skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He's deeply immoral, and continues to do what Facebook does for power and money.

I don't seem him wielding power. Its not like he's managed to convince half the population of a country that they should really abstain from something for shits a giggles. I'd go further and say that facebook it's self has surprisingly little power to shape the opinions of its users. There are powerful actors that use facebook as a medium for broadcast, but not facebook it's self.

> Ethically, however, Zuckerberg seems to be on the level of murderous dictators, or human traffickers

I think this is hyperbole. I don't like the man, and I think he is morally naive. But to compare him to a dictator fundamentally undermines just how bad dictators are.

Take for example a human trafficker. They procure girls by lying to them. They know they are lying to the girls. They then deliver them to people who they know are going to force them to be raped. The trafficker does not take any steps to mitigate the outcome.

Yes, facebook facilitated a massacre in burma. That is, to say the least, bad.

But did facebook actively collude with the perpetrators? was facebook run by members of the militia that carried out these terrible acts (I'm asking you to compare and contrast to Rwanda)

have they tried, all be it not very effectively to mitigate that risk? yes.

In short, I dislike facebook. I think there are practical steps that would make things better for people. However I think people ascribe far to much agency to them. After all, how the fuck do you effectively police 2.4 billion people? Facebook is a mirror to society. The sooner we recognize that, the better.
He is accountable to people. Those people just happen to be shareholders. And if the stock price continues to increase then what's the incentive for shareholders to ask for more accountability. All the bad news and publicity without the de-investing means that it is ultimately good news (from a shareholder perspective), thus no financial action.
the source blog post: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2021/rml-polit...

"In six out of seven countries — all but Germany — Tweets posted by accounts from the political right receive more algorithmic amplification than the political left when studied as a group."
> We were told only two shots were needed and that if we all did our part that this problem would go away and we'd go back to "normal".

Who told you that? The question of whether boosters or new vaccines would be required has been around since before the first vaccines were even approved, though it did gain new urgency with the emergence of Delta.

On the "all do our part" bit, very few countries have gotten to even the 70% total population figure that was the optimistic case for halting the less infectious pre-Delta variants. Clearly, we have not all "done our part".
Aha, got it. That is a terrible shame to be in that kind of situation, locally.

But from the above I understand that you have done 4 months, and survived it?

How about planning for it, and initiating it yourself? As in detox / vacation / self-time?
Yet for some reason, people seem to prefer the Pfizer vaccines. Governments too; I'm not following closely but it looks like governments are dragging their feet authorizing and buying available alternatives such as Novavax (spike protein) and Valneva (de-activated virus). Which is a shame, because it could convince those unsure about mRNA technology to get vaccinated.
Agreed. If there is a gap between how we expect an industry treats customers, and how customers are treated in (like social media), then the answer is government regulation - not some moral shouting in the media.

A healthy capitalist society is one with efficient regulations. I feel like these pieces often try to discredit all of capitalism just because a regulation is needed somewhere.

I don't want to live in a theocracy dictated by whoever screeches the loudest in the media or on social media.
What worries me is that these announcements are being made in the run up to hosting the United Nations climate change conference.

Time will tell if it all becomes reality.
The huge overcrowding and damp winter weather at FOSDEM always seemed to make it a disease vector. All of my team returned home ill after each FOSDEM. Makes sense not to try to run it in person.
" Posted on 1st September 2017 " I'm surprised this has been around for so long and I have not heard of it.
Not certain if I support your friend, but he is right in one regard. If people who push back against Zuckerberg were not part of Facebook, we would not have all these leaks.

When they announced that they would be cracking down on leakers, that announcement leaked immediately. Imo it shows that they don't have popular support within Facebook at all.

Of course this doesn't excuse implementing features that you know are unethical, but it does help, and hopefully government will step up and attach consequences to Facebook's deceitful and malignant practices.
New World's Economy Is So Busted, Players Are Bartering for Items
Sorry do you speak for all members of this website or just yourself. The weak swimmers are what exactly? people who value other people for who they are, not for how much they own? This is confusing.
Are you testing on Windows though? I am specifically talking about Windows being the (biggest) problem with this architecture. It is very expensive to create new processes on Windows versus Unix (threads are cheaper on Windows though).
So after serving the 2 year sentence, can they ask you again for the pass code?
Depending on who is asking, the intention behind such framing is different. For someone in a leadership position, the point is to open up dialog and make folks comfortable enough to ask questions without them feeling they're at risk of humiliation or judgement. For others it may be to signal politeness and deference to the speaker.

Whatever the case, there are more effective, more genuine phrasings to use than to literally invoke "stupidity".
> But wait, does this say that another court order can compel you to unlock it anyways?

