skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Facebook issued a lengthy statement from director of policy communications Lena Pietsch titled "Missing Facts from Tonight's 60 Minutes Segment."

> She pointed to Facebook's investment to monitor for harmful content; disputed the way Facebook's own research on teenagers' mental health has been reported; and rejected the claim that the social network has furthered political polarization.

You are quoting something Facebook used as a defense
“I switched from iPhone to a Pixel 4 … And this is a phone without the bloatware.”

Mutually exclusive statements.
Again, given “cognitive difficulties” etc, you lost me at “sudo” :)
Uh, children? Non-citizens?
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I mean, it's open source, so you can audit it.
https://github.com/qTox/qTox.

Then you can build the client yourself and check the sha sum against any downloaded distribution.
Did you actually read the article or are you just trying to create controversy? That quote comes from a Facebook spokesperson trying to push back against the negative attention.

> Facebook issued a lengthy statement from director of policy communications Lena Pietsch titled "Missing Facts from Tonight's 60 Minutes Segment."

> She pointed to Facebook's investment to monitor for harmful content; disputed the way Facebook's own research on teenagers' mental health has been reported; and rejected the claim that the social network has furthered political polarization.

How can you say "If there was a story here, I feel like they’re working hard on overplaying their hand at the risk of losing the audience once the initial frenzy wears off." when you have clearly demonstrated that you didn't bother to read the story in the first place and just like to cherrypick quotes out of context to prove a point?

EDIT: And now the OP has edited their post but still stands by their claim that this is a nothingburger, without evidence this time.
For context, the OP originally quoted "She pointed to Facebook's investment to monitor for harmful content" out of context as evidence of something good that facebook did but this article is trying to trump up into something bad.
Free speech on the internet worked fine before companies developed algorithms to feed you content that made them the most $$. I would also say there's a problem in traditional media - something shared with social media.

Outrage sells. We have a bunch of people walking around being angry about shit that is never gonna change, politicians don't give two fucks about (except it gets you to vote for them), and all media are laughing to the bank because of the engagement it drives.
The biggest problem is that most .NET shops never moved away from giving tier 1 clearance to Microsoft, while making it almost impossible to use anything else from legal point of view.
Outside of cooking, I'm with you. I use Siri for setting timers while I have my hands full in the kitchen - and even then - it only allows _one timer at a time_. My phone has multiple processor cores, but it requires the assist of my 15 year old microwave to track both rice -and- veggies...
I just double checked and we don't have access to the Facebook study (only excerpts and interpretations from WSJ - i was originally referring to external studies). So let's just state the obvious, if the conclusion of the study was that Facebook has an overall net benefit to mental health then why wouldn't Facebook be forthcoming with the report? Congress has explicitly asked them for it, so why wouldn't they produce. That's what I'm confused about.
> Random wikipedia code isn't a definition.

Let's look at a few other sites:

"Bubble sort is a sorting algorithm that works by repeatedly stepping through lists that need to be sorted, comparing each pair of adjacent items and swapping them if they are in the wrong order." -- https://www.techopedia.com/definition/3757/bubble-sort

"Bubble ... compares number X to the adjacent number Y." -- https://airfocus.com/glossary/what-is-bubble-sort/

"Bubble Sort ... works by repeatedly swapping the adjacent elements ..." -- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/bubble-sort/

"... bubble sort works by comparing adjacent pairs of objects in the array." -- http://pkirs.utep.edu/cis3355/Tutorials/chapter9/tutorial9A/...

"Bubble sort ... each pair of adjacent elements is compared and the elements are swapped if they are not in order." -- https://www.tutorialspoint.com/data_structures_algorithms/bu...

"Bubble sort ... Compare the current number with the next number." -- https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zm77xfr/revision/5

"Bubble sort ... compares two adjacent elements and swaps them until they are not in the intended order." -- https://www.programiz.com/dsa/bubble-sort

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Scans from TAoCP, Volume 3:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/BubbleSort_a.png

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/BubbleSort_b.png

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I'm really baffled by your claim. I've never seen anything other than the definition or implementation saying that it's adjacent elements being compared. Everywhere I've ever seen it's been a defining feature of the algorithm definition ... yet you claim otherwise.

Can you provide any explicit reference where the Bubble Sort is not explicitly comparing adjacent elements?
My apologies for the title, but this is an interesting behind the scenes testimony of how it was to work at OZY before it collapsed.

