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Ask HN: Facebook has no mechanism to fight defamation
I recently experienced an interesting situation. The administrator and a moderator of a FB group posted defamatory information about me. Not opinion. Categorical statements that are demonstrably false...and they know it.

What's interesting is that they simultaneously shut down comments and banned me from the group. I learned of this through friends who are still in the group.

For the curious, the root of the issue was a discussion I initiated about a new tax measure that would cost homeowners in the town this group serves thousands of dollars per year. The administrator removed the post and banned me from the group. Why? Because the taxes collected by that measure benefit the union they belong to. In other words, the intent was to silence discussion that could reveal this to people who don't normally read the fine print.

This led to a private discussion where I explained that this was relevant content and that instantly banning me from the group was an overreaction. I did not know, until muy later, that they stood to personally benefit if people voted for this measure. The conversation contained no threats or nasty language. If you read it, it looks and sounds exactly as this post.

This event made me realize that Facebook provides no recourse whatsoever to deal with something like this. Group administrators and moderators can do and say anything they want without repercussions. The only way to even attempt something would require hiring an attorney to go after them for defamation. Facebook remains immune due to current legislation. The group administrators and moderators, not so.

Imagine someone creating a group on FB to serve as the source of news and information for a town. Imagine these people then engaging in blocking any information that does not align with their political stance or might not benefit them financially. We are not talking about pro-democrats vs. pro-republicans here. That's not the story. It's about filtering discussions of measures people will have to vote on to disallow conversations about those they do not agree with.

It seems truly twisted that Facebook can be used this way. A person or people take ownership of a community group, twist it to distort reality and, beyond that, ban and defame anyone who they disagree with.

Does anyone on HN have a contact in Facebook who might be interested in looking into this matter to right a very real wrong and, perhaps, learn from it to improve similar community groups?

I've spoken to attorneys. A defamation lawsuit is a really nasty thing. People can lose their home and more over these things. I have no interest in doing that to someone else (two attorneys have told me this is a solid case of defamation). The correct outcome in this case should be that the group needs to be taken away from them and they should be permanently banned from re-entering it in any way, perhaps even from starting any other group or page on FB.

Thanks.
> I have distaste for the author speaking on behalf of autistic people

The author's entire point, and the entire point of phrases like "nothing about us without us" is to get neurotypical people to stop talking on behalf of autistic people and to give them their own voices.

I think the author spends a lot of time pointing out that everyone in the autistic community is unique, and I think they spend a lot of time pointing out that even areas where there is broad consensus like identity-first language will still have some detractors among the community. I am unsure what else they could possibly do to make it more clear that the autistic community is not a monolith. They literally have a section titled "Key Takeaway: We Are Not a Monolith".

It feels like a really uncharitable/shallow reading to me to say that the author is pretending to represent anyone when they spend so much of their time going out of their way to specifically avoid causing that perception.

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> Also i have a distaste of the author listing their "disabilities" in their twitter bio.

Come on, people list far more trivial stuff in their Twitter bios than this. Sometimes it's nice to be able to find other people who are like you online, and self-labeling can help with that.

People being comfortable enough to talk about aspects of their identity in public is not something that's worth being mad about. And autism is 100% an aspect of people's identity, it's a really wild claim to say that a condition that affects people's brains basically from birth and for the entirety of their lives wouldn't be a part of their identity; your brain is a big part of what makes you you.
Talent doesn't have problem making money, talent is attracted to interesting problems and id attracting the money. Wonder at what point you will concede that you are wrong about this if 13 years isn't long enough to prove its not a bubble.
I genuinely don't get what civil discourse is supposed to achieve. Discourse should be no holds barred. If your points can't stand unfiltered scrutiny maybe they're not as solid as you think.

I consider HN somewhere between 4chan and reddit. People here are actually smart (unlike reddit, which appears to attract angsty teenagers more than anything) and willing to engage in discussions outside of the status quo. It's not the chaotic jungle of 4chan, but if you're talking out of your ass people here are too clever to fall for it and you will be called out. On reddit if something sounds right to enough people who know nothing at all about said topic, it will get upvoted to the top where more people will absorb blatantly false information or self-fellating, pandering opinion.
The European countries who never fulfill their annual US visa allotments; to the chagrin of Chinese and Indian visa seekers who are facing almost a decade long wait.

