skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We probably need a more detailed vocabulary for describing various types of social media. In my opinion, the most insidious forms of social media share three attributes:

* Broad reach - they are accessible to and used by a population broadly for public communication rather than a specific subset of the population or private communication.

* Optimized for engagement - Content is personalized and optimized for individual engagement. Compare this to a stream of content organized by time (email inbox) or basically time with minimal voting/decaying (HN)

* Feedback is quantifiable and visible - Likes, retweets, upvotes (ie, engagement metrics) are countable and displayed to users. I think this gets at something deep in the human psyche and encourages users to chase those metrics.

It turns out that in systems with all three (FB, Twitter), you create enormous echo chambers that only occasionally flare up into outrage when they inevitably leak to a broader audience. This is great for engagement but pretty self evidently bad for society.

Lots of sites fit somewhere on this spectrum (including HN and Stack Exchange) but have basic safeguards to prevent the worst types of behavior. But this is usually because they aren't profit motivated to slide all the way to one side on the three factors above.
PragerU has their content taken down and/or restricted on a regular basis from big tech platforms. Their videos express generic and cliche conservative ideas and values. While many people may not agree with what they say it is a far stretch to call it "low-value hateful garbage".
Where my work machine is Fedora (RH shop) my personal VMs have been Void lately because it so far has been straightforward to use, and runs well on lean resources.
I had similar issues as you but it turned out to be the hardware was bad... I replaced my macbook pro and it's been great... But the other hardware issue on the new macbook pro's is if you charge on any of the USB-c ports other than the one on the right side, you'll likely run the laptop too hot... so charge on the right side not the left side and you should be good... it's crappy i know... but new laptop i've almost and charging on the right side i've nearly forgotten about all of my apple hate...
I hope Musk is still cool once Tesla is a monopoly. Companies have a tendency to turn on their users/customers once they get giant.
But just think of all the great things we could do with that Argent Energy.
> Sucks for creators but the downward pressure on pricing will give customers more amazing content to use in marketing material.

Only until new content begins to dry up because it's not profitable for creators to produce it anymore
I was taking a sabbatical when this all started, so thankfully I've already begun to perceive time through important milestones like taking the trash out on Tuesday night and giving my dogs flea pills at the end of every month.

Really gives life meaning, y'know?
This recommendation only specifies 9 credit hours (at most) a semester which free study in the 4th year. I know that you have to build in room for your cross discipline and electives, but it's not a very tight schedule. Which is good because it's also missing Differential Equations, Set Theory, Fourier Analysis and Stochastic Calculus all of which are mathematical underpinnings of AI. I also agree that they need a class on Software testing or validation or something along those lines.

A crash course in Filter theory, so that people have some historical background of where these methods derived from would be useful as well.
> Twitter already regulates speech though, to their own agenda.

Are you saying that if someone has a website, they shouldn't be allowed to set the rules for that site. Are you going to allow me to post whatever I want on your website?
Right, neither claim can be falsified until after the fact, so why add a "fact check" ? We won't know the implications of large scale mail in voting in the US during a particularly charged election until after its happened
Choosing 2FA authenticator apps can be hard. Ars did it so you don’t have to
Offtopic: The difference of reading newssites with and without JavaScript enabled is so insane, it's crazy how my flagship phone on a 200k WiFi connection grinds to an halt on the first few seconds (apart from the jarring experience of jumping content)
That's attacking the person rather than the action - were the fact checking moderations wrong?

Sure, their personal political bias should put them up to a greater level of scrutiny; but it they can still fact check without bias.

So, have they?
If I tap on the share button on the top right of the AMP frame, it seems that I am able to copy the original URL (although it's the specialized amp.knowyourmeme.com version of the page)
This is ridiculous. The whole free speech argument is that people can decide for themselves when they have access to more information. Marketplace of ideas and all.

Now adding information is somehow bad? There is no consistency in this argument.
How many fraudulent votes constitutes a substantial amount? What percentage?
> digital photos last forever

Lolz. I'm sure you wouldn't mind using pictures of mulleted '80s dude in your advertising. And in 20 years, all these bearded gentlemen being photographed today will look so silly. Fancy a NY skyline with a couple of extra towers?

The problems with professional photography have nothing to do with durability and everything to do with technological advance in the overall process. The easier it gets to take good pics and tout them to the whole world, the more competition there is, the lower prices are inevitably going to get.

Photographers are like recording musicians, their bread is becoming tied to real-life presence - something that remains unique and effectively not scalable.
It only feels different now because this President's image is based on such bluster. He's speaking to his people in the way that they like.

