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I'm not sure what point you're making. Your observations are all consistent with the "overt falsehood followed by quiet retraction" claim. Are you quibbling about "days later" versus "day later" with respect to the retraction?

> I checked their story[1] on the incident you mentioned, and the first paragraph is:

That was added later, hence the italics.
One drawback being how easy today's derailleurs are to adjust and tune with simple tools. Run the cable, set the High, set the Low, and you're done.

> the Ford derailleur appears to be aimed at the e-bike market

...and possibly pros? They mention Di2 in here, I don't know anyone (outside of Freds) that are riding Dura-Ace-level grouppos that actually do their own maintenance, so this probably won't be targeted to enthusiasts.
Here's the Bloomberg article cited in Matt Levine's column:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-10-07/crypto-my...
Non-AMP link: https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/facebook-ends-wfh-forever-...
Lets say that a poorly designed gym wants to promote social interaction - so they build a cool down room with a small cafe that has a machine you need to swipe a card through every ten reps to continue using the exercise equipment. Some enterprising fellow builds a portable machine that will simulate the card swipe action but can be done at the actual exercise equipment.

This seems like a fairer analogy to me since this extension is dealing with a component facebook put in to drive "engagement" that is viewed by a lot of people as an anti-feature - some people like it: Miles, who hangs around the gym for the conversation, really likes the fact that he bumps into people more often in the cool-down room... but most people wish that feature had never been added.

Add all of that to the fact that Facebook is the only tool Facebook allows on Facebook (so there are no competing gyms) and the tool becomes even more justifiable. Is it still quite legal for Facebook to C&D this guy - absolutely - but they're definitely not acting in their user's best interest.
Yeah but the technical solution won't save you; laziness usually applies to everything, so they'll find something else to mess up.

The technical solution is a very useful way of preventing mistakes by well-intentioned people though.
Wouldn't domain squating be even worse that way?
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As far as I can tell, it's because it's not based on CPython. For whatever reason, to GvR Python == CPython, other interpreters don't matter. It's a shame, because python the language is fine, but CPython the interpreter is janky and slow.
Nearly 20 years ago we started pushing STEM in society. I would expect everyone here thinks that's a great idea but what happened to Not-STEM. Journalism lost all their top candidates into STEM. The quality of journalism objectively dropped and when that happens it turns into "Yellow Journalism" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

Basically what we see today in journalism is no different than 100 years ago. A very high degree of yellow journalism.

Pulitzer and Hearst became so bad that they openly called for the assassination of the US president(mckinley). Both ran basically the same call to assassinate with different authors. The realization that pulitzer and hearst had some hand in having the republican president assassinated is what got him to stop. He went back to the paper and put a stop to the yellow journalism and then put the prize in his will.

Very obvious the Hannity and Oreilly Fox news led the move, but now it's virtually everyone. It's not even just the USA. The yellow journalism coming out of the CBC is a nice steady flow.
>Your argument only works and sounds credible because most people on this site believe Facebook is harmful. If people don't share that belief, then it doesn't follow that Facebook is being hypocritical because they are banning someone who is using their product to defeat the product.

I've been seeing this idea a lot on HN, that we're just in this echo chamber and the general public doesn't have the same opinion. This notion isn't supported by the data[1]:

> 57% believe Facebook is “primarily a harm to society” and 71% believe the company “prioritizes profits, even if it might cause societal harm.”

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/07/23/mark-zu...
Even faster for 0->1, use Javascript, big ecosystem as Python but same language in front-end and back-end. Faster runtime also.
The end goal is that Docker isn't needed at all, you could just run Sat on bare metal and you'd get all the nice sandboxing properties of Wasm. That said, the tooling in the industry is largely container-based, so that's the starting point for now.

The benefit you get today is you can actually run un-trusted code in Wasm and have a higher level of sandboxing than a container, for example you can run user-submitted code with the right configuration.

When writing for Wasm, I'd say the best thing to keep in mind is that the ecosystem is young and so not everything is fleshed out, but there are already a ton of cool things you can do, and the experience will vary depending on the language you're using to target it.
Probably yeah :) The builds fail at the "npm audit" command, so I incorrectly made the link.
The biggest issue with media to me is that they report opinion as news.
>we can't take their leadership seriously when they claim that they care about their users' health and well-being over profits.

Can we ever take a company that says this seriously? Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I never do.
Not trying to nitpick, and not arguing with the sense of sadness you feel -- I sympathize -- but I wouldn't call "passively keeping in touch" with thousands of people "relationships." It's something, but I'm not sure what, it seems like we may not have a good word for "casual strangers," the level of familiarity beneath acquaintance that we know because we met them once and then know only what they post in one social media database or another.

