skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What claim is there to rebut?

A 15 second google shows the top social media sites based off monthly active users. Tell me an equivalent, viable platform to rival Facebook/Instagram that doesn't share the same political values.

I’m not seeing a claim there, and what you did bring up (marketshare) I’ve responded to. If you want an alternative to mainstream social media, they exist and aren’t as popular, but since we’ve agreed that popularity isn’t monopolistic... who cares?
Some mean looking teeth, or a spooky spiral may have changed that.
Well, except business is not zero sum. The game is not over when you lay all your cards on the table.
For most timekeeping devices, the inherent drift and skew noise floor is above the leap seconds error.
Only if you ignore the categories of software where Microsoft leads -- Active Directory and Office 365 are SaaS offerings that Microsoft has that are seeing massive adoption, and Microsoft is using that to leverage businesses onto their other cloud offerings.
The touch bar is not a selling point. I like my escape key!
> It's more like TADA — Trust After Device Additions.

Indeed. Or, "TA-DAA"! (trust after device addition/alteration, again)

I'm not comfortable with this "secure" device held key.

Maybe a private key that's pass-phrase derived could anchor the trust? So that the device key just becomes a trusted sub key/cert? With maybe a 30 day validity before renewal. (renewal ux being: please enter your pass phrase to insure continued integrity...)?
This is why I don't really like poker. There's just too much variance. Unless you play again and again and again there's not much correlation between skill and the winner.

I think it's why people also believe there is "beginners' luck" - there isn't really - the entire game has tons of luck. But when confronted with someone who clearly isn't skilled but wins anyway, poker fans really don't want to face the reality that the game is mostly luck.

Another issue with poker - at least Texas Hold'em - is that the best strategy is folding 90% of the time, which is just boring.

I'm sure there are much better bluffing games.
i accidentally read it as 'Google replace office perks with student loan repayment'!
Yeah, I think I'm confusing storing things as UTC with storing things as UTC+0 - I forgot it stores the offset.
At 4.2M, PSVR Now Has About 2X Install Base as Vive and Premium Oculus
will they ban Black Nationalism as well?
If they overreach then we circle back, basic iterative process. I see nothing in their statement to indicate that they're going to overreach.
Hmm, I don't even know what "white nationalist" mean. Nationalism is often confused with chauvinism. The difference is rather important. Nationalism is a natural and mostly positive attitude: a person lives at some place (country, city, village), surrounded by people with that person spends most of the time, with whom that person talks, trades. So it is natural to be more eager to help those people around than someone living on the other side of the globe.

On the other hand, chauvinism is a negative attitude, this is misunderstood nationalism. The good example is the following.

Let's say I have kids and my neighbour too. Obviously I want the best for my kids, so I take care of them, send them to a good school, so they have the best possible education and perspectives - this is "nationalism". It does not mean that I wish anything bad for my neighbour and his kids.

Now, chauvinism means that I am going to hurt my neighbour's kids, since they are competition for mine, and this is obviously bad.

So, coming back to the FB declaration, "white nationalist" does not make much sense. The colour of the skin is hardly a predictor of common interests. I assume FB means chauvinism, otherwise they will have to ban all international sport competitions news (funs are naturally nationalistic since they support national team), they will have to also ban all national holidays, including 4th July, as they are nationalistic by very nature.
"This isn’t the same as being in the feeling"

I genuinely have no idea what this means. What are you trying to say here? So I can be in any feeling except frustration when I'm conveying that I'm being frustrated? This sounds like snake oil.
> running JS on the server

Huh? Enough people apparently knew JavaScript well enough that running it on a server was really useful. Why's that not a real problem? (Not being able to do so.)
I despise these weird nationalists, but this is the final straw; I've deleted FB over this. :)
The real problem is that the mission the SR-71 was built for doesn't exist anymore, and nobody else with a need to go that fast has the money to back it up. We could build a successor the SR-71 that would go even faster and further and have fewer weird issues like fuel leaking out constantly, but it would cost a lot more (even inflation adjusted) than the SR-71 did and fulfill a mission that nobody was asking for.

Computers didn't make us lazy, but the Git-R-Done mentality of the old projects got gobbled up by the bureaucracy in all of our big defense contractors/aerospace companies. It's super hard for a Kelly Johnson type to fend off thousands of middle managers all trying to justify their position.
There are several books reproducing much of the Vivian Girls [1] and other work, including a catalog[2] published by the museum in Chicago which holds most of his collection. Check your local library.

1. e.g. https://www.abebooks.com/9780929445151/Henry-Darger-Realms-U...

2. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=3005201109...
Yeah, I love tournament poker but can't imagine playing live tournaments for a living. I played a ton online before Black Friday too, pretty successfully, and then was one of the top online tournament players when I got back into it for a bit while I was outside of the US a couple years back.

