skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is obviously the right answer. There have clearly been left wing avd right wing authoritarians in history. These days in, western countries at least, most authoritarian are right wing. Trump and the conservative party in the UK being the clearest examples.

I define here authoritarian as someone who is decreasing democracy and transparency. Not caring if they do it for the right or wrong reasons.

Also clearly all leaders are a bit authoritarian, Obama did sine things as did Blair. But it pales in degree to the current leaders.
> It's like calling informing people about marginal tax rates "whistleblowing" because so many people don't understand how they work.

You mean like these?

* https://www.propublica.org/article/lord-of-the-roths-how-tec...

* https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trov...
I wish there was an option to make my Facebook feed chronological like there is with twitter.
Yeah. It's super tempting to use macros for inheritance (and there are some anointed frameworks that even encourage that -- I'm looking at you ExUnit), but I think that is the wrong way to think of macros.

The codebase I work on at work is littered with this antipattern, but I grin and bear it because elixir is such a joy to work with otherwise.
i agree with your point and it is why I have resisted becoming a manager at my current role at a FAANG.

I was previously a manager for my team at my previous company. However I got to both manage, and continue developing.

After switching companies, I've been offered management positions multiple times. However the reality is that at a FAANG, you rarely see managers who get time on the box anymore.

I know a lot of managers who are happy to not split the time between management and dev work, and power to them. However I don't want to risk the atrophy of skills.

When I interviewed here, the biggest concern most people had in my interview panel was "you've been managing. Can you still dev in a non management role?"

Frankly that's how a lot of the industry is. Managers don't get the time to dev. Many like that aspect, but if you're planning to leave, well good luck because you won't be able to hold your own against the people you managed when vying for a non managerial role.

I've seen decided my best path is to be an individual contributor who has more weight. Effectively a lead (currently) or principal dev. It's the closest I can get to both ends of the spectrum.
Is this actually losing something where it isn't cashed out (unrealized)?
And for others, it radicalizes them to conspiracy theories. "Just don't use it" isn't nice advice when you're mom's become an antivaxxer because facebook kept telling her about it and made it seem like local common consensus.
I doubt their primary funding source would approve

(Google)
Except what you are saying is not really true. Most conservatives want to reduce government power, not extend it. The left, on the other hand, universally wants to extend government reach. I would recommend reading "The Authoritarian Moment" which goes into detail as to how the left are basically winning: https://www.amazon.com/Authoritarian-Moment-Weaponized-Ameri...

To quote from the book's introduction:

"There are certainly totalitarians on the political right. But statistically, they represent a fringe movement with little institutional clout. The authoritarian left, meanwhile, is ascendant in nearly every area of American life. A small number of leftists—college-educated, coastal, and uncompromising—have not just taken over the Democratic Party but our corporations, our universities, our scientific establishment, our cultural institutions. And they have used their newfound power to silence their opposition."
> it's indicative (to me) that you don't even understand the nature of the problem

And this is spot on. It what makes me alternatively have head-exploding frustration or pretty dark nihilism, and check out of politics beyond keeping tabs on what tech regulations might impact the industry.

99% of the "what's next" commentary from leaders and systems with power outside of the tech industry totally miss the point. They aren't even on the same page with the actual systemic problems. The 1% is gleaning some hopeful analysis from leaders like Yang or Buttigieg campaign on, but even then it's often an indirect reference.

I'm very much a match concerns to actions type, but what does one do in this dynamic - call your Senator? That seems a laughably inept option at the moment after watching this play out for the last several years.
Lifting capacity of rigid airships is proportional to air density. In order to fly at higher altitudes they would have to drastically reduce passenger load. And above about 10K feet the cabin would have to be pressurized, which further increases weight. The big disadvantage of flying at low altitude is more exposure to storms and air turbulence.
I think Facebook, as well as other social media, are a grand experiment of Karl Popper's "The Paradox of Tolerance." [0] In keeping a largely hands-off approach to moderation they functionally provided the preconditions for such an experiment.

> Less well known [than other paradoxes] is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.

> But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols.

> We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Most of the people in this thread are not using FB social media that is really interesting. Like people have already started making distance with social media and use internet for something productive.
It’s not so great when the IRS audits you. Backups are cheap insurance. Relying on luck is not a great strategy when backups are now cheap in every way imaginable.
At least (1) is still true. Contrast the Literature and Peace prizes, which have truly become bad jokes.
What is so fake about this story?
"Also, merchants are banned from adding surcharges for debit and credit card transactions in the EU & UK."