Also, to be honest, I felt the way you did before I deleted a twitter account with about 2k following and 10k followers. I felt like it was dominating my attention, and that made me mad. In a fit of pique I deleted it and it's almost funny how quickly I realized I didn't know any of them, and the passive consumption of their social media database entries was scratching some kind of itch but the same one I get from e.g. binging Star Trek series.

Very strange all around.
That's definitely an outlier when it comes to build times,
avg. construction time is 7.5 years for the 441 reactors in use today.

http://euanmearns.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-nucle...
Agree, on both loathing FB and that they are within their rights to kick this guy off their product.

That said, congress should have him testify about his experiences, and the relationship to FB's income stream.
>I think your argument is begging the question as it depends on a prior belief that Facebook is actually harmful.

Considering that genocide has been organized on it? Yes. It's absolutely harmful.
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Not really suggesting any amount of rewriting of python code, just that extensions might need to be recompiled and/or not depend on reaching into internals they shouldn't touch. To users it should mostly be invisible.
Unpopular opinion: Chess needs an update with more moves or randomized pieces (position, etc).
The merger between copyright laundering and citogenesis.
Seems dumb. It would take a lot of energy to heat up the wire over and over and energy is at a premium on ebikes. Especially if the chain wasn’t cooperating and more force were required which I assume would mean more heat would be required. Also that seems a little slow compared to an electromagnetic solution. The only advantage in my view is that it has fewer moving parts.
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I think the sad part was realizing those relationships had died long ago, and that being friends on Facebook just makes it feel like they haven’t. It pushes into that parasocial territory which IMO is the biggest problem with social media: if our need for human connection is hunger, parasocial relationships are counterfeit food that makes you feel full but contains no calories.
Facebook is in the process of "losing the market" My feed has slowly died on its own with no intervention as people seem to have disengaged with it, none of my friends post anymore or if they do Facebook doesn't want to show me. I only use it as a Gumtree replacement now to sell stuff because eBay got too expensive/annoying...
Interesting you said that - i read the first part, scanned the rest looking for continuation of the story and then searched for 'Sheila'. Really wonder what happened next - was there a reconciliation, did the hurt run too deep, did Sheila even remember or did she think they just drifted apart?
> Kids assume that all monitors are touch screen at first

That happened to me with my 2 year old at the local library. I spent a few minutes showing him how to use the mouse. Then he touched the screen… and it worked. FML, the computer had a touch screen and a mouse.
Just because this is an older problem doesn't mean it's not a problem.

Yes, people that loved fixing up cars would have complained about "kids these days" not knowing how to fix a car. I was certainly one of those kids.

However seeing this happen with a field I know makes me realize those people complaining about people not knowing how to take care of their cars were right.

And while this is true of "any new tech", it's a relatively recent phenomenon as tech has only been advancing this rapidly in last 100 years or so.

It is a bad thing to be increasingly alienated from the tools you rely on for your day-to-day existence. Of course it's in part because cars and computers have both been increasingly designed by their manufactures to be difficult to take apart and understand. Tools that you don't understand increasingly control you rather than the other way around and I personally think this is a trend worth resisting.

It's good to point out that this is an issue and even better to encourage more people to be curious, and learn how things work. Another example that I'm surprised of is people's homes. I know a shocking number of home owners that cannot fix a single thing in their own home without calling a "professional" (and it's increasingly surprising how many professionals also don't understand what they're doing!) This was extremely evident during the freezing temperatures in Texas where many people didn't know how to shut off the water to their homes.

One of the best parts of the "hacker" mentality is to encourage people to not be scared of their tools and the things they own. While things have gotten more complicated, you can do a large amount of repair and modification on your own for almost everything. It honestly feels very liberating (not to mention saving you a lot of money) to snake a clog 12 ft deep in your drain, replace your car's serpentine belt, restore old hardwood floors, repair broken refrigerators from parts, etc.
Yeah, normally subsidies benefit both parties equally at the expense of tax-payers. But something like 75% of the world's oil production comes from state-run enterprises, the benefits go entirely to the consumer.
As an embedded developer in my 40s+... if you're good at it, $60k is chump change.

+Not sure what counts as old and crusty, but...
Surely, the extension uses a public API. The extension acts on behalf of the end user. So, I think facebook can ban a particular API key (tied to a packaged extension), but they would have to ban all chrome extensions to get around someone taking the extension source and building their own.

So I think facebook can by disabling the API, but won't do that since there are extension that it does like.

Whether FB has legal grounds to go after users using such an extension would depend on the user terms, which I don't really know. It would be fairly egregious and risky for FB to do so.

