skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fake news has always been with us and the internet just propagates it along with everything else.

I wonder what's easier: Curbing the dissemination of fake news on the web or understanding the allure of & preventing people from wanting to believe fake news in the first place.

I honestly think it is the former, so I think there is value in combating it from that angle (in addition to others).
Who gets to define murder?

All rules are made by fallible humans. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have rules.
Why not? You can already use existing App Store apps to connect to whatever ActivityPub server you want, no matter the content. It's like how you can use an RSS reader app in the App Store to subscribe to literally any RSS feed.
> a user cannot download an app’s source, modify it, and use it on their device

But I can do this for open source apps? More specifically (disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and I don't know if this has been tested in court), I personally don't see the GPL requiring that I be able to modify the exact, signed binary that I was shipped if I can create an equivalent one myself.
blockada is an amazing utility. I've missed it after going back to iPhone.
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Like we did our part to ask people to leave Facebook?

We need a more effective strategy than this...
This is hilariously accurate.

I've been predicting for a while now that sites would fall back to the old television show model "RockAuto presents MustangForums.com" or something to that effect.

Instead, we get a dancing Albert Einstein begging us to take IQ tests.
Why mince words? It's literally the definition of espionage. Intentionally collecting secret material and distributing it is simply spying.

He may have thought he was serving some higher good, but that's hardly uncommon among spies.
But is it equally unjustified?

I trust alternative media because they show me the primary sources they rely upon. Mainstream media basically never does this; gatekeeping access to knowledge is, for whatever reason, a key part of how they operate, noticeably imposed upon all their writers. The following things are, as far as I've witnessed, universally true of every mainstream media source out there:

* If they report on what's said in a new government report, they'll avoid including a link to it or even including its name, to avoid you Googling for it.

* If they attack a politician over a short snippet of a speech he gave, they'll only embed the snippet and won't link to a video showing the full context, thus ensuring you can't verify that the removal of context hasn't changed the meaning.

* If they report on an academic paper, they won't mention its title or link to it, nor report on any of the raw data or explain its methodology - they will report only the conclusion (or their spin on it)

The alternative media is more trustworthy, because it has links, which means you can independently verify its claims. The mainstream media is unique in having a strict standard of not permitting rigorous substantiation and referencing of claims made in its articles, maximising the difficulty of auditing them for truth. They deserve the distrust the public directs at them for that reason alone.
My comment from when this was posted a few days ago: "In other terms, top 1% owns 32%, leaving 38% for the 9% below that."
Add this to the list of items (or perhaps the only item?) you'd take if you'd time travel to the past
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Gab has certainly carved out a niche for some of the worst speech on the internet, including at the very least the announcement of terrorist activity (see Tree of Life, New Zealand massacres) if not the wholesale coordination of it. I don't think we can have a serious discussion about free speech without acknowledging that members of these groups have moved along a path from speech to actions that include mass murder.

On the other hand if we're serious about free speech absolutism, this is probably the best case scenario. Federated Mastadon instances should have the option of blocking harassment from Gab users. Allow them to have their free speech, but the rest of online society should have the option to shun them - a real-world dynamic that is not well reflected on platforms like twitter _because_ of centralization. Rather than hopelessly petitioning Jack to ban the nazis, users + communities should be empowered to do it themselves.
That literally is the point of rhetoric.
Can confirm. For me also sometimes input "buffers up", not showing up for over a second, and then appearing at once. I attribute most of that to the first bug in my list for now, as it freezes everything.
Wow thank you! Your answers are really encouraging. Any books or links you like that clarified your thoughts on homeschooling?
Does the clock show today's date as 30th May 2019 or 24 Ramadan 1440?
And my point is the data you're giving is not important.
That's a common claim, but I've seen precious little evidence for it. For decades US Nazis and other loons were justifiably obscure. But the rise of the Internet, which enabled all sorts of connection, also enabled our country's worst to more easily connect, network, and recruit. A good book on the topic is Neiwart's "Alt-America", written by a journalist who studied American white supremacists starting in the 1980s.

As a counterpoint, just recently we saw Tommy Robinson, far right activist and repeat felon, get crushed in the European elections. Why did fail? He himself says social media bans were the reason: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/european-elec...

Deplatforming works. If we need people to understand awful people and awful ideas, history provides us with plenty of examples. Similarly, if we want people to understand tigers, we don't just turn tigers loose in the classroom. We read books, we see videos, maybe we visit a zoo.
I like how the "private institutions, and corporations" part doesn't actually have a citation associated with it.
Are you experiencing this pause on Windows, Mac OS, or Linux? I ask because my employer has some crap McAfee security theatre software installed (Windows) that causes this same issue for me for any application that loads any large-ish file (or large number of files) on startup. Since Firefox is going to load a bazillion things from cache on startup it (or similar software) could be causing the problem.

