skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook needs to kill the cash cow: the Open Graph enhanced optimized news feed. When FB was used for sharing pics of your kids or seeing what your friends were up to at school, there wasn't any major issues with sedition that I remember.

Then they added the news feed. Questions:

1. Why can't users turn off the news feed permanently and only see user-created posts?

2. Why can't users organize/sort their news feed how they like rather than being "optimized"?

3. Why isn't Facebook making sure to include articles from respected news sources (NPR, NYT, WSJ, Axios, etc.) in everyone's feed?

Why doesn't FB do any of these obvious solutions to bring everyone out of their silos and set a baseline of truth again? Because all those "kind and thoughtful" people working there would lose millions. That's way more important than the future of the country.

Edit: Also, every media outlet in the country are hypocrites as well. They shouldn't allow sharing on Facebook until they clean up their act, or at the minimum, stop using Open Graph on their web pages, making the share a simple URL.
Natural immunity provides a stronger immune response than vaccination alone. So, there is a large group of people that have better immunity than any vaccine can give. But, they must still get vaccinated because the president says so? That is some fucked logic.

If all natural immunity people are required to get the vaccine because it gives them better immunity than they already had then by that same logic we should require all vaccinated people to get infected with COVID. Then everybody has the same immunity level.
Thanks for the links! And completely agree. That's what the media creates, and empty world full of false heroes.
A waveguide as it pertains to RF is just an enclosed hollow metal pipe that can carry RF energy. The size of the tube determines the ideal frequency it can carry (without excessive losses). I believe at 2.4GHz, a common waveguide is roughly the diameter of a tennis ball cannister, so it's probably easy to put a directly a rat inside the waveguide (I can't read the article so I'm not sure if they do this). In theory though, there is no reason a directional antenna couldn't be used to deliver the same amount of power, the waveguide might simply be more convenient.
Problem with that is that now I spend my whole life figuring out how to save stuff as an offline pdf or whatever, and the pages always break in some way when you try to save them.

Often when given the option either mucking around with that or just leaving the tab in the background, I end up choosing the latter.

Our tools should be better.

Why can't it be one click to save the whole page? At least the url/text/images... I have terabytes of storage but no easy way to save a webpage.
Are you sure? With two separately incrementing indexes?

Lazy bubble sort would still have a double loop counting to n, but it should be comparing A[j] and A[j+1]. 'i' would not be used inside the loop.
"non-medical hearing aids but for people with misophonia"

Wow. That is brilliant. Plus, the startup could plausibly advertise to VCs how they use AI and machine learning to cancel out chewing sounds, and they'd have $30 million in funding by the end of the week.
95% of the mail I get goes directly into my trash. And there's no way for me to bounce mail addressed to the previous homeowner.
Main challengers is the ARM CPU line. I can see China making RISC-V chips for Microwaves and TV sets and mobile devices.
The career one can be hard. I typically care more than most. I thrive in environments where what I’m doing adds value and fits my own values. I love the challenge, I love building, I love working with amazing people. I’m nearer the end of my career than beginning and I’m still not too sure what I want.
> schema, enforced declaratively at the application layer

Nobody has just one app forever. Any org that gets big enough is going to be uncertain about how many apps depend on a particular database, much less whether they’re all in the same language and bundle the same schema rules. Customer service builds weird support tools, accounting and compliance build weird reports …
> McKinsey's oil division could work just fine if it had 0 pharma consultants

Their oil division would be much smaller, or possibly insignificant without the other divisions because the of the total "power" the company has by having its tendrils in every industry and government all over the world.

If the COO of Ghana Oil needs a consultant, he will ask his friend the COO of Ghana Pharma, who is using McKinsey, and will get that recommendation.

McKinsey is the whole sum of its parts. If some parts didn't exist, the whole would be much less effective, just like engineers and product managers at FB who don't directly work on the "problematic" parts make the whole more effective.

Also, I was being sarcrastic to compare your statement about working at McKinsey to FB employees
I want it to use deep learning algorithms so that it could produce a tax return that, emotionally, seems real, but in reality is just a bunch of eyeballs mixed blended with FSA rules.
It is the Post-X86 era now. That doesn't mean that X86 is gone, it means that alternatives to it exist and are on the rise.
In what universe is "Data Protection" a "Ministry of Truth"?
Alright, so the thing about the cookies and the cookie jar up in the original post: for the point the parent was trying to make, it was not actually contrived and the reason for that is because you can replace that specific example with about a billion other minor slightly unethical examples that also shouldn’t be illegal and his point still stands.

