skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think misinformation and conspiracy theories on these platforms are a huge problem. A few years ago, some bad actors were successful in convincing Congress of a crazy conspiracy theory that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The results were far-reaching. The US violated the UN charter and launched a disastrous war in Iraq where millions of Iraqis were killed, injured and displaced. They used a platform called The New York Times to spread their lies.

All of the problems of Facebook and social media are just problems of the media in general. Misinformation? Conspiracies? Social comparison? Outrage-driven content? Body image issues? All rampant in the mainstream press, but no journalists are calling for regulation of their industry.

If you were to propose federal regulation of the New York Times, journalists would object and talk about the first amendment, the 4th estate and the need for a free and independent press. It's an elitist double standard with content controls for the masses and first amendment rights for the graduates of Princeton and Columbia with jobs at prestigious publications.
Surely you can't believe that this will be as effective as stopping someone...
Carvana is a multi-generational loan scam spanning 3 Ernest Garcias and at least four companies.

[1] https://medium.com/swlh/reminder-carvana-sells-debt-not-cars...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/carvanas-success-rides-on-used-...
To quote Matt Levine, “everything is securities fraud”. If FB is representing to the public that they are doing better than they actually are on fighting these issues, and the truth damages their share price, then they have committed securities fraud and will be sued by shareholders.
iPhones are getting less private as the years go on. I wonder what will happen to Apple's privacy policy when Tim Cook kicks the bucket.

Use a deGoogled OS such as Calyx, Lineage and Copperhead. Don't install GMS and you won't have these issues.
Some people forcibly entered the Capitol to protest during Justice Kavanaugh’s nomination. A few people got arrested. Life went on.

Personally, I think the mortal fear politically active leftists have of any sign of opposition, no matter how trivial, speaks volumes about how they feel about their own position.
Our bodies act as generation ships for our micro biome to explore the stars.
Huh? Maybe you're not understanding that a Y towing a Y is netting you fewer total miles in the long run than just driving a single Y. There's no reason to do what you're proposing.

A simple exercise to prove this to yourself: if you have a full Y and an empty one, how much range do you get when towing the empty one in Regen mode? It's less than half of the full range. And when you switch to the one that had been towed? Yup, less than half your full range.
Off brand chargers are probably more of a concern than the actual cable. There are some really shoddy ones out there.
I think it's pretty obvious to anyone familiar with US history that the seeds of these "culture wars" started in the '60s with the hippie movement. While I wasn't old enough, I know several older liberals who talked about Reagan the way many younger liberals talk about Trump (and probably worse!), and older conservatives who talked about Carter similarly to how younger conservatives talk about Obama. Reagan was known as the Teflon President because none of the gaffes he made could ever stick to him and he remained quite popular throughout his rule.

The problem is, the internet, the web, and now social media has accelerated this divisiveness to a whole new point. As the GP says, it's an accelerant. Like a small cooking fire can turn nasty with the addition of gas, the acceleration of the culture wars thanks to the winner-take-all outcomes of today mean that everything is getting more heated _faster_.

EDIT: While I know it's faux pas, I am curious where/why the downvotes are coming (from) simply because this seems fairly non-controversial, and also because it started out with a few upvotes first.
I don't have any psychiatric education, but from what I've read written by actual psychiatrists, avoiding any mentions of traumatic experience or anything that could remind of it, forever - is not considered the best way to handle the problem. Of course, there could be people that are so severely affected that any mention of the subject is intolerable to them - but I feel like for most people "trigger warnings" rather function as establishing the norm - that some things should "trigger" them and if they don't maybe there's something wrong with them. If this is the case, I can see how it could be counter-productive.
Doesn't have to be like that, though!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNnRLD17Uh8

Perfectly safe for enslaved workers, btw.! :-)
Have you rented a truck with Uhaul recently? You can actually do the entire return process on your phone.
His Twitter account is suspended. Last time it wasn't.
Not very, barring some ridiculous chinese knock-offs.
Normally low power cable wouldn't be able to negotiate more power than what it is rated for.
Australia has specific laws to stop the abuse of tax avoidance [1]. While at a high level they seem reasonable they haven't resulted in us getting the desired amount of income from multinationals [2]. The article I linked relates to big tech though, and maybe that's a separate argument when very little of the innovation happens in Australia, mostly just sales.

[1] https://www.ato.gov.au/general/tax-and-corporate-australia/a...
[2] https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/tech-giants-pay-reco...

DISCLAIMER: Not a tax expert
Innovating is hard. Companies get attached to existing revenue streams. That's the classic innovator's dilemma.

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46
It’s not the same industry, but I wonder if there’s a way to make low volume freight shipping cheaper.