A lot of past US Presidents were likely no more competent, but their images demanded that they appear such. Reagan was probably suffering from dementia. JFK was high most of the time. It's just that the PR strategy for those guys was different because their public personae were groomed for different expectations.

Well that, and neither had Twitter.

Idiocracy is an easy pull and rings true because of outward appearances, but the reality is (and probably always has been) closer to Vonnegut's Player Piano or Kubrik's Doctor Strangelove.
Still in Smarch.
For reportedly being there to accelerate the web, AMP pages remain consistently slower and less reliable than the original websites for me.
Nothing wrong with that, particularly if those opinions are communicated in a way that makes them look like statements of fact.

Someone being able to say "I think your opinion is wrong" is no less a freedom of speech matter than someone being able to state an opinion in the first place. Freedom of speech does not, or at least it should not, give special privilege or protection to the first person who speaks.
When Catalina dropped, it became obvious that while Apple computers and I have had a good run, we’re now going in different directions. I started migrating to Linux late last year.

If your workflow is amenable to it, and you can stay productive during the (inevitably drawn-out) transition, I highly recommend you consider taking the plunge.
Anti-porn filters stop Dominic Cummings trending on Twitter
Love the new "Space" suits and the touch screen panel inside the capsule. This is going to be amazing. My prayers with the brave astronauts.
Xbox 360 patches were handled differently -- only the game binary would be included in the initial patch; any content updates were released as free DLC add-on packs (or, if a game was releasing new paid DLC, they'd require a new add-on pack that included some subset of the new content for free).

PS4 updates are notably bad, since they do a full copy & write (vs write-in-place) on patches. It's good if there's an issue on updating, since you can delete the partially-updated copy and start over, but bad because it requires more than 2x the disk space for the patch.
Complete context of SpaceX's historic flight carrying NASA astronauts
> experts shows that fraud is slightly more common with mail-in voting than in-person voting at polling places

So where is the line between slightly and substantial?
>Maybe we need a new word for it altogether?

It's called the "alt-right[0]."

And at the fringe of the fringe, right-wing accelerationism[1].

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

[1]https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/11/11/20882005/accele...
Have you tried the "nuke from orbit" approach of a full system wipe (T2, SMC and NVRAM reset, delete recovery partitions, Pre-boot volume, etc) and doing a fresh install and setup rather than restoring from backup?

I know it shouldn't be needed but sometimes it is the only option.

It isn't much help to you but my experience with Catalina has been very positive on a 2018 15" MacBook Pro. The initial release and first two point updates had some silly UI bugs but since .4 it has been solid as a rock for me.

I just updated to .5 and noticed I haven't had to restart my laptop since the last update I installed 42 days ago. In those 42 days I haven't had a single issue so I am pretty happy about that.
Much more information here.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-prices/tesla-cuts-p...

Can we update the url?
I think that last point is a lot of it - Even with people that have 10 years of experience or less, one of the big things that can stick out to me in an interview is if someone seems dogmatic or in a position where their word has been law for years. The last thing I want on a team is someone who's going to be a stick in the mud and behave poorly if the team or organization decides to do something in a way they don't agree with.

Especially with a Senior/Principal Engineer, I'm looking for someone who can make the case for our decisions as a team to the company at large, and speak with authority about it. However, that can't just involve them being a dictator to the team about how everything must be done in their favorite/preferred way.
Let me get this right - you're saying everyone should have the freedom to spread lies, half-truths or misleading statements, but that noone should have the freedom to call them out on it?

Twitter isn't requiring anything from anybody to comment on anything. They're just putting forward their own opinion. Much like Trump is putting forward his. The only difference is that people trust Twitter more than the current POTUS.
Maybe an approach to this could follow the model of algebra and calculus?

Students who take and show competency in pre-algebra qualify to move on to higher level maths building foundational knowledge for the more complex systems.

It wouldn’t necessarily have to be 1:1 in the model and structure of classes, but that’s my thinking. Media literacy shouldn’t be a one semester course, maybe not even a one year course, but instead a component of a radically different educational framework that informs our young students how to critique, analyze and reason their way through the digital frontier.

By no means would this kind of shift in education be easy, but in my mind ease is as much a threat to progress than hardship in some cases.
I don’t understand why this is downvoted. You laid out good reasons to explain twitter did this in the worst possible way.

Do people here just not want to see it regardless of its factual nature? That seems like the eventual issue with “fact checking” social media posts.
> What kind of oversight could even work though?

