skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you, though, I have a fairly controversial opinion on FB and social media in general.

I think Facebook is just the result you get when the general public participates in online discourse. I believe the algorithms may in some cases magnify certain discussions that many deem "dangerous," but mostly, it's just that people have zero empathy when conversing online.

If you've seen Parks and Rec, the scenes from the town hall meetings are basically Facebook. You have one person complaining about some inane thing nobody cares about, another complaining about undesirable people in their neighborhood, another spouting off conspiracies, etc.

Back in the early days of the internet, most of the people participating in online discussion were nerds. This fact alone made the discourse more manageable since most forums focused on discussions around specific topics.

Of course, there was always the "General Discussion" parts of any forum which suffered similar problems to what we see on FB. The difference was, the forums were heavily moderated. I'm sure many here have stories about some authoritarian mod that banned them just for having a different opinion.

Facebook on the other hand, isn't moderated much. If you start a flame war on FB, there is no one there to ban you. In the earlier days of the internet, you would get banned pretty quickly if you veered too far from the acceptable level of discourse.

Shit, look at forums with little moderation, they are 1000x worse than FB or any social media app. There is no algorithm that made 4chan the cesspit that it is (was?).

Personally, I think FB's approach has been pretty hands-off, and I think this is the correct choice for their platform.

It seems, what everyone wants (this "whistleblower" included) is for the ideas they don't like to be moderated. The internet has shown us what "the other side" really thinks, and we don't like it.
> engagement with social media doesn't directly create value for Facebook.

Yes it absolutely does. They get value by showing ads. If you're staring at facebook for 4 hours a day, that's a lot more ads than if you log in for 2 minutes and then log back out.

The cigarette comparison is being used a lot, so it's more like if Philip Morris was paid for every drag someone takes. Getting folks hooked, smoking a pack a day or more, is going to generate more revenue than not getting folks hooked. If cigarettes weren't addictive, would P.M. make billions of dollars every year?
Yes, well said. Heroku was an inspirational product when we were starting out.
> No one just "assumes" covid.

There were many months where PCR tests were not available to hospitals and the CARES act gave hospitals extra money for covid cases, so hospitals obviously set the policy of “anyone with some covid symptoms is to be considered a covid case”.
My $0.02, but it seems like the moderation team (dang in particular) has been less active over the last 24 hours.

Usually there are reminders in large threads to click the "more" button to see all comments, but there was no such comment on the huge "Facebook-owned sites were down" post yesterday. They usually also merge duplicates and add top level comments with links to the other conversations taking place on the same topic.

The moderation team usually does a lot to reign in problem behavior, but there seems to have been a lot questionable comments making it through lately.

I have also noticed a lot of comments by users with "throwaway" in their usernames - seems like a shift in who is using HN and how they are using it.
everything is a DSL / framework / library. I'm starting to dislike this idea. The claim is a general programmer should avoid macros, but, some blessed developers are granted this privilege and thus have the tools to create useful -DSL / framework / library- code because they used this advanced capability. And useful code tends to become popular.

It's a difficult pill to swallow when a an engineer comes in guns blazing trying to enhance your baby project with macros and thereby introducing a ton of new complexity. This is the issue.

Macros are like a developer-ux enhancement. You better have your core library figured out pretty well before investing in this enhancement and most projects never reach that level of maturity. Especially, internal ones.

It's not that macros should be avoided, they just need to be introduced at the right time.
That would be my assumption, or some kind of public policy position. Not to say that her concerns aren't genuine, but she has to be aware that for better or for worse she won't have an easy time finding further work in the industry.
Ironically the biggest two IT companies in the world, Apple and Amazon, are ones that go out of their way to control the entire supply chain.
Wow, I'd been dying to make tmux work on WT.
I couldn't get your tmux.exe executable to work (it froze WT, in both bash and cmd).
However, the script method works!
Ouch, thanks for the pushback!

But isn’t it called tcp/ip for a reason?
Yeah, building on what Nick said: I think it was possible at one time, 7-8 years ago, to launch a course on Udemy with no audience, and let them handle the marketing for you.

I heard a podcast recently and a successful Udemy instructor had said that these days, the SEO required to succeed on Udemy is even harder than the SEO to rank in Google. When you search for a topic on Udemy (eg. React, Go), there are dozens of highly-reviewed courses, and it's impossible to show up in those results unless you already have a huge audience or want to spend lots of money on paid traffic.

