skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This also isn't negative for free speech as a value

Free speech is a right in the USA, not a "value". It isn't something we strive for; it is a basic right.

Things like film ratings are not legally biding for example. The industry took it upon themselves to create ratings as guidelines to parents.

> - Require age verification by law and ban kids from using it. We ban kids from alcohol we should ban them from this.

As for alcohol - purchasing alcohol isn't a protected right and not analogous to speech at all.
Ahem what, anti-authoritarian mean "right wing" ?
That's far from the truth.
Left/right came from the French revolution, the left wanted the king death, king being the symbol of authority in the country.
- inflation
> Make stalking at scale the same as stalking by creeping in the bushes outside someone's house or following them around town. Tracking everything people do isn't a "business model"—it's a crime.

But the government benefits from Facebook (and Google's) stalking ability.

Another recent example from HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28747699
Downvoters, it's true! At least in British English.

In Yinglish (Yiddish-English) jizzle would mean something like 'a drop of seamen'.
Ask me. $40 per hour.
> I am not really a fan of what some call a meritocracy, it is complete hogwash. If I must chose I prefer it to active racial discrimination however because making admission not factor in some alleged inequality between ethnic demographics is certainly preferable.

If you agree that meritocracy is hogwash, then what do you propose in its stead? If we know that "meritocracy" as commonly practiced produces results that are not actually representative of the population, then should we not correct for that, at least until we are able to refine our practice of meritocracy such that it does not introduce this error?

> In stoking ethnic conflicts and the deteriorating situation in the US is certainly partially caused by an insistence of said discrimination where undereducated people making decisions that are quite unwise.

Can you clarify, please? It seems like you're making vague allusions here to things "everyone knows" but I can't quite parse your intentions. Can you give an explicit example of what you are talking about?
If you're interested in using open-source tax software for analyzing policy changes, here are a few really cool projects written in Python:

- https://taxcalc.pslmodels.org/

- webapp here: compute.studio/PSLmodels/Tax-Brain/new/

- https://github.com/nikhilwoodruff/openfisca-uk

- webapp here: https://uk.policyengine.org/

(disclosure: I'm one of the maintainers of Tax-Calculator and Compute Studio)
You have to bookmark it, it's not available any place in UI

facebook.com/?sk=h_chr
It's raining drones, hallelujah !
I did. Really, I did. I just happen to disagree with you.

Now, it might be that you have more information than I have, and
that would be interesting, but based on what you've said, I still
think the algorithm presented here is genuinely not Bubble Sort.

You said:

> the elimination is so common that many people don't know about it anymore, and think it's a defining part of the algorithm.

Perhaps I should have emphasised the "is", and said:

>> A defining feature of Bubble Sort is that it only ever compares adjacent elements.

That might have served to emphasise that I had read your comment
and was explicitly disagreeing with you. You claim otherwise ...
perhaps I should have asked for an explicit reference from you to
support your position, and provided for you the Wikipedia code to
support mine.

In particular, on Wikipedia it says:

procedure bubbleSort(A : list of sortable items)
n := length(A)
repeat
swapped := false
for i := 1 to n-1 inclusive do
/* if this pair is out of order */
if A[i-1] > A[i] then
/* swap them and remember
something changed */
swap(A[i-1], A[i])
swapped := true
end if
end for
until not swapped
end procedure

So taking this as the definition, it explicitly only ever compares
adjacent elements of the array. And that's what I said. It might
be that it has derived from a version that does more comparisons,
and I'd be interested to see evidence for that, but this seems to
be the definition of what we call Bubble Sort.