But I think if someone were to open source such an extension, this someone probably does not him/herself expose to a legal risk (speaking as a non-lawyer, and not giving legal advice)
My general strategy is to review with a computer, and if I don't understand the move the computer is suggesting, I follow the PV (principal variation) 3 or 4 moves deep. Generally that is enough to either tell me what I should have seen or "oh, the computer is thinking way above my level and I can probably ignore this"
Wasn't aware of the roach program or Alleycat so thanks for the pointers. I can see why you were keen to liberate the cat now I've seen it :)

My esheep query seems to have been taken extremely negatively. Rereading it a day later, it does seem to be dripping with snark, though that really wasn't how it was intended. I remember eSheep fondly as a kid, so it was the first thing I thought of when I saw the cat - along with more fondness for someone who'd brought similar to the web. I think some of my early forays into programming were directly attributable to me trying to surreptitiously inflict it on friends and family.
Yep, thrilled to be here and help folks out however we need :)
Not defending Facebook but shareholders aren’t exempt from abiding by ToS.
I don't disagree with you at all, but just to play devil's advocate, I suppose the argument could be made that Facebook has basically created a near-monopoly in the social media space, and if that's the case maybe they should be viewed as a "utility" than a regular unregulated business. For example, I don't think Con Edison [1] could kick me off my electricity (assuming I was paying my bill), even if I handed out pamphlets saying how to use less power, since Con Edison is a regulated utility.

Obviously this isn't a great comparison, you could make a much stronger argument for a "necessity" of electricity than a platform to share photos with friends, but that argument could be made that because of the ubiquity of Facebook (and subsidiaries), maybe they should be a free speech zone.

[1] NYC's biggest power company.
This is a TERRIBLE idea. Turning Facebook into a government entity, (or even making an org to regulate it), is as anti-American as it is unconstitutional. Take away 230 protection status and if the company survives great, otherwise another one will take its place.

I don't care what you say, any person CAN live without Facebook. Yes it might be painful for some, but in a free market society, some company (most likely many disparate companies), will cover those needs.
Outside of tech, I think coding means green text on a black background--but I think of it more generally, describing a process that you want something/someone else to run... a cooking recipe for someone to follow, it's CODE! So yeah, to that end, visual programming is still coding. AI that generates code, well, you still have to tell the AI what to do, still coding--on that tangent, if AI code generation ever is perfected, I'd rather work in that language, and not even look at the output like assembly.

I really want visual programming to succeed, but there's something fundamentally harder with it. I'm starting to think written language can't be beat for expressing thought. Visual programming is probably a great introduction to computer programming for people to quickly automate simple tasks, but I rest assured that as soon as they want to describe any complex process, they're going to fall into written language like the rest of us--or do lots of copying and pasting and create a mess. To write is to think, I think.
How is Facebook a monopoly platform? Competitors like Twitter, Clubhouse and Signal have flourished under their incompetence. If our basis for a monopoly was "a captive audience" then Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need to get dragged into this discussion, since they've been engaging in that kind of unfair business for decades longer than Facebook has.
Take a small example. Is Figma replacing photoshop for designers? Is Google Office replacing MSOffice? If these were to fully replace their local counterparts, then they would also obsolete the whole concept of navigating a file system as well.
> radical new derailleur that uses an electric current to heat up and move mouldable wires

So, this is just for bicycles with massive batteries, which could as well use internal gearing of some sort.

Derailleurs are finnicky. You calibrate the shifter for sure-fire upshifting with the index clicker lever, which sacrifices downshifting. When you downshift, you have to overshoot: give an extra pull to get the thing to shift, which is then retracted to the index position.

Maybe this is fixed in some True Scotsman's derailleurs that cost hundreds of dollars; mine cost some $60 (which is three times more expensive already than what you see installed on the majority of bikes in the sub $1000 category). It's a road bike derailleur on a road cassette: which is going to be the best shifting combination, due to the differences in adjacent cog size being small. I'm downshifting from 12 teeth to 13, 14, 15, ...

The reason shifting is imprecise is because when you move the parallelogram of a derailleur, that moves the upper wheel, called the jockey wheel. This indirectly changes the gear by moving the chain. This has to overshoot the shift position in order to work; it cannot just move from being centered over one cog to being centered over the next. The farther this jockey wheel is from the cog set, the more overshoot it needs to get the chain to jump.

Whimsically speaking, we could say that shifting the chain is a bit like getting a dog to go left and right using nothing but the leash.

