skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they cut off internet access for 24 hours following the murder, and within two hours ordered the local news channel to air an admonishment about the misinformation on repeat, along with a warning for prosecution for further spreading it.

the village is now a ghost-town; most of the men fled, and the women and children stay inside. elders are ashamed to mention their hometown.

there are two educational efforts: the police have posted numerous warning signs in public areas, and a group of students are traveling around giving a play to demonstrate how spreading rumors on WhatsApp caused a lynching.

in addition to those efforts, what can WhatsApp do to keep this from happening? India is doing their part. If WhatsApp thinks it's unable to handle the situation, they should turn administrative control of their service over to the government.
We should be fair to Donald Trump, because why not? Being fair doesn't mean nodding your head along to everything he says, it means not jumping the gun on all sorts of things and embarrassing yourself when it comes out wrong, which the press has regularly done when it comes to Trumpisms.
Can there be a truly decentralized web without decentralized physical layer? Mesh networks etc.

Which, of course, will not necessarily be connected... but that's a part of decentralization and freedom. "Diamond Age" and its virtual polities come to mind.
Author here. Very glad to see that nobody has noticed how slow it is and nobody has made a comment about how messy code is in some places :D

Working on both issues.

But first I will add some instructions on how to run it.
Journalism is important, but not to the exclusion of other forms of communication. If your thrust is that barriers to entry for communication is good because it puts mass comm. powers in the hands of the few(er), I cannot agree.
The second point about dismissing markets was actually the downfall of many authoritarian governments. You can't defy the law of economics with executive orders.

At the moment, China is only strengthening private property rights, looks like they learned that lesson.
I think the issue is more that the employees are on-call 24/7. On-site housing is just a way to make that happen.
+1, mfa is a good reference. Also, be aware that this process will take a while. Try on lots of clothes. Eventually, you’ll find a perfect item of clothing that will make picking out others a lot easier. Take photos and videos of yourself, especially from the sides and back. Watch people around you and if you think they look good, write down what they’re wearing. And although I hate to say it: sometimes looking good means being a little less comfortable. For example, sneakers will always be more cozy and versatile than classic leather shoes. (I get around this by wearing Eccos, which come close enough.)
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> Meanwhile, your peers who went to medicine, finance, or business would be seeing a steady rise that routinely soared far above $200k, especially if they were successful.

I've always considered my peers to be physical engineers (e.g. civil, mechanical, electrical), not finance or medicine people. I get paid a good amount more than my mechanical and electrical engineering friends, for a job that (for me) is easier and also took me 1 less year at university so I have a lower student loan and an extra year of earnings and experience (3 year B.Sc, vs 4 year B.Eng).

In terms of absolute numbers, I'd guess that there are actually a lot less people who got a B.Com in finance or business who are earning more than what software engineers earn. Most people who get a degree in finance don't end up working in finance, at least that's the case in Australia and New Zealand from the people I know.
Indeed, and not just triathlon training. I'm by no means extreme, I just try to do an hour of exercise per day, but I do look enviously at my peers also in their 40s who don't exercise and so have lots of time every week to do 'fun' stuff.

To the time required for exercise has to be added all the preparing of kit, travelling to pool etc I was up at 05:45 today and have just been able to start breakfast at 07:30. Oftentimes I wonder if it's worth it.
I read systems science at university. While we did some technical stuff like basic Java programming and database design, we mostly focused on WHAT a system is and how to design one from certain requirements. So when I got my first job, as a web developer, I hit the ground quite hard. I hadn't really programmed in my spare time either so I didn't have that backbone experience. (You might wonder why I got hired in the first place, in hindsight, I also do).

Nowadays, some X years later, I identify myself as a backend developer and I tend to stay out of those "up in the cloud" discussions about what a system should look like. So how did I get here? First of all, I think I was pretty lucky having a boss at my first job who wasn't interested in me being really productive during my first time there, but rather wanted me to learn and grow with the company. I also had great colleagues, especially my then team lead, who really took the time and showed me the ropes so to speak. I bought one book, which I didn't really read. I did some online classes, but I mostly learned programming, problem solving, TDD, etc. by working.
This was true before project treble. Nowadays blob are separated form OS version. It makes not only updating but porting different flavors of android much easier. But manufacturer had to implement treble first.
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In the case of athleticism, it stigmatizes exercising and wellness. So you're doing a triathlon or a marathon in your 40s? Now this is a bad thing? Can those of us in our 40s get a break? It's another form of ageism in many regards.

