skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...we have to investigate where America went wrong.

There's a very strong implicit assumption in using here the word wrong.
Nah. It's more true everybody is brainwashed because people are scared to think for themselves.
It only "is not a positive change", suddenly, now that websites friendly to the accepted dogma du jour are at risk of being exposed to it!
I tried to see myself out, but all that happened was that the wall behind the door became blue. In all seriousness, I was just curious if he had some cool "see-yourself-out" site that he'd send you to, like some people do, but no such luck this time. So I guess I'm stuck with linear regression, then. It's a pretty interesting topic anyway. :)
Fox has been photoshopping a man with an assault rifle onto pictures of a peaceful protest for the last week.

What legal consequences have they faced, or are they going to face for these blatant lies?
The indie scene outside of Steam might arguably be called popular, but if revenue is a marker success, it certainly isn't successful.
So due to how Go handles memory, it needs to do something called "trampoline", over to the C stack. This causes Go->C calls to have a substantial overhead 70-200ns/op. Most other languages that value is closer to 1ns. This means that every call to a GPU suffers from this latency.

This isn't too much of a problem if your doing all supervised learning with batch operations because the speedup of a GPU over a bigger operation outweighs the FFI latency.

However, it's a problem that doesn't appear to have a solution due to Go's memory management choices, and will hamper it ever being used for accelerated computing problems. This is one of the reasons Rust moved to using ownership rules.

You can read a bit more at https://dave.cheney.net/2016/01/18/cgo-is-not-go
I think the other thing that sticks out is the prohibition for developer to charge different price in and out of the app store (seems to be somewhat relaxed, for example expressVPN, or maybe the trick is to not offer the exact same bundle?) and the related prohibition to mention the price difference when subscribing outside the app store.

If apple was so confident in the value of the app store they would let the consumer make the choice instead of preventing even a hint of competition.

e.g.:

Tap here to subscribe right now for $X (monitor your subscription in the app store app).

Subscribe on our site for $(.7*X) by entering your credit card information.

Then let apple adjust the numbers until they have the same amount of signups as before, that would let the customer decide on the value of the "Apple Convenience Tax" instead of preventing information disclosure.
These arguments are always full of motivated reasoning; they start with the desired goal (Twitter shouldn’t be allowed to block people I like, usually), then they try to work backwards from the law to that outcome. This produces some fairly hilarious misinterpretations of how Section 230 works, along with the occasional misreference to State Action by the better read.
Apple could allow alternative app store which then can be permanently banned if any of the app distributed via it contains malware/adware or privacy issues
Nice! I have an old Wurlitzer electric that I have been wanting to restore and MIDIfy. This gives me hope that the requisite modifications to a Disklavier or Pianodisk setup might actually be possible.
Here's section 230, it's very short: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 Please can you explain how this was "designed to protect neutral platforms like a utility", given that the text contains none of the words "neutral", "platform" or "utility"? It also doesn't contain "editorialise" or any variant that I can see.
Correct, America first.
That's so fucking funny the Techcrunch site also has trackers turned on!
Gotta love pi-hole!
> Whatever your problem is that is holding you back – drinking, eating, whatever – fix it today

D'oh! Why didn't I think of that?
"Now that the show is over, and we have jointly exercised our constitutional rights, we would like to leave you with one very important thought: Some time in the future, you may have the opportunity to serve as a juror in a so-called obscenity case. It would be wise to remember that the same people who would stop you from viewing an adult film may be back next year to complain about a book, or even a TV program. If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally protected rights - no one else will do it for you. Thank you."
Git being a cli and "main" being shorter to type might help motivate those that are not convinced by the histoial arguments.
I'm thinking the value of having Yelp overlayed on VR/AR alone.

Youre sitting at home, and you do a walkthrough of your vacation before you go, get familiar with the location, learn your routes. Then you get there, and you have your map/dots/itinerary overlayed.

Being able to walk around an area, to find things that look interesting to you, vs searching yelp/tripadvisor.

I'm on board with your vision. Realtime infinite zoom and synthetic upscaling are around the corner. Sure you wont be able to add actual detail of specific things that isnt captured anywhere, but it will be an acceptable substitute. Being able to reposition a camera in a photo, after it is taken.
That was a bing marketing thing for awhile. Bing would answer certain questions from authoritative sources.

Google has an inconsistent approach.
I’m specifically asking about Go+ (not Go) “having” shebang support in that you can legally use the standard #! shebang. Yes, the kernel handles the shebang, but if the shebang target doesn’t ignore the line and errors then that’s where the problem lies.