It's a good illustration of how someone willing to defraud their employees is often willing to do the same to investors.
>That's what America is about, greed, the pursuit of happiness, whatever you call it, everything else is noise.

The pursuit of happiness is not greed. What qualifies as 'happiness' is entirely up to each individual, and for many people that doesn't include being greedy.
Often people cite people who are not interested and/or not following politics and cannot make an informed decision.

That is the central debate around forced voting.
Seems a very standard thing to say when someone quits.
I don't know if the analogy holds, considering most of the complaints around social media are that it's not accessible or open enough, and engagement with social media doesn't directly create value for Facebook. They derive that value from the associated ads, as opposed to the items you listed being a) costly for its users, and b) the actual product. Social media costs nothing.
Facebook Department of Graphic Violence
Just being able to state my intention prevents Mitchell Baker from putting words in my mouth.
he didn't say "nothing" or "everything", he said "tracking" is a crime. To which you responded "it's not a crime in our laws" to which I said "YET". I am not sure where you drew this conclusion from? I introduced "everything" in the sense that everything "could" become a crime at some point, like mass private surveillance should.
Better to have it and not need it?
Skip the trite cliches, what are you talking about? My driver's license, passport, whatever does not directly encode my relationships other than simple demographics.

I'm not under an illusion that I myself am personally anonymous. I'm sure I leave enough breadcrumbs around the Internet but that's my (dubious) choice. However, force me to verify my identity, use my real name, or enter a phone number and I lose that opportunity.
That was a quote from Facebook’s official response to the leaks.

The display ad on mobile cuts the article in a really odd way.
That's our running joke, that there's at least one of the core dev team that's an NSA plant. The trick is, we used to demand at least 2 others review code, so in order to be a successful plant, you'd have to contribute good code. So if the FBI is playing the long con, they'd have to actually improve the code base too :D
> One key fact is number of people killed by US commercial power plants: 0

One key fact about nuclear is that everything that we see from here to the horizon is a layer of lies.

All nuclear plants have commercial uses, some also make bombs in the weekends and holidays that never, ever killed anybody. Very nice bombs.

But I imagine that we talk about nuclear plants for civil uses. I guess that the Radium Girls don't qualify as people in that list of "zero" people killed by radioactivity in US.

If we talk about people killed "by" the building, yes we have five workers killed, but we could forget all about those also. Last was from 2013 so is a really old history. Nothing to see here, lets move on.

In fact if we forget all about Slotin and Daghlian and about the other 56 nuclear accidents in US we could have a list of zero accidents!. A very desirable goal!. All that we need is to discard the bad parts of the history.

All depends on how you circumnavigate and define accident in a nuclear plant.
Funny how those articles are popular, hating on big tech creates high engagement.
Haven't we heard that argument before?
I check something like every few hours, but many people do not even though I generally agree with you.
>This might shock you, but no, and we don't need an "arbiter". Getting to the "truth" is to a large extent a decentralized process that should involve many people and communities.

Right, a "decentralized process". Which is entirely at odds with having authority figures censoring all unpopular opinions and dissent. You say we don't need an arbiter yet you argue in favor of creating one, intentionally or not.
Does it mean that an attacker with the ability to monitor network connections can see who is talking to whom?
Mitchell Baker's blog:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/author/mitchellmozillacom/

Virtue signaling and progressive propaganda. Not a single word about Firefox.

I bet Mitchell Baker can't even write a single line of code, yet she's leading a software company. Clown world at its finest.
It would even suffice to just swap two random elements every iteration!
This presumes there's an universal definition of asshole/unethical that everyone agrees on. You might think paying workers minimum wage is asshole/unethical, so you pay above it even though it's above market rate. Other business owners disagree and undercut you, causing you to be driven out of business. You think they're assholes and fume in your head about how evil they are, but they think nothing's wrong and you're just a bad businessman. Is it fair to denounce them for the way their acted, because their morals don't match up with yours?
Facebook funded research into how their products affect people's well-being. The studies showed a negative impact, so FB decided to bury the reports and then when they leaked, they argued that the research wasn't very good.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/16/faceboo...

https://web.archive.org/web/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fabout.f...
Why does phrack.org domain not use SSL protocol?
The share and property markets have been on a tear. It would be hard for people who own things to become poorer over the last 18 months.
The papers are covered by WSJ.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039
Apache Servers Actively Exploited in the Wild and the Importance of Patching
We began finding a stocks “Hype” window
Like most things... as soon as you need to deviate from whatever defaults are setup, a really well thought out option/config design wins.