If a court can compel speech, then they may as well go ahead and compel the suspect to confess.

There's no difference, once the courts compel speech.
The subtle art of not giving a fuck, Mark Manson
The FSF could provide lawyers at most, but given their track record that might very well happen.
I didn't find the right video earlier. This was actually what I was looking for and since he said in the more recent video that he hasn't changed his mind on this, he probably still feels that Holmes is in some way a victim in all of this: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/05/10/vc-draper-theranos-fou...
It's natively supported by all of the GPUs listed, the trick is indeed bringing this to the consumer space for the first time as it has always been model locked and sometimes (e.g. Nvidia) license locked. The exception to these restrictions is with the Intel method.
Wood rots. It doesn't even take that long. Let's not pretend natural biodegradable materials are the same.
The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions are known for their thuggish ways.

They frequently resort to violence, harassment and coerce all those that stand in their agenda.

within last year, they harassed a manager of delivery logistics company to commit suicide (specified and detailed harassment he faced on his will), cut off fuel valve of a delivery truck for not participating in their strike, and beat up a strike breaker.

The young worker demographic aren't keen to their ways, as exemplified by recent strike & protest of starbucks workers refusing help from KCTU when they volunteered to 'unite' in protest efforts.

https://news.v.daum.net/v/20210923195947254

https://www.edunctn.com/mobile/article.html?no=16927

https://www.chosun.com/national/labor/2021/09/17/ORHL7BDIABD...

https://m.khan.co.kr/national/national-general/article/20211...
Decades?

Anyone remember the Robber Barons? It is an inherent problem with the system.
By the very nature of an IPO there is basically 1 seller the company (and in many cases the insiders) who are selling to 10's or 100's of thousands of buyers, private and institutional.

Hint: The contrarian here is not the thousands of people/institutions/funds buying on the float.
Well, that's the key, isn't it? Societally we have a different approach to the basically natural (but not exclusive) human drive to just dominate and rule and conquer those around us. There's laws and rules based on the concept that some people WILL want to beat up those around them, and that this isn't helpful or good.

Wealth legitimizes this, and that's the problem. But civilization is a long history of society taking on these problems and slowly, awkwardly solving them only after it became impossible to continue any longer as things stood.
Le Haine (95) had a great flying camera scene: https://youtu.be/4qo3EwozH0Y (about half way through) Great Film too!
> And final tip, on an iphone, hitting the lock button on the side five times rapidly will disable the biometric unlock until the passcode has been filled in. It also pops up with the option to call emergency services. Spamming the lock button is considered a panic button.

This may vary from iPhone model to iPhone model, but you can also disable biometric unlock by holding down both the lock button and one of the volume buttons for several seconds. This approach is more discrete.

The "spam the lock button" starts the emergency call countdown, which is accompanied by a loud alarm.

The "hold lock and volume" method brings up the screen with the "slide to power off" button, the "medical ID" button, and the "emergency call" button, but does not immediately start the emergency call countdown. If you keep holding lock and volume it will start the emergency call countdown with a 5 second countdown and without an alarm.

Edit: Here is Apple's documentation on this [1]. Some of this is configurable in the "Emergency SOS" settings.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/make-emergency-calls-...
For people planning to learn PyTorch or even NN as a whole, it would also help to order or group the implementations in terms of complexity.
I don’t know how you write an article on this subject and don’t mention this. Argentina, Venezuela, etc. USD/EUR cash is how people save/avoid inflation.

Plus USD is the official (?) currency in Panama, and de facto currency in half the Caribbean.

Not to mention the western governments have been shipping cash by the plane load into conflict zones to pay off war lords and other leaders
Non-intuitive insight here:

* The claim is that Facebook should censor "fake news" more

* Facebook/Twitter /YouTube have employees with control of these sensor tools.

* A sub-set (not all) of them chose to use these tools to censor when the Republicans / Libertarians make their political points.

* Rand Paul had a YouTube channel. YouTube employee leftists censored him by removing (censoring) his ENTIRE YouTube channel.

* John Stossel is a high integrity guy. Facebook's censor tools put "PolitiFact: This post (his) is NOT TRUE". Censor-type tools were used against views of the libertarians.

* The current majority thought is that COVID originated from the Lab. Across 2020 people posting various facts that were pointing this direction had those posts censored.

We all hate real lies. However, the above list of valid political content from the political right is being censored. The list is long. Free speech & free debate is the fuel of democracy, and we need to protect it.
I did mean for coders, of course.

