skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current mods were appointed by the admins....
She went to join ISIS. I'm quite torn, morally, about the whole thing. It's not as black and white as you present it.
They didn't single T_D out. It was one of 200 subs banned in today's wave, many of them for similar transgressions. And t_d survived several ban waves before.
Are YouTube algorithms open? I don't really see a difference here. Nation state vs. private corporation is different on paper, but I don't see why. They're both going to react to material stimuli to increase their standings.
50% is not a monopoly last I checked. It’s an oligopoly but at least a highly competitive one with two very different value propositions (privacy/closed ecosystem vs openness/lower prices). Basically every computing landscape ends in oligopoly due to network effects - personal computers 1990s (Windows vs Mac), video game consoles (Nintendo vs Sony vs Microsoft), mainframes 1970s (IBM vs 7 dwarves), etc. Argument is almost as strong at 50% IMHO. At 90% not so much (Google Search, Microsoft Windows, Android almost globally)
That's a good point that I hadn't previously considered. Thanks for bringing it up! You're absolutely right!
Perhaps we should make a distinction between the right for citizens to obtain the apps and the right for Chinese sellers to monetise them.
Because users are users and they win inevitably do the wrong thing. Normally not such a big deal, but with the interconnected world a compromised user is a big problem. It's used as a stepping stone to compromise others, cause problems to other systems by using them as slaves in a botnet or simply using them to send spam.

Users need to be protected against themselves as long as they can't take responsibility for their actions.
Seems like they learned from Trump and the change in visa/immigration to distract the public.
While I share your skepticism toward the US government, phone apps are different from books and even from websites; I don’t trust apps made by a company subject to CCP influence and/or control, nor do I think the usual arguments against censorship apply.
US should’ve done this months ago.
> r/AHS staged a massive public brigading campaign in 2018 to get many HATE subreddits banned.

FTFY.
As a counterpoint to that, there is really nothing “normal” about supporting Trump. He really is just as bad as his critics say.

This is the guy that retweeted a video of someone yelling white power in support. This is the guy who called COVID-19 the “Kung flu.” This is the guy that said there were “fine people on both sides” where one side was neo-Nazis. This is the guy that encouraged both police and rally-goers to get violent with the “wrong“ type of people.

Trump is deeply, unacceptably racist, and pro-violence, full stop. Trump is on the side of Christian white nationalism and there are plenty of people who voted for him who don’t even recognize it.

The fact that your typical upper middle class white suburban family with generally moderate views might have voted for this guy isn’t normal. They just can’t hear the dog whistles and have been, amazingly, convinced that that the alternative is worse.
Tons of Fake Gold Bars: Gold Market Rocked by China Counterfeiting Scandal
Is it coincidental or incidental to their border dispute actions?
It took my 4-core i4790K ~4 hours to compile tensorflow. Part of the build process builds LLVM...
the only reason they are centralized at all is to make a profit, so it’s the profit motive which is causing them to hoover up and own all this content and thereby being vulnerable to the risk
Not sure which region you're from, so I've included the filter for you[1]. These are from famous companies, every major apps uses PWA in some part of their app.

[1]https://developers.google.com/web/showcase/region
Eh, I've seen almost all of those things on the front page of Reddit, too.

Just recently, on the front page of reddit, I've seen a headline saying to cut off a cop's dick because he tasered someone (I believe it said 'take his badge and his manhood'), ACAB types have been threatening to kill cops, Reddit has doxxed the wrong people for major crimes, etc.

It's particularly ironic because the original justification for the quarantine (which was then edited) was for threatening violence against cops, specifically due to wanting to protect some lawmakers who fled from a vote on cap & trade from arrest.

Looking back, that really seems inconsistent with the number of front page ACAB posts threatening violence I've seen on the front page this month. I mean, either it's okay to threaten violence or not, pick one.

Then again, maybe they did, because they edited that out of the quarantine reason for r/T_D.
In some countries, people trust their government to do the right thing. If the people in power believe that an app is a security risk, they ban it.
"Would something decentralized help?"

Not directly; I'm increasingly thinking centralization is not the problem.

The problem is size.

The intersection of "things that everyone agrees are acceptable" goes to zero as the size of the community increases, and while communities have strong selection effects that prevent them from being anything like "a uniformly random selection of people slammed together", regression to the mean means that you get there as size goes into the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands and millions.

I don't think there's a solution, because no matter what technical tools you put into place, you can't get around the fact the people don't agree about what's acceptable.

What we need is a diaspora back into a community structure where HN would be just about the largest sort of community out there, instead of still a relatively small one. Decentralized tools could help with that, but if "decentralization" just ends up building "decentralized" communities trying to contain a million people in the "same place" you'll just get the same problems again. It's kinda orthogonal. "Reddit, but once a community hits 10,000 people it becomes progressively harder to join" would quite possibly work fine, for instance. (I envision something like an exponentially-growing waiting list delay, such that getting to even 11,000 users would be difficult.)

