skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not merely because the denizens of those kinds of boards are in some state of obnoxious wallowing in self-pity (not clinical depression outside of the actual one or two posters who actually might have it), unless you consider that "off kilter". Reading people incessantly moan about the "good ol' days" of everything is negative content. The discussion is all fueled by that wallowing and none of it is constructive or interesting.
>To the extent that this campaign succeeds it will tend to remove voters that are a) more suggestive, b) more prone to apathy.

You forgot c) That are Afro-Carribbeans

This is targeted. It doesn't just remove all suggestive apathetic voters. It targets only the ones that vote the "wrong" way.
So the American founding fathers weren't engaging in free speech when they declared independence from England (an act of treason against the crown?)

No one protesting an authoritarian regime or an unjust law is exercising free speech when its illegal to do so?

Books, art, music, any expression considered subversive by the state, none of that is free speech?

The law does not define free speech, it can only limit it, as any law can only limit rights, not define them. There is a great deal of historic precedent defending illegal speech as free speech.
They have the same business model, same opposition to regulation, same generally bad arrangement with employees (sorry, "contractors") and riders alike. When my city (Austin, Texas) passed a law in 2017 requiring fingerprints and government background checks for ride-share drivers, Uber and Lyft left the city in protest (other ride-share startups sprung up in their wake and did just fine, so the law clearly wasn't a great burden on businesses).

However they did not, as far as we know, track government officials' locations to evade investigation (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/technology/uber-federal-i...). It seems you have to have a man-child as your founder and CEO before you'll do something that brazen.
> Taken to an extreme, the ecosystem of speech and ideas that democracy relies upon becomes a wilderness where it becomes impossible to discern who is articulating their real opinions and who is simply making a bad-faith argument in which they do not necessarily believe in order to get a paycheck.

I think you are making a lot of politicians homeless now if you would forbid this.
Sometimes you have to disincentivize behavior with prison time and things like that and then hope people don't do it. Trying to prevent some crimes ahead of time is a recipe for dystopia.
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There's a lot of naysayers here: it's been tried, it can't be done, etc. But I have a hard time believing all that. They said the same thing about the music industry. The cable TV industry is going through a huge change now. I think someone can figure this out, and I wish anyone taking this on the best of luck! I think it's something we really need to counter the constant barrage of ads, privacy invasions, etc. that we have to deal with today.

Personally, I'd be happy to have some sort of pay-per-article "account" I could use as-needed. But it's really hard to decide whether something is worth reading up-front. And after-the-fact I'm guessing most folks will just not bother. So I'm not sure how you address that. But again, best of luck to anyone taking this on. I'm rooting for you.
You're correct, factually; this is just a perverse way of 'campaigning' that has no semblance to the 'spirit of democracy', rather than the criminal sort of voter suppression, but that's the age we live in.

Hah. Imagine if all this effort had been turned towards anything _good_, like, say, electing a political party in Trinidad which supported the interests of both racial groups instead of suppressing one of them from voting so the other would win. Like, what if all this scheming was in the interest of helping do good things that help people instead of electing the powerful people who pay for it? Sure sounds nice.
Just load the site. If it's too slow for your connection that's a subjective call. Close the window if you're unhappy. Deal with it.

Having to support people who refuse to load more than arbitrary amount X of JavaScript would be ridiculous.
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You're right, my phone number comment really didn't add up after I read your response. I can't think of a good solution for your example, even something as well known as Steam or American Eagle falls apart when the average person is presented with multiple choices. Short of spending loads of $$$ buying every domain similar to your company name, I don't see any good solutions. Sad state of affairs :(
Antitrust enforcement doesn't require an absolute monopoly, just abuse of market power in anti-competitive ways.

Further, Apple has a 100% monopoly control of the iOS App Store.
I'm not disagreeing with your point (or the network effect in general), but I guess I worry that if we don't engage in some early skepticism, we're going to end up with another Google or Facebook on our hands.
Thanks. A couple of questions.

>VPN apps do exactly this, but they go through review to make sure that they are actually VPN apps and not

A vpn app can tunnel network traffic, but it doesn't meddle with system certs or the CA. It doesn't doesn't get to decrypt TLS connections by default. So which one did fb do ? Did they just tunnel traffic, or did they MITM TLS traffic as well ? All the coverage about this story seems to be vague. If it's just the former, it doesn't seem that egregious since it is explicitly called out as a data collection app.

>iOS, as of iOS 8.4, periodically checks for revoked certificates and will refuse to run apps that were signed with something that Apple has blacklisted.

