skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly recommend you give this your time and attention. Two things I find striking and admirable about her testimony, that absolutely make it worth watching even if you are already familiar with the controversy:

1. She is consistent and focused at explaining the issue as a systemic problem with incentives, not a question of good people versus evil people.

2. She is skillfully demonstrating how to deliver strong criticism without scorn but rather with empathy, compassion, and a spirit of collaboration toward all involved.

These qualities are what really set this apart from other criticism of social media, and both are incredibly important and healthy in a world where Facebook and Twitter have normalized the opposite.

And as a result, to my astonishment, both Republicans and Democrats are engaging with this more intelligently, patiently, and constructively than I have ever seen. It really has to be seen to be believed.
We (the users) are the product anyway, they can only apologize to themselves for missing out on making money yesterday.
I did some work with payment gateways in the 90s; never again!

Also, I did some work with the GSMA (mobile carrier association) specitied SOAP based SMS api. That was exciting... Turns out different implementations of the server need different xml posted to them, even though they theoretically use the same spec. And then there's SMPP which is an open specification, except the standards org disbanded and shut their website, so you've got to find random PDFs out on the web somewhere.
The best way to be different is to be different. Don't even say serverless at all. You're falling into the trap of being like everyone else.
As a former Defcon attendee from the 90s, what made Defcon so successful as a business IMHO was that it was run and managed by folks who were only tangentially associated with the wider hacking community. Most of us who considered ourselves "underground" would never have dreamed of commercializing a conference the way DT did. At best you'd sell t-shirts to help pay for the cost of the venue.

It was definitely not associated with the military or govt. at the time though. That really came about with the founding of Blackhat and the open wooing of the Feds.

I should also say that almost no "hacker" conference, even back then, was primarily attended by hackers. We used to joke back then that Defcon was a "retarded fashion show" (sorry for the offensive terminology). There were always more journalists, narcs, and hangers-on at cons back then than people who were actually hacking anything.
Hmm ... I'm personally getting tired of this "well, it's currently legal" .. law changes start with moral indignation. We are at that junction now. Although accurate, let's park the legality lines.
Besides BGP, are there other somewhat-obscure Internet protocols that have the power to cause major outages?
It's a misleading comparison.

From what I read, trafficking / sex slavery was (is) happening via some places on FB, the company knew about it, did nothing. For example.

Edit: the article from this HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28741532 , search for "traffickers" and "drug cartels". /Edit.

Understaffed moderation teams, although FB had lots of money
Sounds like you’re agreeing with me?
When was the last time we used coinage that was actually worth its face value? Seems meaningless to me
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> A margin loan is very different to the kind of financing agreement a company will enter into

The original post you were replying to talked about founders borrowing against their company's shares as individuals, not companies.

> it is unlikely that a lending institution will accept shares as collateral due to the wrong way risk

That's my point: Nobody's getting a special financing deal on their company stock as individuals to eliminate their margin call risk.

Multi-billion dollar hedge funds get a personal contact at the bank, but even they will get margin-called borrowing against stocks as collateral if it goes against them.
In my experience there's two reasons to use mewe:

1)You're part of a community that imploded when G+ closed which has moved to Mewe

2)You're obsessively anti-FB and dont' care that you're posting to an empty room.

I've been on it since 2018 (reason #1) and don't really see any other positives.
I am an engineer and to me "serverless" means I don't pay money when I'm not using it. Which I like.
Do you plan on creating „real“ Github Actions actions to integrate with releases? All examples mentioned here use the github-script action, which, to me, feels like a workaround. Or some form of direct integration into Github Actions, e.g. configure a workflow as „pre-release“ and the tags and release notes are created automatically?

Given the currently documented automation features, I don’t see how this provides a tangible improvement to our team setups compared to current solutions like auto or semantic-release.
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Which says more about the emasculated regulatory regime in the US than anything else. There are no penalties, or none of any real meaning, for causing to harm to consumers or the community, but violating the holy tenet of maximizing shareholder value is almost a cardinal sin.
What part of Gmail is open?
> My original point was that the reason for the performance drop likely wasn't related to algorithms. In practice, algorithms rarely are the issue. To clarify, in practice, what you use 90% of the time are plain arrays and indices / pointers. Occasionally you'll use a hashmap to lookup (distributed) or cache something.

This doesn't make any sense. It sounds like you're implying that algorithms are not... using plain arrays and pointers? But that's exactly how algorithms are usually constructed. Even the HashMaps you mentioned are typically implemented by using arrays and pointers. If you use arrays and pointers to write something that, let's say, has O(n^3) time complexity when the same operation could be written with O(n) time complexity, then you have an algorithm problem.

