skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seem to recall there was slightly more to it than that. I don't have the time or inclination to get drawn into this now but I didn't want an incomplete summary to stand unchallenged.
Yup; give everyone an equally sized soapbox and people will take advantage of it. Imagine a town square full of people all trying to make themselves heard, with a nontrivial percentage just there to make noises, groups that start chanting / singing and lighting smoke bombs, etc.
That is incorrect. Censorship is on the orthogonal spectrum to to the right-left one. It is in liberal-authoritarian spectrum, where authoritarian end usually has state censorship and liberal end usually has freedom to individuals/corps to their own selective "censorship" (by definition censorship is only by state entities, so the term should be different).
Both left and right can be liberal and authoritarian. And in the middle are centrists.
> Functionality of most downloaded apps with good performance should be easily possible in a browser.

I don't understand how someone can make such a statement. Maybe I am more sensitive to subtle slowdowns but I rarely see web applications that can match the responsiveness and feel of native applications. And when I say native, I don't mean electrons apps. While there are some web apps that manage to squeeze out decent performance out of a browser but those are few and far between.

I don't know if you used computers in the 90's, but they felt really snappy. We lost that with modern OS's, but even those are much better than the glorified virtualised OSs that the browsers are.
So you are basing your judgement on a decades old engine?

They tried everything Musk did in the past and failed. Mostly because they don't have the money to fund it anymore.

Also, they severely upped the price of engines in the last 10 years ( > 350% ), so it was bound to happen sooner or later.
considering that Google no longer owns it, it actually might be around for a while longer.
Didn't Cuomo's nursing home fiasco cause a lot of that? As well as the other states that also put the sick elderly with healthy elderly people?
>>Sorry its taken me so long to reply because everyone has been downvoting me for having an opinion HN says I am posting too fast even after 2 hours of waiting...

Yes rating limiting here is annoying and counter productive. I have been rate limited many times.

However it is ironic that a person advocating for censorship is complaining about that. That is what you want right?

>You said you agreed with everything I said up to this point: The only thing that the first amendment provides you with is freedom from prosecution by the government for statements you make.

Ahh I see you misunderstood what I was disagreeing about. That was not to imply you were legally incorrect. No the disagreement was conflating the clear free expression issue and censorship issue with the US 1st Amendment

YT actions are censorship even if they are allowed by law. 1st amendment protect people in the US from censorship by government

Censorship supporters like yourself often point to the 1st amendment as the only protection for free expression. The US Constitution is solely about creating a government and then limiting that government, it holds no power or authority outside of the that context nor should it

This is why I disagree that the 1st amendment should even be mentioned in the context of private censorship. It is a red herring and a straw-man

People that advocate for upholding the ideals of free expression in private contexts normally do not use 1st amendment law as the foundation. Free Expression ideals predate this document and were added because the population at large demanded their right to speak

This is what I want to see a return of, the public demanding corporations uphold free expression as a virtue

Instead we see cancel culture mobs demanding platforms create a safe space where their opinions, statements, and belief are beyond criticism (provided you are in a member of a protected group) because any criticism must be on its face an ism or phobic

as Jonathan Haidt coined this is safetyism – the idea that people are weak and should be protected, rather than exposed, to challenges.

I am firm believer in confronting "bad speech" with "good speech" not simply exiling bad speech off the public square, or in this case large mainstream platforms.
It's perfectly possible to write a performant app with the web. If the author thinks it isn't, the problem is their ignorance, not the web.
A business account is 10 euros a month. They don't have anything to do with taxes.

You can have as many deposits as you want as an actual person. Banks do not "change your account" without your intervention and definitely not to a business account, which (legally) needs different information than a personal account would.
The only reason some cards are not accepted somewhere is because Visa-Mastercard are so powerful they force 3%-5% margins on transactions for merchants.

In the EU the just use bank cards. And since there's regulations the fees are lows and everyone can use it everywhere.
I regularly check the comment history of reddit users when I come across a particularly egregious trolling comment on subreddits like /r/news and /r/politics. Users who frequented /r/ChapoTrapHouse are a real problem, and lately I'd been seeing that subreddit in people's comment history more often than /r/The_Donald (which had withered considerably from its peak). This isn't a case of Reddit simply picking an obscure target for the sake of "balance"; they were going after a real problem.
> Resource also isn't something people think about, until they don't have enough.

Even if they do think about it, do they know why they are short?

