skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes, congress & the executive branch certainly want to control facebook and other large corps. it’s less obvious that they’ll do so, given the power that their vast capital reserves provides the largest companies.

this is one of many examples for why i think the main issue we should, as citizens, be focused on, is restructuring our policy regime to right-size businesses and governments. that means big enough (in people and resources) to whether common adversities like recessions while small enough to be responsive to all constituents (customers, employees, and society at large, rather than just power and money).

both facebook and our (federal, state) governments are indiscriminately unresponsive to wider society, and that’s a problem. the rest (even this ‘whistleblowing’) is a sideshow to distract us from this core issue. power does not want to be examined, much less challenged.
Or Galadriel Mirkwood.
They do once a company gets additional funding and or when a company is bought. Investors tend to sit on the boards and yield significant power. You're not wrong, but I don't agree :)
But this will only work to share one LB, not scale them automatically
Something can be a problem without impacting profits. Money doesn't define problems.
That list is not a representative example of what the core devs are doing. It looks to me like it's mostly the work of Oscar Smith, he does a lot of these low-level numerical optimizations.

Here are a few more improvements in v1.7 off the top of my head:

* Further latency improvements (though much smaller than for 1.6)

* Big gains in inference precision for the compiler

* The above also unlocks better static analysis

* Improved speed for the package manager on Windows

* Begin work on adding atomics

* Thread-safe RNG

I'm sure there is more I've missed - I don't hack on Base Julia much.
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And the harm they've done has long ago crept outside of their own platform, to where some other companies mistakenly think this behavior is okay.
You live in a bubble. Billions of people use Windows every day, in probably every single country/territory in the world. It's the most used piece of software by a wide, wide margin.
Hmmm. OK, that’s quite something to have to interpret.
None of the client do at this point, I'm working on adding markdown to uTox, and eventually syntax highlighting but I've been struggling with pretty severe apathy the past while so I can't offer a timeframe. Opening an issue requesting it on the github uTox repo, and then pestering me to actually finish it has been known to work in the past. :D
mad cow disease has a VERY distinct marker. (it's hard to get to; but it happens in a post-mortem examination of the brain tissue). If most Alzheimer's was mad cow, I guarantee you; we'd know it. (also, symptoms are different). (also, there's really two distinct markers: the physical voids that are formed in brain tissue, which is macroscopic; you can see it with the naked eye, and the very characteristic misfolded proteins, which requires a very powerful microscope to detect).
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I read a year or so ago they were looking at some new video compression tricks.
I can't remember the detail but I remember being impressed.
I'm sure there is plenty research going to to make the picture quality better.
Ever since I read Boorstin's book "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America," everything looks like a pseudo-event to me. Clearly Facebook is being thrown under the bus. Any one of us could say the things she is saying, but congress and the press wouldn't have made any fuss.

I agree with what she's saying, but I'm tired of being manipulated by the media circus.
It is a useful paper, yes. Good examples, good diagnosis of issues in systems theory, good definition of a way forward.

However it suffers from (a) weak definitions and (b) implausible or strange descriptions.

For (a), what is a "strong feedback loop"? Does it have high gain (low error) or high bandwidth (fast)? Is it hidden (the accidental link imbalance example)? Is it obvious (the cold cache example)? What makes it "strong"?

Or, conversely, what is a "weak" feedback loop?

A number of acronyms are undefined (SRE, LIFO). I think I know what they mean, and most HN readers will too. What about the other readers?

And using Wikipedia to define metastability? There must be a more persistent or academically defendable reference. Wikipedia is OK for informal definitions. In a paper calling for more academic studies this is ironic.

(b) Section 2.1 "When replicas are sharded differently..." Huh?

Section 4 "upper bound" used as a verb. Should be "limit or place bounds on".

Section 4 "The strength of the loop depends on a host of constant factors from the environment..." Odd, the term is not defined but this is the second dependency listed. Very strange.

In short it needs/needed a better reviewer.

That all said, it has summarized a lot of good ideas on controlling stability in distributed systems.

Other references may be found in Adrian Colyer's "the morning paper". No longer updated but has many years of good references. See blog.acolyer.org.
A useful note, the content of these books tend to be very good, but also the quality of the physical product is top notch while not costing top notch money. I own 3 of their books (Prince of Persia, Elegant Puzzle, and Learning to Learn) and they all just feel good in the hand on top of having good insights.
I don't think it's relevant. Facebook's moderation is not "hands-off", they actively promote conspiracy theories and extremist groups. Facebook's lying to shareholders and Congress is not a paradox of tolerance.
The idea is not that they should have had a stock for multiple years of demand. Rather, if you have a warehouse and are able to build a bit of stock, you can ramp up much faster.

