skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume the table only renders what is visible, doesn't render everything.
Yes, this is why I think this is another last ditch pr op for Facebook. Who seriously believes someone that says a something is harmful to kids and democracy and then also says, I want to keep this thing.
I would throw truecrypt in to this grouping also.
This will be included in the next Rust release and seems to contain some nice compile time wins. Pretty much 10% faster across the board for most Rust crates: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/pxvcy4/ryan_levick_th...

EDIT: The new pass manager which improved the compile times is not scheduled to be enabled until Rust 1.57 (the release after the next one).
It's not the same at all. You are certainly allowed to give someone permission to 'stalk' you in exchange for money, a service, etc. Stalking is only illegal because that person "doesn't" have your permission. Lots of normal & legal activities are only illegal outside of a contract.

There is also a ton of precedent for 'passive' tracking. Security cameras, dash cams, etc. all record stuff that is in plain view. The issue is that browsers send identifiable fingerprints on purpose to websites you visit. Facebook isn't collecting anything you aren't legally sending it.

The issue is >90% of the internet uses this business model so there is no incentive or point to make a mechanism that actually just blocks websites that have this business model since it would be unusable for 99% of people.
Facebook, WhatsApp outage an annoyance for U.S., but big deal in rest of world
Worth mentioning that Google also has an AirTables clone. It's in Beta but pretty usable right now. And they say the Beta was succesfull and will stay available until a full launch is done in Google Cloud.

https://tables.area120.google.com/about
>Greed is good...

You say this as though there aren't any downsides to greed.

>The current climate is caused by a failure of government to step in and intervene, not by the industry caring about profit above all else.

No, it's both. Full stop.
The issue here was Microsoft appointing itself judge and jury of which projects should have most-favored-nation status and that criteria being reflected directly into the package distribution system. Given Microsoft's singular influence over the .NET ecosystem, this presents a massive conflict of interest especially when pitting Microsoft's own first party solutions versus third party ones - there would be a tremendous amount of pressure to ensure that the MSFT packages rise to the top of the ladder without any guarantee as to their longevity.

I detailed this all at length here prior to defeating the initiative: https://aaronstannard.com/dotnet-foundation-maturity-ladder/
> I keep seeing that argument every single time and keep wondering, isn’t there reason to implement JIT? Something like cost benefits outweigh the resilience risks?

Just think about evolution: species specialize for short(er) term benefits, but then conditions change and a lot of those specialists go extinct.

JIT is specializing for an extremely reliable and undisrupted supply chain.
And yet this is the requirement. Some companies will also have security show up when it is time to fire someone so they can be escorted directly out of the building.
Cancer chemotherapy drug reverses Alzheimer's symptoms in mice
my first job inside Azure had a lot of traumatic political battles like this, but since moving to a different division (still in Azure) years ago, everything's a lot smoother. it really varies, but overall my impression over the past 9 years inside Azure is that it's really gotten better on the political infighting front. the Ballmer years were definitely the low point. it's really about the incentives the execs set up, and execs vary on how well they keep things harmonious.

(opinions are my own, naturally)
I mean Hyatt is also co-creator of Firefox, and Firefox survived. (IIRC he also did the tabbing implementations for both Camino and Firefox!)
I am not against I am just saying there is no legal base to make an example out of Facebook when our entire culture operates the same way.
Solid reply by taking what I said to the extreme. Phone, text, email, etc aren't social media...but you knew that already.
Is this soundbites for the aspirational crowd?
The twitter of voice perhaps.
Worth highlighting here: Stripe also publishes a software engineering magazine called Increment [1] that puts out some really high-quality articles -- on a different level than any of your standard "corporate eng blog" kind of stuff (and I love those!).

They focus their issues on different engineering topics: May 2021 was "Containers," August 2020 was "APIs," Feb 2019 was "Internationalization," you get the idea. Can't recommend it enough. Worth scrolling through the topics to one that hits close to your interests.

Nearest to my own heart is the "Frontend" issue [2] -- every article is fucking fascinating, and one of my favorites is a deep dive from Evan You, the author of Vue, about the decision to do a full rewrite for Vue 3.

I am endlessly impressed by the quality of writing that comes out of Stripe.

[1] https://increment.com

[2] https://increment.com/frontend
I had the same feeling that it doesn't quite add up. The use of the term `whistleblower` has been dubious from the start with little to no new information, she just admitted to only deciding to come forward after facebook dissolved her team, and it appears that she's being advised by a political firm.

"Frances Haugen, the former Facebook employee who has for the past 10 months fed internal documents to a top Wall Street Journal reporter, and who revealed her identity in a primetime broadcast on Sunday, is working with the political consultant and former Obama administration deputy press secretary Bill Burton and his consulting firm, Bryson Gillette."

https://freebeacon.com/politics/top-democratic-operative-bil...

