skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, fighting the "Firehose of Falsehood" propaganda model is quite challenging:

https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html

> Since its 2008 incursion into Georgia (if not before), there has been a remarkable evolution in Russia's approach to propaganda. The country has effectively employed new dissemination channels and messages in support of its 2014 annexation of the Crimean peninsula, its ongoing involvement in the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, and its antagonism of NATO allies. The Russian propaganda model is high-volume and multichannel, and it disseminates messages without regard for the truth. It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency. Although these techniques would seem to run counter to the received wisdom for successful information campaigns, research in psychology supports many of the most successful aspects of the model. Furthermore, the very factors that make the firehose of falsehood effective also make it difficult to counter. Traditional counterpropaganda approaches will likely be inadequate in this context. More effective solutions can be found in the same psychology literature that explains the surprising success of the Russian propaganda model and its messages.
The above was downvoted, but I thought of the same issue (tickets as a gift) immediately. Before I was 18, my father let me use his credit card to orders tickets for all the shows I went to. Imagine if he had to come to the venue with his credentials to get me in every time.

I also have donated my tickets to friends when a show that was scheduled three months out becomes unappealing due to illness or other unpredictable factors.
I'm wondering if someone can clear up a related question. I've always heard that two ears are needed to identify the direction of sound. However, I can tell the direction of a sound when one ear is covered up and without moving my head. Try it yourself: put a TV or other sound source behind yourself, positioned a little to the left or right, cover one ear, and you'll see that you can reliably tell whether it's more left or more right. So I think that something more complicated is going on within the ear and that a single ear is not strictly unidirectional.
OP here. Initially I made this because I enjoy watching lectures or browsing HN while I eat, but I don't like touching my laptop with greasy pizza-covered hands.

That was a year ago.

I think I got a bit carried away with the project -- now it can work with any site, supports multiple languages, and has a completely plugin-based architecture.

The extension is especially useful to those who might be excluded from the web today due to accesibility issues. LipSurf enables those with motor disabilities: Parkinson's, arthritis, cerebral palsy, RSI, etc. or to those with arm injuries, spinal injuries, amputations etc.

Not everyone can use a mouse, click on small links, or navigate complex dynamic UI. So I hope this will be useful to a wide variety of people.
I can't think of any good reason why music should even be copyrightable.
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All the new code of conduct introduces the ability of the kafkatrap to be used as a weapon to alienate community members.

A code of conduct should be a bullet point list of offenses and the exact consequences for the violation. With the exact steps for removal or banning a member.

Their should be different levels of rules for different roles in the organization/project. Rules for general everyone, rules that extend to official representives for both private and public capacities. No one is above the rules.

projects should also consider trying to mimic a non profit organization in the terms of job roles. HR exists for a reason. Managers etc... where it applies or makes sense to the project.

Large projects like the Linux kernel should act like a non profit, that hires everyone who wants to join. Helps find them roles or task to do, fires those who break the defined rules.

Less is more, don’t break discrimination laws, no obscenity language at a person ( direct or indirect). F$&k it broke, why didn’t I catch that. Ok. Their shitty code wtf don’t they understand. Not ok. Dave is a dumb a$$hole. Not ok. ( sorry to all Dave’s in the world)
I wonder what questionable language got slipped into this bill by lobbyists.
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I only read some of the first two parts of this dissertation.

I wonder whether there are any good classes of learnable patterns. In, say, the continued fractions, or the decimal deals, there is a fine but essential line between patterns of coefficients with repetands, and those which do not repeat.
That wasn’t the question? But thanks
It's not just pinning though, is it? This is like saying "why would anyone host your file on BitTorrent", but the reality is that no one has to host your file on BitTorrent. Downloading naturally seeds[1]. Unless something has changed with the pitch, this is the same with IPFS. Not only do people seed while downloading, but it will (eventually) even seed locally first, such as within the same network.

IPFS promises nothing, nor tries to, in the way of permanent archiving. It's about reducing congestion and gaining benefits of immutability. It could archive something in the sense that something popular is difficult to remove.. but that's definitely not a guarantee.

[1]: ignoring aggressive non-sharing downloaders of course
You're probably right about physical technique. As a lifetime guitarist, I'm certainly not going to disagree. But we're talking about notation. Guitarists avoid learning it (and invent crap like tab) because of the many true things people say below my original comment.
Rust has been able to target RISC-V for half a year, so LLVM must have been able to target it for even longer...
So that musicians get fairly compensated when you use their song in a movie or ad?
Could anyone explain what Next.js is? I use React (using create-react-app), but I'm under impression that React is a JavaScript framework (like Spring is Java framework, or RoR is Ruby framework).

