skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Internal Alarm, Public Shrugs: Facebook’s Employees Dissect Its Election Role
I'd like to comment here as a tech person that's moved into management. Not as a founder, but I've done consulting in the past and I've worked in all sized companies.

As I've become less technical, I occasionally come across the highly technical, often almost genius-like engineer who fails to comprehend organizational structure and social structures. They fail to 'see' them, so sometimes decisions that you make as manager, or that the company makes, feel foreign to them. And so they often have cynical ideas (often found online) about companies, managers and so forth.

While some of the cynical stuff can often be true, my point is this: the successful engineer is also someone with social skills, and that includes company skills as you put it.

The person with pure ladder climbing skills is a fraud. But the person who can both be technical 'enough' and understand organizational and human structures can help things scale.

What's missing from the conversation is Creativity, I think, or maybe it's me that's out of touch. Successful people seem to be ones that aren't afraid to take unique approaches to solving problems. Sometimes 'engineers' are highly talented but they're looking for blueprints and patterns to follow rather than create - and I am not talking about code.
yeah, a lot of people are grasping at patterns they see in their understanding of the past and treating them like rules that will determine the future.
Inflation is not the same as price gouging.

Price gouging is a legal term for people/retailers taking advantage of shortages or spikes in demand by charging well over market price for basic necessities.
I used to agree with this but even with my (quite old) ears can hear the difference between high bitrate compressed audio and lossless on (eg) Apple Music - I wonder if other aspects of the audio have improved and no longer mask the differences?
Who do you report it to?

For instance, the police committed about a dozen felonies in my case. In Illinois, in all counties except Cook County, the misconduct has to be reported to the police station where the officer works. THEY WILL JUST LAUGH AT YOU. They are not going to charge their own police officer with misconduct because a "criminal" reported it.

And if you are in jail and try to report anything you can only do it by postal mail. In which case all your letters just go into the circular filing cabinet under their desk.
Kind of a strawman argument, and a bit dramatic. The parent is discussing parents wanting to leave early and be given less work
Does spoofing your user-agent bypass that?
> Not really. I have a gesture programmed in Nova Launcher to disable biometrics with a pinch

The original statement was

> most modern operating systems have built in features to quickly disable them on demand

A custom-made gesture using a third-party launcher is not built-in (to say nothing of whether that's accessible or feasible for the vast majority of Android users).
The hateful and racist part of this comes from where you why you think this is a good idea for America. Done with this thread though, enjoy being a miserable person.
> There are only about sixty million deaths per year total, so if this is true then almost 10% of all deaths are due to cold. That sounds…extremely untrue, right?

> Deaths definitely go up every winter, from about 4000 to 4500. So yeah, this is about 10% extra deaths during the cold season.

This second point isn't confirming the first. A ~10% increase in deaths during the cold season isn't enough to attribute ~10% of all deaths to cold, unless the cold season lasts all year.

> But [minimum mortality temperature] is very different in different regions. In Sweden, it’s 18C (64F). In Florida, it’s 27C (81F). The only constant is that it seems to be about 80% of the way through the temperature distribution of a region

> You could argue that this is at least partly because of cultural adaptation. The “effective temperature”, the one that’s reaching your blood vessels and your heart, depends on things like how many layers of clothing you wear, how often you go outside, how much air conditioning you use, et cetera. So for example, in the figure above, Stockholm doesn’t get any increased mortality from the cold, no matter how cold it gets. Plausibly that’s because they’ve organized their lives and built environment around surviving cold winters. One study failed to find any excess cold-weather deaths in Siberians even at temperatures as low as -52C (-62F).

But the chart shows lots of excess cold mortality in Beijing, with its frigid winters. You can't live in Beijing at all without being able to deal with lethally low temperatures. The cultural adaptation story must be partially true, but it has some serious problems.
I mean given the poster I was responding to was talking about facebook groups I figure that "this is run by a company" is already done with.

> Well as a Catholic, no. Mass is not valid via virtual 'remote' anything.

I'm not Catholic, but when I google "Catholic mass zoom" I see a ton of stuff. Is there like a religious leadership/doctrine these are against or something?
They have limited international penetration and their platform

Most cheap smart tvs come with roku OS. I wouldn't call that limited penetration.
> Tcl (like Perl) shot itself in the foot right as the DotCom/DotBomb went off.

I don’t know what you mean “shot itself in the foot“ here. Some examples?

> Python was effectively completely stable through all this and gained a critical mass following.

I don’t know how much more “effectively stable” Python was than Tcl. Can you expand on this?