I had support temporarily disable McAfee's "on-access scanner" thing so I could test it and the problem went away immediately. Everything was nice and snappy again!

Of course, they turned it back on after the test...
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Thanks, I will give it a try again. I tried reading it years ago but didn't find it clicking.
Gamma correct compositing is an option. You can play with it if you load a monochrome SVG in the demo.

For fonts, Pathfinder uses the standard trick of dilating the outlines a bit in order to make fonts look a bit darker at small sizes.
"I hate soup" - OK

"I hate muslims" - not OK

glad I could help clear up these muddy waters we're in.
Few of the important things on the Web are spyvertising-supported, or wouldn't promptly be replaced by something community-driven and free if they went away or became paid-only (stackoverflow, for instance). It's mostly junk.

[EDIT] to expand, I think the piles of spyvertising money funding sites & services is a big part of the decline of truly free sites and open protocols, and make running a paid site (or app, or whatever) harder since you're competing with "free" (but spying on you). Less incentive to use them, less incentive to contribute to them. The whole system's perverse and harmful and it would 100% not be the end of the world, or the end of nice things for free/cheap, if it just disappeared tomorrow.
Strongly agreed! There are some weird outcomes regarding privacy and NoScript interactions with the "all ads" proposal. I'd be happy to just pay to remove ads from Google properties (Gmail, Maps, etc). But yes, anything where I can exchange money in return for no ads is something I'm happy to support.
Kiwi Browser [1] does, it's a fork of Chrome for Android and allows all extensions.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwibrowse...
Wasn't that a misinformation cover story by CIA for the Glomar Explorer so they could retrieve a sunken Soviet sub?
Hopefully, yes!
I'm not sure if you block someone if it also hides their topics created by them but I would assume so. I know they have a way to block words too. I guess they call it mute users and words instead of block.

I know some people were calling this the alt tech space.

I haven't really been following it other than I remember the developer was interviewed talking about it. Another idea instead of verification badge being reserved for large celebrities, supposed to be more to show it's truly them.

I do think we're going down a slippery slope with all this censorship though and a few large players in Silicon valley controlling everything. I know there was a lot of accusations going on, that some search engines and sites were rigged to rank Hillary higher than Trump... Even the people in the media were saying Trump had no chance and Hillary was going to win. It's like they tried to rig the whole thing. But even then the mainstream media is all controlled by a few hands anyways too.

Then there are only really two main operating systems... On Mobile iOS and Android. Desktop Mac and Windows... So seems like more choices and freedom is a great thing, so power is spread out more instead of a few having large amounts of influence. However I also feel like people will pick things based on ease of use and features over being open. I like the ideas of Linux but I find myself using MacOs when it comes to desktop operating systems.

I know people are building alternatives to Facebook and YouTube on the blockchain (such as Steemit). Then there are even projects aiming to build alternatives to Wikipedia as some people don't even trust them either, forget what it's called though off the top of my head though. I know some of these companies have a lot of control and power, and can't even provide decent technical support.

I know Elizabeth Warren recent thing is talking about breaking up big tech, Google and Facebook... I like a lot of what Google does though, as a geek they are doing awesome things technically. I'm not sure if breaking them up is a good idea or not, but I think more competition and choices would be great as lack of tech support is a concern(and many recent HN posts on that topic already) and ideally I wish they'd be neutral in ranking things but I know people debate about that anyway as a whole other topic.
Former reporter creates ‘Rate my Professor’ for newsrooms
Instead of complaining I'm going to make a suggestion.

What if we had a middle ground where we build a browser to fight ads by putting forth responsible ads with responsible tracking and used the revenue to fight for a responsible web.
Interesting suggestion; thanks for this. What changes did it bring for you?
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> There is a clear and definite trend of taking DNS out of the user's control, see all the hype with DNS over HTTPS etc etc.

It seems absurd that these companies are blurring the line between software and malware.

Software vendors are going to have to start paying for the bandwidth they use on networks against the will of the network operator.
I love pi-hole. It's very passive and easy to use. My only issue was when the pi hosting it went down for whatever reason and I didn't know immediately, so I thought my ISP connection went down. I just had to restart the pi to get it going again. It's only happened once in around 6 months. And it's running on one of my older pi!
I'm...not sure what your analogy is trying to say. Only the chans create bad stuff, everyone else just reposts it?
I wouldn't say they're abusing the right to free speech, they're taking full advantage of it.

If you don't like what they're saying, you have every right to not listen to it, promote it yourself, and you also have the right to start a movement to let people know this is going on and to bring awareness to the festering shitpiles those websites are.

