skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a non-splippery-slope way to position the worldview you're describing that might be more palatable to the values of a worldview based on limiting discourse based on content.

I believe the hardcore freedom of speech view has a few important underlying assumptions:

1) More information is better, and shining a light on something is better than trying to selectively hide it, because eventually the real truth comes out through persistent discourse. This is only really possible with the maximum amount of information, and especially all viewpoints laid out on the table with the least amount of obstruction.

2) People are broadly able to parse out untruths, or irrelevant positioning, or anything that is of low quality, and they will not be persuaded by it. This isn't true of everyone, but it is true of enough people; that's an inherent assumption of democracy. We live (or want to live) in a free market of ideas, where ideas can compete, and the market (what people are persuaded by) will be broadly rational and land on the best position in aggregate, even if some people are persuaded by bad or malicious arguments.

3) Limiting the visibility of any information detracts from the overall quality of discourse because it robs people of the ability to improve their thinking. It negates the possibility of refutation, because the untruth is hidden. Giving people all information, including misleading information, in the long-run leads to a population that can have better discourse and evaluation of all the information thrown their way.

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I think the above puts the ideas in the best possible light. However, I disagree with enough of these assumptions that I can't take this worldview myself. My main counter to these ideas is that, similar to (pure) free market proponents, it takes on a very idealistic view of rationality that doesn't match real behavior. In practice, people have to take shortcuts to understand things—it's inherent in human conciseness—and those shortcuts can be exploited. I don't believe this is something we can grow past on a large societal scale, because it's embedded in how we think. To improve the quality of discourse, we have to explicitly protect against these biases. There are a whole host of difficulties there, too, but I think they are more surmountable than all the downsides of allowing deliberate manipulation and misinformation to spread broadly.
"Ring says the drone makes an audible noise when flying so it is obvious when footage is being recorded."

Oh, I bet it does.

Drone technology seemed much cooler to me before I heard them fly. No wonder drone videos always have sound replaced by music.

Great way to tell burglars you are away!
I am not too sure about them. They sold the German companies and pulled Foodora out of a few countries.
I don't mean to be a pessimist but I believe the cows will get the collars hung on whatever they can and either tear them off, or if they're not strong enough; be stuck until they are found or die.

Edit, I suppose it could work on a dairy where a human works with the animal every day. I would be curious to know how often these things break.
I believe there is (was?) a trial for Stadia Pro if you want to try it.

Having tried it myself, I don’t think you’re off point on anything you’ve said.

The latency is substantial (and I’m on Google Fiber) and my wi-fi caused regular hitches. Which could be my hardware, but it’s not like my hardware (Unifi gear) or situation (typical suburban environment) is odd.
> What makes an idea dangerous?

People are drinking bleach because they read on Facebook it will cure COVID-19 or their child's autism. Should Facebook delete those posts? Add an official warning disclaimer (counter-information)? Depend on other users to reply with counter-information in comments?
> If you define a functional test as perfect, that it will never break unless the actual functionality changes, then sure, functional tests are purely good. But that's not what most people end up writing when they try to write functional tests. They don't get them right, they write code-change tests.

What is your experience with fixing this issue as it arises? Like you see the test breaking and say "Oh the output changed but it still satisfies <important property>, let's change the test to be more general!". Or more drastically "this test keeps having false alarms, let's just remove it".
I’m pretty sure you can’t do much with those if you are not a major shareholder or you gather under a third company that acts on behalf of you and your (enough) peers
Your premise seems to be that the current situation on Android is a good model for what would happen on iOS.

Epic themselves are suing Google because android doesn’t actually allow competing stores to operate in an equal footing.

That’s really all that is needed to dismiss this like of argument.

My extrapolation is not being borne out on Android because Android also doesn’t allow stores to compete on an equal footing, which is why Epic is also suing them.

I’m assuming you just didn’t know about this.

There will be no new and exciting place for developers. There will be exactly the same platform, but a whole load of additional predatory business to deal with.

If you truly think I’m wrong (and honestly, I’d like to be), perhaps you can flesh out a realistic hypothetical about what developers can expect rather than waving away the idea that say, Facebook and Amazon would get involved.
I've always wondered, why do these software engineers take such risks building and setting up these illegal marketplaces? I mean, are you really going to make that much more than you would as a regular software engineer at a company?
I've found the same. Unit tests easily have 3-5x the code that is being tested. But most of the code is very very straightforward with little complexity. I.e call this method with N different arguments covering edge cases border values illegal values and legal values.

