skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because some people convinced themselves that government is bad, even though democratic governments were the GOAL of almost every nation in the pre-independence days. If people cannot trust the institutions that they themselves built, it says more about the morals of those voting than about those so-called corrupt governments.
The chance is a window of 2 to 24 hours every decade, but you’re not sure it will happen… After that, customers go back to the leader.
> Bitcoin at least was a deliberate response to what I would paraphrase as the "socialism for the rich, capitalism for the rest" policies of the last global financial crisis.

Was it actually, though?
The background of paper with lines is very misleading - because it implies that translation of the pyramid is forbidden, when this translation is the key.
The key word is "suddenly".

In the electricity grid, demand and generation must always be precisely matched (otherwise, things burn up). This is done by generators automatically ramping up or down whenever the load changes. But most generators cannot change their output instantly; depending on the type of generator, it can take several minutes or even hours to respond to a large change in the demand.

Now consider that, on modern servers, most of the power consumption is from the CPU, and also there's a significant difference on the amount of power consumed between 100% CPU and idle. Imagine for instance 1000 servers (a single rack can hold 40 servers or more), each consuming 2kW of power at full load, and suppose they need only half that at idle (it's probably even less than half). Suddenly switching from idle to full load would mean 1MW of extra power has to be generated; while the generators are catching up to that, the voltage drops, which means the current increases to compensate (unlike incandescent lamps, switching power supplies try to maintain the same output no matter the input voltage), and breakers (which usually are configured to trip on excess current) can trip (without breakers, the wiring would overheat and burn up or start a fire).

If the load changes slowly, on the other hand, there's enough time for the governor on the generators to adjust their power source (opening valves to admit more water or steam or fuel), and overcome the inertia of their large spinning mass, before the voltage drops too much.
>for example, I'll bet there was no serious consideration at Facebook of not being able to open electronic door locks in the case of an apparently innocent BGP update.

If that was actually the case, a lot of heads at FB should roll over this. The logic is simple and obvious, and if the sysadmins and network admins didn't think about this line of thinking then they're overpaid:

1) Our door control system is accessed via a public IP/address, not via an internal/private address.

2) Accessing our public IPs/addresses is dependent on BGP and DNS not getting borked.
Do you think if all companies are required to disclose such research, that they are still going to conduct it to begin with? If they don't already know the answer, they will just not ask the questions- just like a trial lawyer.
We have lots of evidence for the effect of marijuana on fetuses and babies.
What about commercial cruise lines? Do people need to go on cruises? The cruise industry uses over double the emissions of the bitcoin protocol[0].

Furthermore, millions would be affected if bitcoin were to go offline tomorrow. Particularly people living in authoritarian states[1], or people who do not have access to traditional banking services.

[0] https://twitter.com/gladstein/status/1414065840157347840?s=2...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jul/31/out-of-co...
A USB Fan Controller that now works under Linux
Yet with all those things we have laws and regulations and even restrictions for young people explicitly. FB is the wild west on the other hand and constantly lobbies to keep it that way in terms of how regulators see it.
>" - I do not understand how 'mln' is more SEO than 'M'"

There are limits to how many characters and pixels Google and Bing will display before cutting off a title and appending an ellipsis. I believe that mln was chosen for stylistic reasons, to differentiate from molarity...

>"[Wikipedia] states that it's 'mol', but what do I know, I'm not a chemist"

'M' is used for molarity (molar concentration), not moles.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molar_concentration
Stupid journalists
Why not? Six months ago they were already celebrating half a billion users.

People don't realize how big Telegram already is.
That's the sense that I get talking to anyone that works on new products at Google (GCP or otherwise). It seems like they just throw multiple teams at the same problem, see which one they like the most, and then sunset the others.
maybe 1B is family wealth rather than personal wealth?
>The two main backers (Apple and Google) seem to have backed out.

Google has not "backed out".

E.g. look at this topic's discussion thread. The current top comment is about [[clang::musttail]]; the implementor of that attribute works for Google. The current second top comment is about the Rust compilation wins from the switch to the New Pass Manager; the NPM was primarily implemented by (and turned on as the default pass manager upstream) by people who work for Google. Google is actually growing our investment in people contributing to core Clang/LLVM.

Source: I am a manager for C++ toolchains (those that target production, Chrome, ChromeOS) at Google.
We try to write our ops manuals in a way that my grandma could follow but we don’t always succeed. :)
> Are you suggesting that any profitable company hosting user-submitted content should invest all the profits in moderation teams to the point where they are either a) becoming profit-neutral or b) all the relevant content has been reviewed by a human moderator?

Yes, obviously. Why should a company get to profit from sex traffic or any other such content on their platform, just because it would cost money to take it down?
Not odd at all, because if they showed up with guns they get shot. They needed to show up with other weapons that don’t draw immediate gunfire.

