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The (relevant part of the) 5th amendment does not say "you never have to cooperate with the courts" it says you can not be compelled to incriminate yourself. People and companies are compelled to cooperate with courts all the time - that's literally what a subpoena is.

I thought it was clear in the post that Meta is being compelled by the federal government to prove they are not a monopoly and as part of this they need to present a case where they establish they have legitimate competitors. This requires information about the competitors.

The federal government is compelling action.

That sounds mostly right to me.

I think many constitutional protections do apply in case the USA is prosecuting an individual, eg even as a non American you could take the 5th if an American court was trying to convict you.

However, when you're asking to enter the country as a non US citizen your options are essentially to do whatever the border services agents ask you to do or turn around and go home.

Are you actually saying that Facebook is working to prevent _future generations of humanity_ from existing? I can't imagine how you expect people to take you seriously.

This is really not a high quality comment.

I think they announced that they're doing exactly that (or at least working on it).

I'm afraid that's just not true. I've made sourdough bread for years, and never added any sweeteners.

There are plenty of bread recipes that require no sweetener, and it's definitely not needed for yeast to develop.

It's important to understand that this was already a very violent time in Montreal. Separatist terrorists were running rampant, and had a non-zero degree of public support.

I don't think she's a bad person, and I appreciate her response to the situation.

But building a year (years?) around a project, attending multiple conferences for it, bringing up a couple students on a research idea, then finding it's all a software bug? That's a nightmare.

What a nightmare. I bet this raises the hair on the back of the necks of a lot of other researchers. So much time and momentum can be invested into a research track like this.

I like this idea.

I don't know if I would say I'm 'hoping' for this, but I'm certainly interested to see what kind of incredible projects will come out of the increased necessity brought on by climate change.

It seems like for a long time there's been resistance to really try to do 'big' things in NA. We hardly even build subways since the 60's -- too complicated, too expensive, too disruptive, too big! Maybe we'll increase our ambitions as a society when we're less comfortable.

Yeah, I guess this is fine if by "Transformers are Graph Neural Networks" we mean Transformers < GNN, rather than Tranformers == GNN.

"Sentences are a fully connected graph". Ok fine, but that's a graph with basically no information embedded in its structure. GNNs are supposed to be useful for graphs that have interesting structure, right?

This is a great article.

I've been conscious of and annoyed by the symptoms of these spirals for years. I was aware that this was the effect of one-upping and a desire to demonstrate personal virtue, but I didn't have a name for this phenomenon or a very complete model of why people were interested in these types of communities.

The purity spiral! A nice name, and a model that seems to describe the situation very nicely.