Obviously, legislating some sort of limit here is virtually impossible. Somehow the technical structures need to support it and afford communities in the hundreds to low thousands, but somehow make it inconvenient to grow beyond that. Or afford more complicated structures where membership is not a binary status. (A social graph would work, if it wasn't being run by an entity that desires to aggregate people together more to more effectively advertise at them. Or more accurately, a set of graphs.)
> As long as the platforms recommendation and ranking algos are a black box, there is no guarantee that [insert platform here] isn’t conducting misinformation campaigns via the platform.
This aside, the societal dynamics at large are remarkably, surprisingly similar.
40% of all survivors including the people who had no or mild symptoms?
I know a little bit about a large apolitical r.

The majority of the time people's arguments get heated enough that a mod has to step in and tell someone to cool it, the topic is politics.

And the majority of the time the argument starts with obvious trolling/baiting, typically racist stuff.

Straight up racism is quickly spotted and flagged down, so the new technique is to go on a roundabout monologue and imply racism.

Reddit admins themselves sometimes step in to remove things as well, but it's rare. Mostly for illegal things they spot first, e.g. trying to buy/sell drugs.

AMA if you want to know anything else.
> and no interfering the site's functions

Spamming the r/all homepage due to eliminating downvotes certainly interferes with the sites functions
English has a context problem, in that you need to know a little bit about the person to truly understand their communications. Mix this with the Anglosphere's culture of humor and sarcasm, and I see how someone communicating anonymously can have their comments read in differing ways.
> I just started working through the rust hello world. I was shocked that I had an exe in around 0.2s.

It's not everything. It's projects that use a lot of monomorphized generics, or compile-time macros, etc. And to be sure, this situation is improving over time - as new generics-related features are added, hopefully more of the redundant code that gets output when using these features will simply be cleaned up automatically, without adverse impact on compile times.
Ding ding ding!

Thus is the answer. Some revisions of Chromecast have a slow CPU, and poor thermals so the CPU throttles even slower.

That normally isn't an issue, because all the video decoding is done in hardware, but enqueueing the video data chunks to be played is done by software. If the software is delayed because the CPU is very slow and the same event loop is processing loads of other crap (which it is), the video can glitch every few minutes.

The solution is for Google to do less crap on the main thread, increase the hardware video buffer size, or to get a faster CPU or have a better heatsink. The reason some videos do it while others don't is because the chunking is different sizes for different videos.

The problem is worst on the original v1 Chromecast. The latest software update reduced the clock speed because some devices were overheating and kernel panicking. You can still make the problem almost vanish if you do water cooling or take the case off and fit a fan.
I think people abuse the word fascist these days. What makes India fascist? And how does that compare to the economic model of China? Is China fascist?
You mean like the CE logo that marks products safe in Europe? Chinese companies are practically faking it:

https://www.ybw.com/vhf-marine-radio-guide/warning-dont-get-...
You know, if you get bored during your car ride, you might consider picking up a Klutz book for entertainment. A new Klutz book was a staple of road trips in my childhood. Parents never heard an "are we there yet?" from us. Thanks for all of the great hours.
I think Brexit is disastrous nonsense, but I wonder how much of this will happen. That was the prediction/hope for the Euro yet the majority of trading happened in London outside the Euro zone.

They will be outside the portability regime though, so some trading will of necessity be moving.
>The_Donald involved a lot of spreading their message / fake news sites

Like none one the cnn "news" stories on /world news aren't fake
The difference between 1984 and 2020 is censorship is committed by corporations instead of governments. Does this difference matter? All Americans have to participate in government, whether directly by voting and holding office or indirectly by simply living in America's society of laws and its enforcement. Using Reddit directly is done voluntarily.
While you may disagree with the current elected government in India (I do as well), it is the definition of democracy. Majority of the population did want that government. Also, in India a person managed to lead a protest, form an entire new party and become the chief minister of a state because people were behind him. That is democracy as well. Tell me when has that happened in the states in recent times.
There are many layers of power. You have senators, house representatives, and a president. You also have local (includes police services) and state representatives. The executive branch is just one of many governments you get to vote for.
I used to love browsing book stores. But over the years, the subjects that I was interested in got less and less shelf space, and today it's just not worth even going.
Boycotting China is not a binary thing. Banning Chinese funded Indian startups and Chinese mobile companies which have big plants in India(and support thousands of jobs) is a complex thing.

