skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The quote “There is a lot of harm being done on Facebook that is not being responded to because it is not considered enough of a PR risk to Facebook,” kind of sums it up!
> For marginally better looks, you pay 10x.

I don't disagree with you, but this in itself is hardly an uncommon thing in any consumer market. What makes it really weird though is how it messes with the economy of getting something out of your investment.
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> This author tries really hard to prove that he didn't say "I ate too many drugs" to the point of absurdity. Who knows what he said? Nobody really. There isn't a reason to conjure reasons to pidgenhole a dead man's words to fit a narrative

Yeah, I don't think anybody can reasonably interpret exactly what Floyd said under the influence of drugs, given the quality of the video. Hearing it two different times I came to two different conclusions, depending on the setup following up the clip. Many people I've asked have heard it both ways too - it's simply too borderline.

> Especially considering one of the two things isnt even factual if you read the autopsy. Floyd definitely was incredibly intoxicated

Exactly. I think the number was something like four times the lethal amount and there is video evidence that he was foaming at the mouth.

In any case, if he said "I ain't do no drugs", it was clearly a lie given the drug dealer in his car (refusing to be a witness) and the high levels of drugs found in his bloodstream - the same type that almost killed him previously. If he said "I ate too many drugs", then it's just an admittance of the state he was clearly in from the evidence seen so far. In any case, I don't see how it helps the prosecution in the Floyd trial.

I'm going to wait out for more evidence of course. In any case, I will be annoyed if after having had the opportunity to present all available evidence and an independent jury has reviewed it - if there are violent protests/riots in reaction to whatever the verdict is.
Maybe I should add, the way I view the 2008 crisis, is that lot of new money were already created by private sector in the asset (housing) bubble, in the form of private debt, and this eventually starved money out of the parts of the economy which really produced something useful.

So the government printing money (QE) was really trying to replace the newly created money with "official" money so that the starved portion of the economy would not end up too victimized. They basically socialized all these private decisions to create more money.

Alternatively, what they could have done, selectively tax the gains from the asset bubble, as taxation without spending actually destroys money, but that's kinda hard to do both politically and technically. Although some selective spending might have been beneficial for the victims (all the poor souls who took on debt during the bubble). That's pretty much standard Keynesian economic policy - to reduce the stalemates between debtors and creditors, by reducing privately created money during the boons, and creating extra money during the busts. However, nobody today really likes taxes and government transfers, so we end up with inflation as a resolution mechanism of choice.
I've lived in both the UK and Texas so I've run the gamut. Honestly I think the roofing situation in the UK is much worse. I've not lived in a property without roofing problems and leaks. Especially considering the weather is so mild here, I think people just leave it too long to replace their roof. I have stayed at a stately home (long story - old building), and the roof was permanently under repair basically cycling under scaffolding.

That being said - Texas has more extreme conditions for roofs which may explain the perception. Sustained winds of 70mph+ can and do happen on a yearly basis - also baseball sized hail and thunderstorms. It's pretty common to see a mild storm in the UK blow off some of the older roofs that probably should have been replaced a few decades earlier.
So this is how UFOs move!
Nuance isn't the problem here. The component Nuance provides (voice to text) works great in Siri. She often understands what words you said and then completely misses their meaning.[0][1][2][3][4]

[0] https://i.redd.it/btg8ky48ka551.jpg

[1] https://i.redd.it/vj4hngj5qip51.jpg

[2] https://i.imgur.com/ugh8LWV.jpg

[3] https://i.imgur.com/Yt8DycO.jpg

[4] https://imgur.com/BANa4XG
I own and have owned several Tesla vehicles

Given that Tesla hasn’t been around for very long, how long do/did your cars last, and why? Just interested, as the average (non-electrical) cars in my family last around 20 years.
1. They're fun

2. No perspiration

3. No physical exertion

4. As already mentioned, good for taking on trains/public transport then using for the last couple of miles.

I'll be getting an e-scooter in London as soon as they're legal.
I've ridden (25 km/h limited) e-bikes and I don't see how they're significantly more dangerous than regular bikes.

The e-bikes I've ridden had much better brakes and wheels than regular bikes too.
The author is asking if you've ever felt like you're meant to do something. He's just talking about being conflicted about something you want. He's not saying that you're somehow pre-alloted a goal.
Iran voluntarily signed up to the treaty and received various benefits for doing so in return for agreeing not to pursuing nuclear weapons capability (same as every other non-nuclear weapons state signatory).
You should schedule a date and time and see what happens.
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I don't see how it disproves my point.
Yeah, the problem is those that are seeing/potentially being manipulated by this are (I would imagine) highly unlikely to use a browser extension or (more likely, in developing nations where Facebook is forcing itself on users through the Internet.org project) on the mobile app anyway
So had Spectre in 1967 https://youtu.be/Dnaorqo6krg
The "out of nowhere" is a bit unfair, since Akon is Senegalese-American and has spent a significant amount of time as a child in Senegal - his father is from Senegal, not sure about his mother:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akon#Early_life

He (and his mother) have been doing philanthrophic work in Senegal for over 10+ years.