I find Syncthing not very intuitive for anything beyond the default setup. Nonetheless, it's a great tool!
Raven attacks Wing’s drone delivering coffee
Yeah, this situation is quite frustrating.
Is there a way to order these books without using amazon.com? Here in Canada I'm not seeing a clear path to purchase. I've got a few Stripe Press books (all well-loved gifts) so I assume they exist in Canadian channels.
At least in case of the Nazis it was not so effective. The Nazis did not come to power by propaganda. In elections they did not exceed about 1/3 of the votes. The got to power by having another party voting the power to them. Afterwards they actually used plain old violence and economics to achieve their objectives (i.e. it paid to "come along").
@zadjii, in case it's not clear enough from my praises on how promising Windows Terminal Preview is, thanks a lot for all the wonderful work you're doing with the Windows Terminal team.

At first I was afraid the project would take the easy way out and ignore hard features or take shortcuts (ex: SGR1 : bold or bright? or both? or none?) but you have shown you are willing to do what it takes to properly support applications.

This is not just in line with the reputation of Microsoft when it comes to backwards compatibility, but going above and beyond to make sure everything works perfectly.

When sixel support is added to WT, it will replace mintty as my favorite terminal -- and I'm very picky when it comes to terminals.

WT is a wonderful contribution to the open source world, and I hope it will inspire similar terminals on Linux (or be usable through wine)

Oh, and uh, my apologies if you felt my contribution to the sixel thread (PR #448) were out of line. Since your last message, I've realized my posts may be off topic, as a degraded mode is not what most people may want, even as a stopgap measure, so I've stopped posting there.
Yes, but usually with the consent of the person quitting, when both sides want to keep the true circumstances of the departure quiet.
> I personally ran analysis like this to detect high and unexpected latency on people with cheaper cell phones (disproportionately minorities in the US). The results of my analysis led to changes that reduced this disparity

Something tells me that "the poors" not having access to the problematic content/software isn't the the ethical dilemma that's being discussed.

That's like saying "I ran the analysis that determined that powder cocaine being expensive was causing a disparity in access, so I helped invent crack cocaine so that even minorities could experience cocaine addiction".
> The display ad on mobile cuts the article in a really odd way.

Yep. That got me. Thanks for pointing it out. I removed that part of my post.
Some people think Fox News spews insiduous propaganda. I think Facebook is merely a symptom of a very complicated problem.
Don't SPAM the logs.

You don't need to log every method call, every variable, every "if" statement, ect. That's what the debugger is for.

And, I shouldn't need to say it: Don't log passwords or other sensitive information.

Also: Make sure your logger is configured correctly. Log4Net used to (and it still might) calculate an entire stack trace with each call to the logger. It can be the single highest consumption of CPU in an application; even if you aren't actually logging stack traces.
>Why don't you get rid of the landline and give these people your cell phone number?

For me, because I live in a large, dense city, my apartment is in a place where other, larger building surround it. As such, I have poor cellular reception in my home.

As such, if I don't have a "landline" (actually a VOIP line), I would often be unreachable at home.
Where do people go living offgrid like this? I'm in Los Angeles and will probably never afford a house here due to the high cost, maybe a townhouse some day. Anyone has suggestion for good states or cities that will be good for building your own houses? I've never been out of California really and most of my friends are in CA as well.
We literally just ended our last war just over a month ago - I think it's a bit too early to celebrate how much of a peace loving society we have become. The war contractors were milking Afganistan for decades and haven't needed a new target - let's see if we can go for a year at peace before we declare pacifism achieved.
I don't understand which of these accusations are actually breaking the law. They all imply that Facebook isn't being a Good Samaritan, but that isn't actually illegal.
> I really don’t understand why investing in content monitoring is being used as a point against Facebook. Isn’t this what people wanted?

That isn’t what was stated. I fully understand that you are purposefully making disingenuous arguments, because you know that YC leads are fine with disrespectful shit that supports a hard right-wing positions…. But at least _try_ to pretend that you’re not shitting all over us with nonsense.
Can you then explain why, as the whistleblower alleges, all the programs to keep the newsfeed "clean" for the 2020 election campaign were turned off a month or two after the election? This would have certainly lead to a degradation of all the non-engagement metrics. It seems inconsistent with what is being leaked right now from within FB.