Again, I don't know how the system cert store is handled, but even if you can't run the app with the blacklisted dev cert, are the modifications that it made in the past (such as enrolling a CA) also reverted ? In this case, that may be the desired outcome, but in general, that state is not really a part of the app.
I've got 2 clients using them and wish I could say this info surprised me, but they are a terrible registrar & DNS provider. I've asked both of my clients to reach out to them about the issue but don't have any information past that.
>I find that revolting

That's because you have a job as it currently stands. If your job (and especially your whole sector) had gone abroad, you'd find the outsourcing PLUS tax evasion revolting. And as you'd be scrapping to pay the rent you'd wouldn't find particularly comforting that some consumer goods would be cheaper make this way...

That said, who said anything about the people "who work in the factories"? Strawman much?

The tax Apple saves from not paying it to the US isn't going to those "schmucks" (sic), so whether those people should be paid more (which I'm all for) is orthogonal to whether Apple should pay more taxes in the US instead of looking for legal loopholes

Let's see companies keep their "corporate social responsibility" to their own societies and countries first -- which they don't --, and we can talk about them "improving the world" at large afterwards...
> nobody understood exactly what was causing the failures

Nobody understood exactly at the time what was causing the F1 engine instability. They were reduced to trying random things and hoping it worked. The mathematical models to figure it out were not developed until years later.

The schedule was rushed out of fear the Soviets would beat them.

Don't mistake the success of the gamble as the same as the risk was low and understood. NASA gambled big time, and they were very lucky.

I'm not saying they were wrong to take the gamble, either. But they knew the engines might blow up and launched anyway.
So many commentators in this thread seemingly only read the title of the article, and are (somewhat rightly) decrying the increased commercialization of the Internet as one cause, without realizing that they're commenting on an article that's just a thinly veiled advertisement for a blogging product.
Still playing devil's advocate : I am more perplexed by the necessity to have Apple's approval than anything else here.

Sure this particular app is debatable.. but I have also worked in the music streaming industry. While being super respectful of the users, we still have sometimes had to wait for months for Apple's approval.

Having a single agent being able to gatekeep what you can install on your phone at their own discretion is an issue since there will always be the temptation to prevent any competitor from getting in your space.
Sounds like they ran negative campaign ads? Hardly voter suppression and trivializes it by trying to equate the two.
I wonder why a router is really useful to them. With most sites using https, not much beyond DNS requests and plain IPs can be captured, without forcing users to install a CA.
I'd disagree pretty strongly due to the intent.

Intent is important and clearly intended to suppress voters or describing your* actions as suppressing voters and continuing to do that is a clear intention to break the law and, IMO, a pretty repulsive thing to do. There are people out there who thing our democracy should work slightly differently (ranked choice, wealth based voting, removal of the electoral college) these approaches can be said to disenfranchise voters but if the motive for discussing/pushing for these changes is to make things more democratic their heart is at least in the right place. Having your heart in the wrong place and being open about it is a demonstration of a clear lack of scruples.

I'd also mention that I idealistically believe that negative campaigning is undemocratic - I strongly support movements to let third parties play a larger role in politics because when you change the question from "Us vs. Them" to "Which one of us" I think a lot of the partisan issues our country is suffering from are removed. I can accept that negative campaigning is an optimal strategy in our current political system but I think the fact that it is indicates that there's some really fundamental stuff wrong with our system. All that said, I think if you were, in isolation, to refer to negative campaigning as voter suppression then you'd be incorrect and the "fake news" label would be appropriate for being purposefully misleading.

[*] I tried to find more context around who "a senior official" was in this quote, it appears to suggest it's someone associated with CA and the campaign, and no matter who they are they're clearly in the wrong, but if it's someone not associated with CA then I'd agree this article is misleading by specifically calling out the CEO of CA.
What you want is ActivityPub: https://activitypub.rocks/

It's the underlying protocol that connects the various federated services in the "Fediverse", (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) like Mastodon, PeerTube, NextCloud, etc. At root it's just a standardized way for nodes in a network to send messages to each other, though, so you could use it to get those "connections of a social network" you're looking for. And then Mastodon users, say, could get updates/notifications from your site/service/whatever right in their feed.
I can't see how compulsory voting is a good thing. Voluntary voting, I feel, has the effect of filtering out those that can't be bothered to vote and would therefore vote poorly (that is, based on whims and more susceptible to misinformation) if made to. I don't know that people who do choose to vote in a voluntary system have done their diligence on the people and issues they are voting for, but they at least meet a certain level of caring enough to go to the polls or mail out their ballot.

Then again, it'd be nice to think compulsory voting would increase levels of civic engagement and make people interested in how government works and effects them.
As others have said, working 12 hour days is likely your problem. You are probably naturally compensating to not get worn out by instead doing sporadic, low pressure, tasks.

