skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd go further. No institution is your friend. Their mission might be aligned with yours. In which case, great! If it's not, then be cautious.

Your job as an individual is find alignment. An individual, or even a small group, isn't likely to turn a large institution. But you can find those that have aligned missions.
I don’t personally use FB and don’t have a very favorable view of their products.

I would, however, like to see the same level scrutiny applied to the general American media, especially the news media. FB has come in and started eating their lunch. There’s a deeper problem here, and it feels more like the powers that he want to take down FB.

I’m not denying any allegation made against FB, but why is it that Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and Hollywood get a pass when they’ve been damaging America for much longer than FB has existed?

If the government sees a problem and wants to get involved - great. But let’s hold an equal bar.
Well, this seems to be just about everything most people wanted Facebook to be. Yet all I see here is (mostly-warranted) doubt and criticism.

Makes me wonder if an ideal service ever does come along, would we even be able to give it enough of a chance for it to stick? Or have we just been burned so badly, we'll never trust again?
As a technologist, to me this is technology being disruptive without sufficient control. In this case disruptive to human communication. And FB doesn't also have a comprehensive suite of human ethics sufficiently in their loop.

Why did FB do this: She identified a disconnect between the FB Civic Engagement team recommendations and FB acting on those recommendations, in one of the 60 Minutes videos.

She says people at FB aren't trying to be evil, however:

> "... also detailed how she says Facebook quickly disbanded its civic integrity team — responsible for protecting the democratic process and tackling misinformation — after the 2020 U.S. election."

What ethics does FB corporation stand for, factually? [Spare the cynical "profit" ethic - other than that.] Is it "connecting people for .. " some reason?

Today's hearings indicate an evolution to COPPA, at the least, may be a legal outcome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvYB9_PR3sQ
Will the "lying to shareholders" argument hold up under scrutiny, though? The putative knowledge they supposedly withheld is extremely vague, and what's more, pertains to very sensationalistic topics. The delta between appearance and reality for these revelations' severity couldn't be greater.
I'm the author of the blog post, and I can also say that I'm not thrilled from the serverless phrase either. It's turtles all the way down =)

But for better or worse, it seems like the industry has adopted it.

So, we're trying to explain actually how our vision is different.

In that we don't want to hide developers completely from their services behind these black-box abstractions. But provide something that's similarly easy and scalable (and automated), but allow developers greater control, flexibility, and understanding when they want it.
Mega65 8-bit computer preorders are open
I have approximately 300 tabs open. How much memory should that use? What's your answer based on?
No - just because you're a predicatable asshole doesn't make you not an asshole. I don't disagree that whenever possible we should create laws that prevent selfish behavior from being a winning move but the economy moves quickly and exploiting new economic ideas for greed is still a dick move.
Government can regulate markets. If Facebook is a monopoly then by regulating the market, you regulate FB.

Thoroughly agree all social media should show more transparency on the kinds of things FB is alleged to be doing.
I think he was a great integrator. He got people working together that needed to. Internally with groups at apple, and externally like the record labels and apple.

I think he also listened to a variety of people and made course corrections.

As to affordability: they always had high margins.

wikipedia says of the original macintosh 128k:

Introductory price: US$2,495 (equivalent to US$6,220 in 2020)
If you get too big, you can't buy your competition (e.g. FB buying IG). Or if you get too big, you have to open your stuff up like email does. Or if you lie to congress, you get penalized. Or if you get too big, you have to make your algorithms publicly available.
If you have the luxury of 2 people on a bug, having one on strategy & idea generation and the other down in the weeds confirming hypotheses and gathering data is a common pattern.

For some reason, not being on the keyboard or operating tools seems to free up a lot of mental bandwidth.

Nothing gets done without someone being hands-on though so arguably yes, that role is more important. If there's just 1 person they usually have to stop and think really hard periodically and keep very good notes to avoid getting lost in the weeds.
It isn't. Thinking that it is objective is an example of non-rational thinking.
“ Pretty entitled to believe you’re the only perspective worth listening to.”

Odd statement. I just stated my opinion on the matter. I encourage others getting lots of perspectives and making up their own minds.
There are others in this discussion who are claiming that it is Bubble Sort. Some have recanted, others are sticking to their guns.

I am in email conversation with someone who is claiming that it is just a more efficient version of the original Bubble Sort, and I'm trying to get the time to track down their references.