It's not an abuse of the right to free speech.
In spite of the fact that Gab is a known cess pool (cis pool?), I funded it because we need more alternatives to the big social networks. I would have funded Tor and 4chan had I the opportunity many years ago.

Not too long ago this was a classical liberal position. Today free speech is passé. Guess I'm just old fashioned.

I'm happy to see that Gab is switching to Mastodon. I think it will increase the survivability of the platform. They've struggled under the engineering challenges of scaling a social network. Mastodon fans should be happy that this may mean an influx of hosts and developers.
I haven't heard much about this - care to elaborate?
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Also, owners or routers able to run OpenWRT (which is actively maintained and in great shape since the merge with LEDE), you have access to several packages providing the same technical solution (DNS-based blocking). As far as I know, the most common and maintained is https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/... .

Super easy to install, full-featured, lots of lists to pick from, auto-updates lists, no need for an additional device, and you will benefit from router features produced by the openwrt community and maybe unavailable in your router proprietary firmware. Much recommended.

If that sounds attractive and it sounds like a good opportunity to change your crumbling unpatched router, the question "what's today's good cheap router running openwrt without trouble?" is frequently answered by https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/ :) .
I've been disabling JS and cookie for

*.google.*/search

and it worked really well. All this page shows is my youtube activity.
So if a technology kills workers but not the public, that's ok, because the workers made that choice? I don't think that stands to much scrutiny. Most workers choose careers of opportunity.

Besides, the direct short-term deaths from commercial nuclear nearly all came from Chernobyl first responders, where staff and firefighters were the ones who got ARS (they chose hazardous careers too).

For the "up to 4000" latent deaths from Chernobyl, I think you have a good point. 1960s nuclear is worse than wind and solar in latent deaths. I'm hoping advanced nuclear with passive decay heat removal and low pressure coolants will even that out.

I also didn't mention the reasons behind deaths from wind, which include hazardous maintenance and ice throw. Deaths from these things are exceedingly low per kWh, just like they are for nuclear. That's the point I'm trying to convey: nuclear is roughly on par with wind/solar in terms of deaths/kWh.

Anyway, where is the best data on what kind of solar is currently being built?
> So much so that many official docs assert this to be true even though it technically isn't.

Do you have any links for that? I've been working with winapi recently and have had a hell of a time getting some clear concrete statements about exactly what encoding (if any) is used in file paths.
The persecution complex among predominantly white males right now is high because there's a significant social change occurring that is causing those who've been disadvantaged the same privileges that white males have enjoyed alone for much of recent human history. It's a natural human reaction to care more about loss than to see the potential upside. We've also seen this numerous times before. The rise of Nazism was the natural response to the harsh restrictions of WW1 which is why the Marshall plans included Germany in the rebuilding opportunities.

Many of those on the right address looking for power and utilize this gut reactionary response by those who feel disenfranchised for their own purposes. It's why fighting against a populist like President Trump with facts doesn't work. If reality don't fit the narrative, make a different reality. It's a very effective propaganda technique that usually requires an outside force to break. The US did something similar with the fight against communism and really had a hard time redefining Americanism once the Soviet Union collapsed. That's why the so called war on terror will never end. In order for America to be the good guys there needs to be bad people too. So in order for the alt-right to be the victim they either find villains on the left or they make them up. AOC is a perfect example of a toothless villain. She's a junior congresswomen with no real power, but she's constantly villainized far beyond the risk she poses to anyone on the right. Physically though she embodies the fears of white guys being replaced from their positions of power.
Jesus fucking christ. This is scary. They can build a full profile of me with all this data.
There's a recent episode of the CppCast where the developers of boden.io are interviewed: http://cppcast.com/2019/04/marcus-tobias/
some of their products already have hardcoded Google DNS. see

https://www.reddit.com/r/googlehome/comments/8917ci/google_h...
It's not nearly cut and dry as this quote as defining what "right to say it" means in the age of the internet is a massive open question.
Different HN users in both cases. When comment section becomes unwelcome to the first group, they don't comment.

I always support Gab, nazis, child porn, piracy over censorship.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12896859
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Totally irresponsible. What if another person (colleague, family member, friend, spouse) opens this on your computer?

This should be opt-in, not opt-out!
if only pi-hole could block the in-app ads that served from the same host :(
sneaky youtube, the ads are becoming more and more
Indications Arctic may become temperate zone
> they pick a side, rejecting one of the clocks as "fake" and continue using the one that most aligns with what they think the time should be.

People do exactly this with clocks, too. If I had one clock reading 9:10 pm and one reading 1:45pm, and I just had lunch, I'd assume the second one was right rather than look for a third source.
Enterprise cybersecurity startup BlueVoyant raises $82.5M at a $430M+ valuation
Most MIPS or ARM router CPUs are significantly underpowered to handle OpenVPN, and high-end routers are expensive now.