Further, the media and government are fully onboard. Contrast all of this with Snowden.
Sharing terraform states even across accounts is trivial and easy. The suggested approach seems like a ton of work.
Why Merck’s Celebrated Covid Pill Could Be Riskier Than People Think
I don't know much about how supply chains function so I am wondering how is just in time manufacturing still to blame when the chip shortage has been ongoing for over a year? Wouldn't everyone have burned through their inventory at this point?
If it's anything like my past employers, they probably have a lot of time. They probably also got in a lot of trouble.

When we'd have situation bridges put in place to work a critical issue, there would usually be 2-3 people who were actively troubleshooting and a bunch of others listening in, there because "they were told to join" but with little-to-nothing to do. In the worst cases, there was management there, also.

Most of the time I was one of the 2 or 3 and generally preferred if the rest of them weren't paying much attention to what was going on. It's very frustrating when you have a large group of people who know little about what's going on injecting their opinions while you're feverishly trying to (safely) resolve a problem.

It was so bad that I once announced[0] to a C-Level and VP that they needed to exit the bridge, immediately because the discussion devolved into finger-pointing. All of management was "kicked out". We were close to solving it but technical staff was second-guessing themselves in the presence of folks with the power to fire them. 30 minutes later we were working again. My boss at the time explained that management created their own bridge and the topic was "what do to about 'me'" which quickly went from "fire me" to "get them all a large Amazon gift card". Despite my undiplomatic handling of the situation, that same C-Level negotiated to get me directly beneath during a reorganization about six months later and I stayed in that spot for years with a very good working relationship. One of my early accomplishments was to limit any of management's participation in situation bridges to once/hour, and only when absolutely necessary, for status updates assuming they couldn't be gotten any other way (phones always worked, but the other communication options may not have).

[0] This was the 16th hour of a bridge that started at 11:00 PM after a full work day early in my career -- I was a systems person with a title equivalent to 'peon', we were all very raw by then and my "announcement" was, honestly, very rude, which I wasn't proud of. Assertive does not have to be rude, but figuring out the fine line between expressing urgency and telling people off is a skill that has to be learned.
The Jetbrains format can also be run from the CLI or CI: https://renatoathaydes.github.io/rawhttp/rawhttp-modules/req...
I’m not a Facebook fan, but it is incorrect to say they sell data. They collect data, build a profile of you and your interests and sell access to your eyeballs to advertisers.
An autorouter is perfectly fine for whole classes of electronics. As a basic rule, if you'd happily assemble the circuit on a breadboard or with jumper cables and not worry about signal continuity, the autorouter will be fine.

It's only when you get to higher speed or higher currents that an autorouter won't have the context needed to effectively route the circuit.
Not using just in time manufacturing might help with short-term disruptions, but we're approaching the two year point on the pandemic and the associated global disruptions and it's just not realistic to keep enough stock in for that long. The current generation of stuff like CPUs and GPUs hasn't even been released and in production for that long...
If anyone from the Timescale team is here, can you give a specific example of how this is different from the "DBaaS" services you reference? I get that you're going to give transparency into what's behind the scenes, which is how it's different from serverless options. But what would be an example of how this "transparent box" is different from something like RDS or Aurora or...?
Every single non technical person I have spoken to has not the slightest idea about the data collection or even the business model.
When told about it, the concern is minimal.
The only ones who got infuriated were the ones where someone else logged into their accounts.
Even showed some real data from breaches, like mobile numbers, still no concern, they'd typically say "well i gave them my number".
The issue is so profound, there is no easy fix here, I am afraid.

Hilariously, they do sometimes ask me "what is this?" When an add pops up or they accidentally click on one. They also ask why they get this and that email.

I have also seen highly educated people buying into misleading propaganda or even straight up conspiracy theories seen on Facebook.

The only benefit these users have is to watch other people's images and upload some themselves.
"stop using algorithmic content discovery that optimizes engagement because it correlates so strongly with extremism"

Is there a meaningful difference between what Newsfeed is doing vs what the news director at say Fox News, MSNBC, et al?
There is a big difference here. The whistleblower is telling us that FB knows very well (with scientific studies) the harm they're causing, and decided not to do anything just because this would cut their profits. This is the main issue.
Fascinating how God did not appear to intervene in the preceding 100 centuries of government taking away exactly those rights.
This feels hollow. These are things that have been obvious to everyone for a very long time. We all already talk about it openly and have been forever. What does it mean to be a "whistleblower" about it?
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Can we change the URL to non-AMP one? https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/05/microsoft_net_foundat...
Just that an article saying "group did evil thing X times" doesn't say anything good or bad about the group to me if I don't know how many times you would expect from any other similarly sized sample of people.
Ah that would be what I'm missing. But where does it say this?
The general idea is that Facebook will assent to more censorship of undesirable content if and only if the same standard is applied to their competitors. This is achieved via legislation of new regulations. And legislation typically needs some semblance of popular support to pass, hence a ginned up/accelerated/forced narrative. The net effect of new regulations would be to shore up Facebook's market share and dominance of social media, since they are the biggest and can most efficiently execute on any new regulations.