As a last hurrah before getting back to startups I traveled to one big live festival..played terrible in the $10k main event due to poor sleep after travel and got 3-outed just before the money after playing great in a satellite to the $25k. It's one thing to miss the money after playing great for ~5 hours in a $500 tournament from the comfort of your own home...consistently walking away -$15k+ in the hole after expenses for days worth of effort? No thanks.
Yes. Even directors don't really have offices. I know at least one VP who doesn't have an office.
For what it's worth, Google Play's Radio system and "I'm Feeling Lucky" (a terrible name for what it does in my opinion) works beautifully for me!
> Would the civil liability be under tort law or something else?

One obvious basis would be in tort, more specifically negligence; similar to (perhaps a subtype of) negligent entrustment.

> The first requirement for tort liability is that the defendant owe a duty of care to the plaintiff.

That's the first requirement for negligence, not all tort liability.

> I understand that people sue Walmart for ammo sales and such, but is there any chance that a shop owner who sells, for example, duct tape, a ski mask, and zip ties to a kidnapper could have even civil liability?

Yes, quite likely, if they actually knew, or reasonably should have known, the kidnapper intended to use it in a kidnapping, and the harms at issue are of a time that should be reasonably foreseen in such use.

> The shop owner has no legal duty (even civil) to the potential victim

True under the very old common law where duty was found only in privity, but untrue with the modern rule which incorporates the general duty of care—which is generally a duty to act so as not to cause reasonably foreseeable harm.
process-oriented
Pull quotes don't belong on the web. They made sense when people were thumbing through magazines, not lists of website headlines. If I click your headline, I'm already going to read the article.
These two claims aren't mutually exclusive.
Possibly AR and wearables. Getting the machine even closer to the human?
Is there any game that offers so many "life lessons" than Poker?
Not everyone has student loans (I don't, my parents might be too nice) so it gives them a way to make it look like they're giving everyone a really great deal without having to give it to everyone (just a guess.)
> I do not, honestly, think you are arguing in good faith.

The majority of Muslim countries are not in those areas. There are muslim countries in Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Central Asia. You're arguing from a place of ignorance.

The top muslim countries are Indonesia (12% of muslims), India and Pakistan (11% each), Bangladesh (9%). Those four countries account for 53% of the muslim population. The arab countries (not all of which were banned) only account for 20%. Thus, the vast majority of muslims are still able to enter the United States. Calling this policy a muslim ban is like calling the EU policy of requiring Visas for most countries a non-white screening program.

Moreover, both venezuela and North Korea are banned, both of which have few muslims. Is this also a Christian / Buddhist / atheist ban now?

The five majority muslim countries that were banned (Syria, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya) account for 7.5% of the Muslim population. Syria at least also has a sizeable non-Muslim population.

> It's telling, I think, that you made this about the current President and his predecessor, and that your argument that the Muslim ban wasn't really white nationalist is because the Muslim ban was really a... ah yes:

And what exactly is it telling of? An avoidance of hyperbole when it comes to politics?
Well you must be the expert considering you can't even get her gender right.
Design engineering: the next step (2007)
you asked me twice, and this isnt unsubstantive
Commandos, Infantry, and Police (2004)
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PRIVATE and nobody will EVER know about it!
Agreed - this is an incredible book. Highly recommend it.
10 million people on Belgium ( more actually). Because of the shadow users, everyone with a phone is involved.

So, ~0,04€/inhabitant/day seems a bargain.
I think more technically the Wright Flyer was the first powered flight. People had been flying guiders successfully for decades before.
The F-117 was mostly a limitation of computing technologies at the time. We (apparently) didn't have the horsepower to model radar hitting curved surfaces, so the boxy plane came as a result of the limitations of the modelling system.
is it really a use case for WASM?
They merge at a point. The moment they merge you have achieved Nir... Unix ideal.
White is not an ethnic nationality. A person from Ireland has no ethnic or national ties to a person from Italy. The fact that the citizens of those two countries were not considered "white" 100 years ago demonstrates the invalidity of "white" as an ethnic or national group.
Why is this even a problem? This is the entire job of tzinfo which any respectable language uses to resolve datetime conversion.
1. Would you prefer a large number of small customers or a small number of large customers, and why?

2. What is your current pricing model for your product(s), and how will your pricing models change over time?

3. What tangible efforts have you made to make high-level business decisions transparent across all levels of the company?

4. (optional) Why have you chosen your particular financing model (bootstrapping / VCs / other), and what are the pros and cons you have considered?

