skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You keep putting words in my mouth, I'm not saying anything about outlawing anything, just assigning liability.

> Your post, like many others on this thread, isn't articulating exactly what about FB's conduct you find objectionable?

The objectionable conduct is pretty thoroughly covered in the article, but to review:

> "Facebook over and over again has shown it chooses profit over safety"
Odd. Doesn’t seem to require log in for me. The post just loads without having to click anything.
[2] is not typical at all.
You don't get to choose your character traits, such as neuroticism.

Can you live with spending 70% of your life in front of a computer? You can be a dev.

Can you live with your wrong decision costing someone's life? (And all other downsides of being a doctor). I probably couldn't.

Does reading about law bore you out of your mind? If yes, maybe you can't be a lawyer no matter how talented
Singular "they" doesn't care about the gender of the person named, so it should be good.
Because public libraries are public services and are not a for-profit industry. Their priorities are in serving the public, rather than generating income.

An alternative question could be: Why doesn't BC make electricity as available to their poorest citizens as NY makes books available to theirs?
Never heard about Nios III or IV, I feel only Nios II was in use, Nios V here means RISC-V core actually?

Xilinx has Microblaze which is similar to Nios II, both can boot 32-bit linux.
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> By your definition, a lot of the hardware that works on Linux is an "unsupported hack". I don't see why this even matters; if someone -- even if they are not the original manufacturer -- wants to support something, then by definition it is not "unsupported". Whether or not it's a "hack" or not isn't really relevant, and it really sounds like you don't understand the output of a good reverse engineering effort. If it works, then it works.

See also: the entire PC industry exists because IBM's BIOS was reverse engineered!
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That actually makes sense to me now. It's about knowing what matters when. Code smells is sort of there, but people tend to get dogmatic when invoking them. It's about having a sense of when something is 'too much', or there ought to be a way do to it with less of something, etc. Or conversely recognizing that 'this', however rough-seeming, is about as good as it's going to get, without a genius showing up with a brand new idea.
The point of my comment was the warn against such an outcome. I thought that was obvious. If the alternative is bankruptcy, large companies will do just about anything to survive it.
Same with "SOC monkeys". (Which carries the additional pun of sounding like the "sock monkey" toy.)
Same. Which is very unusual for fb.
Company strategy isn't only what C-level execs chat about behind closed doors. It's also the prioritization strategy that drives decisions throughout every level of the company.

Facebook focuses on "impact". Any engineer, be they veterans or just 6 months in, can tell you priority is always given to projects that drive "core" metrics up, and projects that dip metrics get axed.

If this simple decision-making strategy is what makes and beaks teams, what decides who is successful and who falls behind, and ultimately what gets built and what doesn't, it drives the company. And it's something any employee at any level knows.
> Look at all the volunteer opportunities, unpajd city boards, etc that people get themselves involved in.

Positions such as these often pay in increased social status. Just because the compensation is intangible doesn’t mean it’s not real. Working at an animal shelter may well raise your status with potential partners. Working on a city advisory board will definitely get you noticed and can be a stepping board toward political office. And even an unpaid senior position at a well-funded and prestigious foundation results in a great deal of clout.
Is he thinking of making an exit to become a 'thought leader'? This is some Malcolm Gladwell level nonsense.
If only there was some sort of online collaborative audio and video enabled thingie. Cool kids use Twitch I gather (it sounds like a minor STD to me). You could get together with Teams, Zoom, Blue Button, whatever and then play.

Organise your online events in a similar form to err ... ... reality and you'll have the same problems to deal with 8)

Create a place and arrange to meet. Have a chat and then get on with the event. You may want to require no mobiles or be more inventive by penalising them somehow - that way people who have to be contactable can do so but still play. You could even fold call outs into the game. An RNLI call out causes the characters involved to be thrown into another realm ... and ... get your imagination out. Or perhaps they get thrown into another time/space. Again, it's all about imagination.
> As I understand it, V-22 Osprey can neither auto-rotate, nor land in emergency like an airplane (because the rotors would hit the ground). Seems a bit like worst of both worlds.

"The V-22 is a tiltrotor and does not rely on autorotation for a survivable power-out landing. The wide separation of the engines and the ability to drive both rotors with one engine make a power-out landing extremely unlikely. However, if required, the V-22 can glide for a predictable run-on landing in airplane mode, much like a turboprop"

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/22491/can-the-v...
> In general I set the bar for “ too much logging” very high.

