skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the writer conflates a bunch of things - they wants the algorithms to be open, transparent and opt-in. While that would be nice, I don’t think that’s required to eliminate misinformation (nor will it solve it)

"Required" might be a strong word, but "would be nice" is too weak, IMO.

I suppose it depends on what you see as the goals and purpose of moderation. I've seen a lot of agreement about SM requiring moderation, while totally disagreeing about what, why and to what end.

If fairness s concern, nevermind freedom, openness is a factor. Also, while he doesn't state it... the author is concerned about moderating facebook, not just facebook users. That makes some sense, from where he's sat.

The job is to "prevent the spread of misinformation" on FB, especially headline stuff: political/electoral misinformation, covid related, etc.^ He sees this stuff repeatedly go viral... and that logically leads to the platform and recommendation algorithm itself. Applying moderation after may not (in his view) be enough to do the job. Opaqueness probably makes it as hard for moderation teams to understand the nuances as it does for us.

Maybe openness and free software adjacent principles are not the only way to approach an actual solution, but most of the best ideas are not unrelated. If you think of bullshit propaganda going viral as a bug, transparency is definitely relevant.

Opt-in & respecting user wishes generally, are also part of a lot of hypothetical solutions. One of the ways pre-FB social media dynamics was various "bad behaviour" rooms. HN works as an example. You can choose to view dead comments. Most choose not to. Still, that tiny piece of transparency and user choice moderates some of the moderation's weaknesses.

I don't think you can say anything definitively, but there are logical links between FB's control oriented model and the problems moderators are tasked with fixing.

^He cites Myanmar as an example. This is in a language & culture that FB don't speak. They really don't know what is going on, and I think it's likely they heard about FB's role in causing major violence against a minority from a third party. COmpare that to the level of
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Just make the commute time (for employees) count as paid time - you're being available to yout employer in the end.
We allow those protections to allow people to take business risks without taking significant personal risk.

This encourages entrepreneurship. I don't think you'd see as many people trying to build widgets if they had to put their family's home on the line.

In exchange for those protections, we get widgets.
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Users are loving it. We're planning to post it on reddit to see how users react on this. But it'll be an amazing experiment to go with.
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Perhaps you should attempt to substantiate your nonsensical claim?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BepiColombo
It would be nice to have trustworthy authorities to answer these questions, but it appears they don't exist. Virologists in particular seem to have spent most of their time covering up evidence that SARS-CoV-2 came from one of their own labs: the exact opposite of the behaviour they should have been engaged in.

Given the absence of that, it is sufficient for people to make their own decisions based on whatever sources they personally find adequate. There is no need for fights over which organization gets to be the anointed provided of truth.

Personally, I don't feel a need for any of these self-proclaimed "experts". The data from public statistics is clear enough, as is evidence collected by talking to people around me.
> what's needed is teaching people good epistemological hygiene. How to read an article, how to respect quantification, what sort of things to be suspicious of, how to find out accurate information and when to withhold judgement.

Good luck trying to teach a >20 year old this.

When you teach children that the scientific method is useless, logic is not necessary, and therefore Creationism is fine, repairing that "damage" once Children are older is pretty much impossible.

You have "habituated" them to the lie, just in the exact same way that "child soldiers" and "terrorist" get habituated. Part of the habituation process is making them personally invested on the lie, e.g., for a child soldier or a terrorist that's their first "kill". From that moment on, either they are right, or they are a horrible human being.

Same here, it might start with Creationism, then shaming someone for wanting an abortion, etc. One of these is going to be their first "kill" moment, their point of no return, and then the only way to "heal" is for them to discover that they are horrible human beings. Pretty much impossible to heal in practice.

In the exact same way that this is not the child soldiers fault, it is not the fault of children that have been educated their way to end up raiding the capitol. I'd go as far that it is not the fault of these children to even then lobby as adults for the process to continue, for more creationism, for more extremism, etc.

Maybe at some point someone in the USA was at fault for allowing this to happen. But at this point I think that a big part of the population particularly in central america are just victims of the system. They were raised into what they are now, and lots of psychological hard work would be required to "fix" any single one of them.

Simplifying this issue to "this people are just dumb, and facebook should send them a link to a page that teaches them how to read" would be as effective as trying to address terrorism by repeating on TV that killing people is bad.
>> what's needed is teaching people good epistemological hygiene.

