skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neither society nor facebook is to blame. The three foundational systems of our lives have been centralized and corrupted: money, information, politics. These systems are to blame, and the answer is decentralized systems. Decentralized money (Crypto), decentralized information (like HN), and decentralized voting (DAO's). Once we start using healthy systems, we'll get our power back and be able to fix our problems.
The videos show some extreme cases of this transition, but in practice it feels pretty natural when interacting with the map. Also, we'll definitely continue tweaking it to feel better. It's nearly impossible to make it fully smooth though — projections are hard.
As someone who worked at YouTube for some time, I'd actually say that this isn't an accurate assessment. Most of my former coworkers were disheartened at these stories. Some individuals actually were very active on the r/youtube subreddit and worked to handle individual cases that came up like this one. I think many are just resigned (but not content) to the fact that unless Google decides pump lots of money into human moderation, we are stuck with the algorithmic moderation that is responsible for many of these issues. And unfortunately, that isn't a problem that can be simply solved with code.
If you have some time, I very highly recommend reading An Ugly Truth (https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062960672). That book gave me a new realization - Facebook (and other companies) are not victims of their surroundings. There are some very intentional, very impactful decisions that are made at the highest level.
That's why I think combatting fake news actually promoted them and made the world a worse place: when people hear "fake news", they've learnt to doubt the "fake" part and start thinking this news is "so worth it that Facebook/Google/the media is combatting it, so I remain ignorant of that information that is vital to me".

That's how I think combatting fake news made things worse for the very people we're trying to protect: it pushed them deeper into the fakeverse (TM).

Second order effects...
Title is really poor compared to the content of the article.

In any case, he is right. Look at the pattern, any large social network has these issues, which more or less seems like is related to how people interact. Twitter is massively toxic, Reddit is. Back in day Tumblr which was not current social media huge also used to have content Facebook gets blamed for.

Give a platform for people to publish and share and every opinion has the chance to be there.

It also doesn't have to be a massive broadcast platform, messaging platforms with small communities in the form of groups have these issues on a smaller scale. Though broadcast does make it worse.
Why? From the images I've seen it's not like the houses survived.
Cool. Hopefully I didn't come off as mocking. I should have clarified that I meant that general type of false-positive flagging problem. I favorited the post if that tells you anything lol

I'm excited to dive in!
Who is doing the subsidizing? You hear about cities annexing suburbs to access the tax base. If suburbs were a drain, wouldn't they be doing whatever the opposite of annexing is?
The last thing that Facebook wants is to be forced into a position where they have to decide what is and is not "authoritative information". They are only doing it because society gives them no other choice except to shut down the whole business.
Tornado watches and tornado warnings are not all of the weather service for a given area.

Everybody in the region knew this was different, this wasn't a fucking tornado watch, you are being really fucking dishonest when you try to frame it that way.

This was a severe weather warning that predicted the not just the level of conditions needed for form a tornado, but the conditions needed to form a massive storm of tornado.

Everybody knew this, and managers choose their bosses profit over their employees lives.

Simple as that.

Trying to lump this situation in with the worse of unpredictable tornado storms isn't gonna change that fact.
Understanding Postgres GIN Indexes: The Good and the Bad
Thanks a lot for your feedback. Happy you found the time to write it.

I agree I should clarify it's an ebook sooner in text. And I want to redo the chapters. But I get a lot of conflicting feedback so hard to know what's right.

The page has a good conversion, though. So something is working.
Same here, I was never a proponent of the dot syntax. As we know, compiler development at Apple got taken over at some point by C++ people, and we can all see the results: https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/06/remove-features-for-grea...
> Dense living inherently requires less infrastructure and less transportation

Not really. Firstly, it costs a lot more per square foot to build a high rise than a single family home. Secondly, it costs a lot more to maintain it (elevators need constant maintenance, you can't just run to Home Depot to get replacement drain parts, etc.).

And the infrastructure costs more to maintain -- running power to a high rise requires a lot of specialized commercial electric equipment that can handle the high loads and variability. Same with water -- you need special pumps and extra big boilers. Sure you can gain some efficiency by sharing those resources, but at the end of the day the costs per person are roughly the same.

The main impact comes from needing less transport of goods and people, which is an environmental plus, but not something priced into the cost of living.
I'm sure it varies by region.

I use CAISO and OASIS, because its publicly available data. Furthermore, I focus on the AFPR_1__TOT_GEN-APND node (wherever it is), because its #1 on the list and therefore easiest to lookup. (I'm assuming the nodes are in alphabetical order)

http://oasis.caiso.com/mrioasis/logon.do

California is a focus because their website is easier to use. I don't live anywhere near there, so I can't say much about practical knowledge of the region. Still though, having this data open and free means I can use it as an easy point of discussion.