A similar thing happened in the tobacco industry. For decades tobacco was happy to sell cigs relatively freely. But there was a turning point where they acknowledged their unhealthiness, At this point Big Tobacco actually campaigned for greater regulation, and the net result was a consolidation of the entire industry.

There are plenty of other examples as well. Monopoly power is made and preserved by regulation.
I think he means general availability of trucks and drivers. Not drivetrain components specifically.
Regarding #1, sets and bags are both widely used in practice so restricting to just one or the other seems unnecessarily limiting. If there are benefits to restricting oneself to sets then one can restrict oneself to sets and get those benefits. The only possible drawback I can see is making the API surface area too large and unwieldy. But I don't think that applies here.

Regarding #2, that's interesting, they've done the same sort of "if you have one you have the other" analysis that I did for sets vs. bags, and concluded that you only need the more general one. I have to say I don't follow their rationale. It still seems to me that relations should have a single field. If you want to simulate "multiple fields" then make the "single field" a tuple. That's what Opaleye does and it works very naturally.

As an aside, thanks for your work on Postgres. It's a great system!
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Perhaps there are ways to do it indirectly?

Require a credit card associated with the account that matches the name of the account? (IIRC, you need to be 18+ to get a credit card)

(I recognize this goes outside the scope of GP, and this example may not be viable as I'm sure I am forgetting something here.)
i find the role of a "ceo" in mozilla as offensive as anything. for that matter any "management" role because it should be devs earning a buck while building cool software. nothing more, no paper pushing "managers" and ceos. why does mozilla need them anyways? who is forcing them to have one?
This is important stuff and I hope something actually comes out of it. This area is ripe for some thoughtful regulation and consumer rejection.

But the HN threads on the topic are uniformly terrible. There's certain topics that just bring all the axe-grinders out of the woodwork and demolish any chance of reasonable discussion.
There was also the time when an issue was created to ask for an independent audit, and the authors couldn't comprehend why an audit would be needed. (If I remember things right.)

Edit: here's the discussion, from seven years ago. The authors aren't particularly opposed to an audit, but keep saying “Tox is secure, we use Nacl”.
A gated in town doesn't spell out liberty, to me atleast. Maybe the idea is flawed on ideological grounds and it is just a pretense to make a rich-guy gated community on a paradise island?
As a student I had a very similar experience.

Very rarely do you find something better on Udemy than you would on YouTube. YouTube often is a bit better since you don't have the sunk cost of paying 30$ for a class to realize it's trash.

Unity Learn is a much better alternative to any Unity content you'll find on Udemy. And with Unity deciding to make it free( I doubt anyone was really paying for it when it was a premium service), it's a great way to get started.

For most tech, take Flutter or React as good examples, the official websites tend to have tons of quality educational content.
From one older dev to another - you’re misinterpreting the message.
> Maybe you can’t tell ‘everyone’ what they should do or shouldn’t do.

Those are called "laws"
> didn't achieve as much, because they just wanted to turn off and tune out. Drink some beer. Watch some mindless movies.

You can read in a bit of judgment here.
I'm excited for the release of [[clang::musttail]], an attribute that I implemented to bring guaranteed tail calls to C, C++, and Objective-C: https://releases.llvm.org/13.0.0/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNot...

I talked more about some performance motivation for this feature here: https://blog.reverberate.org/2021/04/21/musttail-efficient-i...
Then do not consider trends and consider the state of affairs: is it satisfactory for you? Those «improvements in most people's lives» to you make bestialities disappear? You have a different set of values than others. If some of the things implicit in your list do not «move the needle at a civilizational level» (actually, they do), it is because they reveal a situation which already positions the needle some of us judge at an unfortunate level.

Though they may not be declining (they are), they remain in a dire state (to other's evaluation).
IdentityServer decision (at least publicly) was a decision of the two maintainers and I think Microsoft/community was pretty shocked about it.

The Foundation failed here in its oversight role and also sustainability wishes from the maintainer perspective. The two maintainers are just overloaded with the project and they had to start earning money with it because no one else was helping. Which again is a community problem which the .NET Foundation fails to address.
Thanks for replying and not simply downvoting and moving on. I can see what you (or the parent) was getting at and somewhat agree that it's not a "full" truth, and there is some nuance at play.

