skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in favor of cash payments and other investment for Black Americans to correct the centuries of extensive, targeted legalized racism against Black America. We need a Marshall Plan for Black America badly. Build up Black America after centuries of war against them like we rebuilt Japan and Europe after World War 2.

I agree with you that there would be a severe political backlash, especially among members of Trump's base. I still think significant investment into Black communities is badly needed regardless of the backlash and is in the best interest of the US in terms of social stability and economic growth. It's not good strategically to let wealth gaps stay the same or grow, it seems to increase the risk of conflict to let such massive inequality remain.
Source (with more details): https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/an-update...

> The social engineering that occurred on July 15, 2020, targeted a small number of employees through a phone spear phishing attack. A successful attack required the attackers to obtain access to both our internal network as well as specific employee credentials that granted them access to our internal support tools. Not all of the employees that were initially targeted had permissions to use account management tools, but the attackers used their credentials to access our internal systems and gain information about our processes. This knowledge then enabled them to target additional employees who did have access to our account support tools. Using the credentials of employees with access to these tools, the attackers targeted 130 Twitter accounts, ultimately Tweeting from 45, accessing the DM inbox of 36, and downloading the Twitter Data of 7.
I have a great instrument to connect to friends who for various reasons live very very far away. We would not stay close if it wasn’t Facebook. We could call, we could send emails or messages, but realistically we wouldn’t do it (or not that often) if there wasn’t medium like Facebook. Being able to stay connected is priceless.
The study smacks of elitism, gotcha questions and tailored outcomes. You are comparing regular NY Times, NPR, Boston Globe readers, which is an extremely biased sample - above average education, affluent and engaged to people who read news on SM casually.

Look at two of the questions from the "facts" based survey:

https://www.journalism.org/2020/01/24/election-news-pathways...

(1) - Whether the unemployment rate in the U.S. has gone up, down or stayed the same since Donald Trump took office (gone down)

(2) - What determines the number of votes a state has in the Electoral College (the number of seats the state has in the U.S. House and Senate)

These are extremely technical questions. In (1) are they talking about the unemployment rate till any point on time, which is a random variable or the average? A gotcha questions

In (2), I do read an hour of two of news everyday (I know, it is a problem) and did really well on American History, but that question would still take me a few moments to ponder.

The causality is backwards - people who read SM to get news are less engaged and the people who read the establishment media are more engaged. Like the cigarette industry publishing an ad on the efficacy of cigarettes as an health aid.
Even if there was a standard of moderation that would satisfy everyone, there’s too much to moderate.

If only Google had a half a trillion dollars to spend on something other that spying on people. And if only there were 35 million people out of work.

But, alas, poor sweet simple Google cannot possibly lie in the bed it made.
What were your favorite parts of Wagon that haven't been replicated?
> However, for profit companies are not here to do what’s “correct” they’re here to make money for its investors.

While partially true, this is overly reductive. Companies can and often do take actions that serve goals beyond "increase upcoming quarterly profits".
1. Sure, but this shouldn't affect the multiplier

2. Sure, but low margins don't mean this low multipliers if they can scale (which they can). Amazon is a low margin business!
Is it a true story?

The only time I took advantage of price matching, it ended up saving me money. The phone I was looking for was $250 on Best Buy website, but $220 from Amazon 3rd party sellers. I went to a Best Buy store hoping to get it for $220 and not having to wait for shipping. They actually price-matched it at $200 on the spot.
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Can you libel a party without ever naming them?
> An enormous waste of programmer effort and time

You've just described a whole lot of programming work.
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> Gosh, I'm pretty much as anti-copyright/pro-freedom of information as anyone you would ever meet.

Clearly you've never actually met anyone who was anti-copyright / pro-freedom of information. To begin with, they're not going to be looking for "a reasonable way to implement copyright" or saying things like "the notion of copyright is still important". Kind of goes against the whole anti-copyright mentality.

> A third party shouldn't be able to host/index a bunch of someone else's IP, sell ads, and make bank at the expense of writers, musicians, etc.

There is no "at the expense of…". The third party is performing hosting and indexing services and getting paid for that work. They benefit, the users of the site benefit, no one else loses anything. In the absence of copyright anyone else could do the same, so it's naturally going to be a low-margin business.