Pray tell how exactly can you be tested for coding speed? Or would it be speed / correctness? I can't really picture how this would work in an interview situation...
Other way around. The status quo inspired those plot lines.
Is there a solution for paranoid companies that don't want your VMs to have access to the application(s) under test?
A lack of fish faeces is changing the flow of carbon in the ocean
I have long wondered why Mozilla hasn't worked on a embeddable Gecko engine as an alternative to Electron.

A long time ago, Mozilla did have the option to embed Gecko into apps. It was badly-documented and difficult to use.

A modern embeddable Gecko engine could be promoted as a modular, cross-platform alternative to Electron. The Gecko advantages: stripped-down, faster and less memory hungry than Electron (assuming these features can be achieved).

The traction that Electron has gained as a cross-platform option for building apps is huge and is only set to get bigger (whether for better or worse). And yet, Mozilla is completely absent from this space dominated by Chromium/Electron.

Imagine if thousands of developers place their trust in Mozilla because they have built their cross-platform apps using Gecko. They want to see Mozilla grow and succeed because they have a stake in seeing Gecko development succeed too. (And that could include large corporates sponsoring Mozilla to sustain development of Gecko.) Unfortunately, it is probably too late (or too unrealistic) for this to happen.

Would any of the above revive Firefox? Possibly not. However, an embeddable Gecko engine may give Mozilla new opportunities.
Funny that on one of the artworks, Van Gogh looks way more like Willem Dafoe than himself [1].

Maybe that particular piece was done around the time Schnabel began working on At Eternity's Gate, which stars Willem Dafoe as Van Gogh.

[1] https://www.brantfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/p...
Yes. I was being clear in my comments that the arguments presented were similar to ones presented by anti-vaxxers. However, that doesn't mean that walterbell is an anti-vaxxer. It could be that walterbell has other evidence, or simply presented things poorly.

For example, I recall one online exchange where I said something about evolution poorly enough that someone else commented I sounded like a creationist. I am not. I followed up by clarifying my original comment to ensure I did not sound like a creationist.

I am offering the same courtesy.

> mentioning sterilising immunity

As I commented at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28955101 , I have since learned that "sterilizing vaccine" [1] does have a specific meaning in a medical context.

However, it does not appear to be a common term in the literature, with only about 176 matches in Google Scholar, and several of those specifically use "sterilizing vaccine" to mean a vaccine which causes sterility.

Even now with this new knowledge I do not understand how the qualifier "non-sterilizing" in walterbell's clause "If you've kept the public safe for months before the existence of non-sterilizing vaccines" improves understanding.

Looking through walterbell's history shows a fondness for the term, even though I am not the first to be confused about the term. For examples, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28882719 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28883038 , and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28479544 .

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28475164 where in the subthreads we can read people objecting to walterbell's insistence on distinguishing between "sterilizing" and "non-sterilizing", such as how the polio vaccine is "non-sterilizing" but mandatory for school children.

[1] Your use of British English spelling reminded me to also check "sterilising vaccine". Google Scholar finds 29 matches, of which two refer to anti-vaccine hesitancy :

> 3.3.2 Sterilising vaccine: An international debate ... The basic principle of a contraceptive (or antifertility) vaccine is to use the body's own immune defence mechanisms to provide protection against an unplanned pregnancy. The contraceptive, however, became a weapon for the pro-life campaigners and in their narrative was transformed from an ‘antifertility vaccine’ into a ‘sterilising vaccine’. - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20966083190020...

And http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/911/ by the same author, making the same point.

The other 27 are the same sort of "specific meaning in a medical context" I referred to before.
Ah damn. I tried going to 1851translator.com thinking it was real. How disappointing!
On companies providing documentation, the big point is that collective entities are not protected by the fifth amendment. You cannot invoke the fifth to protect a group you are a member of from liability, the fifth is a purely individual right. So anything related to companies and the fifth amendment doesn’t transfer over to individuals and the fifth amendment.
People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
> Their other CPU choices have hardly been brave.
>forearm with hand [weighs] only 1 kg

* without the power source and pumps
I love magit, I’ve been using it for a year, which is as long as I’ve been using Emacs. But can someone please tell me how to pronounce magit? If I try to make it sound like magic, I pronounce it the same way as maggot, which seems wrong. If I put the emphasis on the second syllable so that it’s emphasizing git, that also feels weird.
Maybe that’s what the stimulus payment was …
>Which is of course a fairly hard problem to solve - if you aren't having 2.2 children per couple then your population is shrinking.

You can increase throughput with parallelization or speedups of single threaded performance.