> Performance drops in the real world are most often explained by lack of understanding what certain library calls do, lack of understanding what are their performance characteristics, and/or lack of understanding what needs to be done to satisfy the requirements, or what the requirements should even be.

This is such a weak excuse. If you don't understand why a library call is crushing your performance, then stop using that library. People typically use libraries to do the tiniest of tasks, tasks that could often be solved with custom code that can be written in an hour. As the result of this attitude we have terminals that have performance issues... for rendering colored text. That's insane! Sometimes it feels like this whole field is just people gluing together pieces made by other people, with no understanding whatsoever about how everything works. There's no excusing for this behavior.
Thank you. I have not heard of thinning blood that is interesting! Kind of on that topic I have read a lot about inflammation casual relationship to lots of problems. As I'm getting older in my sport I take a lot more Ibuprofen than I used too ;) maybe going daily isn't such a bad idea?

Yes 100% on socialization that was my first intuition.
> you don’t consider those to be “intimate details of their lives”?

I consider all of those to be intimate details of their lives. I cannot purchase that information from Facebook.

What makes this more confusing and frustrating is that there are companies that do sell user data to Facebook. Not in the handwave-y, roundabout way people that OP describes, but in the standard "I give you $$$, you give me transaction data" way.
Would love to hear more, as I know a stakeholder involved in beta testing and that's not the ground truth I'm hearing (working as expected, deployment ahead of schedule). Don't violate any NDAs of course.
Enron is another fascinating example, there is an interview with the former CFO where he talks about what he calls "legal fraud" - practices that are highly dubious but technically not illegal [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/goQhGqQtFZ4
Thank you TC!!
You better be sure the incumbents would fight tooth and nail make this look like a very unattractive idea and lobby heavily to make sure it will never happen.
There's a handful of horrible websites that use enormous amounts of CPU and memory. You don't need too many of those to drag a browser down. I am a thousands-of-tabs user (and yes it's an awesome productivity hack for a number of my workflows, but never mind that) and I don't normally have any problems. Unless I make the mistake of opening some trash website (Slack used to be like that, I've not used Slack in years so I don't know if it still is) and then it bogs down everything.
Using adb is a feature only in developer mode, plugged into SDK tools.

You can enjoy PyDroid for the time being,

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.iiec.pydroi...

But it might not be around for long,

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/29/google_play_python_ja...
I don't care about them being too open or not. My issue is with them pushing sensational content because it's good for their bottom line. IMHO Alex Jones should have a place to post his male enhancement promotional videos, but if a platform is curating the content and decides to recommend it to everyone because it increases time on site and engagement then they should be responsible for that choice.

I have a consumer app and met with some of the early investors in the top social media companies. They all only cared about DAU/MAU, time in app and user growth. All of them recommended books like Hooked (https://medium.com/startup-grind/nir-eyal-why-you-are-addict...), to help us design something that's more addictive, or anything from BJ Fogg (https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2021/10...), who had founders of Instagram and Snapchat as his students. A few of them even tried to get us to hire the new hot thing, Dopamine Labs (https://www.builtinla.com/2018/01/11/dopamine-labs-boost-use...), who promised to have "AI" to get users addicted with custom notifications.

I used to think that behavioral psychology was bullshit (my GF studied psychology too), but being exposed to it in the industry there's no denying that some of it works. There's a reason why all headlines are clickbait now and all thumbnails on youtube and netflix are of weird facial expressions (https://www.avclub.com/why-does-everyone-on-youtube-make-the...). It turns out even the color of your app icon can make an impact on how noticeable it is, leading to more downloads and usage (https://uplandsoftware.com/localytics/resources/blog/tips-fo...)
So far NetBSD and OpenBSD are working on the M1 port.

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/apple/ for NetBSD install instructions.

I don't see a focus on the FreeBSD side (yet?) however.
"anyone with some covid symptoms" and "compelling within a reasonable degree of certainty" are not the same thing, no.
The press and media are an old and mature ecosystem that has legal framework around it . These new companies are using free content, and sometimes free moderation but still act like the press. There's something unsustainable about that and sooner or later the society and the law would have to deal with it.

There's something particularly unethical about companies that hide behind "User generated content" and "external fact-checkers".
Unesco Calls on UK to Return Parthenon Marbles to Greece
if magic books were real, then the way we would have to treat books would be much different.
A lot of compounds get stored in fat cells, so losing fat can slowly release them back into your bloodstream. Not fun, hope it works out for you.
yep. as the OP said: There is a reason why most monad tutorials use Haskell: without syntactic support, monads are pretty clunky to use.