So Next.js is a framework for a framework?
I know from first hand experience that it's true in NYC and in the Canadian province of Quebec. I think it's true in many more countries and many more places in the US and Canada, but as those two examples show, it's not always legislated at the top level of a county, even when there is a law or binding regulation about it.
Microsoft bought GitHub and it wasn’t for internal use.
Not to denounce the tech but if the song skips I can be fairly confident I was accurate. Dragging my finger blindly around seems likely to have adverse effects.
So per your own data the capacities have increased year on year and are within 15% of max... pleaSe show me a laptop with a 100Wh battery that isn’t strictly because it’s a power-guzzling beast.
Localizing the sound isn't just a matter of hearing a phase shift between your ears, you also have some 'knowledge' about how sound moves in a room, how your ears change the sound, and what frequencies will be more prominent given which side of you the sound is made on. The human brain kills it at real time signal processing.
> on guitar is much more difficult than piano.

Yes of course! Classical guitar is on the level with all the other instruments. Those guitarists, of course, can all read music.

> some sort of counterpoint

Could you even write counterpoint in tab? Would it make sense? It'd be so much harder to read and write than just regular music at that point...

Edit:

> find the right starting point to whatever song you want to jam over, and start going up and down the same pentatonic scale pattern

This is very not true. It's only true for the simplest chord changes. And it's equally true and false for every other instrument. But... at the risk of being misunderstood again... guitarists are lazy and guitar affords many shortcuts.
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People don't give a damn about helping you, and will unpin any site as soon as it becomes a resource drain. And over time, they will learn that's unpredictable, and nobody wants to be a site admin, and so nobody will pin things.

I thought the last 20 years on the Internet have shown us that "humanity is noble, and good" isn't true, and we should assume "evil and/or lazy".
Besides the obvious benefits to the brain, imagine you are traveling around the world and being able to effectively communicate with people without the crutch of English language. That feels amazing and very very useful.

People open up to you if you can ramble off even couple of sentences in their language. It is absolutely worth the hassle for a traveler.

But if you live in and don't see yourself ever leaving bumfuckville, Alabama, then there's no point.
False equivalence definition: "A common way for this fallacy to be perpetuated is one shared trait between two subjects is assumed to show equivalence, especially in order of magnitude, when equivalence is not necessarily the logical result." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

It is hard to see the equivalence between a traditional media company such as Sinclair that produce content for distribution and a social platform for individuals to share their thoughts such as Facebook.

When we are talking about potential effects on personal communication it does not make sense to compare the magnitude between a traditional mass media platform product and a social media platform, because the latter focus is entirely on personal communication and the former is a mass media company.
Same. I picked up "avoid passive voice" from high school English teachers.
Mostly because of the "hub" part. It used to be the place where everyone else was. Up until the Microsoft buyout when people started jumping ship in droves.
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in this case the odds jumped from -600 to +75,000 ($12 profit to $82,000)
What if they went to +75,000,000? Would they have to pay the guy $82,000,000?
As long as the mistake was obvious, of course not.
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In the traditional world of raw Verilog, gate-level tuning, verification systems with millions of lines of code and all that, that's true. By the way, those hundreds of people will need a bunch of million dollar tools, hardware and software. And a lawyers dealing with the license and patents, if you are going to sell your chips - and of course you are going to sell your chips in traditional hardware world, except you are DoD or NASA.

But maybe the hardware world is not have to be this way and this way only.

> No part of Kami need be trusted beside the formalization of low-level (Verilog-style) circuit descriptions; all other aspects have end-to-end correctness proofs checked by Coq. Hardware designs are broken into separately verified modules, reasoned about with a novel take on labeled transition systems. Furthermore, Coq provides a natural and expressive platform for metaprogramming, or building verified circuit generators, as for a memory caching system autogenerated for a particular shape of cache hierarchy, or a CPU generated given a number of concurrent cores as input.

> We have been developing a candidate official formal specification for RISC-V, which stands a good shot at being ratified soon as such by the RISC-V Foundation. The spec now includes virtual memory and is able to pass all the official RISC-V machine-code tests that aren't marked as specific to particular extensions. We should be able to boot Linux on the specification soon, running as a simulator.

