skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Great book on the rise and fall of id software.

I think one of the nice things about the id story, is that they never actually fell; they didn't fail or collapse. They just kept on with making games. Romero didn't do well with Daikatana & ION Storm after departing, however id went on to make Quake 2 next which was also successful. They never again quite hit the high level of importance they had reached in the industry with Doom & Quake, however they sold for $150 million to ZeniMax in the end and were still fully operational as a game making company (despite spending six years on Rage).
80 seconds is not that bad.
My intuition would say that I would doubt this would change much in terms of investment. Of course without specific knowledge I would suspect that there are terrorist organizations in the world already using Signal such that resources are already being spent doing what you describe. I would also suspect that for any and all cryptographic applications.
It's not okay, and it is a real problem with ad-supported platforms. twitter and youtube have both been dealing with this same issue.
As I understand it, the purpose of using telephone numbers is that it can use the contact list stored on your phone without having to store contact lists on their servers.

Contact lists can be useful information for an attacker. If Signal doesn't have it, it can't be taken from them.
Relying on compiler optimizations is not the answer. When they work, you don't notice, but an unrelated change could very well change the compiler's state and optimization decisions, falling off a performance cliff.

This is especially pronounced in languages that rely a lot on compiler optimizations. In Haskell you can purposefully use the singly linked list for very large collections, knowing they will be optimized out, until one day the compiler decided not to optimize that and now you have a problem.

There's a reason C++17 made return-value-optimization a proper part of the language with mandatory elision of copies. People like guarantees. Optimizations are but the icing on the cake.
> A Silicon Valley total compensation can easily be double that in the UK.

Sure, but that's comparing one specific area known for tech, including many big players with a whole country. SV is not the US, like Canary Wharf is not the UK.
The idea that being barraged by insane politics is separate from staying in touch with friends and family is contrary to most people’s experience of national and religious holidays.
Police deserve a union IMO. But we the public deserve to ignore the union when they push for bad decisions, or otherwise are counterproductive.

Cutting the voice out of the Police would be a step too far. All workers deserve a chance for assembly and collective action.
Anyone else get a huge pop up with Zuckerburg's smirking face asking them to sign in?

If facebook is going to release a PR statement to the world/general public, can they at least remove that sign in pop up for that statement page?
This is a recent release, eh?

I bought a elgato camlink 4K just recently because I wasn’t so happy with Camera Live but now I wish I hadn’t.
Most platforms do some kind of moderation, and when a platform is as pervasive as facebook, it becomes essential. We’ve already seen how a lack of moderation on facebook influenced the 2016 election. So it is not hard to argue that facebook’s negligence is already causing significant harm to our democracy.
The average number of friends that a Facebook user has is 338. Out of those, I'm sure there's quite a few in every person's group of "friends" that posts some pretty inflammatory content. I, for example, have over 800 friends, despite the fact that I haven't posted anything in about 10 years, I don't go on the site more than once every three months or so, and the only thing I use my Facebook account for is messaging my significant other because they mainly use Messenger to stay in contact with their friends. Yet, when I go on for my quarterly check-in because my SO wants me to like a photo, it's nothing but inflammatory posts. I quickly unfriend them and move on, but it still seems to mostly be those types of posts.
I am pretty sure US free speech exceptions do not prohibit threats by government to deploy the military against people, even if that is the very embodiment of a true threat that is likely to incite imminent violence.

But HN community is not against that. You can have a news article about Nation X declaring intention to send an army to against Y if people think Y deserve it. People in general love violence and encourage it when it is the right kind of violence against the right target.
If we didn't allow speech that might incite violence we'd still have slaves and women wouldn't have rights.
So you missed the entire point of their reply.
> making your decision based on the notes

And can wait some days in between too, to better forget the in person impression
The problem is the recommendation algorithm. Oh you like this far right video? Here’s a bunch more!!!
> He is failing every user and employee of Facebook.

I wont agree on every. In fact, many FB employees prefer to avoid getting involved in the mud fight
What’s the problem with defunding the police?

Take 3/4 of their budget. Put 1/4 in community development (so people might actually be able to get jobs or a decent future) 1/4 in mental health, and 1/4 in community-based, nonviolent conflict de-escalation and resolution.

See what happens.

Or, you know, keep watching videos of cops shove 75-year old men onto the concrete or murder unarmed black American citizens while their police buddies stand by and twiddle their thumbs.

[edit: as recent video evidence conclusively shows, the police are already full of people who are ready to start a fight and come in shooting. And police unions are enablers of that criminal activity.
I'm not a fan of Facebook or Trump, but if I were writing the rules for governing a platform designed to connect people, then refusing to censor the elected president of the US would seem like a sensible rule.

