skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that sells short good samaritans who very often are not professional rescuers or medics yet try to the best of their ability to assist those in peril. They too could say, I’m just a taxi driver, I’m just a teacher, etc.

Newspeople to some degree are attracted to tragedy. While it may be a minority some will seek out thinks like war correspondence sometimes because they want to present a neutral side or counter narrative but also for the inherent thrill of danger and the action and boredom, etc.
As someone who's partner is a therapist I strongly agree. It's a very valuable service for those who need it.
I still have a FB account because my family is on there, and even then I check it maybe once a month, if that. It's just not in my life anymore. When I do go on there, I have a hard time imagining how anyone could get sucked into it.

Sometimes I feel like FB is a kind of scapegoat for social critique. Maybe because it's the largest, but not sure.

Personally, it seems like Twitter is a much more malevolent cultural force. The amount of toxicity that arises out of that platform is overwhelming, and the addiction factor is much more affective. I'm not saying FB doesn't deserve criticism, but I wonder why these other platforms don't get the same attention.
Texas school district pulls books by acclaimed author amid critical race theory
As if FB stock holders or C-suite (or even regular employees, come to think about it) do care about reputational damage.

As long as it is a money-printing machine, they will not care one bit if they have to heat the headquarters with seal pups.
You linked to a file with pages of code. Care to summarize how they model sum types using a pair of fields?
Unrelated spam from thousands of "companies".

> I’d say that’s just a bad seller who would have spammed you no matter what payment processor you would have gone through.

Except, of course, it has NEVER happened with the thousands of apps I've bought through Apple's official stores. Not once.
>Facebook went down for 6 hours and they are back to using it the next day without a second of hesitation.

Why is that relevant at all?

If I have a blackout for six hours, I'm gonna go back to using electricity once it's back.
Manually, for now. I built this last night after seeing a video a kid filmed from the school in Texas. Here’s the extremely bare bones GitHub repo; I plan to build automated scraping at some point. https://github.com/ExtraE113/schoolshootings
The articles ends with a suggestion that Mark Zuckerberg should be fired from his CEO role, but he controls 58% of the voting shares, so I'm not sure who this appeal is directed at.
Tried it out, had an empty list to start. Pulled to refresh. Crashed.

I like the idea though, I like scheduling some things in calendar and others in reminders and like someone else mentioned; could be nice to work with both at once.

I know someone else mentioned Things, and I do own a copy but stopped using it as I didn’t like having tasks outside of the default Reminders app.

Hmm, importing reminders marks them as done in reminders? That’s no good. Also only limited to one reminders list?
People explained 4444, with 1313 I was thinking of the equivalent for superstitious westerners afraid of the number 13.
Securing Critical Infrastructure: New Regulations Mandate Control
The biggest component missing from Silicon Valley's discussion of Facebook is its pathological lying.

They lied to the FTC [1]. They lied to WhatsApp and the EU [2]. They created an Oversight Board and then lied to it [3]. (These just off the top of my head.)

The culture is perceived to be dishonest from the top down. That is why they get bludgeoned more than Twitter, or even Tik Tok. That is what its surrogates miss when they say Zuckerberg is being scapegoated. There simply isn't another big tech CEO with such a clear, public and recalcitrant record of dishonesty.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/182_3109_fa...

[2] https://euobserver.com/digital/137953

[3] https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/21/the-oversight-board-wants-...
I mean as a 30 something who knows their evil, that’s what I use it for too.

I’ve gone to close my account a bunch of times, but for so many old friends it’s my only link to them, I could not bring myself to do it.
When one of your headline feature additions is "increased font size in Help" you know you're having to reach a bit...
> with a Ponzi scheme, you get sent money

Still pedantry. You're arguing that it's not a Ponzi scheme NOT because it funds promises to existing players with money coming in from new players (which is pretty much the standard definition), but because TECHNICALLY they have to "sell" their coins to get paid.