(You could probaby go further and say "without semantic support.")
Was this ever confirmed? NYT tech reporter Mike Isaac issued a correction to his previous reporting about it.

> the team dispatched to the Facebook site had issues getting in because of physical security but did not need to use a saw/ grinder.

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1445196576956162050
Yes, that's it. It was(is?) a .Net Foundation project that was included in ASP.NET Core starter templates. The maintainers decided to go non-FOSS for the future.

Interestingly though, there seemed to be no talk or discussion of finding new maintainers for the .Net Foundation project. Microsoft decided to update their templates for the upcoming .Net 6 to use the new, non FOSS identity server project(despite their being no real need for any identity server in these setups, and despite it no longer being FOSS).

Even more strange(coming from other FOSS platform communities) was how much shilling for Duende IdentityServer, and by Duende, was occurring in this thread discussing the development(buckle up): https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/issues/32494 . Was really strange for a FOSS community to not be discussing the road forward for FOSS, but to be making arguments like "the license isn't that expensive" and etc. All this time the project is still listed as a .Net Foundation project: https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/identityserver .

I was somewhat surprised when looking into the .Net Foundation rules that they don't require turning over the project in any way to the community or foundation. I'm wondering now if MS was just going along with the easy path to avoid even more drama while the dust settles and they shore up foundation rules to prevent this from happening in the future.
This is my pet peeve. Most of the time I notice this when im interested in a reddit thread that's deleted and I lose the ability to review it.
that didn't happen (NY Times corrected their story)
But which of the those two have made doing the harmful amplification for profit a business model?
I'd love to move to FF, but it has a virtual desktop bug dating back to 2007 [0], which is a showstopper for me.

When reopening FF, e.g., after restarting Win or Linux, all FF windows are restored to a single virtual desktop, even if they were on different desktops previously. Chromium-based browsers don't seem to have this problem.

They tried fixing it a few times [1,2], but the bug persists, and I am not aware of any add-ons that could serve as workarounds.

0. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372650
1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401143
2. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890125
I love that Nintendo is very aware of the potential negative effects of their products and games and tries to inform users / mitigate.

Even when it comes to encouraging positive play between users - in the new Pokemon MOBA (games known for their toxicity) there's no text chat, only communication with a few emotes you can show. Some of their decisions make for arguably worse games for "hardcore" gamers (like the way they rank users in smash, or how they focus on more casual-style in-game tournaments or make matchmaking harder) but they sacrifice that in favor of a more positive general experience, especially important since children play their games.
At the very least, it would have been a lot more interesting to see Steve Jobs in those Senate hearings.
As another example:

- The US prohibits people under 21 years old from buying alcohol, and allows those over 21 to do so.

- The US prohibits anyone of any age from driving a motor vehicle over a certain blood alcohol level.

This is something which causes health and community harm (alcohol), which we have allowed and denied to people in certain ways.

And honestly, I think struck a fair balance between individual liberty and social liberty/good.

I don't think anyone would argue that everyone should be allowed to drive anywhere, as drunk as they wanted to, at whatever age they wanted to.
Looks like you are willfully ignoring Facebook’s own findings. They know that polarizing content is more engaging yet harmful… and they choose to amplify it anyway.

The same old argument that it’s hard therefore let’s not do anything is not applicable.

Facebook is not a neutral platform that just shows all posts from your friends in a chronological order. They are actively manipulating the stream and are fully responsible for what you consume.
> The backbone is the network Facebook has built to connect all our computing facilities together, which consists of tens of thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables crossing the globe and linking all our data centers.

This makes it sound like Facebook has physically laid "tens of thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables crossing the globe and linking all our data centers". Is this in fact true?
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I don't think this was intended to be an either/or choice, and "quit thinking and look" can be read as "if thinking isn't working, get more data" (and it could be read as such even if that wasn't the author's intended meaning!)

Even if thinking has not solved the problem, it may help you find where to look next.

One tip I have is that even if you wrote the code and think you know how it works, stepping through it in your mind might lead you to see where you are making a questionable assumption.