For that node, I can absolutely say that in the Summer Months (Say July 13th), HE09 (9am) was $51 and 12noon was $57... while HE20 (8pm) was $320. An increase of 600%. HE19 and HE21 are still $170, showing that 300% swings day-to-day are quite common and typical.

The 300% swings of LMP / locational marginal price is quite common on this node in the summer, even after we remove the extremity of HE20 (600% swing for one hour).

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A hypothetical energy solution that's 50% efficient is still worthwhile in the face of 300% price swings. In fact, a 300% price swing means that even 33% efficiency solutions are economically feasible.

People are underestimating the price swings of the energy market here whenever they talk about energy efficiency. We don't actually need much efficiency, we just need any storage, even the crappiest of storage, and we'll benefit. And we need a _LOT_ of that said storage.

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I realize that my methodology probably is full of holes. But that's where I came up with the 300% claim. Feel free to come up with a better methodology and/or improvements (I think if you told me which nodes are most representative, it'd be a big help for example).
You can't hug someone through zoom, so that's basically a non-starter for a very large portion of people.
Lol tumblr did not have much right wing boomer content that I saw.
Recently added RSS/Atom/JSON feeds to my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/

Honestly, i largely agree with the claim that RSS is dying.

For example, on Windows i wanted to find a decent RSS reader to use, since recently coming to like the technology myself for consumption of news (since all of the sudden everything can just be boring text, as opposed to annoying and attention catching images, styling etc., allowing em to focus on the content), which turned out to be hard.

In my search, i found the following readers:

- Feedly (https://feedly.com/) not really an option for me, since i want downloadable software, which is also why i use Thunderbird instead of web mail clients
- Newsblur (https://www.newsblur.com/) same as above
- Inoreader (https://www.inoreader.com/) same as above
- Feeder (https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/feeder-rss-feed-reader/jlkhefogiiibhgblliimeleiiiijbkjj) not an option, Windows Store app, i avoid that
- Omea Reader (https://www.jetbrains.com/omea/reader/) by JetBrains, but requirements list Windows XP, so not updated in a long time
- RSSOwl (http://www.rssowl.org/) based on Eclipse and fails to launch with new JDK versions
- QuiteRSS (https://quiterss.org/en/screenshots) the layout absolutely breaks because image dimensions are not constrained, no one wants the header of the news story to fill up the entire screen
- RSSGuard (https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard) in the end i stuck with this, because just got tired because of so many bad options out there

Apparently Google Reader was also pretty good but was retired.

How is RSS supposed to survive if there is no good software for it out there? Give me something like LibreOffice that you just download, install and it works in surprisingly sane ways most of the time.
Evangelion uses graphical interfaces very effectively in its story telling. My favorite example is in episode 8: there are two pilots inside EVA-02, leading to problems. We know they've won when we see the synchronization gauge maxing out.

https://wiki.evageeks.org/images/e/e1/Nigoki_synch_graph_low...

https://wiki.evageeks.org/images/2/2c/Nigoki_synch_graph_hig...

Episode 13 also has programmers saving everyone against an enemy hacking attempt:

https://wiki.evageeks.org/images/1/18/Ireul_Hacking_Magi.jpg
Won’t the regulation force them to censor? I get not wanting corporations to moderate discourse, but I can’t help but feel they get shit from both ends.

Fuck you if you censor, and fuck you if you don’t.
The ethics of unpaid labor and the OSS community
ok sure whatever but what does this have to do with the article?
It will also fall flat on its face for CSV files that contain values which contain escaped commas.
Corporate press interests is also a problem as well, yes
My bad, sorry everyone. Guess this was all my fault.
Nextspace: a desktop environment that brings a NeXTSTEP look and feel to Linux
Hi, neighbor!
What about their algorithm?

Facebook decides what to show people. They could show you your friends posts in chronological order, and/or let people have control over what they see.

But no, Facebook decides what people see. Therefore they have some responsibility for the spread of misinformation.
It is complicated. In C++ closures can close over local variables either by value or by reference (the choice can be made for each variable closed over).

When closing over a variable by reference, if the lambda need to survive the local scope heap allocating the closure itself won't help. Instead you need to explicitly heap allocate the closed over variable itself (and close over the, usually smart, pointer).

When closing over by vale, there is no such issue, closed over variables are copied over along the lambda and it can be safely, for example, be returned from a function.

Copying might be expensive if the lambda is closing over an expensive to copy object, but move semantics are always an option.

Lambdas are value types, they are usually copied around. so when closing over ither va
>Yes, they knew the risk was there, but when these warnings are hundreds of miles across and tornadoes are essentially razor blades going across this warning zone, are you supposed to just stop everything?

Yes.

OR! at the least! not force your employees to come in at the threat of firing if they don't.