If we want artists to get paid in a reliable way, without wrecking the rest of society in the process, we need to look beyond copyright, to patronage, crowdfunding, sponsorship, open collaboration, and other models. The presence of copyright doesn't guarantee that artists get paid. It does ensure that we're actively crippling our technology, erecting barriers between people, undermining the art itself by making it all about money, encouraging contempt for the law (not entirely a bad thing IMHO when the law is unjust), and creating a parasitic copyright industry which leeches off of both the public in general and artists in particular, in the end serving no one but itself.
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/61967856?hl=en

If you have contributions currently saved as drafts, these will be available for the next 60 days (until Sept 28 2020), and you have until then to publish them before they’re removed. Any already published contributions (titles, descriptions, captions, etc) will continue to show up on videos and can be managed by Creators in YouTube Studio.
And native peoples don’t get labels on their businesses, despite centuries of mistreatment. Growth of Hispanic-owned businesses has been slow In the US, and it’s likely caused by socioeconomic conditions. Should these groups get a special label? Who gets to decide which groups get a label?
Not sure if this will fit the bill exactly, but have been looking for something like this to accompany knowledge base note tools like Roam, Obsidian, etc., since those don't work that well with web content IMO. Using Zotero at the moment, which is fine for something not web-based. are.na is maybe another similar service aimed at content beyond bookmarks. klobie looks good though!

A couple of suggestions: I like the 'card view' of the board pages, but assuming one has a lot of tags, and many bookmarks per tag (or even many bookmarks for a single tag), I feel the 'overview' you get with the board page kind of vanishes and the individual tags take over. Something like a fixed height option for the cards that becomes scrollable would be nice. Alternatively, each tag becomes a separate page, with the bookmarks being listed once you enter the tag page instead of the board page, but not sure if you want that kind of hierarchical structure. Oh, and maybe a tighter column view might be nice!
1) It's not that common, it's not like rolling a 6, but it is very alarming when it happens to you. I've had it happen once and never again bought anything food or baby-related from Amazon.

2) Some of the fakes are very good, you may not know you're getting a fake. But if it's something like a fake Apple charging brick, it won't have anywhere near the safety engineering of the Apple product, so you may not ever notice it but you had a fake. Or you could have a food product that wasn't made to safety standards.
Donald Knuth apparently believes, in a very unusual view for a computer scientist, that P=NP but that the best algorithm has such bad exponents and factors that it won't have relevance for our computational practices -- if we're even able to discover it.

https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858&ran...
That's cool, but I want people to be able to independently create content for me to enjoy, which is a bit less of a crock. That will probably takes all their time and they need to pay for ingredients for their pot. Bring on universal basic income I guess.
Apple products are often obsolete in a few years, especially iPads and iPhones.

The iPhone 6s was released September 2015 and it will run iOS 14, due later this summer/fall.

My daily driver is a refurb iPhone 7 (released September 2016) and I'm running the public beta of iOS 14—it runs noticeably faster than it did running iOS 13 just a few weeks ago.

I’m pretty sure nothing from Samsung, Motorola or HTC that's 4 or 5 years-old can run this year's Android release. Or even last year's.

iPadOS 14 goes all the way back to the iPad Air 2, which was released October 2014—nearly 6 years ago.

Their entire line of laptops and desktops is now practically obsolete with the move to ARM.

Nope. All current Intel Macs will continue to be supported for years to come. Updated apps will be fat binaries—they'll run natively on Intel and ARM Macs, the same way fat binaries ran natively on PowerPC and 68K Macs back in the day.

macOS 11.0 Big Sur will run natively on both Intel and ARM-based Macs; so will next year's macOS 11.1. All of the important, mainstream apps (Microsoft Office, Creative Suite, Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher, etc.) will be updated to run on ARM-based Macs in addition to the existing Intel ones.

My last machine was a 10-year old 27-inch iMac that I still use as a server.

I have several Apple devices that still boot up just fine, have capable CPUs inside, but are completely useless because Apple just decided they weren't interested in supporting them anymore.

If they can still run Homebrew, there's lots of software, especially open source stuff, you can install and run. The core apps I use for web development like Vim, command line utilities, etc. work fine on unsupported Macs. If I had to, I could install FreeBSD or Linux and keep things moving.

Most indie developers allow you to download older versions of their apps if you're a registered user.

