skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I am concerned about the potential negative consequences to altering section 230, there are several elements in the DOJ proposal that I think would be excellent ideas:

> 3. Promoting Competition
A third reform proposal is to clarify that federal antitrust claims are not covered by Section 230 immunity. Over time, the avenues for engaging in both online commerce and speech have concentrated in the hands of a few key players. It makes little sense to enable large online platforms (particularly dominant ones) to invoke Section 230 immunity in antitrust cases, where liability is based on harm to competition, not on third-party speech.

Breaking up advertising monopolies (which all of these social media platforms essentially are) would probably be a good outcome.

> b. Provide Definition of Good Faith. Second, the Department proposes adding a statutory definition of “good faith,” which would limit immunity for content moderation decisions to those done in accordance with plain and particular terms of service and accompanied by a reasonable explanation, unless such notice would impede law enforcement or risk imminent harm to others. Clarifying the meaning of "good faith" should encourage platforms to be more transparent and accountable to their users, rather than hide behind blanket Section 230 protections.

Is it too much to ask for social media companies to actually abide by their TOS? How often have we seen people complain (outside the realm of politics) about getting banned without explanation or appeal? If people are going to be building their livelihoods around these platforms (for content distribution, ad revenue, etc.) then I think it's time for these platforms to be more transparent with their content creators.
Grats on the cheap grand! I bought a similarly inexpensive piano in a similarly decrepit condition before Covid, I've been meaning to MIDI-fy it as well. Thanks for the inspiration!
I will continue to use Apple but I pulled both of my apps from their app store years ago due to maltreatment. I don’t use their app store as a consumer either. IMO it’s a wasteland.

Unpopular opinion but I also think it should be completely up to them to set their revenue share. Let their app store wither away as developers create platform-independent web applications instead.
A paper doesn't "prove" anything, but it does utilize and cite upon real world mobility data and real world susceptibility and transmissibility data for many diseases, including early estimates of these for SARS-CoV-2, e.g. https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-67 is cited and used in the estimate of the coefficient of variation.

There was very little data on overdispersion and differential susceptibility for SARS-CoV-2 at the time that paper was written, but there was some. What existed at the time was in line with the better estimates from SARS-CoV-1, etc, that the paper also used. Further evidence has emerged since, both of variable susceptibility and exposure and of actual mechanisms of variable susceptibility-- some surprising like https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20058073v...
Nooooo!!!!

I am sustained by Apple hatred. It is an essential part of my balanced diet.

Every time someone complains about how expensive Apple is I grow a centimeter and every time someone bitches about their App Store policies I gain a month of lifespan.

I am now 40km tall and will live for 50,000 years but ultimately a lack of whining about Apple would see me wither away and die.
Seriously, his reasoning for not needing better graphics in VR is out of touch with the purpose of VR. I now wish he left sooner so they would’ve focused on the best possible VR experience.
So you support shooting at the police?
Surrendering freedom and giving power to unelected people, be they monarchs, dictators or CEOs, has never worked well.

> I?m sure you also think that physical good stores should bare all of the cost and allow companies to sell things for free without a markup...

I'm sure you know that's a strawman.
That is a great advice. One of the registrars has been sending verification messages for one of my oldest domains to the mail account that I do not use anymore and one day they stopped serving DNS for it. I had an access to the old mail account still but if I had not, that would have been an arduous process indeed!
Seriously. It _is_ just fine out here. There's choice! It could be better -- it is very Googly. But there is wiggle room that has been growing even, with LineageOS, F-Droid, PinePhone/PostmarketOS, etc.

And it was also completely predictable that the walled garden would evolve into what it has become. It's easy to choose otherwise...
I fully agree; was just trying to give a direct answer to what I perceived your question to be.
Alternative causality chain:

1. The more politically powerless you feel, the more you support free speech in order to protect speech you agree with.

2. More intelligent people are more likely to land in less politically powerful ideologies, just due to exploring more of them.

The graph showing that "Communist" most favor free speech and "Military" supports it least seems to be consistent with a political power gradient.

A prediction of this explanation: As power shifts, e.g. as leftists come to dominate academia, the group gaining power will tend to favor free speech less, and visa versa.
I've been really enjoying pydantic lately. Run-time validation of types without forcing you to learn something other than normal type annotations.

https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io/
Is it ever a good idea to tell someone the worst things about them? I would say maybe, depends on the context, because talking is always preferable to violence. But there does come a point, when talking is just used to organize violence. So clearly there is a line.