I personally see this largely as “luck of the draw”. It seems to me there’s a lot to complain about with Python - the low-fruit classic is the GIL. Despite that huge impediment, it came to be a scientific computing go-to language. Who would have guessed that? We can see things now and say “popular languages are popular”, and that’s about it.
One of the worst offenders are the low-rise apartment buildings painted in beige or other “semi-arid” palette that are built with a street level soft storey and have square holes in the walls for windows but are otherwise unadorned. The kinds that northridge often toppled.

They suck.
because of it?
I have no problem with non-functional facsimiles of things. Like, I'd rather have a stick-framed house with brick veneer than an actual brick house. (Easier to modify, better seismic, better insulation, etc.) Brick looks nice, and that's all I'm wanting out of it.

Same with my old patio. Instead of paying lots of money for large-format tiles, I had someone skim coat some colored concrete on top, using pin-striping tape to give the illusion of grout lines. (Tape is pulled up after concrete cures a bit, so there's actual grooves) Came out looking fantastic, and was much cheaper. But the guy who did it still had to pay attention to the details, like not having patterns magically cross the grout lines. Real tile would never do that, so my fake tile better not, either.

My issue with these shutters isn't that they're not "real", but that their attempt to mimic fails and basically sticks out as shoddy work.

Go ahead and fake it, but please put some effort into the illusion. Otherwise why bother with louvers that slant wrong, and shutters that have no hope of matching the adjacent window's proportion?
You’re onto something here. Organized religions are some of the very few institutions that survived for thousands of years with little change.
I never knew that, thank you. Will use it the next time somebody insists I wear a tie.

It was funny though - when I was a teenager I was a bit skint, like most. You needed to wear a suit and tie to get into most nightclubs at the time. Obviously a suit was a bit spendy, so you generally had 1 decent suit, so the only way to differentiate yourself each time was a new tie.

Must have bought hundreds of the bloody things, only to discard them after 2 or 3 uses.

Had a discussion about this a few weeks ago - is Tie Rack still a thing? They used to have shops everywhere in the UK, but maybe they're still around at airports or whatnot?
How good is the quality of newly reissued vinyl of old material? I'm not making comparisons to digital or CD versions but to old vinyl issues. The reason is that I heard from multiple sources that new vinyl records quality isn't on par with original ones. Did anyone experience that? If true, might it be related to new records being printed off a mastering copy that was intended for CDs?
Really interesting question. To me the price of software is all over the place these days. Some things are unexpectedly cheap (like Netflix, as you say), others struggle to provide value on par with their price (except to a narrow niche, meaning they struggle to scale).

While 5 a month doesn't sound like much, I don't think families want to subscribe to a whole bunch of such cheap services. You have this messy intersection of willingness to pay, value rendered, cost of small vs big scale.

I wonder if bundling is the answer, either with your own group of apps, or join forces with other family software companies. I wonder if in the future there could be reseller-aggregators for groups of the most popular family apps, wrapped into one subscription package.
I appreciate your point of view, and I find it somewhat persuasive.

But my personal aesthetic compass swings back and still chafes at the "non-functional" functional part. More than any other analogy, it reminds me of fake scoops or vents on some sport cars or sport image cars, which are actually completely non-permeable and definitely don't lead anywhere or do anything. They're aesthetic trim yes, but they're also a... Dunno, pretense? It reveals a slightly "wannabe" attitude.

Though it's possible I'm reading too much into the whole thing - non functional spoilers / wings don't bother me nearly as much on cars. Maybe fake shutters just look cheesier?

So I guess that fake brick feels like non functional spoilers. Fake shutters feel like non functional scoops.
Your comments have many characteristics of a bad faith argument, for example confusing well defined and easy to separate concepts in an effort to create ambiguity. The best way to address a bad faith argument is to label it as such and not engage with it because it is not a meaningful contribution to discourse about a topic. That’s what I’m gonna do from here on out, and I suggest other, Commenters do the same.

There is no reasonable confusion between compelling an individual to host speech and preventing the government from interfering by with individuals speech. I suspect you know that.
It's both a helicopter and a plane. Joby says this is the future of flying
> That doesn't answer the question. Even they're both doing the same unsavory things, it doesn't follow that you can accuse one of them of being a hypocrite because the other is a hypocrite.

You're being disingenuous if you're trying to pretend that Gab and Truth Social's targeted userbase, and the political movement driving their adoption, is not the same.

Just to make it very clear, Gab was the social networking service initially adopted by this proto-fascist/fascist political movement to serve as a stopgap solution to being kicked out of Twitter due to their prevalence of hatespeech and disinformation, as well as supporting a coup to overthrow a democratically elected government to install a dictatorship.

The same political movement is now organizing themselves to adopt their leader's Mastodon-based social networking service, Truth Social, as the official social networking service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_use_by_Donald_Tru...

> I feel like this violates the HN guidelines:

Care to point out which guidelines?

