skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook isn't a public discourse, more of an algorithmically curated news feed. How it curates it's news feed is a business practice, and unethical business practices should be curtailed by regulation.
We need to first stop adding more CO2 to the sky. That's vastly cheaper and easier than trying to reverse the process. And potentially quite profitable.

The most effective form of carbon capture is to leave it in the ground. We need to stop any form of wacky carbon capture scheme that excuses companies into releasing more of it. This BTW. is exactly what most carbon capture adds up to. Burn a few tonnes of coal and plant a few trees or go to ridiculous lengths of trouble to pump less than a percent of the emissions in some underground cavity. It's a scam and it's the current reality of the industry. You hype it up, get the government subsidies & photo opportunity with the local government stooges and then a few years later it adds up to nothing worth mentioning. The planted forest has wilted away (or burned off), and the vast majority of the carbon that was supposed to go in the ground instead got released into the atmosphere. Australia has a carbon capture facility right next to a brown coal plant. It's beyond cynical if you start looking at the numbers.

The only way of even getting to net zero (never mind negative carbon) is by fixing the economics around the whole topic.

Releasing CO2 needs to be an expensive hobby with extremely low cost alternatives. That removes much more carbon from the equation than the cumulative carbon capture efforts (past, present, and planned future). Better still, it drives companies away from the business of making things worse. We are still subsidizing that even. Just stop doing that.

It actually can work quite fast too. Ten years ago, offshore wind was barely a thing, now it's heading to double digit percentages of energy supply in a lot of places. Same with domestic solar, batteries, etc. EV sales are going through the roof. All of that adds up to CO2 that we leave in the ground. Lots of it. Why is that happening? It's cheaper this way now. Simply accelerating what's already happening here will speed things up.
You just have to ask and be upfront about it. I made the switch to working max 30 hours a week 2 years ago and I’ll never go back to full time. Most recruiters will ghost you as soon as you mention it, but a few will go for it. Most reliable way is to work through your existing professional network. People you’ve worked with before are much more likely to go for it.

I find pitching it as a “self funded 20% time project” also helps with the negative perception of laziness. I’ve been using the extra day off to learn VR game development and rock climb.

With the way the market is desperate for senior engineers right now you have a lot of negotiating leverage, and salary above a certain amount is pointless. Can’t take your money with you when you die.
How do I keep my employment perpetual if I don't build bugs?
Not everything needs to be a native application, nor should it be. The vast majority of SaaS and such apps are SPA/equivalent and would NOT benefit from being yet-another-installable app.

Could you provide examples (not exceptions) maybe to support your PoV?
I also failed to find more details about the actual bugs, unless that is implicit in the style advice. Too bad, since actual detailed descriptions of bugs with reasoning about why they occured is usually quite interesting (and I'm always amazed by people who manage to keep notes about such).

The author says in the article that the style site is "unpublished", since the advice is too low-level and outdated. I actually think much of the very basic C advice is still sound and would agree with most of it, but it was kind of jarring when it jumped into "cute tricks", including Duff's device.

I have programmed in C for 25+ years, and have never used Duff's device in anger. While I could have used this guide in 1994 for the basic hints about good C, today I would be very sceptical reviewing code using Duff's device. :)
haha. we'll need a new Ingress Protection (IPee) rating to cover new fluids.
We should offload this responsibility to our tools as much as we possibly can.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/falling-into-the-pit-of-succes...
How would "harming users" be defined for an executive KPI?
Ask HN: What does people use/not use Fail2ban for?
Drones used to deliver post to remote Orkney island
JavaScript stream: best JavaScript resources issue 6
Slavery is widespread on this planet. Nobody will advocate for it or display its legal status on a government website. What you might find, is a gaping hole in the law..
If facebook merely showed the most recent posts in a timeline instead of letting an algorithm pick them, that might be a better argument.
Wow .... The city of Bangalore in India is bigger than singapore. let us at least consider scale while comparing countries. Comparing India and singapore is like comparing an ant to an elephant.
I think FogBugz used this method to estimate how long open tickets would take to get closed. Or at least I remember Joel talking about it. I wonder if there are any other issues tracking apps out there making use of this technique
If anyone needed a reminder that SMS makes for a poor second factor.
You’re an idiot..
Not really an answer, but here's some context...

In 1952, a paper called Tubes for dielectric heating at 915 megacycles said this, "Dielectric heating can be much faster at microwave frequencies. Because leakage radiation is large enough to interfere with communications, heating is best done at assigned frequencies. The bands at 915 and 2,450 megacycles are most useful."