So yeah, I think it's true that you need an audience to succeed with a self-published course, but honestly I think that's true no matter which route you take.
It pumped money at all levels of the economy. It turns out the rich tend to benefit in such circumstance. For instance rent subsidies end up in the pockets of landlords who are protected from the decline in the broader economy. People here don’t like it to be pointed out (they downvote any mention) but inflation is here and here it will stay for at least another quarter probably much longer. Don’t take my word for it, read about it yourself. Yellen predicts 4-5% inflation by the end of the year.
Now just imagine saying all these things as a mad man stands before you with a knife. Suddenly the world becomes more real than it ever has been and all these abstract things you say to your friends in cyberspace become utter nonsense as they offer you no assistance in navigating the mortal danger you find yourself in.

The mad mad has you by the throat, you feel his cold steel press up against your virgin neck. Your last words: "I don't believe in neat model of the universe where you can assign vague tag, label, whatever you want to call it and apply it to every facet of reality."

My ultimate point in this exchange with you is that violence has a real sobering effect on the mind. It's a great filter of sense and nonsense.
I suspect the reaction from a lot of companies is going to be to lock down internal documents under a need-to-know security model.
> The two main backers (Apple and Google) seem to have backed out.

This highlights an important difference between GCC and LLVM that many fans of the latter seem to miss: LLVM is first a bunch of compiler components that Apple and Google use for their own needs and a C/C++/etc compiler for you and me second and only as long as it flows naturally from the first. While GCC is a C/C++/etc compiler, that's the end-goal.
I've never used MeWe's mobile apps, I've always used the desktop site.
I did wonder whether it might turn into something more significant, but it didn't. I was also curious about how long it would last, as it was quite a long outage.

I mainly contact my ex wife through WhatsApp and a lot of school/ parent communication goes through there. Some of my social groups are organised through fb.
I'm having doubts, seems that most startups and small/medium businesses will not care at all. Have you seen the market? Engineers are ridiculously scarce. Most hiring managers and execs will just say something like "Great, we're too small and don't do anything like Facebook. Just keep her in the code and restrict access to Google Drive"
Obviously a subscriber to a mailinglist need to set the cost to 0 for the list sender.
Well, yes and no.

While as a PM (or IC) she'd be primarily working on a scoped area of work, the reality is also that she likely didn't come to learn all this on her own. At nearly any large tech company it's pretty easy to get in touch with someone on another team and learn more about their work, etc.

The fact that she's been able to get all this context and significant supporting documentation points to her not having gone about this totally solo (despite her claims).

There's also something to note about things being intentionally ambiguous-- that's by design to prevent most ICs from putting together broader context. But it's not clear that it would prevent a highly motivated employee from amassing broader context. Like I said before, with even a bit more context other ICs can be looped in to fill in the gaps.

You're giving Facebook far too much credit here.
Maybe, but don’t pretend you’re arguing from a purely economic basis, unless you’re also willing to punish people for ever leaving their house.

You’re also missing the higher-order issue of internalization overhead, but that’s a whole separate consideration.
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That helps the public good too.
Seems like it's able to perform relatively safe autorotation landings: https://newatlas.com/agustawestland-aw609-autorotation-trial...
I don't see a tarball or repo. Where is the data?
Anecdote - when Google Plus imploded, a lot of communities in the tabletop gaming sphere moved from G+ to MeWe.
The system's imploding.
IL Politically correct ci sta rovinando
IL politicamente corretto sta rovinando l' italia
> the recent Mobile issue was the penultimate issue.

Nooo :( I'm glad they will do the collector box tho, I think I will take one!
Damn, my brain died while writing that one.
I was in the 8th floor of a brick building during the 2001 Nisqually quake. Very lucky that quake was so deep and that I'm still alive. More earth motion and I would have been buried in a pile of rubble.

I'll be taking flimsy wood structures that bend and twist and don't crumble from now on thanks.
Scientific Prizes and the Extraordinary Growth of Scientific Topics
Temperature and touch receptors win 2021 medicine Nobel Prize
Afaik, the Intel Network cards are more like dedicated CPUs, that can run various "programs", one of which is "standard, fully-transparent network card".

If signed with the right key, some can run entire stacks, such as iSCSI, FCoE and others. The Multiport ones can do switching, filtering, and some basic routing in hardware. The "other" operating system is totally unencumbered by this.

This is routinely used by e.g. Intel AMT/ME, which programs the network card to reroute some destination ports to (in this case internal) recipients (the ME-processor).

That feature is what makes out-of-band management possible for people having added the right keys to ME, or knowing one of the preinstalled ones.

And as a HW-Vendor you never know; maybe your client might one day want to use these "offloading" features. Maybe he just doesn't know it yet...