Example

https://github.com/ensisoft/newsflash-plus/blob/master/engin...
Anecdotally, I was out at the beach a couple years ago for 4th of July. This brings out every huge truck in the area. Half the fun is watching them all get stuck.

At one point, there were about 5-6 huge bro-dozer trucks stuck out in this super soft sandy area. Some guy with a lowered 4wd Tahoe on some big chrome rims with super wide, low profile street tires decides to drive into that same area. His truck just floated over the sand, right past all these guys with their expensive mud terrain tires. After he drove through and embarrassed everybody else, he turned around and drove through again, then stopped in the sand multiple times, and kept going.

It was very satisfying to watch. But really kinda proved that the big blocky tires, aren't the best for sand. And a lift kit won't do anything if your tires just dig themselves in.
Most of the core team is employed by enterprise Postgres companies (EnterpriseDB, Crunchy Data, 2nd Quadrant, Citus Data). I think they're allowed to put a portion of their workweek towards Postgres.
> It absolutely makes sense to mandate the absence of serious compiler optimizations in an unsafe language

C is intended to run terribly fast, so optimisations are vital. It doesn't intend to hold your hand, so the possibility of surprising consequences from undefined behaviour (subtle programmer mistakes) are permissible under its philosophy.

There'd be little point making C slower without making it safe, that's why no-one has done it.

> You can write C that is nearly impossible not to generate into a nearly optimal instruction sequence with just basic optimizations that do not try to get clever by with deductions arising from multiple disconnected facts coming from separate statements in the program.

That doesn't sound right. Plenty of platform-specific optimisations do not work well at the level of C source code, and for instance cannot be performed by source-to-source optimisers. Generation of prefetch instructions, branch-prediction hinting, auto-vectorisation, computing both division and modulo using a single instruction. C isn't an assembly language.

> If I actually delete it myself in the source code, that will shave off just as many cycles!

It's a good thing that compilers are capable of deep inlining and removing code that is dead for a given context.

> if the compiler would simply warn "that null pointer comparison is being done on a pointer that was dereferenced eralier", that would be useful

We already have linters/static analyzers/compiler warnings for C.

> Even philosphically, that is stupid.

C doesn't pretend to be safe. Annoyingly, it can't really even be effectively checked with runtime checks on debug builds. (It's quite hard work to check against out-of-bounds array access. I believe Valgrind manages it for many cases.) I agree it's a valid criticism of the language given that we don't seem to get all that much in return. Safer languages like Ada can be used for everything C is used for, for roughly zero performance penalty.
Take it up with Amazon. Kindle gets a free ride on the App Store because they do this. They could allow purchasing through the app but they choose not to because they don't want to give Apple a cut.
Yeah, even in Google app, Assistant I saw some good stuff in the beginning but the past 1.5 years has just been random stuff.

In case of Android where customizability is what people boost about, Apple's been doing a lot of good custom stuff natively.

Apple did such an amazing job with Shortcuts(yes i know it's acquired), Google just recently launched Blocks, even that's shit. Though, there are third party communities like Automate, Macrodroid, then Google comes up with half-fledged launch.

Heck, when I heard Google isn't doing a virtual I/O this year, it sent off such a weak vibe.

I mostly see it from a product+$ point of view. Stadia is the new one where I feel Google is def committed. Apart from that the old guard( 1B+ apps) is doing fine.
Area 120 is just a way to kill stuff, though i think 1-2 things have been integrated in main apps.

I am divided on Google's culture of experimentation. So far it's not been impressive( long-term or short-term). Take ATAP, X Labs and now Area 120. In the beginning this (X labs, ATAP) was what I liked a lot about Google, but as a public company repeated experiments which don't turn into products is demotivating.

And their main competition is Apple.
Apple ships opinions( firm product vision ) whereas Google's been shipping experiments. Facebook too in some ways.

https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1297115699408711681
This will only work if they get sufficient traction from a community. And they still miss some basics, such as Qt bindings.
On a surface level I would like this better. It's not a black box, and seems like a decent spread.