The disparities in salaries are pretty much isolated to tech. Most other occupations are pretty much similar all things considered.
Why are you not satisfied? Do you have additional data on why this could be a real vulnerability on their end?
I always retype code manually, it forces me to think about what I'm actually doing.
Accepting may also lead to termination.
if you believed it was a bubble you wouldn't leave your current job.
OMG, this brings back memories. I miss Quinn so much on OS X. With its lovely community I spend endless hours over the years with this addicitive game (play). As cool as Tetr.io is, out of the box it does not compare to the smoothness of the Quinn experience. But maybe there are more tweaks to the game options to come closer to Quinn.

But I will never know as I cannot allow myself to be drawn back into that black hole of Tetris addiction.
I don't think it's a choice. But I think "everyone will require medical attention at some point" is unconvincing to the people you would need to convince, and the fact that it's not actually true doesn't help.
> Even a really really good predictor like Nate Silver gets things wrong.

That's because if he doesn't use mathematical modelling and data he's only ever accidentally correct. There's no such thing as good predictor. If you don't use knowledge (and the only real knowledge comes from scientific process) you can't get your predictions better than chance.

It's a combination of brief luck and "predicting" the obvious.

With interesting personality you can make a good career out of predicting that dice roll will result in >1. You'll by wrong in less than 20% of cases.

Being good predictor is getting popular while you are on the roll. There's nothing else going there.

All predictions that don't have a form of scientific paper with clear mathematical model and ample data are just making stuff up and should be labelled as BS in all media.

World doesn't need prophets.
The point is that YC's model contradicts what you said. It's relatively inexpensive to build an initial version of a product. Build something as quickly as possible, get user feedback, and keep iterating.

I can guarantee you won't find anything Paul Graham has written about doing a bunch of marketing analysis as a first step.
Sorry I am out of the loop on this but why is Germany shutting down nuclear plants when they have gas shortages from Russia and no domestic production. Shouldn’t they first secure the gas supply before deciding to shut down nuclear plants ?
They aren't bots, the skill ceiling for Tetris is practically non-existent. The fastest player in the world can clear 40 lines in like 14 seconds I think.
At least for me, it's not about whether it's "socially acceptable". When everyone around you tells you you're morally inferior because you can't do the things they can, the way they can, you (I) internalize a hell of a lot of guilt and trauma.

A diagnosis doesn't have to be a badge of dishonor. It can help you recognize that, no, you're not morally broken -- there are factors at play that just make some things harder to reach. That doesn't mean it's not worth working on some of those things -- it's not an excuse -- but it can help avoid some of the feelings of "you can't do it because you're a terrible broken person who's just not trying hard enough".

So it's actively not about what's acceptable in the eyes of society, because in the eyes of society you're already inferior. Claim some ground for yourself, is the feeling.

What's wrong with listing disabilities? I don't even know what identity politics is, so maybe I'm just not predisposed by the concept?
Are these switches really robust enough that "flipped during crash" isn't a likely explanation you could give to the authorities?

Needing to return to the crash site to destroy the evidence feels like a very forced narrative to me (though I know nothing about flying).
Why would it be either/or? Strong organic growth goes hand in hand with efficient marketing spending, and it sounds like their guerilla marketing efforts dovetailed nicely with how they grow normally. Nothing in the article gave me the impression they were bragging about only needing organic word of mouth growth.
I think the problem in your lobste.rs post is that you have (bind-key* "Tab" ...) instead of (bind-key* (kbd "tab") ...). I don't think your define-key solution works because I think it can be rebound by major or minor modes. I think bind-key.el is required by use-package so if you have use-package you should have it. If you don't have use-package you should install it.

I'm not at a computer with an emacs installation so I can't try it out myself. I would try binding to a regular key (e.g. "q") while debugging to try to reduce the possible problems.

I think you'll find that remapping tab everywhere like that is going to break a lot of things though (navigating fields/links, expanding sections, etc). You might want to just remap the key by explicitly listing the modes you care about.

The #emacs channel on libera (previously freenode) used to be amazing but since IRC waned it's become less good but if you're lucky and during busy times you might still find someone there that can give you a better solution.
Isnt that what survivorman and bear grylls do in every episode?
I remember one time being asked at work if I watched some Netflix show du jour ( I believe it was Tiger King at the time) and I replied with: "I don't watch a lot of TV in general. Yes, I have Netflix but don't watch it very often."

Then I went to say that in my spare time I like to listen to music and reading. You'd think I'd have said that I'm into being a serial killer. Just weird puzzled and uncomfortable looks.

It then struck me that many people, if not most, cannot comprehend spending their leisure time in any way other than passively watching movies, TV or videos on their smartphone or playing video games.