But it's not a sensible world at the moment.
One piece of advice I’ve got a lot of mileage out of is that the title of a graph should be the conclusion.

So instead of “tire wear vs miles driven” it should say “tire wear increases with miles driven”

It saves people, especially non-technical ones, from having to read axes, look at the lines, and come to a conclusion while listening to you talk.
I agree that HN is heavily moderated, but from what I've seen the comment moderation is more focused on maintaining civility and tone. I think dang and friends will let you say controversial things as long as they're framed in a productive way and you aren't a jerk about it (and as long as you don't commit the sin of editorializing a post title!)

I think that's a stark contrast with reddit, where being a dick is often excused if one has the right ideology. Not to mention that many subreddits (especially, but not exclusively, the political ones) have become carefully maintained echo chambers thanks rules against disagreeing with even a single facet of the "correct" beliefs. r/The_Donald even had an explicit "no dissent" rule.
They don't do as much censorship of conservatives as liberal censors would like.
Kind of like naming a street “Martin Luther King Jr Blvd”.
I don't know where else to post about it, this thread seems the most relevant.

Regarding yesterday's Buffalo police department incident where one officer pushed an elderly person who was then bleeding on the floor.

The police department put out a statement [1]:
> "Our position is these officers were simply following orders from Deputy Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia to clear the square," Evans said. "It doesn't specify clear the square of men, 50 and under or 15 to 40. They were simply doing their job. I don't know how much contact was made. He did slip in my estimation. He fell backwards."

IMO - This idea of "I was just following" orders needs to be eradicated. That is a cop out (pardon the pun) and totally puts the responsibility towards no one because the superiors are not even at the scene. Every cop, every officer, every law enforcement persons must not blindly follow orders like they're in the military. They must have some self restraint and put public safety first.

I am sorry as this has nothing to do with Police unions, but I felt like speaking up about this excuse of following orders from the superiors is absolutely terrifying.

[1] https://buffalonews.com/2020/06/05/57-members-of-buffalo-pol...
Why couldn't Youtube just keep selling ads to the Google ad network? Existing websites make money off of advertising revenue that they get from Google, how would this be different?
TL;DR mostly a bunch of promises about policies they're going to review. Few decisions made yet.

But I do appreciate "Your lives matter. Black lives matter."
Nothing prevents me, but why we don't recognize this as a problem? Shouldn't it be the default way for publishing and storing knowledge?
Identify a ball in a box of items, toss it up in the air, and then catch it. Congratulations, you've just exhibited more computational power than most computers are capable of, including some very precise physics simulation and inverse kinematics.
Hire a lawyer who specializes in IP.

Years ago I knew a pro photographer who loved getting ripped off, because he made more money than if he’d licensed his images. How? He just had his lawyer send a friendly letter to the offending party.
Amass wealth in your twenties sounds so ridiculous to me. My bank balance for most of my 20’s was barely positive. Now that I’m mid thirties my salary is finally high enough that the savings have started to increase, but it’s still far from anything resembling ‘wealth’.
Is it worth trying to move my friends from WhatsApp to Signal? As I understand it, they're both e2e encrypted.

I'm also trying to move my chats from SMS and Gchat to something encrypted, but am torn between WhatsApp and Signal. The former has more of a buy-in with my contacts already.

I realize WhatsApp is owned by Facebook, but isn't the whole point of e2e encryption that you don't have to trust the intermediate infrastructure? And if you enable the setting to warn if the key changes, there's no danger, right?
Use double quotes around your search string, it gives the same behavior.
Creator of Mario talks about how he designs a game
Anybody know if someone is already working on making the datasets mentioned on the article easy to work with? Quick search for some, the look very interesting but a pain to get the actual data.
> I have confidence in the election integrity efforts we've implemented since 2016. We've played a role in protecting many elections and now have some of the most advanced systems in the world.

You have to be f kidding me.
Voter suppression (asking for paid fines, takin out poll places in particular communities), gerrymandering, foreign interference etc etc
Agreed on having the right mindset. Dalai Lama's "The book of Joy" is a good one talking about the perspectives that would help you navigate through difficult time and emotions.

Some examples:

* treating all human beings as a whole, which allows people to share happiness on other people's achievement - this kind of resonates with the theory of Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, where it argues that the goal of all humans is to maximize the chance that the entire gene pool will continue to exist

* reduce sense of one's own identity - which helps people during hard times by thinking about how small one single person is compared to the entire race, maybe even the entire universe

And of course, there's the advocate around being grateful, being compassionate, do more meditation etc.
Don't use slide presentations for business meetings. Ever. Write a document or a memo instead. Every time.