Any pointer to this legislation would be appreciated.

The local swimming pool lately started adding the transaction fees to the ticket after the sale.
many enemies? Like who please?
Free speech is only a right as far as the constitution guarantees (which is limited). Personally I’d like US culture to fully embrace the value of free speech, but support for it generally depends on if your favorite political party is in power.

If we truly valued free speech we would not have all this debate over censorship.
Which of the following represents disinformation:

(a) the Hunter Biden laptop is likely a Russian ploy

(b) the Hunter Biden laptop was verified independently by journalists and colleagues

Which of the following represents misinformation:

(a) it is very curious that a global pandemic originated in the same location as a biosafety level 4 lab

(b) it was impossible that the virus originated from a lab and in fact it is xenophobic and racist to imply the virus originated in a lab

In both stories, Big Tech + Government + The Press all took swift and unified action towards the "approved" narrative.
Who said it did?

What this does mean is that it's highly unlikely the government is going to do what the OP suggested. Facebook et. al. are the honeypots of dreams for governments.
The idea that authoritarians exist only in one wing has long been a misunderstanding and an ideological blindspot that is now smacking us in the face. The Atlantic recently did a good piece on this, noting that there are common traits between left-wing and right-wing authoritarians, including a “preference for social uniformity, prejudice towards different others, willingness to wield group authority to coerce behavior, cognitive rigidity, aggression and punitiveness towards perceived enemies, outsized concern for hierarchy, and moral absolutism.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/psychologi...
Absolutely. Aggregates are the enemy of insights in many many cases.
“Who is your favorite Scientist?”
Baserow does have template library here: https://baserow.io/templates/
First, stop accusing me of being emotional.

Second, tell me why 24 bits colors is insufficient for drawing into the terminals?

> starting with a baseline of a broken format that doesn't work

Look at that https://github.com/hackerb9/sixvid and that https://github.com/libsixel/libsixel and tell me precisely what doesn't work, in your own words.

If you can't...

> then we have nothing technical to discuss

... I think you may be right there!
Thanks. This was really great.
Stuck In The Office With You (satire song)
I don't really disagree with what you wrote, but it is pretty defeatist.

> The business model straight works, and money talks.

Yeah, well, so did slave labor for most of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries in America. People had to rise up and demand change that went against money. Until our collective greed abates or society comes unraveled, I guess we'll have to just sit around glued to our screens like the helpless pawns they want us to be.
Saying it will never happen and doing nothing to help it happen is the first step to ensuring it will never happen.
Yea, I like to think of my [becoming elderly] parents. They didn't know any of this stuff. I've tried to explain the harms of social media to them but it's tough to do that without deep-diving into algorithm tech-talk, and without the recently divulged evidence you sound like a raving conspiracy theorist. Now, it's being explained in plain language in front of Congress, and on "60 Minutes" which targets their generation directly, and, although I haven't talked to them since, I guarantee they get it now.

Remember how long it took to mainstream the idea that cigarettes were bad for you? "We all knew it" for a long time, but it didn't become genuine shared cultural knowledge until long after it was well known.
The problem is that this issue has now become politicized, which means if you belong to one tribe, you must prevent anything bad from happening to billionaires and trillion-dollar corrupt corporations at all costs.
I think I lost count of how many warnings were given about Microsoft suspiciously getting too involved in open source in general which at this point, issues like this are unsurprising.
I use Siri several times a week on my computer to find my iPhone. And that’s about the only thing I use it for, but it’s super useful.
Reforge has far better content for the overlapping disciplines, it’s not even close.
This is so amazing to read that people are doing something interesting other than just being online.
Modern trucks contain quite a lot of semiconductors though, so I expect they'll be affected in some way.
Ohhh, that's where this came from!

I directed a short film in the late 90s and we used this as an 'event' at a party (minus the floating part). We removed the glass from a light bulb to act as a remote fuse. Acetylene was perfect, as it gives this wonderful 'crack,' much better than the LPG we first tried. It was Tim's idea.

Please do not try this!
The laser has to disable the drone in seconds, though. Wouldn't a laser with sufficient power to do so cause collateral vision damage from the diffused reflection? Think of a drone flying low and fast into a political rally with a crowd. You don't know the intentions of the pilot so it must be disabled immediately. Many people will look up at the source of noise and thus be exposed. I wonder if e.g. a birdshot cannon would actually be safer.
The fact that Clegg was such a political fuck-up that he managed to destroy a viable UK third-party within four years of getting a whiff of power should tell you all you need to know about Nick.
Yea there is a ton of Facebook cheerleaders and apologists coming out of the woodwork today.
Using the site is easy, it gets much more complicated the moment you have something to add (due to the enormous complexity of the tax system, even for simple things).

