skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> https://xosh.org/VisualizingSorts/sorting.html#IYZwngdgxgBAZ...

That is the most beautiful thing in CS I've ever seen.
I've thought a lot about his legacy lately with the permanently on-going horror story that is Facebook and Mark Zuckerburg.

For all of Steve's flaws, from an outside observer like myself, it seems that his intentions/desires/goals for Apple, Pixar, NeXT were mostly, or at least equally, fueled by genuinely wanting to improve the lives of humans.

Among the rarified air of modern radical world-changing billionaire CEO's, anyone else think this is why there is a fandom for Elon Musk and not like the likes of Bezos? Because, again, despite his flaws, he seems to be at least oriented towards some idea of greater good?
Improving the developer experience with smart forms
Santa Claus is the witness of how much pain I faced developing forms. For years, my letter to him banged for a dream come true. I dreamt of a library abstracting away all the ordinary (and boring) work needed to build a form. Although Santa continues to ignore me completely, developing a form this Christmas can be radically different from the previous ones.
Facebook also had a nearly 24-hour outage in 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/technology/facebook-whats... (or http://archive.today/O7ycB )
Depends how she play it. From a work perspective she sadly might have a tough time getting employed at other companies. It would depend on how she plays the next bit though. That said I wouldn't be surprised if theres a book that comes out of this given the amount of media already surrounding this.

I am curious what her longer term goals are - she is clearly intelligent, has solid PM experience in the industry and is certainly aware of what she is doing. I'm guessing there is a strategy of some sort at play - maybe leading an NFP for better corporate practices. Best of luck either way hope this changes things in a meaningful way!
They always bring the kids when they want to control the flow of information. Don't fall for it. She is clearly planted, voluntarily or involuntarily.
Oh yeah. I'm miserable. I have a 'dream career' but the reality of it is so unsettling. I work in a laboratory where collaboration only happens if it directly benefits someone's career in an "I'm famous" way... not an "I contributed to an important work" way. This is not unique. It's systemic.

My job largely revolves around seeming important, not doing good work.
And actually the <project>Web macros are a great way to show people when macros are useful. A fun exercise for beginners might be to have them manually import those modules. And it illuminates some aspects of Phoenix in general e.g. "oh I'm importing Phoenix.Controller in all my views." In other words, the fact that you're rendering a view from a controller is not the reason you have controller functions available in your views, it's because your importing Phoenix.Controller when you "use ProjectWeb, :view"
I got my parents a call blocking box that has a big red button. If they get a robocall they just push the button and the number is blocked. It's dramatically cut down on the amount of junk calls they get. They too are a lot less likely to answer a call from a number they don't recognize, letting it go to the answering machine where if it's a legit call they can just pick up and interrupt the machine.

Answering machines - how quaint (yet effective for call screening!)
>FYI the lady was the Product Manager and ran the entire Civic Engagement group. She's not just a project manager working on a team of devs.

See, i'd just like to hear more of this

* How many direct reports did she have?

* What was her official FB level?

* What level of management were in meetings with her?

* Who did she directly report into?

All really good context most people are ignoring
I'd love to talk to you! I'm making a browser which already has automated ML tagging and full text search of content (should you enable it) so you don't really need bookmarks to do smart search and recall. We also have a really cool and well indexed snippet tool built in for pieces of information you want to keep and share. Id love to learn more about your use cases, if you're interested reach out to parham@synth.app :)
> One, most of the mainstream news has at least basic editorial processes in place that do a rudimentary check on truthiness.

Come on, man. There are just so many counter examples, from the "paper of record" NYT (1619 Project) to MSNBC (Russia nonsense) to Fox News (literally everything) to Rolling Stone (A Rape on Campus) I could sit here all day listing outright lies and untruths published in the pages of mainstream media outlets in order to push an agenda.
I'm using a screen reader and FF regularly crashes due to some broken memory management in the accessibility service. If this unloading cleans the memory before it gets critical, I'm all for it.
Edward Snowden is absolutely a leftist (see this recent Twitter post, for example: https://mobile.twitter.com/Snowden/status/144519346396045721...). Russel Brand is a leftist, though he sometimes speaks in ways the cultural left would rather he didn't.

Glenn Greenwald and Julian Assange both certainly used to be leftists, and may still be at heart, but they've both let personal grudges define their alliances for them and offend a lot of allies on the left. They're certainly not meaningfully right-wing, though.
I agree it's important to discuss the WHY in things, but I don't see how that applies to my confusion around the usage of the term "whistleblower" at all.
Question both then?
It's easy to conclude that now that we understand just how bad tobacco is. But if you rewind a bit, I think people would have said the upsides of smoking were:

- It helps you relax and makes you feel good

- Promotes socialization with the other smokers you know

- Helps you look sophisticated / cool

- I don't have the citation handy, but I recall seeing old advertising campaigns that touted all kinds of benefits

Now we know that none of those perceived benefits matter since the more likely outcomes are severe health issues and death. Doesn't matter if it fosters community if that community will die because of it.