More, the algorithm in the linked paper appears at first glance to
have the comparison the wrong way round. That's really different
from the Bubble Sort that I know. It also explicitly performs n^2
comparisons, and Bubble Sort performs n-1 on each pass, and when
it runs the full length every time, it performs (n-1)^2 comparisons
at most. It really feels very different.
Yeah, NYC saw "temporary morgues" as well, in the form of refrigerated shipping containers. One of the more resonant memories of the pandemic from last year to me.
We picked the wrong century to quit learning ;)
Parts are going from in-stock to multi-year lead times within a single design iteration. uC's/passives/FPGAs/etc.
> If there was no lockdown, this opportunity would not have occurred. There was a clear conflict of interest.

Your cited example is from before the WHO even declared a pandemic, and 1 day after the first case of community spread was reported in the US.

> Life continued as normal in Sweden, Russia, Belarus... If there is surge of deaths in nursing homes (typically 50% of COVID deaths), it has no impact on the rest of the economy.

Sweden GDP: -8.6% Q2 2020. Russia: -9.6 Q2 2020. Those are massive shifts to say "no impact".

Lastly: lockdowns have mostly exempted industrial production like Intel and only required operational changes.
Have you ever considered the possibility that people just don’t think what you’re saying makes sense?
If one only needs a database, it's probably not worth to go to AWS due the unnecessary complexity.

Now if you're using other services, be aware of egress costs, which are not mentioned in the article.
>90% of people in the US could fill out their taxes by hand in less than 5 minutes. It's <12 lines on a one page form (1040-EZ)

Even when 1040-EZ was a thing (which it isn't any more), it was only relevant for filers with no dependents (e.g. no children), and given that something like 40% of households have children under 18 I am pretty sure that 90% is a bogus.
Let people have their opinion. People said the same thing about Covid mandates and passports and look where we are. Comments like yours that attempt to ride the contrarian high horse are worse than failed predictions.
Isn't anti-authoritarian typically considered a leftist position? So the opposite of what you are saying?
With some limitations that I can’t remember, that I believe were minor and not insurmountable, Casey actually implemented a windows terminal with the “PhD” level work mentioned in this issue. He showcases it here. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hxM8QmyZXtg

I watched it months ago, but from memory, I believe:

- it has better Unicode/layout support than windows-terminal

- it renders as fast as promised

- it has a tiny code base
I found your post hard to follow overall. For example, who does this apply to and why?

> Pretty entitled to believe you’re the only perspective worth listening to.
It's about the negative externalities of engagement optimization.
"Democracy" LOL! America is a democracy in name only. In reality it is a corporate oligarchy.
Yes, that's what I mean by "the law operationalizes".
Agree 100%.

The problem is not that people can say anything on the internet. The problem is that the product they are selling is the attention of entire populations and the business model is damaging the consciousness of those populations.

The solution is not to regulate speech - the solution is to regulate the business model of selling human attention.
>Yes these are big forces, but they’re all pushing in different directions

Are they though? All 3 of these groups have been pushing for only their narrative to be heard. Any other voice is misinformation at best and disinformation at worst.
> You remove kids by default (no credit card/bank card)

You also remove about 7-22% of the US population that is unbanked or underbanked (per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbanked) from participation in democracy. Not to mention you then have an enforceable paper trail from an online account to some sort of government-backed ID (since you need that to open a bank account), which will lead to self-censorship issues.

Facebook and the Internet in general has become the virtual equivalent of townhalls and public "speakers corners".
OSHA was not designed or ever granted power to mandate vaccines, just like the CDC was granted power to stop evictions.

Can OSHA mandate that employers create rules that employees must pass a physical fitness test? Must become vegetarian?
> Nothing the whistleblower has revealed is shocking or previously unknown. Yes facebook tweaks an algorithm on your news feed to drive engagement and make money.

Can you provide a citation here? People have suspected these things externally. Facebook has always denied. The news here is that an insider has provided documentation that Facebook knew. And I'm not talking strictly about the algorithm, but the harm to teenagers, and the other bits.
This would make ad blockers straight up illegal under the DMCA since they cannot circumvent these protections. I already oppose copyright and DRM for many reasons, I never expected advertising to become one of them.

