skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The books on science that we did were the fruit of a fabulous collaboration between us and the SF Exploratorium, the finest museum in the world (personal opinion). Paul Doherty, PhD physics MIT, was their chief scientist and the source of all scientific knowledge as far as I was concerned. Our other mentor was Martin Gardner for all things magic and odd. Check out Martin’s wiki article sometime. His brain was bigger than anybody’s. We worked w him on titles that were on magic or mischief...world class guy.
> There's a similar problem with error dialogs. Product people always push to keep technical details out of those dialogs, even if technical users would find the details useful for accomplishing their goals, figuring out what went wrong and working around it.

Lol, yes; the number of times I've seen a message to the effect of "Something broke. Contact your system administrator.", and I stare at it, and I mutter "I am the sysadmin, you stupid machine!" is excessive.
https://archive.vn/DIKFA
Finally. Its been a festering hole of hate speech for years
I wouldn't have any problems giving these APIs access via the web, but one challenge with the websites is that I'm never 100% sure that when I "retract" a permission or say "stop tracking me" that it's done. I think that if access to these API's were wrapped in some sort of Privacy API that superseded each website's privacy and data collection polices I would be more comfortable with this. These changes just seem like something Google threw over the wall to get things working with Chrome and every other browser developer said "no thanks".
With the impending likelihood of academia collapsing, I expect more of this type.of stuff to pop up.

So if this happens, how will we evaluate the relative worth of "degrees" in an unaccredited system? Could these online forums become accredited?
Not available anymore https://www.twitch.tv/donaldtrump
Show HN: how our team at Google releases libraries
one also needs to be careful with terms such as being "anti-immigration" in relative context.

For example even the Danish right-wing populists, in 2016, supported Clinton over Trump[1]. Same for Germany's AfD, a party that in Germany has evoked comparisons to our not so democratic past, but their immigration policy is by their own declaration "a Canada style merit based system". New Zealand, with a quarter of the population being immigrants, has much higher immigration levels relatively than the US, and events like the migrant crisis tend to temporarily create more extreme responses given how small the country is.

[1]https://www.economist.com/img/b/1280/559/90/sites/default/fi...
I find such studies rather shallow, just explaining away a phenomenon without looking deeper for causes. I dont think the level of political animosity that the USA seems to have now has been seen before, maybe ever. In no other country have people massively defied death in the way americans do today. When people stop valuing their lives , it seems rather like a change in psychology. Maybe it's not even a political phenomenon, but an extreme expression of underlying psychological issues in individuals that express themselves macroscopically in an irrational way.
I find it hard to take Apple's privacy aspects seriously when they're willing to violate those principles in markets like China [1]. Can we really applaud a company that's willing to give user data to governments, even if they don't do it in the US or EU?

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship-apps-flag...
> ... web pages that talk to ... health devices ... there is no way to block ads in an app

Wait, what?? Why on earth would you use an app with ads for health devices?!?

Moreover, why on earth are you using apps with ads for anything?

Please, please, please, pay for your apps and games. Stop making everything an ad service. The race to the bottom in the web and mobile world is disturbing.

Would you want to pay for your house plumbing by being forced to watch an ad every time you shower? Think about how dystopian that sounds. There are even Black Mirror episodes on that.
I think this is why I have so much trouble in my career. I just need to resign myself to writing tests, fucking with build systems, and not shipping a ton of features.
Printing books in bulk may not survive the epidemic. When I order "paperback books" from Amazon now, I usually get something from the print-on-demand system.
The sense of persecution and victim-hood I hear from the right seems rather at odds with how damn successful they seem to be at the moment.

It's like when the silent majority was anything but.
No, those mods weren't put in place by Reddit, they were hired a while ago by the top mods, some of who got banned thus making those the top mods. Reddit admins added zero mods to the t_d.
FYI, Classic Shell is no longer under development: http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8147

However, there is now Open Shell Menu which was created to replace it: https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/
5 - 10 years ago I would have said the same and was sure the web would take over. I've done a lot of work on both web and native mobile platforms and these days I'm really less sure what the future looks like. If web apps do take over they won't be web apps like we know them.
Disappointed to not see any mention of ranked choice voting. I think the winner takes all system leads to a two-party duopoly and makes it difficult for intermediate positions to win.

P.S: Yes, I know Australia has ranked choice and they also have problems. Of course it's not a panacea, there are other problems like the role of money in politics. But it will be better than what we have today, and should reduce polarization considerably over time IMO.
> If a company is sending out cease & desists, it's not abandonware by definition.