Which is pretty good practice because when things go wrong in Prod, you want your logs to tell you quickly what went wrong. Too many times I have seen that something goes wrong in Prod and then people say "Oh we should have logged that"
Before I go into this, Are you an American? If so, which state did you grow up in?
This also explains the supply chain issues we are experiencing now because of the move to just-in-time manufacturing across the board.
This is not true and is based on the naive assumption that more CO2 means more food for plants. Far more important for plants and biomes in general is the climate. Plants might have more CO2 making it more available for sugar production, but this leads to plants creating more sugars but less nutrient rich. Getting back to the climate, plants can only grow if their climates are hospitable to them, but look at the wildfires in California and the Taiga. Trees can't grow there like they used to because the climate has shifted rapidly and are no longer the right conditions, they're too dry and turning into grasslands and deserts.

We've created a world that is vastly different in climate than what came before. This is the problem with the climate crisis in general, all our ecosystems are in the wrong places
I think it depends on what kind of work you're talking about. If you're talking about building a basic UI or a service, most decent developers should be able to churn out working code in a couple of days. If you're referring to something low level or very algorithmically tricky then sure there are obviously some geniuses amongst us whose presence we must learn to tolerate
... really needs an unpardonable pun alert; we're well into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feghoot territory. (fwiw one Feghoot story informs us that you can't make an amulet with out-breaking eggs)
Just to make this more concrete:

1. There is a countable model of real numbers.

2. There even is a countable model of the entire set theory.
Three minutes of my life I'm never going to get back. You can stop reading by paragraph two at "We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health." All Facebook cares about is engagement.
You could try giving rewards/achievements to patrons that have a record of on-time return instead of punishing people (e.g. extended "okay" borrowing windows, small discount at the café etc).
"Those translation queries are answered by our authoritative name servers that occupy well known IP addresses themselves, which in turn are advertised to the rest of the internet via another protocol called the border gateway protocol (BGP)."

"To ensure reliable operation, our DNS servers disable those BGP advertisements if they themselves can not speak to our data centers, since this is an indication of an unhealthy network connection."

Correct me if I am wrong, but here "DNS servers" means the computers, not the software running on them, i.e., each computer is running both DNS software and a BGP daemon. I am not aware of DNS server software that disables BGP advertisements but a BGP daemon could do it.

For example, a BGP daemon like ExaBGP can execute a DNS query, check the output and disable advertisements if the query fails.

https://github.com/Exa-Networks/exabgp
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Facebook Wants Congress to Regulate the Internet
> Lena Pietsch, Facebook’s director of policy communications. “We don’t agree with her characterization of the many issues she testified about. Despite all this, we agree on one thing; it’s time to begin to create standard rules for the internet. It’s been 25 years since the rules for the internet have updated, and instead of expecting the industry to make societal decisions that belong to legislators, it is time for Congress to act.”
So essentially a "PC version" of https://fireballrpg.com/ ?
> We don't even know what Facebook is. A media company? A news organization? A shop? A dating site?

Facebook is an entity that controls the information flow reaching its users and shapes it in the interest of the highest bidder.
Yes, if I were made to attend a mandatory training in which my leaders read customer emails saying that the outage caused them to lose trust in the company, I would feel ashamed. That was surely the goal of that exercise. The fact that there were also process improvements doesn't make it any less wrong.

Thankfully, other comments in this thread suggest that this is not how Google normally does things.
Login required here too, I bet it has something to do with cookies or adblock.
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It does. Thanks for expressing this.
> Does that actually work? How did Trump winning in 2016 help your average Green Party supporter?

Yes. If they lose an election or start losing their advantage it forces them to re-assess their policies and their positions.

I've explained here how UKIP threatened the Conservative vote enough that they had to offer the referendum to secure a majority in 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28767473

UKIP share of the vote had increased from 3% to 12% in 5 years and the Conservatives knew they were a threat and had to offer the referendum. It forced the Conservatives to address the issue.

> If anything, didn't Biden win by a larger margin against Bernie in 2020 than Hillary won against Bernie in 2016?

Bernie from my understanding had burned much of his base when he endorsed Hillary for the 2016 election. Also Hillary wasn't a great candidate.
> If you don’t like Facebook just don’t use Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46105934
This guy is great at this. There might be no greater sophist.
Here’s my statement: Fuck off.
"meet a lot of candidates who have no idea why they applied, what they want in life for themselves"

I feel that in this discussion we are conflating being lost and being unmotivated - they could be highly motivated and trying every opportunity, but have no clue what they are doing.
This was my favorite:

“If we wanted to ignore research, why would we create an industry-leading research program to understand these important issues in the first place”
These are words by great CEO, fight these baseless accusations in court like you would fight any slander. These witch hunts must stop.
Hah. Loading the page then results in a giant picture of Zuck blocking the content inviting me to "See more of Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook" by logging in.