In my opinion, what you describe is what facebook wants people to believe, but actively undermines and internally prevents from happening. In other words, tracking wellbeing / non-engagement metrics and everything around it is PR that seemingly even employees are made to believe.
I never understand the text-to-speech guide videos. It's a huge turn off for me, like "oh maybe I won't use this software rather". idk why really, but it just feels so wrong.

Also I know it's money, pennies, but Amazon Polly is kinda good and with a few minutes of EQ touch up you can make it 100% better than the default OSX/Windows text-to-speech
I really wish / hope the timescale cloud pricing and features gets somewhere close to the cost of postgres on Digital Ocean https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Something is very fishy here.

The whistleblower here is incredibly liberal. She's working with a law firm with a long history of liberal bias including relations to the Trump impeachment. She has raised bias concerns with past employers.

Similarly, there was a 60min documentary lined up within 24 hours after her whistle blowing.

Now we have a congressional meeting only 72hr later.

So far as I can tell, her solution to all this is "make Facebook punish bad people" by which her definition is "opposes mask and vaccine mandates."

Facebook is no angel and is absolutely guilty of some bad things. *However*, people voicing on an open platform has been a net positive on humanity. We have avoided endless wars in this social media era; there are too many eyes on issues for us to fall into more wars. The scrutiny on the Biden administration's controversial pull-out of Afghanistan is evidence of this.

Why is her solution here to limit how much of this sort of scrutiny can go on as opposed to allowing for more of it? Why are so many institutions now lining up behind her?

It just feels very very off to me.

Edit: a lot more further weirdness includes claiming her team would've prevented the January 6th riots. What?
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Will the “Social Media Bad” trend die out like the “Video Games Violent” trend?
It was pointed at by PR director, of course she tried to find some good things about FB
Try using a realtek NIC on a BSD system and see how many days before your networking softlocks.

Also some distros just don't include the drivers. I had to build the realtek 2.5gbe drivers from source, on an unnetworked system, last month! Latest ubuntu distro.
To be clear I was not making a legal argument. IANAL and have no idea the legal ramifications of all these issues. I was explaining why people are more receptive to this line of complaint against Facebook.

And honestly I think the legal argument is kind of moot. She is testifying in Congress, the body that creates the laws. If society doesn't like what Facebook is doing, we can create new laws that would give a legal basis to step in.
This is incorrect.

> Assignment and Contribution Models. The .NET Foundation uses either an assignment model or a contribution model for on-boarding new projects. Under the assignment model, a project transfers ownership of the copyright to the .NET Foundation. Under the contribution model, a project retains ownership of the copyright, but grants the .NET Foundation a broad license to the project’s code and other intellectual property. The project also confirms that the project’s submissions to .NET Foundation are its own original work (there are also instructions for any third party materials that might be included).

They accept both models (Contribution and Assignment).

https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/submit
lol - if you had actually used one, rather than pontificating in an Internet comment thread, you would not be describing the M1 as an "incremental" improvement.

It's night and day. Readily noticeable by non-technical people. It's not just faster, it's snappier, more responsive and just has an all around different feel.
This was the same legal mechanism Seattle used for cannabis for years before WA voted to legalize. Effectively it meant it was broadly treated as legal, but could be and was enforced unevenly.
Police are beginning to use special shotgun shells that fire what are essentially nets that tangle up drone props and make them fall out of the sky.

I could see larger, military versions of this being effective. Drones are pretty fragile and easy to take down.
No. I don't believe in neat model of the universe where you can assign vague tag, label, whatever you want to call it and apply it to every facet of reality. Its not sensible. Worse, it is not how the world works. You won't even get appropriate approximation of reality that way. If it was a simple 1 and 0, we would have better simulations by now.

So.. no. It does not alarm me. It helps that I don't fit your model very well.

But your thought process does interest me.
I use Calls Blacklist [1] to block calls from unrecognized numbers -- just checked, it supports blocking numbers based on "Starts with" so that would probably work, if you're on Android.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vladlee.ea...
I agree, and the harm is already done. What we can do is legislate new laws to combat these insidious practices from facebook. Which is unlikely to occur, so the problem will persist until something breaks. And that is how it's done, not by skirting the law, but by not adjusting it to our times.
Thanks for leaving the part of your post where you argue that we should simply _not_ be bothered by these things, that being less bothered will, magically, result in greater response.

You definitely aren’t making a bad faith argument at all.
Say rather that the climate denialists have used politics to attempt to discredit science, thus politicizing, for their own purposes, the results of research.
Glad to hear it, but here on the poor end of the spectrum my rent is being raised 17%.