The other part of the comparison that gets a bit messy is that the existence of social media isn't necessarily the primary issue - it's the application of engagement algorithms that prioritize specific types of content. That is what I'd argue has no inherent value (aside from monetary), or dubious value at best.

I'm not saying this is the choice that must be made, but it is conceivable that the harm caused by the current state of the product is enough to mitigate the positive factors.
The tabs are the bookmarks, we just need better management of tab contents (ephemeral, short term persist, long term persist, etc).
Amazing haha. If anything, I think this just shows the importance of people with real organization and management skills.

Institutions are important for sustainability
I agree. I had a bad feeling when .Net core was released and billed as Microsoft "embracing" open source. I've been hoping the typical extinguish would not follow, but it seems Microsoft hasn't yet learned the value in nurturing a truly independent, open source community.
If a poem (or book) makes 10% of its readers more likely to become geniuses and contribute to solving world problems such as cancer, but 0.1% of its readers are more likely to commit suicide, should that book be banned by law?

Today's online society is based on posts created by content creators around the world, where algorithms can barely scratch the surface at interpreting their content, humans don't scale in reviewing every post, but statistics such as the above could be arguably inferred easily based on a combination of engagement (click/scrolls) data and attrition/session-revisits numbers.

Which is really problematic, because codifying into law rules and punishments based on aggregated outcomes and impact to us as a society (or to society sub-segments such as teens) makes it a very hard process to navigate between censorship vs. positive overall outcome vs. specific negative outcome on some outliers.
Ask HN: How is BGP configuration managed
I assume most of the core BGP routers are all Cisco and run Cisco IOS. Are there tools equivalent to Terraform that allow network engineers to apply router configuration programmatically, with an audit trail, and rollback support?
A sibling comment thread makes the observation that proof of work with variable volumes of work set for different groups could be a good system. Like setting the work needed for your newsletter to 0, and complete unknowns take two minutes of CPU time, that sort of thing.
And it was never discussed nor has it ever really been revisited since, as you point out in your own comments on that issue. This is part of the larger issue of how the DFN interacts (or lack thereof) with its own member projects and usually only lets us know about changes after they're announced
I understand the broad point. What I am asking for is if there are specific examples of intelligence agencies infiltrating the staffing of hacker zines, which is what the parent was suggesting.
> One of the things the whistleblower mentioned in her 60 Minutes interview is that European political parties complained that Facebook incentivizes taking more extremism political positions.

Not much love for Facebook from me, but literally all of the European political parties complaining are just looking for a cheap scapegoat for their own failures. Strings of corruption and lobbyism scandals (especially in the conservative and long-establishment parties), other personal utter failures to lead a party or country as well as failure to see and act upon the side effects of three decades of rabid globalization and unregulated hyper-capitalism past the fall of the Soviet Union are what led to the erosion of the classic European Social Democrat and Christian Democrat-type parties.
Unsurprised to see recently minted HN accounts take this opportunity to slag him off
For someone who simply wants ultra-scalable Postgres (~2B rows per month ingested) that is only loosely "time series", can you share your thoughts on TimescaleDB vs Citus (w/ newly released columnar functionality)? When should someone choose one over the other? Thanks!
Activists Are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest
Thanks, that list really is awesome, will have to spend some time looking through it.
You must be a poor. She doesn't need a job, she worked in SV for a decade at 4 startups that went unicorn. Her yearly bonus at FB was probably 7 figures.
I semi-regularly come across what I believe to be messed up BGP routes (doing support for global companies trying to reach specific webhosts) and yet I'm still just absolutely stumped on find any way to report the issues.

I imagine that's to reduce support load on the network teams running all of this, but some kind of check would be helpful.
i have the prince of persia book and i absolutely LOVE it. it's so well done!
Oh, I apologize! I was under the impression that your executable would work without the /usr/bin/script workaround. My bad!
I was aware of the Cygwin's tmux quirk, but not the script workaround. Thanks again for the detailed help!
How do you see the files?
Time to start learning Portuguese then.. Here in France anything above 5m2 needs to be declared (plus taxed), and anything above 20m2 needs a permit.
It is completely logical but still kind of amazing, that facebook plugged their globally distributed datacenters together with physical wire.
I'm not sure this would have the effect you want.

You tax Facebook but allow it to operate however it wants. Facebook is then incentivized to double down on its algorithms---like tobacco companies using chemical and biological techniques to make cigarettes more addictive---in order to regain the lost profits.
Facebook Can't Be Saved
"Best phone" is clearly subjective.