That technicality doesn't change the direction the money is flowing. It's just not relevant.
Article doesn't disagree with your take:

"The firm risks joining the ranks of corporate untouchables like big tobacco. If that idea takes hold, Facebook risks losing its young, liberal staff. Even if its ageing customers stick with the social network, Facebook has bigger ambitions that could be foiled if public opinion continues to curdle."
What can I say, words have meaning. I see that you speak the lingo of your peers, when you write about Rust, Rick & Morty, KYC/AML, SSRI, etc. Fluid mechanics also has a lingo, simple as that.

If you write a 10 page article about using some-framework-or-other, and you invent your own terminology and can't even be bothered write the name correctly of what you're writing about, that's not a good sign in my book. Doesn't matter when it was invented/developed/released.

And that's on top of the plainly wrong statements in the article.
LO's support is vastly better and actively worked on. AOO hasn't significantly improved its filters since OOo 3.4 beta in 2011.
To go a bit further MSM's ad revenue is being hollowed out by Facebook et al. Why would anyone pay to advertise in Economist when they can advertise to "people interested in economics, earning over 150k, last thought about cigarettes three weeks ago" etc.

Similarly, if you were an advertising exec at pfizer, would you choose to pay millions of dollars to advertise your meds to a continuously shrinking audience on something like CNN, or would you spend significantly less directly targeting "oldsters who need meds" on FB or Goog's platforms?

I'm a huge cynic but it seems like most of the critiques of social media coming from big / old media are just symptoms of having their revenue bled away, not any meaningful calls for change for the better
Both modes are possible, if I read it correctly (see the bottom half of the first figure). Pieces of the lattice can "spring" into existence very quickly-- that's a phase transition. But, once formed, it can also "grow" atom by atom.
It is incredible to me that location data harvesting (aka mass dystopian surveillance) is so pervasive that it requires a crowd-sourced investigative campaign. A generation ago it was neither technologically nor socially feasible to get even coarse-grained location data on a person's whereabouts.

I hate this future. We sleepwalked into dystopia because money.
The quote is a little misleading. It was popular with multi-line BBSes back in the day for its accessible multitasking of DOS-based software on x86-based systems.

The software that many BBSes ran in the 90s (at least in my area code and the surrounding) was one of (a) Telegard[0] (b) T.A.G. or (c) a Forum hack of some kind[1]. These were all DOS-based and were impossible to get working in a two-node setup under Windows. Desqview and Desqview/X worked relatively well but still meant I had to shut down the BBS when my Dad wanted to use Lotus 123. Everyone I knew that had a multi-node setup ran OS/2 for a while. It was easily pirated, and inexpensive enough for the relatively honest amongst us compared to commercial UNIX offerings but the important reason was that it easily ran my current BBS software.

[0] And its many hacks, Renegade being a large one. Ironically, I don't think the original Telegard was multi-node. I ended up re-writing Telegard, myself, and added multi-node support using some of the leaked, I think 2.25, version.

[1] Run by the "Elite" :P
What, and the corporations don't exist first and foremost to benefit their customers? Have I been lied to my whole life?
The internet is NOT designed to survive a war, that's a urban myth. The first thing that would happen in such an event would be the deployment of the stash of Zero day exploits that every major power has saved up for the occasion.

December 7, 1941 was a peaceful Sunday, until it wasn't.

February 26, 1993 was just another Friday, until it wasn't.

September 11, 2001 was just another Tuesday, until it wasn't.

I was only a bit worried, but these type of events have a non-zero probability.
I thought about that, and I might end up adding it. The week is the last 7 days. I’m not sure where to put that on the site so that it doesn’t detract from the visceral impact I’m going for.
This looks perfect for my brain. I like the idea of hyper scheduling, which seems to be automatically scheduling todos on your timeline, and automatically moving them around as life happens. Moving todos around manually in Google Calendar whenever you use more time than planned is a drag.
Nice!