And believe me, I'm not saying it just to be pretentious, but a lot of the time, reading is way more exciting than whatever's happening on the small screen. There's nothing wrong with TVs and movies but they're certainly not the only way to spend your leisure time.
I have to agree with blueflow, here: this type of activism is really irksome.

Honestly, I can't think of anything more counterproductive than Aspies trying to create more rules and further complicate discourse...

He hasn't been chosen by us, doesn't represent our views, and yet still feels like he can talk on our behalf.

I've heard the same thing from trans people before.
We need to stop listening to these people.
Do you know of any oss projects using absurd? Or maybe an ORM built on top of it? It doesn't seem like there's any ecosystem built around it yet, and their example project is too trivial to be useful. I'd have to have to built even the most basic CRUD functionality from scratch.
Some of those are good points. But the author mentioned multiple times how Rust should have a GC, which makes me think they're missing the point of the language: a systems language as fast as C++ and with no runtime
If false then anything.

If you exist then something inconvenient.

You can't prove you exist so given that any fact can be rated as anything truthfully.

You little-endians are all hopelessly deluded and your total unwillingness to be reasonable and your constant lying is all the justification required for the behaviour of big endians who are Noble, righteous and completely truthful in that context and i say that objectively. Fact check: true!
Fossil fuels aren't exactly doing better. Crude oil is at $66 [1], after hitting a high of $177.80 in June 2008 and spending the first half of the 2010s above $100 (compare: ~$25 throughout the 1960s, and ~$35 throughout the late 80s and 90s). Coal is up about 10x since the early 1970s [2]. Both of these are inflation-adjusted.

What's really happening is that the "developed world" consisted of about 400M people in 1990, and it now consists of about 4B. You can't bring a few billion people out of poverty and give them Western standards of living without dramatically increasing energy usage. Doesn't matter if it's fossil fuels or renewables. Renewables at least have the advantage of being, well, renewable.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha...

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPS051
See plenty of opinion here too, like generics getting too complicated and error handling needing to be designed in.

Vehemently disagree on both
If u want mobile Tetris, check out jstris
What's the difference between voting against one's own interests and voting with one's conscience instead of one's wallet?
> Also i have a distaste of the author listing their "disabilities" in their twitter bio.

There's a long history of silencing and rendering invisible the identities of disabled people, to avoid discomfort on the part of the abled, and to divide and prevent the formation of community amongst the disabled. Putting one's disabilities up-front in a profile bio challenges both of these norms, and announcing one's "distaste" reinforces them.
And import the smartest people from other companies. The USA leads the world in imported talent.
> I’m coming to you now as an ambassador of that culture

Then why did the author make this mistake? They are not my ambassador. I didn't vote for them. He shall stop talking on my behalf.

This arrogant form of patronizing should be called out, and this is what i just did.
This is actually happening in the real world and has already been documented, so not sure what this means.
I think like many of the current wave of "illiberal left" trends, it is a function of both space and time. I suppose the UK adopts US woke ideas because young people here are less likely to have religious conservative views than the EU average - reserving their prejudice for simple xenophobia.
They should; instead though, schools are disposing of standards because they're now unpopular (i.e. called 'racist')

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/15/us/university-of-california-s...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/us/harvard-admissions-act...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/move-end-standardized-t...
Blowing up rebuilds is basically the point, and there is a simple fix in the make file or whatever to keep the status quo.

For the bureaucracies of case (a), a change of glibc or, more so, gcc should then take many years if they take the impact of changes seriously.
It's not exactly uncommon for someone lost to record themselves. If he died, the recording could give family and friends closure.
Yea Flickr is awesome. The community is just other people who love photography, nothing more. It’s almost entirely positive and welcoming. The site is also a joy to use. A rarity in today’s social network world.
Your source transcribes him as saying

> Disinfectant knocks it out in a minute. Is there a way we can do something like that? By injection, inside, or almost as cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs. it would be interesting to check that,

While the BBC[0] transcribes

> And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? So it'd be interesting to check that.

In popular relation 'injection' was rendered as 'swallow', which is indeed technically inaccurate. However 'suggested that the use of disinfectants as a treatment should researched' is a very, very generous interpretation of that sequence of words, and not the message that anyone watching that event walked away with.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177
I'm not sure I follow.

