skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
only to people that never used Access. I used it to catalog user research, manage a roadmap, keep track of house maintenance...

you're being pedantic for no reason, what's the use case for a database? Infinite. The problem with a DB is that you need to code to build a crud app, while a visual builder enables non technical people (or technical people in a hurry) to build a good-enough app to do just the job they need to do.
Its a fake story but we've known its true for a long time? Wah?
Framing it as "Control" or "fighting" may lead to sub-par results
> But the government benefits from Facebook (and Google's) stalking ability.

That doesn’t make it ok
Keep up the good work :)
Tools for Self-Publishing in 2021
Arq for Linux in the pipeline?
A lot of CEO's of small & medium size companies are the biggest hurdle for adding better security. I've unfortunately had access to a few CEO passwords & they've been embarrassingly bad.

GSuite had (maybe still has) a tool for ranking password strength across your org. Used it once & sorted from weakest to strongest. My results were practically the org chart from top to bottom.
How Does WebRTC End-to-End Encryption Work? Matrix.org Example (Dave Baker)
Eh, ever since the CDNs like fastly introduced cache-busting in milliseconds, caching logged in users became a not a big deal especially as most of logged in user content of HN is not different between the logged in users.
> the vaccine is useless in stopping transmission.

This is factually incorrect. it is dangerous scaremongering to say "the vaccine is useless".

"imperfect" not the same as "useless". This is simplistic, binary, "all or nothing" thinking that should have no place in this discussion.
As stated before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28699570
If it "didn't make sense" they wouldn't have to ban it.

They ban simple questions when people are looking for answers.

They banned the Hunter laptop story even when the emails were DKIM verified and his business partner came out against him.

Look who they protect through these bans. They protect Biden, China, the establishment party. Do they ever try to protect YOU? No.
You can also type `about:profiles` in the address bar. This opens a page where you can create profiles and/or launch them in a new window.
Ha that's what I did decades ago in school with a fake login screen. When the password has been logged just read c:\con\con, crash the machine and it reboots into the real login screen.

You don't need login to succeed, just fail convincingly.
There's a lot of factors at play. Yes, there's incentives to 'lie' and say "this can't be upgraded". There's also incentives to say "this is old and is bad and we have to rewrite!" - I've seen a lot of resume-driven-development. There are people who will lie to avoid having to learn an old platform as well.
There are several Firefox forks supported by donations. LibreWolf and Pale Moon being just two examples.

Inertia and network effects won't change quickly though
Although it's factual, many people put their fingers in their ear and scream when you mention point (2). I would extend that point to any prestigious award.
it had $438 million in revenue in 2018

it's not a small charity
Hi great work. The website is cool. Can you tell us which CMS / template did you use ?
More broadly I think this speaks to the power of defaults. I recently had a family member lose everything (house fire) including all of his iDevices. He thought he'd lost the photos on them - he didn't even know he had iCloud backups - but as soon as we got a new device on his account, there they were.
The really interesting question is whether you and the other N guys replying claiming that they're enjoying good careers are an outlier or the typical case.

Based on the multitude of threads and articles about ageism posted on HN alone and what we know about ageism in general, I'd say it's the former, but I'd be interested to see if someone actually studied this.
You say "believed as fact" where I say "speculated because we had nothing to go on".

Sure, my friends and I wondered if it was a malicious insider. It takes surprisingly few people in an organization to cause chaos.

Knowing IoT, it isn't unbelievable that badge readers could be offline.

Knowing division of duties, it isn't hard to believe that the network engineers, domain admins and datacenter ops people may have hustled to a DC to get things back online.

Never did I see a large number of people take anything as fact that didn't seem to be substantiated.
> I do want Facebook harmed

So much hate...

Has Facebook really caused that much suffering to you? Seriously, just don't use it if you don't like it. For most people, it's just a social network where they post innocuous stories and stay connected with their friends.
Not if you mean "as the kids say". Sorry.
That was centuries ago. Leftists today think you should take the jab or lose your job, because the government says so, even if the jab doesn't really work, and even if you still have to take other non pharmaceutical precautions. And the leader of the left today, President Biden, doesn't really care if he has the legal authority to issue the decrees he has issued, and has said as much, about the eviction ban he unilaterally levied in defiance of the Court

I can do this for idiots on the Right, too, by the way. Authoritarianism is at home everywhere on the political spectrum, because at least in the US the political divide is largely cultural, not ideological, despite all the rhetoric claiming the contrary
You could install and run an instance of Mastodon. That's (apparently) easy to do, under your control, and has most of the features that you could want. You can use it for DMs and for broadcast, and if you deliberately don't federate then it will remain private.
I've been getting into this over most of quarantine and have successfully imitated this guy's tutorials (just had to swap out the microcontroller): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7-8nUU6e3E