Have been working on something similar, although my use case is more about learning how code has changed across git commits: https://github.com/bugout-dev/locust

For Javascript/Typescript/React support, like you, I hooked into the Babel toolchain. Can't recommend it highly enough.

There's also a newish project called quick-lint-js which seems to have written their own from-scratch AST parser for JS, but I haven't tried it yet: https://github.com/quick-lint/quick-lint-js

Finally, another project that I know in this space is comby (I believe it is owned/maintained by the folks at Sourcegraph): https://comby.dev/

Don't know why I dumped all those links there. Just figured there may be something useful in them for you. Am also just super passionate about building knowledge about code bases by analyzing their ASTs. Nice to meet a fellow enthusiast. :)
Omnino does not implement the "right-click to load" functionality of Acme, as it's meant to be a general-purpose library. However, I have implemented this functionality on my personal website and plan to open-source this code as a separate library soon. You can see it here: https://spelunca.xyz/
Dots – Multichannel payouts for gig workers
> Personally, it seems like Twitter is a much more malevolent cultural force

Completely agreed, it's quite impressive that they've managed to remain unscathed in all of this. Every single criticism that one can level against Facebook applies to Twitter ten times over. At least with Facebook's properties, the core use case is still keeping in touch with friends and family. Twitter's only real use-case is providing a soap box to the most outrage-inducing opinions, accuracy or nuance be damned. It's just democratized punditry.
The app stores typically tell you what permissions an app requires, including location.

It would seem to me to be more efficient to programmatically analyze the permissions listed of the top 10,000 apps (or more) than have readers send in random screenshots.
So you'd really rather hide behind Apple's goodwill instead of simply having the government regulate things, as they're already doing? Simply contact the relevant watchdog in your country.
"Take the pledge to log off Facebook. (Don’t worry you don’t have to log out of your account right now.) Just by taking the pledge, you can get Facebook’s attention and show them that we will refuse to engage with their platform until they fix it."

Lol. I don't think Facebook cares about the protests of people who need to be reassured that they're not really protesting.
> No math.

"Math" in the social sciences is often a smell for "physics envy". Economics if full of mathy looking things to give the appearance of rigor without actually having any.
Firefox seems to be following the same path of aging products like Cable TV and newspapers. It is loading the product with ad monetization until only the people who don't care about it are left. I have a hard time sympathizing when they have been paid hundreds of millions of dollars a year for over a decade. Yes, they want to diversify away from Google's payments but I don't believe it takes that much money to make a web browser, even if they are massively complicated. I also believe only a tiny fraction of that money goes towards Firefox development.

A lot of people defend Mozilla here but we have needed a decent alternative since Firefox added Pocket integration. I have used Firefox since release many years ago, and this is the last straw.
Atomic resolution real-time video at 25 frames per second!!! Holy cow! I mean, the nanohorns and salt crystal study is cool and all, but the real time video!? That's mind blowing, the kind of stuff we saw on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
TDD in C with Ceedling and WSL2: performance issues
If it were a total non starter than why would their entire company be using it?
> the point visa makes it pretty much trivial for well paid engineers to get a work visa in the UK

It's not that simple. Well-paid engineers often have families (spouse/partner, children), and hurdles to bringing in family mean I've seen well-paid engineers come to the UK in recent years, have the visas for their family refused, and so they have to leave.
You can thank the need to appeal to the 'serious business' people for that
What about the fact that she owns half of all marital assets as they accrue?
Git in Brainfuck - marriage made in hell
I think this is fine for Facebook. We've long passed the point where facebook.com was supposed to work for everyone, it's now got some clear demographics that use it, and plenty that don't.

Instagram is the replacement for certain demographics, and is well liked by most in its target market. WhatsApp is another replacement. FB Messenger is another. Even Oculus is a bet on another group.