The actual closings due to lockdown were only a couple of weeks in most industries. What really hurt imho was that orders were cancelled, production capability was scaled back, but demand came back faster than expected.
Try it yourself and find out!
My job description was more of the kind "make customers happy". :)
I did a little dive on my own into the practices of BlueLabs and Cambridge Analytica just out of curiousity, and this kind of specific targeting seems to be the norm these days, as facilitated by outfits like Facebook and other data accumulators.

Now, Trump is, like other politicians, a generally opportunisitic creature. I generally assume politicians either have no ideology at all (weathervanes), or have a quite flexible ideology that can change easily based on popular opinion. Not exactly straight shooters in other words.

However, even if only 5% of the people who voted for Trump self-identified as 'white supremacists' - that's enough to put him in the winner's seat, isn't it? So his political affiliates and campaign managers could use Facebook's system to target that demographic with specific ads that would be disastrous with other demographics (Hispanic, Rust Belt, etc.). Now, the fact that they were willing to secretly woo this demographic is rather disturbing, I think.

Of course Clinton's team could do the same thing; you could target, I don't know, trans activists with specific ads that would not fly with say, suburban wine moms or whatever. This is also creepy in my opinion.

It's not that difficult of a concept to understand, is it?
ABSOLUTELY, the Europeans already have..
JIT is a boogeyman in some cases. Ultimately it doesn’t make sense to stockpile parts most of the time for financial and other reasons. If Intel had a warehouse of 1Gb chips, they would have a disincentive to invest in 10Gb, for example.

The dysfunction is the accounting games that companies are incentivized to keep stuff off of their books. Every company wants to look like a software company and avoid stuff like inventory. Some of this is absurd - many companies don’t “own” property, for example, they lease through entities that are sometimes only nominally separate.

Sometimes companies will outsource processes and fulfillment to layers of other entities, each of which do the same thing. Disruptions cascade - I had one issue last year where a supplier’s supplier had issues getting boxes, and a two week delay there delayed downstream fulfillment by 6 weeks. All because the people who ship the end product couldn’t deliver, and the “principal” outsourced the actual management of the process to a third party. If the principal controlled it, they would have gotten it done, as they were punished severely by the contract penalties. They bet on everything working out ok and lost.
Sorry, which side is pro-FB?
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It increases the pressure to act.
I would feel more inclined to continue to "learn" (read: pick up shiny new frameworks, not actually learn new fundamentals) if the new stuff wasn't just rehashed old stuff. If I need to pick something up, fine, that's trivial, but "learning" for the sake of "learning" is best left to the juniors.
Wouldn't that end up slowing down the whole system from writing to a file though?
Do you wanna elaborate? I am interested
People depend on Facebook services internationally in a way that you probably don't fully understand. If it can be fixed, it should, but it must be broken up.

Also, employees of Facebook tend to be be from wealthier, liberal backgrounds that enabled them to go to good schools, attend colleges, and work in SV. It's the customers they're at odds with catering to that they want to "fix".
In this case it's a specific term related to SEC whistleblowing protections. The context is not about whistleblowing for some semblance of public protection, but whistleblowing for protection of investors who may have been misled.
> Whatever reading comprehension advantage they may carry is completely negated by the fact that they can't be typed from a regular keyboard.

I also am not really a fan in many cases, but in the case of Bayesian models it makes so much more sense to write "σ" than "sigma". In the case of these complex models, being able to stay closer to the math reduces complexity for the reader. Also, you don't have to use Unicode in your own Julia codebase. It's more of an extra feature which you can use if you want.
I find this the most reasonable answer to my comment.
care to give some links about "what happened with identity server" ?

is that https://leastprivilege.com/2020/10/01/the-future-of-identity... ?
Logging before has the disadvantage of being noisier than after only, at least if you want to inspect the result of the operation.
Is Whatsapp social media?
Of course you always keep it on — the point of the different levels is that you can filter them out at read time (e.g. to eyeball logs, or to alert when the rate of >= WARN is too high)
Home grown by a gaggle of FBI agents like Anon?
I don't see any divisiveness nor politics on my feed. It's all baby pictures and vacation photos. Anecdotes are not data.
Every whistleblower is a political operative. And that word isn't a negative word.
You need to define "data" in this use-case.

General idea should be to treat the computer as a dispensable unit, kind of local cache of primary data which is remote. It is backwards, but this entrusts the "data" into more able and knowledgeable care.

As an example, look no further as mobile/smartphone etc. platforms. The locally acquired data is automatically transferred to some online cloud. All needed for that is a steady and fast internet and suffucient quotas.