If you don't know EE basics you'll probably want to grok those first, there's plenty of youtube channels covering it. Good starter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc979OhitAg&list=PLWv9VM947M...
Not that you explicitly claimed otherwise, but the focal point of the moment's discourse seems to be a small fraction of teens who reported suicidal ideation citing content they see on Instagram as the first thing that triggers suicidal ideation for them, and I very, very strongly doubt that the relevant content is often ads, or even content that could be argued to result from the fact that the platform is ad-supported.
As a fairly technical person, relative to my peers in the industry, Airtable was the first time I really understand what a relational database from a tactical perspective is/could be!
Oh, I know. Which is why it'll never happen, and why the "message" (as in McLuhan) of the medium of the Internet is authoritarianism.
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This whistleblower may be saying some true and pertinent things, but overall it seems very apparent she is a leftist activist with a clear political agenda: https://www.dailywire.com/news/facebook-whistleblower-leftis...
if you go down this rabbit hole on google, just be wary that while the hindenburg sabotoge conspiracy theory actually seems fairly plausible, most of the people you'll find talking about it are right at the top of this chart:

https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.4532919!/image/imag...
> It's considered a liberal position, not a leftist position.

“Liberal” and “left” are terms of slightly different origin for the same position, opposing the established narrow feudal/monarchist elite power in favor of popular sovereignty and the government based on the rights of the individual.

It’s true that subsequently they’ve diverged with the old enemy being irrelevant, with “liberal” including and “left” excluding defense of concentration of power in the now-established capitalist elite justified by appeal the preeminence of the capitalist understanding of property rights.
You are correct about a lot of meta programming in Phoenix. As there is no inheritance in Elixir, macros are used a lot to inject code from another module. So as an example if Phoenix has an Endpoint module and your module is an endpoint the macros (especially “use”) injects endpoint related code. It’s impressive but ultimately all this magic gets too much. It gets very confusing when all these macros run because you have complications like bind_quoted, accumulating in module @ tags etc. And because there are no true static types you need to be very careful. Phoenix is slick and I think it’s doing its best given the underlying platform.
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You might be able to use Matrix and Element, was just reading about it yesterday...

I stumbled on this repo, might help you get a sense of how difficult it might be with this route and what features it would give you: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy
BGP took out their DNS. It isn't entirely wrong.
> I think the README page of termite pretty much sums up why getting involved in VTE, or any GNOME project for that matter, is a bad decision.
>
> https://github.com/thestinger/termite/blob/master/README.rst...

Wow, this confirms a lot of my impressions:

>> In 2012, we submitted a tiny patch exposing the APIs needed for the keyboard text selection, hints mode and other features. Despite support from multiple other projects, the patch was rejected. It's now almost a decade later and no progress has been made. There is no implementation of these kinds of features in VTE and it's unlikely they'll be provided either internally or as flexible APIs. This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to their hostility towards other projects using VTE as a library. GTK and most of the GNOME project are much of the same. Avoid them and don't make the mistake of thinking their libraries are meant for others to use.

This is exactly why sixel-tmux exists as a separate entity!

> Yeah, I read the entire conversation and if sixel support lands in tmux upstream, it would indeed be good news.

I'll keep my fingers crossed, but right now, there seems to be a lot of good will. I will do everything I can.
This is so interesting. I think you right there will be turn around and people would love to disconnect and live a offline life.
> And of course you test your OOB weekly to make sure every device in every POP is accessible all the time, automatically and systematically, right?

If you don't spend the time writing a super-duper BGP implementation using sexy Rust rather than dealing with boring Cisco and Juniper boxes supporting all kinds of orchestration that gets you onto front page of Hacker News, you can get a set of Expect scripts running against serial consoles 24x7 triggering notifications of OOB failures within minutes.
For what it's worth, my brother in law who drives semis had not heard of that. I think it might be a tall-tale.
Too complicated. Just connect a drive via USB.
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I just go off backblaze and gut feeling. Basically I have backblaze backup my data daily, if theres anything I really want to make sure is safe, I back that up elsewhere, and if its something I REALLY want to make sure is safe, I'll also put it on a local disk. If I ever got to the point where I REALLY REALLY want to make sure its safe, I'd probably try to keep a local version in someone elses house, but it hasn't come to that yet.

I know many here will say thats being negligent or whatever, I don't really care too much, I'd rather just get on with my life than jump through a load of hoops for data that I'm not too fussed about losing.
If you want a reddit like experience, check out Lotide: https://github.com/lotide-org/lotide

If you want something more realtime-ish, Matrix would be my go to.