Macs that don't have 64-bit CPUs couldn't make the jump to 64-bit world, which Apple has been warning about for like 10-years.
Ah, so in this version you have thirty-five million people who could agree on what is offensive. That's a daunting task without the "million" involved to begin with.
The pricing model is working pretty well for me now that I'm home all the time. My bill is $23.
Nice but I forgot my password during signup and now can't find a way to retrieve it. Where is the forgot password page because I can't find link for it on the login page either.
The player starts with how a glacier in Alaska, and it would be nice if they linked to content to explain what and why the glaciers are retreating

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/abrupt-climate-change/Glacial-Inte...
Okay that makes more sense. This is an important detail.
Interesting story. I haven’t seen that in the US news yet.
This is going to sound very dismissive and condescending: "meh."

Generative music has been around for half a century, or longer depending on how you want to interpret things. Mimicry as a mechanism for composition has been around for as long as humans have made music.

It is wholly uninteresting to discover that we can design generative systems for music that excel at mimicry, because we've already perfected that mechanism in analog. The interesting bit is that the genesis of new musical ideas is driven by manual interaction and direction of the generative system, and at that point it's the guiding hand of the engineer turned artist that we can respect and appreciate, not the mimicry of a machine.
I could very easily be misremembering or remembering a movie and not real life.
By that logic, if they saw a surge of interest in white-owned businesses, it would be justified adding a “white-owned business” label.

I think we can say “segregating people based on skin color is wrong in principle,” or “segregating people is acceptable if it benefits those who are disadvantaged,” but I don’t see segregating races based on search interest as a reasonable policy.
That's a different argument. The justification for the removal was spam, no?
For obscure reasons I know that this is the Finnish word for 'cats', and I wondered if there was any connection there. Apparently the answer is yes

https://github.com/arminbiere/kissat

or at least the developers have already noticed this coincidence for themselves.
This is great. Can you add /r/all?
I'm strongly in favor of remedies for the harm caused to Native Americans as well, I was happy to see half of Oklahoma declared a reservation legally recently. They are definitely also a group who was unfairly targeted and deserves specific remedy too.
Why are internal employee tools publically accessible? Minimum they should require VPN access, but really go further with Zero Trust.
I'd add all high profit margin fashion items like clothing and cosmetics. There's already a market of counterfeits for these goods and it's natural for them to use Amazon for more sales.
Gmail doesn’t filter spam all that reliably either.
This is absolutely true. But this multiplier is lower than many acquihires!
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Certainly the effectiveness of affirmative action is independent of a consensus around affirmative action's effectiveness.

Affirmative action is a widespread policy and has been for decades. Is its effectiveness now conditioned on consensus that the policy is effective? That is a ridiculous rhetorical trap: If anyone expresses mere skepticism that affirmative action has not been effective, then that person is by construction the cause of its failure; conversely, if everyone does agree that affirmative action is effective, yet disparities have persisted (by just about any measure), then everyone is lying to themselves and one another in order to achieve a political consensus that perpetuates the struggles of black Americans (note a parallel to the rhetoric from supporters of Jim Crow, "the peculiar institution" and various progressive "scientific racism" programs like eugenics). I'd consider the latter scenario downright evil.
Q1 2000 was the 1Ghz intel release. The PS1 had a 33MHz CPU.

Bleemcast on a 200MHz CPU is more impressive.
It is inexcusable that Twitter is employing people who are susceptible to social engineering attacks like this. This is simple training and seriousness.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by the last sentence? Sounds interesting
I walk into Best Buy thinking I can get a price match on a digital camera because they advertise price matching. They say sorry, "this is the Best Buy exclusive version of that very popular camera, we can't price match it. You see it comes with a special lanyard in the box." So I'm in a position where I've driven to Best Buy, and either have to pay their price or go home and order on Amazon. So maybe I pay their higher-than-Amazon price.

The price match was deceitful, they obtained money from it. Sounds like a swindle to me.
The question is how you fix it though, and not all answers to that question are acceptable either.
It just takes one mistake to be spearfished.
Just because something is a law, does not mean it is what's right.
This is well said. I have experienced same thing. They will talk lot about ideas but not try to understand what is happening under the hood and plainly ignore other's concerns instead taking them positively and thinking about it. They lie lot or just talk vague and escape when real problem comes.
Sure, you want the government to step in and outlaw Google. That’s doesn’t have much to do with the topic of an anti-trust breakup and is exactly what the parent meant when they said the proposal is not in good faith.
Personally I think that monetisation of open-source goes against the consumer of the OSS in practically all cases.

- Open-Core::: Features are not added to core, as they want people to upgrade.

- Consulting::: Ease of use is ignored, as if it's too easy people won't need consultants.