No thanks Mark, I've seen enough.
I got a popup with Zuckerberg's face and an opportunity to sign up. At the bottom of the dialog, click on "Not Now".
Gamers going to LAN parties circa 1998
> ...industry-leading...

This self-proclaimed adjective was thrown in the mix five separate times within this note in an effort to explain how great the work that FB delivers is (and likely, to imply that the negativity applied to FB in the public eye is unfair).

Saying Facebook is "industry-leading" with respect to social media and technology is like saying Priscilla is your favorite wife, dude.

Put your money where your mouth is, or you'll likely continue to lose it as various outlets reported this week.
Honestly am I the only one that doesn’t think that Facebook is that bad? Some of those points that he makes really should make you stop and think.
You can see the security/reliability tradeoff problem here.

You need a control plane. But what does it run over? Your regular data links? A problem if it also controls their configuration. Something outside your own infrastructure, like a modest connection to the local ISP as a backup? That's an attack vector.

One popular solution is to keep both the current and previous generation of the control plane up. Both Google and AT&T seem to have done that. AT&T kept Signalling System 5 up for years after SS7 was doing all the work. Having two totally different technologies with somewhat different paths is helpful.
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Illegal, liable, doesn't matter --- you want to use the state to drive certain kinds of ranking off the internet.

Fine. What, precisely, is the line between algorithms acceptable to you and algorithms not?

What is the precise conduct that would make liability attach to a ranking algorithm? You can emote, but you can't describe what exactly it is you would turn into a law.
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...In the abscence of signed firmware, burned in values in silicon, and other such remote attestation oriented BS, that is.
Perhaps that's their stance on competing software, but certainly not competing hardware. I recall an internal memo that had to do with intentionally being poorly compatible with other brands in implementing standards so that it could be written off as programming error.
This can be solved by NYPL having a silent policy to replace presumed-stolen books after X time passes. This spending mustn't be so large that it nixes the no-late-fee policy, I suppose.
Those soft cores are handy to drop in on an FPGA design.
And in public schools...
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
Which terminals support "escape sequences for sending base64 encoded png/gif/jpg" ? Thanks.
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He should ask the tobacco industry or the oil industry. History rhymes.
Had never heard about that. Great link.

I wonder how salt-tolerant it is? Could it be grown in salt lakes, and the mature ferns be skimmed to compost unproductive soil or feed livestock?

Downside of that is it would reduce the albedo of the lakes.
The original hope was for this to be a third head on top of the AlphaZero model, but I couldn't think of a way to generate commentary during self-play (such that it would gradually improve), and trying to rotate supervised commentary training into the main schedule ended up hurting both sides because of the disjoint datasets.

So, now the commentary decoder is just trained separately on the final primary model. The previous and current game positions are fed into the primary model, and the outputs are taken from the final convolutional layer, just before the value and policy heads. Then, that data plus the side to play is positionally encoded and fed into a transformer decoder.

It would be better for a search tree/algorithm to be used for commentary too so that tactics could be better understood, but that would need some kind of subjective BLEU equivalent, and metrics like those don't work well for chess commentary.

You can see a diagram of the architecture here: https://chrisbutner.github.io/ChessCoach/high-level-explanat...
They had bodily autonomy at the time they made the decision. They gave it up in exchange for receiving the treatment, and thus no longer have it; the "don't have bodily autonomy" phrasing is accurate. The fact that this was a voluntary decision which they were perfectly entitled to make does not mean that it wouldn't have been better if they had another option which allowed them to receive the treatment without giving up their autonomy.

Merely not being provided with documentation for how the device works and how to control it I could overlook; after all, we don't even have that for the bodies we're born with. Everything we know about how we work is reverse engineered. But the patient is most likely prohibited by law from reverse engineering or otherwise tampering with this device which is now part of their body, and that I cannot condone.
and money, don't forget that
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The gameplay seems solid, but the comments are all over the map:

https://lichess.org/4l1urWeU

I wonder if we are getting snippets of variations in some cases.
Buy some gold coins and then try to move it across the borders.

1. You need to fill-in paperwork and be on a mercy of a local DHS official to be allowed. At any time regulation will and can change without you knowing about it.

2. Try to move it without paperwork and risk losing it all

3. Try to store it in the bank and risk of government/bank/courts to lock you out of your gold savings.

4. Try to store it on your own and risk losing it all to crime.

5. Entering another country - same risks with their customs as above.

6. Moving bitcoin across borders is a bit easier
I stopped reading about two seconds in, when it popped up some dumb thing trying to get me to log in / sign up.
> In other words the area is proportional to the square of the radius, not linearly proportional to the diameter in any way.