Some New Confucians and Neo-Reactionaries argue that this kind of basic oversight should be provided by a novel council/board of "wise scholars", or people with real intellectual accomplishments which are not under serious dispute-- appointed with very long, perhaps lifetime terms. There's really no equivalent to this in the U.S. other than perhaps the Supreme Court, but the House of Lords in the U.K. is quite similar and does not currently have much of a political role, so it could be repurposed with relative ease.
Awesome product but definitely not a firebase alternative.
I don't know what that even means.

We're talking about facts established by research, indicating they have occurred in the past. I don't know what you're talking about.
In a direct democracy like Switzerland, yes. In a very indirect democracy like the United States there is basically nothing you can do if your representatives are not doing their job properly except wait for the next election and hope the candidates get better.
> Either you use LGPL, which requires copyleft on bundled mobile apps (I believe)

LGPL never enforced any copyleft to something linked on it. This is a wrong, unfortunately common misconception.
Yes, definitely. Though there has been some interesting papers recently on this using different methods to approximate bayesian posteriors in NN's. One of the most recent ones (Mi et al., 2019; https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04858) that benchmarks a few different methods -- infer-dropout, infer-transformation, and infer-noise -- are all promising for different applications and neural network models (black, 'grey', 'white' box).
The word "should" implies non-conclusivity.
You understand that it's a self-selecting bunch of anecdotes, right?

I run Catalina on my 2018 MBP. I cannot remember a single crash or bizarre/unexplained behavior. I know there are bugs and serious issues people are facing, but a lot of people aren't but there really isn't a reason for them to speak up.

Do you think any other platform doesn't have the same subset of people with issues?
Is it? I was under the impression that AMP is opt-in.
Not installing security updates with large numbers of pretty critical fixes[1] doesn't sound too smart to me.

1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211170
A producer cooperative is a company that is entirely owned by its members, the producers. There are no outside shareholders. One of the important implications of this is that unlike with a for-profit company, where shareholders might be tempted to squeeze out extra profits at the expense of employees, a co-op has no motivation to put the screws to their workers, because those workers are also the owners of the company.

But I'm a little curious about the profit distribution structure you describe. Generally profits are calculated after paying salaries for founders/administrative staff who keep the service running. So you subtract those costs from revenue and then whatever's left is profit/surplus, which gets distributed to the worker-owners according to their contributions.
I'm curious about the premium feature "writing export" - is this to say if I sign up for a free account I can write stuff for days, but never get my writings back out?
Perhaps, but OP is absolutely not wrong to have done so either - the characterisation and exposition across the trilogy is generally awful and sub pulp fiction quality.

That said, I did enjoy the books and I thought some of the 'science' profoundly novel (if occasionally wince-inducing in its unlikelihood, but hey it's science 'fiction'!)
Tomorrow gravity is going to reverse and fling you into the sun.
>Reiserfs is in-tree.

Yes it is, but it got bullied either way. Linux filesystem devs made incompatible changes to it against the ReiserFS teams' wishes, breaking it. IIRC it had to do with ACL support.
I have found High Sierra to be subtly faster on older hardware, and subtly less crash-prone (although neither crash often). So I would suggest staying put absent a reason not too.

High Sierra was a very good release.
Personally, I hate AMP. Especially when it comes to reddit results.
> I once got a strike on social media for posting an article about a German doctor that recommended whiskey to cure covid19.

You mean I've been taking all this medication for nothing?
Regarding sports, most people fail to understand that most professional sport association (like football "clubs") are actually entertainment companies.

The sport is just the bait for the spectators.

A coach might choose a certain player over another just because the people acclaim him/her.

Also, don't forget that scandals about rigged games are quite regular nowadays.
Do you need audio?
One possible factor when interviewing an experienced developer: how will they share their experience? Some people want to lecture, but many people do not want to be lectured at.

I once worked with someone who explained to me every day -- and in great detail -- all of the problems that my technical decisions would cause. He wasn't wrong, but it was still a demoralizing experience.

But at least he was only criticizing my decisions, and not my right to make them. In the same way that an older dev does not want to be perceived as incapable of learning new things, a younger dev does not want to be perceived as cavalier or irresponsible, and I have absolutely seen talented people discounted solely because they haven't held a particular title for enough years.

People are complicated, and we make a lot of assumptions about each other that we don't want others to make about ourselves.
My unpopular opinion. I love AMP. Mobile internet for me ( maybe on worse devices ), was becoming a non-thing for me. AMP let's me check the news again.

