skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have it (played percussion as a kid). I find just relaxing and acknowledging the ringing as if I was meditating, not fighting it and letting it do what it will helps it pass. It will sort of grow really loud like a wave, then as I continue relaxing will fade.
exactly. It's a totally misguided style. I guess it's supposed to make it easier to read, but instead (to me) it makes it absolutely painful. In my mind's ear I hear this giant Captain Kirk dramatic pause after each sentence. So bad.
Great comparison, but i feel like it would be fair to mention support for foreign key constraints in the overview table (which planetscale doesn‘t have, afaik)
I do not interact with Facebook, the product.

Facebook, the company, increasingly has their grimy paws in every networked enterprise. This is a multibillion dollar corporation dead-set on tracking every individual on earth since before their conception.

Yes, Facebook (the maniacal stalker, their employees, and their demonic horde of advertisers) has caused that much suffering to me.
It would be a pretty easy legal definition. Start with services that have over 100 million users:

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

And exclude messaging services eg. Telegram, or platforms which are focused on technical or professional knowledge sharing (eg. Quora, LinkedIn, Wikipedia).

I think the risk would be conglomeration - platforms would partner up so that the minimum fee could give access to multiple services. You'd also want to avoid the fee from just becoming a 'token' with advertising still driving 90%+ of revenue.

Old-fashioned antitrust enforcement might still be necessary (eg. separating Facebook from Instagram and Whatsapp), as well as setting a maximum % of gross revenue that can come from advertising, maybe 75%.
I simply don't believe that a preponderance of the things we value in our society are actually declining. From the article:

"In his new book, On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever, Potter argues that the West's two centuries of progress and prosperity — underpinned by liberal democracy, plentiful energy and natural resources, and economic growth — has ground to a halt and is now even going backwards."

None of those things - technological progress, prosperity, access to democracy, economic growth - are actually declining. Take out the last 2 years of the pandemic, and global metrics on all these fronts have been making robust advances. Global poverty in particular has undergone dramatic falls as hundreds of millions of people in China and across South East Asia left behind grinding poverty and joined the global middle class. Even Africa, which always has problems in many areas, has actually been doing pretty well by historical standards. "The West" is doing fine as well, a few slow patches and setbacks sure but nothing fundamental.

All the things weighing on people's minds in the last few years - Brexit, Trump, immigration, even Islamic terrorism - are just annoyances. Relative to actual tangible improvements in most people's lives they're just unfortunate speed bumps. They don't actually move the needle at a civilizational level.
Facebook Whistleblower Leaks Thousands of Pages of Incriminating Internal Docs
Taking a slightly broader perspective of Siri as a simply a voice interface to the device, it has been incredible tool for two of my kids who are not neurotypical. For some who are differently abled, it’s not really about the convenience of saving a few seconds, it’s about being able to do something otherwise not easily done.
I believe the name of the connector is "USB-C". So that's thunderbolt over USB-C, which is what all thunderbolt 3/4 is.

The wikipedia article is both helpful and hilariously complicated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C
The Bill of Rights is a list of God given rights the government CANNOT take away from you, not something they give you.
I heard her argue against algorithmic curation, and that seems a distinct point.

What do you hear her saying about censorship?
Not current aws customers, but a friend's company basically built out their own cdn to avoid these charges. They're something like twitch -- lots of videos, lots of viewers.

Paying a fraction (there will obviously be charges beyond the $.09) but still a fraction of aws charges would have been revolutionary for them.
> I want them to ban the business model of stalking people online and selling intimate details of their lives.

When you say "selling intimate details of their lives" you are misleading your reader. I don't know if this is intentional on your behalf but it makes it really hard to discuss real problems when you obfuscate them behind quarter truths like "Facebook sells your data".
Sure they'd have soaked up the loss but I strongly doubt a collapsing healthcare system would have resulted in not much "moved on". Delta isn't 0.7 IFR. But even a high IFR doesn't calculate how many hospital/ICU beds are used by infected but not (yet) dead.
It takes me a couple hours to watch a movie, a couple days to read a book. I can re-watch the movie or re-read the book, and enjoy them again even though I already have. The plots won't change; they are predetermined; nonetheless, I am entertained on repeat consumption.

A suitably advanced entity could do the same: consume the entirety of my life (for whatever purpose, entertainment), its trials and tribulations, as easily as I do a book or a movie. A century of time would be a small nothing to an entity who could intake 100 quadrillion fps to my 35 fps. It could "play" my life for its amusement as easily as I play a DVD.