"Tutsi were increasingly viewed with suspicion; Radio Rwanda aired incitement to ethnic hatred and a pogrom was organised on 11 October in a commune in Gisenyi Province, killing 383 Tutsi."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Civil_War
I wouldn't say "stop using" but in a lot of businesses iOS seems be always be launched first with Android as an after-though. I think this backslash is partially about Apple falling from its pedestal and favouritism.
Have people already lost usb drives, sd cards, bluetooth etc.?
Don't forget their Linux patent racket in the 2000s. Hell hath certainly frozen over.
That's news to me. So why do companies still spend money writing them?
I sent an online support request pointing out the problem (as though they're not aware) and politely asking when it would be fixed. Assuming the reply window for this thread is still open by then, I'll post any response here.
The gold market is too large for anyone to fix the price. Not even central banks are capable of doing that. It's a paranoid fantasy concocted by incompetent traders looking to blame someone else for their losses.
>keep in mind that section 230 exempts the platform from the usual liability and penalties that an individual or company would normally face.

As it should. If you insult Elon Musk on here, you should sued for it. Why do you think HN should be liable? Section 230 doesnt say you wouldn't be liable.
In principal I agree with you. But consider the case of Gmail. You have to communicate with a lot of people that use Gmail, and Google can block that because one of their robots decides it doesn't like your host/server/domain/IP/face. You have little recourse to resolve this, probably even less so if you don't have a Google account.
An upvote isn’t enough for this book, so I need to comment that it’s the best I’ve come across for my needs. When I was getting into the more mathematical aspects of coding when I was getting started with machine learning 5 years ago, this book was invaluable.

Having thought in code (with verbose variables and structure) for many years, I needed a Rosetta Stone for the ambiguous symbology of mathematics - and this is it!

It’s tinier than you’d think, but is an absolutely incredible reference. An absolute requirement for any engineers bookshelf.
Deming regressions have some serious drawbacks compared to OLS, most importantly that it's not scale/unit-invariant: if you rescale your (e.g. use house area in square metres instead of square feet to predict house prices) you get different results.

This may be less of an issue for the machine leaner who's only interested in point predictions, but it's a serious concern for us old fashioned statisticians who are more interested in inference.
It is not free https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/windows

So paying yet product. And varying price is something I would expect from airlines, not from respectable business.
The problem people have with free speech is the way it is used to legitimise bad behaviour. Creating a hostile environment for people - questioning their equality and validity - is not a reasonable moral choice. Being ostracised for one's awful choices isn't unfair or unexpected, or indeed unprecedented. Most people complaining about free speech are essentially campaigning for their right to be cruel and impolite in polite society.
"Whining" is always prejudicial. You can define it as "Complaining about something you refuse to take steps to remedy" but that doesn't make it any less prejudicial. It's like "reasons" versus "excuses": Do you have a reason or are you trying to give me excuses? I know that I always have reasons even if the same words coming from you would be excuses.

> This echoes the "if you don't like it so much then just leave instead of speaking up" dismissal that is so commonly used as a lampshade for suppressing dissent.

Apple is suppressing dissent by not caring what their users and developers are saying. There is no path forwards from speaking up other than a boycott, because Apple isn't going to listen to you.

> This guy doesn't understand what monopolies are and how they work. The whole point is that there are no other alternatives, so you literally cannot "just stop using them". "Just stop patronizing the monopoly" is not a strategy that has ever been successful. The monopoly needs to be broken up.

Apple has a monopoly on iOS. Google has a monopoly on Android. Neither has a monopoly on PostmarketOS.

I doubt you'll be successful in convincing the DOJ that Apple needs to be broken up on that basis.
as if we need more reasons to hate Oracle
Hopefully will preview in next release (6 months release cycle)
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/loom/sol1_part1.h...

EAP build - http://jdk.java.net/loom/
In 2020, free speech is most often attacked under three false premises:

1. "It's a private company, they can deplatform whoever they want!"

This is obviously true to an extent, but as all communication is increasingly dominated by a few private companies, leads to a situation where free speech is effectively stifled not by the government but by an oligarchy. This is especially true since internet infrastructure like DNS is implemented by private companies.

2. "It's freedom of speech, not freedom of consequences of speech!"

Clearly this argument is absurd and wrong, yet I've seen it get touted nonetheless, notably in an XKCD comic. If the government threw you in jail for political speech, and defined that as "allowing free speech but simply having consequences of that speech", most would agree that's not true free speech. Yet people accept that flawed logic in other contexts.

If you can lose your livelihood for a political opinion, you don't really have free speech, yet that's increasingly the precedent set by Silicon Valley as a reasonable consequence of unpopular political opinions.