Where it gets contrived is when you start talking about hypothetical socialist cookie jars policed by tyrannical municipal governments or collector’s cookies. You steal $10K worth of cookie products off the shelf, that’s robbery. You take a single pack of cookies off the shelf: that’s petty theft, and if you eat all the cookies your mom or roommate made and leave none for anyone else, then you’re just an asshole. Strangely enough the law is quite capable of making distinctions.

What the law is not capable of doing though is giving people without a moral compass a moral compass, or aligning differing moral compasses from different cultures. For all the nuances the law can make, it’s still just a sledgehammer in the face of human behavior and social custom is how we self-govern ourselves the vast majority of the time without involving sheriffs and courts and legislators. Every time the law takes something governed by social convention and puts it into the hands of the courts, private society loses a little part of itself to the people with the bigger guns for good or for ill.
Counterexamples: iBooks and the iMovie rewrite that they just shipped with nowhere near feature parity.
Yes, with the payoffs constructed they’re zero unless the players cooperate.
This is intended for when the alternative is the browser crashing or worse the OS locking up. Your browser exiting unloads _every_ tab.
I thought there'd be something meatier than "don't write bugs" and "reread your code" but I was wrong.
The boolean example is particularly bad though; I believe it is even in the Rust API Guidelines to not pass booleans in your APIs precisely for that reason. The advice which I agree with is to make it properly typed

https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/type-safety.html?...
Is Google notorious from poor design, or is there some other reason why cgroup being poorly designed would have to do it being designed by Google?
Ask HN: Is this a double translation to avoid copyright violations?
I was about to read an article about the just completed baseball game between the Yankees and Red Sox, when a snippet from a Google search caught my eye:

8 minutes ago · This time Xander Bogaerts and
Kyle Schwarber hit dwelling runs off Gerrit
Cole, because the Red Sox beat the Yankees,
6-2, within the American ...

The article itself[0] is rife with incorrect usage and really odd use of language.

So I wondered, is this an auto-generated article?

Upon further reflection, it reads more like something translated from English to a foreign language and then (poorly) auto-translated back to English.

The website in question appears to be based in India, but is entirely in English (sort of).

Here's the first paragraph of the article:

BBucky Dent was within the stadium, the
calendar stated October, and every staff
wanted to win to maintain its season alive. It
had been 43 years since Dent’s well-known
dwelling run helped the Yankees win the final
elimination recreation between these storied
rivals at Fenway Park, and almost a half-
century later, Boston lastly received a small
measure of revenge for that exact recreation.

What might compel someone to do that? To disguise that the work is plagiarized? Some other reason? I find it quite mystifying.

[0] https://popnews247.com/2021/10/06/yankees-are-done-season-ends-in-a-wild-card-loss-to-the-red-sox/
I wish the author had expanded more. It would have been great to hear about the most frequent types of bugs they logged and other mitigation strategies.
Thanks for the very helpful explanation!
Directional antennas come in different forms each with slightly different characteristics sonit's very hard to say. Your also talking about a lot less mass in a mouse than in a human head. With the wave guide at close enough range, you can assume a much higher percentage of the energy is hitting the mouse than say a yagi, but the specifics depend a lot on the design of the system.

To answer the other part of the question, you can think of a wave guide like a tuned pipe for rf to travel down. In alot of cases they are literally just empty tubes that are correctly tuned for the frequency fed into them.
The issue that the ISP doesn't want complaints so those routers are always set to auto-hop at maximum speed.

Since most apartment complexes use the same company, the hops are always around the same time so you basically have these routers screaming at maximum speed and moving between channels.
I feel like I always learn something new whenever I read Gwern's articles.

I found this idea particularly hilarious for some reason:

ceiling-mounted infrared beam emitters+guidance infrared camera, steered by segmenting CNN: it automatically detects & warms up the bare skin segments of female objects until thermal equilibrium of 37.5°C is reached, ensuring thermal comfort of women without requiring heavy clothing—thereby resolving the Great Office Thermostat Wars once and for all.
Does Linux need explicit support for this? Command line arguments and environment variables are copied to the stack of the new process. I would expect the stack's size to be the limiting factor.
The article sadly doesn't address why foreign-made (or should it be "foreign-controlled"?) TPM chips are viewed as a national security concern.

> “Those specific offerings are tailored for countries that don‘t allow original encryption technologies, namely China and Russia,” said Li.

This statement is especially confusing. "Original" encryption technologies? So if someone were to plagiarize the TPM chip, but made it otherwise identical, it would be allowed? Or is it only the underlying math that must not be "original"? Is an encryption scheme only original the first time it's implemented, and subsequent implementations are allowed? I just can't find an interpretation that doesn't leave "original" in that statement utterly meaningless.

