skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, interesting, that's not the answer I expected, let's unpack that. Could you give me a typical user story from your point of view? I've tried to come up with one (A, below) but I just can't make it convincing. I have also included what I suspect a typical user story looks like and labeled it B. Of course, B is rife with deception.

A: Alice clicks on an ad for Lens Luxury glasses, likes the picture of the product, and orders them on account of the $100 price-tag being roughly consistent with what she expects to pay for said level of quality, despite the fact that she sees the same sunglasses at a $10 price point every time she goes through a checkout aisle. She receives the glasses and is happy with them. Dave the Dropshipper earns $97 for providing the service of connecting customer and product.

B: Bob notices his sunglasses are losing their coating. He knows he could go to Walmart or Amazon or the nearest convenience store and pick up a pair produced in China under conditions of extreme cost optimization and dubious labor / environmental / trade conditions, but on account of recently hearing some horror stories he holds out. A few days later, he starts seeing Lens Luxury Facebook ads and Instagram / Blog content marketing. Unaware of the prevalence of "content marketing," he develops the impression that Lens Luxury is an emerging trendy brand and visits their website, which has an Italian name, pictures of a factory in Italy, smiling Italian models, and copy that strongly suggests the glasses are made in Italy without literally saying it. The site has sections about environmental impact and labor fairness (100% worker owned!) and a pricetag to match -- at least, as far as Bob understands sunglasses pricing, which isn't far. He decides to support this nonexistent picturesque Italian company, and orders the sunglasses. Six months later, the hinges rust out, and he is alarmed to find that Lens Luxury has vanished from the internet, leaving behind a trail of angry blogposts from customers who have experienced the same problem. He learns that it wasn't an Italian company after all and makes an angry post on facebook warning his friends to not do business with Lens Luxury, blissfully unaware that they are now doing business under the name Style Sunglasses.
Earlier this year, they were blaming several of the outages on "the database". Not sure if that's still their scapegoat or if they've come up with a new one.
I can agree on that social status of having CS degree in itself is near zero or negative. Which is a stark comparison to doctors or lawyers about whom people in general think possess better qualities than the rest of populace.

Yet I'd say it's the pursuit of intelligence that makes a person interesting in the first place, not the pursuit of gaining social status and a lot of money. So I'm quite fine if the common folk are that dumb to think that CS is inferior compared to those degrees, as if they somehow knew the difference. A lot of course depends on the institution and the quality of the education, as the lower prestige colleges definitely produce lower quality CS graduates than their equivalent in lower prestige med or law schools. I guess social ineptitude being more heavily represented among CS folk don't in the least improve their chances.

But to make a point, yes while the common folk might think that CS graduates are nerdy Gollums who code in a dark closet all day, that is just their prejudice getting the best of them. There are a lot of very smart and diligent people graduating with CS degrees, who with better social skills would be as good or better than the doctors and lawyers alike in problem solving in positions of power (such as the house of Lords). I myself though know only a rare few who would be even remotely interested in such, so I guess the situation will remain the same into the far future. Hopefully though some get involved with their communities' politics. Shipping a piece of fragile software with many stakeholders I imagine is somewhat similar to iterating a best policy involving all constituents in question. You just have to know how to sell it and get people aboard.
Current title: "Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as part of a major expansion of its rules"
That last line depends. There's a lot more to the environment, team, management structure, business goals, financing, and much more that would place them effectively at square one.

I agree with your other points. But as an example, I worked previously with some 20+ year executives with huge products... 15 years before the market I was working with them in. So, it's great they knew a lot about launching product in 2005. But I need expertise for 2020. If their ideas cost more than a more modern, more efficient method, I don't need to have to teach them the method uphill against their stubbornness to stick to what they know. This issue played a role in me releasing an entire sales team two months into my role. I don't care that they had the most experienced people. The debate about what they knew and where the company was going was driving up costs and lowering productivity for other teams.
So this (and I assume every other solution people have mentioned) are using youtube-dl -- which means the chromecast is playing a stream from the device initiating the cast.

When I cast from my Android phone to a cast receiver, my understanding is it's basically sending the URL to the receiver and my phone is no longer involved, other than as a remote to control position. (And frustratingly, I find my phone will often get disconnected even though the video is still playing, so I have to spend several seconds waiting or forcing it to reconnect to be able to pause/stop).

What's the difference between these two modes? Is there something preventing the URL method from working, or is there a reason it's preferable to download + stream?
FWIW, you can get a copy of "Deschooling Society" by Ivan Illich here: http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/deschooling.htm
To be fair, The_Donald was already shutdown for a while. Between quarantine that makes it not show up in feeds and the moderation team being replaced by Reddit’s, it wasn’t up and running anymore.
> You seem to be incorrectly applying this article as advice on self development and then making an argument against that.