So when the good offer from Intel comes in, you go for it.
I worry whether LLVM can actually provide such guarantees ATM.

https://reviews.llvm.org/D107872 makes me doubt.
I think the fundamental issue plaguing virtually all forms of automatic release note generation boils down to the mismatch of audience. Commit messages and even pull request titles are tailored to be read and understood by other maintainers and contributors, who are likely to be familiar with internal details of the project. Clear and concise communication for this audience might mean using more specialized jargon or referencing implementation details.

By contrast, release notes are meant to be consumed by a much wider audience, who are chiefly concerned with the externally visible aspects of the project. Communication tailored to other maintainers (e.g. commits and PR titles) is rarely also optimal for this broader audience. This is why commit-based generated changelogs have a bad reputation: commits are meant for contributors—not customers—and thus tend to be useless.

This also explains why a good, dedicated CHANGELOG.md is usually so effective: unlike commits or PRs, it affords contribution authors a separate place to write for a broader, different audience. Another nice property of this method is the notes themselves within the CHANGELOG.md can be collaboratively reviewed and edited right within the context of the PR. This is a very helpful mechanism to ensure that release notes are high quality and to distribute the burden of writing release notes to those most familiar with the changes (as opposed to the person creating the release).

I think the ideal scenario is that on a per-PR basis, the "external" release notes are automatically scaffolded from existing metadata such as commits or PR titles (or even sophisticated means such as identifying which packages have changed or knowing if a breaking change has occurred as a result of type interface changes) which are later refined/edited during PR review. I think it would also be great if GitHub Releases themselves could go through a review process akin to PRs in order to help ensure high quality and facilitate collaborative writing of release notes.
I would say "sorry I really am interested in working with your organization but I am already making $x. Would you be able to at least match it? ". Then wait for their response.
What's your point here? This lady is a PRODUCT manger and heads up the entire product, in this case Civic Integrity, which was directly charged with tamping down hate on the platform related to civic engagement. She is not a PROJECT manager like what you deal with on your engineering team. She is by definition an expert on this segment of Facebook and you're dismissing her wrongly for being a "PM".

She's a Harvard MBA with a degree in Computer Engineering and experience at Google and Pinterest. She's qualified to have a pretty significant role in the company and rightly so earned the job that she has.

EDIT: I looked into the claim that she co-founded Hinge and it's mostly accurate. She worked with Justin McLeod (Hinge CEO) to build "Secret Agent Cupid" which was Hinge before it rebranded with the launch of it's new mobile app.
The closest we get to a modern day holocaust. Seeing how powerless anyone in the world is to stop it, it's horrifying to think what the Chinese government can get away with within their own borders.
She is not arguing for censorship at all. She's actually arguing that content-based censorship doesn't work because the AI algorithms are so inaccurate.

She is arguing against algorithmic content ranking, and in favor of chronological feeds, as well as other measures that do not attempt to judge the content itself.
I seriously doubt shareholders agree with her angle.

> her best chance is to hope that Facebook will simply try to minimize the legal issue to avoid making her into too much of a martyr

I suspect the opposite. They will attempt to make an example of her to dissuade subsequent whistleblowers.

Social media has a short attention span and forgets its "martyrs" within days.
One sentence summary: They are now storing your data on EBS instead of local disks.
>Rob Pike of golang fame noted that while he reached for the debugger first thing, Ken Thompson would ignore what Rob was doing and just stand and think. Then after a while he'd say: "I know what's wrong" and very often be right.

I feel like this is not a helpful take on debugging for most of us. I'm certainly not as good at this as Ken Thompson, and very seldom is the problem space simple enough that I can hold a complete mental model of it in my head. Instead I reach for the debugger to collect more data on what's going on. And I can usually find the issue by looking a lot faster than I can correctly theorize about it.

In Debugging by Davig J. Agans, his third rule is "Quit thinking and look". And I tend to agree. In the majority of cases when I'm debugging a problem the solution only reveals itself when I see that missing piece of information.

EDIT:
As others have rightly pointed out, if I wrote the code I've already thought about it and have a mental model of what I wrote. And yes, I do think about what could be causing the problem. I guess it's those cases where I think it should be working in a certain way, but it isn't, where I find it most valuable to stop thinking and look. And usually in those cases I either have an incorrect or incomplete model, or I wrote something that didn't match what I was thinking.
once again people are not really understanding this issue. this isn't about security or products, it's about white men and their fascist institutions controlling technology for their own fascist gains

once again, it was never about products, security, or customer satisfaction
Immovable property owners who are able to extract rents sufficient for independence from government. That is, back to pre-Jacksonian era. Of course, there is no way to get it done because it's a catch-22: people won't vote to resign their voting rights, this is why i believe collapse is imminent.