That said, the experience of déja vu, re: predetermination, will never stop giving me the creeps.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade has a section set on a Zepplin, it looks like a really nice way to travel. Like a cruise liner of the air.
That sounds like China. Recently they restricted time spent on video games. And banned portrayal of ‘effeminate and gay men’ in video games’

So..now we need regulations to be free? Nice!

* https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/31/tech/china-ban-video-games-mi...
> I'm thinking of wikileaks, edward snowden, glenn greenwald. These people have all been "accused" of being right wingers.

I’ve never seen that for Snowden, and for Assange and Greenwald they’ve been accused of becoming agents of the right leveraging appeal left-coded ideals and their past left association to advance particular right interests fairly recently, so even the accusations of them personally being on the right doesn't support the idea that the framework they use is one of the right.

> To the people downvoting me here: can you list some figures who have been protesting authoritarianism who are left-coded in contemporary American society?

anti-police protestors (protesting the agents of authoritarianism and their insulation from accountability by state power), pipeline protestors (protesting seizure of land by centralized state power for pipelines), etc.
In DIP packages? I purchased a few EEPROMS and Flash parts from Digikey recently to fix a old industrial laser. I spent like $5 on the EEproms and something like $2.50 for the equivalent flash parts. I was trying to see if I could migrate the machine to flash as the parts were pin compatible and the laser uses battery backed SRAM for storage. Worked perfectly.
It doesn’t really matter if all DNS providers are supported because you can just delegate your _acme_challenge zone to any DNS provider that is, like Route53 or to your own DNS server.
Conservative fear-mongering, recommending Ben Shapiro...am I really on HN?
I don't understand where you're going.

Obviously Netflix would have more negotiating power if there were more alternatives. Netflix has enough leverage with Apple now that they pay half what regular developers pay. The dynamics play strongly in Apple's favour. 15% (or 30% for shmoes) may be a large slice. But even if the alternative app store is free for developers,

In any case, I'm not arguing that a competitive market would not be better. I'm arguing that it takes more than a minor rule to get there. The dynamics play strongly in the platform's favour. 15% (or 30% for shmoes) may be a large slice. But, unless you take the vast majority of users with you, that will add up to less revenue.

There just isn't a whole lot of middle ground, compatibility between a world with competitive dynamic and play store's business model. To the extent that a law would be successful in creating competition, the play store business model fails. It's premised on monopolism, more or less. I mean, payment processing and such obviously exist outside of a captive market... but in a competitive market, rates probably resolve to <50% of the current rate.
>I can with my Amex. No questions asked under $1000

So you don't try to return the item for a refund first?
The best alternative I can think of is the model explains why 2023 GDP decrease is better in the long run.

Such a model can't exist without an solid understanding of human psychology, and that involves trust. Likely, the machine would need to understand this, and spend the first few months/years proving its worth, such as by making those in control of it rich. To make it work, the humans have to place their trust in the machine. Honestly, it's probably better to invent the machine then feed its commands to a real person that people can place their trust into, not unlike Westworld Season 3.
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> Tracking everything people do isn't a "business model"—it's a crime.

Um, no it's not?
this paper http://cktse.eie.polyu.edu.hk/pdf-paper/Chaos-1209.pdf

comes to mind. I admit, the mathematical model they came up with is somewhat above my head so I cannot attest how good it is. I just find the topic really intriguing.
I’d fire nurses who refuse to wash their hands, too.
It's not a stretch to see censorship laws coming out of this, this may be the tipping point for the majority of the US supporting them. [1] The main limit is what can survive the Supreme Court, and that's not clear without very in-depth legal knowledge.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/18/more-americ...
My public information is not tied intimately to my behavior and social circles.
I worked on the things you mentioned at Instagram, doing the tuning this-and-that for about a year on a few different surfaces including the home feed.

You are right that for the most part, people look at metrics and make decisions about what to ship, and only the best engineers and data scientists spend time thinking about the actual product.

However, you're wrong about what metrics are important. Since at least early 2020, and to some extent since 2016, there is a hard and enforced constraint on so-called "wellbeing" and "integrity" metrics. Facebook actively measures the sort of things reported in the WSJ piece (self-reported wellbeing) as well as many others like "bullying" (as measured by human reviewers), "known misinformation", "hate speech", etc.

When engineers make changes to feed, they are generally not allowed to regress these non-engagement metrics. The focus of many shipping conversations is how to address even unmeasured potential risks to these metrics. A huge number of experiments are run specifically targeted at improving these metrics.
I agree absolutely [0]. This would fundamentally upend American policy making, but that's OK. Our elected representatives would have to decide to actively people money for doing things they want to promote rather, which would improve the transparency of legislative goal setting.