So:

I don't think it is Bubble Sort, I think it's clearly different, I have said so elsewhere, not everyone agrees.
You seem to assume it comes from the browser. That is not necessarily the case: the user might have launched a demanding game that suddenly increases memory pressure, making Firefox OOM. FF will now more gradually release memory to the OS.
It's a value judgement. You can optimize for the normal case at the cost of disruptions when the unusual happens, or you can optimize for the unusual case at the cost of inefficiency when things are normal. But you can't do both.
Helping extortion sector low life degenerate terrorists is trashy.
I think you misread the code, the comparison is the opposite of what you might expect, so a[i] is always the largest element, and it is not inserted into a[1..i-1]
> What causes the memory to run out in the first place? That is what you should be fixing.

Either the user opened enough tabs to use memory, or the rest of the system is using too much memory. Neither of those is "fixable"; a browser that randomly closes your tabs or kills other programs is not going to be well received.
Easier to set a precedent against one org and use that to enforce good behavior towards other orgs in the future. It's how we've always gone after corrupted industries in this country. If you go after every bad egg at once you aren't going to win.
OSHA's charter is to reduce hazards in the workplace. Physical fitness tests have nothing to do with that. A deadly communicable disease that could be spread by co-workers falls squarely into the "workplace hazard" bucket.
Can you read a request from stdin? It could just be catted through GNU parallel to launch many hurls concurrently.
Benchmarked: Do Windows 11’s Security Features Hobble Gaming Performance?
Left's perspective: women have a right to abort their unborn children.

Right's perspective: unborn children have a right to life and protection of the law.

Both sides are arguing a moral argument. Do women have a right to abort their babies? They certainly haven't had this right throughout the entirety of human civilization. Do unborn children deserve the protection of the law? Again, this wasn't really a major issue because abortions as a medical procedure didn't really exist until recently.

But trying to claim that conservatives are being authoritarian is where I think you are wrong. It's no more authoritarian to them than it is to enforce that you can't murder people outside the womb.
Previously they had physical access to the data centers and weren't locked out.
Repurposeable QuadCore ARM SOCs are fairly easy to find in the form of previous-gen Android TV Boxes, for fractions of the price of the RPI4. Some are weaker, some are slightly stronger, but in many embedded situation these do well enough.
Liberals Should Care About Progress
What would be the definition of this?

I listen to a podcast on football. Are they allowed to run ads that are about sports betting and NFL tickets? That is personalized to the group. Is Facebook allowed to run ads for sports betting to all people who are fans of a professional team on their site?

Is Facebook not allowed to run me ads for local restaurants any more?
Relative paths are faster than absolute paths on Linux
Bloody hell (the only valid reaction to this site, IMO), Bruno Simon will never be unemployed for the rest of his life.

Thanks for posting this.
Doh, guess I should have read the article ;).
The title here doesn't match the article headline. The documents make Facebook look bad but so far I haven't seen anything incriminating, in the sense of violating a US Federal criminal statute. Are there credible allegations of something like securities fraud or wire fraud here?

Note that there is no generally no law against disseminating incorrect or "harmful" information.
Not to mention targeting children specifically to foster deeper, longer-term addiction
> The alternative is we go the banhammer route, and as we learned with prohibition era, that had unintended/undesirable consequences.

Prohibition never banned a specific delivery mechanism but not the actual drug, so it's never been tried.
I don't think it's passive aggressive at all. I'm a bit embarrassed to say, but I honestly don't remember. My best guess from what I do remember the last time it was discussed, was in the 2k to 10k range. But it could expand rapidly depending on who, and what level we actually hired someone at. The primary reason we didn't set up crowdfunding ourselves was there was a few important changes we wanted to make a decision on and implement first. I still don't think they've been made, but I'm not following super close anymore.
What will you see? 24-7, Emotionally charged "Breaking News" which is simply a different fruit from the same horrible tree. CNN and Fox News are just using different methods based on the data they have available which comes from focus groups, Nielsen, and a whole cottage industry that most people are unaware of.
Conservatives want to increase the power of those government institutions that are the least accountable, and are most connected to the use of violence: the police and the military. They want to reduce the power of any government institutions that would serve to provide public accountability to other power centers in US society, mainly corporations and the wealthy. Corporations and the wealthy need police: to protect their property, to enforce property relations and quell unrest. They need the military: to ensure them access to foreign resources and foreign markets. They're also willing to take advantage of any other government expenditures that benefit them (infrastructure), but generally want to see any expenditures be under their control if not eliminated.

The Left ultimately wants to abolish government power and create a stateless, classless society. Leftists differ among themselves with regard to the value of government power in achieving this, with the two opposite poles of the discussion being anarchists and Marxist-Leninists. But in general, leftists realize that they have nowhere near the organizational power to even think about those goals, and just want to improve the material conditions of working-class people, who make up the majority of society.