"Doing everything we can" is at least somewhat objective. If a contractor says he's painting your house as well as he can, when he's actually on vacation in Hawaii, that statement is clearly false.
Alex, have you considered finding existing projects for your students to help out with, perhaps like Code for America, an open source project, or a business in their community, instead of creating a new website or app from scratch?

IMO it would be better for the student if they got exposure to mentorship from within the organization for which they were working. And it would probably be better for the non-profit if they had the resources to maintain it after your student rolled off the project into hopefully a full-time job.

If a non-profit didn't have the means to pay someone to build and properly maintain the site already, they probably aren't capable technology or money-wise to make sure it is properly maintained. Except for a static information only site, IMO it would be irresponsible to have a site that may be collecting private information to have the potential to eventually be sitting unmaintained, and perhaps, unprotected.
Shortly after his... other last words to his family. https://nypost.com/2018/08/02/steve-jobs-told-his-daughter-s...
You attract more flies with honey.

I don’t see a positive message anywhere. I see that they’re against certain things, but what do they positively offer? Is the experience truly better or is it just “not THAT”.
VAT pays for our free schools and healthcare, transaction fees go into banks coffers. For you as an individual, some things are more expensive to purchase in Europe, sure, but I think equivocating the two is false.

E: I didn't read the guy you were answering closely enough. In the context of his comment, yours of course makes perfect sense.
https://runyourown.social might be a helpful read.
> Conservatives want to increase the power of those government institutions that are the least accountable, and are most connected to the use of violence: the police and the military.

That's just not true. Conservatives want to balance the need for police to enforce the law with the risk that the police acquire too much power. Also, conservatives recognize far more correctly than the left that we need military strength. It was the leftist call for demilitarization prior to WWII that contributed to Hitler's success. The left-leaning Jimmy Carter found his policies wholly inadequate for dealing with the Soviet Union. In contrast, it was Winston Churchill that saved Britain in WWII, and it was Ronald Reagan's expansion of military spending that bankrupted the Soviet Union. Leftists have grand ideas of defunding the police and military that simply don't work in reality.

> The Left ultimately wants to abolish government power and create a stateless, classless society

The left think they can create utopias. Again, their grandiose visions never work in reality. Where has this stateless, classless, society ever succeeded? The 20th century is littered with the bodies of those slain in pursuit of false utopias.

> The Democratic Party is far from being controlled by leftists:

Biden's administration is by far the most leftist we have seen in history. It makes Obama's administration seem almost reasonable. 6-10 trillion in projected socialist spending on socialist programs, unconstitutional eviction moratoria, authoritarian health mandates, and woke agendas with regards to race, gender, and public education, all provide a wealth of evidence that your current view on the democratic party may not be grounded in reality either, at least when it comes to what they are actually doing.
I doubt Facebook engineers are free-typing commands on Bash, so it’s probably not an individual error. More likely to be a race condition or other edge case that wasn’t considered during a review. This might be a script that’s run 1000s of times before with no problems.
I agree, and that's why I said "rudimentary". Still, as content producers and not algorithmic aggregators, both their ability and success at amplifying disinformation is much, much less than Facebook's. Even Breitbart or DailyKOS's impacts -- as outlets who often and purposefully distort the truth -- are not even rounding errors to Facebook's sheer scale.
It's not unethical at all. It adheres to the 1st amendment. If anything, the censorship is illegal.
Or how he taunted Alvy Ray Smith because of his Southern accent. Or how his example continues to be used to excuse bad behavior today ("but Steve Jobs did it that way").
I agree with holding all media accountable. But the problem with what you say is that for millions and millions 'news' is actually BS opinion shows. On both sides but from my perspective Fox & Murdoch's empire abroad has done far more harm than say Maddow preaching whatever riles that audience up.

The actual press, WaPo, NyTimes (which does great docs, so does Vice imho) have rigid editorial process. Yet I still on HN people say NyTimes is liberal which I don't belive either.
It’s not clear to me that any of the proposed causes are singly driving the shortages. The closest analogy in my mind is that our global production and logistics system is suffering from multiple shifting bottlenecks with secondary induced inefficiencies. Those new inefficiencies include JIT buffer exhaustion, related slowdowns, capacity reduction, priority inversions and resource contention.
True. I am a non native speaker picking sometimes the wrong idioms
We solve that by treating shared resources as a separate project.
It was my dream to meet Steve. Would not have gone down this road of trying to build things I love if not for finding inspiration from watching him present all those products.
Thank You Steve.
I absolutely disagree but I'm upvoting anyway because it's an argument I haven't seen before with regards to making algorithms public and god knows the discourse could use some variety.

That being said. No. This is no more a free speech issue than forcing food manufacturers to make their ingredients public.
Was this a way to delete a lot of evidence before shit really hit the fan?'

After reading this, I can't help but feel this was a calculated move.

