skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, from the ideological push perspective, losing a crowd to a 3rd party might cause a major party to move in that direction.

I certainly prefer a number of 3rd parties for a number of reasons, but not until we get off the 1PPP voting system. Ranked Choice, or any of a number of other options, but the role of 3rd parties as spoilers is just too great.
Some of this highlights an issue that I think about a lot (and it's obviously not just me): the duty of corporations to maximize profit of shareholders (as represented by the majority vote of the board, as I understand it) over all other concerns.

Zuckerberg writes this:

> At the heart of these accusations is this idea that we prioritize profit over safety and well-being. That's just not true.

Last I heard, he owned the voting shares of the company by a razor thin margin (~ 53%). If he owned even 0.1% less than half of the company, wouldn't this sentence be confessing to unlawful activity?

Unless, of course, we take a legalistic reading that he really means they maximize profit in the short term, but make it up in the long term by good publicity and such. But that's hardly the natural reading of what he wrote. It seems to me like he's ~ 3% of an ownership stake away from a situation where he'd be confessing to violating shareholder rights even by writing that--let alone being responsible to run the company in a way that actually does prioritize profit over safety and well-being. All of this to me seems like a flaw in the American system of financial law.
One possible explanation is that Facebook in US is subject to more adversarial actors than other countries.

A propagandist-for-hire choosing to astroturf, conduct false flag campaigns, form vote brigades, etc. is more likely to target the US political market because -- globally speaking -- there's more political power at stake.

Whether FB can claim that as an excuse is another question.
Unfortunately most of us unknowingly are giving away our time, attention and data to the likes of Facebook, etc. and don’t know what it’s costing us. Join the club and delete, take away their power! You can socialize and share just as easily without these jokers.
One could imagine this could even be used by the elite to ensure nobody else can become elite. Anonymous tips, some comments made during an audit, and the multimillionaires suddenly struggle to make that third comma.
Ooh, that's a good quote as well.
Humble Oil (now ExxonMobil) understood CO2 emissions caused by fossil fuel consumption were causing climate change on a catastrophic scale [1]. What followed were decades of denial, push-back and intentional disinformation. Only fairly recently have fossil-fuel companies admitted the product they have so eagerly promoted and sold for decades is destroying life on Earth.

Perhaps what's at stake here is not the careful balance of life on a global scale, but what's worrying is that it's a similar pattern:

- Something bad is going on. Researchers find it can attributed to the cash-cow of a multi-billion company.

- The corporation denies it. They have their own research showing it's good.

- Some time later, the truth comes out. The company knew all along that what they sold was bad, and any internal efforts to make it better were shut down because they hurt the bottom-line.

The planet isn't as stake here but a lot is— teenagers shouldn't be stressing, nor should misinformation keep spreading, etc so Facebook can keep milking its cash cow. The point of comparison isn't that Facebook is literally causing deaths, but that they are putting profits before the well-being of the people they know they're pushing a harmful product to.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210211073059/https://www.nytim...
Not really, because late fees are absurdly expensive if you keep the item more than a few days.
I believe a recent PBS documentary implicated static electricity.
Step one should be stopping subsidies to animal feed (corn, soy, etc) and moving those subsidies to plant foods (vegetables, grains, legumes, etc) that humans can directly eat.

This would drive up the cost of rib eye, and drive down the production of methane from cow burps. Cutting methane would be a quick win.

We need to make our farm land as efficient as possible and return as much land to forests that we can. We also need to repopulate the worlds oceans.
FB made the world a better place during the outage
Zuck's post reminded me of this quote I read somewhere:

"watch what they do, not what they say."
So if it a form of a modified Hanlon's razor, "never attribute to malice what can be explained by lack of capability" particularly because they are too big, it sounds like the answer is to break them up so they aren't too big. Is that the solution?
Lots of ink will be spilled over this. Heck, here's my 2 cents worth.

All this recalls the "corporations are not people" vs. "corporations are people".

OK, corporations are organizations made up of people, and share certain characteristics of people. Strengths and weaknesses.

People often make rationalizations for something they know is wrong but may benefit them.
I don’t like to use Facebook, but extended family events are often planned on Facebook, local businesses sometime only use Facebook and Marketplace has become a popular alternative to Craigslist.

As usual, it’s not that simple. It should be ok to complain about Facebook and ask it to be better.
Yes those are fair points!