There’s been a few things I almost bought if it weren’t for the fact it costs 10X more to ship than to to purchase the item, often for things I was shocked to hear were too big for parcel shipping. I even had people offering to let me use their docks and the shipping was way to much.
If Discord ever did need to become ad-supported (not that I ever want it to!!), it could actually strike an interesting middle ground.

Facebook's problem is not that it controls which ads a person sees based on their content and communities, but rather quite the reverse: it controls what content and communities a person sees in order to increase their engagement with ads!

Discord, if it were to maintain a strong commitment to a "one way flow" of information towards ad targeting (without leaking that information to advertisers, of course, which is easier said than done) and not towards content promotion, could find a sweet spot where it is not possible for them to ever enter the business of being incentivized to promote misinformation - except insofar as paid ads are the misinformation, which is still a problem but at least a more traceable and manageable one. People would still discover and choose their communities organically, and the mods and participants of communities would control their outbound edges of the discovery graph.

Of course, not being able to optimize the bulk of a user experience for engagement is somewhat anathema to both the data scientist and product management instincts in me... but I honestly would much rather work on any B2B recommender system, or even an ad system like the aforementioned one, than blindly write code that has now been proven to do harm.
I'm really impressed by sandbox.bio, which is also built on top of WebAssembly: https://sandbox.bio/

It lets you run bioinformatics tutorials in a shell on your own machine via JavaScript (xterm.js)/WebAssembly
Are you suggesting this country is better off with Nancy Pelosi or Mitch McConnel in it? Think about what you’re saying.
See also https://twitter.com/shitoberfest?s=09
Not working? Totally true.

Damaging it? There's definitely historical evidence for it [1], but I think the situation is a little improved these days. I personally had a nexus 5x charger damage a Pixel 3a such that that charger and usb a-c cables were the only ones which would work in that device from then on.

[1]: https://www.engadget.com/2016-02-03-benson-leung-chromebook-...
I highly recommend the books "Octopus and Squid: the Soft Intelligence" by Jacques Yves-Costeau and "Other Minds: the Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness" by Peter Godfrey-Smith. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Minds:_The_Octopus,_the_...
Makepad does something simular with its universal shading language: https://makepad.dev/
It isn't. Apple is sending your location and the MAC addresses of other devices your phone sees.

It's been doing this for nearly a decade since I believe their acquisition of WifiSlam back in 2013. They use it roughly triangulate a device's position when GPS/Cellular is not available.
AirSend Teams a modern solution for remote work
Apple's own system apps can now be reviewed
As an individual, you could try plugging your ears I guess, but it would certainly be disruptive to have half the class file out of the lecture, wait for some kind of signal, and then file back in.
Scroll through last year at https://twitter.com/shitoberfest?s=09 and you'll likely change your mind.
People are much less concerned about the unarmed rednecks taking selfies than they’re concerned about the armed folks searching the grounds for certain representatives, the people planting pipe bombs around DC, and anti-government militias comprised heavily of former military and law enforcement. Oh yeah, said militia members stashed guns at a nearby hotel (according to their own testimony and video footage).

This could’ve gotten way uglier and who knows what the ramifications would be. Let’s not fixate on the selfies.
I heard that she may be the first billionaire whistleblower, when given a percentage of the fine assigned to Facebook.
I hate Facebook, but your statement begs the question: "who defines what is harmful"
Both are done, each with good results. There is a whole community making their own pipe organs, samples pipes is more common.
It might very well be his setup that's causing the problem.
They do not, however, predate opportunistic actors begging for shares of their content on the platform, and of the platform's users happily doing so. I know; my dad was one of them.

There's a difference of kind to mass broadcast on a platform one incidentally scrolls (and thus receives incidental exposure from) versus, say, chain emails. The latter have a lot lower impact and require way more activation energy to push onward than a one-click Share.
You can charge with any cable that supports that power level. The problem is you can buy cheap cables that don't meet standards and can burn up. Or, the laptop won't charge at all because the user's own charger doesn't support Power Delivery, and IT doesn't want to deal with supporting 3rd party chargers—I know my Dell XPS 13 won't charge over normal USB at all, and needs a 45W charger to charge at full speed.
The NEMA code is exactly what I think about when I think about USB-C's failures. Imagine if NEMA connectors were standardized and the voltage/amperage was disconnected from the shape of the connector? Ridiculous.

While a standardized USB-C connector with non-standardized features isn't that dangerous, it's equally stupid, and was solved decades ago.
> As recent as a couple decades ago at least. The Arab spring that swept Middle East and parts of North Africa in 2010s comes to mind.

Which country has been better off after Arab spring?
Oil is not naturally occurring on the surface of the earth.

If it didn't naturally seep out of the ground, humans never would have discovered it and started using it. See this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28740261
Supporting the developer and getting into the smart, welcoming community are well worth the trivial amount being asked for. There is something to be said about a project that is driven by a uniform philosophy to deliver a unique and singular product. I think a lot of projects suffer from a "too many cooks" problem, and lose sight of their guiding philosophy in an attempt to compromise with naysayers. Zep doesn't do that at all... almost to a fault... but I respect his vision and adherance to keeping PICO-8 a pure representation of his vision.