Facebook-the-company is mostly irrelevant in this discussion as the separate brands are strong enough on their own. They can keep buying/building new brands to target specific demographics and shield them from the positioning (or bad press) of the other brands.

I think the only real risk here is that Facebook becomes a place that its employees don't want to work at, but I'm not sure that'll happen, they can afford to pay enough that enough people won't care.
>No they don’t.

That was a generalization based on how frequently I have observed this in "military families"; so frequently that I used that generalization because: "But Of Course There Are Obvious Exceptions" - Scott Adams.

>Maybe you did but this is classic projection.

I didn't say I did. I didn't say I didn't. Who knows.

>My fathers retirement has been awesome, we game together more than we ever did and he’s now able to be super active in his grandchildren’s lives the way he wasn’t in mine.

This is great. I'm happy for you. I wish I were wrong and everyone lived it the way it went down for you. This is really cool.

Have other kids you knew had a similar experience to yours? If so, there may be something your father and their fathers are doing right, and families preparing well, and some preparation from their organizations, whether at the branch level or other. It'd be interesting to compare in case there's something that can be learned.
Also per some other comments, if the integration is only with the Apple calendar and not Google calendar etc., then the whole point (of a non Apple platform) is moot.
That was my reaction too, scoffing as I imagined the headline "Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is nearing a reputational point of no return" after the News of the World scandal in 2011 (or any of countless others).

But the sentence that matters is this one: "Facebook risks losing its young, liberal staff".

If Facebook can't attract/keep the best staff (especially hackers/devs/engineers), it can't stay at the top.

Even Microsoft of 1998 didn't become as toxic to solid tech talent as Facebook risks becoming if they keep this up.
"Is that everything? I mean, it seemed like he said quite a bit more than that."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXGXZiX0pCA
ProseMirror might be worth looking in to: https://prosemirror.net/examples/markdown/
String pattern matching in Snobol4 was still stronger than regex for a very long time, possibly still today. A language very ahead of its time.
Learning to Protect Communities with Covid-19 Home Testing Programs
My first few basic lines of code were written on a TI83+.

Nostalgia.
"Damn, the Pepsi(TM) patch really leaks memory and crashes frequently."

Seems like a recipe for bad publicity when ever there is an issue with a specific version.
Clustering with Scikit-Learn in Python
That's surprising, they have no intention of hiding that Insta is a FB app. It says Instagram by Facebook when you open it.
If you use ripgrep, -o will only show the matching part of the line. It also has a --max-filesize flag.
All because of ads.

We should just ban all ads. That would solve all of these problems.

If people feel they still need ads, we can create a nice sandbox for watching ads.
If this was a webapp I'd be willing to pay. I hadn't heard of Sorted before but I do this same technique of assigning a time estimate to every todo item and putting it on my calendar as an appointment. I have a side benefit of these task appointments blocking my calendar so other things can't get scheduled at the same time.

Probably the two biggest peace-of-mind boosts in my life have been this, and blocking of large chunks of time for deep/focused work.
Its US politics so it means nothing will be done and its just a chance for politicians to grandstand in front of an audience and pretend to be lecturing the big bad tech company. Its just theater.
https://github.com/djanderson/aho/blob/8cd5cb737a3296cd3b3fe...

Wouldn’t it be more in the spirit of awk to write this as

editor = config::get("core.editor") || ENVIRON["EDITOR"] || “vi”
Couldn't you make that same argument for any online service? "I own the database and servers, its my account that I operate on the user's behalf. Therefore they cannot delete the account".
The argument being made isn't that people will stop using Facebook. It's that Facebook won't be able to hire the talent it needs. That's a longer, but more damaging feedback loop, assuming you believe it (the counter argument is they will be able to pay people enough to hire them anyway).
That would be yet another MAD scenario, so that's not going to happen. ( And black swan events always can )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction
The App Store's abusive rules will not not even let you use a collected email opted in to promotions to notify of better pricing:

"Developers cannot use information obtained within the app to target individual users outside of the app to use purchasing methods other than in-app purchase (such as sending an individual user an email about other purchasing methods after that individual signs up for an account within the app)."