At the same time, I think that when it comes to assessing whether the company is acting in good faith or not, it is important to consider not just what research they do or don’t do, but also which findings they choose to promote and which they choose to keep internal…

(Part of the fiasco with tobacco or climate is that those companies knew the risks associated with their products well enough, but didn’t publicize the findings that might cast them in a bad light in the same way that they publicized the findings that supported a “let’s wait and see” approach to policy. See for example https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...)
The more likely reason, however, is that assuming FB or social media in general increase polarization, it would almost certainly worsen it in the US more than anywhere else because of the US’s fairly unique 2 party structure combined with the primary system, both of which would almost certainly exacerbate any polarization effects caused by an external factor.
They aren't. They are losing the books or selling them.
I get why people hate Facebook, but to me Facebook is no worse (or better) than what a top social network service would be, in this format (a timeline that you can post anything) at least.

If FB shuts down today there would be another one that is occupying the exactly same space, having the same influence on the society soon.
I'm not convinced that this is a real concern for most advertisers. Facebook and its properties are so big that they're a potential revenue source you can't ignore. Also, it's different than your ads programmatically appearing on some extremist website for the world to openly make the association. Everyone lives in their own little bubble, and they know the ads have little to do with the content they're seeing, and more with what they engage with or are more likely to buy.
Alpine Linux is probably more what you're looking for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux
A rule more analogous to Facebook's presumed position would be, "you can fix climate change, but you can't do anything that would reduce GDP per capita". Which in practice means that while some useful tools would be on the table, others would definitely not be.
Canadian multiparty system is a joke. All the parties are basically the same in Canada.
Apparently the lack of remorse is part of Zuck's new "no more apologies" PR strategy, as reported in the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/technology/zuckerberg-fac... (archive link: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21... )
For the people that don't want to open PDF here's the algorithm from the paper:

for i = 1 to n do
for j = 1 to n do
if A[i] < A[j] then
swap A[i] and A[j]
Trees eventually decay and rot.

Not if they keep growing, which if there's plenty of CO2 to feed them, they will.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876366
Also, industry-leading research? Those leaked internal data about instagram are worse than an undergrad term paper. Look at those n values, for something as big as Fb that’s not even serious research.
Zuckerberg IS facebook. He controls it. Who's to say even if the main FB app and IG app and WhatsApp apps all lost their entire userbases and revenues went to 0.05% of what they are now, that he wouldn't just run the 500 person skeleton of what they currently are and just focus on his latest pet project, whether it be VR or something else. Honestly that's what I'd do if I was a billionaire with a passion for technology and a failing company but with millions in cash reserves.
The parents comment was with regard to passing laws restricting access to or dissemination of speech on social media websites. That was the context of my response. If FB wants to implement age restrictions then that is their prerogative. But the government has no authority in this private matter. Their recent foray into a new “kids insta” leads me to believe FB is not interested in limiting their most profitable growth segment.
My friends and I have a private Discord and it’s basically ideal.

We have a text and voice/video channel that’s restricted to just the DM and the players, we’ve all got webcams and pick a time where we can dedicate the attention to the game. Small groups also help.

Funnily enough we’re going to be using Talespire for our upcoming game, but all mechanics/tracking goes through DnDBeyond.
Zuck said nothing about the violations of privacy and the tracking of users across the internet without consent.
> the exception should be able to tell you that you failed on the line _before_ the "log after".

It is an extension of the «but it worked on my laptop» mentality.

No, it won't work in a complex environment, specifically in a scenario where a server farm sits behind a load balancer with a VIP (geographically distributed or not), which is ubiquitous. Specifically, it won't work in a situation where a server instance the application attempted to connect to sits in a subnet in another data centre across a WAN link, and the networks put a shoddy firewall rule in last night or applied a bit rotten firmware patch to the router, and new server connections suddenly started getting TCP resets halfway through the data exchange. You won't know which particular service instance the resolver ended up resolving and connecting to unless you have a "before" log entry as well. Hiding the dead horse in the cloud will help in a serverless or in a simple scenario, but, if you have a load balancer and multiple availability zones, you still have the same problem, due to cloud load balancers failing over to another AZ at will (it is more nuanced than that, though).

Logging inputs is as critically important as logging preceding statement's outcome, albeit it has to be used wisely as excessive and, worse, not properly structured log entries can (and will) overwhelm the log sink in a high data volume environment. Log ring buffers can be a solution for some cases, and a monitoring component that is integrated into an app can be an answer in some other cases, but there is no single, one size fits it all, solution for an arbitrary setup in a high data volume environment.
So, you implemented bucket sort?
w11 was created to end support of w10 at a timely manner
Zuckerberg is making an almost entirely emotional appeal in his statement. Most of his claims are not backed up / buttressed with facts, numbers, and specifics. The statement is designed to make a reader feel bad for Facebook as if Facebook was a friend, and not a corporation with billions of dollars in quarterly profits.

Though the statement seems well-meaning, etc., it is weaselly and manipulative. It also conveniently doesn't address some of deeper issues from Frances Haugen's testimony.