But I agree that almost for everyone it is a 30 seconds exercise to do the taxes.
The understanding of airborne virus transmission has in fact come a long way in the last 18 months yes. Zeynep Tufekci
is good on this subject, e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airbo...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/why-arent...

And an interesting read today: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/10/why-ameri...

>there is still much to learn about the effectiveness of masking.

So in summary, no, it's not absurd at all. Why would you say that?

As per parent comment that dwelling on the masks was veering off topic, could you address _vaccine hesitancy_ in this context?
Very true. In my experience the rationale to lie to upgrade has a higher burden because it has to overcome the inertia of a status quo that has at least worked for some time.

It tends to be easier to advocate for a past solution than an unproven one.
Book deal and Oprah interview likely coming soon.
> lab leak theory .. was confirmed as among the most plausible explanations.

Citation needed. I am very sceptical of that, even with the caveats of "among the most plausible".

> Stop making personal attacks

if you're going to go there, why not start with "The propaganda has worked on you like a treat"
German Pirate Ship Traveled 64,000 Miles in WWI and Never Visited a Port
In what way could this be possibly be “a fake story?” Do you not believe that it happened? Or is she making stuff up? Or do you just mean that people don’t really actually care about the topic? Or because it’s not previously unknown, it’s too late and public interest is supposed to move on to other topics now?

The initial bombshell was around instagram’s affect on teen girls mental health, so calling it an attempt to force FB to kowtow to the US on covid seems like some deep 4D chess conspiracy idea. And calling it fake is ridiculous rhetoric.
> running a workflow needed maybe 40 seconds max

If your test suite takes 40 seconds, is it not quicker and easier to run locally than the overhead of another git commit to get feedback?
It has some of the earmarks of a something is up. You do not go from nobody to 60 min interviews that quick.
The amount of people in this thread that can't read an intro to a paper is too damn high.
I have largely been critical of machine learning for some time, I don't think it will crash though. I feel many people have been misled on what deep learning and machine learning actually do and therefore become confused on its limitations, but once you understand it as a general statistics-fitting paradigm, it is easy to ask yourself - can you solve this problem by fitting a complex pig pen around a dataset? Or, another way, is your solution based around classification in some way? If the answer is no, then modern AI techniques won't be able to get you an answer.

As crude as it may seem, rules engines and long sheets of If this Then that heuristics tend to solve more complex systems that can't be statistically fit, but I feel machine learning is slowly approaching a point where it can deduce those If Then statements. The main problem is that as humans we cannot comprehend the wealth of connections that might lead to a certain heuristic, so it is very difficult to tell a modern AI that it is wrong in a more abstract or pattern-based sense, and these approaches tend to collapse back into statistical data fitting. I can easily communicate with you if your understanding is wrong, but it is hard to do that with an AI, mostly we can either fix the data, or adjust the training parameters and wait. That is why it seems to rely on all-or-nothing, as there isn't much control on the iterative learning process on a network apart from startup options and testing after the fact.

To me, the real breakthrough will come by creating models of abstract thought. Some models exist as heuristic systems, which require an exhaustive set of rules to model various aspects of thinking, and some are probabilistic in nature and can be taught to a machine learning application, but neither of these model everything, nor do they do all of their topics equally well. Whichever paradigm can come up with a robust model first will likely come up top in the AI paradigm wars, but it could be tomorrow, could be next century.
To add to your point, there’s not a soul in tech that ever went ‘I wonder if the results of this A/B test are ethical?’. Our industry is just not built with this sensibility, the same way Finance is not self-aware of greed.

If it makes money in Finance and meets regulatory guidelines, all is fair.

If it’s the optimal solution in tech, and doesn’t break laws or cause a noticeable usage drop-off, all is fair. When the FB algos drop engagement, we’ll see quasi-ethics from the company (perceptively to us, to them, it’ll just be an optimization).
> A function called `{my-domain}_path()`

100% agree. I think it's generally good practice for macros which generate non-hidden functions to surface them as parameters for the user to include in their code so you can easily chase where it's coming from (e.g. EEx.function_from*).

On the other hand, at least it's easy to find the source code for any given macro.