What's needed of who? I agree that epistemological hygiene is good, but how is FB supposed to tackle this. Even the education system may have trouble, and even if they don't it will take a generation.

Problems need to be framed in ways that don't avoid dealing with them.
It was actually made by a third-party game development studio rather than Microsoft.

Also the assumption that the culture of the Windows Terminal team is the same as the team building a flight simulator is a bit far fetched. Large organisations typically have very specific local cultures.

Rewriting stuff from CPU to GPU also isn't 101 game development. Both because it's actually quite hard and because not all problems are amenable to GPU compute and would actually slow things down.
> What if you have more than two return values?

You could have a `?` macro which only handles the standard case of two values. If you have more than one, then likely you need to handle it in a specific way anyway.

Having `?` does not mean the previous way of checking error doesn't work anymore.
Yes, but still a and b are non-nil. My point was that Go is not like Java, where literally all non-primitive types are nullable.
> The fact that there is a strong correlation is undeniable.

> That said, epidemiology is complex, and an attempt to reduce it to one factor is not valid.
I have not found this to be the case in Typescript code I've worked on. The main issue I've found with TS is stuff coming in from outside the system as JSON that doesn't conform to expected formats.
Other example of slow performance in MS is file system access and process creation.
Said study:

> Users have no opt out from this
We are going the totalitarian route. Ministry of Truth will tell what numbers are legal and which ones are. Publishing data that goes against a narrative is a high crime punishable by Goolags. I know it might be news for the kids but this is a common practice in Socialist countries.

The inflation rate is a hate number and banned from all platforms. Enforced by the Soviet Ministry of Truth called Pravda the russian translation of Truth.

I am puzzled how quickly something Americans were completely scared about is being so beloved by people. Do we really see ourselves as so despicable that we want to replace individual speech with government speech ?
The extraordinarily repetitive error handling in Go drives me batty and I am thankfully not the only one who feels this way

Part One: Endless Error Handling
https://jesseduffield.com/Gos-Shortcomings-1/

That blog also covers a lot of Go's wonderful defects advertised as 'features'.
How store anti-theft alarms work: Magnetostriction (2015)
The compiler doesn't enforce only those values being acceptable.

I can do:

myerrorlevel := errorlevel(3458967478)

and the compiler won't complain at all.

It would be good if there was some way of specifying that this type can only accept these values.

Thinking about it, it's the same as nil-safe types - being able to specify to the compiler that this type cannot accept a nil value.
I just don't understand why people aren't thinking of doing this in other countries. You can hire a nurse for $500-1000 in most of South America or Asia - East Europe 50/50, but an au pair for elderly.
I think it's sort of self-fulfilling when it comes to the economy. The economy, after all, is the system of all of us using the maximum of our brains and abilities to compete with each other in the making of money. I think it's a chaotic system by it's very definition.
Other than the once per year point, these all seem like reasons to make smaller PR's.
Does the surface of Mercury actually show any perceptible color or is it just basically grayscale like the Moon ?
> But the whole point of Go is that code is more often read than written, so legibility is paramount. Having a `?` operator alongside the traditional `if err != nil` would be very confusing.

Are you confused by unnamed returns? By the ability to declare variables initialised or not? By there being two syntaxes to declare variables? By it being possible to elide types in declarations or parameters lists?

Go is already full of shortcuts which I would say are more confusing and less useful than`?`
> Having one plug be capable (or incapable) of doing so many things melted my brain.

Good thing you missed the time when cables with DB9/DB25 connectors were everywhere, for every purpose.
Why are you calling that sustainable? It's a fossil fuel.
"someone think of the children" is not a valid argument.

The same petroleum powers the hospitals and ambulances that save many more children.

You also offer to feasible alternative except a complaint that it's not happening fast enough for your liking.
"People are still falling ill and filling up hospitals, and these are primarily the unvaccinated"

Most of the stats claiming this are heavily manipulated, for example by using "everyone since the start of the epidemic" as the denominator for unvaccinated people. The US agencies have been especially bad at this, with their 99% claims (not at all true, as their own leaked documents show). Stats that don't play this kind of game show a much less convincing effectiveness.