It doesn't stigmatise anything nor point to individual people. It merely refers to a data point where absolute masses in their mid-life have started running or training heavily which did not happen before.

I can validate for my own part with dozens and dozens of my middle-aged peers posting about how next month they're doing their 5K, 10K, 20K, marathon, or whatnot. That sort of flocking most certainly didn't happen ten years ago.

I think that in another 10-15 years the craze has faded and replaced by something else. There will always be people who really do enjoy what they do and it's these people who'd run or train regardless of the passing fashions. But it's often the general mass of people who do things because others do those things.

Entering mid-life provokes a lot of thoughts and emotions to be processed and become acquainted with, and people need to face these in order to lead a balanced life into older age. It has seemed for years that the masses are now doing it by starting with heavy physical training. Which itself is fine but it means that it's not about the running craze itself. It's a fashionable way to live your mid-life and as such I can tell you it does not last forever.

Maybe the next generation's way-of-mid-life is finally giving yourself some rest after all the hard work and doing absolutely nothing.

I think the focal point of the criticism about middle-aged 40K runners is the way that heavy training is praised as if it was somehow a unique discovery or near-enlightening experience that everyone should try. No, people have been training before. No, people have entered mid-life before. Those just happened to meet, for a passing moment, this decade.
It was written during the time that was the peak of those systems (the endless September would happen a year after the book was published), so there's no surprise there.

But I think it's not particularly accurate, in that, while latency would be extreme, that doesn't necessarily translate to bandwidth - and bandwidth constraints shaped Usenet and especially FidoNet as much as latency.

I think a more likely primary mode of operation would be WWW-like, but only your local part is actually real-time; everything else is synced in bulk as and when possible, with some creative approaches to update conflicts for writable resources.
Q: Why not just use a topo map? People who have problems with steep hills have probably learned to use a topo map to avoid bad routes. Give them the sort of map they're used to looking at instead of something totally new.
A: open communication and information never reaches them, we segregate them according to some prime directive, and they go on lynching each other and being backwards for all eternity until they arrive at internet #2 through convergent evolution.

B: open communication and information reach them, some use it for productive ends and some use it to mobilize lynchings, after 1~2 generations of adjustment, education, adaptation they largely outgrow and outeducate the worst of it.

C: How do you propose to regulate communication to find the best path that is neither fully A nor B?
Hindus believes apes did talk at some point, or atleast one species existed that did talk. They were called Vanara. They no longer exist but this literature might point to some species that are now extinct, no fossilised evidence though would be hard to guage from fossils.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanara
What usually happens though is that the wrong kind of developers get promoted. They get promoted based on their social skills and ability to sound smart instead of actual technical ability and actual intelligence.
The article mentioned that lynchings were unheard of in Rainpada prior to the introduction of WhatsApp and the spread of misinformation. Please cite your source for them "being used to using violence."
Hmm and to add more than 5 cookbooks you have to pay.. :-(
An important related question you dared to ask: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/348242/can-a-cyc...
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People who like control seek others who like control to hold greater combined control.
The real problem here is that these services (twitter, fb, whatsapp, etc.) are designed for use by educated, urban people who know the basics of tech. And they are then marketed to uneducated people in remote areas to reach growth metric targets that Zuck and co can fling around at their next meeting.

In the west and in the urban areas of SE Asia, these problems do not occur because the users are educated enough to understand how this all works and are less likely to fall for all these fake news and child kidnapping videos.

Now, in remote villages, the people are not educated in technology. People who don't have access to electricity and TV suddenly find themselves using Social Media. These people don't have an idea that videos and images can be faked using Photoshop and such. So they take these at face value.

In real world communications, people have developed a system of verification and trust. When someone speaks about such things, you generally ask questions like the source for the information. Then you decide whether it is a source that you trust.

Whatsapp has no such system to find and verify the source of information. There is no trust model. The basic assumption is that the person in your trust zone is sending you this information.

Combine this with the fact that the videos hit the base instincts of humanity (safety, especially of your children) and you have a recipe for disaster.
...and hands all your browsing over to someone from the internet.
This is an India problem more than a Whatsapp problem and its been going on long before Whatsapp existed. Rural india and even Pakistan have a serious mob justice mentality.
> Unlike liberal democracies, Beijing has more room to act in crisis.

I strongly disagree; the above is an old shibboleth of dictators and other anti-democrats. Mussolini promised to make the train runs on time.