From the article:

> In our personal lives, it would help to focus on being that person in the community who could be depended on for a particular task/skillset required for a task. [...] Focussing will ensure that you are not distracted and the increases likelihood of you doing a good job.

I think the whole article is supposed to be more general life advice, not just career advice.

> They are suggesting that this is a good strategy to become the best at something

If this is the case then the advice is absolutely trivial. More so, it doesn't address the question of what it means to be the 'best' at something.
I look forward to JetBrains replacing the JVM and its standard library, and GraalVM in the process, given that Kotlin is so good.
People are polarized because they don't like being not polarized isn't really a theory, it's a tautology.
That was my experience as well. It's a fascinating parallel universe, but it's not for me. It's kind of the same reason I watch a lot of Fox News.
> Both sides have free speech rights and both have outcomes that support that speech...

Free speech has 2 distinct meanings:

1. The legal right to be free from government interference to most speech.

2. The cultural norm to tolerate speech you disagree with in order to foster political inclusion.

You're correct under meaning 1; you're not correct under meaning 2.
The title says it crashed.
http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/23/3/5.html
Tell that to the Android team busy replicating Flutter in Kotlin.
Ah that makes sense. I have a tinge of that but it's probably memories. Eventually we will move out when family is of less focus.

We're young now so it was a good idea to have family close. Eventually we're going to move somewhere even more remote.
You can't remake history, but is think many would argue that Louverture release would have put him in power and prevents those events (helping other caraibean countries free themselves more easily). Louverture could have been the first black governor, proving that the first French revolution was not just words.
Google's developer relations team have done a good job convincing web devs that those APIs are pushed by Google to enable "Amazing PWAs", yet we haven't seen them used by any major app. People are choosing to download native apps for more sophisticated applications.

However Google is pushing those APIs because they know tracking people without cookies in future is a big challenge for them and they need new ways of tracking people.

So sad that Google has taken over the web. From the most used browser (Chrome) to the content hijacking (AMP) to the standards (PWA). All to sell you to advertisers.
It’s not funny.
Cloudflare isn't in the business of deplatforming and moderating the way that social media companies are. We all know about that one case, but it was not only an extreme outlier, but also had some other reasoning behind it. I will predict CF does not deplatform them any time soon.
About time!

As I commented in a previous discussion of reddit's policies (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23601595), the "quarantined subreddits" half measures were clearly too tame as a middle point, where reddit decided to both moderate which communities are wrong and at the same time not ban them (worst of both worlds).

I wonder if the discussion there was read by people at reddit, though it's probably not relevant opinions to them.
I'm confused by the article. My understanding was that reddit replaced the moderators of /r/The_Donald months ago after initially making in quarantined.

The Wikipedia article seems to agree with my understanding:

> In February 26, 2020, Reddit administrators removed a number of r/The_Donald moderators "that were approving, stickying, and generally supporting content in this subreddit that breaks [Reddit's] content policy" and called the remaining moderators to choose new ones from a list of Reddit-approved individuals.[77] About the same time, Reddit placed r/The_Donald in "Restricted mode", removing the ability to create new posts from most of its users. Since then, the subreddit's community has moved to thedonald.win, an independently hosted site based on Reddit's old user interface.

Which all sounds fine to me, but the article's quote "We’re not the ones who shut down the community. The moderators are the ones who shut down that community." seems disingenuous to me.

What's wrong with just saying that it's their platform and they have the right to set the rules?
There is a difference in talking to someone to understand a problem and providing a communications platform for them to connect to other bullies in order to form a community that validates the practice. How in the world is that so difficult to see?

Say you build walkie talkies, and a member of the KKK shows up and says he needs 100 of them because they are rioting in a black neighborhood tonight and need a way to coordinate their plans. Do you say “sure in fact take some for free!” just so you can listen in to understand exactly how they are terrorizing their black neighbors, or do you tell them to fuck off because you don’t want to provide tools to a hate group?
Part of the costs is that I do assemble these by hand! My right arm is the pick and place machine.

I try to do batches of 25 at once, as any more and I want to smash something. I have an SMT stencil for all the SMT parts, and then put them in the oven.

The pin header is through-hole (will be stronger then SMT header) so it's done by hand.

Then going over everything with a loupe to look for solder paste that hasn't flowed or other issues, programming each one, and then verifying the functionality of each one on my own desk (see the video of the testing process).