Let them have the freedom to choose their own personal risk factor.
Hi Josef, the book looks super interesting! Do you offer discount for broke college students? :)
What makes you think they abandon peer review? Some of those people do publish peer reviewed papers.

Unfortunately, peer review is pretty worthless. I've read a lot of papers that passed through peer review yet had basic errors in the first page, in one case, one was saying something false about public statistics in the very first sentence! If you don't trust particular fields then peer review isn't a very convincing upgrade because it's bad scientists reviewing other bad scientists.

I'm not sure who you mean by "one such loner scientist" - do you mean Wakefield? He was peer reviewed and it took years for his paper to be retracted! That's the sort of problem I mean.

For COVID stuff, for better or worse the arguments are mostly about data and everyone is working off the same datasets. So you don't need fancy equipment. A computer is sufficient.

I find the pseudonymous person to in some ways have more to lose. One thing that you realize very quickly reading bad COVID papers is that the people who write them never suffer any consequences. It doesn't matter if the predictions are wrong, or if the scientific method is violated, or even if they just flatly lie in the text itself. It seems universities will let their academics get away with almost anything. Look at Ferguson for a good example of that. The man has made an entire career out of being always wrong and nobody in Imperial College London seems to care. The non-affiliated researchers on the other hand are trying to build an audience, some are selling their analysis to readers. They know they can lose that income stream if they screw up. Plus the open comments sections works wonders - they are effectively being peer reviewed in real time by far larger numbers of people than there are in the academic process. I've seen mistakes caught that way a few times now and it usually leads to a quick admission and apology, something I never saw coming from academics even in the rare cases their paper was retracted.
Right, which is why KPAH didn’t issue an actual warning until 9:05. Giving people a strongly-worded heads-up a couple of hours in advance via tweet gets the word out to emergency managers and other interested parties who can then disseminate that information as the situation develops. Once it becomes clear the tornadic cell hasn’t weakened or deviated, then you can trigger the actual alert systems. But I don’t think anyone can argue that no one had any idea what was coming until minutes in advance.
It's much worse than giving the village idiot a megaphone. Facebook (and most other socials) prioritize content to maximize engagement, and (big surprise) the village idiot maximizes engagement. Facebook is a machine tuned specifically to spread hate and bad ideas because that's what maximizes the time people spend on Facebook.

I thought of a good analogy a while back. Lets say someone walks past you and says "hi" and smiles. Lets say someone else then walks past you and punches you in the face. Which interaction maximizes engagement? Well that's the interaction and content that social media is going to amplify.

Social media companies are the tobacco companies of technology. They make billions by lobotomizing the body politic.
I'm not sure what this comment is trying to get at? It's a blanket call for Facebook to take "accountability", but for what specific actions. Private corporations will always have control on what goes on with their platforms, if the US government ran a version of Facebook, it would be a different story
My kids love the suburbs. There's almost no crime. They can bike into the hills, forests, lakes, downtown, friends houses, the mall. Schools are great. One of my friends raised his kid in SF before finally moving out to suburbia when she was a teenager, stayed in the house most of the time. Now she's got a great circle of friends and is never in the house. Cities are for single adults trying to find a mate.
Your problem going viral is the only tried and true solution for human involvement. Sorry.
If you were living in an apartment rent-free (with the landlord's permission of course) you would still have the same rights as any other tenant with respect to eviction notices etc.

So I'm not sure to what extent that payment for Vivaldi's email service changes things.
Markets and capitalism are part of the solution, of course, but you absolutely do need policies to direct all that energy, at a high level.

Absent "policies" and enforcement, the cheapest way for a factory to dispose of waste is to dump it in the river. Same thing applies to CO2: dumping it in the atmosphere is cheap right now because the policies to deal with that externality aren't quite there.

An obvious example of a policy that might help would be a carbon tax that makes more carbon-efficient things more economically appealing.
Twitter and Youtube, sure.

But the blast radius of a Facebook post doesn't have the same reach given the majority of posts go to your explicit network of connections. Unless you're specifically referring to Facebook Groups? But then are we certain it's different from Reddit or other forums?
YT, TikTok, IG (etc) are having extensive problems with people gaming their algorithms. The algorithms were launched way too early without proper testing of course, and they now allow content spammers and re-uploaders (content thieves) to make creator fund money for literally stealing content.

Right now their storage is balooning with duplicate content because of the wave of content theft that TikTok has encouraged, and it may be necessary for the clock to be reset, and for their copyright policies and support to be fixed in total. This means that original content creators, and creator funds may also take a big hit until something stable is finally worked out, but it shouldn't let platforms like YouTube off the hook for shoddy copyright policies and and mis-management of the process for many years.

They need to implement a cutoff date for enforcement, the trend of content copying was not popular until TikTok surged in popularity, somewhere around then should be the cutoff point (around 3 years ago). YouTube also created shorts, which was only another poorly thought out enticement for content theft and cloning.