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6371890
It is true though, but it is also true that a ‘poorly’ run database server is good enough for many use cases. There is a reason people are DBAs and they are very well paid.
> Both the stellar day and the sidereal day are shorter than the mean solar day by about 3 minutes 56 seconds. This is a result of the Earth turning 1 additional rotation, relative to the celestial reference frame, as it orbits the Sun (so 366.25 rotations/y).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_rotation
Paste a few links from about:crashes here. If you click on them, you might find the associated bug (if it exists).

Firefox should literally never crash. If it does, that's a serious bug (but especially on Windows, not necessarily in Firefox itself).
With such a large trove of data from so many different companies i think someone or a group just hacked them.
How else would you get this stash?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers#Data_sources
> Your Data Isn't That Big

This is an extremely important lesson. You don't have Big Data, unless you're one of a handful of huge companies.

Years ago I joined a mid-size public company and inherited one particular service. Management was adamant that it had to migrate away from MySQL onto Cassandra due to data volume. But there were no metrics being tracked, it was driven by "we have to do it because everyone is doing it".

I started tracking actual usage, growth and performance and it didn't seem to point to a problem that needed solving. So I halted that project (to their credit, they listened to engineering input so I was able to).

A few years later when I left, it was still perfectly fine on MySQL. Nowhere close to running out of capacity. Today it's been almost ten years and while I'm not there, what I hear is that it's still fine.
The purpose of late fees is mostly to make people return books on time, IMHO.

I don't really agree with the angle taken by the Burbank and NY public libraries that somewhat depicts fees and fines as unfair and only penalising the poorest, which sounds like a ideological stance. Those fees penalise those do not follow the rules, and that has nothing to do with being rich or poor. People who use public libraries responsibly never have to pay any of those fees.

I also think it's fair to charge a replacement fee for lost material (which are also abolished according to the article).

Now, if they have actual data showing that these fees don't work and an alternative approach improves the return of books, especially return on time, then by all means go for it.
The earth has "holes" and as such the proof of that statement for a sphere does not apply to the earth.
Ronny Chieng On Why We Need an Asian President

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RCeS1SVFNo
So the smaller-scale correlate would be that SPAs can make more sense for proof-of-concept or hobby-developed applications that need some cross-platform access.
The Role of Video in the Future of Telemedicine
> Spacetime is real-valued

There's really no evidence for this, as far as we know the real numbers are a pure mathematical invention and don't have any physicality.

Even if you want to say that spacetime is dense (i.e. infinitely divisible), there's an infinite number of fields like that, the real numbers are just a convenient superset.

There's no evidence that spacetime is dense either, and many practical ways in which it is not, as an obvious upper bound if you took all the energy in the observable universe to make one photon, it would still have a finite wavelength.
This comment consider employees (people) as if they were algorithms to maximize personal revenue.

That is not necessarily true. If FB where a place where people could feel proud of the good it does, a lot would be ok taking a pay cut.

Sure, maybe the ones that care the most about compensation wouldn't join, but that might be ok.

I worked previously for a for-profit company which was devolving a massive amount of their profits to charity. It was something I was proud of, and a part of my evaluation of how much I liked working there.
Singapore health ministry pulls chatbot over inappropriate answers
The original ticket seems to indicate this is a leak in a Windows accessibility service and so far there was no luck in finding a way to avoid it. That sucks.
Absolutely. But one of the things Facebook does, is to favor showing those bad things to others because it drives engagements. The feed is just a steady stream of the same low-effort, high-emotion stuff.

The problems with Facebook are not (all) unique to Facebook, and they are not single-faceted. Another problem is that they do their hardest and ugliest to inject themselves everywhere they can, to scoop up emotions and events to get a fuller view of people, so they can sell ads.

I quit Facebook 2012, block anything fb in my browsers, don't use their messenger etc. I just hope this'll work when my daughter is old enough to want a phone too.
I would like to see a comparison between this operator and Stolon.
That's highly dependent on what chemical process you use. Most industrial processes don't like intermittent power.
Psilocybin Affects Perception of Music
My guess is this was a "Brown M&M" -thing[0].

Steve reserved a hotel with requirements X, Y and Z. Hotels might skimp on the requirements a bit because most clients don't care and won't bother to leave if something is wrong.

Steve cared.

So he left and took his money somewhere else.

[0] https://www.insider.com/van-halen-brown-m-ms-contract-2016-9
Even with HTTPS ad injection is still very common and it's not just happening in India. Even laptops sold here in America by big reputable brands have been known to preinstall things like layered service providers that proxy deciphered ssl communications through a server in a foreign country that injects ads. https://ag.nv.gov/uploadedfiles/agnvgov/Content/News/PR/PR_D...
> The Platform page lists a selection of positions that I think would not be very controversial.

The positions may not be, but voting for anything but R or D is very controversial, because by voting third party in the US, you are helping the choice you like least win.

There is exactly zero chance that a third party will gain any meaningful amount of power, so all you are doing is throwing your vote away.