Think of it in reverse. What would a day look like if you really focused on one thing. Presumably you would be worn out if not after 4 hours at least after 8. Now you would have another 4 to go. That isn't sustainable. Doing all sorts of random things that doesn't need to produce a result probably is.
> How is he supposed to refer you to people not saying something?

That's not what I was asking for. I was asking him to refer me to credible people saying that they don't believe Apple was involved. Here is what he said:

> Nobody credible believes for a second that Apple was involved, for whatever it’s worth.

I thought perhaps he had read about credible people making this claim, or had some other way of knowing what these people believe. I was simply asking for more information, so as to further educate myself.

I believe that in the absence of any sources, this claim may suffer from the Argument to the People [1] and Argument from Authority [2] logical fallacies.

Full disclosure: I have a MacBook and an iPhone. I enjoy Apple products and respect their business model. And in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, I'm inclined to believe that Apple wasn't involved. I just want to learn more about the subject from people who know more than me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
That's completely irrelevant. Working full time on OSS means being a businessman in disguise (and, arguably, perverts the very ideas of free OSS), so we're on the opposite sides of the fence, I presume. Or do you live off something else and work on your projects completely out of sheer altruism?
That may be true. I can only speak to my experience.
I think that coming up with a good project idea is a hard task. Don't listen to people that claim they have so many ideas. Most of that ideas are probably bullshit, that's why they have so many of them.

In my opinion, it can take even a few weeks to come up with something that's even worthy of doing. You should be asking yourself what are the reasons not to do it first. Try to observe your life every day and see if there is something that drives you nuts or maybe something that makes you procrastinate. After that figure out the solution and go for it.
By defying Apple's rules, Facebook shows it never learns
>By the way, I also find it really interesting that video games are software, a special kind of software that we assign a very particular type of value to that's not really monetary.

Video games may be software, but they're consumed in a way that's much more similar to music or video. Video games aren't a mean to an end like other kinds of software, but instead is an experience to be enjoyed simply through the consumption of it.
It was not a "team" or "project". This company operated on Toyota's model of dual manager (or it's variant). One for the project and one overall. The overall manager oversaw a a fixed number of people (around 200-250) and he could rank few of them the lowest. He is not obliged to and many managers never gave the lowest score to anyone.

Also this manager would get the feedback from all the teams his reports worked for and make his own decision. Quite often he would even ask the employee why his project manager rated him low.

Overall from what I had seen the process worked not too shabby even though it was unfair.
>where such simple concepts even a table has a gender stereotype (der tish, la mesa, la table etc) //

Linguistic gender and whatever "gender" is supposed to mean for people are entirely orthogonal.

It's not "la table" because it has traits related to the female sex.
1. The right to free speech is good. Individual instances of free speech can be bad. These two stances are perfectly compatible: belief in the goodness of the right to free speech only means you think it’s bad for the government to punish it, not that every use of it is good.

2. Another way to put this is that it will tend to remove voters who are more open-minded and who have interests outside politics.

Fanatics and crazies will vote no matter what. Getting more ordinary people to vote is good.
This very much depends on the humans in question.
Right, if you're taking a big risk of death, have it be for the payoff of a useful mission. Not a practice flight where the payoff is simply that you didn't die.
What are you calling the "lowest level"? Because at the CPU level there is no arbitrary scope mutex. That's not a thing that exists at the lowest levels. The mutex/lock that exists in basically every language is actually built on top of atomics, that's your "building block" so to speak.

There is an x86 instruction prefix named 'lock', but it only applies to a single instruction and is considered in the family of being atomic rather than a mutex.
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I would like to automatically post from from subreddits like r/technology about every 10 minutes, but want to make sure that I follow all HN guidelines.
My take is that there is a civic, if not legal, obligation to participate in our democracy. The speech in question is working to suppress the mechanism by which we influence our own society. That it's an effort by a private party, and not the government itself, is immaterial to my point.

I view this and similar efforts as direct attacks on the fabric of our society, aiming to reduce the influence of underrepresented people, to the advantage of the well-represented. In that respect, it's no different from disenfranchisement (or "structural remedies", as you so euphemistically put it).
A bunch of people have pointed out that, for all the criticism we’re leveling at China’s nightmarish social credit system, we’re well on our way to building the exact same thing but with corporations in charge. And while you can talk about how this is totally different because the corporations can’t put you in jail, that really doesn’t matter at all if I have to constantly self-censor all my words and thoughts or lose my health insurance. That’s an equally shitty outcome.
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I'm not so much bitter as filled with pity, to see all the effort Kenosha went to to try to recover from the loss of AMC, and then the remaining Chrysler factory jobs. But the downtown streetcar from nowhere to nowhere takes the prize for worst idea. The only way for it to be sadder is if it were an elevated monorail.