True, but you cannot assume that it is abandonware if a cease & desist letter is not sent out. The rights holder may be unaware of the unauthorized distribution or the site maintainer may be unaware that the rights holder is still selling or supporting the product. While I have seen examples of games being pulled by abandonware sites at their own initiative, that is typically because these releases are higher profile. In the case of application and operating software it would be much more difficult to figure out since anything that is still being supported is probably going to be through obscure channels for legacy systems.
The Revolutions Podcast, by Mike Duncan who also did the History of Rome podcast, did a series on the Haitian revolution. It's excellent! It may be the only successful slave revolt and a truly fascinating story.

The series ran from 2015/12 through 2016/04. The podcast archives begin here: https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2015/12/index.html
/r/gendercritical was also banned, an active and well-moderated radical feminist sub.

I am not a radical feminist, nor was I particularly welcomed there as a man, but I found the sub interesting to expand my perspective.
They spend a large % of GDP on military, while their neighbour easily outspends them because of a way bigger economy.

After all, Russia's GDP is similar to only 3 European countries ( I think France, Belgium and Netherlands together is bigger, you can check it in Wolfram Alpha ).

They should just spend it on trade instead. So their population would get wealthier.

Edit: over estimated Russia's GDP. It's even smaller then France alone. Also Germany and Italy are easily bigger
Safari already implements API that leaks enough information to uniquely fingerprint a device.

What's your point? Because one API can be used for something, Apple should let Safari be a free-for-all?
True for the timeframe under-analysis, but not necessarily for long-term trends if there are changing fundamentals.

One of the interesting things that has happened with solar is that subsidy has decreased. So even if the composition is remaining static for new development, if we now have sustainable solar compared the the historically (economically) unsustainable version that required government intervention, that was an accomplishment. The counterfactual is not stable composition of generative sources but one with renewables decreasing because the political will waned to continue subsidy.
Really interesting, while honestly I couldn't care less about "advertising data" I cannot fathom going from Android to Apple all because of "walled gardens" where some of my friends enjoy it, I feel trapped like a bird in a cage.

It's the same reason I don't want to switch from Windows to MacOS, I refuse to support a platform where one company is "the Judge, Jury and Executioner".

As a mobile dev, it is also quite irritating that if you wish to develop for iOS, you must use an Mac, but if you wish to develop for Android, you can use any device you want. Oh how I would love for Apple to feel caged by their own walls, e.g. make Android Studios not available for MacOs until XCode is available for Windows and Linux.
> And then the site exploded, and it had to learn how to handle things like actual nazis calling for the deaths of jewish people.

Oh, so is that why they banned The Donald? Or any of the other number of subreddits they have quarantined and slowly killed?
There is waaaaay too much content generated on Reddit for the admins to approve or curate. And the success of Reddit is in user-driven communities and content. Admins do not want to be in the business of content curation. Reddit is updating its content policy.
Apple's A12Z Under Rosetta Outperforms Native Arm-Based Surface Pro X
So if we assume you are right then those users are going to behave like arseholes in either case, better they behave like arseholes off reddit is likely reddit's point of view - not least for PR/legal issues.
The New York Times Pulls Out of Apple News
> They'll take every post and make it about race.

It's called trolling. As long as you're feeding the trolls, they keep trolling.

Do other language forums have these race problems? Are English speaking sites being targeted by nefarious actors or botnets with racist remarks for some ulterior purpose? It seems to me that posting racist things on the internet may have been weaponized.
Hobby specific communities were a big attraction point to reddit, but even those have devolved into heavy censorship. There isnt really a good draw to the site anymore.
Those companies had problems but there aren't that many people who have experience leading large companies across different industry segments. Who has run HP well? Or IBM. Those companies were in legacy industry segments in a sense and lost their innovative sense. Sure, my view as an outsider and non-executive dev is that hp fumbled one thing after another (pa-risc, getting so much money and pissing off customers from printers, etc), then terrible combinations and buyouts except maybe compaq. But as I get more leadership roles over the years, I see my own limitations in leadership.

Companies and funders go back to these people with opportunities because they understand some parts of the market that people like me don't (finance, how to make these top level connections). I think like F Scott Fitzgerald kind of said,"Let me tell you about the ... [Ceos]. They are different from you and me". [1] It's fun to switch up that quote, but I do think they think of companies and strategies a lot differently than I do. I think about what is good technology, what will programmers use to build solutions.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10367-let-me-tell-you-about...
Bizarrely, the reason that there is even a discussion of making them liabile for user speech to begin with is because of prostitution, pedophiles, and terrorism.

I would hardly call those issues "extreme left". This change is actually from the conservative view point a lot of the time, especially as it comes to speech about sex. See cases against Backpage or Craigslist and prostitution.

