skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such a good point, and impossible to overstate.

I decided about a year ago I wanted to create my own course (https://css-for-js.dev/). After exploring the options and hearing about the Udemy horror stories, I decided to build my own platform.

It's gone better than I ever could have hoped, and it's set me up well for a lucrative career I'm passionate about.

You don't have to create your own platform from scratch, either; I haven't personally tried them, but there are SaaS companies like Kajabi and Teachable that look like white-label course platforms, so you can build your own course on your own domain. If I wasn't such a perfectionist, I would have started with a smaller course on one of these services.
This was published recently. There is at least some evidence that the Delta variant is more deadly.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8244271/delta-variant-covid-19-st...
Been using Jami because I thought the Tox project dead. Just loaded up six profiles from older version 1.16.3 (qtox 2019-05-08) on this new version (qtox 1.17.3) and they load OK but passwords don't work (except where they were embedded). Have good backups of them so they should.

Just wondered if it's just me for some reason (no big deal as I wasn't using the program). Will reinstall older .exe and see what happens, same with earlier Android version (it uses the same old passwords).
TaleSpire is a beautiful way to play pen and paper RPGs online
No, frankly, you couldn't. To start with, the scientific evidence for the medically addictive and harmful properties of nicotine, opiates, and gambling is on a different planet compared to the nebulous correlations and self-reported survey "X% of teens tell us they don't feel good about themselves" results that have been beaten to death about social media.

And on the most fundamental level, drugs and gambling providers are not platforms for speech, they are not very comparable. Restrictions to drugs and gambling barely overlap with any free speech issues that social media censorship advocates seem so eager to step over. And no, I'm not just talking about the USA's First Amendment that affects the government, I'm talking about the cultural principle of free speech that we figured out was a good thing at some point in The Enlightenment.
Easy workaround: Any publicly-traded company worth more than $1B in total stock.

Now you aren't targeting Facebook, you're targeting all wealthy corporations.
> Weird to blame the lockdowns when the real cause was the pandemic.

The lockdowns were the actual proximate cause for most business disruptions.

> It's not like everyone was going to continually working normally in crowded spaces with people dropping like flies in the hospitals.

People who are employed are usually younger than 65 and therefore were never at significant demographic health risk from coronavirus.
Wow this page is very cool! I recommend clicking these four boxes:

- quick sort
- merge sort
- custom sort (this naive algorithm)
- bubble sort

Then click “start”.

And then you can clearly see the difference side by side, including the speed of the sort!

Quick sort is quick! Merge sort is better in the worst case but slower on this random data.
There is a direct contradiction to this in recent history. The Iraq War started before Facebook was a thing. The false story about WMDs as pretense to the war was widely circulated by traditional media. 15,000 US soliders and 500,000 Iraqis were killed. The most comparable thing attributed to Facebook is the Myanmar coup where around 800 people were killed.
Her bigger risk is probably the employment angle. Hard to picture hiring this person except if you're 100% certain your company's behavior aligns with her morals, and you can't find anyone else. Even for people who generally agree with her view on Facebook employing her presents a pretty serious known risk at this point.
> oculus services where [sic] hosted in the same infrastructure as their social media services

with my second-hand knowledge from someone who worked for FB and assisted the Oculus team being folded in to FB processes/policies/tech, I don't think this is accurate, either.
It's a tax on the people paying with debit, who finance the credit card fees by paying higher prices with no rewards paid back. Credit cards are regressive.
Meta: Be warned that anyone who is anonymous and commenting on the validity of the whistleblower, may be speaking in the interests of facebook and spreading disinformation.
My intention was less "what about this other bad thing" and more do we have an objective/consensus answer on what content should be promoted, or is it just who/what is doing the promotion.
This looks like it was made by nsa/fsb. The stock-photo, hashtag heavy design really smells like a honeypot.
It's a remarkably poorly insulated 5 bedroom home with a purely global temperature control (i.e. she can't just cool / heat her bedroom). I gave her a bunch of money to do renovations so hopefully that goes down significantly.
Can't just be money. I was trying to find details on Pixel phone last night and saw Google's page for it, it was really bad. Stripe does pretty elaborate and new stuff (like those 3d books) and pulls it off flawlessly every single time.
Eh I would assume that would only be necessary if the lock mechanism kept people in, the only place I’ve been that did that was a defense contractor, and even then there were alarmed emergency doors. Everywhere else had either no exit control or trivially bypassed exit control.
The link claims that thousands of documents were shared. Wonder if we will get a list of what these were at some point - perhaps just title if not the full docs.
What I don't understand is how this is different than Nike making shoes with child labor overseas in the "global south", etc. That harms children, for profit.