It gives FB a chance to hijack media attention from the whistleblower. It gives them a chance to show the average peson, 'hey, we make mistakes and we have a review process to improve our systems'.

The timing is too perfect if you ask me.
Hi Bryanaka, I'm a QA Engineer interested in learning more about the role. What's the best place to reach you?
I beg to differ with an extreme contrarian view of design. I mostly belong in the International Style camp and I see everything through the lens of Uber-functionalism and judge that decoration is a crime. Stripe camps out on the decoration side of things.

I do find it sexy and bedazzling but that’s exactly why it is not interesting to me. Also Stripe’s taste is copied en-made to the point where it has become a self-propelling cliche in design. A good problem to have I suppose!
This thread reminds me of the last Steve Jobs related thread. So many people bashing Jobs based on stories they’ve read having never met him and knowing little about him. People seem to think they even know his private medical history based on only public reports. So much judgement and criticism and it feels completely unnecessary. It’s the kind of pointless outrage type comments we tend not to find very often on HN, but Steve Jobs seems to bring it out in people. I don’t doubt there are many valid criticisms of Jobs but it’s depressing that a thread linking to a post about his 10th anniversary has almost no talk of the incredible contributions he made in life.
yup, once you "get your hand in" and only focus on the correct footprint/pad layout and a little silk, it becomes faster to just sketch out parts with fewer than 32 pins than finding (and validating!) random libs
The section at the end -- "Haugen contacted state officials and the SEC" talks about the parts of the whistleblower documents that show that Facebook was misleading investors. That is criminal under current US law.

I think people are more mad about the other things in the documents--most people are more sympathetic to harm done to kids' mental health than to investors' bottom line, but lying to investors is the one that's illegal.
No, we live in a constitutional republic.
>There should be no question, that what FB is doing here, while not illegal, is highly dubious ethically.

Why, what exactly are they doing that is ethically dubious? So far based on what I have read of this whistleblower's revelations, I do not have a problem with Facebook doing any of it.
Anyone know if the *BSDs are following this work in parallel or plan on doing the same? It would be nice to have some choice — yea I know MacOS is Darwin plus the BSD userland but I like the idea of throwing FreeBSD on an old M1 when I get sick of Linux (even if I eventually go back to a distro…)
They’ve lied to the public and (if the lies were material to investors) that’s securities fraud.
Why make it expensive? So that only gigacoros can send newsletters?

Just don't sign up to mailing lists you don't like, or learn how to use temp email addresses and/or email+filter variables
> Yes; another way of looking at it is that the US government represents the "dictatorship of Capital".

When you consider that the driving question of the conflict behind the American War for Independence, and so essentially the founding idea of our state, was, "should aristocrats have most of the political power, or should rich businessmen have most of the political power?" this is what one would expect, really.
You are overestimating how much this entire saga (including yesterday's outage) has affected Facebook's share price.
Both are true. Both the news and social media optimize for clickbait, which bad actors use to slip in misinformation. What's funny is, people use the exact language about the news. They'll say that CNN is just being used by the far left to promote far-left views, or that Fox News is being used by the far-right to promote far-right views. Yet when the medium is Facebook instead of the media, suddenly it's a problem that must be solved with more laws.
Authorize.net payment gateway using SOAP and XML. Don't want to go there again.
Hm.

I've got an M1 Mini laying around (Apple annoyed me enough in the past six months that I've gone away from them entirely, replacing a M1 Mini with an ODroid N2+, among other things). If it's daily drivable, I suppose I should see about getting Linux installed on it. I've not gotten around to selling it yet...
I put the term "whistleblower" in quotes because I think it has been the wrong term right from the beginning.

I also don't think that "simple case of altruism" ever describes whistleblowing. To do something that will likely cost your job at least, and see you incarcerated at worst, requires a level of conviction about certain things that most people do not share. Even the whistleblowers that almost nobody questions any more (e.g. Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers) had viewpoints that most people would have said "tainted" their behavior beyond mere altruism. They wanted the world to be different.
During the outage, FB briefly made the world a better place
A frustration is how often these discussions are America centric, and the whistleblower herself pointed out how little integrity work is done on most other languages - that integrity software is not even pushed to those regions. The specific example discussed was Ethiopia where facebook has integrity teams(?) for 2 out of 5 languages.

However, its remiss to say this is just a FB thing. Want to work on hate detection in any complex region. The ease with which you can do hate speech detection in English (with all its caveats) pales in comparison to working on commonly shared content in other regions.
Especially for the relatively poor red states that depend on blue state subsidy.
I don’t want to discourage you, but A LOT of software engineering is fixing things.

Coming from someone who also said “I want to build things not fix them” when I picked CS when I was 18.

To be fair, I went to ODU though and didn’t have the best grades.
More details : https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/out...