My opinion might be because I don't have much understanding of it as a framework, but from a non power user perspective, I've found the UX to be amazing.
Unfortunately the idea that alcohol can kill the virus (if you drink it) is taken seriously by some, and has resulted in more than 700 deaths in Iran https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/iran-700-dead-drinkin...
AMP really has to go away, its a MITM attack on the internet. Google discontinues so many services, why is AMP not one of them yet?
So in this view, who gets to determine who is a "rational, fact-checking, good-faith actor" who should enjoy the privilege of free speech, and conversely, who should not have those same rights?
Written above “utterly unsustainable”. I can see no long term win here, esp when the arbiter they chose clearly has his own issues.
I know I post this often because I find it very useful.

https://github.com/Disassembler0/Win10-Initial-Setup-Script

You can disable the rebooting if you look in Default.preset file.
Why Numbering Should Start at Zero
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With amp I basically do "find the page, edit url to remove amp, load again" dance. It is definitely not faster.
>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.

This is a weird example. Representatives don't listen to each other. The speeches are for their constituents.

>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.

Agreed, the solution to the problems caused by getting rid of gatekeepers is to bring back gatekeepers. How do you do it with something like twitter though, where there were no gatekeepers to begin with?
Every election has at least one story of rampant incompetence and/or outright fraud where one person is able to alter hundreds to thousands of votes. For elections where it can literally be 50.2% to 49.8%, it can make all the difference.
Not necessarily.

Either have proper human or machine evaluation and very fast response to complaints about fuckups, or,

let it be an open platform, and only respond to legal requests to remove things, the way the Internet used to work,

...because they clearly cannot handle the alternative without fucking people over repeatedly.
Demo magic is a good tool. I used it for recording a video course. But here's one minor caveat: there's no hint for what command will be executed next. Sometimes I would start talking about a subject, then hit ENTER to auto-type the next command, only to find that my words were off topic from the current command. My fault, but it was always a pain to recover from.

I still recommend demo magic. But use it with eyes open if you're mistake-prone like me.
So if the president says "The sun won't rise tomorrow", we can't reject that statement out of hand?
Not parent commenter, but ... Actually, I think certain sites are so prolific as to basically amount to public spaces and that we should have agreed principles by which they can[|not] moderate an individual's speech, because they effectively can have a real effect on a person's ability to "speak" in "public".
clap looks cool, thanks.
Easy. A "statement" can't be wrong, but a "prediction" of the future must be built on a predictive model that has worked in the past, and the model must be fed parameters rooted in reality. Failing that, it is wrong.

If Trump's statement about fraud is not predictive, then it is fiction and meaningless instead of wrong.
Why did everyone suddenly add dark mode, or push-notifications, or...

It became something journalists started saying "Finally" about, so everyone had to do it. Batteries degrade if they're constantly being recharged, so they've all gotten smarter about it.
> Surely we would see some of the ~777k deaths already. The fact that we don't

Where are you getting this data to conclude we haven't seen a such a spike?
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You can always hop brands once someone gets too big and turns evil.
I remember the thought I had when I did this same belief-flip: ideas alone aren't worth the paper they're written on.
> To me, what Twitter is doing looks like a clear case of election interference.

I'll be sure to look for the DNC ads on Fox, if they're not told they're unwelcome.

Or pro-choice messaged ads in conservative religious publications.

Hey, Fox could even agree to run Trump ads for free.

None of those things are election interference.
On this note, does anybody know what the weather thresholds are that would cancel the launch? I mean, the current forecast suggests it will almost definitely be raining at 433pm Eastern, and wind will be around 10 mph. Is some amount of rain tolerable? How much wind is acceptable?
> people suggest closing the toilet lid before flushing

I was taught to always close the lid if you weren't actively using the toilet.

It always weirds me out a bit that the majority of people leave the lid up. What's the point of having a lid if you're not going to use it?
Slightly Off Topic:

As someone who dont work in Silicon Valley. ( Edit: Opps it seems it is in EU as well )

Why ageism?

Even assuming you start developing professionally in 20, you would need to be at least 30 - 35 before you finally understand, everything you believe in so strongly in your past 10 - 20 years were possibly a FAD and had finally witness the industry moving from one FAD to another and start ignoring hype.

You would finally understand most code you once thought were short, concise and clever, and others that once were long, boring, over the top stupid code are actually the better code.

You would have learned KISS not because you love it, but you would have hopefully understand this because it has been burnt deep into your memory.

And that Not doing something, or inaction, is possibly the best action.

Seriously I would have thought developers only start to become productive post 30+. And 40+ is still in their prime. I understand people older don't like working long hours. But working hours have absolutely nothing to do with productivity. Especially in software development.