Once a company is criminally liable for user speech, you're going to get this situation where it's easier to just ban speech that even approach the line. But I don't think anyone is going to say that a company should be willfully blind to pedophiles on their platform. So this is the world we get.
When I first heard of Amazon I thought it’d be like this: a curated list presented as spines-on-shelves. It feels like spines-on-shelves organized-by-Dewey let’s me use contextual knowledge to rapidly browse books in a way that the much higher-information-content “list of books” in, say, iOS books, or Kindle does not.

I guess I want curation and taxonomy, but book information should be minimal until I “pull it from the shelf”. I’d support (Patreon) a group that did high-quality curation.
Maybe? But we're in a subthread about decentralized solutions, so I feel like it makes sense.
Self-driving cars...
She wants that cup as remainder of the person that gave her the cup and as a show of respect toward that person.

She wants that concerete cut.
I think after getting quarantined we all knew it was coming, and this ban was known ahead of time. We just didn't know for sure.
I have been using electronic books much less lately. I have come to the conclusion that it is nice to read a real book that when you are done with you can give to a friend to read.

Or sell the books you are done with.

It is also a shame that the e-book industry seemed to try their hardest to make getting an e-book from the library on your reader nearly impossible or outright super confusing.
Perhaps not literally, however the subreddits namesake literally retweeted a video of someone exclaiming 'white power'. Most people who are not facists and are not nazis wouldnt exclaim something like this and would not support someone who retweets such things.
Reinforcement Learning takes a principled approach to analyzing the exploration/exploitation trade-off.

If you're interested in using this knowledge to manipulate your behavior, I recommend learning a little theory before letting internet wisdom dissuade you from exploring.
some questions I want to try and look up but it would be cool if you could expand on some of your points.

Did you work there?

From Chamath's wiki he invested in things like Palantir, some storage company, and Playdom which seems like the only company that he could have self dealing over...? Do you have other company examples? I am imagining being in charge of the social graph on fb platform could seem to be very tempting to then purchase/ invest in companies.

Do you know what Dave is doing currently? Slow capital doesn't seem to be a frequent updater on twitter. Before their most recent post, it was like a year ago they posted. And it looks like company related updates not Dave related.
Google is using fixed point arithmetic in their TPU clusters. See https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-67952-5_...
OK, I've updated the title above to have both sides now.
Twitch Temporarily Suspends Donald Trump’s Campaign Account
>so it seems bizarre to single T_D out

I don't consider myself required to provide an overview of all the subs on a platform if I'm talking about group's actions and why that would be undesirable in the context of an moderated platform.

More specific to reddit:

When it came to TD they spoke of it openly and clearly on their own sub for a time, it was no mystery, same goes for calls for violence, racism, and etc.

I certainly saw users from TD claim that anything they saw as voting going differently than they wanted as brigading... the plot line of them being perpetual victims on reddit and in life was consistent and applied to everything.

Back to my point, who wants to be exposed to that kind of behavior when you're looking for a community to interact with?
> And yet Reddit happily ignores vote brigading and other negative externalities from any subreddit that toes their party line

Which subreddits do you think they should have banned, specifically? What is the "party line", exactly, that these subreddits "toed" to get themselves out of enforcement?

Look, I mean obviously Reddit's moderation isn't always going to be fair. Moderation never is. It can't be. Nonetheless T_D spent four years as a cesspool before they pulled the plug. I mean really, did you read it? If anything, they were protected by virtue of being a policical fan group of the POTUS.
After RadioShack collapsed and Fry's turned into a Cellphone store (note: RadioShack also pivoted towards Cellphones before it died), the only place I could buy a 2 pack of capacitors for a few cents + free shipping was on eBay or Aliexpress. If this "hole" is closed it makes me a little sad.
Don't see the connection.
The irony is you can't even post factual information about T_D in this thread because it gets immediately downvoted away. In a few months, they will remember your comment above as being racist or sexist and feel great when you are no longer here.

I don't understand how this irrational totalitarian mind virus has grown to such a prevalent scale, but on HN at least I'm no longer going to be bullied away from making reasonable statements.
I first learned of Fiona Hill when she testified at the impeachment hearings, and since she sounded very intelligent I went and got her book (which she wrote with Clifford Gabby) "Mr Putin" which, I've learned, is widely considered the best psychological portrait of Putin that exists.

The authors are surprisingly respectful of Putin's methods, especially in the early days. And in the debate over "Is Putin or rational or not" they seem to clearly answer "Yes, he is rational." Especially regarding Crimea, they point out that Putin clearly explained that if the West interfered in the Ukraine, then Russia would have to consider that intervention an offensive action, and make a response, so when the West sided with "pro Western" forces in the Ukraine in 2013/2014, Putin felt that he had clearly warned the West that he was going to respond.

It is useful and interesting to understand some of his motivation.