The Democratic Party is far from being controlled by leftists: I can count the number of actual leftists in the US House on one hand, and in the Senate on one finger. The Democratic Party is a center-right party, dedicated above all to the stability of the existing ruling class. They sometimes virtue-signal cultural values that are shared with the left (feminism, anti-racism), but largely as a means of providing an outlet for those values that is not threatening to capitalism, and which can be co-opted to protect it.
> You are confusing sixel with the iTerm image protocol which is different.

No I'm not.

> Sixel is a really old and outdated protocol that only supports 6-bit paletted images.

No it doesn't.

sixels can be 16 million colors, that's precisely what the snake.six outputs tests: if you can't see the precise degradation of the snake skin greens and yellows, your terminal is broken.

With so many bad terminals, it's no wonder that a lot of people have such a bad opinion about sixels!

> It would be best if we could just stop talking about sixel altogether, because this is not even what you're referring to anymore. I'm actually concerned that you're conflating these two

Actually, with what you said, I think you're the confused one here. When you could not express in your own words which practical limitations were imposed by sixels, I was 99% sure.

Now I'm 100% sure you have no idea of what you are talking about. Sorry if it's blunt, but take the time to run the tests I've suggested to correct your misconceptions about sixels.

Maybe you'll end up loving the format once you see what it's really capable of?

> I'd love to look into how that's accomplished but I can't use mintty because I use a Mac, sorry. I'm also not really interested in trying to mess with mingw just to get this set up.

Intel macs can run Windows natively. You've also got your pick of emulators, from parallels to vmware, if you roll that way.

So install Windows one way or another, go to msys2.org, download the latest release, click on install. No messing required, mintty is here by default.

You can then use pacman if you want more, which BTW is far better than most of the package managers available on Mac: simply follow the pacman update steps clearly explained with many screenshots on the first page.

Then you'll have an up-to-date msys2 install, with most of the linux tools you want running natively (no WSL involved) or just a `pacman -S` away.

>> In the future, sixel-tmux will intercept sixels live and rewrite them into other format, like iTerm or kitty.

> This is a good idea, please do this instead of trying to get other terminals to adopt Sixel when they are just going to have to replace it down the line anyway.

What you've written makes about as much sense as saying a drawing program should stop trying to support BMP format since it will have to be replaced down the line by JPG or PNG.

gimp, paint and others support many formats. Nobody is complaining. People just click on open. They don't care about the underlying formats.
They need to give you information on how to send your payment that works, so you need to lead them on until they give you that information. Once you have that you have a place that really exists, and courts can go from there.
Anyone else having problems with AWS Lambda timeouts?
We're in the AWS Oregon datacenter and are facing over 2 minute execution times just for a simple OPTIONS CORS call to our app that is usually instant. Obviously this is terrible especially given how AWS Gateway times out after only 30 seconds. Support is pretending like it's not happening - anyone else out there struggling today (2021-10-05)?
Facebook may not be doing anything illegal, but it is immoral. While morality is subjective, and not enforceable, the public needs to know what is happening, so they can make their mind about supporting a given company.
Why stop at social media? Imagine that 50 years ago, Big Tobacco had to disclose its research. Imagine the same for Big Oil. Wouldn't that have been a good thing?

Now, you can go too far. You don't want to make every tech company disclose their research on, say, improved silicon layout algorithms. But if it involves harm to customers or the public, yes, they should have to disclose it.
How about an equivalent for Clang targeting the MSVC runtime (which is how both Google and Mozilla build their web browsers for Windows), is this supported?
I don't think we're disagreeing.
It's a no apologies messages:

"We failed, our processes failed, our recovery process only partially worked, we celebrate failure. Our investors were not happy, our users were not happy, some people probably ended in physically dangerous situations due to WhatsApp being unavailable but it's ok. We believe a tradeoff like this is worth it."

- Your engineering team.
The PR that removed the Contribution model was only merged for 2 hours before it was reverted: https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/projects/issues/122
Interesting bit on recovery w.r.t. the electrical grid

> flipping our services back on all at once could potentially cause a new round of crashes due to a surge in traffic. Individual data centers were reporting dips in power usage in the range of tens of megawatts, and suddenly reversing such a dip in power consumption could put everything from electrical systems ...

I wish there was a bit more detail in here. What's the worst case there? Brownouts, exploding transformers? Or less catastrophic?
Do you know a non-profit organization that is in need of a website?
@everyone

Hi there !

A bit out of the ordinary post, this one…
It’s about Real Life (I’ll explain later what that is :smile: ).

So.. in RL I’m an online teacher, and my students are going through a certain trajectory.
At some stage they do some kind of ‘internship’.
That means they create a website or application for a non-profit organization.

My question to you all is :

Do you happen to know a *non-profit organization* that could use a brand new *website *(or application).