If you want a gentler, less magickey introduction to elixir for web, I recommend starting with Plug. The good thing is that Phoenix builds on top of plug so everything you will learn is still applicable to Phoenix. The big danger is that you might be dragged kicking and screaming into Phoenix, as I was (but trust that most of the macros is phoenix are there for a reason and they do save time in most use cases at the expense of having to memorize a whole lot of shortcuts)
Free speech is ugly. 4Chan is toxic, the now defunct Craigslist Rants and raves was a huge directory of toxic ugliness. Both with minimal moderation and no recommended feed. I don't think the toxic is going to magically disappear but what effect does the algorithm on your news feed have for making the problem worse? Would these people find each other anyway in any sort of functionally large numbers without the feed? Or is the feed really the problem?

And the larger question: how responsible do we want to hold companies for their algorithms when they have undesired effects?
That assumes infinite decisions though? Once you assume finite reveals it's over. Even a computer/algorithm has a finite amount of clock cycles.
> Your options are to do it by hand, pay someone like Intuit, or if you are below a certain income threshold get some tax software for free

You can also hire an accountant. Our accountant does our taxes for just a tad more than what TurboTax's self employed tier costs. Even if we could get away with TurboTax's deluxe tier, I'd still argue the slight added cost of the accountant is well worth it.
My reply to that is already present here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28736407
Well, fuck those people. The lab-leak theory always made sense, and censoring it before the facts were in was criminal.

Taking away people's ability to discuss the issue on FB and Twitter effectively stifled hope for a timely independent investigation of the origins of the virus. This was done on the basis of really shitty science, from people with extreme conflict of interest.

The fact that Facebook deleted millions of lab leak related posts is obscene, and seeing people defend it is just so, so disheartening. What the fuck.
An introvert is "a typically reserved or quiet person who tends to be introspective and enjoys spending time alone" [1]. So I agree with you that it is surprising to be a "complete introvert" and to look for social interactions with strangers, even though they are 1-to-1. The people whom I met and who are extremely shy or timid would tend to avoid these, I think.

That being said, I can see how the poster would define himself as an introvert (avoiding social gatherings with a crowd), and be more comfortable alone or with 1-to-1 discussions (actually 3 people, since there is her friend as well). The adjective "complete" in "complete introvert" might be exaggeration though. :)

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/introvert
If you're involved in far-left movements on twitch and elsewhere, the kids definitely do say this and use liberal synonymously with centrist / to the right of the far left
Mitchell Baker (Mozilla CEO) makes 3 million a year. It's actually very profitable for a nonprofit organization, isn't it?

"On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When asked about her salary she stated "I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to."

This lady then goes on and on talking about "social justice".
+ code licensed to the .NET Foundation is released under a MIT license anyway, so that it can be used commercially by anybody.
Okay I want to test this. Which politician's profile should I click on to start seeing what you're talking about?

I started out by clicking on Marjorie Tayler Green, Matt Gaetz, and Ron Desantis (I think these are some of the most inflammatory at least).

SO far I am still just seeing...ads for baby stuff, pictures of my friends going on vacation, and a foodies group in my city talking about where to get the best tacos or coffee.

Maybe that stuff could be coded right wing? For the food and travel, nobody is wearing any masks or doing any quarantining or anything at this point? Is that what you're talking about? That's what my feed looks like all the time.
I worked for hackhands for a while which was mostly fun but occasionally I would get in bad situations like the guy who would want me to log in as an administrator and make random changes to his Microsoft SQL server configuration that I don’t know if he was authorized to make. (I feel OK with SQL server as a dev but admin is different). It was better helping students with their homework.
Ok. Maybe your mom shouldn’t use it.
> At least with LUKS you can have multiple passwords for unlocking a disk

Luks implements this by encrypting the actual key multiple times, once with each password. So if one person turns evil before you remove their password or a password is leaked, you can still consider the disk compromised.
Climate change and the need to end the use of fossil fuels may force the return of the airship. People are working on making electric airplanes feasible, but the weight of batteries makes it a tough problem. Airships are much more doable, although for any kind of frequent route, ground/sea travel is probably better. Heavier than air flight would probably need to use fuels synthesized from waste biomass, and be relegated to high-priority use.

I'd also love to see more long-distance shipping move to advanced clipper ships using modern materials, computer-controlled rigging, highly optimized sail and hull designs, etc.
What are those dot points a reference to? I'm OOTL. Never followed phrack though I have come across it quite a few times.