All the other things you say make sense of course, but he's not some random person coming to Senegal.
I wouldn't go that far as calling it impossible, but it sure is crufty and quirky seen with modern eyes.

My "favorite" (i.e. most terrifying) BASH fact is this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/121013/how-does-lin...
> You are not a commodity, you are a human being

You know who else talked about the commodification of labour? M- is dragged off stage by angry HN audience

(Seriously, this is an interesting and important discussion to have - the dignity of labour and non-financial values - and it's interesting to watch a number of conflicting arguments made here which have been made loudly and vehemently by various historical figures)
What trips me up (but the article glosses over) is the concept of "the size of a dimension".

How are dimensions larger and smaller? To me, a dimension is usually something you measure in. My height is my extent in the vertical diredction (if standing up). What would it mean for that dimension to be small?

Our 3 spatial dimensions I assume are "large", meaning what? The axes extend to some apparent infinity without repeating? Does a "small" dimension behave like a longitude, that after a certain while it repeats itself? So the two dimensions of a sphere surface are "smaller" than the 2 dimensions of an infinite plane, is that how to interpret the small/large? So [the surface of] an infinitely long but finitely thick cylinder would have one large (along) and one small (around) dimension? Is "small" then always finite, but large can be large-but-finite or inifinte?
Better headline: ex employee thinks there are too many fake Facebook pages accounts
> the only natural way to work with the native way that SQL databases express writes - in-place updates to rows - is with a model that represents them as in-place updates

I strongly disagree with this for a few reasons. I actually think the command-oriented way is makes the most sense. The problem with in place updates is that:

- Your queries aren't views. What you queried out of the DB is a snapshot of what is in there. It may already be different.
- The way you interact with a DB is command based. If you want to update a row that is a command that may fail.

The only way I feel that using mutable data would make sense is if you had some sort of 2-way syncing. But those are notoriously difficult to get right even without network trips in the middle.
I suspected the headline was sensationalist but on reading the article, I would say it isn't, and the headline is correct.

It has examples of the campaigns of national political parties of different nations (hence world leaders) using a loophole that facebook pages can do certain things facebook accounts can't to boost their engagement and/or avoid the scrutiny an account would get.

It also has a really good non-techy breakdown explaining how it works. I think it's HTML5? Having read it, I would say it's a really good piece of journalism.
Presumably

A) They don't want to play economic ball with Uncle Sam.

B) The country can't be conquered by conventional means so can "act out" as much as they like.

C) They aren't really that bad, US propaganda is just really, really effective.
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So, you think breaching a contract isn’t illegal, yet people can go to court and win?

What rules do you think courts use to make judgements?
I have no idea why cars are so vulnerable but it is possible to achieve a pretty high level of protection in electronic components. Have a ROM that verifies the integrity of the Flash memory for example. I just found a patent for that even though it's sort of trivial. Overriding ROM is theoretically possible but can be a very costly operation.

In hacks, it's always about the costs. Make the device cheap enough to make the hack expensive enough to discourage theft.
Ah yeah me to only realised that you could animate them while writing the comment above.

I think that we should define a book as something that you can use only with your eyes.

If I bought a book and I would need to use headphones to "read" all the content in it I would feel a bit defrauded.
Just adding another option to the mix: https://blot.im. I've been using Blot for years. I write/edit in iA Writer on mobile and upload via the git option using Working Copy. You can use git or Dropbox with Blot.
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All of that for two very non-specific paragraphs about the experiment.
The lesson for me is that this particular problem is exceptionally well suited for imperative code, and makes functional code look terrible in comparison. It's not just the "Python-likes" that do well: both the C and C++ code (C++ in particular) are very straightforward, simple and very readable, but any functional language solution that uses reduce or whatever looks terrible in comparison.

The striking example is the JavaScript one: the simple imperative solution (for_of.js) is perfectly fine and lovely, but the other ones (map_with_state.js in particular) are total nightmares. Most of them are (almost certainly) significantly less performant than the simple imperative ones.

Not all problems are like this, of course, there are many examples where functional style code shines. But certainly there are many problems like this one, where imperative code is just the superior paradigm.
It doesn't have to be rational. I get anxious doing the most trivial things that people do thousands of times every day: talking on the phone, going the supermarket, even sending emails. It is awful and seems to get worse (and less reasonable) the older I get.
The Guardian has more coverage in this article, which was published at the same time:

"How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower's account" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/12/facebook-...