God I hate these "industries".
I've for years fantasised about being able to go on an airship cruise in my twilight years. I'm genuinely surprised it's not been seriously mooted by any companies.
It seems like such a relaxing and beautiful way to travel.

They could not have flown as high as modern jets, the air is too thin to breathe at that altitude.
This happens to me, too.

It’s particularly annoying when writing a tweet. I’ll correct a misspelling and — presumably as the text field loses focus when I tap on the “Tweet” button — it’ll change the word back to the misspelled version and use that for the tweet text.
>I can quit Facebook.

I hope you keep in mind that this puts you into a somewhat privileged position given that numerous people need to maintain accounts with Facebook for their job, their educational institutions, their landlord, or something else they cannot avoid. In quite a lot of countries on earth Facebook services (or their national analogues) are essentially equivalent to 'the internet'.
I hope the outcome of this is a resounding no to more censorship.
> municipal updates, weather alerts, local events, etc.

Having public -- especially government -- information siloed in private services is its own problem that in my opinion also needs badly to be fixed.
Honestly, the best solution for all of this is use the local CPA or Licensed Tax Preparer. No, I don't mean HR Block or chain tax preparers. I have my own and it is the best money spent since my CPA know the state and the federal taxes further than Intuit software (Intuit use dark patterns to take advantage of everything).
It is simply an inefficient bubble sort. A bubble sort makes an improvement by not comparing values that are already sorted. Eons ago this example was a common way to introduce making algorithms more efficient. Naive Implementation -> Better Implementation.

// A function to implement bubble sort
void bubbleSort(int arr[], int n)
{
int i, j;
for (i = 0; i < n-1; i++)

// Last i elements are already in place
for (j = 0; j < n-i-1; j++)
if (arr[j] > arr[j+1])
swap(&arr[j], &arr[j+1]);
}
Deploying copy fixes!
I will take that under advisement, but will nonetheless exercise my right to an opinion.
> It’s not “unknown” to technologists.

I think the odd bit is that if this information isn't unknown to anyone in technology, even those not working on similar systems, then how is this "whistleblowing". It's like calling informing people about marginal tax rates "whistleblowing" because so many people don't understand how they work.
The vaccine mandate is ignoring the effectiveness of natural immunity. The mandate is get vaccinated or get fired.
I think https://jami.net/ is a better solution and has a working mobile client.
Maybe it’s just a budget pathology, but we sample our traces. Browsing the available traces can be informative, but you can’t just pull a trace for an arbitrary request. We do keep and index all the logs (for a few days).
Many have pointed out a couple of weeks ago Facebook released a paper talking about a new system to automate the management of the their BGP routing.

Seems like the new system having an unanticipated flaw is a far more likely scenario than a malicious actor.

More boring - but usually the boring stuff is the far more reasonable.
Some links to discussions and/or accidental discoveries of this algorithm:

OP (2021): https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01111

Stack Overflow (2021, linked by 'Xophmeister in this discussion): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69437526/what-is-this-od...

Stack Overflow (2021, linked from previous): https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/69435932/1

Stack Overflow with 5 downvotes! (2020): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63214115/what-is-the-nam...

Stack Overflow (2020): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59802669/pointer-array-s...

Computer Science Stack Exchange (2015, linked by 'GistNoesis in this discussion): https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/45348/why-does-this-s...

Stack Overflow (2014!): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25276619/how-should-i-an...

Reddit (2014, same as previous): https://www.reddit.com/r/algorithms/comments/2dect7/how_shou...
I totally disagree with the “log after “. I have seen it multiple times where the log ended but it wasn’t possible to tell in what code section because some call had thrown an exception. I much prefer to see a log where I see lines like “attempting to do x with parameters a,b,c”.

In general I set the bar for “ too much logging” very high. It’s a better problem to have too much log to store and sift through vs having no data.
Spot on.