Although, with just a few of those variables (age/gender/poltiics/religion/geography) you can likely narrow down your target audience to a few tens of people, making those people identifiable. I recall a few years ago a report along these lines (identifying people through FB's extremely granular targeting) in either Ars or a similar publication. Somewhat analogous would be the IMDB de-anonymization paper. And in these cases, the line is a lot more blurred. All that said, I'm not sure if FB has backed off on the available granularity that allowed such narrow target markets.

Not to mention, if FB can target the market they obviously know each person in the market -- even when not directly giving that information to marketers, I think it's still part of the conversation.
All of those statements about stress are complete unscientific garbage, until someone comes up with a test, which can show some kind of chemical or biological marker that indicates what stress actually is, rather than some vague squishy thing that some people have and others don't.

Also: what if the stress symptoms they're feeling, are due to the body fighting long-covid?
Do you think that's the most charitable interpretation of the original claim?
Sweet website, been meaning to pick up a copy of the Dream Machine...
doesn't brave just substitute in its own ads with their crypto scheme? that doesn't really strike me as better than just not blocking ads by default
From that link:

> AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) is an image file format specification for storing images or image sequences compressed with AV1 in the HEIF file format.
This is Play Store policy, not Android policy. As I said, the Android OS currently doesn't enforce the minimum API level, and this probably won't become a problem for a long time, as long as you are distributing outside the Play Store (e.g. through F-Droid).
This is news to me and frankly makes no sense. How does the data say that FB both improved mental health and harmed it?

Can you share your source?
how much of this is due to the monopolization of manufacturing to a the few most efficient players? concentrated efficiency and concentrated risk?
"banning algorithms"

yeah uh good luck with that one
I equate authoritarianism with police support. I'm sure others do as well, since the police are the enforcement arm of the government. Specifically support for their extra-judicial murders, civil asset forfeiture, creation of training protocols designed to encourage, or even mandate brutality against citizens, a culture that protects abusers, etc.

People protesting murders by police are almost always leftist. The people protesting CAF are largely leftist. The few politicians looking to rein in police abuses are largely leftist. And "Thin Blue Line" supporters are nearly all right wingers.

If you can't get the police to follow the law, then you're going to end up with an authoritarian society.
Credit card fees are pure rentier capitalism. They are why ideas like cryptocurrency exist.
Blaming Facebook for societies' problems is far too easy. People manage(d) to get into civil wars, genocides, etc. without it quite well. Domestic US political issues will not be resolved by making Facebook disappear (why does it not seem to have similar impact everywhere?) - it might be an amplifier, but in the past folks have found all sorts of other ways to amplify or not even needed amplification because they could exercise power pretty much unchecked.

So what I am saying is, some of the root causes are old (as in already in the first democracies) and independently of what comes of Facebook, some other changes/things might be needed to achieve the hoped for societal effects in a lasting manner.
I expect it's "commonly rediscovered because it's so simple; rarely published because it's so obviously bad".
In the "Publisher" field here: https://www.amazon.com/Where-Flying-Car-Storrs-Hall-ebook/dp...
I wonder if they’ll have a flash sale on stocks every three days.
I use Vorta with borgbase.com on my Mac. But borg has no native Windows support (only WSL). It clearly doesn't meet BiteCode_dev's requirements.
And who should get to decide what's "intolerant"? You? Why? This "paradox of tolerance" thing is just a cudgel used to advocate for censorship, and people who bring it out (who I suspect have never read anything else Poppe wrote) seldom discuss the logical implications of the view they're espousing.

The "paradox of tolerance", in other words, is nothing more than a thought terminating cliche.
And so ?

If you are going to be a "whistleblower" about something like this, and you want to be effective, are you really going to try and plan out your actions alone?
you might like Supabase

https://supabase.io/
If computer network technology had been built on the same shortsighted business logic we would never have had the internet..

Imagine a link-layer protocol without any buffers, no retransmissions or any kind of resilience, built on the most optimistic estimates; that’s essentially what the “business world” has built with their irrational philosophy based around “the market”..
I think this all just a continuation of how society wants everything safe and made of foam. We cannot have danger at the park because someone might scrape a knee. We cannot have contact sports because someone might break a tooth. And we cannot have uncensored internet because someone might reqd something that wasn't Snopes-approved.

Most infuriating to me is that now it's about coddling teens. I didn't want to be coddled as a teen. I wanted to be respected. I wanted to be free of patronizing zealots. Oddly, Zuckerberg was a teenager himself when he started the damn thing.

Teens have rights too, as much as we adults want to deny them.
> and long as laws, rules, regulation supports it many people/corporation will always choose profits over ethics

Many is a key word here. Many will, but many will not. And how many do is definitely a function of culture. As shown by the big difference in attitude to this question between the US and Europe.