If you're intending to use OpenVPN, you could easily justify a basic x86 pfSense or linux router: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/04/the-ars-guide-to-bui...
Isn't this disagreement basically the same point made by Martin about different kinds of quality? SQLites tests don't say the code is architected well and reusable and modular and blah blah blah, it says that it works. When people talk about the quality of NASA code or SQLite, that feels more like external quality than internal quality.
Couldn't I sign my own pi-hole and add the certificate to my phone/computer?
Agreed. This document is reasonably broad but it's missing quite a lot of undergrad mathematics, let alone graduate math.

If you literally wrote down sequences of definition, theorem, proof, definition, theorem, proof, ... with no exposition or exercises whatsoever, I think you might be able to include most undergraduate math in about 1000 pages. That would include calculus, real analysis, complex analysis, linear algebra, abstract algebra, discrete math. Maybe elementary number theory, topology and probability theory as well. That would be...horrible to learn from, frankly. Imagine a ten volume set of Baby Rudins, with no exercises.

If you really doubled down on the cheat sheet angle and didn't include any proofs - just the theorems, identities and inequalities - I think you could get through all undergrad math in a few hundred pages. But you wouldn't have any of the peripheral content the author included, like physics/economics.
have a nanopc-t4 laying around that i wanna try for a pi-hole + opnsense install. looks like i'll need to add a usb3 ethernet card unless i want to live with 50% the line speed and putz around with tagged vlans using a single nic...although 50% of 1GBit is a lot more throughput than i can get through my isp.

anyone have this type of setup?
So we have a trend going up.

In the past what has driven this trend downward?
Every time someone sets out to create a completely unmoderated free speech platform, it immediately becomes an object lesson in why people moderate platforms.
In attempting to dismiss the point Bill Gates gets it partly right. 'you'll only receive a piece of text through levels of direction, like a friend who says "Hey go read this"...', and says so as though it is some arbiter of quality as they would have verified first.

Not that people generally verified that much anyway, but if it comes from people we trust and like we probably don't engage natural scepticism. Not like you might if you doubted the source, or heard a wild claim on the news. The friend has become the source, and reinforced the veracity. The sharing model did that. It probably also explains the amplification effects of social.

So I suppose the meta question is did they pick a side, or was it picked by the random connections within the peer group?
I wonder now that Edge is moving to be Chromium-based that it will take, or be forced to take the same approach?

I can imagine Microsoft carving a greater slice of the browser space if they continued to support Chromium extensions whilst Chrome did not.
> What volume of gas is being expelled over what period of time and how does that compare to the 750kw consumption of the rig?

I have no numbers, but the flares are apparently pretty easy to see from space:

https://geology.com/articles/oil-fields-from-space/

And I've heard from first-hand reports that the amount of heat and light being thrown off by flares is staggering. Like, feel-it-from-a-hundred-yards-away hot. (Of course, I'm just some guy on the internet -- do your own research, grain of salt, and all that).
>tests [...] doesn't meant that your code is high quality. They're correlated,

Yes, if they're correlated, that contradicts the absolutist statement of "Tests have nothing to do with code quality."

Trying to improve code correctness is directly affecting code quality.
No, it’s really not with such politicized Facebook groups. In fact access to any medium where one’s opinion can get distributed to unreasonable number of consumers should be banned. Contemplate your choice on your own.
Any chance the next 10% after that owns exactly 10%? Have we reached a perfect pareto distribution?
What are the advantages of using Cloudflare's DNS as opposed to say Google DNS or your ISP? Tracking?
> In order to keep the society from diverging into rampant monopolization and totalitarization, I would propose a modification to TLS that would allow to optionally turn off encryption while preserving data integrity guarantees.

You can already use TLS with the null cypher to get the data integrity guarantees you want.

Apparently Microsoft (back in 2016) did this to for Windows Update: https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/74533301869746995...
How does a DNS blocker know what requests are caused by what site? It's a stateless protocol.
So did vernor vinge in his sci fi book A Fire Upon the Deep, which is worth a read regardless
Ask HN: Why do more and more websites have light grey text on white backgrounds?
Or worse, light grey text on slightly lighter grey backgrounds?

I find it a strain to read, especially if it is a very light grey. I also think it looks drab and indistinct, especially if it's a very light grey.
See, alt-right is such a subjective term.

I've seen people say that wearing a hat with "MAGA" on it is alt-right.

I've also seen people say that opinions like "we want an entire race of people locked up and punished" is alt-right as well.

While one is definitively magnitudes worse than the other, they're both put under the banner of "alt-right".