skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vast majority of the public do not care, at all, about the type of data tracking that gets HNers so up in arms

That was true maybe five years ago, but the HN meme is no longer true.

I interface with a lot of wetware for my job, and I've seen a shift. People have learned to care about privacy.

Some of the education has come from the mass media. Some of it from the creepiness of seeing a product you viewed on one web site follow you around to all the other web sites you visit. Some of it has come from the privacy alert boxes on Apple devices. Some of it from the thousands of TV commercials for privacy services.

The notion that "nobody cares" is simply not true anymore. If it was, then there wouldn't be a demonstrated market for all of the privacy tools out there.
Without getting into the weeds, I just don’t see why we accepted that the internet should be one giant message board. We seem to do this over and over with stuff like Reddit and Facebook, but once upon a time communities would be their own site with their own message board.
Great to know. How's the safety and the amenities (dining, delivery, laundry) there? Are you enjoying it?
They take perverse glee in being named, because it attracts more bad actors to their cause and strengthens their ability to harm others. By naming their site openly here, you too are now helping them market to HN readers. Why would you do so voluntarily here?
A Statement About Rapidly’s Recent Seed Round
In February 2020, Rapidly closed on our $1.8 million Seed round. Since then, we have been working hand-in-hand with our investors, who firmly back Rapidly’s mission to address the growing need for virtual tax and accounting services. Here's what our team has been up to since then.
Looks like they have a FIDO2 "Pro" version coming soon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/HYPERFIDO-MINI-FIDO2-HOTP-Security/...
Bingo. Thanks for writing this more clearly and succinctly than I could!

Even though making laws or doing science both require writing and documentation, the challenge in a lab or on a computer is very different than coalition building amongst hundreds of very different people.
I'm actually curious how conspiracy subs continually skate through these ban-waves. Even if you discount all of the dog whistles, you can find normal whistles scattered throughout the place: echoes and charts showing who in the media is Jewish are the two most common.

Yet they always stay around.
There still was a "classic" theme.
Depends on your age a little, at 20 OK, 30 mostly OK, at 40, hmm.
next headline: "Apple devices won't display any video other than those from tv+"

Apple bros on HN: "Good! finally someone standing up to the BigTech abuse of privacy"
Update to Reddit's Content Policy
I'd just like to say thank you! As a kid, I loved all of the Klutz products. So many hours of enjoyment!
Yikes! Didn't know that bit about Witherspoon. From the article:

>>Staffers reportedly “seethed”[1] at Reese Witherspoon’s $6m salary ... (Witherspoon’s husband Jim Toth is the head of talent and content acquisition at the company.)

Nepotism, much?

[1] https://pagesix.com/2020/06/02/quibi-staffers-seethe-at-rees...
Dude! We were regulars at the store off El Camino when i lived in Palo Alto in the 80's. We probably bought 10 Aerobies there. Then you had a pretty good mainstream bout through the 90's. Thanks for the foxtail, juggling, harmonica, timer games knots and all the frivolity. I swear Klutz shaped my personal ideology.
> Consider how non-welcome a person who thinks Rust sucks would feel on news.ycombinator.com. (tip: very non-welcome)

I [an occasional mod] welcome people who think Rust sucks as long as they give some details why.

I don't welcome people who just post snarky dismissals of projects.

I'd say the majority of people who complain about their opinion being unwelcome here have been stating their opinion as a big loud raspberry, rather than making a substantive argument people can engage with. It's just the raspberry that's unwelcome.
My point is that the tech is of questionable quality, the application is horrible, and people hate it all the same. Anything that actually "work" would be so oppressive as to be untenable in the American context. Also, no one who is already policed in the US trusts the institution of policing in America to not abuse their most basic rights.
>“It’s one of the founding principles of Reddit to foster [political] discussion,” Huffman said in the call with reporters.

Ironically, /r/The_Donald highlighted a key flaw in reddit's system: moderators.