The only thing we ask is to have a meeting with us, discussing what you want the website to look like and perhaps a meeting once every month for 1 hour.

Please ask around and contact me !

Thanks in advance,

Alex

alexicoo@gmail.com
I've definitely had much darker thoughts after reading a lot of traditional media than looking at Instagram.
Hey I said that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28762415
> On Windows, Firefox gets a notification from the operating system (setup using CreateMemoryResourceNotification) indicating that the available physical memory is running low.

I've longed for such a mechanism in Linux, but I don't think it exists. This should at least be an OS-level signal IMO, though a D-Bus interface could also work. Integrating with one of the recent userspace OOM daemons could be a good idea.
Do you think Apple would've been able to survive without Steve Jobs to help bootstrap and reignite it? I doubt it personally.
I worked with her briefly on Google+. She struck me as a trust-fund kid: idealistic, brash, (perhaps over)confident, intelligent but prone to tackling problems that can't be solved. Wikipedia says her parents were a doctor & academic-turned-priest, so she's likely got some family wealth backing her up. It's a different calculus than for most of the people here, who can't afford good lawyers and need that paycheck to survive.
I don't see how you separate the two. The dog piling on twitter is obviously a factor in the speaking invitation being cut.
The PM people usually deal with on eng teams are product managers and people do call them PMs.

Lots of junior people also have these educational credentials.

Not saying she isn't senior, but these two things mean nothing.
While this is extremely murky and maybe impossible to pin down from a legal standpoint, I do like the thought. It's not just Facebook and it's not just social media. It's any software (online games?) that clearly goes out of its way to induce addictive behavior as their business model.
Francis Collins will step down as head of the National Institutes of Health
I personally find the personalized advertising great. A lot of the time I am shown things that are actually useful/valuable to me.

I think a lot of the value really depends on the individual. If you're engaging in productive activities like hobbies, you get valuable targeted ads. If you're engaging in activities that are low value like signaling to others in myriad ways, you probably get adds for things like disposable fashion.

Personalized ads are basically a mirror. They feed what the person already wants to engage in. If you want less of the bad types of advertising, then you need to start at the root which is getting people to stop being interested in activities and behaviors that are lower value.
> I would rather take the stance of feed algorithms and moderation logs be PUBLICLY available. Transparency instead of censorship.

Ok let’s say that’s now the case. The FB source is now open. What changed? Any negative consequences are still occurring, and if anything, we just have had actors better visibility into what to exploit.
In my opinion if social media is important to society the way it seems there should be a government funded social network for users and businesses. In the USA like NPR and PBS.

The problem is companies selling peoples data and optimizing the algorithms on probability. Instead what if everyone paid some taxes to have a social network which helps people interact and businesses promote themselves, you can get rid of the ads AND the algorithms. Let users customize settings which dictate the algorithm.
These don't seem to work very well for me, but I still thought it was a very interesting idea, plus it just looks really cool/crazy
Techbros are notably far-right. The hacker ethos died out when computing became profitable. This is just a case of people's views coming to align with their material conditions.
> Uhm a cigarette you cannot change the ingredients of, it's tobacco.

You can soak the tobacco in solution which contains additives, such as more nicotine. Which is exactly what cigarette companies have done in the past (and not just the tobacco, the filters, and the paper as well).

The parallel here is filling people's feeds with divisive political news and posts, even when they have tried to opt out.
Yes, a 25 year old genius developer can be as good as a 40 year old average developer and better than a 40 year old subpar developer. However, geniuses are, by definition, extremely rare, so it should be self-evident that the heuristic is generally valid.
(Timescale co-founder)

I also used to hate the phrase. But now I get it. And it's not about marketing, but about the idea that the developers _doesn't shouldn't have to worry about the server_.

For example, when you run a DB on a classic DBaaS, you have to worry about CPU, memory, storage provisioning. But when you use a classic SaaS service (e.g., Stripe, Twilio), you don't think about servers at all - but rather just how much you are consuming.

The Serverless model for databases is aiming to apply a SaaS like experience but for DBaaS. Where you don't need to think about provisioning, but about consumption.

What we (try to) do in this article is to push beyond that serverless paradigm. We believe there are real drawbacks to the "serverless black box" architecture that the industry is building, and what (we believe) developers need (including ourselves) is a more a "transparent box."

Hope this helps. But "serverless" also feels a little like "horseless carriages". I suspect in 5 years we'll have a better term that describes this concept for what it _is_, not what it _isn't_.
Yes, they are ignoring naturally acquired immunity. Having acquired natural immunity does not exempt an individual from the requirement to vaccinate.

So, in what way are they not ignoring naturally acquired immunity?
Graph database company Memgraph raises $9.34M