Slides are ok as a backdrop for a talk, as long as that talk works as its own cohesive narrative. Slides are also ok as a last resort if it is what the audience demands. A sales meeting with people who expect slides. Or a pitch with investors too ignorant or lazy to demand the precision of a document instead.

But in general; a document will be much much better. This guide references Tufte's, whose own advice is to write docs.
If the cost (monetary and one’s credibility) of publishing a Social post matched that of publishing a book, we wouldn’t be here discussing this.

If we allow anyone with opposing thumbs to spew garbage online, platform have some responsibility to have some limits or require making source/author public
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Lib...
Books don't learn your preferences, dont actively expoloit your addictions or allow you to instantly find a group of people who claim those addictions are normal.
This is how you moderate your feed on Facebook: if you don't like someone and what they have to say, unfriend them. Problem solved.
If nothing is preventing you from building a personal one then nothing is preventing you from building a centralized one. All you have to do is convince enough people to use it.

Google is essentially a centralized knowledge base. So centralized knowledge bases already exist and they're called search engines. There are also free blogging services that publish everything on the web to be indexed by Google. Blogger is even owned by Google.
Nice distinction! Although I'm not sure "trolling" is a fair dig. My comment was genuine.

When I wrote my first HTML page you could make them out of basic <TABLE> tags and nobody would beat you over the head with a styleguide for doing it wrong. I found them approachable if you followed some basics like avoiding nesting, and with care, dynamic sizing went a long way. But I understand some people are zealously against them (for good reason). CSS addressed several of the shortcomings but introduced new complexity and gotchas. My frustration is that instead of evolving to simple, elegant and approachable syntax, we landed in a place that calls for a library to patch in those attributes on top. (And now I'm greeted with bank statements that dynamically add content as you scroll, making it impossible to cut and paste the data from a spreadsheet).

None of that takes away my admiration for the author's work, I'd just prefer a world where the hole filled by this library didn't exist in the first place :-).
SharedWorkers in Chrome using Javascript Modules, live demos (online examples), background infos & thoughts about a new era of UI architectures. Fully MIT licensed.
You're the opposite of me then!

I glaze over within sometimes seconds of a wall of text whereas I can process a bunch of equations much faster.

I didn't use to be like that (I was in the dumb set when I was 15/16) but you need to be lucky enough to see over the hump and see the bigger picture - the higher structure is exhausting to teach so it's very difficult to learn why you're doing something in a classroom.
>IMO - This idea of "I was just following" orders needs to be eradicated.

There's a phrase for this type of defense, named after a city in Germany...
Isn't "slippery slope" considered a logical fallacy? Until fb deletes something and by doing so clearly causes harm to society, let's not assume that any-moderation-whatsoever is evil.
Facebook moderates a lot of content already. Read their community guidelines and almost anything that’s non advertiser friendly is not allowed.

I agree fb should not moderate content too heavily handedly such that it wrongfully suppresses free speech, and consumers should choose a platform that is healthy for society, but it might be too much to ask for the average consumer.

You also need to realized fbs recommendation engine corners people into ideological echo chambers.
As I don't know much of the details of the legislation, or more importantly its references or modifications, can you elaborate more on what "they don't need the 230 exemption" means in the context that this act would likely not apply to them? Are you implying that the EARN IT act focuses on publishers of content and thus it less likely apply to Signal?
I keep waiting for him to him to say "We have our Top People on it...Top People". I see him saying it with a monocle and white longhaired cat in his lap.
I also noticed that. They do say

> “Indeed, these associational results in humans mirror recent data in which experimentally manipulated sleep disruption in mice led to higher levels of circulating inflammation that caused atherosclerotic lesions in the rodents,” added Vallat.

...which sounds like the real research.
The metadata is the difference. Your contact graph is fair game on WhatsApp for Facebook
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A reasonable person might assume that people have some core moral axioms and their political positions flow out as logical derivations starting from those axioms. This isn't actually the case in reality.

People's political positions are mostly formed via induction from the pundits of their tribe, whether it be individuals like John Oliver or Sean Hannity or newspapers like the NYT or the WSJ, which in turn form their positions through a complex calculus of tribal affiliations, but never based on axiomatic moral values. The values are only retrofit to provide a veneer of logic to the process. These positions then flow down the influencer pole until the average Joe is virtue signaling about them to his 5 friends.

Not only this, there isn't any feeling of cognitive dissonance when these political stances clash, because they were never really about a logical moral system to begin with.

Thus we see people saying both that:

* "Freedom of Speech" is great but FB should censor individuals based on the speech fashion of the day.