3. "We can't be tolerant of intolerant opinions!"

Again, perhaps some truth here in the most extreme cases, yet increasingly we label all but the most anondyne opinions as intolerant. The range of acceptable opinions gets narrower every day, and the consequences for diverging from it increasingly harsh.

To me it's an objective reality that there's a massive attack on free speech in 2020, especially in places like Silicon Valley and primarily by people who identify as "the left", usually using the fallacious arguments noted above.
K-means clustering is insufficient to guarantee that no content that results in lawsuits or charges gets uploaded. These are sites with a billions of users. A failure rate of even 0.001% still means a lot of content that can result in charges or lawsuits gets through.

Removal of section 230 means companies can even be criminally liable for things their users post. It's not a question of fairness at that point.
A customer is an external stakeholder. They do have a voice, but at a large scale / low % of revenue, it may be not be very loud.

If no one enjoyed the shade of a tree, it wouldn’t cease to exist. If customers stopped paying a business, they likely would.
What compliance is challenged by logging user agents?
Except what counts is what law defines as monopoly, and the fact that Android owns the European market, makes it even less relevant.
Did your mother's dog have reflective eyeballs? If so, that's called a Tapetum Lucidum[0], and most dogs breeds have it. It's what make animals' eyes appear to glow in the dark. Light reflects off the back of the eye so the retina can absorb more of it, allowing for improved vision at night.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapetum_lucidum
Isn't this the tipping point when a company crosses the line, becomes a monopoly, restricts consumer choices, and suffocates competition by leveraging the entire playing field? We've been through that before. Sad to see Apple of all companies turn evil.
Oh I see. I agree that it is a risk, so - in the vein of another advice in this thread - if you have a co cern about third party email provider, update your domain records to another provider.
I'm with you entirely. I love what they're doing with hardware. I am fascinated with their SoC/SiPs. My kids are wildly successful with iOS/MacOS UIs in comparison to the competiton (especially ChromeOS, good lord is that a usability nightmare), and I think this speaks volumes about the quality of their ui/ux investment.
What's the logic here? How does police brutality and 2A relate?

Police are aggressive and corrupt, so you get a gun, so...?
I dunno. If readers can see that it is obviously satire, then Twitter just looks silly and no harm has been done. If readers can't tell though, then Twitter is providing a useful service here.
I really like the iPhone. Maybe not the full Apple ecosystem so much (everything else I own is Linux), but that's only because I think Linux is the best fit for me. iPhone is the same way, and Apple's business practices don't change my fit with my phone, no matter how disappointing they may be. I think that's why many of us use Apple.

My happy place would be something like "Heroku for mobile", where you can jswrap a React.js app into an HTMLView or something like that, and do 'git push ios master'. Notifications API, localStorage API, and maybe authentication / session persistence API are all I really care about natively (like Firebase); React Native is too heavy. Add in a TestFlight "permanent beta" invite, or the ability to build the app from a remote mac (https://www.macincloud.com/) with a lambda and transfer it to my phone (...somehow), and I'll just use the app store for things I don't make myself (which hopefully should be less and less).
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I first heard Cloud used in the modern sense when Loudcloud's name was selected, which would have been some time in late 1999. But we had used the terms cloud in white board discussions for years before, drawing a "cloud" to represent "services that we get from somewhere on the net". So using the word cloud in a company name seemed fitting and not particularly novel, at the time.
But whether the root of two actually is an irrational number does not depend on whether you are free to say it is or isn't. In other words, freedom of speech does not mean that there is no way to make any discernments whatsoever between the speech "the root of two is irrational" and "the root of two is rational."
RSS has nothing to do with payment for content.
Yup! It definitely would still be an expensive mission! But I think getting there is no longer the biggest expense :)
I like Apple products too. I listen to multiple podcasts that are pretty much Apple News/commentary. I like their privacy stance, design, etc. Even products I have no use for like the watch and iPad Pros blow my mind with their use cases especially for non-developers. Having a Unix-like terminal with stable and long-lasting hardware helped me as a young developer in college. Hardware has been hit and miss lately but they are slowly making a comeback... with some caveats.

I don't "like" Apple the company (neutral to negative depending on the news) because well, it's a company. The 30% forced cut is BS and its main result is worse apps for consumers and a worse experience for devs. I try to not be a fanboy or instinctively defend them. But yeah, in my 10+ years of being in the ecosystem, I am pretty happy.
Probably correct is not "based", should be "inspired".
With that small caveat that "legitimate" is solely defined by the powerful.
Apple sells you hardware, but then tries to upsell, by offering apps through AppStore. The solution here seems to be:

Jailbreak your iPhone and start installing applications from other sources. If Apple tries to stop that then you can sue them that they deny you rights to use something that you legally own (the iPhone).