If price is a problem for anyone, you may already own a copy. PICO-8 was (quietly?) included as part of the legendary itch.io mega "Bundle for Racial Justice."
https://archive.is/r6kNh
I can deal with the occasional weird person on public transit. However, if a random company were incentivizing people to be intentionally weird on public transit as part of some social experiment, I'd be pretty pissed.
To be fair, Apple has improved it's privacy story (at least with regards to noon-Apple entities.

They stopped giving every app on your phone the same ID for targeting/tracking (Android may follow, eventually). This pissed off Facebook since they can't use your account for targeting in your other apps.

Safari has also led the way (at least as far as mainstream browsers are concerned) with ITP. It even has some ML-based bounce tracking protection. I haven't done any practical tests of that, but it should be a lot better than the disconnect.me lists used by other browsers -- when I compared the domains I got redirected through during normal browsing with the disconnect.me list, only 10% were even present (none of the 100+ "3 random word" domains were listed).
It's easy to pass judgement.

>Kratom is not good for you

Few effective painkiller are. Ibuprofen causes stomach bleeding, acetaminophen has toxic effects on the liver, prescription opiates are even more addictive than Kratom while running the risk of overdose. Ziconotide, what was supposed to be a miracle drug made from sea snail venom requires an invasive body implant to dose directly, and in long term use has a habit of causing suicide and psychosis. In fact it's a drug of last resort. Kratom has some health concerns but it can and is used as pain management in some people. This thread is full of people complaining it wasn't fun or felt strange-- missing the point which is that pain relief is hard to come by
It's easy to pass judgement.

>Kratom is not good for you

Few effective painkiller are. Ibuprofen causes stomach bleeding, acetaminophen has toxic effects on the liver, prescription opiates are even more addictive than Kratom while running the risk of overdose. Ziconotide, what was supposed to be a miracle drug made from sea snail venom requires an invasive body implant to dose directly, and in long term use has a habit of causing suicide and psychosis. In fact it's a drug of last resort. Kratom has some health concerns but it can and is used as pain management in some people. This thread is full of people complaining it wasn't fun or felt strange-- missing the point which is that the point is pain relief is hard to come by
There is always the approach of maturing people to the point that they can bear the uglinesses of reality and flawed human beings.
> Its like saying firefighters don't want to put out fires so they'll keep being paid.

Burning houses don't yield endless revenue streams for fire departments.
"It never gets better; you know what to do."
Marie Antoinette was similarly not worried about the visceral expressions of very real problems across the nation of France. It's not a problem until it's a problem.
OS/2 may not have the fastest Java on the PC architecture anymore (1998)
What could we make today, that would puzzle people 1,000 years from now?
The capitol is (normally) a public building. There is a sitting senator who has been arrested at a protest in the building. Likewise it was not long ago that the capitol was full of protesters accosting senators in the lead up the the supreme court pick.

It's not meant to be a secure building that takes an army to get into.
The early MacUser was a fantastic publication. I can still visualize the Apple IIGS issue with its combination of admiration and insecurity about the color display.
Lefties want their Rivians and Teslas but fail to understand their lithium batteries are mined by child slaves in Africa and political prisoners from death camps in China.

Oil is natural. Death camps are not.

... also, lefties are faggots
Ex-Facebook manager alleges social network fed Capitol riot
Color displays weren’t necessary for color offset printing.
If there is an industry that needs startups, it is long term care and senior care in general.

Expensive, nearly universally badly done, and it seems like a lot of people could stay in their homes with some automated appliances/thoughtful redesigns of everyday items.

Hoping that when my grandparents start needing it in 5-10 years that the options have dramatically improved.
I did say I'd butcher it. :-) imho one shouldn't be overly attached to an exact implementation but learn to reason about it. You could for example make an array and count how many times each bit was set. A textbook bloomfilter doesn't allow you to remove things but if you count how often a bit was set you obviously can.
The future back then was you printed the proofs on a LaserWriter and then took those to the dark room. And maybe had a halftone screen if your school was fancy.
Why is there no mention of covid in this story?

We all know covid is one of the reasons behind this oil spill. Also - were the oil workers wearing masks!? If they weren't wearing masks this disaster could be so much worse!
Its been 6 years and not a single US person has been charged in this alleged interference, just a bunch of charges against Russian nationals (which is much like charging Kim Jong Un with murder, itll never see a court).

Who has been charged? Hillary Clintons lawyer for making it up

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lawyer-firm-represented-clin...
Vape shops certainly do. This place down the road from Netflix HQ has kid-friendly posters of baby Groot, Spiderman, etc. in its windows.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.2803855,-121.9498283,3a,37.5...
I'm glad she shared what she shared. Facebook is a cancer on society IMO.