Should the disaster hit, at least the bulk of "data" would be duplicated in the cloud(s). Assuming the cloud providers are mainstream, chances are the data could be retrievable from the new/repaired computer.

All comes down to the definition and the value of the "data".

Also, makes sense to have a practical way to keep an inventory of the installed and used applications and obviously the accounts/passwords.
Facebook deletes content banned in Russia, but could still face fine -report
Does no one remember hurl.it? It's a web-based http request tool that has already been using the name Hurl since 2009: https://www.hurlit.com/about/ ... originally co-created by one of GitHub's founders no less.
Yes, FB or anyone else should be punished only after violating a law written down for everyone to see in advance of the action that supposedly violated that law.

The road to hell is built by ignoring the rule of law to go after whoever is "bad" in the moment.

There's an ancient legal principle called "nulla poena sina legal", which means "no punishment without a law". It's the foundation of all justice.

Here's a classic quote from A Man for all Seasons that helps explain:

Roper: So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law?

More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!

More: Oh? And, when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you – where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast – man’s laws, not God’s – and, if you cut them down – and you’re just the man to do it – d’you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
> at higher altitudes the green house effect is stronger

Good thing the CO2 doesn't stay there forever.

> Also, the overall energy efficiency is very poor.

And energy efficiency is a good proxy for economic viability when you are comparing similar things, but completely useless when you comparing it with something. Why does the 10% efficiency matters?

(By the way, expect that to increase. It always does.)
Fifty times zero is still zero.
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Sighz, 'pr0ud supp0rt3r 0f pr0j3kt m4yh3m' ;)
You missed this one: https://twitter.com/GlennCoder/status/1443356417742675968
Given that Google will cancel it in a couple of years[0], it's not worth investing time and effort to build on Google's products.

[0]: https://killedbygoogle.com/
We're discussing a NullPointerException situation; how is that not debugging?
Exactly, "Facebook is manipulating us into thinking bad things" from expert manipulators, The Guardian and NYT
Well, the outlets reporting on them became and stayed mainstream by reporting on this. If you ban these news from the "mainstream" ones, you'll just create a new set of mainstream news outlets.
> Intel, ARM, IBM, Sony, Nintendo will have to jump in.

Intel and IBM have recently announced their own proprietary LLVM-based compilers, but they seem more interested in backend work to make their own CPU's look good [1] than spending resources on frontend work. I guess that applies to ARM as well.

Sony and Nintendo are, I guess, mostly satisfied? They just want a decently good compiler and toolchain ecosystem, but for games most performance comes from the GPU anyway, chasing low-single-digit performance increases for CPU code doesn't seems like a super good investment opportunity for a game console company.
It is not misleading to say that facebook is stalking even non-users and collecting intimate details of people’s lives. Facebook is violating people’s privacy rights.
Because discord has a target market that does not care about encryption (gamers) the fact that others are using it as well isn't really their fault.
My original comment covers all of this.

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> So taking this as the definition

Random wikipedia code isn't a definition.

Have a nice day
The way I see this is that MZ is a gun for hire. He'll do anything using his algorithms and infrastructure to the highest bidder. It is very clear that he can work to grab political power, as it happened in 2016 in the US and more recently in Brazil and other countries. He needs to be stopped for what he's doing.
In WW1, once Britain developed effective means for shooting down airships, the Zeppelin company built lightweight airships that could climb as high as 20,000 feet, at the cost of being too fragile to handle rough air. Outside of the exegencies of war, these were not viable designs.

Being limited to low altitudes means that practical airships cannot fly over the weather, and their low speed limits alternative destinations. Three of the four helium-filled rigid airships operated by the US were brought down by bad weather. These days, we have much better materials and weather forecasting, but I think operations would still be quite frequently constrained by the weather in most parts of the world.

On the other hand, if the stream of powered sightseeing aircraft over the Grand Canyon could be replaced by a few electric airships... Well, we can dream.
it was a bit of an innocent joke really, just to spice up the comment by alluding to the known fact that the committees are occasionally criticized.

Granting Nobel prizes for science is not an exact science :-)
There's entire schools of left-wing thought that are deeply anti-authoritarian, many types of anarchism for instance are deeply rooted in collectivist ideology. There's also all manner of socialist schools of thought that favour strong degrees of civil liberties. The kind of Enlightenment-era ideologies that many modern Western democracies build their very foundations on today would have been considered radical, uncompromising left-wing zealotry by the hereditary nobility and strict social elitism they attempted with various degrees of success to overthrow.

