skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only does it not seem to be a free speech issue to me, from my point of view this is basically the best-case scenario for avoiding censorship of contentious issues on dominant platforms like Facebook/Twitter. It's the obvious conclusion to arguments like, "the way to deal with bad speech is with more good speech."

Twitter saw speech they disagreed with, and they fixed it with more speech. They haven't censored any of Trump's arguments, they didn't delete his tweets. They just added their own commentary on top of them. That's what Republicans have always claimed they wanted. Argue that people are wrong, don't censor them. Don't throw people off the platform, add a fact-check.

I grew up listening to Republicans rail against the Fairness Doctrine, and I basically agreed with them on that point. Forcing private broadcasters to act like they were neutral on every issue was problematic. But now apparently that's flipped and free speech means forcing a private company not to take sides on any issue, even when taking a side doesn't require censoring or restricting anyone else's speech.

Any Republican that was genuinely anti-censorship would be cheering Twitter's move, even if they disagreed with the content of this particular fact-check.
This also seems to be missing any coursework outside of CS/Math.

People certainly disagree about the overall value of general education requirements, but a writing course, even a technical one, would fit nicely here. No point in doing amazing work if you can’t tell people about it, after all.
I’m almost 50. I haven’t stopped getting calls from companies across the board. I’m not worried as long as I keep up my skills and can be useful to the company that I talk to.
Thanks for the helpful advice!

Totally agreed about learning from existing models especially the ones used in China. I don't think a model that works in the US or Europe will necessarily work in India.

Indian markets offer "mutual funds" which are very diversified and some of them carry low fees. The plan is to make sure new investors know of this option.
Wow! I would say, unless Twitter has double standards, it should fact-check the tweets of its own "head of integrity".
You are not forced to follow or interact poeple you disagree with.
How can the "private platform so they can do whatever they want" crowd reconcile their views on election interference using social media in 2016 with this latest move by Twitter? If they can do what they want with their platform why did it matter in 2016 and why does it not matter now?
But it's Pascal. :)

Now if there were something like Lazarus, but for Rust, the HN crowds would go nuts.
Lots of suggestions about math, ethics, SWE; I’d suggest some biology. Especially biology of sensory systems. Both for some understanding of the systems that already solve these AI problems really well, and for better understanding of human interface requirements: what do we really hear and see in these AI-generated stimuli.
Makes sense. Model Y is picking up steam. I doubt they are selling 100% production of the other models (Y is eating a bit into sales of all 3). S and X are both in need of a refresh, they have worse battery tech than both the 3 and Y and missing some of the cool Y features (heat pump, octovalve).

Current wait is 8-12 weeks on a Y, and only a week or two on the rest.

In line for my first Tesla (a y). It has been a very different car buying experience!!
> 2) should a publisher be allowed to run a platform that they are unable to curate?

Absolutely. I’d prefer to see it go back to the old days - where there was no moderation and they had safe harbor.

Of course we shouldn’t permit illegal content but everything else absolutely should be fair game. If you don’t like it then don’t watch it. Someone else might.
Fascinating. Since I never paid attention in history class, I'll admit The Great did remind me of this practice. It's interesting people were experimenting with techniques likes this so long ago, when their understanding of medical science was so rudimentary compared to today.
Possibly, yeah. But given that they ran millions of dollars worth of his ads, claiming that he was "totally silenced" is a bit silly.
So would a vast number of things. github, blogs, cloud, public web hosting of almost any kind.
You're expecting a lot out of a country still trying to get Creationism taught in schools as an alternative scientific theory.
If there is control over information, how do the masses protect themselves against disinformation campaigns coming from official sources?

Conspiracy theories and baseless nonsense is the price you pay to be able to criticize those in power. It is a price worth paying.
Not much disagreement, except that I plan on wearing hoodies at 60 because hoodies are great.
Considering you can't change the battery (easily) they better offer a solution for maintaining its life.
I'm from the midwest. I usually get fucking pissed when people call them flyover states, caused major friction with a cofounder for years.

But seeing this mislabeled as "bias" has got to be the silliest and most hyperbolic over-reaction I've ever seen.

It's somebody being a minor asshole on Twitter. That is not bias of any substantial sort.

Feelings are important, but as somebody who does get his (overly sensitive) feelings hurt by that statement, I'm at least mature enough to place it in context.

We need to grow up as a society. There are faaaaaar worse actual biases on display everyday on Twitter, from people with far more power. We have a president who's threatening to use his own political bias to shut down or regulate companies based only in what he perceives as politics.
are you an AI? Your dev should check out GPT-2, it's much more coherent than the current model.
> in other words, you reject equally qualified candidates just because they are older

Not quite - they said been in the industry for 20+ years, not 20+ years older than other candidates.
Personally, I loved it. A lot gets translated in a clunky fashion, and I thought book 2 was the clunkiest translation, but the ideas are fantastic.