Maybe you're one of the five people in the country who don't actually care which of those two will win, but for some crazy reason still go to the polls - but if you're not one of those five, the best you can hope out of a third party is to produce better candidates in your preferred party's primary races.
> It’s not called a Zeppelin unless it comes from the Zeppelin region of Germany, otherwise it’s just a sparkling airship.

Now I really want to know where the "Zeppelin region" is located in Germany...
There is a German saying: "Der Fisch stinkt von Kopf her". 90% of all employees may very well have the best intentions, but this doesn't mean anything if the decision makers have not.

A company is not a democracy.

Indeed, we have probably just seen one of the (former) employees with good intentions struggle to stay true to them.
just open the window in incognito using a VPN to a country with a weak currency and to get 90% discounts on 30% of the original value.
A review of the history of microwave cooking implies that the interaction of 10 GHz microwave radiation with water was understood by WWII.

"effective penetration and heating favors wavelengths in the cm range (1–30 GHz). Higher frequencies cannot penetrate sufficiently, and much lower frequencies require very high fields, and can have poor coupling unless
making use of direct contact or inductive heating. In the years following WWII, emphasis was thus placed on frequencies in the low GHz region, where both the historic development of microwave power sources and serendipity converged."

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=9393469
People on low memory machines, or people on big boxes that read some article about how swap makes your SSD die and tried to disable Windows swapping (or downloaded some "optimization" tool that does that). The last is explicitly hinted in the article. There's a surprising amount of people in that situation.
Luminescent Solar Power
We don't have longevity technology yet though, only "keep you alive whilst you get dementia" technology. I wouldn't want to live over 90, maybe not even over 80 - but we'll see what changes by then.

I agree with term limits though, but mainly to ensure that the politicians better represent those working in the economy. So many issues come from politicians effectively being idle landlords - completely divorced from the issues caused by the housing crisis and the damage that comes from the subsequent lack of economic mobility.
The commander pro comes with its own probes, additionally if you buy the XD5 or XD7 reservoirs, they come with a probe fitted to a G1/4 so you can probe coolant temperature.
9990: In Google offices, you can find "Machine Learning optimized cookies". At least, you could pre-COVID, dunno now. There's even a published paper on it: https://research.google/pubs/pub46507/
Similarly you could say iPhones with Touch ID are terrible because phones are full of fingerprints. Yet it turns out people who want to crack them attack the pincodes or the general security of the device, not the fingerprints.
The Democracy Dollars plank doesn't say it will eliminate money in politics, so I don't think it goes far enough.

Love the plank on eliminating the revolving door however. We really need that. (cf. Sinema)
> No need to get condescending.

I apologize.

> Ok, but no, I did not mean to imply that. What I mean is that most programs are either straightforward linear scans over whole arrays, or working on data that was specifically requested by some index requested by a separate entity. Using a hashmap to lookup items faster is almost at the ceiling of complexity of most real-world programs.

Ok, now I see what you mean. I mean, I disagree with you, but I understand your point now.

> And really, that's sufficient to do most things at max speed. "Algorithms" (meaning stuff like interval trees, Fenwick trees, LCA computation, square root decomposition...) is irrelevant academic exercise for the vast majority of applications (including kernels and games).

Yes, all of the examples you provided are irrelevant for your average project. I don't mean that your average project would run into a need to optimize range queries with Fenwick trees. I mean your average project will run into situations where someone needs to write a simple O(n) list traversal, and they somehow manage to write it as O(n^2) because they have no understanding or interest towards algorithms. If the organization has staffed at least some people who care and have algorithm skills, they will spot these "low hanging fruit inefficiencies" and fix them.
>No thanks, I'd rather get more RAM or swap space for paging.

As the article explains, if you have enough swap you'll never trigger this. It activates right before you'd have crashed otherwise.
I think the "solution" she proposes is much worse than Facebook showing questionable advertising and general content to be honest. A ministry to institutionalize a line of communication between Washington and socal media? That is much worse.
I agree. Probably most people who know what "transcendental" means would guess that the number described is transcendental.

However, only a small proportion of people who know what "transcendental" means are capable of proving that any number is transcendental.
Then he should have focussed on electoral reform from within the party, because this is going nowhere with FPTP and the 2 party system.
No good reason as far as I can see. Bitcoin SV is as dead as disco. Use something like lightning or solana or Polygon. But this? Nah...
One person, one vote per candidate...
That's definitely something we would want to do, but it requires a (very) reliable measurement method for this kind of memory pressure.

If it's not reliable, the browser unloads tabs when it's not needed, and that's way more annoying.
She shared them with the SEC, Congress and the WSJ. Ostensibly she doesn’t have the resources to redact tens of thousands of documents herself.
The log file should, by default, have all necessary info to debug the issue - or at the very least enough information to narrow down the problem so far that you can replicate it locally.