I'm left with the troubling feeling that the vague language is used to conceal legitimate concerns.
I always thought it's better to host distributed database, like Cockroachdb and Yugabytedb, in multiple kubernetes clusters. Just in case one of the cluster goes down.
Tap and hold on the spacebar works pretty great for cursor placement.
Governments have existed before capitalist markets and they will exist after them too.
Why Julia? A high level description of Julia's features and benefits
Is there a non-Facebook link to this please?
Bvckup2
You need at least a 3rd viable political party to fix this. A two party system is polarized on issues. Democrats believe conservatives are homophobic, racist womanizers and conservatives believe liberals are communist, devil-worshipping pedos. It doesn't matter if either of them have facts the other party is so opposed they won't listen.
Fantasy Grounds is where it’s at: the system actually understand the rules of the system. Everything else you spend hours doing manual rote stuff instead of playing the game instead of having fun.
Many hundreds of tabs here in FF on Windows and pretty rock solid.
But it has the best design property of software: it exists and works in production.
There is only one way to fix this, prevent anyone from influencing what is shown more prominently to users. The simplest solution for that would be simply chronological order only from your friends.
I have personal experience with severe depression. I fully agree with GP. It is dangerous to assume others' life experiences.

Depression, like most other forms pain, is a warning signal. Unplugging warning signals usually leads to problems.
> You're arguing both that people respond to price signals and that they don't.

Actually, I'm arguing that classical free market economics doesn't lead to the best (or even good) results over all scales. IMHO, advocacy for price gouging is sort of like insisting on using classical mechanics to model quantum-scale phenomena. Price gouging is properly understood as a market failure, in that some people respond to the price signals by doing socially counterproductive stuff (and the supposed socially productive stuff is mostly a chimera in that context).

> Anyway, what better way are you proposing to distribute goods?

Your question assumes I'd give one answer, when my point is it depends on context. In some cases that's dogmatic free market economics, in other cases it's literal central planning, but in most cases it's something in between. One thing is clear, though: crisis shortages are not the place for dogmatic free market economics.
Maybe a simpler example would be doing a not operation on a ciphertext for a one time pad? When you decrypt it you will get the plain text with all of the bits flipped.

Doing computations on cipher text is very limited which is why it's not very efficient to do complicated operations.
Yeah sure, but what about when you need to add a new feature to an existing buggy code base? A lot of these articles assume you wrote all the code yourself from the ground up.
I firmly agree that we've crossed several tipping points and that adaptation is a large and necessary part of our response. You seem to ignore that there are degrees of badness here, though!

Limiting warming to 2 or 3 degrees C is going to result in a situation that's a heck of a lot better than what 6 or 7 degrees C looks like. When asked if we should adapt or spend money on renewables/carbon capture/etc, the answer should be "Yes". We should be doing all of these things.
Look into Jabra headsets. Known for call/comms-centric audio gear instead of music.
https://archive.is/5YPMJ
How convenient it would be for governments to be able to make the population content with their dystopia. No need to fix wages or living conditions. Just zap their brains in to liking it.
Microwave ovens, the other source of 2.4GHz. There's probably a reason they used 2450MHz as the test frequency, a magnetron from an oven is cheaper and easier to obtain.

https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1998/HowardCheung.shtml
Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism and the 30-Day Challenge
Getting started is easier than finishing!
Not everything can be written as modules. The module API is fairly limited, and it doesn't let you arbitrarily customize the behavior of existing parts of the kernel. Examples from the article include OOM and scheduling. One I ran into myself recently is that, despite the name, Linux Security Modules (LSMs) are not loadable modules, and the LSM initialization code is unloaded after kernel boot, so even if I wanted to play tricks with unpublished APIs, the code is just not there.

A little more philosophicallh, if all these customization points were available as modules, the process of updating modules to work with new versions of the kernel would be exactly as much of a mess.
No. While two 12" pizzas have more pizza than one 18" pizza, it's possible for the two 12" pizzas to be a better value.

If the total price of the two 12" pizzas is $7.20, for example, they are a better value than the 18" pizza once the price of the 18" pizza is greater than $8.10. More generally, the two 12" pizzas are a better value if the 18" pizza's price is higher than 112.5% of the two 12" pizzas' total price.
I learned about this many years ago, and even now, I am occasionally amused by this thought.
Some say Havana syndrome is caused by microwave radiation.
From what I remember, prodkernel actually was outside google3 (the monorepo), and has been sitting in a git repository.
> In another sense the term "real number" refers to actual real numbers as we humans intend for them to exist but do not have a precise formal definition.