> For the record, I went with the generic "right wing" label because I wasn't sure whether a more precise label

It's not a matter of precision, it's a matter of trying to whitewhash extremist political movements by bundling them with mainstream innocuous political groups, particularly when they have barely any ideological common ground.
Going through the Moby Dick one right now, and I must say it's a great edition. Thank you and the other Standard Ebooks contributors!
Operator  doesn’t obsolete the hidden friend idiom
> Getting that sort of money is quite hard

You could start a trust with ~1M in assets and if you avg 8% growth a year (taking into account management fees) you'd have 1B in 90 years just through compounding.
Well, I'm American, and there were definitely bits in that book that totally failed to translate for me. For instance, "Ford Prefect" seemed like a perfectly normal name - IMO the American edition should've changed it to "Ford Escort".

But being self-deprecating was not one of them. I feel like I'm surrounded by Zaphods, or something, and I'm not sure when it happened.
>There's another website named hacker news ( https://thehackernews.com ), more focused on the security realm. Every time I mention this site, my colleagues in security think I mean that other one. That one's nothing special though.

It's incredible that people would actually read that website, some of the worst quality blogspam on the internet.
also, they probably ignore safety and warrenty pbligations, and abandon repairability because they are still a top end manufacturer
>Clearly Thomas Jefferson is anathema to enough people in New York City to be taken down.

Don't mistake the will of the people of New York City with the will of the bureaucrats who made this decision. For a variety of reasons they have very little, if anything, in common.
That's my view of Undertale: It was fun to watch someone play it and I helped with one particularly difficult dodging section so they could get a [redacted] win, but I don't want to play it myself at all. Loved Stardew, though. All of the joy of an RPG without the drudgery of a 3D FPS walking simulator.
There are different kinds of stability. One is whether the same language is spoken informally. Another is whether people are able understand earlier texts. I'm pretty sure texts from the 20th and 19th century are commonly read in High School, TV shows from 1960s onward are watched, etc. Having the past ever-present makes it something current informal language relates to.

Many, many people speaking English also creates an incentive for stability at the same time it creates variation.
I didn't read this thoroughly enough for much comment, but this jumps out:

> But voting also requires some crucial properties that blockchains do not provide:

> Privacy: you should not be able to tell which candidate some specific voted for, or even if they voted at all

While the content of the ballot is sacred, the act of participating in the election cannot be.

The pollbook is a database, with all of the security and maintenance hassle a database implies.

As an election officer and ballot Luddite, I also think that elections argue for lower tech in the case of the ballots.

Tech is swell (reponding on a a Galaxy Note 10+ here) but tangible ballots seem a hedge against shenanigans that no multi-page mathematical proof of block-chainy grooviness can penetrate.
Facebook Increasingly Suppresses Political Movements It Deems Dangerous
No I'm not saying that. Obviously not all policies are above reproach but you know full well that a lot of opposition is based purely on disinformation. "Government mandate of COVID-19" is hopefully a typo but vaccine mandates for government employees is well within their right as are the myriad private mandates. The efficacy and safety of the various approved vaccines are well studied and the benefits to everyone far outweigh the dangers. Anyone spreading deliberately incorrect information like covid is fake or vaccines cause autism (remember that one?) are simply not reasonable.

And Jordan Peterson is a professional snowflake who makes fragile white males feel good about themselves. He is supposedly trained in psychology and has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to epidemiology but is unencumbered by his lack of expertise due to his monumental ego.
The Coming Electric Car Disruption That Nobody’s Talking About
> deter theft

and birds
The difference is that fake brick and fake columns can form visually convincing illusions. Fake shutters aren't a convincing illusion of real shutters, but they look enough like shutters that they aren't convincing as non-functional decoration, either.

If you had fake shutters that were wide enough that I could imagine them being able to cover the window if they were able to close, I personally wouldn't be bothered by them.
No, cassette audio quality is noticably inferior to vinyl. They had a strength in convenience/mobility. The original Walkman mobile music player was a cassette player. Cassette players were popular in cars, and portable "boom boxes." Most people I knew bought their music on vinyl and made cassette copies or mix tapes to play in their car or otherwise on the go. Cassettes did not seriously threaten vinyl sales at least not that I remember. The vinyl killer was the CD.
Literally Cable 2.0. Fuck these assholes, both of them. Neither of them has clean hands
If the question you want answered is

> What does gab have to do with "truth social"? From a skim of the article it doesn't look like they're related, aside from them both being right wing social media apps.

They were both formed as a response to prominent users being kicked off of other platforms, they both forked Mastodon, and they're both having bumpy launches for similar reasons. Regardless of what argument you're making, it seems perfectly reasonable to bring up Gab as part of the conversation. If we were talking about Rivian trucks, I don't think it would be off topic to mention Tesla.