If defined as

```

int16_t mod(int16_t i, int16_t N) {

return ((i % N) + N) % N;

}

```

There do not seem to be any issues all the way up to INT16_MAX. Even with negative values of N, it produces the same value as python does (although I am not certain I understand what modulus means with a negative N)
What kind of burn are you looking at? My subjective take: spend some time ballparking the market for this, and collect a few 5k-10k angel checks through SAFEs; show current progress, and interest from industry players. Ditch the programming job & go at this full-time for a few months.
Do you think smart people are going to work for tips because their employers don't pay enough while their employers complain about them going on unemployment while taking huge payouts from pandemic relief and having millions forgiven while everyone else loses their assistance? Or smart people will work for ISPs and large corporations that have turned employment into a one-sided legal agreement that many people feel like they have no other choice to sign, all the while dealing with a company that doesn't even care about it's customers? Do you think media and people in power really want people to have the capacity to think logically about issues instead of just accept whatever narrative they are pushing?

Rich people want to get richer and need stupid people to do the low wage jobs and to fight amongst themselves. That's the way it has been for ages.
Bingo. If you couldn't sell at profit, would you ever buy anything crypto-related? That's what I tell any new crypto speculator.
See std::fmod and std::remainer:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/math/fmod

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/math/remainder

A valid use may be when approximating a periodic function via a polynomial (e.g. sin/cos), where you will want to first perform range reduction like std::fmod(x, 2 * pi).
> - emergency parachute: small, usually just one handle which you can see and very hard to snag on anything, meant to be opened in under 3s after jumping, definitely not for terminal velocity kind of speeds

Are you sure about that? Then you would have to bring some planes to stall speed first in order be able to bail out. Sounds like a huge flaw…
Anime themed Chrome landing page
Makes sense. Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM™
Wikipedia happily reports that North Korea has a 100% adult proficient literacy rate. Cuba has a 99.9% rate. Brazil 98%, all leaps and bounds beyond any western country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_literacy_...

The US is certainly behind much of the world in education, but these metrics are really hard gauge accurately. Diving in to where these numbers come from and how they compare to the rest of the world, I'm finding that no one tracks this in any way that we can really draw a conclusion across countries.

I also see other commentors jumping to trashing schools or the education system for this. Does a flat number really point to education? What about poverty levels, general cultural attitudes towards literacy, accounting and definition of proficiency, etc.

I have no numbers to back this, but I felt growing up that the biggest problem with education was not the schools or education system, but the students and the general culture around education. Students and their parents just did not care at all about education, most (adult and kid) were actively hostile towards it. There is only so much an education system can do if 1/3 to 1/2 of the students will do absolutely everything they can to not learn, and their parents encourage them not to learn.

Some completely anecdotal examples from my childhood:
- In high school I had a friend who's dad flew into a rage when he suggested he wanted to try going to college, because college was the devil (it'll turn you into a liberal sissy, they just steel your money, James down the street fixes motorcycles and don't need no degree, you think you're soooo much better than us, etc.). This attitude was only slightly more extreme than most in the town. And it didn't just apply to college, it applied to anyone who wanted to do any kind of academic learning.

- I have distinct memories of being ridiculed by multiple full-grown adults (!!) when my parents took me to math competitions, for being a loser nerd. Some were serious and meant it, others maybe weren't serious but thought it was funny to ridicule.

- I remember bringing a book to read while my mom worked, when I was 8 years old, and having someone (again, a full grown adult) who told me to stop reading in public because it might get me beat up.

- At school in general, many students never got punished by their parents for skipping school or failing. The school would bend over backward trying to help them in every way reasonable, but what do you do if half your students do everything they can to not learn? Threaten to punish with suspension? Many parents treated it as "who cares, school is dumb anyways".

No amount of effort into the education system could solve what I grew up around, it's a lot more insidious. Maybe I'm from a uniquely shitty part of the country tho, maybe most of the US would benefit from more focus on the education system itself, I wouldn't know. But I feel like I hear similar stories from others who grew up around the decaying rust belt, the collapsing small towns that scattered around the midwest, and inner city schools in places like Kansas City and OKC.
I'm not cherry picking. This whole thread is related to mask mandates. No one is mandating N95 masks. All the discussion around masks in this context is about cloth masks.

Even if it was related to masks in general, very few people are wearing N95 masks for protection. Cloth masks are far more relevant.
My point was that the payment was contactless. You don't have to give any paper or anything to another person. It's handled by Apple Pay using whatever payment method you want and the vendor/provider never gets your info.
Ask HN: Is it too late to start CS masters with 27?
I feel like I screwed up in life it took me multiple attempts to finally complete the college bachelor degree and I have second thoughts about progressing into uni masters. I want to get into big corp. I did an internship as a full stack dev and I also do full stack as a hobby. I got two team projects both 1 semester.
Not sure if that matters much.
Any advice?