It's interesting how Guy Rosen, a co-founder of the spyware company Onavo, is now Facebook's "vice-president of integrity":

> Facebook had “moved slower than we’d like because of prioritization” on the Honduras case, Rosen wrote. “It’s a bummer that it’s back and I’m excited to learn from this and better understand what we need to do systematically,” he added. But he also chastised her for making a public complaint, saying: “My concern is that threads like this can undermine the people that get up in the morning and do their absolute best to try to figure out how to spend the finite time and energy we all have and put their heart and soul into it.”

> Rosen had joined Facebook in 2013, when the company acquired his startup, Onavo, a mobile web analytics company that Facebook would go on to use to track usage of rival apps.

Details on Onavo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo
> A contract cannot compel any action - it is an agreement on what is expected and the cost of non-compliance.

Every part of this sentence before and after “it is an agreement on what is expected” is incorrect. A contract may lay out consequences of noncompliance, but it is contract law, not the terms of the contract that will set the actual consequences; those set in the contract are valid in only limited circumstances, and only then if their amount is appropriate under the law. And the manner of enforcement may be too compel performance of the obligations in the contract, see the remedy called “specific performance”.
After I read your comment the second time 5 minutes later, I had a realization (?): Are you actually being sarcastic? (That would explain the downvotes too. And your username.)
>I do wish Apple had worked on optimising macOS for older hardware more. They claim they do or did, but I never noticed this in the later mountain named versions.

Well, they did several things.

One of those was compressed memory at the OS level.

Another was a new, more optimized for SSDs, filesystem.
For starters, because it's "might makes right" and double blatant standards all the way down.

Nothing particularly unique, for almost any empire in history has operated worked that way. Just as almost any empire eventually had to resort to increasingly more covert, corrupt and criminal enterprises to support itself. At some point, it inevitably will all come crashing down.

In the case of America, several generation will ask themselves how they could have been so dumb to let it get that far. No entirely fair, because their parents didn't really have the power to influence (let alone stop) any of it. Not without completely destroying the same system that also supported their way of life. Many people in the Soviet Union at some point knew at some point that the system was doomed, but nobody know how to change that reality for the better.

A lot can be learned from reading books written by Russians, about the collapse of the Soviet Union. Or books by Germans, after the end of World War II.

In fairness, it's hard to blame current day Americans for not clearly seeing what's going on, considering the level of cultural, institutionalized and commercial brainwashing (including deliberate division and diversion) that has been part of every aspect of life there, for decades (if not a century).

Still, there will come a day that Americans will have a rude awakening about reality and how those who run their country (be that government or private interests) have ruined their future and well being for a long time to come, just as the Russians and Germans once had.
Bicycles are also safer, because the first-time or casual rider doesn't zoom at 15 mph on walk paths. And I really doubt scooters can break as well as a decent bike.
A, you mean his answer. Yep.
but that is also from same person so I guess they know if it would be improved or not by that technique.
If it is not a programming language, you cannot do everything you can possibly think of and you would be restricted.

But people _want_ to do what they have in mind, so they will work around the tool in some way. Either by employing a mechanism to still make the tool do what they want (e.g. macros in Excel) or by using another tool that fills the gap. In case 1 you now have the worst of both worlds and in case 2 you now have X tools with all the problems that a zoo of tools brings.

If, on the other hand, you _can_ describe every business rule that you can think of in that tool, then it _is_ a programming language. There is no requirement for a programming language to use text. See scratch lang for example.
> It is only illegal if you signed the nuclear non prolifiration treaty.

Which Iran did.
Dead how? I find forestry with integrated cloudinary for asset hosting a really decent solution.
>3. Sugar - obesity

Also diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, tooth decay, depression... The list goes on.

You can consume sugar, be skinny and still be unhealthy.

Sugar is probably worse than Corona and we're doing nothing about it.
> - smarter call handling - I think there could be smarter blocking. But I also wonder could your phone take a message and put it through if it meets conditions?

https://www.hackers-game.com/2020/09/08/robocalls-fight-bots...
> the complexity of a problem like this, algorithmically, legally and ethically.

I disagree with the framing of this as "complexity" when it's really "Facebook's profits would be reduced/Facebook's business model would be compromised".