> A verified processor exists providing all that functionality, though we are still working on debugging the specification, since the current version isn't quite able to boot an operating system (so the specification must be out-of-synch with software expectations somehow).

https://deepspec.org/entry/Project/Kami
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> The Russian propaganda model is high-volume and multichannel, and it disseminates messages without regard for the truth. It is also rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it lacks commitment to consistency.

So they just copied the Republican and Democratic parties propaganda models?
@Alturnwall, I fall in the same camp—I can do some front-end coding, but I'm by no means a backend developer (I honestly wouldn't even use the label developer).

I've been using TakeShape to manage content for mozzstix.com and I've found it incredibly easy and intuitive. It's definitely built for us!
> I'm out the difference.

No, you usually aren't. Both Stubhub[1] and Ticketmaster (through their TM+[2] resale platform) offer full refunds. If the reseller has already been paid, the amount is either deducted from the next payment to the reseller for sales, or taken out of the linked bank account or credit card. If the reseller hasn't been paid yet (they generally get paid on delivery, not on sale), they just don't get paid.

Even if for some reason the exchanges can't recoup the refund cost, they'll just eat it. Exchanges live and die by their reputations, which is also why they punish resellers heavily for delivery problems or invalid tickets.

1: https://www.stubhub.com/promise/

2: https://www.ticketmaster.com/verified
Inside every cynical person is a disappointed idealist. - George Carlin.
Should we really be incentivizing making music as a career? And besides, I don't think the bulk of music is being created by people being compensated for it.
And at their IPFS gateway: https://ipfs.leotindall.com/ipns/Qme48wyZ7LaF9gC5693DZyJBteh...

(not that that's functionally much different than the regular page, of course)
That's actually different, you're talking about calorie restriction (-50% of needs), what we've been discussing is fasting (0% of needs). There are substantial physiological differences between the two modes, and that study is not relevant to this conversation. Fasting actually improves your body composition (reduces proportion of fat : muscle) [5]. Further, even if you regain all the weight you lost, you'll still have a better body composition after fasting vs. CR [6].

Speculatively, even the reduced amount of food will suppress HGH production - while total abstention yields many hundreds of percent increase in levels [3, 4]. HGH is known to be responsible conserving muscle and improving body composition.

It's been shown in studies that fasting raises your metabolic rate [1, 2] (again, offer not applicable to CR, by your own study and some others I don't have on hand right now). This is likely due at least in part to the production of norepinephrine during fasting. This further substantiates my point that we're talking about two different modes of operation.

CR != Fasting.

FWIW I agree with you, reducing your calorie consumption 50% but maintaining your 3-a-day plus snacks eating schedule is not great for you ("starvation") and likely damn hard to stick to. Weight Watchers themselves published a study that showed it just doesn't work. [7] This is what they were testing during the Minnesota starvation experiment and that didn't go well, to say the least. What my review of numerous studies indicates, is that the relationship does not extend to reducing your caloric intake 100% (obviously, intermittently for some value of intermittent). What it appears is being re-discovered is that it's not how much you eat, but what you eat, and how when/how often.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14066725

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10837292

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3127426

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1548337

[5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17413096

[6] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5042570/

[7] https://fatfu.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/weight-watchers/
Here you go:

https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/s2334/BILLS-115s2334is.pd...
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[1]: ignoring human nature of course

ftfy
I think he was asking from a more philosophical stance, rather than practical.
From the abstract:

In this dissertation I investigate the theoretical possibility of a universal method of prediction. A prediction method is universal if it is always able to learn what there is to learn from data: if it is always able to extrapolate given data about past observations to maximally successful predictions about future observations. The context of this investigation is the broader philosophical question into the possibility of a formal specification of inductive or scientific reasoning, a question that also touches on modern-day speculation about a fully automatized data-driven science.

I investigate, in particular, a specific mathematical definition of a universal prediction method, that goes back to the early days of artificial intelligence and that has a direct line to modern developments in machine learning. This definition essentially aims to combine all possible prediction algorithms. An alternative interpretation is that this definition formalizes the idea that learning from data is equivalent to compressing data. In this guise, the definition is often presented as an implementation and even as a justification of Occam's razor, the principle that we should look for simple explanations.

The conclusions of my investigation are negative. I show that the proposed definition cannot be interpreted as a universal prediction method, as turns out to be exposed by a mathematical argument that it was actually intended to overcome. Moreover, I show that the suggested justification of Occam's razor does not work, and I argue that the relevant notion of simplicity as compressibility is problematic itself.
Something harder or nearly impossible on all of those other mediums, aside from on the web I suppose, but still wouldn't be too impossible to spot.
How do I, as a US citizen, know that Apple isn't replicating my data to this Chinese datacenter?