I have a feeling that the "Dark Forest" theory is going to be accepted as a valid answer to the conundrum of the Drake equation.
Its a big problem. On the one hand social media companies are utterly unsuitable for the role of arbitrers of truth. All they do is enforce the fashionable, safe truths, which might end up not being safe or true. On the other hand there is definitely disinformation out there, carefully crafted to achieve specific goals. We need a sort of peer review for social media, some sort of trust network that you can use to assess the reliability of information. The fact check is one such mechanism, though who checks the checkers is still a issue..
Democratic elections are supposed to be the failsafe for that no?
Its not real "conservative" views that get censored
is it its entryist far right views.

Its like in the UK when Corbyn's crank supporters claim ultra far left positions are main steam labour views when they are not.
Although it's impossible to put the genie back in the bottle, social media has had a net negative effect on a LOT of people. There's people that have had a big positive effect to. So, it's not obvious where it ends up on net if that even matters.

But, yeah. There's a lot of people that would be better off not on social media. But it's so addictive that they can't help themselves.

I, for one, have stopped using social media (unless you consider HN social). And I've had a lot less friends because of it. But it's been a huge improvement in my mood and outlook on life.
Why can't they just give a simple setting which lets users disable AMP? This is the most annoying about being forced to use AMP.
I feel like we are slowly reaching the state the movie “Idiocracy” describes. I feel very torn about this. On the one hand I don’t think we should leave it up to companies like Twitter to censor things. On the other hand I find it hard to believe that the president is constantly claiming things without any evidence backing up. It started with the claims of millions of illegal voters in 2016 and the commission they started disbanding quietly after finding nothing. And now publicly spreading rumors about killing somebody.

It’s insane how little respect the US has for the integrity of its political system. As long as it may hurt the “other” side everything is ok without regard to the damage they are constantly doing the health of the system.
I'd rather leave it to the OEM to determine the best setting (knowing their batteries and charge circuitry), but have the option in OSs that run on devices whose OEM hasn't done so.
It's a moral question that Twitter has to answer for themselves; are they willing to risk getting banned in those countries? Are they willing to risk having the government of the country they operate from shut them down?

I mean I want to say they should let that happen, but the US is toothless in that the population wouldn't revolt if it happened. Twitter would end but nothing would change.

But it's not going to go there, Twitter will sit with the government, they'll make a deal, some palms will be greased and they will bow to their government overlords.

Companies are fucky like that; on the one hand they influence public discourse and voting behaviour, on the other they're morally flexible and will grovel for their government masters if they get to earn money there (see also Google and China, Hollywood films and China, etc).
I think it shouldn't. It's simply used as a heuristic or a comparison against actual degrees.

If you know what you want to build and can optimize a curriculum towards it, then go for it. For people that just want "fundamental knowledge" in a field. Knowing that they spend about 5% of their life on it, is probably a way of feeling that they have spent enough time on it.
This should have happened a long time ago. Flag people / tweets but don't taken them down. Ignore flagged tweets. Create public black lists of spammers/trolls.

People are still waiting for twitter to clear up all the bots. From what I am aware the challenge is not bots but people masquerading 1000s of accounts manually, so it's actually a misnomer to call them bots.
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Yup I agree. Internet companies have enjoyed the cost benefits from being classified as both a platform and a publisher.

It was clever of them to convince the internet community that it's about "free speech" when it's actually always about the costs.
If that's a reference to the protections under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, it doesn't work that way. The whole point of section 230 was to say that being non-neutral does not subject a platform to liability for content supplied to that platform by users.

I'm not sure why, but a lot of people seem to think it is the opposite: you have to be neutral to be protected. There was a court case that ruled that way before section 230. Congress wrote 230 specifically to reverse that.
Yes I am. Having high expectations fits within my personal framework of citizenry. It’s fine if yours doesn’t, plurality is perfectly fine.

The poster asked what could be done. I’m at least trying to answer the question.

Do you have solutions? Share them! Let’s discuss.
But if that were true then they would be personally liable in a court of law for tweets that break the law. Seems like they want to be treated as both an "editor" with the right to change user content and "just a distribution platform". They can't have it both ways.
To be fair, this isn't a new problem. Historically, newspapers had a similar control. It is interesting because most people want to be in an echo chamber. We as humans long to belong. We don't want to be completely wrong. Newspapers mitigated this by having multiple layers of editorial control and attempting to only put people in control who value truth, although that isn't absolute. The difference with Twitter is that anyone can spew anything and to large audiences and the network effect is huge. Back in the day, a newspaper printing garbage in Tulsa probably had no influence in Seattle. That is no longer the case.