But I also fully understand that you are just a worthless unthinking sheep who blindly supports whatever right-wing drivel you’re told to support. You dumb fucking piece of anti-American shit.
> Care to put a number of years on that?

I'm not a soothsayer; I'm not trying to time anything. I'm saying the steering wheel and pedals have come off the car and it's going 80 and so in the coming months and years, this won't end well.

It seems to me that the discussion is the car, not what day of the week it will hit the wall.
I’m very close with someone who works at a FB data center and was discussing this exact issue.

I can only speak to one problem I know of (and am rather sure I can share): a spike might trip a bunch of breakers at the data center.

BUT, unlike me at home, FBs policy is to never flip a circuit back on until you’re positive of the root cause of said trip.

By itself that could compound issues and delay ramp up time as they’d work to be sure no electrical components actually sorted/blew/etc. A potentially time sucking task given these buildings could be measured in whole units of football fields.
'Game Boy' Device Was Used to Steal Vehicles Worth £180k – Nintendo Life
"at the technical level calling/texting isn't competitive with Whatsapp."

This does not seem to an a comment informed about how the network works

VoLTE is better quality audio than what's app, it gracefully works in large crowds and countryside instead of degrading into individual sylabiles the way whats app does. Latency is 10x lower. There is no central server that cam fail like it did last week. Calling is an intrinsic, optimised part of the mobile network, replacing it at a higher layer will always be inferior.

Its the economics that moves the needly, my mom would have neber installed an app to get all the other fluff like read reciepts
70M people were so worked up about not being able to use FB they signed up for Telegram -- the not-quite orthogonal alternative? Sounds 'sus
Another option is to log after, but in a cross cutting way, e.g. using a middleware or filter. Extra properties can be added along the way, and if there's an exception the middleware can handle it and add the problem to the log event.

The power of structured logging here is in enriching events to make them queryable later, so you could e.g. view all events for a request.
When your rent is 70% of your income it's a touch hard to save for a down payment/maintain good credit/pay for schooling to upskill. That's the reality some of us live in.
Well, points for coming up with something I hadn't thought of. Makes me grateful for my password manager filling things in based on domain.

EDIT oh shit, just revealed I use a password manager, please fire me if I ever reveal which one.
You are pointing out scale and impact which I agree with. I am pointing out economics. Both have incentives which are driving outcomes that are undermining civility and cooperation.
eGPUs for one, but there are bigger problems to solve there. Other than that, IIRC some v4l stuff did this, and a few others. It's a tiny subset of drivers.
I think that's a mischaracterization of what happened.

I can't speak to most of the product surfaces but for those that I'm familiar with, the most accurate description of what happened is that approved, tested changes that were known to affect so-called "civic integrity" were delayed until after the election to avoid breaking anything or regressing civic integrity until after the election.

For this next part I'm mostly just speculating, but I think I have a more informed opinion on this than most outside of Facebook: It's important to understand how FB measures civic integrity. Facebook generally uses "prevalence" metrics for these things, which look something like "the percent of sessions in which the viewer saw at least one item classified as X", where here X would be something like "civic misinformation" or "inauthentic civic engagement". After the election, bots and bad actors were much less active and invested, so prevalence automatically went down. Since FB makes shipping decisions in part based on prevalence, this decrease means that there is more "budget" to regress these metrics.

Put another way, Facebook sets goals about the overall prevalence of bad content, so when that bad content goes away for exogenous reasons, Facebook can do more things that trade off engagement metrics for prevalence of bad content.
“The Bitcoin is our currency, but it is your problem”
I actually prefer videos in Firefox because of picture in picture. But yeah, with Gmail in Firefox you've had to basically switch to HTML mode. It's gotten a lot better though in recent releases.
Bitcoin. You think people want to deal with the transfer of physical gold etc in this modern age?
Fair enough, not me. But it's there and verified if you want it.
>. Priests aren't in it for the money or an easy lifestyle

Right, which immediately rules out like 95% of Catholic men from even considering the occupation. There aren't a lot of applicants to the job.

>Similarly I don't think the church is so worried about optimizing their training costs that it could be a plausible root cause.

Each priest has received 4-5 years of training that the Church paid for. Basically every other industry would also bend over backwards to save their ~$100,000 investment when they already have the hiring problem I mentioned.

I don't disagree with the rest of your post, Catholicism has a lot of problems. Even without those problems, they act like a lot of other companies that make similar choices of overlooking abuse because it's profitable to do so.
It's about a few things:

- If you have at least one alternative to Facebook installed, you lessen their network effect. People now have a choice how to talk to you. (I have another five messaging systems installed myself, but I will settle for everyone picking just their one favorite alternative to avoid a complete monopoly.)