If the user doesn’t know that Slack eats battery and therefore doesn’t make any changes regarding Slack, it doesn’t matter to Slack.
I imagine the brightness of a monitor is not enough for there to be any effect but maybe I'm wrong?
To avoid accusations of racism, use "double-plus-un-white" instead of "black"
Remote corner of Idaho has become the best hope for the U.S. challenge to Huawei
Stay ahead of the pack: how to become a better programmer
I wonder if people who aggressively use redshift and warmer lights at home could be positively affected by this over the years.
I specifically didn't want to share details to not do any advertisement. If you are really interested you will find all info on google.
You are trusting a company in Apple or Android to review it as they have a reputation to protect with you.

It isn’t perfect, but you are trusting someone you share a mutual interest with rather than a random stranger.
xD what a loss of time and money
What laptop do you have?
A friend of mine had the same emotion some 7 years ago and just switched jobs. He's now a system programmer mostly doing C++ and Go. No web.

And I quite like the modern web and I think none of his objections (or the author's), while true, are really that terrible.

And none of us are throwing up! Life hack!
The only thing you're saying is that it's lamentable that they use the "5.4" version number for something that's not a minor version.

That's what this is, this is the next major version of Lua.
I guess as a % of market share it was pretty popular :)
Should I Bake?
Perhaps the "slowness" of web-based technologies like Electron et al is just the price we pay for truly universal cross-platform development?

Sure there are native options on each major platform that are faster, but they are generally not universally cross-platform. Web-tech may be slow in comparison, but it is universal.

The question though, is it a price worth paying?

Many other things have tried to be a universal cross-platform solution for apps but I don't think anything has come as close to web-based technologies (maybe only Java? And that is not exactly everyone's favourite tool for creating great cross-platform UIs and it is arguable if Java is even "native" anyway)
> And anyway, hour-long long-distance phone calls were prohibitively expensive.

I firmly believe Always On made more difference than the Broadband bandwidth most users got at the same time.

My first student household had 24/7 Internet access at modem speeds, 56kbps (at best) shared between half a dozen people. But even though that's scarcely any bandwidth (my last student house was 2Mbps DSL shared between two people for comparison) the fact it's always there changed how we used it compared to people with conventional dial-up.
Probably but reading something online is different to print
Congrats guys :) Your product will get the traction it deserves !
No... You have the option of any of 50, and they can all be accepted everywhere; rather than the option of only two if you want a chance of being accepted. I believe this is already law in the EU anyway, but there are few competitors to the big two.
You make a good point, and in general I agree, but it introduces additional headaches if I think about logging in from a non-Apple device later.
It's true for me at least. I try to avoid installing anything and look for a web based alternative first. If I can't find anything then I fall back to native. I'm looking forward to the day where web based OSes are a viable solution for my needs.
Sad that this truth has been downvoted.
Paleoclimatology study shows global warming has upended 6,500 years of cooling
Isn't half the blog argument that this could be solved for native apps too?
> Knowing that things fall is not the same as knowing what causes them to fall.

A lot of prominent contemporaries of Newton critisized Newton for a "magic" explanation of gravity. How Jupiter knows a mass of Sun, to be attracted to it with a proper force? We learn Newton's theory in a school when we are not developed mentally enough to question Newton's theory, so we just accept it as an authority gives it to us. Then we become accustomed to it and it feels ok to Jupiter to know mass of Sun, so we do not question it when becoming wiser. But it is a stupid thing really. Einstein's explanation with the bent space-time is much better.

I do not mean to mock Newton, to state that he was wrong and his critics were right. I'm trying to say that the lack of explanation is not a fatal thing for a theory. Critics of Newton were right, but Newton was right also.

The real achievement of Newton is to 'trivialization' of a problem, he picked mass as a leading factor and ignored all other possible factors, like brightness, size, visible size on the sky, albedo, inner structure, material, density, etc. Newton picked mass, wrote his law, and managed to prove that Kepler's law could be derived from Newton's law.

The discussed theory of political polarization do a very similar thing: it picks just one factor and describes facts with it, ignoring a lot of other factors. It is trivialization of a problem. I didn't thoroughly read the article, but it seems for me that authors propose a quantitative measures of a polarization and their model is able to predict them. They do worse than Newton because they didn't invent a whole new branch of math to prove that other models could be derived from their's. But does it makes their achievement nonexistent?

> the recognition that, for example, a dog and a wolf are the same type of thing was in and of itself non-obvious.

I'm not sure about this. The trouble is I was born at the era when the relation between a dog and a wolf was obvious. Maybe this make it impossible to me to believe that this couldn't be obvious. It seems for me that it is obvious that similar species are similar. Even if we do not state explicitly that they are related, we feel it already, so when stated it feels obvious. The non-obvious is when dissimilar species are related.

So I don't know was it obvious that a dog and a wolf are the same type, though I could make a testable prediction to check it: if Linnaean taxonometry was non-obvious, than there had to be an outrage of contemporaries. Only obvious things are accepted by everyone.