Just like "communism" (Soviet "socialism") stopped working when variety of goods in demand became so large, and life cycles of products became so short, that centralised planning no longer had any chance not to mismanage it - that is, simply due to technological change, or in communist terms, "progress of means of production", democracy seems to stop working when free speech becomes really, really free.

I'd go on to say that, as a broad generalisation, rights and liberties of the Western world that we value so much are valuable and positively contribute to society only as long as they can in reality be only used by elites.

Sadly, concept of human rights (late XVIII century) largely preceded industrialisation, and thus the prospect of exponential economic growth that will some day make "universal" rights REALLY "universal" - evaded imagination of their inventors. They saw those rights, as a matter of course, as "universal for people like themselves", just as they didn't think of them as pertaining to women - not because they were especially sexist, but because it just didn't cross their minds...
I don't think that Facebook can solve the harm to kids. They should stop lying about what they know, but I don't think the big-picture problem comes from something they are doing.

It seems like kids are commonly glued to screens from the age of 4-5. They play Roblox, Fortnite, Minecraft. There are any number of virtual worlds they take part in for many hours a day. Some are even deemed educational. Very early on, they get accustomed to socializing digitally, and doing so almost non-stop.

When you start going through puberty and become concerned with your identity and self-image, and you've been addicted to non-stop digital socialization since age 4, of course that's going to be an important avenue for you to seek validation from. And of course that's not going to go well!

Plain and simple: we have a generation of kids who value digital life more than any other part of life. I don't know how to solve that problem, but I don't think that Facebook created it or can solve it.
As horrifying as this is, I almost struggle to be sympathetic because I cannot understand why he let this guy inflict all this on him. I know it's partially a reflection on why, but having read it I'm still at something of a loss. I would have either punched him or quit by about 20% into this story. Maybe he has the same anger I tend to get but better impulse control and tried to channel it into some subconscious revenge plot? Don't do that. Life's too short.
What's New in PostgreSQL 14?
Of what? We've had evidence forever, it's public and understood. It's in our addictions, unhappiness, and politicization of everything. We all know where it comes from and we all know that companies are profit-driven. There are literally no secrets being revealed.
This is straight-up deflection. It makes sense to start somewhere, so why not the biggest player in town? That would be Facebook, with billions of active users. None of those cable channels are even close to 100s of millions of viewers.
It trounces the majority of either of those - which something a revolutionary product would do.

It's not until you get to the highest end desktop CPUs from Intel or AMD that you see competition with the M1 on a per core basis.

Keeping in mind this is Apple's lowest end, low power, mobile part. It wipes out all but the highest end desktop processors - not just on a core basis, but even a multicore basis - agin for all but the highest end.

Nope, I don't think revolutionary is hyperbole at all. It also makes me wring my hands with glee thinking about what a part designed for the desktop where higher power and cooling are readily available. Where adding more cores makes a lot of sense. How big of a gap is there going to be with that SOC?

The prospects of new hardware are once again exciting. CPUs have been stagnant for a LONG time now. I was simultaneously relieved and disappointed to learn my i7-7700K was still not that far off from the latest CPUs - hardware unboxed had a great video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAX1lh985do

At best - on average a 30FPS between my lowly 7700K and the highest end parts? Yeah, newer parts have more cores - but most games are not well optimized for multiple cores. On one had I'm relieved - no need to spend money on upgrades since it just isn't worth it. On the other hand - it isn't worth it to upgrade! And what nerd doesn't like having the latest tech?

So yeah, it's nice to have someone pushing the boundaries and something to be truly excited about. Also stark contrasts like this tends to light a fire under others, if nothing else. Rising tides raising all boats and all that...
They literally tried this [1] in 2013 after the Snowden revelations. Now they apparently bought a four-letter domain and are trying again?

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/07/11/sgrouple...
Do you mean in market share or the actual product? Because I use Firefox daily and honestly feels less bloated and better to use than Chrome. I do use Chrome daily also, for some work-related apps
Timescale employee here. While we do offer plans starting at $24/month [1] on Timescale Cloud, it's worth noting that DO Postgres (and other hosted Postgres solutions) are providing an undifferentiated open-source solution, while on Timescale Cloud you get Postgres underneath (for relational workloads) and TimescaleDB (for time-series workloads), plus other features which provide an enhanced time-series experience (like the explorer dashboard [2], autoscaling, automated upgrades, auto-tuning of configs, just to name a few). So do keep that in mind when comparing prices.

Many users actually find Timescale Cloud to be cheaper because it replaces both a time-series and relational db with a single database that can store (and analyze) both kinds of data.

[1] https://www.timescale.com/cloud
[2] https://blog.timescale.com/blog/announcing-explorer-a-better...