- Sponsoring Goals::: Software is almost held at ransom, until goals are reached.

The best way to help open-source software is to donate or contribute code... if you're trying to maximise profits, then just make it propitiatory
Sssshhh! Don't give them ideas to weaponized viruses!
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They definitely have made for Best Buy TVs. Even for other mainstream brands than their in house Insignia line.
If you wanted to keep this off your local box, you could create a separate pinboard.in account, pay for their archival service, and script your browser to pin every URL you hit.
Love it! Thank you for creating this. Is there a way to add the bookmarklet to my toolbar instead of having it on the bookmarks toolbar which I keep hidden.

EDIT: Also can I get to my home page when I click on Klobie than clicking on my username? And can I tag bookmarks with topics under different boards?
Except for the majority of users, eliminating spam and unmoderated content is far higher on the priority list than maintaining relatively niche features.

Whether it be Reddit or Facebook to YouTube, people are demanding security and greater tech company control over features.
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Just signed up, I ike it and will start using it

A request: Make `topics` optional or ability to set a default topic(s)
Where is the evidence that being against affirmative action is responsible for maintaining racial inequities? Because that is quite a extraordinary claim, given that we have maintained racial inequities far longer than affirmative action has been popular.
I like what they are doing but do we need a default .5 second for every year while the content is still loading? And seemingly no way to significantly slow it down?
>it's somewhere on tech/vc twitter...
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Are account support tools available off premises? I know nothing about security for big companies like Twitter but it seems like tools that enable you to post from any verified user (outside of Trump, someone here once mentioned he had additional account controls) should only be accessible from secure offices regardless of individual credentials.
They should require hardware security devices (dongles). Really Twitter should be ashamed of their poor internal security.
Freaking Twitter needs a serious auth infra upgrade. Unless phishers hijacked employee devices, they accessed the tools remotely, meaning there's no form of client authentication?? Something like U2F which by now is pretty old seems like it would prevent this kind of attack
Also, who gets the datacenters? The existing traffic peering agreements? The subsea cables? Google’s core technical infrastructure can’t be “divvied up” without destroying it. It would have to look something like Google’s entire technical infrastructure going to Google Cloud and the all of the existing products becoming customers of that company.
I made the mistake of ordering from HD online and received a different product than what I ordered. It turns out that they reuse SKUs for different models so the drones will pull the usually outdated old stock on the store's shelves.
The blog post is vauge but definitely implies that a vpn was in place.
You can ask your car to stop to go to the bathroom.

Self-driving cars will probably have better reclining that the current ones. It will be a feature.

Even if you don't sleep, going to an airport with sufficient buffer, checking baggage and checking in, security lines, waiting to board, boarding, actual flight, taxi time, getting baggage, getting ground transport is about 4-6 hours even for a 1 hour commuter flight.

And when highway self-driving really improves with mesh networking cars might be able to cruise at 100mph.
The federation of peertube instances, which I feel will eventually be the most critical alternative of all:

https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances
upgrading the terminal is expensive

It's not the terminal upgrade that's the barrier. At many businesses, if you upgrade the terminal you also have to replace the point-of-sale system. Then you have to integrate it with your existing backend sales system, fulfillment system, inventory system, and more. And you're lucky if all of that can then be integrated into your accounting system. Then you have to retrain all of the people who will ever touch any part of the entire process.

You see it as upgrading the terminal because that's all you see. But that is the very small tip of a very large iceberg.
True in a general sense - but when countries and cultures all around the world recognize something as important... you might want to question yourself when you disagree.
Google made the bed for free and others wanted to pee in it. The rest blamed Google for the bed having pee in it and demanded they do something, including post 24 hour guards around the bed.

I would take the bed away too.
That would probably not work well during the pandemic...
I think it'd be helpful with community captions were more discoverable. I have no where of checking if the captions on a video are machine translated or human translated without going into sub menus. If the product of the community members' work was more apparent, the contributors would obviously feel like their labour had a bigger impact and want to create more captions.
Isn't this simple economic reasoning?

If you buy something or worse you have to pay license fees on a regular base your earnings will be smaller.

We live in a world that is driven by economic growth so the ultimate goal is to maximize profit.

Of course this has a moral aspect to it as well and I see it but in this case I think it is not outraging enough to be something on the scale of a scandal.

Many businesses use ideas or products for free to start a successful enterprise that earns a lot of money.
Cool, I have absolutely no way of telling what this is or what it does without downloading it first?
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