You can play with how far the jockey wheel is from each cog to some extent. There is a "B screw" adjustment which helps with it somewhat. Mainly, the screw helps the other way: if the jockey wheel is riding too close, the screw can help get it away, but if the jockey wheel is riding far from the cassette, the screw is often ineffective in bringing it closer.

Mainly, because the cogs are of different sizes, the parallelogram geometry of the derailleur has to match the cog set style; this is one reason why there are road derailleurs and others. Road bike gearing has less of a spread between high and low, so the jockey wheel tracks at a different angle from the steep spread of a mountain bike cassette. (Road bikes often have only two rings in the front also, and so there is less spread between the maximum and minimum chain length. For that reason, the derailleurs also have shorter cages. Some road derailleurs models come in two cage lengths: you choose wisely based on your system.)

In general you will get much crisper shifting on a road cassette with a road derailleur because the steps in cog size are smaller. To execute a downshift, the chain has to "climb" onto a larger cog. This happens more easily if the larger one just has one or two more teeth.

I think that to have an effective system that is fully electric, it would be best to control the whole relevant configuration: the frame (how exactly the derailleur is mounted), and the cassette it is used with, and probably the front derailleur also.

The system will have to be able to move the derailleur quickly, and implement the proper overshoot and return. Cyclists expect fast gear changes.
You seem to think the debate is about whether typing alone can deter lazy employees from wreaking havoc, or otherwise solving broad organizational problems. No one claimed anything like that.

The claim is very narrow: typing can inhibit certain kinds of bad code and guide people toward better solutions. Whether someone is writing bad code because they're lazy or inexperienced, typing keeps some of the bad code from entering the code base.

Of course it's not a replacement for good management, hiring practices, etc.
Q1 baby.
The media right now are in a similar position as the media in any kleptocracy or oligarchy: they repeat the lies of power uncritically and try to anesthetize the public with crude sensationalism. You can see why they’re afraid to ask questions too; look what they did to Assange. Or Stephen Donzinger. You’ll probably not hear that name much on mainstream news. Meanwhile the NSA violates the constitution daily and the Congress is perpetually unable to address any of the concerns of the public while the powerful gorge themselves on the corpse of the public good. It’s a story as old as time. Usually this is the last stage leading to general collapse of the government.
Di2 is available for other models also; Alfine internal gear hub and GRX gravel series to name a few.

https://bike.shimano.com/en-US/product/component/alfine-s705...

https://bike.shimano.com/en-US/product/component/grx-di2.htm...

[edit: links and XT->GRX]
But that's not what happened. Someone standing in front of a shop telling people how to avoid buying more than they really want. The company would obviously have the right to ban the person from their store. Instead they threatened the person to sue (with huge financial implications) demand that he never talks about the shop again and never comes close. That is not something a normal shop can and should be able to do.
made me read to the end. brilliant!
I had a brief stint as a bike owner and the whole culture around it is maddening.

If I want a car, I go to a dealership and I can find a bunch of packages and customizations and there's a dealer to help. The cars have all sorts of technology and it's well integrated. You don't have to buy a car and decide if you want the bright headlights or the bad headlights and then pay extra to have them installed.

There's so much that a bike should/could have: automatic emergency braking, turn signals, automatic lighting, regenerative braking, gps/anti theft tracking, speedometor, rear radar, etc.

You can get most of those things, but then you have to install them all, there's no standard, each has to be charged separately.

Bike nerds ask about your derailleur and nonsense about tires and how the bike should be totally custom, and how turn signals are a stupid idea because you can just balance one-handed while waving and mirrors are bad because you can just look over your shoulder and it's all just a lot. And then they have the nerve to ask why more people don't bike?

Why don't more people bike? Because the entire biking community, culture, and market is built around making it hard and dangerous.

Edit: my point is that the biking community should embrace electronics/batteries since they're necessary for safety lights anyway, and use that as the foundation to build an integrated consumer product. If you want the world to switch to biking (I do) you can't treat it as a hobbyist market. Car manufacturers figured this out long ago.
It means he can beat me with overwhelming odds. That's not nothing.
> Users get a say in which apps they purchase.

You expect users to not get an app they want to buy just because they prefer a different app store ?
> these kids can avoid needing to learn a lot about how a computer actually works

That sounds like progress. Don't worry, plenty of kids will still be interested in how computers work at lower levels.
>its a matter of power.

Which is the argument I have been saying since the beginning. They are stepping over the line of those in power.

And it doesn't help when this does not belong to those currently in power or they have no leverage to use it. When this happens, the only way to solve it would be no one has that power, hence opening up.

Any other reasoning, monopoly or not are only there to sugar coat their argument.

As with anything about power, it belongs to politics, and things get ugly in a hurry.