I have a golden rule of social media discussions. If I can tell your politics by listening to your complaints about social media, you don't have anything interesting to add to the conversation. These are systemic issues. They exist because the systems exist in symbiosis. What you would like social media to do or say is not only besides the point, it's indicative (to me) that you don't even understand the nature of the problem.

And that's not getting into the self-serving nature of saying something like "I love everything I did and the jobs I took, but somehow we lost our way"

No, you did not. You built a business on a model that shouldn't exist. Made a ton of money doing it. Now somebody's got to fix it. If all of us can't admit to ourselves or others the root cause of the problem, it'll never go away.
The Enterprise™ spends insane money on security products, lots of which are bordeline snake-oil. There's no reason a browser couldn't be part of that, especially considering it's at the front line when it comes to threats and could actually make a real difference.

Electron is also popular and Mozilla could produce a Firefox-based alternative (whose selling points could be performance/memory usage/battery life) and provide commercial support.

Is it going to sustain extravagant salaries & bonuses for the C-suite? Debatable. But it can absolutely be a suitable business paying reasonable salaries.
"ICan’tBelieveItCanSort(A[1..n])" what an incredibly cheeky academic paper.. I love it.
I'm not commenting on the validity of the memo, only the conflict of interest that prevents the writer from admitting if foreclosures are bad for the economy.
Considering the fact that Firefox has had less than 5% coverage of the browser market for years now, this is not very reassuring. It's also quite frankly missing the point.

It shows a clear case of mission statement in conflict with business model and shakes my confidence of Mozilla as the champions of privacy and freedom they paint themselves as.

Keep in mind that they don't even need to make it built in, they could instead bundle ublock origin as a preinstalled add-on and provide a little bit of money to the developer. It would simultaneously improve the security and browsing experience of many of its users while attracting many new ones and funding the fight against invasive online advertising.

But big daddy Google would get so cross then and Mozilla would be forced to adopt an actually privacy respecting alternative like duckduckgo and lose a lot of their funding.

I don't want to main Brave as I currently do, both because of its use of chromium and my ill feelings of the CEO's donations to political movements against the LGBT community but Mozilla management have lost my confidence over the years despite the actual deveopers remaining world class.
Well yes, but there is also a rather big difference between knowing something and having evidence and testimonies of something.

We also “knew” that a lot of the rich families in Denmark were hiding money in tax-havens. We couldn’t act on that knowledge until the Panama papers were leaked to give us evidence or what we knew.

You’re certainly right that certain parts of the political leadership are going to use these leaks to further their agenda, but that’s how politics work in a democracy. You use what you get.
Public schools are locally controlled.
The current discourse seems to be based mainly on insinuations that FB/IG actually harms people on the basis of a small fraction of struggling kids reporting that they feel worse when they look at Instagram. But, would anyone have predicted otherwise? That literally no teen who reports suicidal ideation would attribute their issues in part to what they see on social media?

Or perhaps that's a strawman -- would we not have bothered with this discourse if the reported fraction of teens reporting suicidal ideation who cited Instagram were 2% instead of 6%? 1%?

Given how many and how much young people use Instagram, what fraction there would represent "no effect size", where you can't get away with insinuating that Instagram has any causal impact on mood compared to any other activity that kids could be doing? It's probably not 0, right?
Hi! I want to add that Rowy is an Airtable-like experience for your database. We built it because we like how easy and intuitive Airtable is to collaborate on the data but it has its limitation like any nocode platform does in terms of scalability, not synced to your production apps, limited storage, and inability to control access at a granular level.