You should be looking for a high to very high degree of alignment between sales/marketing and engineering, high price points and premium markets, and a good amount of transparency. The insurmountable problems that will make your life miserable are the problems you cannot solve and cannot solve with technical means (working for low pay / benefits cut / company is VC playground and has no future / etc).
>I do not understand how people can not understand that a percentage tax, by it's definition, does have the largest companies pay more.

They don't understand it because it isn't true on a proportional basis (and in some cases on an absolute dollar value basis, too).

Larger companies have access to tax avoidance strategies which are unavailable to smaller companies[1] which substantially changes the calculus.

I've gone through the books of plenty LargeCos. The playing field is not even.

[1] issues include inability to finance high-end tax structuring advice, writing of grants or negotiate valuations, lack of ability to amortize risk associated with an unfavourable tax ruling, lack of capital to access directorship services in tax havens etc.
> This only follows if you believe you're under an obligation to use social media.

Were the town residents in Marsh v Alabama, required to inhabit the company town? I think the fact that they did is what made is a public space, regardless of whether they were required to.
>“But what if I gave you all the money you could ever need to do it?” Trump reportedly asked. “What if we sent NASA’s budget through the roof, but focused entirely on that instead of whatever else you’re doing now. Could it work then?”

"Cancel all your research projects and focus on a rushed, unsafe, mission to Mars within the next four years" isn't an offer I'd take either.

And that's even supposing he has the political power to actually give them the money he was offering. Which he doesn't.
Okay, but "can be speculative and messy" doesn't suddenly mean we can't make any judgments at all. Here the relationship seems quite clear. Why can we not act here, just because a theoretical example exists where it might be more complicated?
They have different pain points. I subscribe to a couple streaming services, but torrents let me find content more conveniently than searching several separate catalogues, and Plex's paid version provides a better consumption experience than any of the paid services.
Seawick
Simply send them your URL, and they will delete you, they did it for me today
"Today we’re announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism on Facebook and Instagram"

First of all, why white nationalism, how about black or yellow nationalism, are they ok?

Second thing, they will ban "separatism". Really? Are you FB guys really going to ban Kurds who want their own land, are you going to ban Palestinians who want their own land? If FB existed 30 years ago, would it ban anty-communistic opposition in central and eastern Europe which was fighting to get separated from Soviet Union? What the about Scots, what if they want to separate from UK? Will they be banned? Same with Catalans?
Full quote:

> "you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue...and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay?"

It's clear as day that he condemned the neo-Nazis.
On paper it would out run any missle with prior warning. But in reality in a dog fight at close range its unlikely it would be at top speed to do so quickly enough.
Science and technology are generally agnostic to their usage, and will be used to both positive and negative ends whose magnitude is proportional to the power of the underlying technology.*

AI has the potential for massive positive effects as well as massive negative effects.

What saddens me is that we have systems and incentives in place which encourage governments and corporations to use powerful technologies to negative ends.

* Obviously there is room to quibble about the positive/negative balance of individual technologies, e.g. gunpowder, bio-weapons, etc., however I am sure a circumspect analysis could find positives even in things developed primarily to improve the efficiency of war.
Banning Hindu Nationalists from its platform is a pretty reasonable position that FB should take.
The alignment of incentives is as fickle as the alignment of the stars. There's no telling when the incentives will line against you; that is why it's worrisome in the general case.

> If you think profit motive is inherently bad regardless of any outcome, then fine, but that should be the focus of the argument.

That is not at all what I claimed. All I suggested was that we shouldn't be cheering the banning of speech based off the profit incentive since there is no clear alignment in the general case between profit and ethics.
Similar story with me: decided I didn't want to join the long-term job hunt and went to Insight (4 years ago).

I've been very happy doing data science ever since. It's great to work more collaboratively, ship more quickly, and learn from great engineers.
How does open sourcing the server help you audit what their servers are running? There's no way to know if what's open source matches their running code, and if the security of the system depends on the server being open, it's not secure.
Okay, I don't disagree with your premise. And I was a small time pirate before Spotify and the like.

But couldn't you legally copy music between devices without being a pirate?

Also, surely nobody tried to have music for an MP3 player AND a Walkman. Those have got to be mutually exclusive, don't they? Even smartphones and MP3 players didn't exist together much.

I personally started paying for Spotify to help myself feel more ethical about my music consumption. And it is very convenient. Except I haven't ponyed up for the family price yet, so only one person in my family can use it at a time.
You can definitely political vlog by renting space on a CDN to host your own webm's. Or BitTorrenting them and sharing magnet links. Google can't stop you.
According to their statement, they have long banned for "hateful treatment of people based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity or religion", and white supremacy has long fallen under that. They also say that nationalism does not usually fall under this, with things like "American pride" or "Basque separatism" being an important part of people's identities.