* We should "believe all women" but only if they can lead to the potential cancelation of Brett Kavanaugh, not Joe Biden.

* You were a terrible human being for spreading COVID if you so much as left the house 2 weeks ago but now you are terrible human being if you don't go out and congregate in groups of hundreds and thousands for the protests.

The mistake is assuming there is a logical thought process as opposed to mere tribal affiliation and signaling.

Growing up, I was taught (not in those words, but by implication) that burning books was one of the most symbolically powerful and worst non-violent acts an oppressing regime could do. It's saddening to see that metaphorical books are still being burnt, but by a different set of people.
Really? Because my parents are probably among the most tech-illiterate people I know (love you, Mom) but I've had to talk with them multiple times because they asked me if such-and-such or so-and-so was true or real and it was the result of completely fake FB groups or accounts posting bullshit that they read on there.

I'm lucky that I have such a good relationship with my family that they're willing to come to me as a source of truth for some of those things.
Why would antifa result in anti-signal rhetoric?

Genuine question because antifa is a mixed bag - there isn’t really any consensus on whether what they do is good or bad. Seems to be all over the damn place.
Heh, what election did FB protect? Which election was more legitimate due to the existence of FB?
>popular

Do you have a source on that?
People were also upset at FB for not censoring Trump's post about mail-in voting. What imminent violence was it about to cause?
Which is to say, "no".
Hopefully one day, Julia will include a static type checker. Until then, I think it's advisable to type every function just for the error messages alone: you'll always get dispatch errors on your functions, instead of some library functions instead. Makes things a lot easier to track down.
At least there is value in the other examples, and you can quickly tell how the video's going to play out. I sometimes need to pre-skim the whole text just to feel the signal to noise ratio.

When will journos dawn on that we don't care about their morning bagels?
The business of fb is measured in MAU and DAU. These are their key metrics. The only things that drives these metrics are engagement. It’s basically the core of their business. And controversial items generate the most engagement. Unless it’s crossing the line in black and white terms for example like a beheading and most items don’t do that because the world is shades of grey they are good for business as they have the potential to generate more engagement. It’s basically good for business. What’s good for business may not be good for society. Sometime it is. Sometimes it’s not. Some people are ok with this and some are not.
I don't really want to go back to watching ads for heartburn meds and Chevy pickups. At least Google shows me something I might be interested in.
I don't have uverse, so I don't know how they implemented it. I'm guessing it's done by violating DNS specifications.
Books can be publicly scrutinized, facebook feed will only reach it’s targeted audience. I think a more apt comparison is pamphlets at a rally. And even a rally is absolutely scrutinized—or even stopped by the police—if they are found to distribute illegal, radicalizing, or dog whistling material.
Just do like TOR services. Hash some garbage with your private key. done.

This is no excuse other than copying the leading app for no good reason.
> It's a slippery slope to start moderating content that is not illegal.

It's nothing of the sort. Moderation is critical, or it would degenerate into garbage. Dan does an excellent job on this site, for example.
You can pay for YouTube and it will remove ads. i don't think drive has ads to begin with.
Open source color copy paste from your phone camera to web, sketch, figma plugin
There is no consensus on wether being against fascism is good or bad?
Being against fascism is not a group or organisation.
It’s like calling bird watching an organisation. Yes, there are bird watching organisations, as there are antifa organisations, but neither bird watching nor antifa is an organisation.
He gets my money.
Accuracy is a function of variability and bias.
Not annoyed at all! I enjoy chatting about these things.

In my dream scenario? I think I'd love to see a scientific analysis on the topic and some real data. A blog post with someone taking apart a DSLR, instrumenting the sensor and the surrounding electronics with a thermocouple to measure how hot it really gets over time, and proving it doesn't get to a point of damage would go a long way for me, and I would generally be interested in it. How hot does it actually get??

The wishy-washy "wear out" arguments I don't find particularly convincing (I did FPGA design for an endoscopic camera company for a couple years, so I am familiar with CMOS sensors in general). These DSLR sensors are quite large and I imagine can produce a significant amount of heat, and for all intents and purposes are built into systems that are intended for periodic use with photography. The manufacturing tolerances needed to build a system safe for continuous sampling/use don't particularly make sense when designing a photography camera ($$$). I'm dubious the manufacturers actually did the design optimizing for video use, and I presume this is why there are warnings in the manuals about continuous video use and limitations in the firmware. Maybe there's enough tolerance to handle some video, but not all the time.

I think I was a little careless in specifically calling out "sensor damage" — I'd actually be more concerned about the surrounding components than the sensor itself. Capacitors age and change tolerance in response to temperature cycling, for example.