For example, Haugen focused on the fact that Zuckerberg has created a relatively flat organization, where if decisions help the core metric they must be good, and vice versa. Haugen testified that Zuckerberg was made aware that instituting a newsfeed tweak would entail a) small ding to the core engagement metrics and b) would decrease violence in Ethiopia... He chose the metric over the decreased violence.

There comes a point where blindly pursuing metrics -- be it money or engagement -- without regard to the effects on society are hard if not impossible to distinguish from sociopathic behavior.

Also, let's not forget that researchers and renown statisticians employed by / sponsored by Big Tobacco (e.g. R.A. Fisher) convinced themselves that smoking didn't cause cancer. [0]

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2000852/
hopefully we don't solve global warming.
This is the kind of conspiratorial thinking that makes me think we're in a moral panic here.
You're being overly pedantic (and I would argue actually incorrect). Kilograms and pounds are both referred to as "weight" in general conversation and nobody is going to be confused by this.

Go to any supermarket in a country that uses the metric system, potatoes will be sold by the kilogram - it's the natural way to phrase this outside of America.

In a physics context the definition of kilogram might be specifically mass, with newtons referring to weight/force. But words can have different meanings outside of technical contexts.

If you go to a metric country, and ask someone how much they "weigh", approximately zero people will say "x newtons", they will say "x kilograms" (or "x pounds" still in a lot of commonwealth countries if we're being pedantic).
I have been contacted by a recruiter for a job at a rather low rate, and when I searched for the language, eventually found the same description with a much higher rate stated as the maximum available.

And then I asked a 3rd degree connection on LinkedIn that worked for the purported client, and they said their company didn't use third party recruiters.
US is a weak democracy, simple as that.
That happens because someone use js to redirect and didn't use history.replace in the js redirection page to remove the redirection page from history. End up leaving the redirection page in the history. And cause the back button broken.
The Lib-Dems were part of Cameron’s coalition government if memory serves. Ironically the former leader of that party (Nick Clegg) now works for … Facebook.
No, I just stick to a particular set of tools. I'm not going to chase every new fad.
I agree with the sentiment, with a caveat. Social media. I don't have a FB account, so can't to compare directly, but Twitter is pretty bananas too.

Traditional media sold us the yellow cake story without batting an eye. Amplifying the dysfunction an order magnitude via social media is getting pretty scary.
I have heard about that before also. I think at our childcare, it's $15 per minute. Enough that if we get stuck in traffic, we call a relative and hope they can get there faster.
You keep arguing my words and not my point and I’m not sure what you think that type of sophistry is going to win you.

You are well aware that the Denarius went from pure silver to .02%. You know it’s a classic example of inflation bringing an empire to its knees. Why split hairs to point out that there was still a sliver of silver?

My point is that history is filled with stories of inflation and its disastrous consequences. This time will not be different. You can win the words but I’m not sure you’re going to win that point.
Sounds like attacking the bureaucracy around solar power regulation is a great place to start.

I get it. I have a solar system too and there's no way in hell I'm updating it.
using a publicly known login that you can't change (fingerprints) as a password is probably not the greatest idea...
Software developer exam writing checklist
https://ziglang.org/download/0.8.0/release-notes.html#zig-c

> zig c++ is equivalent to zig cc with an added -lc++ parameter, but I made a separate heading here because I realized that some people are not aware that Zig supports compiling C++ code and providing libc++ too!

You can also mix Zig code and C++ like this:

zig build-exe foo.zig bar.cpp -lc++ -lc
> which sounds to me like no out-of-order fancy stuff of the sort we've been used to.

Probably completely overkill for a soft-core.

On top of that, designing and verifying a core that people actually want to use is obviously much more difficult to do than going through HLS.
It's not even a plausible speculation; all of the best models we have, quantum mechanics, special relativity, quantum field theory, general relativity, and string theory have a fully continuous space-time. The one notable exception is loop quantum gravity.
Texting, calling, video chat…
My Fortran professor gave me a low mark because I used a lookup table for octal to binary conversion, instead of using division and modulo.
For just a fleeting moment yesterday, wondered if he had the capacity & cojones to cease operations unilaterally.

Shame. A billion couldn't buy that cred.
> People don’t pay attention to ownership changes

I paid attention when MSFT bought Github.
Elections are likability contests in the US. If you try twice and people don't like you... well, I'm sure you're a nice person and a good father.

You can bemoan this and yearn for European elections where the party platform makes a difference. But that's how it is.
Relativistic speed rotations means that you are close to trapping light, meaning your force is similar to being very close to the event horizon of a black hole.