What they say is changing is that in the specific case of white nationalism and separatism the overlap with white supremacy is nearly total to the point that they cannot be meaningfully separated.
> Theoretically above some classified altitude the Blackbird can go much faster than Mach 3 and keep on going until the airframe melts away at some crazy high, theoretical speed no one has bothered to check.

I'm very skeptical of these rumors. The SR-71 inlets were shaped for a specific range of mach numbers, and wouldn't work beyond that. Significant new engineering would be needed to go well beyond mach 3.5.
So what about those of us that don't have student loans? Do we get shafted on benefits?
Yes and no. It's definitely better if you're in the business of tracking down violent extremists and interrupting their recruitment or action plans. On the other hand, not everyone is cut out for that and it's unreasonable to expect everyone to do that all the time for themselves.

Rather than gagging certain people, anti-racism and CVE focuses on raising the cost of certain kinds of speech acts, specifically ones that are less about intellectual inquiry than about intimidation and coercion, which behavior may endorse or actually escalate into violent physical acts.

Despite the aphorism 'sticks and stones may break by bones but words can never hurt me', hate speech imposes a significant burden on the unwilling recipient from general anxiety up to full-on fight or flight reactions, and the infliction of this burden is deliberate and strategic. It seems entirely reasonable to me that the people who want to engage in such speech should experience for themselves how their speech acts feel for the recipients.
First you say that “monopoly isn’t important” and then go on to claim:

Due to network effects, effective competition can't exist.

And

>Nothing about being dominant in a market or network effects directly implies a monopoly.

In 2019, this just seems ridiculous. This has got to change.

And then

It's as though we're dealing with Standard Oil, and if you want to be a full time political vlogger, you hew to YouTube's rules and politics, or get bent.

Now first of all your last point is conflating the right to express yourself with the right to make a career on someone’s platform expressing yourself. The latter is not protected, but as you live in a free country you are welcome to try to change the law I guess. You can after all still be a full-time political vlogger without YouTuber, Alex Jones seems to manage it (unfortunately). It will be harder to find a mass audience and make money, but that isn’t protected and neither does it imply monopolistic practices.

As far as the need for network effects to be classified as monopolistic, I disagree, but again if you feel otherwise then by all means, try to get that passed into law. What isn’t acceptable is pretending or arguing as though it already is. I suspect that your attempt to pass such a law would be met with scorn and incredulity, because after all you’d be arguing for the inaliabel right to make a living spouting views online. As it stands no one is stopping you from attempting to do so, and no one owes it to you either.
Thank you. Any plans for f-droid?
==The reason censorship doesn't actually prevent genocide is because any ideology that's popular enough to actually inspire a genocide is too popular to be censored.==

Do you have a source for this claim?

It seems to me that in every case where "ideology" plays a large role in people doing horrible things to each other, one of the common threads is propaganda (often built around de-humanizing the opposing side). Post-WWII Europe might be the best example of what a society with "censored" or regulated propaganda looks like.
>when confronted with someone who clearly isn't skilled but wins anyway

That’s what keeps the fish around!
And thus begins a Cambrian explosion of new spy devices that run (practically) forever off a button cell.

The bleed/drain rate of many batteries is far more than 1mw.
This is exactly the weakness that phishing exploits all the time - they only need to succeed a small percentage of the time. If they rely on users being vigilant or noticing odd behaviour, they are guaranteed to succeed some percentage of the time. That's a flawed system, not something you should blame on the user.
I've never found Apple support to be a hassle but that's just me. I do find it odd that this person can go on twitter to create the thread, tweet, and reply, but can't find the time to contact Apple. It's just creating noise IMO.
Apple News+ vs. Apple Newsstand (2011) Keynote Comparison
They really aren’t. They can only get up to ~750 m/s.

You want fast, take a look at the Sprint missiles. The damn things had 100g of acceleration and could hit 3400 m/s.
The explosion reminds me of his hilarious and surprisingly violent ads for Wilkins Coffee. They have precursors of Kermit the Frog and other muppets from as early as the 1950s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmhIizQQol0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxLyuw5bdyk

http://www.openculture.com/2012/05/jim_hensons_violent_wilki...

Seems like Wilkins Coffee is remembered mostly for those commercials: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22wilkins+coffee%22&oq=%22w...

... though they were able to land a PR piece into the Washington Post in 1989: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/food/1989/0...
The JVM and CLR suck balls.

They put in huge amounts of effort into things that don't need solving, and the things that need to be solved they do in the most roundabout way possible.

What we _really_ need is a sandboxed VM for running C code securely and efficiently.

The JVM is pretty much the opposite of that; it's not sandboxed, not secure and certainly not efficient as a target for C code.

We're hoping WASM starts over from scratch and does things right this time around.
Yes, with DB Import.