Moderators in reddit's sub vary from being totally absent to all-controlling. /r/The_Donald's mods were at the very far end of the controlling spectrum. For example, back in the early days of the sub, before Trump was even elected, one of their posts showed up on /r/all (Anything highly voted on any subreddit can show up there). Somebody was gushing about "The Art of the Deal". I replied to them that they should check out some of Tony Schwartz's other books and was immediately banned from /r/The_Donald for life. The post in which I said this was removed. People went on gushing about the brilliance of Trump.

Moderators on reddit are not selected or paid. They "volunteer". They have absolute control over who posts and what is posted in their sub. There is zero transparency. Users can't see what moderators are doing. The end result is that a sub is as biased as it's moderators. The thing is, reddit subs are like communities. People who post in a sub regularly get upvotes for conforming to the sub's biases, downvotes for struggling against them, and see only what the moderators let them see. Pretty soon their views conform to those of the moderators. /r/The_Donald allowed some pretty crazy people to polarize a lot of other people who were probably a lot more balanced in their political views before Reddit came along.

For this reason, I no longer post in or read Reddit's political subs. Most subs seem better than /r/The_Donald, but you simply don't know what the mods are doing to shape your views. Personal experience has led me to believe /r/Canada also has some really bad moderators right now, and you can see the tone of that sub gradually changing over time. It's simply unacceptable to place this much trust in people who are totally anonymous.

So, where do I get my political news from? Newspapers. I read several sources distributed from left-centre to right-centre on mediabiasfactcheck.com's ratings. Dead tree media may have corporate biases and a host of other problems but, at least, you can begin to get a handle on who they are and what their biases are. Also, by removing the upvote system from the mix, you don't have meaningless internet points serving as both carrot and stick to make you subconsciously conform.

Bottom line, Reddit is for cat gifs and people smacking each other in the nuts. It is not a safe place to get your politics from.
There are certainly shades of gray, but if I can speak on behalf of the post you are responding to, it seems their argument would be that it is a net negative, and that the "Good PR humanity" is relatively shallow in the end.

Consider a $100,000,000 education fund for app developers. Certainly, app development can be a gateway for some people, but once they develop apps, where do they go if not a market place that Apple tightly controls? They are a machine funding the creation of new cogs in this scenario.

If your overlords buy you an opulent dinner and provide you with a warm bed, it doesn't mean you are free.

Freedom can be a vague and high-minded ideal that obviously needs to be balanced with communal concerns, but I agree with the parent poster's overall disgust. It feels that a company like Apple is so big that they are beyond any societal control or regulation, and that is unacceptable. To hear their minions rush to their defense as if their interests are somehow aligned (they're not) is too much to handle sometimes. It's tiring.
Twitter Turing Test
Average users won't do it.
This isn't black or white. It's about slowing the inevitable, yes, but it increases the usefulness of text over time. Less of a probability of material, including scientific, being forgotten.
It went into both extremes unfortunately (the other extreme being the rise of militant SJWs).
Note T_D is only one such sub being banned. CTH and thousands of others as well are being removed.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/29/21304947/reddit-ban-subre...
How many of those 81% are willing to delete facebook, messenger and instagram though?
I think it’s worth mentioning the Reddit reason for initial quarantine was “anti police” comments.

MediaMatters / ShareBlue wrote an article about how anti police the sub was referencing two downvoted but not deleted comments. The entire sub was always pro law and order.

Reddit put very heavy limits on the sub for that.

Which is pretty damn funny to me - because right now on every single popular sub there are “all cops are bastards”, “kill all police”, “the only good cop is a dead cop” in any thread that even sort of tangentially references police.

I don’t care much either way. But the massive hypocrisy is there. No one has the balls to say “we just don’t want this on our platform”.

A couple months after the quarantine, Reddit admins changed the reason on the disclaimer before entering from “anti police comments” to “rule breaking”.

It shows me the weak moral character of the people in charge... and why I don’t want these people getting to decide what is right and wrong.

