skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This seems like the author is explicitly arguing for the tragedy of the commons. Yes, any one individual getting 'wound up' doesn't accomplish much, but the public 'at large' getting wound up can and does effect real change sometimes.

There's an easy compromise: it's likely that some people are better off not watching the news. This group might be more sensitive to disruptive news and opinion pieces. It'd do them good to stay away from news.

This is similar to certain food allergies. Peanuts are good stuff, but some people have negative reactions to it. They are better off without peanuts.

Similarly, if your response to news is highly psychologically disruptive, you'd do well to stay away from it. It doesn't have to mean that you are shirking your responsibilities as a citizen. Rather than exhaust yourself by responding to local and temporal events, you could conserve your energies for longer-term projects that help the society at a fundamental level.
I've posted a lot over the years about FB being leveraged by genocidal regimes and bad actors. While I don't think they necessarily pursue such ends, the fact is that social media is a battlespace from where real-world aggression can be launched, and that renting out platform space to this end has been extremely profitable.

Perhaps it has already been posted elsewhere in this very long thread, but if not I heartily encourage more ethically minded FB employees to leak the presentation in question and indeed anything else they consider relevant. At some point it will be too late to feel bad about not having done so when it could make a difference.
The Semantic Web is what you're part of if you make your content explicitly machine-readable, especially if you do it with RDF[0].

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework
Nah. The founding fathers were the richest colonists and George Washington was the richest of them all. It was some rich people opposing richer people overseas that they were descended from.

They didn’t want concentration of political power but they had the economic power. Interestingly the political power endangers them because it has the power to take away their economic power. That’s the real battle still going on today.
From the creators of "what if we fought ads on the web by making our own ads you can't block and attaching a cryptocurrency to it" comes video calling that doesn't work on Firefox. No thanks.
How long until someone takes them down for Twitter?
China, though, is known to have a large group of astroturfers making pro-CCP comments, not just to demand censoring terms.

Also, it seems odd that this would apply to commenters outside of China.
Wasn’t that something Firefox had implemented for a while before scrapping the feature for some reason?
>Last revised: 6 May 2008

I wonder how relevant this will be to today.
Hmm. Maybe you're right. I didn't read it that way because pirating GOG (or Humble Bundle) games is seriously going out of your way just to pirate stuff. They provide (mostly) unencumbered games, provide a platform popular for indie titles, support multiple platforms (when possible) and are relatively inexpensive. And run frequent discounts. And they give you permission to back up to whatever storage you want.

Some people will pirate no matter what, but I think piracy is mostly a matter of convenience. And it's pretty convenient to just buy GOG games...
Which teasers/subjects in particular pique your interest? As an amateur musician, I've found it's been well-worth the subscription I split with a friend during a recent pricing special due solely to having certain classes inspire me through some ruts. Otherwise, I'd imagine it'd be a hard sell without having a field you're wanting to dig into in mind that doesn't already have a bevy of content on the site.
I've seen similarly named classes taught by university professors who were former highly respected practitioners. They're often taught as light intro/survey lectures, usually a couple hours of lecture. I think that's the type of "masterclass" that the brand is named after. In the context where I saw these classes, they're very much a sort of "edutainment" to either market the university or to give alumni a taste of the college academic life they remember.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I think having an unfamiliar subject presented to you in an enjoyable and understandable way is actually a really good thing for expanding your perspective. But that's very different from taking a class to gain proficiency.

Of course there's also the other type of "master class" where a master teaches the nuances that set the masters apart from the "merely proficient".
This vid from the MS Build conf is pretty amazing (skip to around the 30m mark for the mindblowing stuff): https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OyKAYWPRrWKb
What were the things that stayed in the way of writing consistently?
Ask HN: What are some of your favourite DuckDuckGo bangs?
I've been using DDG fulltime for over a year now but haven't made use of more than !w (Wikipedia), !mdn (Mozilla Development Network), and !g (for Google search results). There are something like 13,000 bangs. What am I missing out on, in your opinion?
I wouldn't expect UDRP to allow a trademark holder to take down a site critical of the holder; I that's a legitimate use of the trademark, even if it's not approved or desired.