Rowy is built on top of Google Firestore, so you can build your MVP and continue to scale. Also, with Rowy you can build your product cloud functions and automations flexible ready-made third party apps, use any NPM package, API... so you can build you product backend without any limitations.
By the time it gets to that point, they may likely have already been identified as not a good cultural fit, unless they were a real sleeper.
Most organizations do not like whistleblower types. No matter how right or noble you think you are/were, institutions hate accusations of malfeasance and scrutiny and will just pass on you. It's definitely a career-limiting move to go up against any big thing.
No, the children will be commodified.
well there's Dave Hyatt, co-creator of Camino, who left to work on Safari. That didn't help.
If you feel this way, have you ever considered that you may be a victim of or participating in the dissemination of misinformation or disinformation?
Not even Prospera can escape the Chinese propaganda machine
Really? Been here long? Because HN has been a shit show the entire time. Like the valley itself, HN has always been a political battleground between the ancaps and the demsocs.
I think he is assuming that the logged exception will include the details needed to track down the error (line number, stack trace)
Seems like the point is that Facebook already "controls" how people think, and that their incentives are miss-aligned in a way that this is leading to public harm.

EDIT: Or at least miss-aligned so that they are perpetuating the harm-causing aspects of the system and not addressing them(if they can even be addressed at all).
Depends on who currently is the authoritarian. Left wing authoritarians make right wing anti-authoritarians and vice versa.
About 80% of my Siri use is setting kitchen timers, 15% setting alarms, 5% setting reminders. It's really good at the first two things and adequate for the last. I don't trust it for anything else.
Yes, we do! We launched 20 days ago and should soon be ramen profitable.
it is self-evident to anyone who knows how sixel works. gif is no prize--yet still manages to be a more efficient encoding than sixel.
> Wow interesting, thanks for the links!

Indeed! It's nice to see what's possible!

As for video playback, while it may not be realistic with the current sixel-tmux due to the size of the search space, it may be possible once the new 1FBxx block https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing is integrated into derasterize and the suggested fonts: restricting ourselves to the 1FB0x-1FB3x subset would only require adjudicating about 64 characters.

Some very basic programming tricks (a bloom filter after binarization of the input, memoizing...) may be sufficient to derasterize sixel videos in real time, even on an average system.

> I still suspect it's a performance issue in the terminal(s) I tested

If you don't use Windows, try xterm and mlterm. For xterm, I maintain a set of config files giving you a decent out-of-the box experience, cutexterm

> I should definitely have another look though, it's good to know that it is possible to get decent performance out of sixels.

Indeed :) It's a format that has been unfairly dismissed. It's old, but we have great tools like libsixel to do anything we want with it in this millenium.

Speaking of libsixel, also check https://github.com/libsixel/libsixel a recent fork that's open to PR
>> not a saleable product

Isn't that a lot like saying "those sausages with toothpicks in them at the supermarket" are not saleable products?
Both of those proposals would probably have the effect of making it nearly impossible to ever compete against something like instagram, and would cement their existing position.

We could probably make some requirements around age, and focus enforcement on the biggest players in the space. However if we require real ID verification, no is going to enter the space ever again and FB/Instagram may well continue to be dominant because of the high compliance cost.
You have a very particular list, so it's not at all surprising that you're having trouble finding something.

> It needs to run on linux

That right there is going to imply some level of knowledge from the user. Expecting a zero-config install for Linux is pushing it to begin with.

> It needs to backup files in arbitrary locations, including spanning several partitions (one NTFS, one ext3)

And

> It needs good filtering / curation capabilities

And

> it needs to be easy to setup. I don't want to setup my own instance or mess with config files.

Are pretty much mutually exclusive. If you want it to be powerful you'll need to do the work to configure it. If you don't want to do the work it's not going to meet your needs, period. No product exists that will meet all of these criteria, even for Windows. I don't think a product exists that would meet half of them, and certainly if it does it's not open source.

What you really want is rsync over SSH to a ZFS volume with encryption enabled, or some other CoW filesystem that lets you do snapshots and access them online.

If you want to get close, go buy a Synology NAS and set up a nightly rsync cron to it, then set it up to archive to AWS Glacier. That'll get you most of the way to your ideal, and it'll be done instead of perfect.