The complexity comes from Facebook's goal of maximising profits within the permitted algorithmic and legal space.
As an aside, there are also ISO B and C series paper, although I believe that the C standard was withdrawn somewhat recently. The area of B_n is the geometric mean of that of A_n and A_{n-1}, while the area of C_n is the geometric mean of that of A_n and B_n. Without context, C4 paper sounds quite scary, until you realize it's probably related to A4 paper in some way. As to why it isn't just called A3.75, I have no idea.
> that it’s reasonably trusted by average people (perhaps unlike signing a contract everytime you wanted to purchase a piece of a creator - coins gamify it), and it’s easy to setup trust systems

This is absolutely backwards though; the contract is enforcible, whereas the coin isn't. If Alex simply chooses not to pay back his investors, nothing happens other than a loss of face.

> it’s lightly regulated and has hype

Exactly.
Well, one answer to that is when the lives saved by nuclear balance out the lives cost by fossil fuels. Nuclear currently has a rate of 0.07 deaths per terawatt-hour. Coal has a rate of 24.6 deaths per terawatt-hour. If fully replacing coal with nuclear required making nuclear a hundred times more dangerous than it is now it would still be completely justified.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Seems appropriate that there is one for Lauterbrunnen - the real life influence for Rivendell:

https://middleearthsmaps.com/products/lauterbrunnen-switzerl...
Is your point that there is no such thing as "me"? Because I've tried meditating on that thought and it hasn't really helped. I think, therefore I am after all.
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I understand your point, but I have MSFT shares, I win, if Microsoft wins.. My point is I and many others profit from the status quo. If anything, I would want that 40% tax reduced and the surplus invested in shares, such as MSFT..

Not saying it's an ideal situation..
> I recently learned(1) that when you When you write if [ -e /etc/passwd ]; then .. that bracket is not shell syntax but just a regular command with a funny name.

That’s how it used to be. Nowadays, most of the time it is a built-in, not it‘s own executable anymore.
> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

And for my sibling comment:

> If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wouldn’t call that a “rendition”. A “cover” or ”remake” would be a better term; it takes some liberties with the source material. Compare it to (one of) the original music:

https://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/media/Oakvalley/soamc/000/MP3/...
I think this is perhaps only a repository for keeping things or approaches, which has surfaced here, because of the fame of the author.

The results and code might be rather individual preferences or ad-hoc solutions to typical problems. The data in the example does not require a lot of recursion to be elegantly processed. It is too simple an example for that.

The second aspect is, that the example code might have different priorities than the viewer. If I want to process a tree concurrently on multiple cores, then perhaps I should not be using much mutable state. However, if my priority is not concurrency and multi-core, then perhaps I can write it in very little code in Python and similar languages. When my priorities shift to concurrency and multi-core and lets say I got a deeply nested tree, I might have to adapt all these examples and suddenly the FP languages shine.
"Now, if said spy agencies TOOK our data - that's a different issue altogether..."
Let me give you some more context rather than this shitty throwaway cynicism. This is an issue that the employee thought was important enough to share that she had to give up almost $70k in severance. https://twitter.com/szhang_ds/status/1381518041737949185?s=2...
I spent a decade or so of my life writing assembly, and a few years as a performance specialist for a programming team. What you're describing is a specialist skill. There's nothing wrong with it - it's a good skill to have - but there is no need to have everybody in the team have it, and you can expect better results by having some people develop that skill and other people develop other skills.
I agree with this article 100%. In my opinion, Elon Musk is a privileged man who by luck met with some of the great technological visionaries of our time, a.k.a. paypal mafia.

Nobody talks about it, but it is easy to find under-appreciated technologies and invest in them if you are rich and well connected. The unique quality of Elon Musk is that he is willing to bet on extremely risky ventures. There is nothing visionary about electric cars or space ships in our age. As the article mentions, both ventures had investors and smart people working on the area long before Elon Musk was interested in those. Elon's action was not a gambit, it was gamble. Elon got successful thanks to the zeitgeist.

The climate change, China's consolidation of global production forced the US' hand to invest in the success of Tesla and SpaceX. Elon has a lot of friends who is well-connected within the government, and he is well-connected in the business world. His past success as PayPal's co-founder has also helped him to secure funding and gave him clout. Since the US desperately needed to show that the American dream is still alive, Elon Musk became the poster child of the new America. He wasn't sophisticated enough to fit the role, so he became a meme instead.
I'd recommend Milvus. There are plenty of use cases you can find on their Medium blogs: https://blog.milvus.io.
What's a decent replacement shell? Sometimes I think there should be one, with all backwards compatibility for if/looping thrown out, but still adhering to the core concept of mostly being made of a handful of builtins and otherwise executing commands (i.e., without having to type system("") or exec("") etc. to execute commands).
Security is not the same as anonymity.

Altough you have torsocks, tor, tor-browser and i2pd in ports in order to try.

I didnt try i2pd yet, tho.
as long as MS continues to sell an offline on device version of Dragon (Naturally Speaking) in the future, I can agree. But otherwise I'm stuck on Pro Individual 15