- If you install a Facebook messenger, you know what they're going to do with your metadata. If you install Telegram, you have to be afraid that your data contents might somehow leak in the future. What's better: a definite moderate privacy invasion or a potential worse one? I have trouble answering that for myself, let alone advise others (when it's only between these two and only about privacy).

- Telegram has by far the best UX of any messenger I've ever used. Of course, this is helped by being unencumbered by any and all encryption problems by not having proper encryption, but it sure draws users.
Why so many of us are casual spider-murderers
> But that doesn't explain firing all those among those 1400 who tested positive in the past

Sure, I think that's a valid concern, but it's also shifting the goal posts. You can advocate for that specific subset without advocating for the entire group.
How Long Will It Take for the Chip Shortage to Ease?
Yes, thats the buried lede. Those are all things which you need to be old or mature enough to use responsibly - they make demands of experience and impulse control you develop as adults.

Meaning that blocking social media for kids and teens is likely on the anvil at some point.
Notifications didn't work until about 5PM PDT for me
Those 70m are mostly Whatsapp users, so...)
>>> our current system isn't here by accident

And dinasaurs weren't on earth by accident. They were part of evolution and then replaced with other species more appropriate for evolving earth and conditions.
It sounds like the .NET Foundation didn't feel they owned enough of the copyright to do that, which would be why the article talks about the .NET Foundation now (too late) doing what Open Source Foundations do as a base principal: requiring the assignment of copyright/ownership/CLAs to control/avoid relicensing. Asking now makes them seem like jerks, but if they had asked before and made it a policy from the beginning they would have avoided some of the root causes of this mess. (This a harsh lesson that just about every major Open Source Foundation has faced.)
ODNI to Share Unclassified Science and Technology Priorities
100% share your take on the subject.

Additionally, reading the whistleblower's account and her opinions/goals struck me as an incredibly naive way of thinking...although I think she may be genuine (she's my age and I have many peers like her).

What kind of organization respects the value of complete top-down organizational change initiated by rank and file members of the company? Who would think an organization would give them that kind of power? The role that she was hired for seems destined to give her no resources to accomplish the stated goals; we saw something similar but on a much smaller scale with Basecamp.

I know a lot of my peers believe in the power to make sweeping organizational changes like that, but it's "fucking with other peoples' money". To me the whole situation seems like the setup to a bad joke.

Facebook doesn't have to do much to smear her in my eyes because she already strikes me as a ridiculous person. That said, Facebook is similarly ridiculous for hiring people with causes in direct opposition to how they do business and giving everyone in the company unfettered access to damaging internal information.
Wow! This is amazing, you are amazing. Thank you!
Without Subscriptions there is no scope for retention.

Telegram only directly competes with WhatsApp , not Instagram, FB platform or even Messenger. Social network is of limited value in pure play messaging platform, where everyone is just interested in 1:1 or private group messaging.

I don't think anyone cares what network they are on, they care only about where the people they want talk to are at.

Yes, it is hard to break the network effort of any social media platform, however once that critical mass is reached, people move very very rapidly.
$1T coin in case feds wimp out, piping hot on OpenSea, https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c2484200...
The major concern is what if government-funded industry such as this succeeds, thereby encouraging more of it, the slippery slope to state capitalism and then Marx. The term escapes me, but it's some sort of neoliberal woo woo I can't quite remember. It does look rather iffy when you're whaa whaa'ing China for its state-funded industry when you're state funding industry, in other words. Socialism bad. Cooties! Everybody run! All that jazz.
> why does Apple do this?

User hostility.

They started soldering ram onto motherboards, even in devices that had plenty of space (iMacs) when it cut too much into their margins because people were doing upgrades themselves instead of paying for the 2000% premium to have Apple do it for them.

Then they soldered the SSD to the Macbook boards.

Despite having a long running bug that prematurely wears out the SSD.

Glue in Macbooks with the batteries where it wasn't necessary.

Soldered down glass backs on iPhones.

Serialized hardware AND batteries that cannot be swapped between identical models.

Everything they do is user hostile and anticompetitive.

Every step of the way, when something was found to be user repairable or replaceable, the next iteration had that 'fixed.'

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> The concept of marginal utility says that taking different amounts from people with different levels of income/wealth is treating them the same.

Marginal utility says that—most of the time–the utility of one more of an item to the owner is less than or equal to the utility of each item they already possess. (The exception would be where you need multiple items to do anything useful, but this is generally treated as a different kind of good rather than another of the same.) The concept of marginal utility says nothing about the relative utility of the same amount of money to different people. Utility is subjective, and there is no coherent concept of utility which applies across multiple individuals. It makes zero sense to say that some set amount of money is worth objectively more or less to different individuals based solely on how much they already own, much less on their earnings for a single year.