I've spent way too many hours adjusting log levels on a client environment and trying to replicate the issue without breaking or losing data while doing it.
It’s pretty common for presidents to have lost on their first try.
>>Classifying reigning in massive disinformation campaigns and divisive propaganda as censorship is disingenuous at best.

This is the kind censorship I've personally been subjected to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28411734

Meanwhile on Twitter, the "fact-checkers" are now taking it upon themselves to try to discredit tweets that make the leading personalities of the political left look bad:

https://i.ibb.co/N7XYpkH/Screenshot-20211005-081040-Facebook...

Like Greenwald said, it's a giant scam, with the "fact-checkers" amongst the most egregious purveyors of disinformation.
>Stateful services like databases are not really a challenge anymore given recent developments in both K8S and database containerization.

People say this but my first reaction to "let's put our DB in the Kubernetes cluster" is still to take two steps backwards and prepare to run in the other direction. It really goes against all of my better instincts (and unfortunately hands-on experiences).
How so? Concrete takes any kind of wall plug extremely well, and brick is not so bad either as long as you don't hit the mortar joints. Vertically perforated brick and old cinder blocks can be annoying, though, I'll give you that.
"In a statement issued after the hearing, Facebook said it did not agree with Ms Haugen's "characterisation of the many issues she testified about". But it did agree that "it's time to begin to create standard rules for the internet.""

Note the reframing from rules for social media to rules for the internet.

What are the chances the entire web, or even the entire internet, will be made to suffer as a result of the hubris of a few overgrown websites.
I did the same thing but I just went to 80~85% of my usual lifting weights and a 3km walk in my lunch breaks.
I guess but what I see on Facebook is all humanity within my circle doing what humanity does ..sharing their lives, varying opinions and etc
I guess that's why you need like 180 staples. Which may be considered more polite than drilling 2-4 big holes.
This result seems to tie in with the mounting evidence of a link between diet and mind health. Specifically insulin response, which improves with fasting. E.g. Some scientists now calling Alzheimers Type 3 diabetes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_3_diabetes

According to two books I just finished, Lifespan and Why We Get Sick, even an 18 hour fast (skipping breakfast) is enough to see possitive improvements. Partly due to the dawn phenomenon, where our glucose and insulin rises with dawn and peaks around breakfast time, making breakfast the most dangerous meal, if your goal is avoiding fat storage.
TESA is the brand on my side of the pond that has similar products, but I've never seen them advertised to work on coarser walls like drywall or - as another commenter mentioned - painted brick, they'll work best on tile. And then only for fairly light loads.

For heavier duty stuff, there's double-sided foam tape, ideally the one for bathrooms since they're reinforced with a fiberglass (I presume) mesh and are more water resistant. We use some of those to stick an ikea shower shelving unit in the corner in our bathroom, I didn't want to put screws in the walls. Also because I don't trust this thing won't start rusting and looking tatty within a few years.
This should help, if it ever gets implemented: https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/728459
Counterpoint to your counterpoint: Almost all kids are neurologically and socially developed enough to understand they'll be picking up cigarette butts and cleaning graffiti on the weekend if they start bullying someone. It's quite common for American schools to enact "zero tolerance" policies for any physical altercation that, barring criminal charges, is the same punishment regardless of severity and irrespective of who the aggressor was. The policy is literally to give the victim the same punishment in the name of "fairness". Now there's no reason not to escalate and it incentivizes the victim to not report it. Even with the same punishment it's still skewed towards the bully as odds are, they're probably not going to care as much about a couple days of suspension and most bullies aren't going to be in any serious risk of expulsion.

School administrators don't care about bullying and teens being driven to suicide, they care more about liability than fairness. Taking the King Solomon approach in public schools is abhorrent and injust. Kids do dumb things, but it makes it so much worse when incompetence and callous disregard create perverse incentives.
This is how you woke someone up at night if you need to figure out why a specific server is given some arcane error? I can't imagine it is, this is a system for during the day not so critical time. And for that it's probably great (at the very least it's cool!).
CargoLifter tried (though for cargo, not people):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter

The German wikipedia article has a lot of more details (use Google Translate etc.)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargolifter_AG

And they planned to use helium:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargolifter_CL160
Designing a [modern] Intel 80386SX development board (2015)
A related field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_options_valuation

> This simple example shows how the net present value may lead the firm to take unnecessary risk, which could be prevented by real options valuation.

Even with a monte carlo on NPV, you may still make a more risky decision than needed; as decisions are rarely just "do or dont" but can be sequenced pending more information.
There is a less detailed summary on hackaday: https://hackaday.com/2015/11/17/a-modern-386-development-boa...