However, that's not really what most companies are worried about, they're worried about phishing or scams or misleading sites with their name; UDRP should allow those to be taken down fairly easily, although the question is always if it's less expensive to register the domain or to leave it unregistered and dispute it if it's misused.
Pay for Facebook then. 1.5% of total YouTube users subscribe for YT Premium. I love how the smartest minds will ignore the most primitive economics. Ads work. For everyone. Except deluded.
I hate running. I'd do it because it seems like the easiest way for me to get a cardio workout to hopefully live longer. But I couldn't get past some kind of 4 mile barrier in my head. It was just too boring. But I started pushing myself like 10 more feet every run. Why not just go to that next bench, that next tree I told myself. I'd make sure to even stop myself if I was feeling good. "Nope, don't go any further or I'll have to go even further tomorrow." It took a long time obviously, and eventually I started enjoying the runs more and more. The 10 foot limit got pushed longer. But I finally got to 11 miles and began to understand what everyone is enjoying in these long runs. Now I LOVE 11 mile runs and am sad I've had to stop doing them (covid related time yada yada).

And now I apply this pattern to a lot of things. I hate waking up early. Well... after months of inching up the wake up alarm I'm now a consistent 5:30am riser and dig the early quiet morning productivity.

This small, continuous, incremental that you barely notice stuff is a powerful weapon.
Looks like they're using Jitsi Meet: https://github.com/brave/jitsi-meet
I've seen Twitter pull tweets from an account merely because someone I follow follows them. Facebook is the same.

I think Reddit sticks strictly to your subscriptions, unless you go to /r/all.
Looking at the source code, you could self host it making some changes in the code.
once the british had the tea, they traded it for these goods.

not buying tea from the chinese with them.
According to this comment[1] by the author, he used cross-platform C++. See also [2] from Sublime’s other author.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822114

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23312357
Yes, but what's the ratio where harm was done there, vs where the public outrage was entirely reasonable and good?

Public outrage is one check on societal institutions. The police are a check on general lawlessness and disorder, and the fact that sometimes they kill someone they really shouldn't have doesn't make us think, "well just get rid of the police then altogether I suppose". Why would we get rid of public outrage, just because sometimes it's wrong?

Public outrage is what makes journalism function as the fourth estate, after all. Investigative journalism of national-level issues in particular: what would the point of all of it be, if nobody read or cared? Thus, the author's argument is also an argument for investigate journalism of any non-'local' issue to cease to exist. Does this sound like a good idea?
Well you also get a more privacy oriented browser as a perk. :)
And Ovewatch 2.
White Woman Is Fired After Calling Police on Black Man in Central Park
I think I'm sympathetic to much of this post and many of the comments here in how much the news that is consumed and the manner it is consumed is ultimately amounts to nothing more than mindless consumption and / or overblown anger.

If you just define news as "whatever has caught everyone's attention on the national or global stage", I still think there is value to be derived in staying at least somewhat upto I still think there is value in being relatively up to date.

My biggest reason would simply be whether you like it or not, Americans live in a democracy (for the most part) that is dominated mostly by nation-wide politics, so if you're going to be an informed citizen trying to keep politicians accountable (whatever that may mean to you) on whatever issues have their attention. I don't necessarily like this, but I think this is a necessary evil to a degree.

On a more personal note, I still find value in consuming some news because it provides me perspectives of how other people live. Part of that is simply giving me more context to my role in the surrounding world. Another part of it is simply making me aware of a injustices and other tragedies people face that I otherwise never know about. I feel like the news simply helps keep me grounded to the world beyond my immediate vicinity and relative comfortable lifestyle.

While I can not do much to fix many of these massive problems I can still do something; donate money, organize a goods drive, or even continue the chain and keep spreading awareness to someone else.
Yet TwitchCon which is before Blizzcon has yet to be officially canceled.
I watch news because I want to know what's going on in my country and globally right now, biographies will not give me that knowledge. You don't need to stop watching the news, you just should detach your feelings from the facts and watch news from different sources. I watch liberal news in my country (equivalent to CNN in US) and conservative news (eq Fox in US I suppose) and I make my own conclusions on how to interpret what I see based on two different views. There is no such thing as unbiased news, everyone have his own views about world and will shape information in such a way to not experience cognitive dissonance.
Where did you get that number? That's actually far, far higher than I would have thought and quite encouraging...
Yea, it’s really not designed for 3D movies or replacement of a normal monitor. It’s great for viewing or editing individual models that seem to fit inside the display which while a niche is a fairly wide one.

Also, “only 864x853 ... it might be difficult to read normal-sized text.” That makes me feel really old, I spent a long time coding on 640×480 in 16 colors
Thats why I will regret not attending an in-person SIGGRAPH in person this year. You could see amazing demos of frontier technology not yet commercialized.

