skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is why billions of people love of products.

There aren’t billions of people who love your products, Mark. Use maybe.. but I wouldn’t count on it staying that way at this rate.
This is an incredibly silly thing to write: an average Joe has no working knowledge of psychology and no ability to motivate themselves, let alone anyone else.

How could you motivate the 'unmotivated' if, at most companies, employees won't have an honest conversation with their manager about their or the firm's problems? That's step 1 of psycology discussions.

The statement could be true of false, I feel this entire thread is the blind leading the blind
MaryJane MJPEG server in < 30 lines of Python.

Here is a demo: http://18.116.60.15:8080/maryjane/

Here's the 30 lines of Python: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bootrino/maryjane/master/m...

Here is the github: https://github.com/bootrino/maryjane

Browsers are able to display images such as PNG, JPG and GIF.

A less known capability of browsers is to display a stream of JPG images. This is called MJPEG (motion JPEG).

All you need to do is specify the MPJEG server address in an image tag and it just works.

It's written in less than 30 lines of async Python.

This project is MIT licensed.
absolutely. To me it sounds like she is exacting revenge on FB for something or may be like the other commenters suggested she is trying to get that whistleblower share of a SEC fine/settlement with FB if one is to come out of this story. Otherwise it is kind of strange turn of heart on her part from profit off the users to suddenly being so caring about the users - I mean she herself founded what is now Hinge dating app https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/hinge/ :

"And like so many dating apps, Hinge asks users to connect their Facebook account to sign in to the app. Remember, when you connect a social media account like Facebook to a dating app, both Facebook and the dating app now potentially collect more information together."

"Hinge definitely shares user data with around 45 other Match Group companies, such as Tinder, OK Cupid, and Plenty of Fish among others. The company also shares data with third parties for purposes such as advertising and analytics."
If you think that everybody with a place to live has $200 to spare, as you said, then you don't understand how many Americans life.

But anyway, I'm glad you're not running any of my municipal services, and am glad that you (hopefully) aren't my neighbor!

So, okay, you _know_ how many people couldn't afford the $200 deposit, and don't see this as a problem because you don't think they deserve library service?

I'm sorry, I misunderstood your original point, or I wouldn't have bothered talking to you.
This is called the Banality of Evil. Look up Hannah Arendt. It is a well established idea.
snake oil
Gonna be honest. This isn't a level playing field.

It's not like Zuckerberg sat there and wrote this. They have the money to find the best psychologists etc etc to write a response in such a way that resonates more with people vs a whistleblower that's taking on goliath, is stressed, etc.

What really should happen is calling a few random employees based on an organizational chart in and making them testify under oath what they're doing. No NDA, no right to fire the employees afterwards for at least a few years.
> You can emote, but you can't describe what exactly it is you would turn into a law.

I thought I made it pretty clear from the outset I was talking about removing CDA Sec 230 protections for sites using bespoke (i.e. proprietary) curation algorithms for their feeds.
Is this algorithm called '/dev/null'?
You're right about verification, there'd be a lag for changes until they become settled. Some projects do have moving targets - like youtube-dl - but testing is simple, and it's only one thing. (BTW even court tax rulings can have dissenting judges, so some points are real uncertain)

Many popular open source projects began as an open source version of something. e.g. linux. The structure of the software, to facilitate contribution, could break new ground.

I think the most significant and difficult-to-solve barrier is making contributing accessible to non-devs.
This is a fantastic project. Thanks for sharing!

I had a nice long conversation with two of the authors of [0] at ACL.

One thing we discussed was the reverse problem. That is, as a player, could I give commands to the model and have the engine figure the moves that would best satisfy them.

This ranges from concrete like "take the black square bishop" (there is still variability like which piece should take it or if it's even possible) to more complex positional stuff like "set up to attack the kingside."

Any thoughts on this line of research?

[0] Automated Chess Commentator Powered by Neural Chess Engine (Zang, Yu & Wan, 2019) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.10413.pdf
It's astounding that something like a chronological timeline free of Facebooks outrage algorithms is portrayed as censorship.

And honestly the defense of Facebooks unethical behaviour is following a real simple pattern at this point: Shift blame to the users and make it look like Facebook critics want "more censorship".

Facebook shareholders making a few dollars less (if thats even the case) is absolutely not my problem.
The services are significant, but at the same time, Apple commoditizes the users, which only works, because they are gatekeeping all software installations. If users were free to install alternative app stores after a big fat security warning, I doubt that Apple's 30% share would work as today.
Their strategy is to never launch a fully-featured key so you keep upgrading. For example, this $85 thing does not have NFC. I am not playing their game anymore. I'm pretty fine with my old YubiKeys.
For me there's a useful distinction between guilt and shame. Guilt is where you fall short of your own standards and seek to rectify it. Shame is where you feel bad about falling short in the eyes of others.