I know you will say "you have to trust them", but therein lies the problem. There is no way for consumers to verify anything about their data.
Have you tried talking to the tech lead and asking him what gives? There is a very high chance that he doesn't even realize what he's doing. Be charitable - give him the benefit of the doubt and be non confrontational.
If I were to guess, I imagine room-sized VR is the next step.
Yes, we should. If you want things done well, you want people to be able to make a living doing them. I'd love to see any sources on your claims regarding to music creation - certainly, a huge portion of quality artwork is the result of people being paid for it/creating with the expection that they'll be able to sell it. This has been true for centuries.
> Should we really be incentivizing making music as a career?

Sure, why not?

> And besides, I don't think the bulk of music is being created by people being compensated for it.

Most of the money goes to the few at the top, it's true. How does that change things?
Well that’s just the thing. “Fair” in this context is heavily biased by the how the world is currently organized.

I’m pretty sure the notion would sound ridiculous in a world without copyright. Such a world would look very different from ours.

But even if “fair compensation” was the goal. Why then not stipulate that in the law? Whay grant exclusive control of copying to anyone.
Nope.

Peertube is just the software. The linked has no lookup system, it's just a site telling you about the software, linking to sourcecode & documentation, and linking to other sites that host that software.

The primary instance references on the site (i.e. the streaming server that they embed their own videos from) is https://framatube.org/
It's using torrents through WebSockets, it would be nice if the regular torrent protocol supported them. You just need to download a torrent to stream, or be one of the peers viewing to stream it to other viewers.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
> If you free people to move

I guess it depends on your perspective whether this is the case. With the current policy, if the implementation works, GitLab employees should be free to move anywhere without sacrificing anything in terms of living conditions. If you live somewhere with low costs of living, you can move to your community in an area with higher costs of living, without noticing in the amount of things you can purchase. The same holds true when you move to an area with lower costs of living, but of course, you'd get paid less.
With great power comes great responsibility. This is a situation in which the old axiom, "don't write stupid code", comes into play.
Yes, and yes! There's a cache plus the concept of "pinning".

Hosting a node is not quite like being an onion endpoint, because the bandwidth load gets shared out very quickly.

Hosting a _gateway_ is a big bandwidth commitment, but I pay for lots of bandwidth for just that reason.
I am deaf in one ear, and I do frequently struggle to determine the direction of sound. For example, if you call my name in a room full of people, or hide my phone and make it ring, I have to rely on non-directional cues to figure it out. (In these cases, recognizing your voice and seeing your face, or walking around and using the volume changes to figure out how far away I am.)
I have heard it a few times. Why the scarcasm?
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It's exactly as you state. This is the problem. The IP address needs to be stripped before storing or sending to anyone else, or it's still something you need to consider as personal data. This matters for GDPR. So in effect, this service still has to adhere to GDPR, because it is in fact receiving IP addresses, regardless of them getting stored or not.
This website isn't a service, it's the website for a piece of software you can download and host yourself. So it's not really comparable to Youtube. Explanation/documentation is normal for that kind of site.

If you want the equivalent to Youtube, take a look at something like https://framatube.org/
Marinol is a synthesized form of THC, not a novel distinct cannabinoid.

The novel cannabinoids making headlines because they’re sending people to the emergency room, when weed is so famously safe in overdose, are dangerous (at least partly) because they bind more strongly to the CB1 receptors than THC does.

Not sure how people generally distinguish between between “synthetic” in these two senses.
I follow the Good News Network on facebook, it's a good source for positive news, ranging from the small but heart-warming to the hugely important.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/
You're joking right? FB has over 25 thousand employees and you think 20 people is a significant reorientation effort? Or that a team any larger would have problems a scaling?
Running a database on EC2? Your clock could be slowing you down
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> Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications.

https://github.com/zeit/next.js/

So a specialized framework based on another framework
To play devil's advocate, why should people continue to be compensated for work they did long ago? It's normal today, but it wasn't always that way, and it could be time to revisit that assumption. The amount and quality of works would change for sure, but there's nothing I know if that says there aren't other reasonable systems out there.

Especially in light of the fact that copyright is not fulfilling it's intended promise. Specifically that the government protects the work for a time, and in return the work goes into the public domain after a reasonable amount of time in order to enrich society as a whole.