> What I think you are trying to describe is a model, which is a system of understanding information without necessarily explaining it.

Yes, almost. One small correction: it is not understanding, it is just a mnemonic, which makes it relatively easy to file information and to retrieve it. The resulting understanding is a 'fake' one, people feel it like they understand, but really there are no understanding behind this feeling.
The problem is upstack, Google does have incentive to put everything and kitchen sink into the browser. Such byzantine code is impossible to fully secure. It is also much less understood than usual operating system API you'll deal with in stuff pulled from github.

Not even speaking about bugs, guess what will this cause in combination with users conditioned to blindly click OK on security warnings:

https://www.fixyourbrowser.com/browser/google-chrome/google-...
South Pole warming three times faster than rest of Earth: study
A perfectly calibrated display might still not be able to display pure wavelengths. At the very least if it's calibrated properly it won't normally do so at #ff0000 as pure 670nm is well outside the sRGB colour space.
I wrote my latest project as a web app because it runs effortlessly on my PC and my iPad. And updating it cross device is instant.

Trading ram & cpu vs. my time spent building the thing is the right tradeoff for me.
I suspect people who write stuff like this never used the 90's web with 90's browsers on 90's computers.

It wasn't lightening fast. It was crashy and shit.

I mean, as a random example: tables wouldn't render progressively unless they had the number of columns and rows set in the table header. So the whole page had to load before the table could be seen.

And as someone who has shipped an app in React Native I'm 100% sure I'm never ever going to do that again. The principle is nice, the implementation is horrible.

Browser have lots of lines of code because they offer lots of features. Features are useful - we want general purpose computers because people want to do lots of things on them.
not GP but like, ok, why can’t that be sent from any other email (user-provided or otherwise)?
Somehow the term "data correlation" evolved into "AI".
FBI used Instagram, Etsy and LinkedIn to identify protestor accused of arson
Blackbox is the one I used back in the day; looks like it is still active.
This article is attention seeking, unconstructive and makes want to throw up.
Chrome is one of the safest pieces of consumer software ever produced.

You might want to re-evaluate your threat model there.
That was my first reaction. Besides the opportunity for data leakage I'm left wondering:

- Do people know they're under surveillance?

- What will Sightbit do when issued a warrant for all that video and data?
Every mathematician has only a few tricks
The article completely fails to mention that in Eastern Europe FidoNet existed and was popular well until mid-00's, and that a rather small community in Russia still exists to this day.
> and are fond of producing red+green hybrids for navigation at open sea

TIL Indonesians breed roosters like Chocobos.
Dual-Complex Numbers: A formalism for 2D rigid body motion
Yes, they do do better. There is no need for conjecture; there is a wildly popular OS that runs apps exclusively from an App Store, and there is virtually no malware for that platform. There are also OSs where you can run random .exes from the web, and those OSs are indeed more susceptible to malware.

You do still need to trust someone, but the parent never said you didn't. They said that store apps do better than trusting random .exe's from the web, which is true.
It's the difference between deliberate (creating a confusing mark to legalistically "bypass" CE regulations - this is the myth) and negligence (China not bothering to enforce the standards set by other countries or even its own quality and safety standards - this is well known).
Visa own a stake in Stripe, and are unlikely to be supportive of such a play.
> Resource also isn't something people think about, until they don't have enough.

That's because most people are clueless about tech. They don't know what is possible, or how fast software can be, so they just accept the norm of bloated apps. If they even think about it, they usually blame hardware instead in my experience.
I don't know if people who lament having native applications for everything had a completely different approach than me or if their memory is very rose-tinted.

I used to have a folder of several dozen applications I'd move from PC to PC whenever I got a new machine. When I'd poke around my computer I'd find five utilities all doing the same thing like PDF conversion, which I did infrequently enough that I wouldn't remember it was there next time I needed it. I'd have to give full system privileges to an company I'd never heard of who'd built the only freeware tool to do xyz.

I understand not wanting to, say, do your emails or document processing in-browser. But these are problems which are still well-served by native applications. I think the fact that all those little utilities are now webapps is an absolute blessing.
> For decades, China had one of the most extensive systems of minority entitlements in the world, with Uighurs and others getting more points on college entrance exams, hiring quotas for government posts and laxer birth control restrictions. Under China’s now-abandoned ‘one child’ policy, the authorities had long encouraged, often forced, contraceptives, sterilization and abortion on Han Chinese. But minorities were allowed two children — three if they came from the countryside.

This is what evil looks like?
I’m a night owl, struggling with the adjustment to fatherhood and expectations to be present at home right at the time my motor normally fires up.

I’ve always felt 3-5am was the most beautiful time of the day; though I’m used to seeing it on my way to bed, and pushing myself to wake up early enough to make it worthwhile hasn’t paid dividends yet.