Ditto watching the NVDIA keynote recently. They were bragging about how good their AI-driven 8K raytracing was. But I could not see much before and after difference on my puny tablet screen.
There's no need to beat yourself up about it, or even call it "regression". You had capacity to make progress for a while, and you did. Then stuff happened, and you no longer had extra capacity. But you used the time wisely, and as you heal you'll still be in a better place than you otherwise might have been.
You are correct. Blackmail would involve threatening to expose some sort of negative info about the YouTuber.
> but they’re framing it as a “masterclass” which is a class given by a master of a topic to students who are proficient in their topic

But they're not?

They're using the word as a trademark, sure, but the actual service is obviously intended for people of a variety of skill levels, as thematically connected by being taught by well-known 'masters' (such as the Penn and Teller magic lessons).

In other words, when I buy an Apple computer and it doesn't include any apples in the box, that's not 'paradoxical'.
Plenty of things don't cure depression. Doesn't make them bad.
> misogynistic

I see no mention of women in general, only prostitutes. You’re the one assuming they’re the same.

Would you call an analogy to a car salesman misandrist?

> violence

To a lot of people stories are more removed, so they don’t hit like the events actually happening would. Which is not to object to your directness, just to suggest you not take such stories as indication that the speaker is some monster who would be fine with his scenario happening in reality.

It would be a shame to miss his wisdom just because he’s different.
> It's better to accept/concede that you are ending life, but doing so without suffering before there's a neural net that can recognize anything

First, this assumes that such a "neural net" is required for suffering. I personally don't have a problem with that, but making an ironclad scientific case for it is going to be very difficult, since we don't understand how "neural nets" actually produce suffering even in the case of humans with fully developed brains.

Second, by this criterion, it's not just third trimester abortions that should be banned, but abortions at any time after the "neural net" develops. That's a lot earlier than our current jurisprudence draws the line (neural activity can be detected in the brain of a fetus at about six weeks, vs. viability at roughly 24 weeks as more or less the current jurisprudence line), which means that our current jurisprudence is allowing a lot of suffering by this criterion.

So I'm not sure this framing actually makes the argument any easier.
That seems to be true. But partly so because there don't seem to be any hits for "far right" in their coverage of US politics. Good for them.

I doubt this would be true for NYT, WaPo, etc., but I am indeed too lazy to look.

For those too young to remember what reasonable journalism used to look like, Reuters and AP are probably the closest, in the MSM.
This is a little old, but is probably fairly relevant...

https://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/15/over-half-your-news-is-...
Managers – Look at Your Engineers’ PRs
Live demonstrations

The book was too abstract for me. Seeing Voss in the act allowed me to imitate him.
Why would one choose GCP over other cloud providers?
This would be a better take. If you genuinely feel that being more informed about current events doesn't outweigh the psychological damage involved, especially if it stops you from being a contributing citizen in other ways, I could see an argument for checking out.

My counter-argument is specifically that if you scale up this advice to everyone or even most people, the implications are really awful.
Here is the redshift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift#Doppler_effect

It's a tongue in cheek about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift#Expansion_of_space and how
"Instead of thinking about getting better, I think it's more helpful to frame progress as things becoming easier." That's a huge insight when you actually become able to stick to habits over the long haul.

Doing all those things I mentioned in the article aren't just possible now, they're easier and in fact feel better than my routine before. I wish someone had told me this years ago... for some reason I thought that routines just continued to be hard forever, because I usually gave up before the point where they became easy.
List of political activities ordered by actual effects on the world, more to less:

1) involvement in local politics (say, with a party or with advocacy groups),

2) voting in local politics,

3) involvement in state or national politics,

...

1,000) voting in state or national elections.

You're arguably a better citizen if you ignore everything past your county or metro area entirely but get really involved in the local stuff—internal party activity, commission meetings, GOTV, activism, that kind of thing, maybe even run for office—compared with your average only-votes-every-two-years-at-best-but-reads-the-NYT folks. Caring about Federal politics, unless you get really involved, only makes sense as entertainment or out of some kind of categorical-imperative obligation.
> My heart breaks at the idea of a guy being murdered with no consequences, but that can't mean that we embrace anything and everything which delivers those consequences.

We don't. The outrage isn't even remotely what it ought to be. We see the videos, we perform grief, and then we forget. I don't see where this belief that we're somehow overreacting comes from: every couple of months, one of these murders in broad daylights happens to have the cop fired, only for them to be later rehired elsewhere. If your fear of overreaction reflected even a tenth of reality, they simply wouldn't be wearing, "I can't breathe," shirts.
>If the author here had gotten his way, nobody would've seen the video, nobody would've been outraged, and nothing would've happened after Ahmed was murdered. Am I supposed to believe that this is an improvement?

Well you need to compare against wasted time on framed narratives, misguided outrage leading to self-defeating policies, etc.