Facebook is a for profit organization. This is the rule with organizations like this. If given enough time, size, and lack of shielding, any corporation will eventually cause harm in some way.

We seem to have less focus on "Nike whistleblowers" or similar, you get the idea.
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Maybe she read the internal docs and meeting notes? Most employees wouldn't notice an proverbial elephant farm in another department aslong as it didn't involve them directly. Even if it was advertized in mails and on billboards ...
You can, however, closely examine a company[1] and the horrible things they're doing to create sane laws to restrict the whole market. Any anti-facebook law will probably strongly impact twitter and reddit among others - but it still can reasonably affect facebook in the largest manner. If it affects facebook in the largest manner because we all hate facebook then that's a load of horsedung - but it can affect facebook in the largest manner because they're doing all the stuff we don't want anyone to do.

1. (formally "a near monopoly" instead of "a company" - edited for clarity)
Don't know why you're being downvoted. As a too-online leftist, I can confirm that "lib" is short for liberal, and is applied to essentially any supporter of capitalism, even, or perhaps especially, those who position themselves as progressive. As indeed, it should be. /p
>The other posts that I meant "should be" aren't entirely wrong, but "crime", like most words, has more than one meaning,

Crime has a very specific meaning when we're talking about a legislative body conducting a hearing. It's not open to interpretation. A crime is something that violates existing statutes of law, period.
If it contains an "if" statement then GPUs won't like it, and I wouldn't call it "simple".
If money could buy taste, a lot of the world would look better than it does. Culture isn’t a function of dollars, and we’re very lucky to have many people at Stripe who just really, really want to do great work.

(There is proof that significant financial resources aren't needed to do great work in a lot of personal websites. Most recent example I came across: https://bruno-simon.com.)
For fuck sake can we please stop with this childish generational blame?

So many articles speak as if any generation had the ability to set the standards of employment in the industry.

Management, and what our government allowed them to get away with plays a far larger role than individuals do in a decentralized economy that is tech.

It isn't like there is a plant we could picket, or even an assurance that our jobs would stay within our own country.

Many people who have entered tech today, never saw the massive waves of outsourcing, this seemingly has normalized now, they weren't around for the dot com bubble that burst.

Arguable the worlds strongest unions (automotive) got their asses handed to them, because it became much easier to move manufacture than ever before.

It wasn't developers that had any control or recourse when we got placed in the exempt bracket, and workloads sky rocketed.

I remember lots of people quitting because of it, but I also remember a flood of people on work visas coming into replace them (to be clear I don't fault those that came in on visas, but did prevent labor from having any sort of strength in numbers or ability to force policy change.)

We had a toxic environment forced on us, through the same vehicle that almost every shitty thing has, greed, our government had no idea how to handle when labor stopped having physical bounds, and they opened up the flood gates to let companies do what they want as long as they didn't leave.
I more commonly see "shitlib" which pretty concisely summarizes the corporatist, militarist, fake-center positions taken by these politicians.
Quite a lot/too much, but recently I've started moving it out to an investment isa, which in the UK is a flexible shares fund. You can put in 20k a year without further tax liability.
These days several sources can be found stating that the Tulip Mania story is a tad overblown. I will post just one article [0], but many can be found.

> Prices could be high, but mostly they weren’t. Although it’s true that the most expensive tulips of all cost around 5,000 guilders (the price of a well-appointed house), I was able to identify only 37 people who spent more than 300 guilders on bulbs, around the yearly wage of a master craftsman. Many tulips were far cheaper. With one or two exceptions, these top buyers came from the wealthy merchant class and were well able to afford the bulbs. Far from every chimneysweep or weaver being involved in the trade, the numbers were relatively small, mainly from the merchant and skilled artisan class – and many of the buyers and sellers were connected to each other by family, religion, or neighbourhood. Sellers mainly sold to people they knew.

> When the crash came, it was not because of naive and uninformed people entering the market, but probably through fears of oversupply and the unsustainability of the great price rise in the first five weeks of 1637. None of the bulbs were actually available – they were all planted in the ground – and no money would be exchanged until the bulbs could be handed over in May or June. So those who lost money in the February crash did so only notionally: they might not get paid later. Anyone who had both bought and sold a tulip on paper since the summer of 1636 had lost nothing. Only those waiting for payment were in trouble, and they were people able to bear the loss.

> No one drowned themselves in canals. I found not a single bankrupt in these years who could be identified as someone dealt the fatal financial blow by tulip mania. If tulip buyers and sellers appear in the bankruptcy records, it’s because they were buying houses and goods of other people who had gone bankrupt for some reason – they still had plenty of money to spend. The Dutch economy was left completely unaffected. The “government” (not a very useful term for the federal Dutch Republic) did not shut down the trade, and indeed reacted slowly and hesitantly to demands from some traders and city councils to resolve disputes. The provincial court of Holland suggested that people talk it out among themselves and try to stay out of the courts: no government regulation here.