Photos and photo handling will need to be handled out of band. There are several easy solutions here, especially if you are happy paying for an S3 clone.

Feel free to reach out to me and I can at least share my own setup.
ello Humans of HN,

This is not noscript as in 'no-code' it is noscript as in <noscript> as in no JavaScript on the client.

Why? I wanted a distillation/simplification/essence of my super complex and big remote browser product (open-source and Enterprise versions[0]), and I wanted to play with MJPEG.

One day I discovered the venerable <input type=image> tag and how it can transmit the click X,Y positions on form submission, and I was sold on the idea. I knew then...or sometime later, that it was possible to build a very simple browser UI using only HTML and CSS on the client.

After expending thousands of lines of client-side and server-side code for my RBI products I knew this was amazing and incredible. Plus it was going to be fun to rebuild "roughly equivalent" (emphasis on rough) functionality in as minimal code as possible.

So with those motivations properly elucidated, I give you: puppetromium. An unholy mixture of puppeteer and chromium to form an extremely simply browser UI that you can use to "browse the web" using the headless browser started by puppeteer.

Feel free to check out the code, star the repo download the npm package and give it a try. This is the only comment I'll make on this thread. Any questions feel free to email me cris@dosycorp.com have a good one! :p :) xx

[0]: https://github.com/i5ik/ViewFinder
I remark that you have little way of knowing how familiar I am with these viewpoints you are referring to, or what my bubble consists of or what size it is. This criticism (or advice) is easy to dish out.
Serializing is very fast, and ingesting JSON as a stream is trivial when it's newline delineated. No one emits a giant array of json log objects, they emit a stream of newline delineated json.

You almost certainly also have it in memory more than twice since you're copying a buffer out to IO.

If you care about record size use protobuf, compression, backend parsers, etc.
That's the dismissive rhetoric that got us here. At this point we know that Facebook intentionally manipulates people's moods and behavior... and it's impossible for the average person to be aware of how they're being manipulated, because it's proprietary Facebook data. The algorithm itself is likely so complex that no individual within Facebook understands the full impact of it. They hire researchers to study the output, make the adjustments that positively impact revenue, and generally disregard other harmful side-effects turned up.

Instagram today has apologized for pushing extreme dieting content to people with eating disorders (only after they were publicly called out on it). This has been going on for years.

Facebook is not a person to be harmed, it's a company that has optimized and automated profitability to the point that it knowingly disregards safety. It's grown to the size where they've admitted that it's impossible for them to moderate effectively... but despite this inability to moderate at scale they still model and display content based on recommendation algorithms that optimize profit.

At this point enough evidence has come to light that I'm entirely comfortable calling them an objectively unethical company.

There are other social companies that likely follow suit, but at the moment none even begin to approach the scale and reach of Facebook.
Does that mean the best move is to eventually become a manager?
Sounds like a valid complaint about protonmail though, right? They choose their jurisdiction, seems like they may have chosen poorly.
This whistleblowers whole shtick is to echo a sentiment that 99% of people already have. What whistle exactly is being blow here?

This is basically a bad news headline. One facebook employee has some bad stuff to say about facebook. It's only news because it's so much fun to pile on because everybody including congress is in 100% agreement.
Just stand up an ejabberd instance and have your contacts use any XMPP client.
It's that claiming everything is a fallacy is a pointless distraction. it's not _always_ a falacy.

As I said, "Anything taken to excess is a flaw" - there is always a limit somewhere. That does not in itself make everything "no true scotsman!"
Indeed. I keep getting reminded of the Basecamp debacle, which was entirely a failure of leadership.
How about, reset market valuation to something reasonable, instead of speculators pushing the stock price to insane levels of overvaluation, justifying every dirty trick in the book to justify said price speculation? Do we really need to dump hundreds of billions of dollars into a couple of chat and picture-sharing apps? Especially when said pile of junk spies on your every move, every preference, and ultimately, every waking moment? It's almost as if the market did not deliver a good outcome for anything but investors.
I think you're being downvoted because historically anti-authoritarianism has been associated with the left and that was where I always found myself politically. However, these days I would agree that a lot of people who consider themselves "anti-authoritarianism" are on the right.

I don't think this is what OC meant though, but I've certainly found over the last few years my anti-authoritarianism positions have had me accused of being right wing -- supporting the brexit vote, being in favour of freespeech, opposing mandated government lockdowns, etc.