Authoritarian governments are actually starkly limited by the individuals with power - by their ability, their vision, their own greed and interests, and their political limitations (authoritarian power structures are not democracies; the limits are not voters and law but other power bases). When those leaders are incapable, the country fails - rule of man, not rule of law and by the people. In a democracy, the pluralism in people and inputs creates great flexibility: This especially applies to vision, a reason market economies, which factor in the vision of all, work so much better than command economies, limited to the cognitive processing of a few; it's the reason why micromanaging CEOs fail while delegating and empowering ones are so much more successful. Democracies are much more innovative politically and economically.

More generally, when one person can't do it, in a democracy others can; either others in the broad power structure do it, or the people in power are replaced. IMHO, that exact problem explains the lack of dynamism in authoritarian government, and the reason by imperial China fell so far behind the 'West' - when the emperor failed to adapt, the country was stuck with him (and his progeny) for another century. In a democracy, he'd be gone within months or at worst a few years.

Finally, corruption is an enormous problem and impediment in non-democracies, a fact long-established in Chinese histories. (IIRC, in Chinese histories the standard model of the long-term political cycle is the ascendancy of a new power, then its decline due to corruption, then chaos, then it repeats.) Policy is not driven by serving the voters, a necessity in democracies, but by those in power serving themselves.

Finally, reality does not bear out the strong-man theory: Without question the best performing economies historically are liberal democracies. China remains - and many believe will remain without liberal democracy - a poor country compared with the liberal democracies. Everything the Chinese dictatorship does well economically, from monetary policy to market capitalism to universal education, are innovations of liberal democracies. The most economically successful parts of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, are liberal democracies (speaking very broadly about Hong Kong - the complexities there are out of scope in this comment).

(This is not a knock on the people of China. I dream of the day they will be set free to run their own lives - it's hard to imagine the innovation of a billion people set free with those incredible cultural resources at their disposal.)
Morals are concerned with the subjective goodness or badness of an action. Rationality is not concerned with the nature of an action, but only with its ultimate consequences.

I've never said you have no reasons. I've said that your reasons are moralistic in nature. In other words arguing that stealing is unlawful because is stealing is bad, as opposed to arguing that stealing is unlawful because of the predictable cause and effect sequence of events that would lead to chaos and likely the very literal destruction of modern society if it were legal. Arguing based on morals is a concept that inherently feels right, as one takes a stand for what they feel is just and right. Yet it's the very sort of behavior that stands to regress and undermine the very nature of modern free and liberal societies.
WhatsApp already took some actions after getting forced by government. Now, in India, a user can not forward a message on WhatsApp to more than 5 contacts in one go. Earlier it was select as many as you wish, but now you can choose only 5 contacts.
TCP is connection-oriented, and each connection is a session. IP is decentralized, but the way it's used now in consumer devices makes initiating connections to them difficult and dangerous. Any realistic hope of a successful new distributed web should address this problem, though probably the current solution is "have clients join a private network and route back through it", completely side-stepping firewall concerns. If you ignore the concerns, I guess these protocols aren't that big a stumbling block.
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The article mentions forwarded hoax videos:

“each said they’d done so after watching shocking videos on WhatsApp warning of outsiders abducting children.”
I share the same perception of lack of love from the community regarding JIT compilers, not only PyPy.

I see Julia and JavaScript eventually wining over those that can't be bothered to deal with C for the extra performance step.
I think you are partially wrong. There is an invisible hand, though for the individual, not so much. The hand is of course time itself. Every democracy and every dictatorship and everything else will eventually collapse.
Simple: legally, treat WhatsApp groups as public message boards, and allow the local authorities to administer local WhatsApp groups the way you'd allow police to tear down signs put up on a cork-board in a public square.

It's not rocket science.
out of curiosity. Have you added features or fixes to VSCode?
Non-AMP link:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/australias-anti-encryption-law...
Thanks. Changed to that from https://www-zdnet-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.zdnet.com/g....
I would hazard a guess that the average person doesn't really know what a topo map is and wouldn't know how to read one if they had it open in front of them.
YouTube is unprofitable if you look at direct compensation alone, if you have even 1M views per year not to mention a month you can find partnerships and sponsorships.

I don't understand why people think YouTube should pay more, the vast majority of YT content doesn't cost anything to create nor does it generate any revenue for YT.

Besides the really large channels the best thing one can do is to run a channel is parallel to their business and in support of it which is what many of the smaller DYI/Maker/Professional/Vocational channels do you run a machine shop you make a few videos per month and you draw more business rather than rely on ad revenue.
It's very effective, because it means you get a really good compression algorithm for free (because it's already there in the browser).