Thanks for sharing your experience - it gives me confidence I can switch.
And when you're using the web app on a desktop? There's no easy sharing mechanism there.
Oh dude thinking has long since left the conversation in places like reddit.

I'm at a loss here. I'm done with reddit, but think: there are tens of millions of impressionable minds growing up into this. Not only are they drinking the kool-aid, now they don't even know there are other opinions because those opinions are forbidden.

This is dark.
But you don't need to have your iCloud mail set as the primary mail for your AppleID. You don't even need to create an iCloud mail when you create an iCloud/AppleID account, it's an optional step. I recently created another iCloud test account and it's also not shoved in your face or anything, it's a small little button called "Don't have an email address?" somewhere.

So I don't even really understand how people get into this situation.
How Google's QUIC Protocol Impacts Network Security and Reporting
That's gwern for you... it's unbelievable how much effort he puts into the things he's researching. Check out his 'nootropics' article for example.
Gwern is known for that, actually. There's some very in depth (and very good, also) articles on that site. Explore! :-)
> App stores are literally just trusting executables from the web with extra steps.

The fine grained permissions system (giving camera permissions on a temporary basis etc) is something executables don't have, and PC operating systems are only retrofitting now.

The sandboxed data storage model on mobile apps is stronger than the default PC model.
Didn't seem to have worked with TikTok and I don't trust either to make the decision for me. Be that as it may, it should still be normal to run your own programs without anyone needing to sign them off.
I'm not really sure what Patreon is to be honest. It's not payment processing - they're literally passing those costs to you. It's not a community, there's no cross-patron promotion or discoverability. It seems like it's essentially just a bad version of square space that wants to charge you a percentage of your revenue instead of $20 a month. It had this exciting opportunity to build a platform, but I think that time has passed, they've chosen not to do it, so all they have left is some rather poor CMS with an exploitative pricing model.
How does that view jive with the fact that Farage is one of the first people elected to the EU parliament but his party has never held a seat in the UK despite having 12.5 of the vote.

A democratic system allows proportional representation of views, as it stood if you supported UKIP you were not represented at all in government.

(Not saying that I like UKIP. But it’s a failing of our democracy that is notable.)
The chapo crew met on twitter so that is where their main community is, the relationship with /r/cth was never great I think.

Chapo members Will Menaker (@willmenaker) and Matt Christman (@cushbomb) seem to be glad it is gone.

- https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/1277649588019699716

- https://twitter.com/willmenaker/status/1277649915041153025
There are several different approaches to monitors, OLED RGB sub pixels individually emit light. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED. That said, your wider point stands.
The same developer sandbox used for spying and pixel tracking?

Almost every website now requires JavaScript for the most basic functionality and the regular browser user isn't going to bother with installing an extension and enabling each piece of JavaScript manually to ensure that it is safe. I personally don't believe the JavaScript approach is even maintainable anymore. These Web APIs are so complex that you need third-party frameworks to make them useable and before you know it your site relies on 30+ frameworks for functionality that should be included by default in a markup language.
CTH is basically the radical left version of TD. They're hateful and toxic. I've been told I should be murdered for not supporting m4a for example- and I'm a Democrat! That's not the language reasonable people use when discussing opposing views. Good riddance.
Thanks for the correction! It confirms that Linux’s system list is by no means ‘out of control’.
I'm really conflicted on this. On one hand I wish we could improve civic discourse and dialogue and combat tribalism in politics but on the other I recognize that one of the factors that seems to have led to the rise of the alt-right is that the left just vacated a space that appeals to a large group of people - impolite, combative and (sometimes) witty. When I was growing up it was natural for rebellious, cynical young people to be drawn to this kind of politics. That hasn't changed but now it seems to alarmingly be the primary recruiting tool for a particular brand of regressive politics.

I understand these two impulses are probably in direct opposition. I can't want both but I also fear what will happen if we lose a chunk of an entire generation to the far right.
Not really - you see the permissions requested by the app when it executes and are promoted to allow it.

That is a better model than older OSes which give access to anything that user has access to.
That is about it. That, and that given the opportunity to apologise for it, he didn't.

He immediately lost the respect and trust of most mozillians and a lot of the public, which itself made him unfit for the role. I don't know if you can really say he was forced out; you don't keep a CEO around when nobody in a company of hundreds of employees trusts them.
Reddit's new rules explicitly allow promoting hate against “majority” groups
That's the idea - allow people to take responsibilities, learn, grow, communicate. It takes effort and time. And sometimes right person. But when it works it is a joy. I've seen young developers in what was their first project. It is bad but that moment I felt envy.

So often people complain about specification. Here you craft them as they fit you (as long as they resolve customers need).