Having said all that, there is a lot that is disappointing about his inability to pull modern Russia past any of the major failings of the USSR, in particular the lack of transparency. More than ever, Russia relies on oil exports, despite his stated intention to re-industrialize Russia, Putin has not managed to rebuild the economy to the Great Power status that the country held during the middle of the 20th Century. Instead of real progress, what we see is the irritation of a power that knows it has fallen down.
How was anything I said racist? I'm genuinely curious. And what are the guidelines on HN for this kind of language?
The internet is a huge part of many of our lives, especially with the quarantine. I think we should be more hesitant before deciding on "harassment victims should just stay out of it" as a general solution to harassment. For some reason we rarely consider that a legitimate solution to harassment in physical locations; if a stalker shows up to you whenever you go to any park in your city, people generally agree that the solution isn't to say that you specifically should just stay out of parks.
How many places will Reddit drop in Alexa rankings after this?
That's really exciting, thanks. I'm kind of banking on FIDO2 RK becoming the standard on the web, so I really want a key that can support thousands of sites. I might be customizing the firmware (AFAIK it's in Rust), and I'm really hoping I can get one of the preview devices to help testing.
HN is apparently another extremely liberal echo chamber. Just look at those downvotes.

That's why I hang out where there is no voting, popularity contest, virtue signalling, or other nonsense.
That was most definitely ironic, for the most part. Any irony on the internet attracts those that believe it un-ironically, however.
That seems a bit far fetched.
Which is that if you don't use an ad blocker you'll see the lowest cost, and thus lowest quality of ads

I haven't worked with web ads in a while, but from what I remember when I did, people with little data on file with the advertising networks got more ads, and better ads, because there was no record of them having seen the high-paying ads already.

The longer you surfed, and the longer you were tracked, the lower quality the ads became.

Again, I haven't been in this arena for a while, but that was true at the time, as told to me by the president of one of the larger non-FAANG advertising networks, over coffee.

But it's all a red herring anyway, isn't it? Are there any people out there saying, "I wish there was a way to give Google more information about me so that I can see better quality ads!"
They don't have to be to cause damage to society (which they are).
That was the reason stated, which is not the same as it being the actual reason. This is the strategy being imposed against conservative voices at large.
But generally these ideas are immediately discountable by reality. T_D was generally conspiracy theories or even if there is an attempt at some genuine political or economic discussion, its never fact based (or cherry picked/lie through ommision/or presenting a paper thats 50+ years old as if its true in light of new evidence). How can you even give those sorts of opinion credence? If those posts were made in good faith, then those people are ignorant, but that's just giving too much credit.
'Never look away' - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s movie:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/never_look_away

Any Richter fan ought to watch. Transcendental!
> Turner does a good job of building a facial profile out of social conditions and ethnicity. It’s a simple map but one that characterises the spatial structure of socio-economic life in Los Angeles. It’s also a provocative and arresting image and one which is difficult to hide from.

That's a very successful application if you ask me. It shows unhappy black people. They are displayed as unhappy because they are unhappy. The focus should be on how to make them happy, not 'racism'. It is displaying the effects of racism for all to see.
Reddit Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit
"closed loop hypocrisy" sounds intriguing and is exactly the kind of counter-intuitive idea I'm drawn to.

I'm not sure I entirely follow your explanation and Google is not bringing up much. Do you have a link to a longer explanation of some kind?
The part that sucks is that this has given rise to shitty apps like Mitron on the basis of 'nationalism'. Atleast TikTok had a good UI/UX.
This is exactly why moderators ultimately quit and are replaced by activists with no interest in balanced speech.

Any platform with unpaid moderators tends to biased activism.
Thanks for writing this. Really helps understanding, but also very familiar. Also shows what social justice reform would never happen unless these people go out to the streets.
> This is a really bizarre article. They seem like they want to describe the math. But they can't bring themselves to do it in a way that might be helpful. They're just waving words around.

Welcome to another issue of Quanta!
Where? I've only managed to read about it in the media. Zero ads.
bots can't vote
How many left-leaning subreddits were banned? There're several toxic commie subs with a lot of hatred thrown around, but nobody seems to care. r/politics was default for ages and it wasn't exactly a welcoming place.
That is what Apple’s chips with ARM instruction set are called. You don’t call AMD chips, Intel chips because they use intel instruction set.

Likewise Apple’s CPUs are not designed by ARM. They are Apple designs licensing ARM instruction set
> It would be awesome to have a simple table somewhere that described what to get based on WAN speed and OpenWRT support.

FWIW, OpenWRT has a "recommended routers" page [0].

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[0]: https://openwrt.org/toh/recommended_routers
I would find it very problematic if the US government attempted to interfere with it's citizens downloading whatever software they want. I absolutely do not trust the US government to be the arbitrator of what app's are "safe".