Edit: initial warning, later chased for ambiguous “rule breaking” https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Scree...
Reddit should give a trophy to everyone banned from /r/the_donald
I don't take a position on Rowling's views one way or another, as I haven't really investigated them. I believe the quote is a reasonably accurate summary of her position but it's based on second hand accounts I've read in the press; can well believe it's somewhat garbled. My understanding is the argument is about whether people can pick a new gender without any biological changes/surgery, but who knows, maybe she's against hormone therapies too.

At any rate, my point isn't about the topic of trans people. It merely illustrates that Rowling's social status, such that it is, doesn't seem especially helpful to her right now, leading to the question of whether she truly has any. Elon Musk can get high in interviews, make tweets so controversial he gets literally gets fined by the government for them and he just keeps on trucking: apparently his status is far higher than hers.
Is the biggest threat to Apple web?

I would think so. Of course, it might not be as we know it. However, a world where content works across devices. APIs are standardized. Responsive to multiple sizes. Low barrier to entry and access. It seems to me that Web is the future. Note I say Web, and not browser. An integrated experience built on the web - like Firefox OS might be the open and free platform we need to build our own great experiences. Definitely something worth exploring.
Why not move to assembly then?
Yeah, the ban of T_D is only symbolic; it has been dead for months. I think the real news here is the ban of /r/ChapoTrapHouse, (arguably) the most active leftist subreddit there was.
Ask HN: Hosted Syncthing?
Syncthing is a great tool. It's like Dropbox, but good. [1]
One thing missing in the usual setup however is an off-site node to ensure survivability of backups.
I've been contemplating building a service that offers just that, using a major cloud provider and charging users proportional to resource usage.

Would there be interest in such an offering?

[1] https://tonsky.me/blog/syncthing/
Those platforms don't lack on identitarian division and push of extremist views

There might be a slight point that those platforms end up being more of a right wing echo-chamber more than a left-wing one because of some factors. But the bias is on what's in there, not on the platform

That being said, nothing was lost of value with the shutting down of T_D (ok, maybe it would be a prime source of information on manipulative state actors, but they can work on what they have already)
Using Feature Flags as Circuit Breakers
You can win if you apply rules equally, but you have to be willing to stand up for your platform and not cave to a small group of people.

r/The_Donald - they shut down
r/Fuckthealtright - open for business

And by open for business, I mean openly calling for killing conservatives.
Does optical media really wear out?
There are pro-Trump, pro-Conservative subreddits which haven't broken the rules and haven't been particularly hateful. Those subs are still active.
Wish I had more than one upvote. This is a great story, one I wish more people would read who value "prestige" and "importance" in their careers. Being L9 Super Senior Software Engineer does not really give you any more credibility or prestige among the general public than you had as Entry Level Code Monkey. Nobody is going to ask you to so much as speak at a high school graduation or Rotary Club meeting just because you solely did the high level architecture for your company's suite of accounting apps.
This article misses a lot:
1) Facebook doesn't necessarily need the IDFA for optimizing advertising -- SKAdNetwork leaves the door open for ads optimization, just not at the user level. This article reveals how little the author understands about digital advertising.
2) I don't believe this move by Apple increases its "moat" in any meaningful way. Apple was almost certainly motivated to deprecate the IDFA to protect consumer privacy -- the only way this enforces Apple's moat is by substantively differentiating Apple's privacy positioning from other hardware vendors. 3) If anything, deprecating the IDFA harms Facebook moreso than it helps Apple to improve its ability to grow its ads business. Apple has increased the scope of its Apple Search Ads business but deprecating the IDFA doesn't help it there except to level the playing field.

The author of this blog is at his best when he's going a mile wide and an inch deep on high-concept subjects like self driving cars and Amazon taking over retail. When he tries to go deep on specific topics, his lack of context often leads him to specious and, frankly, silly conclusions.
Yes, it's life advice, but no assertion is made that this advice should be applied by everyone. It's more "If you want to do X, here is some advice" not "You should do X".