[0] I don't agree about the flat percentage. The USA has had a progressive tax structure in various ways since its founding, and given the concept of marginal utility, I stronly believe that this is the right way to tax income.
How come the founders have so little equity?
Hidden inside the addictive surveillance monster that FB became, there is a product that many people could benefit from.

The "phone book for the whole world that kinda work."
The "one stop shop for getting news about some remote family members". The "local cultural event agenda". Etc...

Can such a product exist without ads ? Without political ads ? Without algorithmically personnalized ads ? Without algoritmically personalized ads and an algorithm that rewards toxic and divisive content from troll farms ?

Could it turn a profit in the end ?

We're at the moment where, as a society, we've witnessed too many people die drunk in insecure cars, and are deciding what kind of drinking age limit and seatbelts need to be enforced.

I can bet you we're not going to stop drinking, and we're not going to stop using cars.
The V-22 Osprey can make a dead stick landing in an emergency just like a regular airplane. This will destroy the rotors.

https://verticalmag.com/features/20112-flying-the-v-22-html/
No, a programmable inverter is an XOR gate or XNOR gate.
It seems your thesis was conclusively disproved by the parent poster and you're just nitpicking. This would be a good time to stop posting and reconsider your approach.
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Investing for income typically involves small returns on large amounts of capital, so the way to start is with a large amount of capital.

Investing for capital growth typically involves long time frames between initial investment and a terminal liquidation payday, so the way to start is with an independent source of income to tide you over between the two events.
Oh please, is it that hard to believe she was just repulsed at what she saw while working there? Pretty cynical to believe she has a hidden agenda.
A+ click bait paper title.
Is Facebook buggy and slow for everyone or just me?
I can't seem to "like" posts right now and posting is impossible. Am I the only one or is it happening for others. I used to blame everyone but Facebook but since yesterday that is no longer the case.
From my comment:

> I don’t think MIT should’ve cut the author’s speaking invitation.

"Oh but you said 'But' and we should ignore anything said after 'But...'". Sure, but if you could afford the slightest bit of nuance, you'd recognize that "don't cancel an academic lecture" and "making a bad-faith dumb Nazi comparison deserves to be dragged on twitter" are 2 different things? And asserting the former with the latter necessarily implies that academic decisions should not be made on the basis of social media outrage.

Abbot arguing that contemporary DEI campaigns are comparable to Nazism is distasteful on its face, but it's also reflects a shallow level of thinking and knowledge. Can he seriously not think of any other comparison from the last 90 years?

But again, the shallowness of his thinking in this area doesn't pertain to his speaking invitation.
School Then and Now
Does anyone have a good reference to a comparison of the two products that isn't written by someone with a strong financial incentive for you to pick one over the other?
The implication is that they want it to be considered a crime.
Well only a decade ago Moore's law ensured that keeping any amount of stock on CPUs/GPU/memory would cost you a lot of money, as that would depreciate fast. JIT was a good idea until it wasn't
> So the database model and query language gets significantly more complex for dubious benefit.

Sum types are definitively not a "dubious benefit". Neither nesting relations (that are not that different to join them and will provide better semantics that create a LOT of null columns to flat them).

Will complicate matters and requiere extensions? Sure. But is clear that, today in this century, exist a lot of use-cases where people are resorting to pseudo-nosql (json embedding, to name one of the biggest anti-patterns), and that create more inconsistent features, extensions, weird extra syntax, etc. that anyway are required for it (and could have been cleaner under this idea).

With this, we can get the same benefits and much more.

P.D. Not against have a very simple core and try to model stuff that way, but the major point of a model, like relational, is support how to MODEL.

And we need to model nested thing, and we need to model variants and get rids of nulls and all that. So, sometimes, you need to add complexity + 1 so you get complications - 10.
>>>You can use it by activating a few settings in about:config

Not. On. Android.
Exposure to radical content is like... the main point being whistleblown here. Antivax is one of the most common examples.

It's not "Hey want to deny science?". It's "Vaccines change your DNA", "Vaccines contain mercury", "The Vaccine is not FDA approved, could it be because it causes cancer"? Many, many people had no opinion on vaccines and were radicalized on it.
We were explicitly dividing the union legislatively due to slavery. This was an existential threat to the whole concept of America. I can promise you the vast majority of Americans in the 1800s didn’t give a shit about the morality of slavery.