Political ideologies in general are much more varied and in my opinion much more interesting than that tiny slice of the political compass the American overton window occupies. Authoritarianism is a property that can be attached to any ideology, left or right wing. It's not really useful to view politics as a one-dimensional axis from left to right, I think at a minimum two axes are needed, a collectivist-individualist axis and an authoritarian-libertarian axis to adequately compare ideologies relative to each-other. You could add even more axes such as traditionalist-reformist, localist-globalist, and probably many more.
The whole west coast is full of old brick houses; which were either knocked down, or have been retrofitted and reinforced. Because brick structures are inherently unstable in earthquakes.
What strikes me is how wealthy corporations act like such cheapskates. The bring the guy in for a job interview, suck the rest of the vision for the tool out of him, ghost him for a few months, release a copycat product and even stiff him on travel reimbursement.
It’s also a difference in belief of quality. From what I’ve heard, some places in Germany (and I presume other parts of the EU) just don’t carry the cheap home construction goods that are abundant in the US. This is primarily because the cheap ones require more fixing, replacing, and don’t last as long. It’s only perceived to be better for cost of the good itself (which really gets into if it’s better when you still have to pay for labor somehow!).

I think Europe is just more of a build once cry once type of region whereas the US is the polar opposite.

I’ll also say that if you bring up your construction standards to European levels, the costs rise substantially. Somewhat due to the goods needing to be shipped in, somewhat due to just more expensive goods overall, somewhat due to more niche labor required, and somewhat due to builders knowing they can charge more. (Cause if you can afford European construction - you’re probably loaded)
> Could you point me to a law that codifies this as crime?

The other posts that I meant "should be" aren't entirely wrong, but "crime", like most words, has more than one meaning, so that interpretation isn't necessary for my use to be correct (and isn't what I intended).

From Webster's 1913 for "Crime (n)":

2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. "To part error from crime." Tennyson. [emphasis mine]

3. Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
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It hardly changed, the whole .NET vs C++ politics are pretty much alive, and the whole GUI framework mess is another example.

I lost count how many PMs they had showing us stuff how great everything was going to be, on Channel 9, YouTube and now Microsoft Learn.
I agree, but if a manufacturer has the means (physical and budgetary) to store a significant supply of components, they can order larger quantities with longer lead times, so they would still be more resilient in extended shortage situations.
Numbers (of the decline in time for Pfizer): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v...

(Still not peer reviewed.)

> third shot ... Pfizer

There's probably a little inclination in that data to encourage you to consider Moderna.

Anyway, it's not just a matter of shots and stocks: there's also a matter of acting conscientiously (as opposed to claims of immunity and "licence to everything" about the vaccine), and appropriately informing to inform that acting.

Edit: remember that months ago we had cases of "Welcome to our wedding, some of our guests resulted positive but do not worry: they are asymptomatic". Anecdotal exceptions? No.
(disclaimer: Stripe employee, not on the Increment or Press teams but have contributed as a technical reviewer)

I also love Increment dearly. In case you missed it, the recent Mobile issue was the penultimate issue.

https://mobile.twitter.com/IncrementMag/status/1432799936488...
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Definitely not true. There were tests we ran at Netflix that would be considered "successful" based on metrics but were not implemented for social reasons, most often because they increased engagement with kids too much.
I approach this question from the perspective of people management. I was always taught to hire people who are (a) self-motivated and do not need constant nagging/encouragement to do their job (b) technically proficient and do not need a year of OJT to be productive (c) self-learning. If I could hire this person, all I need to do is point where we are going.

By self-learning, I want a person who digs beyond the surface and understands communication is fundamentally flawed as people are flawed. People do not communicate clearly. Sometimes on purpose. A "curious" person in my mind is comfortable with the confusion and actively tries to clear up the confusion and digs deep to truly understand what is really be asked, what is being said or not said.
Might consider getting it off ad-ridden sourceforge to lend credibility to an otherwise nice looking project
>>The current climate is caused by a failure of government to step in and intervene, not by the industry caring about profit above all else.

>No, it's both. Full stop.

disagree. it's the job of government to add legislation. not having rules, then acting surprised when things don't go the way you want is asinine. if you want people to act in a particular way, spell it out. Don't act like it's implied and be outraged when people don't abide by your imaginary rules.
Infotainment systems have multiple-year lead times and validating a PCB change can run just as long. Unless you're Tesla.
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Yes - the package JET.jl. It's still in its early phases so it's pretty rough, but I use it daily at my job.

There are a lot of caveats, though. Julia is fundamentally a dynamic language, so you can easily write code that works perfectly well but where the compiler has no idea what is going on before you run it. That code will not be statically analyzable.
Thanks! I hate how everything has gone to video, so I protest that as much as I can with my blog, and stick to text/photos unless a video really does add something. Glad to hear you like the format too!