But even if your point were completely true, it has nothing to do with logic. It's just the latest talking point that will be gone in five minutes. Hospital demand has always been built out to meet demand. If unvaccinated people end up in hospital more often, they could just be charged more via insurers to pay for the additional capacity, same as the obese or those who smoke and get lung cancer or those who do extreme sports. There is no actual reason to force everyone to take a vaccine to manage hospital capacity, and in fact places with relatively low vaccination rates are not experiencing a hospital crisis of any kind (see: Switzerland).

And even if you don't agree with that last paragraph, it's irrelevant because the topic we're discussing in this sub-thread is whether there's been government propaganda! And there certainly has been, vast amounts of it, it's just effective enough that some people can't see it for what it is. The unvaccinated are systematically demonized by governments and painted as dangerous including to the vaccinated, which is upside-down world thinking. It's no different to how people were described as "un-American" when they opposed the war in Iraq.
The concept of 'corruption' differs depending of the frame of reference' as we call it in physics. Is 'Pandora Papers' corrupt?...well...
You will have to define “news” first, or “politics”. As a former strategist for a big news room, I can tell you it’s not as easy as you make it out to be.
Problem here is enforcement, as we have seen ... The Legal representatives are also elected, meaning that the legal system is also political. Everyone has something to gain out of it.
A tad easier would be to set the Network to hidden. Then clients would have to mention the SSID themselves to advertise themselves.
This is circular logic. You're quoting claims by the same authorities that have been making false claims since the beginning, as a way to attack anyone who questions claims by those same authorities.
Yea. Microsoft has two terminals. Command Prompt (cmd.exe) which is the default that comes with Windows, has been around forever and basically never seen a significant update. And the new Windows Terminal which is the recent greenfield project that only works on recent versions on Windows 10 and doesn't ship with Windows by default (yet).

Unfortunately people often get the two confused when talking about "the windows terminal".
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You need quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs). Simple life-years don't capture the harm from chronic health effects - like hearing loss or brain damage, to pick two that gas-powered leaf-blowers cause.
What's supported is indeed a mess...

I recently moved my desk between rooms. After setting everything up only one monitor seemed to work.

Tried multiple DP cables plugged things in and out with things in various state of power. Eventually gave up and chalked it up to karma and either having a dead monitor or dead dock.

Unplugged my laptop to go work in the lounge for a bit, came back later and plugged it in again amazingly both displays worked.

What changed? I plugged the dock into a different USB-C port. The one that actually supports DisplayPort Alt-mode.
> That an option type is 'safer' only helps enforce good habits.

It enforces compilation result not habits. "to a programmer who understands what he or she is working with" - one day you'll learn that everyone makes mistakes regardless of experience, but it's better to accept and adjust to that fact before it bites you ;)
But they add an unnecessary overhead, and still don't prevent you actually writing x := nil; print(x.a);. And everyone can have their own Optional, meaning you'll going to install dozens of different generics libraries for just this feature.

There are simple, go-like solutions. There's a character for pointer, so why not a character for a non-nil pointer?
that's mansplaining /s
Envoy as an API Gateway for gRPC microservices.
All that being said, I agree with you: leadership is hard. In 20 years in industry, how many (really) good leaders have I met? Three maybe.

My original point is that the _role_ is a lot more interesting than what the article seems to suggest.
I don't know about C# and Swift, but Kotlin, Python, and Typescript are only null-safe-ish; there is always a relatively easy path to smuggling a null value into your program regardless of the guarantees of the types you use.

This isn't to say it's useless, just that it's not as useful as it _could_ be. I've seen codebases in all three languages where there have been real production issues due to null values, even though the type decls say otherwise. Kotlin probably does the best job here but using any JVM library introduces potential (K)NPEs.
One can only teach values not protect children from social media.
I have children.
> I don't think welfare should be based on philanthropy, but I do think some billionaires are still philanthropic, e.g. Bill Gates.

Billionaires shouldn't get a pass because of 'philanthropy'. That is an extra contribution that any person can make if they choose and can afford it.

Paying your taxes - that is, contributing back to society to keep it functioning in a healthy, balanced way, is not only a requirement of civilization (in my view) it's even in these ultra-rich peoples' self-interest: they help to maintain the stability that underpins their massive wealth.
Self-Introspection: The most important skill
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Loading time is ok for people who are expecting to land on an interactive page, but for people who are expecting to just go to a page otherwise its a bit crazy.