I don't think it's possible to define "best" for everything. Being the best tennis player and being the best cook involve optimizing for two completely different objectives. What's more, you can define what best means to you and work towards that. The author's opinion on what best means is irrelevant IMO.

Maybe the advice is trivial, but it provoked me to reflect on how I am using my skills. I am going to keep this in mind as I choose how to spend my time. In hindsight it's obvious, but I still think it's a constructive article.
Recommendations for online pre-calc/calculus refresher
Salutations,

I am preparing for analytics course this September and I wanted to do a quick refresher of pre-calc/calc so that I can jump right in ( it has been a while and I am worried I would hold everyone back ).

I am not the most math oriented person ( as in, I really have to dig through a lot of examples and exercises to get the idea on how to approach things; I don't think in curves ).

The course itself deals with regression modelling, clustering and predictive statistics if that helps.

I debated a tutor, but it may be a little harder now ( which sucks since, for some reason, in person instructions motivate me more ).

I guess the real question is:

Can you recommend any online resources that could help me prepare?
Yeah, it turns out that most people don't want to go swimming through a cesspit for entertainment after all.
I'd put more of the blame on the leader with no interest in uniting a nation under threat.
People closing down your internet forum after a billion warnings and blatant violation of the rules of the site is not discrimination. If anything The_Donald was allowed to stay around for way longer than most other subs that did the kind of things it did, precisely because they did not want to have to deal with the tremendous number of communication channels available to Trump supporters to complain about it.
Donald Trump was a democrat for most of his life. The basic tenants of secure borders + protecting american jobs was basically the Democrat platform for most of its existence.
Everything on this list seems like it would be extremely useful in tracking people. The approximate memory API? That, along with geolocation, could effectively unmask you across the web.
It is, but it's also a cost for not removing hate, and also just for having a slightly different opinion on what constitutes hate than some of your users. When you have a billion users, there's going to be a lot of them that disagree with you on things.
> isn't in the business of deplatforming and moderating

Yet. It seems like the next logical place for cancel culture to move.
I think so. It certainly seed that way, the waves of new accounts was noticeable at times.

Even better when the more interactive new users would show up with strange language patterns / reading comprehensions patterns too would show up alongside them.... usually posting the same links some other 'users' posted months ago, those dissapeared a while back, but they were around for a while.
Oklo (YC S14), maker of 'micro' nuclear reactor, aims to prove doubters wrong
YouTube short form already grew up into something like Quibi. You could make a more compelling offering than Quibi simply by curating existing content. That's why no one cares about Quibi -- they already have YouTube.
F. G Set to Reopen Schools and Lift Inter-State Ban
Woah! OP here, first of all, thank you for all the memories and skills and laughs and friendship bracelets. How did you and the team decide what to "build" / "write" next? You really did seem to have every "kid essential" covered, but was there research or chatting with real-life kids? And what would you write today if you could make a new Klutz book?
As horrible or stupid as that subreddit was it at least exposed Steve Huffman stealthily editing posts, so some positive came from it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_...
I know plenty of contractors who improve their own homes in their spare time, artists who paint in their spare time, writers with side projects, teachers who do planning/look for lessons, etc. etc.

That said, I think we'd all be better off if engineers demanded collectively not to work more than 40 hours. (Tech unions/guilds could be formed and focused just on stuff like limiting hours/paying for overtime and oncall, btw.)

I've done it individually, and it has never slowed my career progression -- even when I worked at Amazon, I was adamant that my family and personal time came first, but I still was promoted regularly.

I still code in my spare time, but it's totally unrelated to work.
Your history is quite wrong.

They were initially quarantined for “anti police” comments.

Which looking through the current state of Reddit is a bit hypocritical.