Large corporations often perform shame, but they rarely behave as if key actors experience guilt. So they'll make reforms only as long as there's significant pushback.

If Zuckerberg actually cared, he would be writing letters like this even when the heat is off. He and they would have sincerely worked to fix these problems from early on.
> So a key-pair can be generated outside, written to the smartcard and backed up however one considers sufficiently secure.

Presumably you're comfortable with this, but there's no reason the server operator should be. It's pretty obvious where the weakest link is.

Also this is pretty inherently contrary to the design of FIDO, because it privileges these private keys as special whereas in FIDO they're random and you can just mint more of them (in FIDO1 it's completely normal to make huge numbers of keys, since you aren't storing them anyway). In the original OpenPGP case where the keys are personal identity keys for signing email that feels reasonable, but already for SSH that's not really what you needed anyway.

It is true that OpenPGP is much better if you were obliged to do RSA for compatibility reasons, but I think we'd all like to move away from that world even if some of us can't yet.
That’s sort of how things are where I work. The systems are so complicated and the interactions are often algorithmic and machine learning based. We try to maintain documentation and architecture artifacts with as much accuracy as possible. But in some cases things may as well be magic because no one really understands the whole process.
My company hired a number of PhDs. They were all smart and well educated but for some reason couldn’t turn that knowledge into working software. So they were all fired in less that a year.
I have looked at this extensively and other VTTs for an internet campaign, and while it is very impressive, there are a few things preventing me from using this myself.

1. No fog of war. You can create zones that have toggling visibility, but its cumbersome and not automatic.

2. No cyberpunk/modern assets. They did make their stretch goal so this will be arriving eventually.

3. No custom audio streaming. I believe you can play music and sounds but only what came with it.

4. Expensive for players at $35aud. I don't mind spending money for resources as a DM, but there should be a player-only version that's much cheaper/free. I would rather pay $120aud if it meant my players didn't have to.

Currently as it stands for me, the best option for a VTT is Foundry[1]. It has everything I mentioned prior and more. Pair that with Dungeondraft[2] and the mountains of free content packs at Cartography Assets[3], you have everything you could ever need for running an internet campaign. None of these require a subscription and are imo the best bang for buck you can get for a VTT setup.

When Talespire addresses my current pet peeves, I will likely switch, but for now it's just not viable for me.

[1] https://foundryvtt.com

[2] https://dungeondraft.net/

[3] https://cartographyassets.com/asset-category/specific-assets...

edit: formatting
> That's why we have advocated for updated internet regulations for several years now. I have testified in Congress multiple times and asked them to update these regulations.

Who's this supposed to benefit?

Facebook is inveritably a part of PRISM, so it's not like these bills are going to be drafted in favor of the American people (much less those who use Facebook internationally). If anything, I'm expecting a "Curbing Online Terrorism/Child Harassment/Hate Speech Act of 2022" to be right around the corner, granting our great and benevolent government even more unfettered insight into our lives. It's not very surprising though, I don't take Zuckerberg for a strong-willed man. I believe that he'd sooner plunge our nation into a surveillance state than giving up his mansions and yacht.
It does train on variations too, given the scarcity of data available, so that can hurt accuracy, mood, etc.
I remember a church being set on fire across the street from the White House. I guess arson, especially if directed at Christian churches, is just the way we exercise our 1st Amendment rights in this country.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/historic-church-nea...
The New York public library will still charge a replacement fee for broken items. Late fees don't have any relation to their policy on care of lent items. If items at your library are consistently broken, it's a problem with your library's implementation or choice of policies, not a problem with its users.
Hmm, a slightly Rube Goldberg type idea - what about firing proximity fuzed "airbag rounds" ? A Kevlar bag + car airbag style gas generator. If fuzed and timed just right it could potentially punch the drone from the sky, either breaking it or casing enough flight path distortion it migh not recover.

Or maybe release a bunch nylon filaments that will entangle any propellers and make the thing fall down ?
It’s a compromise. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. If we are to make life easier in some respect, we suffer in another. Over time we might find solutions which will only yield alternative compromises.

I like coffee but it yellows my teeth. Wah wah wah…
>If we wanted to ignore research, why would we create an industry-leading research program to understand these important issues in the first place?

I wonder why tobacco companies studied lung cancer and oil companies studied climate change. Was it because those industries thought those issues were more important than profit?
No, you're not the only one. There are other people who are ignorant of how bad Facebook is.
They regularly make the standard tech apology.