In many cases, although perhaps not this one, whistleblowers have had an extremely active and political Twitter account when hired, or are literally being hired _because_ of their wokeness.

Do silicon valley companies not screen for intensity of political views during job interviews in order to prevent issues like this? They certainly don't seem to. Political views and ideological values are subjective, so in a large enough organization you can't avoid some people getting very upset. It would seem like it would be better for business to just not let people join the organization if they're relatively likely to one day go on a moral crusade.

I think it's only a matter of time before people who are militantly political or ideological -- on either side of the spectrum -- are going to be seen as toxic by any company big enough to care.
The claim lodged with the SEC is that Facebook Inc defrauded investors. Dodd Frank set up a whistleblower program for allegations of this kind.
Rather than messing around with logos why not mandate a specific typeface to be used mentioning the version/speed/capacity immediately next to the logo? Rather than screwing around with more hieroglyphics pretending it is the solution, just write it out.
> Neutrino comms would be civilization transforming.

Not, like, even 1% as much as the rest of the consequences of the breakthroughs in practical physics necessary for them would be, I suspect.
> A resident needs a bandage changed? An IV line inserted? A catheter replaced? A prescription refilled?

This is not stuff that robots can do in the near future.
For the purpose of power delivery this makes sense, but for the purpose of sending data down a wire, most people’s use cases can be done with the throughput of most usb-c cables, it is really convenient to just use any cable lying around for any data usage.
I like my covid how I like my guys - dick in my mouth, cum on my face and my ass anally aped for the ages.
I'll be honest, most of your arguments are well thought out and written, but to me the target feels like, and I mean no disrespect, a strawman. I think you're conjuring, via a few cultural critics, the idea of a great mass "pro-trigger-warning movement" which either doesn't exist as a movement, or if it exists has a more reasonable and empathetic argument than you're making it out to have.

OF COURSE someone who wants to be a surgeon shouldn't be if they can't handle the sight of blood. Nobody is arguing otherwise.

To use Jeannie Suk Gerson's conclusion as a stand-in for your argument:

> Instead, though, many students and teachers appear to be absorbing a cultural signal that real and challenging discussion of sexual misconduct is too risky to undertake—and that the risk is of a traumatic injury analogous to sexual assault itself

That is one (relatively qualified) person's opinion, and I don't think she polled the students and teachers regarding the subject before writing this. I would remind that she is a professor of law, not of psychology. She may be misunderstanding the situation. She certainly writes extremely often about the problem despite being a law professor. At best, its a hearsay criticism and take it as you will.
>Considering the polarizing nature of the topic, it seems unlikely there would be a bipartisan agreement on the issue without classified intel to get people on both sides of the aisle behind it.

Congressional support for US global military empire has, unfortunately, always enjoyed complete bipartisan support.

>But we have also had reports of activity traced back to Russia from other organizations.

All sorts of organizations released conclusions, none of these conclusions come with any evidence that be scrutinized. Further, on the rare occasions when arms were twisted under oath, all of these conclusions turned out to be completely baseless. One of the most prominent debunked claims was that of Crowdstrike that the DNC servers were hacked by Russians. In fact, in December 2017 when testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, CrowdStrike President Shawn Henry admitted that not only was there no evidence that Russians hacked the DNC, they had no evidence that it was hacked at all, rather than leaked, or exfiltrated in some other manner. I was never a Trump supporter, didn't vote for him, don't like him at all, but I hate false propaganda even more. Whether it was the CIA and the DOJ doctoring documents in order to spy on US citizens or DNC lawyers feeding false information to the FBI (as detailed in the recent Durham indictment), all of the publicly available information (which after 5 years is voluminous) indicating a "Russian attack on our election" have all been based on lies and baseless assertions. Given this, and the documented record of lies and obfuscations peddled by our "intelligence agencies" for decades, its clear that the conspiracy theory here is the one being pushed by the Washington blob and not people who demand evidence for their wild and oft debunked assertions.
(I meant the 2020 election, obviously)
Nissan knows that the Versa is more dangerous to their customers than, let's say, a Mercedes S500. Should Nissan then stop pushing the Versa in order to protect customers?
I watched the live stream. The capitol police opened the barriers in front of the building to let them pass. They seemed friendly towards the protestors.
Whether or not what Facebook did was illegal and she technically qualifies as a "whistleblower", I salute her for what she has done and is doing by telling this story. People need to know about this, because it is harmful.

This doesn't mean it should be illegal. But it is something people should consider if they go to work for Facebook (or other companies), and hopefully it will inspire people to do something about the toxicity and divisiveness that social media is causing or at least feeding into.
They also happened to feed my dick to their mouth.

... cause gay sex and all.

FAGGOTS!