The workarounds mentioned by you and the other commenter’s linked article are sub-optional in that they require a system-wide modification, require wrapper scripts, or are non-standard hacks.
The Shareware Scene, Part 5: Narratives of Doom
So there's two separate things being talked about:

1. Is it intentional?

2. Is it a dog whistle?

So for instance, the fact that there were 88 Facebook ads. Was that intentional? Most likely. Is it a dogwhistle? Not really, because even people who see the ads have no idea how many ads there were. Even if you're the person who the dogwhistle is for, how do you find that signal? It really doesn't count as anything more than sad, racist mental masturbation.

Now, take the press release that you shared. Is it intentional? 100%. Is it a dogwhistle? Almost definitely. While most people won't count the # of words in the title, the fact that it starts with the same 3 words "We Must Secure" will tip off people who want to look for the 14 words, and hint that there's something else there. (Really, same 4 words, but those 3 are the ones that count). Hell, even if it wasn't 14 words, starting it with "We Must Secure" is probably enough.

Do they have plausible deniability? Well, in the sense that you can't prove what goes on in their head—but nobody is under any illusions about what they're trying to do, and nobody believed their claims of innocence.
Doesn't Walmart do this with groceries section?
Symbian had mandatory signature checks and Nokia Signed/Symbian Signed program for privileged APIs, i-mode phones had “carrier official sites” program and Java app players to use with...

That said, the idea of iOS and App Store that you don’t ever sideload, browse from PC or web browser, or handle .ipa directly, as an integrated whole, do feel novel to me.
My guess is that there was an Oracle MBA type who thought they were being very clever by not saying "Blue Ocean," but "Blue Kai."

https://www.blueoceanstrategy.com/what-is-blue-ocean-strateg...
I'm sensing frustration.

Can you help me understand what you're advocating for?
Android is really a mishmash of parts - a large chunk of the functionality in it's "Bionic" libc is pulled from OpenBSD's libc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_%28software%29#Componen...
I don't think the number of people affected was at issue in the ruling. It was more about some administrative law. Am I understanding this correctly?
Reuters killed their RSS feeds?
Because "Paleolithic people living in the place now known as France" is longer, clunkier and conveys the same meaning.

It's also not really "inaccurate." We say "Irish prehistory," native americans, etc.
In short: Danger (of Sidekick fame, had to look that up actually) was running an embedded JVM that for a while had its own bespoke RTOS underneath before switching to NetBSD.

Before going up in the flames of a brand-wide cloud data loss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss
(I didn't expect contemporary headlines to already have the term cloud)
Quit whining about Apple and just stop using them
> refuses to run unless it detects that you are offline

They could just display the "please disconnect" error for a while, then sneakily stop checking after some date, collecting data every time you forget to disconnect. You'd need to check the code, or never forget to disconnect - the latter is probably a mistake waiting to happen.

Chrome bug page for "offline-only PWAs" if you want to star it: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=995236
Yup. But it isn't clear to me whether that tracking information would be considered "content" (and require a warrant) or "metadata" and be subject to mass warrantless data collection.

Do you have thoughts?
For me it's something I do focus on, albeit to the extent reasonable. I'm working on a new chat site called sqwok.im and just like Amazon, there's real concern that a slow page load could ward people off. There are two key areas I've focused on in particular, one is api optimization, minimizing network requests as much as possible, and the other is SSR or server-side rendering, where some of the initial page data is rendered with the html, cached by cdn, and loaded very fast after that. It's not perfect, but most page loads are ~300ms (unless you hit a page that isn't cached of course). May do a write up on that topic.
> push notification... That is so totally the fault of the mobile networks and OS people

The issue for mobile is that unrestricted push notifications are a serious battery drain. I think that JMAP makes the correct choice here, a push notification is just an external action/url, how the notification is delivered to the human is left out of the protocol. I would say that it allows for both openness and centralization without a bias for one or the other.
I imagine the demo to be playing a Nancarrow Player Piano Study like no. 36 or 37 (or Tango?).

No. 36 is a 4 part canon where each part moves in a different tempo, forming a tempo ratio 17:18:19:20. Imagine taking a Bach fugue and applying a skewX or perhaps a Gaussian blur to it. All the voices converge roughly in the middle of the piece to create a striking texture unplayable by humans.

No. 37 is a twelve-voice canon with an esoteric relationship among the voices (based on pitch-interval ratios of a particular scale from a book by Henry Cowell.) It's basically a series of little episodes where he trains the listener to focus on the texture-- because what else could you focus on in a twelve-voice canon? Then at the end, he introduces this low, enigmatic ricercare tune that builds into this enormous, sprawling texture of harmonic and melodic surprises, like aliens slowly descending upon Eisenach 300 years too late to find their lost ancestor.

Trimpin made MIDI recordings of the 50+ player piano etudes back in the 90s.

And if copyright weren't full of anachronistic concepts, one of them would be the Lenna of MIDI piano demos in the 21st century.