"We are so, so sorry you caught us {doing, allowing} this thing. We are deeply embarrassed that we didn't hide it well enough from you. We promise to take the time to do the work so that in the future you won't discover us still doing it. We deeply value {word spew of the month} and look forward to you believing our apology well enough to continue using our service."
Also, traditional media is an open discourse. Facebook is network where only chosen eyes see certain messages, thus an echo chamber.
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>The professor couldn’t understand how we did it, so gave a low mark.

That was genuinely upsetting to read.
Not when Facebook act as a polarizing echo chamber.
Is there a social media that's actually "better" than Facebook? It's still not clear to me why Facebook is so much worse than Twitter, youtube, reddit, tik tok, etc. I think any social media, with significant adoption will have the same issues that we observe with facebook right?
Big tobacco's _published_ research reflected their product favorably.

Maybe a better example is oil, where because of legal issues we were able to peer into unpublished research as the public. They indisputably knew about anthropomorphic climate change back in at least the early 80s and continued to push policies to the contrary because otherwise was against their bottom line. They just used their research in order to understand what was coming and create propaganda ahead of the curve.
Damn .. Hoped to find sth. About motor skill learning in the paper.

On a tangent, huge fan of passive haptic learning and the use of
Soft robotics for learning.

https://www.vogue.cs.titech.ac.jp/projects/digitalsports/rob...

https://www.gvu.gatech.edu/research/projects/passive-haptic-...

Shameless self plug: we used artificial muscles to improve beginner percussion training

https://kaikunze.de/papers/pdf/goto2020accelerating.pdf
When Facebook was down yesterday, I was surprised to see so many people on HN posting about it with what looked like the nervous energy of people in low-level withdrawal, because there is so much antipathy about it in threads like this one. It's possible that there's totally non-overlapping sets of HN users in both cases, but realistically I think most people just have a complex relationship with it: when Facebook is offline, it's a major event in their lives, but when it's back up, it's worthy of nothing but overt contempt. What most people (here, and everywhere) can't seem to do is just minimize the footprint of Facebook in their lives.
I don't think it's an emergent property, I think it's a by-product of the constraints. It's all well and good that they want to make Facebook safe and healthy, and I honestly believe plenty of people working there are trying to do just that. However, they are operating under the constraint that they cannot move backwards on profits, and therefore engagement.

Imagine if you were trying to fix climate change, but under the condition that you weren't allowed to burn fewer fossil fuels. You may try very hard, and very sincerely, but it's fool's errand.
The new high (secondary) school treated her like a new student, not one with a year of comically poor performance. This isn't about college or university; it's about the last few years of compulsory education, which often set the direction of one's life.
With 5 kindles you get a monday to friday one for each day for starters
Not to mention that they have been anything but transparent with their research. What he said is pretty much a complete lie.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/technology/facebook-popul...
> if social media were as responsible for polarizing society as some people claim, then why are we seeing polarization increase in the US while it stays flat or declines in many countries with just as heavy use of social media around the world?

I have a kind of unpopular belief that we'd still have similar polarization if misinfo were just distributed on Fox + MSNBC, websites, and Twitter.
Don't you think it's more likely that he's just using these projects to garner some goodwill and sympathy?
I have used it multiple times for headphones. “Return protection”. Generally they’ll cover restocking fees if you make a claim.
Solar Panels Plus Farming? Agrivoltaics Explained [video]
>The real explanation must lie in other aspects of US culture, or the US political system

First-past-the-post voting leads to a two party system which leads to more polarization. If you have multiple political parties, polarization can only go so far because there will be centrist groups working against polarization. In the US, there is no force pushing for centrism.
Well phrased. He needs to take the complaints of harm at face value and acknowledge their reality.
Oh, sweet thanks.

Indeed it also right under "zig cc" in the output for "zig --help" too, if that wasn't clear enough:

$ zig --help
Usage: zig [command] [options]

Commands:

cc Use Zig as a drop-in C compiler
c++ Use Zig as a drop-in C++ compiler
In AWS you must delegate your MFA to the SSO provider. Having an SSO provider but AWS managed MFA isn’t even possible because SSO users map to roles instead of IAM users.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Apple is providing value to developers through access to its userbase, curation of a store, hosting, update services, localization, and reviews. Apple's users have already paid for their hardware so they already provide Apple some value. If developers want to have those customers, then they need to provide some additional value to Apple.

In other words, yes... they absolutely can have it both ways. I'm not saying that developers don't also provide Apple with some kind of value but that value, for most developers, is not enough to justify giving the other services Apple is providing as part of its ecosystem to them for free.
It could easily be both.

One method for avoiding the problem of splitting the vote is to only run candidates in ridings which are otherwise effectively "single candidate", places where the incumbents are expected to get >66% of the vote without you running.