You definitely won't save enough bytes with better input heuristics than the amount of code needed to decompress them if you're only working with 13Kb of data.
I relate to this 100% and at my age I started questioning if I should even continue to be a programmer, but then again, once you had the money and the way of life, it's impossible to toss it away for a very, VERY insecure future where you will be bashed, demeaned, and thrown pennies for stuff you poured your soul into. No thanks. Writing to me should be strictly hobby and no money should be involved because every job eventually burns you out by the mere premise that you are EXPECTED to continue doing it.

Best course of action is probably a pseudonym + random thoughts with an enabled comment section in a new blog. If the comments get toxic, delete/disable the entire comment section and continue writing regardless.

Many writers do the writing just to unload from their heads and souls into paper / electronic documents, and publish 5-10% of what they actually write.

In the end, do what makes your soul feel good, as cliche as it sounds. I am pondering the same thing I suggested and I am sure that I will eventually get to it. Don't forget that very creative and outright genius people "blossomed" past their 35 or even 45 years old mark.

You are not on a schedule. Take your personal development at your own pace.
> People like to imagine that there is some kind of corrective force to history, some invisible hand that will, inevitably, push things into balance and restore normality.

See "politics of inevitability" and "politics of eternity", as defined by Timothy Snyder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eghl19elKk8
"Almost all of the clients are men, ranging in age from millennials to 70-year-olds, and they stick around for three to five years before going dark—usually due to bad investments, dips in the economy, or divorce."

This entire article made me sick to my stomach, money can be so terribly corrupting and empty.
Sounds like the videos were very shocking and quickly forwarded - instigating a mob mentality:

“each said they’d done so after watching shocking videos on WhatsApp warning of outsiders abducting children.”
This line does more than almost anything else I've read to explain the wealth disparity between the 1%ers and the rest of the world:

> "Those are stakes of roughly $600,000 per minute, or $36 million per hour. (That nearly matches the 2017 gross domestic product of Tuvalu: $40 million.)"
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> bloggers/commenters who ... have no incentive to misrepresent the story

Isn't that a exceptionally idealistic given what we know about misinformation on the Internet? While we can debate the motivations, the Internet is a cesspool of misrepresentation. Just look at HN comments; they are among the highest quality available, but still it abounds.

> bloggers/commenters who are ... subject matter experts

And orders of magnitude more who claim to be.
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Women obsessed with all this shit are skinny and far away from sexy
Agree. Would not be in favor of Reddit-like collapse. Overall I am happy with current system.

Slightly OT: On mobile the up- and downvote arrows are too close together. For every vote I have to zoom in to accurately click the right one. I suggested to HN Support to place the downvote arrow to the right of the comment header, or have a separator/spacing between the 2 arrows.
I have a girlfriend and she’s the reason things spiral out of control easily. Add cleaners to the mix and I’ve basically given up on knowinf where anything is that people other than myself ever touch.
All the public libraries I've been in have a distinct adult wing and children's wing, though under the same roof. Aside from the collections, the children's wing is colorfully decorated with ample play areas, child-proofed computers, and higher noise tolerance. Parents generally feel comfortable letting their kids wander the children's section unsupervised.
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The part where they talk about denying people spending >$1mm the fulfillment of orders for drugs or sex that amount to $500-1000 is ridiculous farce.

They don’t operate in a vacuum, and a casino that won’t cater to legitimate and reasonable demands of a high roller will lose them to one who does, duh.
> (1) Israel takes great care to protect all human life in any conflict

For example by having snipers shooting unarmed protesters, women, children, journalists. Sometimes they kill them, but preferably they hit them in the thighs: many of the injured will lose a leg or be in a wheelchair for the rest of their lives.

> "why don't more jews die".

Yes, how many innocent Palestinian lives is an Israeli life worth, exactly?

> Israel is not responsible to give people living in what is essentially another country free access to its own services

You're lying. Queues are to move between one city and the other inside the West Bank. Israel has cut the Palestinian territory into little controllable pieces, building a wall inside that territory and around their illegal settlements.

Finally, while the Palestinian minority is essentially just tolerated in Israel, what makes Israel an apartheid state is their treatment of both populations outside its borders: citizens if they are Jews, people without any right if they are Palestinians. Your house or your entire village might be razed to the ground, fanatic settlers can fence off your land or take your home, or build entire roads or cities where you're not allowed to enter. And if you protest, it's the military court for you- while Jews are subject to a normal tribunal.