With respect to our current situation, change won’t come because everyone will realize that social media promotes some of the darker patterns of human nature (narcissism, vanity, compulsion/compulsive/obsessive consumption of gossip/conflict, grandstanding, etc), it’ll change for more … practical/clinical reasons. We don’t want our data and our privacy encroached upon. There won’t be a shred of human enlightenment involved.
I doubt the other 6 astronauts were specifically made aware of the O-ring issue, either. That’s not an indictment of carrying civilian payload specialists, but rather an indictment against withholding it from the military crew as well or is a reflection on reasonable compartmentalizing of information and making expert (albeit flawed in this case) recommendations.
Date & Darwen didn't actually design a language, just a set of prescriptions and proscriptions.

I agree with you on points #3 and #4. Of course they'd argue that NULLs and sum types are possibly conforming, but to not discuss them at all is a major omission.

They do barely hint at the idea of sum types, in An Introduction to Database Systems, 18.6, "Special Values". That's 3 paragraphs, with no examples, and a reference to another work. I already have enough of their books and didn't bother to get that one, in part because the three paragraphs describe the approach as "not very elegant". It was also published in 1998, well after ML-like type systems were in practice, so it's very strange that Date & Darwen tried to go about it on their own.

Regarding your points #1 & #2, I'm not sure I agree. When it comes to computing, any type can be used to represent any other type as long as the domains are equally large. But that's not a very useful discussion when we're talking about languages. Changing from bags to sets or vice versa changes the kinds of operations available and their meaning. If we're talking about the relational model, then let's use relations and tuples. Maybe you don't want to always use relations, and if the system has good support for bags, then great, but it's not quite the relational model and may lose some of the benefits.

Regarding point #2 specifically, you may find Appendix B in The Third Manifesto interesting (page 401 in the linked PDF).

Overall, I think they had some good insights, and they influenced the way I look at databases in a positive way. I also had a very positive experience the one time I interacted with Hugh Darwen, where he showed some genuine curiosity about my question and took it seriously. I'm glad I followed their work, but I'm also glad I didn't join them in their ivory tower.
Appsmith raises $8M to take on the internal app market with open source code
There are people at Microsoft that "get" FOSS. But there are also people calling shots that simply don't and continually make cringe decisions that poorly balance business interests with their FOSS community. The identity server debacle is great case study.
are you a bot?
I gave a specific example in the post you're replying to.
I agree with everything you just said but without the irony.
Maybe everyone shouldn't use it... because its harmful
Megacorps change their nature about as well as mosquitoes do. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Now what corporations do do (sometimes quite well) is make superficial changes to avoid bad PR. But if you really want them to change their nature you must use a very blunt instrument -- government regulation.
Management is a different career path though and coding is not one of the skills they require even for software management jobs. The problem is really more applicable to senior technical roles like tech leads, architects, where it is actually reasonable to expect them to be able to code.
And I'm sure someone targeted you with ads and false stories accusing Trump of being a white supremacist, which is why you believe crap like that.
> Tracking everything people do isn't a "business model"—it's a crime.

Could you point me to a law that codifies this as crime?

I have yet to see convincing proof of widespread or significant harm caused by tracking/retargeting. These arguments always seem to rely on hyperbole and redefining terms and norms.

No, I don’t work at FB. No, I don’t work in digital advertising.
Great, the solution is for government to take control over social media...what could go wrong?

Some of the whistleblowing stuff about FB's numbers being fake was interesting. Quite why the whistleblower is making statements about democracy is unclear to me.

It seems like democracy has been harmed far more by removing popular politicians from social media, and throwing them down the memory hole...democracy is inherently about differing opinions and conflict, that is how it works (when political pamphleteering started in the late 16th century, there wasn't lots of political analysis...it was salacious gossip about whether a certain well-known public figure was a secret Catholic or possibly having sex with the Devil). I see more politicians who believe their opponents are bad and should be silenced than actual concern for democracy.
The free version of Veamm has always worked amazingly well for me through all of its name changes.
Systemic problems get worse the more you pull on the levers that are normally used to correct things. That's why they're called systemic problems. Good, intelligent people in various symbiotic systems can act wisely and with good intent and intelligence and still things get worse. To use a recent HN headline, it's a meta-stable catastrophe. In fact, the greater the attempts to correct, the worse it gets. Intuition fails us.

Apologies that I have no advice as far as what to do. My plan is to keep being the annoying person every now and then in the back of the room that says "It's broken. Here's why" without being too obnoxious or over-the-top. As I used to tell teams I managed, we can't always solve all of the problems we're given, but it's our responsibility to publish our problems to others in the hope that somebody else has a missing piece. A big part of the mess we've created so far has been people thinking they could understand the entire thing and just tweak it a little bit to get it to do what they want. We should not join that crowd.