Ah a Platonist in the flesh. Don't see many of you on HN. I don't think real numbers truly, objectively exist and think of them more as artifacts of human thought, but that's a deep deep rabbit hole.

I'm kind of curious then, what do you believe the cardinality of the "real" real numbers is?
Oh it will piss of elements of the left and the right. The Chem trail crowd and the crowd that wants to deal with climate change by creating a big bureaucracy. Oh, and the crowd that thinks this isn't real.

Fortunately it doesn't matter, because we can just get started, buy in is nice, but not really necessary. Heck I don't even think congressional buy in is necessary, as Biden can order the military to start doing this.
Yeah, there is a big difference between Reddit and Facebook in the above comparison. All the examples of issues with Reddit can more or less be attributed to specific people and fall more in line with "bad" human behavior. Facebook's algorithm is something entirely different in it's design - it's primary objective is to manipulate the behavior of the user on the other side, and what it chooses to show or not show doesn't follow any human line of reasoning outside of some loose built in "safeguards" and unenviable content moderators meant to serve as the guardrails.
Dear Privacy Aware Android App Devs – Please Use UnifiedPush
Zuck sounding like Trump
At first glance this may sound like advice for a baseball player - “don’t strike out” - but that’s exactly what good players do - they work at identifying the things that get them to strike out and try to minimize them. Tony Gwynn spent hours reviewing tapes of his at bats.

Keeping a log of your mistakes and analyzing them is helpful in any number of things, including coding. Can you not write any bugs? Probably not. But you can certainly reduce the number, and it’s worth taking the time to do so.

The “read what you wrote” advice is good - look for and notice bugs early so they’re easy to fix. Basically be your own pair programmer.
Well, there could certainly be personality and technique overlap
You may be one of the only ones, yes.

I have never signed up for Facebook but if my family members have ever "uploaded their phone contacts to find more Facebook Friends" or if my relatives have ever uploaded pictures with me in the picture ((Facebook has detected a face we don't recognize. Please tag the person in this picture)), or if I have a US Government Name and/or Social Security Number, there's a company that is building a DATABASE DOSSIER with information about me. I cannot ask them to please DELETE information they have about me because those Shadow Profiles are SECRET, I'm not even supposed to KNOW that these creepy data-scrapers have a file on me.

Facebook is just the front end for the NSA / surveillance state backend, and at this point it's frightening how Too Big to Fail they have become.

When you're designing a Big Brother dystopia in which everyone is tracked and surveilled, step one is to create something like Facebook. "All your friends are doing it! You should too!"
Another "statement", one not intended for the public

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/growth-at-any-c...

(Note: "Connecting people" here does not mean providing communications services, it means using behind-the-scenes, unconsented, and sometimes deceptive tactics to figure out whether and how people are connected to each other IRL.)

Andrew Bosworth
June 18, 2016

The Ugly

We talk about the good and the bad of our work often. I want to talk about the ugly.

We connect people.

That can be good if they make it positive. Maybe someone finds love. Maybe it even saves the life of someone on the brink of suicide.

So we connect more people

That can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools.

And still we connect people.

The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good. It is perhaps
the only area where the metrics do tell the true story as far as we are concerned.

That isn't something we are doing for ourselves. Or for our stock price (ha!). It is literally just what we do. We connect people. Period.

That's why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable
by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it.

The natural state of the world is not connected. It is not unified. It is fragmented by borders, languages, and increasingly by different products. The best
products don't win. The ones everyone use win.

I know a lot of people don't want to hear this. Most of us have the luxury of working in the warm glow of building products consumers love. But make no mistake,
growth tactics are how we got here. If you joined the company because it is doing great work, that's why we get to do that great work. We do have great products
but we still wouldn't be half our size without pushing the envelope on growth. Nothing makes Facebook as valuable as having your friends on it, and no product
decisions have gotten as many friends on as the ones made in growth. Not photo tagging. Not news feed. Not messenger. Nothing.

In almost all of our work, we have to answer hard questions about what we believe. We have to justify the metrics and make sure they aren't losing out on a bigger
picture. But connecting people. That's our imperative. Because that's what we do. We connect people.
There is (was?) a Chinese chip that has a similar purpose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengzhi_chip

I suppose this is to promote self-reliance in security technologies.
Follow the C link: https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/style/
Does it? The most powerful people in Washington arent very rich (relatively).

And the top people on Forbes rich list aren't very well liked in Washington.