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At least once a day firefox lags out, doesn't autofill and instead takes me to search?q=n
Arendt is a vice of mine, where if I could be considered ideological, it would be the logic of her ideas that I have iterated as a framework for interpreting political experiences. When you challenge at the level she did, you make very powerful enemies. What people really go after her for was not Origins but her assessment of Eichmann at his trial, where by recognizing him as merely contemptible, she simultaneously deprived Israel of a super anti-human monster as an easy foil (edit: to have overcome something huge and evil) for their founding story, and made us each individually responsible for moral complicity in evil, and I think many people (mainly secular, I suspect) treated it as an unforgivable betrayal. They found allies among the marxists in academia she had burned pretty hard with Origins, and her work has been pushed into the backwaters of contrarianism since.

Over the last couple of decades, there have been a few posthumous hit pieces on her, mainly by post-marxists who are among the architects of our current wave of the totalitarian strategy, and whenever I read attacks on Arendt I always ask, "why, what are you planning?"

Perfect? No. But between Arendt and Solzhenitsyn, however this wave today plays out, we can't say we weren't warned.
To some extent, yes. There's an awful lot of work that comes back to be done correctly.

It's how I got my job originally.
I think you’re deeply misunderstanding something here.

Nothing good can ultimately come from that sort of scenario.

What it directly results in is a massive mistrust of government authority.

Make the vaccine available at no cost to the individual, and it’s effectiveness data available for scrutiny. That’s the only justifiable course in my opinion.

This more forceful approach has considerable long term negative consequences on trust in government authority that will most certainly have arse-biting consequences for those who wield this power.

It’s an idiotic way to wield power and trust.

Stupidity.
I recently bought space at forever.com to keep my late relatives photos and documents. It's about $150 for 10 GB. They promise to keep the site up for at least 100 years, paying for storage from the interest on those $150.
Slow cooked 'shitty' meat like chuck is tastier than the best cuts. Or so I've found.

But you do have to cook it for a long time - or pressure cook.
C Programming on System 6: Amend Revision Control System
> You were arguing that that engineers are often unscrupulous

Wrong.

> Such as?

I already pointed them out several posts earlier in the thread.
>> Vinyl only wins if you're filthy rich because you make money just by having money (yay capital gains cuts!) and you need something to pump money into to impress yourself or your friends

You doing OK?
~Gold~ plated HDMI cables?
> This is like complaining about "fake columns" on a neoclassical facade. Or the non-structural "fake brick" on any modern building.

Those seem like valid things to complain about.
I believe lockdown mode is available in the power menu by default in Android 12.
I am not so surprised as the new iPhone is colored blue.

/irony off
I've heard it called the "Small Change Defense". It's applied, not just to the rich, but to government programs that people complain are wasteful.

Sure, it's only 50 cents. That other program is only a dollar. But if you look at the federal budget, there are a lot of programs. They might each one be small. But add them all together and I get the huge amount I'm going to owe in April.

And even if I just pick, say, 30 of them, I could still take that money and have at least a cheap date with my wife. I'd rather have that than those 30 programs.

Straws are light, the horse said, but that doesn't mean I can carry a billion of them...
I thought they began as scarves--or, more specifically, a fancy way to wear your scarf when you weren't using it to cover your neck.

Which is the same backstory as collars (you're supposed to pop them to cover your neck!).
A more useful (and perhaps interesting) question would be "Best way to host a website for 50 years?"

Even that long is quite ambitious as a goal but at least the suggestions might be somewhat actionable.
Fastmail Is Down
Just host your website as plain markdown or HTML on GitHub. They will be around for a long time and if not, the internet archive will still have a copy of your site.
Fix Facebook by Making It More Like Google+
I am contractually obligated to hype up electric pressure cookers whenever mentioned. Some other dishes that can be cooked with ease:

* Steel-cut oats

* Potatoes

* Dry beans

* Yogurt

* Tempeh

* Cheesecake

You can also sanitize containers for canning, saute, steam, and boil.
I am inclined to believe Vitalik on this. He's been very intellectually honest and straightforward about where crypto tech is and is not progressing.
Fastmail is having problems again
Host the content on the "open web" but make sure Archive and every other crawler keeps a copy.
Like OP, I never have tearing in Xorg. I also will never own Nvidia. The issue isn't X11 which is perfectly happy to run in any environment including Wayland or GDI. It's crappy drivers that are handled by the B-team devs.
This is a good point, it is not the opinion itself that leads to danger but rather the interpretation/perception of it by another party
I tried to work with the apple laptop, it's very good in many aspects, but I needed a program and it can't be installed without Apple ID. I think there are many programs like that for the Mac, so I passed.