All in all, quite a bit of my time, and not yet factored in is the entire logistics (storefront, shipping, customer support)

Unfortunately as it's a small operation, I also can't afford to buy these parts in what would be considered a big quantity - so I'm still paying fairly high costs. The jellybean capacitors and resistors I can order in real bulk (500), but the IC's and voltage regulators are name brand from DigiKey.
If you are looking for esoteric library books and in California, try Link+. It lets you get books from many libraries, including university libraries. My tastes are very, very obscure but Link+ often finds the 1953 computer book that I'm looking for. (Other areas may have similar inter-library loan services.)
https://csul.iii.com/
I visited, shared my viewpoint and was promptly banned. Good for you to stay away (for your mental health) but seeing first-hand the sort of hate and bigotry posted daily was both shocking and informative.
geekbench is exactly what people refer to when they claim the iPad Pro is just as fast as a MacBook: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/12/ipad-pro-vs-macbook-air....
Bitcoin Is Your Way Out of the Vicious Circle in Which Current System Locks You
You've been provided data that wealthy, equal societies have low birth rates, yet still you hold on to not only that "there are other confounding factors" but that actually the effect is the opposite?

I'm having a hard time grasping what evidence you have that even tried to suggest this.
Wildly deceptive marketing is common, yes, but I don't see how that makes it less bad.
About time. However, this move was mostly symbolic. r/the_donald has been inactive for months without a single new post on it. AFAIK the community had already moved on to another site off reddit.

Much more significant IMO is that the ban also includes r/ChapoTrapHouse, which is a "left"-leaning subreddit accused of much of the same stuff r/the_donald was.
I did not know the definition of 'trickle down' economics, thanks for that.

I had a vague idea of bread crumbs falling off the table of the 'lords' to be consumed by the 'populace'.

My idea was : someone buys a multi-million Yacht, well they need a captain, cook and other staff to maintain their ship. The wealth (from buying a luxury item) trickles down to the employees. Of course, this was a simple intuition and the idea had no formal definition for me.
Let's see how they're doing... highest post, stickied:

> title: you are far more likely to die from shootings in nyc than the 'rona

> headline 1: The New Normal in NYC? 11 People Shot In Under 12 Hours.

> headline 2: New York Reports Just 8 Deaths As Cuomo ...

Create however many platforms you want, can't fix weapons-grade stupidity.
Its true. I love browsing through the bookstore or libraries. No online experience can replace that. The potential for discovering something new to read and learn is the main contributor for this thrill. I like randomly picking a book from some section that I never been to and read it for a while to get a gist. I may or may not end up buying but that small gist brings me immense pleasure

Note:I'm not able to read the article because of paywall
Yikes, where to begin...

Quoting Chamath on the rationale for the Facebook Platform is like quoting the current management of Boeing on how to build a plane. If you want the real story on the dynamics behind the Platform, and why it worked so incredibly well when it did, you’d have to talk to Dave Morin, but I’m not sure he’d like to revisit that period in his life. Dave’s open, humble approach (something I think he’d picked up at Apple) attracted the best and brightest companies and programmers to the platform, and gave them the confidence needed to invest in building a presence there. Eventually a bunch of people inside of Facebook got jealous of the attention he was getting and had him demoted.

Chamath takeover and his self-dealing (investing in platform companies while overseeing it? really?) was a large part of the Platform’s failure, not its success. People lost confidence, and confidence is the one thing that every platform — whether it’s a piece of software, or a country’s economy — really runs on. If you want to talk about platforms, and what they are, and what they aren’t, that’s really all it is. People who bring up a million other things and a random Bill Gates quote don’t know what they’re talking about.

Apple is strict and super-weird about some of their rules, but they’re consistent. And it’s in that consistency that they’ve been able to build a large, dominant platform. When people start to see cracks in that consistency — such as the recent Hey drama — both developers AND people within the company immediately freak out, and some statement is made (whether it’s what the developers want to hear is another matter). They’re also super consistent with most of their APIs and their timetables, which further encourages investment.

Facebook is pretty much the exact opposite of this, in every aspect of their business. Whether you’re a newspaper or an Instagram model or a developer, you’re never quite sure where you stand. While things built on top of Facebook might have large-scale near-term value, nobody’s planning their next decade on there (even if suspicious can’t-let-China-win government meddling and the Silicon Valley oligarchy keep them on top for that long).
The article is incorrect.

"racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, glorification of violence and conspiracy theories that flourished there."

That can be seen in all political subreddits - even the favored /r/politics.

Those forms of hate were not condoned in T_D.

But if washpo wants to rewrite history, they can try. T_D was banned because reddit hates the policies Trump was elected to enact.
A de facto shutdown is not the same as an actual shutdown.
Correct, the desk will not move without the key inserted, even with megadesk.
Fugaku Supercomputer Completes First-Ever Sweep of High-Performance Benchmarks
Not just hate you, but stalk, threaten and harass you.

There are some people where even just saying-- as a moderator-- "Hey, can you chill out and at lease pretend to treat other posters with some respect" will trigger a full on war against you.