Unfortunately, copyright is still full of anachronistic concepts.

So instead you get an early Debussy piece. And where you would have said, "Holy shit, that is wild!" to a demo that properly shows off all the work the author put into MIDI-fying a baby ground, you instead say, "Hm, neat."
The problem is that it’s very hard to write a law that both bans the moderation of political speech, and would allow the hypothetical sewing forum operator to ban non-sewing content.

How do you define political? How do you handle extreme political ideologies that advocate for violence too? Who has the power to decide which speech is moderation proof? How do you avoid abuse when politicians eventually control such a system? And how do you survive legal challenges to the fact that you’ve created a third type of extra protected speech?
It is not impossible to create a large program in a dynamic language. It simply requires extreme discipline.

At the same time, it is not impossible to write a large program entirely in assembly language, it just requires extreme discipline, even more so than python.

It's just a question of degree.

But when you DO get a type problem, and in any sizable code base, you WILL, it only manifests AT RUNTIME, and possibly at a customer site or in production, rather than manifesting at compile time.
If cognitive ability is suddenly a valid scientific metric for sociology, there's going to be a lot of backpedalling and mental gymnastics to account for other studies.
If Twitter themselves posted a tweet defaming someone, they'd have the exact same liabilities as those reporters at CNN, who are employed by CNN to create content for CNN.

Twitter can't be sued for a libelous tweet that someone else posts. Just like Fox can't be sued for a libelous comment that someone else leaves on a story. Well, you can sue anyone for anything, the point is neither of these suits would be successful.

I mean, this is just a common sense way of things working. In fact, the liability following-through to whoever actually did the bad thing was the entire motivation behind why S230 was created.

> 230 protection, which was designed to protect neutral platforms like a utility,

The text of section 230 has none of the words "neutral platform" nor "utility," nor are they legal concepts that exist in this context.
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If you want to check out what bluekai knows about your browser:
https://datacloudoptout.oracle.com/registry/
> Russia certainly can force Apple to comply if there was wuch a goal. Or at least RKN can just break push notifications for everyone.

Obviously, they are not mad enough to break everyone's phones just to block Telegram.

> I'm not the one for conspiracy theories though.

Yeah, that was my thought. You did not provide any evidence to the claim that RKN only pretended they want to block Telegram, while there's a lot of evidence they actually wanted to block: they blocked millions of IP addresses and they threatened Apple to block App Store.

> simply because they are using it themselfs

If they really wanted to use it themselves, they would not block AWS and DO.
It's very common if you're not at some big FAANG or group that is in all the partner groups (CNCF, etc) and pays to get tickets every year.

I do this a lot for a few foss projects I contribute to because even though I'm always hired as the SME for my niche leadership will only give me tickets/flights to conferences if they have extras and none of their drinking buddies want to go. Typically what happens is I'll start at a company, ask about going to $mybigcon when a training budget is brought up, that training budget is always slashed, not real or goes somewhere else then I'll never ask again and I'll find my own way to get tickets (from conf partners, etc).

The funny thing, when I have to do this not only am I really bothered that my company wouldn't spend the $1000 ($200 plane, $800 ticket) but I go out of my way to not focus on ANYTHING that will benefit my company but instead I have a good time and learn things I'm interested in and mingle with every other company/partner I can.

I've actually had companies expect me to get tickets myself from the projects or from gold partners that I know. I don't have that much clout by any means and even asking partners for tickets makes me feel terrible because they're limited too.
I don't know where to begin with comments like this... It's like a teenager wrote it.
> data will leak

It doesn't even have to leak. HR departments and shady government agencies could just buy it (or legally seize it). PR firms could dig through protester history and smear them so very easily.
This is genius. It's a little crazy that this is what it takes though??
using google's keyboard, i get "Microsoft Windows app store"
Yeah, that's the thing that's so annoying about at least the windows (TIL) and Apple App Store: you cannot mention any other option.

If they were so confident in the convenience they offered they would allow you to mention other options. This reeks of anti-competitiveness.
> any platform providing secure end-to-end encryption would face a torrent of litigation

I do not see this. By definition content transmitted with end-to-end encryption cannot be moderated. How would anyone but the sender and receiver know that a given message contains "illegal content"?

(I put "illegal content" in quotes because it makes my skin crawl, even though in practice I think some content should be suppressed (but I also don't want to be the one to say which content should be suppressed with the force of law because that's hard-to-impossible, and my heart's not in it.) It's a little like anti-smoking laws: technically a gross violation of personal freedom, but one that I'm not prepared to vote down until smoking is a fringe fetish.)