The reason people stay is that nowhere better wants them to come. And they can at least scrape some value out of the traffic between Chicago and Milwaukee, and from the far-flung commuters, and Chicagoans looking for a cheaper place to tie up their weekender sailboats during the summer.

13000 jobs would have been a real boon for the area, if they were ever real. But the Rust Belt is rusting, and states and communities are competing against one another to be the last spots of steel left, when everything else around is grimy red holes. Kenoshans will vote for anyone that promises more jobs or better jobs, no matter how transparently false the story may be. Their dads built cars, and now they're stuck cleaning the go-karts at Action Territory, or waiting tables, or commuting for an hour or more each way. So the one who tells them the most comforting lie wins.

I think it's probably the exact same story in Janesville, after the GM plant is finally closed for good, with no backsies. In another 10 years, someone will promise them a big manufacturing plant there, and the voters will fall for the exact same trick, all over again.
"The only folder we exclude is the spam folder."
I would pay for a service that unsubscribes my email from spam senders. Especially those without unsubscribe link in email.
> Asking lawnchair_larry to give you a complete list of everyone he considers credible is disingenuous.

Implying that was asked seems disingenuous to me, but I assume that wasn't your intent.

What I see is a request for clarification, specifically asking for the sources from which a conclusion was drawn.

It's not a police raid. Relax.
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Tax the externalities unless we can efficiently recycle everything power efficiently.

I.e. increase the cost of cheap disposable manufacturing so that making things repairable is the better economic decision (and better environmentally).
Imagine Microsoft would shut down every computer who is not licensed properly. Without any joke, dead people are the result. For that reason you talk first and then act accordingly. Killing a business partner internal applications is very drastic behavior.
Pre:

- Will they give guidance on Model 3, Geographic breakdown(most other peers do)?

- how many sales are high end cars vs low end?

- TSLA down 11% on year vs market up 5ish

- convertable debt issue, we're now in the 20 day average window,
option implied vols show market doesn't think they'll make it

- Elon commented that they could pay bond w cash and didn't seem concerned, cash balance is up, though so are short term liabilities

Car Notes:

- current lowest price car sold is Model 3 $44,000

- reported to sustain 7,000 per week, a pretty big miss from the 10,000 that elon claimed they'd be at by mid 2018 but expected

- Est. 2019 delivered 360,000 to 400,000

- Est. Q1 delivers expected to be down vs 2018

- Est. Q1 deliveries expected to be down in North America

- still no funding secured for China plant

Solar:

- why even track anymore, installations fell, yawn

Numbers:

- cash balance is 3.7B

- cash flow positive again!!, beat last quarter, though capital spending fell alot( down to $300ish million)

- 4Q Adj EPS $1.93, Est. $2.14 (Big misses, what happend here?)

- layoffs could cut $400M annually from budget

- Customer Deposits $792.6M vs $908.5M in 3Q

- Bonds unmoved, yield still 8%

- Elon expects to be profitable each quarter in 2019

Misc:

Lots of analysts congratualting Tesla saying they've got the supply side sovled.

Shrinking sales on the high end indicate taht their next challenge will be on the demand side, especially on the high end that allowed them to survive for so long

Can they be profitable with $1000 in margin per car instead of 5,000-10,000?

Interesting note by Bloomberg

> Services reported a loss of almost $500M

"So basically, Tesla is taking a $500 million hit just to save customers from the dealership experience."
I think you may be begging the question when you assume that there must be "actual stuff" that is forever beyond physical explanation.

I suspect that one is more likely to understand "green" by realizing that it is a word (originally, a sound) that you have come to associate with memories of visual experiences. To say something is green is to do a comparison between an aspect of the experience of it, and aspects of some of those memories of prior experiences.
Well, I wish I was able to fit the entire title in the submission. If anything, I feel that the bribery aspect is more damning.

>"You can spend $10 million on an election. Or we can send one of our guys in to go offer the leader of the opposition a bribe, you know, three weeks before polling. It's a very good way to win an election.”
Be sure to check this out, too:

http://www.oocities.org/

...and no, it all wasn't able to be saved - but a massive amount was managed to be preserved (it used to be available as a torrent - assuming it is still being seeded, you might be able to download a copy if you really want it - but it ain't small).
Would you like to elaborate on this with some facts or will you just throw shade with a hypothetical statement?
You're getting downvoted because you're interjecting with an off topic comment that (most people think) adds no value.