But procreation age is trending upwards, too so I guess this is rather theoretical.
Write interactive and collaborative code notebooks in Elixir
Thanks, that cleared that up.
Obesity Pathogenesis: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement
No, it's not. It allows you to run arbitrary code. It's not a rule engine.
> Instead of spending the money on food, savings, or paying off debts, some people invested their stimulus checks in stocks (GameStop, etc.), and cryptocurrencies like bitcoins further driving up their prices.

I've never thought about rising stock prices as inflation before.
If you start from the magit status buffer, most things operate on the repo, except file-specific commands like staging, unstaging, etc. For those, if you run the command with your cursor on the heading, rather than with it on a file (e.g. on the “unstaged files” heading rather than on a particular file), it will ask for confirmation and apply the operation to all of the files.
> Jobs cared deeply about giving his users the best possible experience.

that may be, but apple the company is secretive, excessively arrogant, and very willing to cut people off, should they cause a problem.

jobs himself was an effective leader, but he was fundamentally a top class bellend of a person. Zuckerberg is dull and predictable by comparison
Yes, with the "One-Child" policy in effect for 36 years (1979–2015), an entire generation grew up with no siblings. With this being mandated, families just didn't plan for 2+ children. Maybe they bought a smaller house, or other lifestyle choices. Now you cannot just flip a switch and expect all of these families have multiple children.
Agreed. That's why I believe it might be super handy if every or at least many phones had this in place so that you don't really stand out. At least every phone using an alternate OS. If all the mainstream operating systems had this I would expect an arms race between the OS devs and the forensics device devs.

As a side note, this would not necessarily be only used for law enforcement authorities. It could be that an armed phone thief requires you to unlock your phone. Sending a duress message, maybe even camera footage, GPS coordinates could be quite useful in the event you vanish. Teaching your kids to use this feature on their phones could also be very beneficial.
<strike>Siri</strike> <em>iOS</em> has an "I'm being pulled over" keyphrase which begins recording.

There'be been a few "I'm being arrested" apps, which typically trigger by holding hard buttons (volume, home, and/or power), though I'm not aware of specifics. Most of these seem to date to the OWS protests of ... how did that happen ... a decade ago:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/help-im-getting-arrested/

Freedom of the Press Foundation offers this advice doc:
https://freedom.press/training/mobile-security-for-activists...

(Initial misattribution corrected to iOS, not Siri.)
Apple, and Cook in particular, is a member of groups that are actively working to stop the proposed environmental laws in the US. So yes indeed, deflection

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/01/apple-amazon...
Almost all wooden surfaces will show dings and dents from heavy objects. Denser woods with a matte finish will show them less of course, but it's inevitable.
The title is about looking stupid, but that's not what the author is communicating, to me or many others in the comments here. At no point did the author ever risk any ego, because they knew they were right every time, and no morons were going to convince them otherwise. Willingness to look stupid isn't just about ignoring other people's opinions, it's about actually being willing to find out you _are_ stupid sometimes. Nobody can avoid being stupid their whole lives, whatever cherry picked lists we might publish on our blogs. You are either willing to suffer the risk of people seeing that, and learning something, or you can hide from that risk. The author clearly has a good track record of hiding from that risk, because everything they've ever done has turned out to be correct. But that seems deeply uninteresting as a life lesson. Much more important is what happens when you try something, and the people telling you you're stupid are _right_. How you and your ego handle that is an important part of your character.

Maybe that's a subtle distinction, but I think it's important.
The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect!

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
– Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
Taiwan’s digital minister on China’s 'digital authoritarianism'
Yes. But let's say the investor thinks: sure the point to point is silly, but the real market is to compute with the Ariane programm, and space x will win; it is still justified to invest. Of course if the space x launches so far were in reality all cgi rendered, then that is fraud, but one shdnt say that this could have been obvious since there were warning signs.

Maybe I am wrong but such announcements which clearly will never happen are just PR, like Ryanair announcing every couple of years that they either charge for toilets or remove the seats, both which will probably not happen in any near future but it gives them free press coverage.

So what were the warning signs before investors invested?
> The Uncanny Counter: A supernatural show with the main plot involving political corruption that spreads as far as the police, media...

As far as I can recall, that one also has a rich guy, almost a member of the team, who has been of much help to the cause.
They should supenoa Elizabeth thernos credit cards and bank accounts to see just how much money she spent while her company was failing.
1 is really true. Magit is how I learned about workstrees!
If she had gotten to the next round of funding and developed anything she probably would have been fine. Overhanging the market is typically celebrated in startup culture marketing. Look how long WeWork went on or this company (https://www.aspiration.com) trying to go public right now. Both are playing fast and loose with their financials.

At the end of the day, this feels like a bunch of rich people got suckered, couldn't dump it on the public market, and wanted to blame someone for their embarrassment.
Vaccine Rejectionism and the Left