In terms of platform vs. conduit it seems to me that e2ee forces the service provider into the "conduit" category.
Oracle bought BlueKai in 2014.
Isn't that already the way it is? These privacy policies are almost always thrown out in court as evidence of any sort of consent.
Any exponential close to 1 looks linear for relatively long periods of time. That doesn't mean that if you "open up" the economy it will stay that way. Unfortunately, the heavily delayed hospitalizations and deaths are the only direct measures, while sampling rates/biases make even statistical analysis of positive tests for infection rates difficult.

However, rising %positive and higher reported rates together or rapidly rising hospitalizations (eg. rising even 5-10% per day) are indications that by the time any new (present day) controls have effect on measured outcome (20-30 day delay) the situation will be 5-10x worse.
Because they are supposedly active in moderating content (I am not talking about taking down illegal stuff here). Moderating content to fit their narrative arguably makes them a publisher with all the consequences.

I guess what they are saying (entities that are meddling with 230) is either be totally neutral with the exception of taking down illegal stuff and spam or face the outcome.
Hi, project creator here.

With the huge increase in live virtual events I figured it'd be useful to organize them all in one place. Youtube, Instagram, Twitch and Facebook are full everyday with livestreams hosted by DJs, dance teachers, art teachers, etc. However, discovering that they exist and promoting them is tougher than it should be.

My brother and I built this side project to help people quickly find live events they're interested in. Check it out and discover what's going on live right now. Or if you're hosting an event, submit it to the site.
One of the big complaints towards these platforms is that content is already too clustered (the filter bubble effect). Clustering people makes things worse.
At one time, I listened to NPR for hours every week. After 2016, something in them seemed to snap, and after listening to one of their anchors going after the 538 guy as if he and his industry were fully responsible for Trump's election, and demanding some sort of apology I resolved to give them a dew months to come back to their senses. I still listen to them regularly, they regularly put out good journalism. But when I came back to them they just sounded absurdly out of touch with the rest of the world.

I'm still not entirely sure whether it's because my worlview expanded, or because theirs narrowed.
You'd have to restrict localstorage and stuff like that too, else they could save data and then send it when they regain network access.

If you have a use-case, or some ideas, there's Chrome bug page for "offline-only PWAs": https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=995236
> so it's clear that it's important

for amazon
> The absence of firearms in the clash dates back to a 1996 agreement between the two sides that guns and explosives be prohibited along the disputed stretch of the border, to deter escalation.
Depends. How fast are the drones? How fast is the SOTA plane they're trying to intercept? Trying to build a build a cloud in front of the jet is difficult when it's 20 times faster than the elements of the cloud.

It's even more difficult when the plane can fly on the deck or at 60,000 feet, or anywhere in between. Now you have to build a cloud 60,000 feet tall in front of something 20 times faster than the cloud. That is non trivial.

[Edit: Oh, yeah, what's the range of the drones? I read 6 km; is that accurate? If so, good luck getting them in front of anything.]
Transcripts / Canceling
A bomb drone would have to be absolutely tiny to satisfy not hurting others. I don't want slaughterbots to be science fact as much as anyone else, but these drones currently aren't small enough.
It feels a bit like a dark pattern though if you consider a user that find it first through the store. I would like to know the percentage of users that consciously paid for it knowing they could also download it for free vs those users that paid for it because they didn't know better.
So let me get this straight: the total removal of moderation, and the subsequent inclusion of content which espouses ideas of racial superiority and extermination of peoples is a positive change?

Calling for violence against groups of people is not illegal. Only specific, actionable incitement of violence [1]. I don't think you really understand what total absence of moderation really means.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
Like dissenter but instead of a comments section you can annotate anywhere?
>Re: your question around experiments... yes to all three (parameter sweeping, Monte Carlo, and sensitivity analysis), and a bunch more. We'll be shipping this alongside H-Cloud.

Firstly, fantastic work.

I'd love to see more details on 'H-Cloud' regarding infrastructure, pricing, and feasibility/licensing options for self-deployment should I need to recreate/run a similar environment on premise vs. at a remotely hosted service.

I'm also quite interested in what's going to be FOSS'd in terms of the 'H-Engine' (written in Rust) and if some friendly interface (similar to H-Core) will still be provided.
Using a VPN adds indirection but can give you a sense of false security as well.

Metadata is obviously the least important data to analyze, but for example a VPN does not hide the size of payloads. TLS 1.3 do addresses that and let's you randomly pad messages but I don't think anybody use that.
BTFS – mount any .torrent file or magnet link as directory
Keanu Reaves is another example.
Something similar but for music existed in pre-Vivendi MP3.com (whose founder later started Lindows which had an app store for Linux PCs in 2002), and a real world analog might be something like a consignment store.
I just can't enraged by a platform enforcing their rules. Don't use their platform, or play by their rules?
If you’re doing a list comprehension with a Django queryset, you’re risking having a million accidental DB requests