It's like saying poking holes in the ground randomly is a good method for discovering oil because someone lucked out.
Your other comments are dead, but I'm still missing something. Why can't you buy it in the kindle store and send to your kindle over WiFi?

P.S. I am very aware that your operating system doesn't support Adobe Digital Editions; I just don't understand why your operating system needs to get involved at all.
If you have concerns that the page might steal the tokens, leaving out the signature if you're not trying to debug it prevents a valid token from touching the site.
OpenAI has managed to derive a number of Metamath proofs, some of which are smaller than the human-created proofs, using machine learning.

Here is a gource visualization of metamath proofs overtime in the set.mm database:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LVGSeDjWzUo

Note that near the end, one of the contributors is OpenAI, who is not a human contributor.
Ads are here to stay unless human nature about paying for shit changes. Brave's approach while still having ads may nor may not be worse than FireFox who receive the majority of their revenue by partnering with search engines, who, y'know, mine your data and dont pay for it
Grace Hopper was experimenting with symbolic differentiation of functions in her A-2 compiler in the 1950s, and she may well not have been the first. My reference for this is her paper in the proceedings of a 1957 British conference on "Mechanisation of Thought Processes" -- if you set up an account at archive.org, they may let you page through it here: https://archive.org/details/mechanisationoft02nati/page/n9/m...
SNL take on the MasterClass lampooned it perfectly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U31rKSYX07E.

Having said that, I watched a couple of Neil Gaiman's lectures and because I love Neil's work, I loved what he had to say.
> They do care about the open web, but in their own way

Apple's own way is to cripple it to force people to use the App Store. Google's and Mozilla's incentives at least mostly align with those who want an open web.

> As for the encumbered media formats point, it's been mainly a Mozilla and Google thing, as both distribute their browsers gratis.

No, an open web means anybody can contribute and consume without worrying about licensing gatekeepers. By pushing for encumbered formats in web standards, Apple explicitly took a stand against this idea.

> In general, there is a ton of momentum behind H.264 and its successors which is hard to direct towards open alternatives.

All the other browsers supported VP8/9. Apple stuck with H.264 and H.265 until licensing issues forced its hand.

> Most video cameras use H264 or H265. DVB-S2 uses H264.

Most videos created by people are on phones, which save them in the formats that their phones support. It was up to Apple to make its phones support an open format for use on the web, and it refused.
> Pay for Facebook

You can do that?
I trialed nextDNS based on other people talking about it here, and have really liked it - it’s really awesome to have an always on, dns-over-https solution for every device. I think it’s really worth the 20$ per year, just for the slick ui and not having to manage a pihole somewhere.
It's localness by homogeneity rather than geography.
WeChat feels like an odd thing to try to copy, because you can't copy the Chinese government. They directly keep out foreign competition like Facebook, and it's difficult for any small company to deal with the censorship issue.

You're much more likely to have some small scrappy startup steal all your users elsewhere.
You might know this but in case others don't, seeing different speed test results to different services/servers is completely normal.

A lot of people forget or don't understand the "net" part of "internet". The internet isn't a monolithic service you connect to. When your ISP offers you "1Gbps" internet, they're not guaranteeing that whatever your activity, you will get 1Gbps, they're just giving you a 1Gbps connection to their network.

Their network will then interconnect with other networks. Depending on the specifics of those interconnections, you will see different performance characteristics depending on what you're doing.

For example my ISP peers with a particular network that hosts servers ~600km away that I exchange a ton of data with. I get 1Gbps when I use my ISP. However when I use a different local ISP that doesn't peer with the remote network, I see significantly reduced speeds, because the route taken to exchange data isn't optimal.

I know the HN crowd is fairly technically competent but I've seen plenty of competent people who I think knew this in an abstract sense but it just hadn't clicked for them what the practical consequences were.
I understand the protocol is simple, but there's no reason the client has to be. Taking your example:

> CSV files become inline tables if you expand them, etc.

Why not only make them inline tables, but make them searchable, pivotable and graphable? Embed a bunch of statistical tooling directly in the interface. It's something I dream would happen on the Web - if Google^H^H^H^H^H^Hweb standard bodies could agree on a new tag for tabular data, say <datatable>, that would - by default - come with aforementioned capabilities, and with enough styling and hooks to lure in the webdevs, then maybe all the tabular data that's on webpages could be finally made explorable in an efficient fashion...
Thanks - I think that's a fair criticism and I don't know enough to really comment further.
And if the reporters step out of line they're under threat to be banned from coming back which could be career suicide for losing the spot for your employer.
Why would they start the test without warning like that? I would have probably preferred to opt out of their data collection process.
It was a blog post. Not a comment to something you brought up.