The interesting thing that I think Jack Dorsey should respond directly to Trump's tweet about regulation is "I'm sorry you no longer find Twitter useful. Feel free to use a competitor's product." The main reason that the social networks haven't clamped down is that they need the eyeballs and controversial figures generate a lot on both sides (hate/love).
Its evident to me that our strategy to combat misinformation is not going great at the moment. I've been on Reddit for over 13 years and the site has gone through many changes.

What if we changed our thinking from removing/flagging bad content to fostering rich discourse?

I'll use r/politics for example, I currently do not think there is productive or rich discourse being had there. If you have had a different experience please let me know.

I think for the political arena it would do us good to try to emulate the US House of Representatives where representatives are given equal time to address the floor. In this way you will be exposed to other perspectives. The ways we can achieve this are similar to the approach NYT has taken to comments. You can still sort comments by most recommended, but there are also "Featured Comments". Featured Comments are chosen by a team at NYT, presumably from ideologically diverse perspectives, and they choose comments that are insightful and rich in information without toxicity. Does anyone else think that would be a good idea?

I think its important because I truly believe Americans are far more alike then different and just about everyone feels like they are under attack or have been violated. Its time to heal and listen and understand that we are in it together and the people that we really should be castigating are the people filled with prejudice to the point where they have shut themselves off from hearing other perspectives. I believe there is a vast middle in the USA, but its currently getting drowned out and it should have a louder voice.
You actually don’t need to know that either. Your employer gives you a laptop, for example. You don’t need to know what the specs are to do good work.

There’s always the gear heads in everything you do. They’re rarely the best
LOL. Reservations are inverse of war camps. They are not for keeping them in, they are for keeping you out.
What is truth anyway?

You say you are a person, I say you are a banana. Who are you to dispute my facts?

So strange that the right has decided to cargo-cult the worst bits of post-modernism.
He has to. He doesn't have another media outlet where he's as directly visible to his primary constituency as he is on Twitter.
Looks like no response on the support ticket. Upvotes keep growing...

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/19190975?hl=en
I'm sure Trump was just joking!
that part varies between the (L)GPLv2 and (L)GPLv3. GPLv2 does not require it, GPLv3 does (so-called 'anti-tivoisation' clause: after Tivo used linux but locked the hardware so it would only run images they had signed). Current versions of Qt are LGPLv3 for most components though (and the rest are GPLv3)
1,000 times yes! In elementary and middle school, I had weekly learning from our school librarian on seeking the truth through a consensus of multiple sources. She taught us how to properly use Wikipedia as a source for finding other sources.

Crash Course (the YouTube channel) published a short series last year on Navigating Digital Information (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtN07XYqqWSK...). I really appreciated its pointers for how to deal with social media.
I could do without Facebook and Twitter, but what counts as social media? Does Stack Exchange count? Hacker News? Email?
Yup it seems pretty easy these days to just have PowerToys and the Sysinternals suite included by default. They're small footprint but they're all very useful tools for power users.
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Dropping off at the airport (instead of concealing the infection by all means) is a public service - and should be compensated as such. Otherwise we'll get perverted incentives.
Er, I'd argue that aiming for safety and/or following the crowd aren't really the ingredients of a sound decision making process. On that basis no challenger would ever stand a chance.
As it should be, with a fact check (at least if the fact is demonstrably false).

"Debates" (insofar as that concept even exists on a platform like Twitter) started on false grounds should not be allowed to continue.

If I make a claim "A, therefore B, therefore C", and A is demonstrably false, I'm not going to insist we keep discussing B and C for the sake of not "ending the debate". I should be forced to either concede or find a new line of reasoning.
Valid point! I think you are right about this
As someone recently considering Pi-Hole, can you explain why you aren't fond of dnsmasq?
do we really know it's really working tho ?
Nice. Is there an RSS feed?
A/B testing whether or not people have finally gotten tired of fighting for the web. Once they can go for a few months without anybody speaking up, they'll move on to further stages.
The main Mastodon federation has a list of servers you must ban on your end to join the federation. So even if you only disagree with a subsection of them, if you want your server to be in the popular federation, you have to ban the entire list.

>If you come to my house and starts yelling things that offend me and I kick you out, I'm not infringing on your freedom of speech.

It'd be more like be your neighbor being offended and therefore kicking out the person yelling things that offends him. If you don't want to be kicked out of the apartment complex, you are required to share the same views as everyone else.
Just so we're clear: Hacker News is social media.
You being able to opt out of AMP would defeat the purpose of AMP.
I feel that because web tech advanced more quickly than much of society, a vacuum of power developed and Google was forced to step in. If Google had its way, it wouldn't police any content and it would illegally host HBO shows like Game of Thrones -- when you try to hold them responsible, Google would pass off all burden to the offending individual. That's how YouTube used to run.