On the other hand, banning spyware from the country you are currently in conflict is common sense and not that tricky. It's far more than spicy headlines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23634138

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23638129
Yeah, this seems to be the overwhelmingly common opinion among book-lovers, hence the lead-in that I thought my perspective was unusual. I seem to be unique in hating the appearance of a "well-loved" book like so many people seem to enjoy. My books never end up looking that way haha. At most, the spines break-in a bit, but most of my books look very new despite having been read multiple times. Just how I like them, I suppose.
It’s about allies versus active enemies. There are shootouts on a regular basis between India and China, and they’ve intensified recently.
Reddit is basically a Left-wing propaganda outlet at this point. The amount of clearly targeted sub-Reddits with the aim of radicalising their target group is staggering and would make even the most nefarious of insurgents blush at how open and obvious it is.
Don't read the Amazon reviews. Read long-form reviews written by bloggers or book critics. Those reviews are generally better than those written by the staff at a bookstore.
I've seen Apple get away with this bad monopolistic behavior through hypocrisy more and more.

Apple is denying people their real rights to install whatever they want in their own machines, forcing everything to go through their app store, where they have the last word of who can or cannot distribute software to the platforms they have created.

They know that if they use the common "we are thinking of your well being" their customers and fans will just believe they are a good-willing company with no other interests than their users safety and well being.

I don't know why the majority of the crowd here in HN, who use to be so harsh in pointing out this kind of behavior in companies like Google and Microsoft, have this blindness with everything that has to do with Apple.

It will worth nothing, if after have defeated this beast with GNU, Linux, the Web, open software revolution, etc.. we end up not protecting what we have achieved so far, because somehow one company trying to secure their profits and its position in the market, get away with behaviors that can ultimately destroy the culture of freedom, open-source software and ultimately, digital rights, which our legislators are not prepared to defend, really understanding the threats and the dire future they represent if we dont uncover the true intentions behind this BS.
Yes and Europe doing the same to Chinese and US apps.
I completely agree, my understanding of why the US did not is due to India's ties with the Soviet Union and Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Russia_relations

Would love to hear more detail from those who know more on the subject.
Totally incorrect.
Banking would move to Frankfurt in Germany, not Berlin.
I was skeptical about this, but I think they are surely are.

I installed tiktok just maybe 2 or 3 weeks ago.. it was kind of fun at first and was amused by some stuff on there. What it was showing me I thought was very relevant to prior stuff I had seen in some regard (just the type of humor) so I was kind of impressed.

Then all the sudden it started showing me all this pro-Trump/pro-religion/antiBLM stuff. And look, a platform like this and the age demographic the amount of pro-trump & pro-religion stuff is TINY. The amount that was coming up was baffling. And it would just be inserted at the weirdest times, where it honestly felt like I was being targeted to see this stuff.

I'm not one to be a conspiracy nut at all, but there were some flags hitting in my head that something weird was going on.. so I promptly uninstalled.

Honestly it's too bad, I think tiktok is a very unique thing, and seemed to fill some type of space where people just want to create stupid little videos that either say a little message or are just funny. But there's something weird going on.
"Largest left wing sub" is probably too broad a term when /r/politics exists.

"Largest far-left frequently rule-breaking sub" is a more useful designation.
> some say the EU faces an existential crisis as a result of its departure...

Some britons say...
This is startup hubris because:

1) they are trying to innovate along a few vectors at the same time, choose one.

2) Political leaders not highly engaged with the details of the experience. Whitman scaled EBay she did not start it.

3) You have a pile of cash, and tons of people looking to cash in huge by grabbing some of the pie for easy money. That one of the content buyers gave his $6M for voice overs is definitely a scandal - this could only happen in a hyper politicised world.
Americans have a constitutional guarantee to free speech. They do not have a constitutional guarantee to use Reddit. Does that difference matter here?
Am I the only one concerned about how TikTok is promoting child pornography by serving as a gateway for young girls and boys to prostitution apps such as OnlyFans?

I think this is a bigger concern than loss of privacy.

Those comparing loss of privacy for Indians on US apps / platforms compared to Chinese apps / platforms, China and India are openly hostile.

US and India are not. This is a big difference.
Cute how Apple wants to make their "users" believe they have an exclusive deal on breaching their privacy.
No, let's do that. Please.

Web sites have no business looking at my devices, nor using other APIs (I was disappointed not to see the page visibility API on the linked page too).

If you want a dynamic app delivery framework, perhaps it's time we find a way to do that which doesn't massively overload what many expect is just an informational service.
I'm a Democrat and i don't see any of that on there you are looking at it thought a dirty lens that crazy liberals handed you
It has everything to do with current border skirmish. Also, 44% percent of tiktok users are from India.
The new fascists call themselves anti-fascists.