Additionally, I found myself scrolling to the next interactive instead of reading anything inbetween, I'm sure it will result in a good viral effect, but maybe ? not so much on conversions

maybe a call to action? "Music is fun, know what else is fun? investing with us ->" or something like that
> Pepper et al’s paper on Somatic Evolution [...] : how can multicellular life evolve in the presence of Darwinian processes that should, by rights, turn every individual cell against its neighbors in a competition for resources? Why isn’t every somatic cell in it for themselves, why doesn’t all multicellular life devolve into cancer?

> Planarians ... [a]re not exactly worms. They’re not even individuals. What they are is habitats: cellular substrates containing individuals. Individuals who may not even like each other very much
I mean. When it's stuff people have to do for work and they're not doing it, and that happens on a systemic level? Usually it's not "laziness", it's just that there's always lots of work and there's never enough money/man-hours.

The main point I'm trying to make is that this has nothing to do with the technical characteristics of IPv6 itself. By definition, a layer 3 protocol interacts with every single piece of network-related software out there. You have to update everything, and that's a whole lot of work no matter how you cut it. It only takes one awful hack like that MIT thing you described (whyyyyyyyyyyy) to hold up an entire migration.

(If I were MIT, I would suggest turning off router advertisements ie the infrastructure side of SLAAC, and only serving addresses over DHCPv6. Gets you an easier port of hacky shit like that.)
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> "People are still falling ill and filling up hospitals, and these are primarily the unvaccinated"

> Most of the stats claiming this are heavily manipulated

Are you saying the states taking the extraordinary steps of rationing hospital care because of capacity problems don't really have full hospitals but are letting patients die based on manipulated stats? That...is an extraordinary claim that needs some support more than vague handwaving.
> Secondly, since the type is based on an int there is nothing at the type level saying that your pseudo-enum can only take the enum values you want — it can take any possible value that the integer can represent.

That is literally how enums work in most languages AFAIK. Even in .NET an enum is just an integer and you can in fact assign any integer value to an enum and therefore break things.

Proof: https://dotnetfiddle.net/lp51Dh

Re error handling:

In my opinion people who complain about having to write too many if statements in Go because of error handling just don't get it. I rarely ever want to bubble an err all the way up in my stack. In most cases I can either handle my error directly or if it's an error which cannot be dealt with at the current level then often I actually want to wrap it into a more high level application error and log the low level error or map it to something meaningful, distinguishing internal errors from user errors. People who look for a simple syntax to not deal with errors and just let them bubble all the way up simply do it wrong and need to learn how to write good code.
Just a side note, your idea of art is a bit naive. Take for example the work done by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, citing wikipedia:

> Their work was typically large, visually impressive, and controversial, often taking years and sometimes decades of careful preparation – including technical solutions, political negotiation, permitting and environmental approval, hearings and public persuasion.
Haha, you're right. I should really read the source before speculating next time.
Decomplication: How to Find Simple Solutions to “Hard” Problems (2016)
Not to defend this committee mess, but what else could they out except the speed? It could then be for device manufacturers to add the required speed.
Non-renewable isn't ideal, but it's not half as big of a problem as spewing pollution everywhere - which is the problem under discussion.
Love seeing debord in the wild
The subject hasn't changed - you're just trying to avoid it.

The subject is trustworthiness of the public health authorities. They lie repeatedly in order to manipulate the public, there have been no consequences, and so it's rational to assume they're still doing it. You're trying to claim there's no link between a willingness to lie about one COVID related topic and willingness to lie about others, which is clearly wrong.

But really, why bother. The propaganda has worked on you like a treat: you're arguing the science "evolved"! It did not evolve. That's an attempt to cover up what's really been happening. Public health authorities and scientists directly and knowingly lied about it to achieve policy goals, and in many cases, that's now either been admitted by them directly (with masks, herd immunity thresholds) or it's been proven in other ways (by DRASTIC).
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But afaik they have to notify you of the recording.
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The excellent qutebrowser (and probably several other browsers?) can easily be set up to not have tabs or status bars or anything.

I'm sure the other features of Bone are interesting though, like the tiling.
The Canadians/Brits burned the capital down and it did not matter.

Some rednecks stopping by arent going to topple anything