Other industries have things like the FCC or the FDA where companies can say, "Look, we did our due diligence, the FDA approved our drug."
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The world has parking lots. There are also places designated for food trucks that could also serve this purpose.
Nope, they only provide a peaceful way to replace the man in charge instead bloodbath.
The key thing here is that Ars Technica got YouTube to respond:

> "This appears to be an error in our enforcement systems and we are investigating," YouTube said.
Ignoring software updates is deprecated.
The ability to ignore individual updates will be removed in a future release of macOS.

Fuck this.
Health care on reservations is already generally far below most US standards, and then they aren't receiving much of the federal/state support specifically for this.

Reservations basically operate with only the local government. Imagine your town trying to source all the required goods themselves while there's a supply shortage.
Idea: put a monetary cost on publishing information. Receiving spam should be profitable. Disinformation campaigns will be costly.

If the information is useful and worth reading, the viewer will pay back the publisher, an amount which covers the initial publishing cost and additional revenue for the publisher.

Conversely, if the information is garbage or incorrect, the viewer will not pay the fee and it will be a loss for the publisher.

The payments can be small, cheap and fast via Bitcoin's Lightning Network.
He is the President of the United States! And 50% of the people like his policies (if not his personal behavior)
ha oh, in that case that's a bit of an own goal from Twitter.

Although I doubt he put that fact checking warning up all on his own, there must have been a policy in place that senior management agreed to, and legal have presumably okayed.
What about from an FEC regulations standpoint? Does Twitter have the right to insert DNC messaging into Trump tweets without the DNC disclosing the donation?
That's true... the FBI probably never considered that possibility.
I don’t believe that at all. Thiel just wants whatever makes the most money for him. He isn’t looking out for the rest of the country.
Hardly just unflattering, MSM pushed the "Russia" narrative for 3 years and there was literally nothing there. Hard to call that anything other than fake news. In fact its looking more and more like the actions from the Obama admin were likely highly corrupt and there will likely people going to jail. Just recently the media has been reporting that Trump called the virus a "hoax", which was a complete lie.
> the person on the other end had literally just crawled out of bed a few minutes earlier

To be completely honest, I've been brought on interviews myself for this reason... in a sea of fucking business guys, I ended up being the person from engineering they wanted on the interviews.
The easiest way for them to answer it is not to answer it.

They're an American company and can choose to justify fact-checking only the US President if they want. It's not like hypocrisy has bothered them in the past; it clearly didn't bother them when the US elected a troll and they fixed the glitch of their own TOS suggesting he be banned from their service by modifying the TOS to have a carve-out for "newsworthiness."
I'm seriously considering the new XPS 15. It hits much of the same great balance as the 16" MBP, and like the Macbook Pro, it has a 16:10 display. I'm gun shy, because of potential coil whine: https://xps-15.fandom.com/wiki/Coil_Whine

> As Coil Whining is a big problem on this model we will try to find out witch parts are causing this noises. First we need to disassemble this notebook and identify the noisy parts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/8ptfu8/would_you_acce...

> I immediately noticed I felt slightly 'uncomfortable' when it was on, and within about 30 seconds realised that it was emitting coil whine at a volume/pitch high enough to physically bother me. It's like an ever-present noise that I can only imagine must be how low levels of tinnitus feels to people who have to deal with that type of thing. I am pretty disappointed to say the least.

I might just assume that this is random internet griping, but I had this exact same problem on my last Dell laptop (admittedly, it was almost 20 years ago) and it drove me insane when working late at night. It's one of those little "quality of life" things I'm willing to pay extra for. (Not to say that Apple doesn't have quality-of-life issues, like randomly removing ports. But for the most part I find I can solve those issues just by throwing money at the problem. I can't do that with coil whine, or a non-centered keyboard, or a laptop that only offers either an FHD or a 4K display and no power-efficient compromise.
> On the one hand I don’t think we should leave it up to companies like Twitter to censor things.

Is it really _censorship_ to fact check tweets? I mean, Twitter hasn't _removed_ (i.e. censored) any tweets from Trump, just added an annotation.
Works great. Record, stop, and it spits out a URL. You can even self-host if you want.
The message isn't clearly false. See this article for example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/us/politics/as-more-vote-...

> Yet votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth, statistics show. Election officials reject almost 2 percent of ballots cast by mail, double the rate for in-person voting.

You could say that 1% increase in problems is small, but in close elections that could easily be considered huge.