And what is one of the properties of gravity wells like black holes? Well, their circumference isn't equal to 2 pi times radius, since the space has enough curvature to not be flat, similar to how circumference isn't 2 pi times radius if your space is a 2d sphere. So the paradox is correct, you would get that effect, at least if you used a black hole to cause the fast rotation. Although I'm not sure if the maths adds up to be the same.
C++ is a pretty good paying skill. I've had contract gigs at other places doing similar things to what I listed above (compiler, LLVM, C++) making $100/hr (that was 6 years ago now) so it's not like the skills aren't in demand - if anything it's going to be a lot harder to find someone with C++ and a good understanding of LLVM and compiler development than it will be to find folks with Java or Python skills. What I've noticed consistently, though, is that Intel pays contractors significantly less. (note that the compiler job above also wants some machine learning skills - definitely in demand)
> I'm sick of billionaires with megaphones blaring their virtues

As a society, the US has shifted its values from intellectually sound principles, to what ever rich people shout out.

I vomit in my mouth when I see videos of people showing currency, of people talking to you about "doing the hustle", etc etc.

US has fallen into an abyss of moral decline, where the value of your words are directly proportional to the amount of wealth you have managed to gather, no matter the means.
That's basically what they're doing, except that they're watching for low-memory even if it's not actually Firefox that's doing the allocation.
Is there a link to the actual findings of the study? I feel like that statement is cherry picking, and without context there's not much weight to it.

The ultimate issue here (unless I'm misunderstanding the controversy) is about whether Facebook decided to act on the findings of the study which showed Facebook/Instagram was causing harm to teenagers. This sentence from Zuckerberg seems to be disputing the findings of the study, and implying that everything everyone is saying is wrong and/or a lie (or a "mischaracterization" as you called it)

Zuckerberg has zero credibility in my eyes, so I am inclined to call bullshit on that. But if the actual original study is out there, I might skim through it to see if this is just another one of his lies.
Using NoSQL is fast, but requires you to know the how you want to read the data before you start writing. This is not the case with analytics, where new queries pop up all the time.

As a result, NoSQL never really catch on in the analytics/BI crowds, SQL is always king there, if you discount Excel :)
There is geoengineering! :-)
Can you seriously not think of a single use case for SPAs?
Mark Zuckerberg: I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company
The quality of this comment section is like Facebook or Reddit level. Practically no deep discussion of the actual topic at hand just dunks on Zuck.
They Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-and-media-do-not-...
First-past-the-post voting is the primary cause in the US. It doesn't automatically result in a two party system everywhere if there are other features of the government that work against it. The biggest reason Canada is different is that they have a parliamentary system that elects their Prime Minister while the US has the Electoral College which elects our President.
> While it may be true that Facebook is largely responsible for what is consumed * on Facebook *, individuals are largely responsible for consuming Facebook.

I don't see any shift of blame. Those two aspects are in no way mutually exclusive. Facebook can be 100% at fault for their manipulation and deliberate outrage generation and you can still blame an individual for being irresponsible with their social media usage.
I like to imagine CO2 in solid form (dry ice) to help visualize the scale of the problem.

1) Burning a gallon of gasoline releases almost 10 kgs of CO2 into the atmosphere. Let's say the average driving American consumes 1.5 gallons of gas a day. That's almost 15 kgs of matter to deal with every day. Imagine instead of it being released as gaseous CO2, it accumulated in your car's trunk as dry ice. After a few days, what would you do with it all? Maybe you'd throw it in your basement or your backyard. After a week or two, all free space in even a large home would be totally occupied with the waste. And this is only for personal travel done by individuals. All transportation (including the transportation of goods) is less than a 3rd of U.S. CO2 emissions. If dealing with the waste of driving on an individual level is so hard, how can we possibly hope to deal with all CO2 emissions?

2) You can also do the same thought experiment with total CO2 emissions per capita, which is currently about 15.25 metric tons per year per person in the U.S. That averages out to 41 kg of CO2 per day. How could you possibly find a way to deal with 41 kg of dry ice per day.

Right now, our solution is to happily dump it into the atmosphere, which conveniently carries the CO2 away from us without us needing to worry. There really isn't a solution to this problem. It's a tragedy of the commons.
Ask HN: Did you company change its data management policy after FB's events?
By data management policy, I mean the procedures that allow/ban access to data within the company.
If being a con artist involves stealing or otherwise depriving someone of their property, that is not equivalent to sharing dumb memes or conspiracy theories on Facebook.

>Also, you can be accountable for your actions and still influenced by something else.

Being "influenced" is a vague term and is so subjective that it is meaningless to have a real conversation around it. Again, "Facebook made me do it" is not a defense under any legal system. If being wrong on the internet is a crime, we'll have to shut down almost every single internet forum. Just on HN I've seen some kooky discussions around covid by well-meaning people.