protect their businesses bottom lines.

Greenwald left The Intercept because his editors had the audacity to ask for edits. That's like living in a Gestapo prison as far as he's concerned. So his absolutely paranoid belief that journalistic authoritarianism is directly to blame for private companies taking action to hide incitement to armed revolution is just far-fetched to me.
One of the more amusing cultural intersections I've seen is Larry King on Snoop Dogg's YouTube channel... though I guess given the latter's collaborations with Martha Stewart it shouldn't be _that_ surprising. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8awqtaD3LAI
Right, just like how you can start your own website if you get banned from someone else's, it's servers all the way down. The people complaining about being banned don't care that they can create their own instance, they care about losing access to the popular instance.
But... you are not a bot. So the result is arguably right?
Update: I've just discovered I am not alone. Turns out Hannibal Hamlin, Abraham Lincoln's V.P., is just as dead/not in existence on my roof. This is very disconcerting and I hope there are no more ghosts like this in my vicinity.
That is a great site.

Many years ago, my father, a mathematician, gave me a well-worn copy of the book "Thinking With a Pencil." I still have it and, even though I have internalized much of it over time, I sometimes still refer to it when drawing storyboards for UX scenarios.

I just discovered that it has been re-published:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1413805.Thinking_With_a_...
I deleted my Facebook in July 2019 and my business still runs. So, for me, it was neither water nor air.

I am not so sure about candidates for public offices, though. Especially in majority voting systems. Not having a social network presence may be crippling for their electability.
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I believe breaking into the capitol building is also illegal so I fail to see why people who are already breaking one law would care about the others