[0]: https://theconversation.com/tulip-mania-the-classic-story-of...
The mysterious sex lives of dinosaurs
Many countries all over the world does light frame wood construction. The question is perhaps why that’s done flimsier in the US then. Or isn’t it? An 8-10” stud framed house is a reasonably well built and insulated construction. A building framed with 2x4” studs is an uninsulated bike shed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol would like a word
From the author's summary thread:

- DBaaS is Familiar and Flexible

- Serverless data platforms may be scalable and easy but are not so much Familiar and Flexible.

This new Timescale Cloud approach offers :

Easy and Scalable

- Modern cloud architecture, fully decoupled compute & storage

- Autoscaling for worry-free operation

- Autoconfig and autotuning, including whenever resources change

- Easy to get started and scale with need

Familiar and Flexible

- Full SQL

- Built on Postgres (relational db mental model)

- Works w/ all Postgres-compatible tools, connectors, & apps

- Developers can be immediately productive, building on existing skills

So it's addressing those gaps in the current solutions...
A ‘whistleblower’ who claims FB isn’t censoring enough?

Isn’t manipulating and curating political views enough?

Gimme a break...

This is like something you’d read in the Gulag Archipelago.
The whistleblower revealed that Facebook knows it is bad for society. The documents also show Facebook actively optimizes its algorithms for "bad for society" content because that drives engagement which makes them more money. Furthermore Facebook doesn't do as much content moderation in regions/languages with low usage numbers because it costs more than those users make them. So calls for genocide in Myanmar basically go unchallenged and unmoderated because Facebook doesn't make much money in Myanmar. Sorry genocided minority, you should have been more valuable to Facebook.
We could fix this with a 100% social media tax.
If you can't moderate your platform, you shouldn't have a platform.

This "Boo hoo we can't moderate ... " wipes tears with billions of dollars... is deadly comedy, yet lots of people fall for it.
To clarify, when I refer to ballots being destroyed I’m referring to electoral college ballots being destroyed by rioters during the Jan 6 insurrection. It wasn’t a coincidence that they were called to DC on that particular day when a normally extremely boring and mundane procedure is carried out. It has no symbolic value, it has no cultural value, it has no value except ensuring the legal, procedural basis for transition of power. That’s why it was attacked.

Yes, if that succeeded, it would’ve harmed the US.

In any case, your suggestion that the democrats “actually want to erode [election integrity] further” reveals a lot.
> Zuckerberg is fighting them so adamantly, for now, because he still views Facebook as his.

He's doing it because he's new money. His children's children will be properly socialized to wield money and power without becoming a household name (personally—people might know your family name, from all the buildings it's on).
Not being audited is key here. Would you trust closed source software to live up to its security promises without audits? I sure wouldn't!
Just clarifying. Why is political polarization harmful?
The screenshots look to me like half smart spreadsheet, half automagic admin ui on steroids. And I mean this positively, that's really rather impressive looking.
That coin problem is fun. I’m not really familiar with insight problems like this, so it took about a minute to get it.
That is actually quite nifty. That way you can carry debug logs and only materialise/send them in case of errors when you are likely interested in it without having to put those logs at error and see them all the time etc.

Does anyone know of an implementation for this in any of the Java logging frameworks?
Facebook likely knew the identity of the leaker right away. There was little advantage to maintaining the illusion of anonymity at this point.
Understandable, these are so damn noisy. I often wonder how it must be like for other animals, there just isn't any place left humans aren't massively influencing and polluting. The constant noise from cars, ships, planes, etc. must be really stressful.
Look at most of the biggest banks' website and their UI/UX is not even in the same league. I feel like stripe understood that their main clients are web geeks, so they are ready to pay the price and give the ressources needed for a good website.
Freight seems like the ideal application, for landlocked regions of the planet that lack adequate rail links (e.g. central Africa and Central Asia)
There are one to two multimedia SoCs in a car. There are hundreds to thousands of mixed-signal and power ASICs in a car. Those are on large nodes, not because they're outdated, but because that's what you use for power and mixed signal. TSMC N7 is great for that 2 GHz ARM quad-core SoC, but garbage when you need to drive a piezo fuel valve.
It’s because that blockchain someone made is being used as national currency somewhere (and contributing needlessly to global energy consumption), and because that photo sharing site is causing body image issues, and that ad-tracker is building a digital trail of everything you do, and that ML algo is identifying protestors, and and and …

We are not discussing the shit show, we are the shit show.
I think amounts of different types of spam one gets is variable, but it's trivial to ignore email spam. Even a smaller amount of spam in your snail mailbox has some negative side effects over spam in your email mailbox.