The only downside here is: I would have a hard time trusting an app from outside the AppStore.
Love the idea! Honestly health is often taken for granted and we need more things in tech pushing health forward
Prob and Stats
Using Deep Learning to convert text news into video
Replace it with whatever language you use to describe the rate at which things get done and re-read.
Is it wrong that I miss Pointcast? It was before RSS, and would download full articles (including images and ads, etc) for use when you wanted to read it.
Some country was thinking about declaring Internet Access a human right. I think computing should come before that.

The scale of any company should invite extra scrutiny from the state. Apple is at a scale where it has massive societal impact, it's not the burger joint down the road.

It would be trivial for Apple to add a toggle allowing users to switch from 'walled garden' mode to something more permissive.

On macOS you can install any software, or from identified developers or from the App Store and I don't see macOS users screaming they can't manage without their walled garden.

Why wouldn't iOS allow any installs from identified developers or from anywhere?
theyre much less likely to extrajudically execute somebody with a gun, for starters
The overall design is nice, but you may want to reconsider the combination of Visuelt and Helvetica Neue. Not only are they just different enough to noticeably clash; what's worse, I thought the Helvetica was (unstyled, fallback-stack) Arial at first, which looked like carelessness. For Helvetica to look sharp, you need to really commit to the Swiss look, headings and all.
That’s the beauty of the App Store. I don’t have to to trust the app maker, just the operating system.

How do you know which app makers to “trust”?

Epic?

https://www.cnet.com/news/just-as-critics-feared-fortnite-fo...

Zoom?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/zoom-defends-use-of-local-web-...

Google?

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/15235262?hl=en

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-da...
Echo chambers cause an overall increase in extremism. After reddit banned /r/fatpeoplehate, reddit as a whole became less mean.

When you give extremism room to congregate, extremists feel more empowered. (This is generally true, but relevant only to extremism at the moment).

Unless you simultaneously cut them off from the rest of the site, which in the context of reddit, twitter, and Facebook doesn't make sense, you just make things worse.
Another critical property of water is that its solid form (ice) is less dense than its liquid form. This means that large bodies of water freeze on top and seal in a warmer liquid layer below. If not for this, then all lakes and even oceans would freeze solid. Most of the planet's water would be frozen solid year-round. Even during the "Snowball Earth" eras in our ancient past, only the surface of the Earth was frozen; there was still liquid ocean below. Very few compounds have this property of lower density when frozen.
Ads in Internet are the whole ecosystem, they are served based on info you provide in cookies, browser fingerprint and some javascript magic. There is non of that in RSS reader as it is separate from your daily browsing.
It also completely misses the point. Speech has always had consequences, everybody knows that. That's why it's so important! If speech didn't have consequences then nobody would care about freedom of speech.
Thanks for sharing! We've definitely seen a bit of the same. The economic gap leads to an access to care gap, especially in more rural areas. That's before even factoring in lack of access to fresh, non-processed foods, which is a key part of nutrition especially at an older age. We hope that services like ours (and your much-needed T2D concept) can help close that gap!
That stinks. I was subscribed for my Kodi ticker feed. I've found that Reuters does the best job at putting actual information in the headline and not just using it as an opportunity for clickbait.

Fictional Example:

- CNN: Trump said what? Democrats outraged by latest tweet.

- Reuters: Trump tweets 'looting leads to shooting' in response to BLM Protests
But that’s the whole point of having principles. It costs something to uphold them, which you deem worthwhile to pay.

There are plenty of other ways to make money in software without needing to do business with companies you deem unethical.
Thanks. I will be in bed :-)
"It seems silly to me to cry about monopolies."

Oh, wait. So let's go back in time. When Microsoft was sued and forced to allow other browsers onto Windows. IE was the default and was free.

Microsoft forced OEMs to pay for Windows for every computer they made, whether or not they installed Windows on it. Effectively killing out other operating systems.

If you don't believe in monopolies... if the solution was "stop buying computers that come pre-installed with Windows"...

Or is it that you don't believe Apple is a monopoly but you're still happy Microsoft was forced to allow other browsers to be the default in Windows?
Why would I not be referring to that? It's literally where the name comes from. Are you trying to argue that it was separate group and therefore different? Because the original Democratic-Republicans are all dead regardless.