> To a person who earns $[X]/yr…

And here we have another issue: the assumption that earning some amount in one year—which is all the tax rules consider—is equivalent to earning that amount every year. Receiving ten years worth of income as a lump sum of $1M up front vs. $100k each year should not affect your tax rate, but in practice it does, which has various perverse implications. The law is biased in favor of regular, even income (W-2s), and against situations where you may earn a lot in one year and very little in others (e.g. running a small business).
Talk to someone. Tell them about the problem. Show them your previous steps trying to figure it out. Talk about possible solution you've thought of. Share your frustration. Ask them if they have any ideas.

When you are done you would have come up with at least one new thing to try.
Not only the age restriction but there are restrictions meant to curb some abuse at least. Drunk in public is a crime, establishments technically aren't allowed to overserve patrons who are very drunk, you can get tried for manslaughter worst case if you force someone to overconsume and they die, etc.
This pretty accurately reflects what I've seen among my friend group. Most rarely post. Of the few that do, most are solid left leaning folks who serve up a mixture of memes that are pretty similar to NPR. Aside from their posts which -- I kid you not-- occasionally add some anti-Trump memes for nostalgia, there's nothing else in my feed.

As much as I enjoy this, it's so sad because I miss the other friends.
CppCon 2017: Ben Deane & Jason Turner “constexpr ALL the Things!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwd4JLYJJY
If they want to make it easier to buy from Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh, the apps should actually list what’s available in store.

Pretty much every grocery app I’ve used has told me that was something was out of stock or didn’t appear at all, but if I show up in person it is very much in stock. So I’ve just given up and do all my shopping in person.
And my answer is, no, the car won't hit the wall - not in any amount of time that would make it reasonable to conclude that your prediction was correct.

(Or at least, we won't hit that wall. There are other walls that we are likely to hit before 2040, but the gold standard isn't one.)
This case would probably lead to unintended consequences, s.a. not hiring persons of color because now, those employees can easily put company on a hook for millions, unintentionally or by "staging/hoaxing" harassment situation. Why risk it? Similar situation was in the countries that introduced compulsory maternity leave. New hiring of females 21-25 years old dropped precipitously. Also, this would probably make any business to consider leaving jurisdictions where such verdicts occur.
It was a show election. The rules were changed mid-game, on the pretense of corona, to rig the outcome.
Telegram server is proprietary, clients are open source. And the protocol is open, and it is quite robust despite being garden variety cryptography.
The point is that being forbidden and being illegal are different ideas. It’s bad for society to codify too much behaviour in law. Knowing the law is no substitute for knowing the difference between right and wrong.

Regulating Facebook is a great example. Congress could easily react to facebook’s indiscretions by passing new laws here which stifle innovation.
screw Facebook. i hope they are regulated out of existence. stop shilling for them.
On pretty much every crypto exchange telegram support channel - the moment you ask question - some friendly "support admin" will try to contact you and "help".
So you’re saying you like go?
Exactly. And it would actually be worse, because the clients would have to wait for a timeout, instead of simply returning a name error right away.
Indeed. And don't forget how well Telegram works compared to the competition. If anything will draw them away on convenience grounds (rather than some moral high ground, which was apparently not convincing enough or these new users would have installed an alternative sooner) it will be Telegram.
Only reason people jump on cryptocurrencies is their pyramid scheme type nature, get in first or lose out.

They're not currencies, they're speculation.

People want to spend currencies, why would you ever spend bitcoin when it's designed to always increase in value?

Governments are their citizens, they're just people we picked. If you hate the people that are running, there's a built in solution, get someone better to run. That's the fundamental part of democracy, anyone can run for office.

Why is a central control over money supply bad? Lets you attempt to control the boom/bust cycle.
I think they do. When you only see post about how vaccine cause autism, anectode about this and that person and the diseases they got from the vaccine and that on top of that the vaccine doesn't even prevent the disease it was designed against, then it becomes reasonable to become antivax.

And if effectively Facebook knowingly choose, through their algorithm parameters selection, to promote this material as it increases engagement more than reasonable content, then yes, I think they should at least be partly held responsible for the harm caused by the anti vaccine movement.

And this is only one example.
I'm not particularly thrilled, given Telegram is based in the United Arab Emirates, its client-server encryption is almost purposefully garbage (they basically rolled their own TLS, and predictably researchers keep finding vulnerabilities in "MTProto"), they don't enable e2ee chats by default, and they don't e2ee group chats at all.

Do. Not. Use. Telegram.
I'm inclined to believe the later post as they've had more time to assess the details. I think the point of the earlier post is really to say "we weren't hacked!" but they didn't want to use exactly that language.