I followed procedure over 2 years ago to request my profile be converted into a music artist profile, and YouTube still has not done anything nor responded... They need to also hire real life moderators and implement a real support and moderation team/process that is professional and accountable. If they don't the entire site will turn into a platform of spam and junk ads and triggering content like TikTok is fast becoming now.

Original content creators are the lifeblood of social media platforms, they shouldn't be required to go unrewarded, and worse yet, they shouldn't be abused and ignored by the platforms they post to... OC creators are the only ones that help platforms to disguise the fact that they're collecting money under the table from big industry.
Ideally, it's a way to get Google to actually address these complaints.

However, until professional YouTubers start leaving and cause Google's ad revenue to dip by 2-3%, we won't see any action. Most of us with a handful of random videos deleting our content from YouTube won't change anything. And even if the top 50 YouTubers quit en masse, there's still the queue of bright hopefuls more than willing to fill those spots.
DeepMind Language AI Approaches Human-Level Reading, Beats OpenAI GPT-3
Continuing on today's theme of GNUstep, here is a modern and maintained attempt to build a full desktop environment atop GNUstep.

And before the question arises: "Workspace is NOT WindowMaker... Workspace is written from scratch."
The houses have basements, the factory floors do not.

The house does not need to survive for the humans in it to be safer then if they were in a sheet metal box with no basement.
That is a fun saying, but I have been to Montreal in February and I would give myself much better odds of surviving outdoors in Seattle than Montreal.
Can you fill me in on sth? Where Ive lived in Europe, the onlt car-only areas are burbs. Small towns tend to be walkable too, on account of being small. Now, not every small town has a wide variety of shops of course, but most things are bikeable. The only things that are not where I now live are places I'd need a car anyway (furniture, construction, etc). I thought it'd be the same for small town America, but I guess you're saying it's not?
Did you just consume authoritative information from Axios Media Inc?
We ought to stop mixing up what are effectively mass-communication broadcast media with personal social networks. They ruin one another.

But of course that would harm profits.
Yes, I refuse to compete on price. One of my favorite phrases (just read it in a email an hour ago, in fact) is "your price is right on the edge of my budget."

How do I know that the main competitor isn't slowly going out of business at that price? Maybe their product is total crap, maybe I can offer stellar support that's worth a higher price, maybe I can guarantee GDPR compliance, maybe I can offer uptime guarantees, maybe my product is designed to a small niche that will pay a much higher price for a product targeted exactly at them, maybe I can focus on large customers who would be suspicious that a $4.99 price is way too low, maybe, maybe, maybe. In the end, ask yourself if you really think that $4.99/year * n_Customers computes to a number that makes it worthwhile for you.
The maker of the gun may not be held solely responsible for murder, but we surely have to consider if we want guns in the hands of murderers.

Facebook isn't arguing this from a neutral standpoint. They are arguing from the position of the company that stands to lose their business if society decides murderers shouldn't have guns.
I’ve been using Tor to provide remote access to my private git repos while traveling and working remotely. I selected Tor because it eliminates the need for any fancy network transversal in either direction.

The speed is generally in the 300-400 kbps range no matter where I am using it from. Fine for doing personal development but noticeably slower then direct connections - backups can take a while to complete.

No issues with accessing it remotely while at home or an Airbnb. Most hotel chains block Tor servers - some will ban your MAC address if they detect you connecting to a Tor server, in both those cases I need to bring up a VPN before I start the Tor deamon. (You could also run a bridge but that takes the place of the guard node which defeats the purpose if your the only one using the bridge IMO).

Rotating MAC addresses is easy once you’ve done it once, hotels don’t seem
to realize you can change them.
Said a person crying Fire in a crowded theater (it is a human nature to panic, but it doesn't excuse the instigator)
Retired people typically have Medicare.
A lot of the "California problem" policies work at smaller city sizes and just fail when scaled to major city/metro, so would be great at a lot of those smaller towns. Especially because they can be more humane and well thought out than whatever that town had to start.
Thanks I will try the Reddit channel.
And in another thread you wrote "Marketers are not builders and they are incapable of understanding why we build things."

You are not exactly making developers look good here.
> are you supposed to just stop everything?

Well, it would be a different matter if these factories and warehouses had tornado shelters that were fit for purpose.

After all, it would be pretty absurd to believe that extreme weather is so common that factories and warehouses need to keep working through it; and yet at the same time so uncommon that factories and warehouses don't need adequate shelters.
Slightly off topic, but is this something people worry about in the real world? I have about 9 random screwdrivers, and when I need one I just try them all until one seems to fit. And if it doesn't, I... stop, instead of stripping the screw. I couldn't tell you if a single one of them was metric or imperial