You have to flag that user's email in your database as permanently tainted and unable to learn certain truths even if they have long switched to another competitors' device.
My guess is that vested interests likes Twitter because they can use it as a tool to direct the mob. Not so much with FB since FB has their own agenda.
To those that care, it is well past that point.

I'm not sure if the remaining people will care even if Facebook put a dollar amount on your profile to show you how much money they made off of you in the last 7 days.
My question is... why do people like us continue to work there? They know what is going on there more than anyone.
I really am fascinated by the premium. The work itself is a little specialized by not particularly difficult (especially now in the age of miter saws and widely available glass-cutting equipment). Maybe it's just the cost of materials? I assume most places don't make the more interesting frame designs in-house, but rather just order a catalog to have on hand, so that's money, but it's still rather surprising
If it is not obvious - this company was started in 2015, and is doing consulting while building a product.

This means that they have to balance spending time on a) paid consulting, on b) unpaid product development, or c) investor financed development, or some mix of these. Investors require equity, so if you believe in your product and you can afford it taking a pay-cut it can make perfect sense.

As an occasional investor it makes sense to me that you would want to invest in a company where the founders value their shares more than their wages - who would want to invest invest somewhere the founders want to cash out through wages instead of a future exit?
This comes nowhere close to eliminating the utility of grep, especially in large code bases.

Grep helps you search for things in comments and in documentation. It allows you to conveniently ignore files and directories.

Grep and related tooling contain decades worth of insight and wisdom (in a decades-old field) that we should not be so quick to dismiss.
I think in this case the surface interaction effects with the nanotube are likely to be much bigger
The individual atoms are much more mobile than the crystalline structure here. They are probably moving way too fast to be captured on a time scale that the crystal grows.

Think in terms of trying to make video of a tree growing and expecting to see individual water droplets falling from the sky.

You can infer the droplets must be there (as the ground would otherwise dry out and the tree die) but it is not possible to have a video of tree growing sped up so that a human can see it growing but also show water droplets falling from the sky.
I used `pip install sqlformat` in the past but it seems no longer working for python3.8+, could not even find the executable anymore.
Deploying an algorithm to make decisions for you is ethically equivalent to making those decisions yourself.

'An algorithm decided' should not be considered a reasonable excuse, particularly if the person making the excuse was responsible for both training and deploying the algorithm in question.
Island is an amazing book. I highly recommend it. I read it at least once a year and its just as moving the 10th time as it was the first.
Can you add sources (not source code) if I click the number?
You can recreate your social graph at any time by telling it your phone number, or email, or friending the same people.

Any app is doing that and will find other friends on that app with shared contacts. You can even do it in a future FB account.

With that knowledge it is easy for me to delete FB account, even if there are active group chats there.
More bluntly then, a publisher (traditional or otherwise) can defraud an author by selling more
books than it reports to the author. In addition to your generous
margin, a technical or legal means of preventing or disincentivizing
you, the publisher, from defrauding an author would make authors more
inclined to work with you.
> Of course, there are also plenty of rational reasons that someone might have come down on the Leave side

I have followed brexit a bit in media and online debates, i have not heard a single good concrete argument for leaving.

For brexit arguments were just empty platitudes about freedom, choice and independence, but when asked about specific law that is issue, or what they would do with new freedom, there was always a silence.
The only threat to Facebook is a younger user base moving away from them and they have done an excellent job mitigating that via Instagram and WhatsApp. Zuck is a lot of things but shortsighted is not one of them.
Stratechery makes a pretty solid argument that the calls for regulating "fake news" in general and Facebook in particular is a Democratic reaction to getting outfoxed by Trump's use of social media in 2016:

https://stratechery.com/2021/facebook-political-problems/