This also lets you focus your resources more, and lets you pander more to a specific kind of voter (the voters you need to win the otherwise-not-competitive ridings you are running in).
the reality is that people would stop using facebook if they really hated it that much, and yet it still has 2.5 billion MAUs. there's a very loud minority of people who keep screaming "facebook bad!" because the NYT told them to (because facebook is eating their lunch). facebook doesn't inject your brain with foreign chemicals, it doesn't hold a gun to your head and force you to scroll through your timeline. don't like using facebook? close your fucking web browser.
Nothing this “whistleblower” has said is revelatory… she’s stating things we already know. The question should be “why now?”.
Why NoSQL
and sunscreen (SPF) calculations...
It's systems-level thinking applied to people. Reader beware though, once you start down this path, you can become adept at spotting this pattern emerge in many other human systems.
There is a "Not now" button to bypass login
I’ll take my downvotes but I’d be happy for anyone to explain why.
"Motion before emotion" - I love that.
That is an obvious step 0. So I suppose there is one question asked: “did you try to return it”. It is of no consequence. If the vendor takes it back I’m happy. If not, I collect from Amex’s insurance.
Other researchers don’t have free access to the same data, so their own research is industry leading by default :) Anyway, the term is intended to be used as PR to appeal to the media, I assume, than to be really accurate.
I can’t really blame them when the alternative is dealing with very angry customers who suddenly can’t access their money.
I’m with you. Facebook brings way more good to the world than bad. And the bad it brings is just amplification of what already exists. And with the Internet that amplification will happen with or without facebook.

Also the fact that much of the research / “leaks” are showing most of the issues are only happening in the US is a sort of a glaring hole in most of the arguments being made against FB. The US is just borked at the moment. Everything is red vs blue, and no one even cares what the issues are at this point.
That is because most other countries have multi party systems.

The polarization is still there, but spread thin amongst various factions.

In the US, people are shoehorned into R or D.

Edit : I would also like to point out that the OP is a bit confused between cause and effect. In the US, the effect is deep polarization. However, the cause is the power of mass communication, especially misinformation and blatant lies, that FB enables and does not bother to control. The cause is common to all the countries in the world, the effect varies due to various other factors, one of them being the presence of a multi-party system.

Take the example of India. FB has a large and active user base. However, India being a chaos of various identities, cultures, regions, languages, etc, divisions in society are less pronounced as there are a large number of players (politically, regionally, locally, etc)

Other than that, the effect of FB in Europe is also less visible due to the same reason. Every EU country has mostly multi party systems, leading to spreading thin of the hate and focus.
This is on you, no one asks you to have to follow these things. Each company has a specific setup that would be what you are required to know. Most companies use a variant of the same stack (webpack thesedays, never worked anywhere that uses vite), so no risk of non-transferable skill either. If you buy a new phone every year then you'll waste money and after 10y your phone is no better than someone who only buys once every 10y.
What I'm saying is that I know people working on this projects, and they are good people who want to make things better. They wouldn't work on these things if they didn't think it made a difference, as they all have plenty of options on other places to work.
I'd say right on the speculation line. It's far-fetched to say he can totally see, but he may very well experience some limited optical sensation, albeit one of such limited utility that we can't really call it sight.

The story about him seeing Shaq is an interesting example. If you already know that Shaq lives in your apartment building, how much visual acuity do you need to make an educated guess that the large form waiting for the elevator is probably Shaq? There's also no one to tell us if he ever stood there talking to thin air thinking it might be Shaq ;)

It also seems like the kind of thing that would be difficult to give a satisfactory description of, so being coy about it is probably for the best.
Put a flat section on top of the airship, and land helicopters (or tilt-rotors) on it. Take the passengers (and fuel + supplies) to the airship, don't take the airship to the passengers.
I thought that a 2 party system means that both parties attempt to occupy the center, because there are so few swing voters.
Wow, that's a ridiculously silly idea.

1) Markets aren't magic coordinators, they take large amounts of human effort to maintain in a functional state. Your system would destroy productivity because it would require a huge increase in market oarticipatio

2) Economic activity needs stability and your system would almost entirely eliminate that.

3) Markets require information to function accurately so to constantly have accurate markets for everything means that you have completely eliminated privacy.

4) Price is not the only important aspect is many transactions. Reputation matters and this system would result in the inability to trust any economic partner because their assets could be bought at any time.

5) You would still need to have massive government regulation to prevent fraudulent collusion. Lets say you seriously underprice your assets to avoid taxes and whenever someone moves to buy the asset, you have a friend who would bid on it until they win. That friend can then sell the asser back to you. Now raise this basic idea by the power of the massive legal and financial efforts that have histoy been put into tax evasion and you have a regulatory problem that dwarfs existing tax enforement problems.

So you would basically tax stability while creating tools that would enable massive fraud and speculation.