* An overstuffed mailbox tells burglars you're away

* There's more waste involved - it mostly goes to landfill (unopened)

* An overstuffed mailbox leaves less room for legit mail (most email services are good at creating a focused mailbox, so there's not the same signal to noise issue there)

* ID theft is probably easier from intercepting a preapproved credit card application than being able to hack your email password
Still wish he was around. Apple has made some interesting stuff, but I think it would have been so much better with steve at the helm.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but a big focus of his was user friendly affordable tech. Not luxury items like apple is now.
Debit interchange is regulated, and much lower than credit.
Why should we not also apply these laws to companies worth 100M that are doing the same crap? We gain nothing by finely targetting these laws especially if it allows some facebook-like clone to enter the market and change one minor thing to dodge having the same oversight.
Show HN: Recognize any triplet of objects live (but not real-time)
I want to know more about climate dentistry.
Note that the comparison is backwards, so by that line of thinking it would sort in reverse (descending) order …but it doesn't
100%! Unfortunately even with 60+ years of us formally knowing this-- at least since WWII-- it's very difficult to fight the urge to blame and punish people for incidents.

In many ways we're wired to do it and it FEELS GOOD to do it. Even the industries that are championed for focusing on organizational process over human blame (ex: airlines) are often lulled into initially falling back on the emotional knee-jerk of "pilot error" (see: the early days of the 737 max debacle).

Companies have to be very intentional, usually top-down, about focusing on the context that allowed humans to fail instead of the human themself. That's often easier said than done.
It seems to be a fairly recent addition, a few months ago "Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit" came up on HN and I was able to read that just fine. Now the corpo-firewall locks me out. Its like they want me to be productive, or something.
I mean, sure, then it isn't targeting a specific company. But it baffles me why you'd want to put a Market Cap threshold instead of regulating all social media companies evenly regardless of size. Your "rule" wouldn't have applied to Parler, for example.
The importance here is she understands the B2C model for revenue which is to test and test some more and let the date optimize your funnel. That’s the story and that method has lots of unintended chickens coming home to roost
She has politics written all over - not to worry.
There's a few problems with the premise you outline.

1) This imagines only that there is no reason to extract minerals that far into the solar system.

2) It ignores that some technologies are much improved by proximity to the Sun, e.g.: Solar Sails are roughly twice as effective, which could change the calculus.

3) Mineral deposits may or may not be uniformly distributed throughout the solar system.

4) Mineral deposits may be more readily accessible than in other places.

> Why do that if you have billions of flying bodies in much more convenient places flying around the Sun waiting to be docked to to extract resources?

A space mining operation would need to offset a variety of costs. If you can land on Mercury and scrape up platinum powder with a shovel versus needing to completely process a 1-km long asteroid to get the same amount of platinum, it's not exactly de facto in favor of the asteroid.

Mineral surveying of nearby asteroids is certainly in its infancy and is likely to be where we get the bulk of our resources but I don't think it's quite so simple a case as you're presenting that closer to the sun = waste of time/money.
A good article about how some groups are dealing with the fact that Facebook isn't open enough (for them):

https://restofworld.org/2021/homegrown-facebook-for-the-far-...

Everyone has their pet issue with Facebook. For some, it's lack of openness. For others, Facebook is too open. Everyone seems to have an opinion about which lines Facebook is and isn't allowed to cross, and for every group it's a slightly different set of lines, for a slightly different set of reasons.

My point is that nobody is correct -- Facebook isn't the cultural monolith it is because of its actions, but because of the actions of our global culture. If you want to be angry at someone, look in the (societal) mirror.
Money helps, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient.

I've been at a company that many considered to have excellent design and that received a lot of attention here (Heroku). There was a culture that permeated the company around beautiful design and what I would call "maker excellence". It was a place where people who liked building great things (both engineers and designers) felt at home.
Is that really simpler? Both “until sorted” and “assign a random order” look significantly more complex than this entire algorithm.
You could search for an archived mirror of ftp.netscape.com. Like for example https://ftp.nluug.nl/netscape/communicator/english/4.77/unix...
Fair enough. I guess it boils down to what's worse: you _will_ lose money on the transaction because someone is taking it from you, or you _may_ lose money after the transaction.

For example, take a $1 donation that PayPal takes their 50-cent fee out of. That's a guaranteed loss of 50%. You'd have to be extremely risk adverse to take a 50% loss to avoid even crypto volatility.

It's all tradeoffs. Volatility sucks. Fees suck. But they suck more or less depending on the situation.
Their business plan is to fund the free tier with optional premium features like extra storage, live voice and video calling, etc.