Welcome to the new dystopian world. Get "woke" or be cancelled.
The kids are going to be pissed with Mr. Modi :) I hope he has a plan of where this goes.
> First: Some advice on this by Scott Adams

Why would you follow advice from a certified nutcase?
Interesting thought. I wonder if there's a genuine threat of google "AMP-ifying" PWAs. And by that, I essentially mean Google using their properties to exert control over PWAs, just as they have with web articles and other content. Given Google's virtual stronghold over the web, I'd assume so.
> Who would hate a platform for not removing people for just honestly disagreeing and talking?

A lot of people. And if your goal is quantity, not quality, those people are important, because they are who the investors give you money to build a site for.
You are going to use the government to audit black box algos?
There is a certain amount of irony here, due to this comment's presence on as heavily moderated a forum as this.
I wonder whether that's intentional?

China uses a different coordinate system inside the country (GCJ-02 vs WGS-84) and it results in discontinuities whenever you try to display a map of a border region (for example, the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge).
Only when I'm testing a new email account.
She grew EBay from something small to one of the largest and well known brands in the world. We don't talk about it a lot bit it's a behemoth.
Quibi seems like a neat idea but is being run very strangely for what it is: its being run like old media when the point is that it's new media.

-where is the trial option for a new media format?

-where are the samples of series on YouTube?

-where are my targeted ads on YouTube that point me to those samples?

I saw enough stuff about Quibi on websites where I get my TV and movie discussions to be interested, but nothing in places where I make decisions about what web content i consume to even consider dealing with the friction of a new app and a new subscription.
With this service the USPS is adding addresses from its database based on the area(s) the customer selects. It's not mail with no address showing up in people's mailboxes.
What do you mean, "wouldn't"? This isn't a hypothetical, this is the reality of today. And yes, it is a current problem.

> that’s the whole point of upvotes and downvotes.

No it's not. In fact the reddit rules / guidelines specifically state that is not what upvotes and downvotes are for. It's specifically called out for the moderators to deal with it through user reports, not through votes.

Plus, lots of downvotes does nothing to remove hateful content. The content is still there! Only the moderators can remove hateful content.
I was thinking about this model as some sort of extension for film trailers:instead of giving out 2-4 min trailer to audience, producers could give 10-15 min,which hopefully be enough to understand whether audience finds it good enough and if it is,a full film is made. However,I can't see it working with all genres.
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I run WeChat on a separate phone with LineageOS and monitor its actions via the XPosed framework. It regularly scans my Wi-Fi network, checks the list of installed apps, randomly accesses sensors, and does plenty of other dubious things.

There was also a period of time where if you didn't give it Location permissions, it wouldn't let you login to WeChat. With LineageOS I was able to "give" it the permission but hand it fake sensor data instead of actual hardware data from the OS side.

I'd never think to run WeChat on a closed-source OS like iOS that doesn't give access to these kinds of introspection.

That said I don't necessarily think Facebook's or Google's set of apps are necessarily better in terms of spying, but at least it's possible to message people using a pure web interface without downloading anything, which WeChat doesn't let you do.
I don't want random sites to ask to use anything on my computer. It's like a popup ad - it's annoying and blocks the site. Sure, there are legitimate use cases, but if it's anything like push notifications it will be heavily abused and far too many sites will ask for permissions.
There may be some legitimate fingerprinting concenrs. But given the list of API's it's hard not to see this as Apple crippling PWAs to prevent them from replacing native iOS apps (and hurting Apple's revenue from the Apple tax).

And maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't the fingerprinting concern be mitigated by the fact the app has to ask for permission before using the API? If an app that doesn't have to do with MIDI asks for permission to use my MIDI device, I'm going to be instantly suspicious.
Since this is HN, what’s the easiest way to roll your own brainwashing machine like Facebook or TikTok? I mean isn’t it going to be fun to plant your own ideas on people...
I see it as more prudent, than clever. In regulated industries, it's called informed consent (IC).
> The ever-deepening rift between the political left- and right-wing has long been puzzling theorists in political science and opinion dynamics

I feel like people who make this claims are in one of two camps. One is the camp that just wants to ignore that the 60s or 70s even happened, to refuse to acknowledge that the polarization we see now is extremely mild in comparison.

The other camp believes that we can measure the polarization using some insane metrics that purport to indicate how polarized society is, but really just measure the opinion of the people collecting the metrics through increasingly inane measures, like literal telephone polling that attempts to extrapolate from "people who use landlines routinely and either are willing to answer unknown caller calls or don't have caller id" to "all people".

The latter camp is extremely insidious and I implore you to remember the last time someone used metrics to prove something clearly false and assume that everyone is doing the same thing, just Gell-Mann amnesia is preventing you from seeing it.
> I spent years on that subreddit

But why ?
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