I'd also add that there are probably two fractions of right-wing thought today: the "establishment/republican" right-wing and the new "right-wing", as you say, people like, Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, Russel Brand, etc. It's the latter group I think you're referring to specifically.
Would really be nice if it could attach all the issues that the release closed.
Same here. I think in 10-20 years the world will have come to the conclusion that blind algorithms to drive engagement are just too dangerous. Perhaps similar to how we eventually came to the conclusion that all cars should be required to have seatbelts.
Having worked in growth before (not at Facebook), I can tell that you vastly underestimate the impact FB teams have on how/when/what/for how long/how many times/etc content is displayed to end users. This is absolutely not a neutral impact.
It was the damn lockdowns, the idiotic response to the pandemic, and most importantly the time it went on for. Masks and distancing would've been enough after the first half a year ffs. But to be fair, we deserve it for running such a fragile system.

And they should've just made vaccines mandatory, none of this bullshit soft encouragement while people can't cross borders.

People weren't "dropping like flies", either, especially not those of working age. Less than 0.1% dead worldwide, the vast majority of which were over 65.

Reminds me of that Reddit thread on psychosomatic death where people were sad their relatives suddenly died. Their 80-90 year old relatives. I mean, fuck me, that's a good life lived right there. Another year or two doesn't make much of a difference. But that's unrelated to Covid, it's just the same type of weird fearful thinking.
I think main reason is our flawed education. The tasks you are being given at school are usually constructed so that they fit the idealized knowledge you just learned.

What it teaches people is to short cut the critical path of reasoning which is to first make sure you actually understand the problem and then the problem actually fits the assumptions. People are not taught that even a small divergence from assumptions can have dramatic difference on the actual solution or applicability of what they think is a solution. They are also not taught the actual assumptions or spot how they look. They talk about CS algorithms as if they worked on idealized computers, but then run them on real ones.

At school this is not taught because when it seems the problem fits the material it almost always is. People are actually rewarded for jumping to conclusions as this helps them go through material faster.

If you don't learn anything about the world you bring your learning with you and try to apply it to real world and that's how a lot of developers operate.

Especially in tech, you can usually look up solution to any problem easily. But for some reason this is the part everybody emphasizes rather than recognize knowing when to apply the solution is way more valuable.

I also think it is part of the wisdom behind "premature optimization is root of all evil".
"lib/auth" is very easy to read as a rephrasing of liberal/conservative to liberal/authoritarian (even after you say libertarian above) as that's a comparison some of the far left seem to be trying to promote, but I understand you mean libertarian/authoritarian. Such is the problem of shortened words in a domain where there are very similarly spelled terms.
I mean it's fairly well laid out of a topic.

Which part specifically are you having trouble with?
time to buy more FB shares

when a company leaves the headlines it's time to sell.
VMware has a very well supported Postgres K8S operator as well: https://tanzu.vmware.com/sql#sql-with-kubernetes
And this is a worldwide conspiracy where they're able to buy all the medical bodies across the world, including in countries with conflicting interests, plus the all the world's top physicians?

I don't buy it.
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I am French and I never heard about this project. I pay taxes on the taxes web site where everything is filled in for me, so no need to use any software. The whole exercice takes literally 30 seconds.

This is not to day that the software is not useful (the API looks great after a quick reading), but it will be used by a very small population.
Not necessarily. What you're thinking of is probably anarchism.

Leftists can favour authoritarianism just as much as right-wing types. The difference is usually just between MY "good" authoritarianism vs. YOUR "bad" authoritarianism. In my opinion this "whistleblower" and democrat donor's call for more censorship is anything but anti-authoritarian.
There were meetings last Friday.

https://www.2600.com/meetings
It seems to me that children "get" the problem with Facebook & Instagram better than their parents. To quote an 11-year old boy speaking with FB internal research, "Facebook is for old people."[1] Maybe we should implement an age ceiling on use of social media!

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/technology/facebook-files...
> He doesn't present the data (...)

If that's what you're going with then you only need to verify the data to either refute or verify his claim.

Everything else is just noise at this point.
The thing in the way of getting what you want is that the US Government loves stalking its citizens. Facebook is a great resurce for them.
I had exactly the same experience. First visit to US clogged a toilet. Never seen a toilet overflowing before in my life till that day.
> To the people downvoting me here: can you list some figures who have been protesting authoritarianism who are left-coded in contemporary American society?

Martin Luther King.
Hey HN! I guess there should be more attention to Telegram and Twitter after yesterday's Facebook failure. :) Anyway, I like Telegram and I do build Telegram bots in my spare time mostly for my own purposes. This one allows you to turn Twitter threads into telegra.ph articles which could be easily read or shared within Telegram itself. Basically, it's well known Thread Reader but inside Telegram.

In order to build an article just share a link to any thread's status with the bot and it will do the rest. Every English thread unrolled by the bot is also posted to the special channel: https://t.me/threaden. There you can see how this articles look like.

As a bonus naked.bot can also send media files from Twitter and Reddit posts.