There aren't many people like this, but it only takes a few because even a single obsessed person can spew a lot of hate.
You are commenting in a fanboy thread. Don't take it personally. HN is not more "enlightened" than the rest of the internet when it comes to fanboy stuff.
IIRC there were a handful of people that basically maintained all of the /Applications/Utilities (now /System/Applications/Utilities) together. Maybe half an engineer for Console?
You are drawing an equivalence of discrimination against those with dark skin to discrimination against the profoundly immoral and hateful. You are a racist, and are not engaging in good faith arguments.
>> I wish that we didn't have to go through these things to begin with, and could have more federated and decentralized platforms

Decentralization simply leads to the creation of echo-chambers, except with no one to keep the toxicity in check.
While definitely not the same, it seems somewhat misinformed to put Lisp and Haskell on 2 different corners.
Fun fact: for quite a long time Chrome skipped over the user permission step in the Web MIDI spec, always allowing access and silently giving ad networks a list of connected USB MIDI devices with no user consent:

https://www.obsessivefacts.com/blog/2018-10-20-chrome-allows...

Here's what appeared on porn site xhamster.com once newer versions of Chromium got around to implementing the permission check (SFW-ish):

https://www.obsessivefacts.com/images/blog/2020-04-04-the-ja...
If the rationale for banning is policy violations (doxxing, racism, vulgarity, calls for violence, etc), as long as the standards are consistently enforced I'm okay with it. Although my caveat is that racism is defined differently for different people. I
E., racism has to be directed towards a marginalized group vs derogatory statements based on racial characteristics.

This is my main problem with Twitter. The standards aren't consistently enforced. I've seen so many leftist blue checkmarks justifying violence that get a pass.

And on the racism front, Sarah Jeong comes to mind.
> Classic silicon valley-style hubris.

Actually, rich human hubris. It's not unique to any single location.
Which is a nice loophole when we know the battle for votes is primarily fought on social media
As I mentioned, I'm just (genuinely) curious. Not making judgement either way. Exceptional times and all that jazz. It is very rare such natural experiments come along.
source: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/hi3oht/updat...
In theory this is a good argument. But unless Apple decides to share a complete list of all companies it has partnered with and given or sold data to, individual, anonymized, and / or aggregate, all we have is feelings on the matter and theoretics.
Yeah definitely can see that happening. For me it's just that they project a mental space of me being unable to do even simple things, "make sure you turn the handle right!"

They watch the news every night, my dad yells at the TV screen.

Really annoying but not the end of the world. I'm trying to spend my time learning, creating, while using as little mental/emotional energy as possible.
It was largely empty after the quarantine.

I always wondered what the actual population of that sub was, I felt like I saw some strange patterns where whole hordes of users would appear, disappear, mob another sub and so on. It felt like a very non organic community in many ways.

The issues surroundings that sub weren't just some folks who had a sub to talk to each other, they were very busy mobbing / taking over other subs and etc.

Like most of those subs that leaned right it seemed like a front for sort of a rabbit hole of fear, hate, open bigotry, and blatent calls for violence / division and etc.
> Worth taking note that in today's climate, you really cannot win when you are in a position to moderate important things that a lot of people use.

While this is probably true in most cases, given the Reddit CEO's history with the_donald[1], this doesn't seem like it applies in this particular case.

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1. https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/23/reddit-huffman-trump/
Pardon my faux pax. The point was that the move is away from Java, whether Dart or Kotlin.
How a proximity sensor can be used for fingerprinting?
And despite that, people will continue using Mac. It really doesn't matter what they do, as long as they aren't worse (or much worse) than Windows.
Apple has the ability to put every submitted app through rigorous analysis before publication on the App Store to look for forbidden behavior, in order to protect their customers. They don't have that ability with arbitrary websites.
.... so like almost every other political platform theses days?
Old School GitHub (Chrome / Firefox Extension)
Ask HN: Is Tik-Tok Malware?
Over the weekend, a tweet has "blown up" (linked below), screen grabs of someone speaking with authority about how they reverse engineered TikTok and found it is capturing all sorts of unexpected data (beyond the clipboard capturing, reported last week).

People are asking about this. But this whole story is triggering my BS detector. The tweet is screen grabs quoting "someone on Reddit". The reddit post goes into extensive justification for why they can't provide any proof ("The laptop this work was on has a dead motherboard, it's a MacBook with soldered on SSD so I can't just remove the SSD"... Feels kind of like the dog ate my homework).

I took a look at the permissions the TikTok app is requesting, and they don't seem unusual: Camera/mic and media. The post is alledging: Downloading and executing .zip files, scanning your network, sending geolocation every 30 seconds, sending device and AP MAC addresses, setting up a local proxy server...

Anyone have any further thoughts on this or seen any additional details?

Tweet: https://twitter.com/d1rtydan/status/1277081198624337920

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news_but_tbh_if_you_have_tiktiok_just_get/