Edit: https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Scree...
My public library has a "recently returned" section for this very purpose. I love it.
I wonder how they will fight against the other kind of systematic propaganda now but guess nothing will happen. Subs like /r/bestof became absolute shit

See the current top post there which is absolutely crazy but hey it fits the agenda.
I love how real horshoe theory actually is because no one actually thinks it's legitimate but it really did properly describe politics until 1945...

The Nazis and communists had a lot in common in 1930's Nazi Germany. They even made jokes about how often people switched parties...

"In some cities, the numeral strength of party-switching beefsteak Nazis was estimated to be large. Rudolf Diels (the head of the Gestapo from 1933 to 1934) reported that "70 percent" of the new SA recruits had been Communists in the city of Berlin"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beefsteak_Nazi
2016 Interview: https://blog.ycombinator.com/jacob-dewitte-oklo-interview/
Does the DTK support running iOS apps? If so you could, in theory, run the iOS version of Geekbench to get performance numbers outside of Rosetta.
Everyone was calling out, even years ago, that this was going to happen. You have a demonstrably left leaning group that turned evil long ago, it was so obvious that they would try to shut down any dissenting opinions (wrong think) before the election.

If you're a leftist, you're on the side of censorship, deplatforming, and book burning. You may argue that it's GOOD censorship, that it's worth it, but you're still a book burner. You can argue that it's legal, but it's still book burning. You can talk about how evil the book you're burning is, but you're still a book burner. You can burn any book you want by just saying it's racist and then just memory hole it.

The really ironic part is that one of the major justifications used to quarantine the forum a few months ago was alleged "threats against the police". Funny how the tables have turned isn't it? I guess when you're corrupt it really shows .. how rules only apply to other people, but you play by your own set of rules.
Netlist Prevails Against Google at the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Reddit Admins posted this[0] list which had r/td at less than 8k daily active users before being shut down. I imagine that’s an order of magnitude below its peak.

[0]: https://www.redditstatic.com/banned-subreddits-june-2020.txt
you probably saw something, do you still have contact with the friend? does he recall the event?

regarding embellishment, if 2 people witness a fleeting (not immediately explainable event) observation, they will typically confirm having also seen facet X or property Y, for not wanting to have missed out, when such a thing happens its best that all parties immediately write down for themselves in as much detail as they can what they think they saw "lock the doors" without consulting each other.
They at least seem to be rethinking the “only on mobile” thing. You can now play on a TV using a Chromecast or AirPlay. Still no dedicated smart TV or streaming stick apps, though.

https://help.quibi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042455452-Can-I-...
trash in / trash out
I wonder why apple is so persistent with using that awkward "apple silicon" wording more importantly why all blogs and journalists just copy it. Whats wrong with saying arm macs, apple chips, apple CPUs etc? Is anyone alse feeling weird about it?
Indeed. The average user, especially women, does not enjoy having their boundaries pushed by an escalation of shocking (but not illegal!) and pornographic (but not illegal!) images, which you will get if you don't have moderation, and even a bit if you do. As proven by Slashdot twenty years ago.

Oh, and the plain spam. C1al1s spammers can fill your entire board if you let them.
High Resolution Neural Face Swapping for Visual Effects [video]
This webapp trapped my mouse inside the VM. How is that possible? I didn't realize you could trap the user's mouse with (HTML+JS)5.
I agree overall, but:

> That's why you pay $1000 for a phone, so the manufacturer protects you from these risks.

is wishful thinking. You pay 1000$ because that is what people is willing to pay.
I think this was the hardest part for me to learn: the site cares a lot about what I would describe as "tone," which is generally a good heuristic for interesting and productive discussions (but this can feel stifling for a lot of people, particularly but not exclusively minority groups in tech). Early on I definitely engaged in a manner that was less than pleasant, and the culture here seems to take a dim view of that no matter who it's coming from, which is the part I find the most impressive. I have since learned how to say what I want to say without just blowing raspberries (for the most part) and I am generally rewarded for it with interesting comments and upvotes.
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