You may think that you can do that just as well in the debugger, and you may be right, but there are two ways of using the debugger: one is to hit 'step' and see what happens; the other is to figure out what you expect will happen, and then check if your expectation was correct. There have been many times when I have stepped up to the point where the bug is about to happen, and then realized what is wrong before taking that final step.
The goal here is to circumvent the debt ceiling. Writing a $1T IOU would add $1 trillion to the liability side (i.e. debt) of the bookkeeping (and presumably also to the asset side in the form of an addition to a federal reserve account), while minting a $1T coin only adds it to the asset side.
> Our primary and out-of-band network access was down

Don't create circular dependencies.
Steve would never have let them make phones with those enormous camera bumps.
I agree about THC being a symptom reliever. I myself don't care much for CBD, although I have heard it works for some people. Anyway, I'm just not sure I'd put cannabis in the same class as alcohol, tobacco and coffee, in terms of psychosis risk, although I don't think that cannabis should be federally illegal though either.
Why aren't there more climate cults?
The main stream media of course. FB makes money on ads.

FB's media is organic from users. The MSM is orchestrated.
You can have monads in clojure (eg: http://funcool.github.io/cats/latest/#monad) but the problem I see is that they are infectious and kinda force you to use them everywhere. In other languages, it's more palatable because the compiler checks for types, and normally there is some sugar to make it easier on the eyes.
Besides, I think monads are a bit off the clojure way, even if they happen to exist somehow (eg promesa and manifold libraries).
He wasn't successful by his own measure.
Mtap
> I think we’ve lost our spirit of what made SV great.

Innovation is what made SV great. Now it is just evolutionary updates at a very slow pace.
It does:[1]

> One question his team could not answer, however, was why crows that are reproductively compatible were sorting themselves according to color. Some people had asked Wolf if the crows were “racist.” He didn’t want to apply such a loaded human concept to animals. Still, the crows did discriminate in their way. Carrion crows wanted to mate with carrion crows, and hooded crows wanted to mate with hooded crows. How could color variation based on such a tiny genetic difference have such a large effect? Wolf thought the answer lay not in the genome but, rather, in the field he had left behind: animal behavior.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210925220241/https://www.newyo...
I have to say, I find your "survivorship bias" argument novel, but also a bit ridiculous, considering that Karl Marx openly called for violent, bloody revolution:

“there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror."

So the ideology claims violent overthrow of government is needed, but it's not the ideology's fault when the overthrow leads to a murderous totalitarian regime arguably far worse than the government it replaced? I don't know how you can seriously hold this world view.
I didn't know about the Cube[1], so thanks for sharing. Only sold for 1 year and then discontinued.

Laptops are now dominant and have outsold desktops for a long time, but in year 2000 that wasn't the case. So the Cube seems like a false start down that path. Kind of like Jobs knew the future, but was a little too ahead of his time on that one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube
Glad you like Streamlit, rkzw. We do have an authentication solution: streamlit.io/cloud Still in private beta but you can usually get in pretty quickly after filling out the questionnaire.
How about she went to SEC because for certain things that the right place to go to? And the SEC has to fine FB first, which would mean that FB committed illegal acts. That alone is behavior that needs to be encouraged, exposing corporate wrong doing is a net positively for society.
...or you could simply download what's necessary/interesting and ensure that you've got the data as it was. Because people seem to think that everything needs to be an app, having something open in a tab is no guarantee that it'll be there when you revisit the tab.
The laws that allow a platinum coin of arbitrary nominal value have already been created. Paper money, and all other coin metals, have their denominations defined. It's basically a bureaucratic loophole.
You served yourself, well done. This whole narrative is fake and the talking head leading it is full of shit.
You can't, not for facebook - everyone has the same title for ICs.
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Facebook is not doing anything illegal only because there are in relatively new space the law hasn't caught up with yet.
Have you seen Yggdrasil? It provides an alternate routing idea, among other things.

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
But don't their datacenters all have backup generators? So worst case in a brownout, they fail over to generator power, then can start to flip back to utility power slowly.

Or do they forgo backup generators and count on shifting traffic to a new datacenter if there's a regional power outage?
Who would have access in the first place besides said devs?
> The primary difference IMHO is dang.

I certainly agree that dang's moderation is excellent and contributes to the uniqueness of HN. But "+5 Funny" on Slashdot was a big driver in the other direction, rewarding the endless hot grits and Cowboy Neal humour, which usually drowned out more sophisticated comments.
It is if you add Total Suspender.
As I said there is a difference between 1$ and 1 trillion.

People don't question the face value of 1$ given the fact that it's cheap change.
That also happened somewhat under Sabanes-Oxley and HIPAA. Documents that might have once sat in an unlocked filing cabinet are now locked in vaults.