Awesome, thanks for that geometry refresher, that makes sense now of course :).
Did anyone edit or proof this beyond maybe spelling an grammar? It comes across as incredibly sophomoric and petty. Moreover it reads like the nervous retort of someone who isn’t used to being questioned or contradicted. This seems like exactly the wrong tone at the moment.

Honestly as a tech person, I’m concerned that he really makes the rest of us look like shit.
Presumably COVID also saves the government money, then? It mostly kills the old who have already paid into the tax system their whole working lives and are now drawing from it. And it mostly kills the chronically ill who need more tax support than they contribute. It seems terribly cold and callous to look at it this way though, e.g. when a son is holding his mom's hand in the hospital who is dying of lung cancer, to go up to the son and tap his shoulder and whisper, "Hey kid, cheer up, uncle Sam saved $8 bil on medicaid nursing home costs 'cus mommy here couldn't stop sucking nicotine sticks."
Same sentiment after reading this. He is basically saying "we have industry leading research team so even if we don't make decisions align to their recommendations, we care deeply about their work?"
"When I reflect on our work, I think about the real impact we have on the world -- the people who can now stay in touch with their loved ones, create opportunities to support themselves, and find community. This is why billions of people love our products. I'm proud of everything we do to keep building the best social products in the world and grateful to all of you for the work you do here every day."

this is cherry picking a bit much, but I guess it's not unexpected.
This is the type of corporate thinking characteristic of people who've been in their roles too long - over invested, myopic, and out of touch.

The real question is, what is the end game for Zuckerberg and who takes over FB next? This may be the inflection point on the curve.
If people have “already put their M1 computers in a drawer somewhere” that’s hardly because Apple “designed [the product] to go in the rubbish bin 2-4 years after manufacture”. Apple has a fairly long arm of support for products. The MacBook pros made in 2014 finally this year stopped receiving new os updates (but are still receiving security updates). The iPhone 6s got iOS 15 this year and that’s a 6 year old device. If people are chucking their devices after 2 years that’s on them
In the long run this is carbon neutral because more trees will grow.
Which points made you stop and think
Yeah. The second paragraph honestly just made me dislike him and want to close my account.
How about running Dolphin in Linux on M1 software?
If only there’s a market network for quick-swappable rechargeable battery packs for electric cars.

Here’s how it would work: you pass by a convenience store or gas station on your way home or to work, pick up some depleted battery packs, you get home and recharge those battery packs with your excess solar power, then bring the recharged battery packs back to convenience store or gas station for a bit of money. That way you don’t need to grid tie your solar installation. :P
Same reason the tobacco industry created research programs to look at the health effects of smoking. Neither their nor Facebook's research could ever be mistaken of "industry-leading", though.
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Ok...

First off there's no way Zuckerberg wrote this. Might've been involved but these are the words of a marketing team working with a legal team.

Secondly why do you see Zuckerberg as a great CEO?
Is it common for companies to check the credit history of job candidates? Why would they care? they're the ones paying you.
Exceptions are, in essence, sophisticated GOTO statements.
Programming with exceptions, therefore, leads to more difficult to read, and understand code.
Most languages have existing control structures designed to solve problems without the use of exceptions.
Arguments for efficiency tend to be moot for modern compilers, which tend to optimize with the assumption that exceptions are not used for control flow. This just feels like it's going to get abused.
>arduino-type toys

Intel has a terrible track record with maker-ish stuff. They routinely launch products, sell them for a year, then discontinue them. (Intel Euclid vision SBC, Intel Edison x86 microcontroller, the realsense stuff, etc)

You can't build an ecosystem around a product if you kill it after a few months. Arudino is only Arduino because they actually stuck around.
> Smoking was happening in the 1800's. Lung Cancer rates didn't shoot up until the 1900's,

Were they even looking for lung cancers when people died back in 1800's?
Has anyone trained a language model to generate these content-free apology / explanation blurbs from Zuck?
Moving Google toward the mainline
75% to 90% is not impossible in reasonable countries. Many childhood vaccines are expected to be administered to at least 95% of the children.

There are two promising aspects. Vaccination after infection boost antibody levels and is providing very good protection. Infection after vaccination is also boosting antibody levels to similar level and there is hope the it also gives very good protection.
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I'm just going by what I read here: https://theconversation.com/yes-more-carbon-dioxide-in-the-a...