My question would be how do you get all of your content classified in a reasonable way?
Except that a stand up doesn’t actually solve the problem you are referring to. People don’t pay much attention to what you’re working on in stand ups since it’s most probably not relevant to what they’re working on at the time. It is unreasonable to expect people to have perfect foresight that what you’re working on is going to be relevant to them 2 weeks down the line. There are better ways to solve that problem but stand ups is not one of them.
As a developer, a huge reason I don’t mind walled gardens is the massive reduction in piracy. I’m glad people want to download & pirate the apps I poured blood, sweat, and tears into... but I’m not down with theft. Each dollar I earn represents the time I’ve spent away from friends & family.

I’ve worked on games that have been copied outright. All assets and artwork, but a new name and “publisher” being sold elsewhere. It eats into profits.

When the walls come down, developers will be knocked off. This will hurt indys far more than larger companies, as “developers” opportunistically exploit the work of others.

Apple & Google are great at reducing and shutting down this kind of activity. If people can install the Pirate Bay store and install anything for free, many folks will.

If users can be coaxed into privileging an app, malware will control the majority of phones. People are still falling for the Nigerian prince scam.
> "I think it's worth noting that the wave of fascism that swept the world during the early 20th century coincided with radio and television being widely deployed."

Surely you mean both fascism and socialism?
people have been murdered because of misinformation on facebook: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

That's pretty unambiguous to me.
I recently tried to find out what the current SOTA of program synthesis via I/O examples is but was unable to find current benchmarks or examples of what's possible. I was interested in synthesising high-level logic. Is this a collections of classics or SOTA? Anybody here with some experience in this area?
Which is why so many in the gaming community prefer to buy physical games as opposed to digital downloads. At least with digital downloads you can quick download all of your purchases before a store closes down. With gaming streaming that shit's gone forever.
> in fact, Western lawyers who dare to show up in Russia would likely be beaten or killed

Would "Western Lawyers" really be targeted in this extreme fashion rather than simply have a Russian judge drop any cases filed for lack of standing under Russian law?
Likwise with Gorillas, these animals live in family groups, not random groupings of unrelated strangers where the greatest psychopath wins
Nice work, but honestly I'm not sure why they bother.

The article states that the purpose of these smart contracts is:

"Stake your tokens with us and you could be the next cryptocurrency millionaire"

That's an obvious scam. Anyone who gave real money to such a cause has already lost it. So why is the author giving away his time to help the scammers?
> that there might be pedophilia within the ranks of government

What does that mean?

Like just based on the size of government... someone is probably a pedophile. But I don't know what that means other than there is a lot of people in government.

Beyond that "that there might be pedophilia within the ranks of government" seems too vague.
This is my torrent. The XP / W2k3 leak happened today (the 24th) on /g/ and other boards on 4chan. Apparently the file had been passed around privately for years among hackers. I think it was shared because the dude (or gal) saw that we were trying to crack a RAR file (originating from 2007 or 2008) that supposedly contains Windows XP source code. I managed to revive that old torrent to verify that we got the same file as was posted all those years ago.

In any case, while I have extracted files that were packed using other compression formats and then compressed them using 7zip, I have made absolutely no changes to the actual source files in this torrent. They're all untouched by me, so any potential changes from OG Microsoft source code was there all along.

In general, these leaks are floating about in many different archives that still extract to identical directories. This can be tested using the script I bundled in the torrent (compare_dirs.sh), in case anyone has doubts about the files being untouched. It was a good thing I extracted and repacked all those archives, because file size is smaller, less waste of HDD space and bandwidth, plus some of the original leaks (NT 4) were corrupted archives, which I repaired using the *nix 'zip' command and then extracted. Using other archivers to extract certain ZIPs (like that one) will sometimes not extract the full archive.

In any case, I spent about 2 months collecting all these leaks and I've gone over all the archives to make sure that they're genuine. Like I've already said, they may have been tampered with by the original leakers years ago. That no one can do anything about.

I created this torrent for the community, as I believe information should be free and available to everyone, and hoarding information for oneself and keeping it secret is an evil act in my opinion.

And also, Microsoft claims to love open source so then I guess they'll love how open this source code is now that it's passed around on BitTorrent.

If anyone decides to get this torrent, use a VPN.
I think you can try it free? I did a few months ago thinking it would suck but it's surprisingly good.

I have doubts about google's commitment to it and most of my reservations have to do with that rather than the service itself. I've played hundreds of hours on it on all kinds of internet connections and it's been great. I've even played destiny 2 through my phone's hotspot and it worked fine.
In my opinion standups are waste of time when they are mandated by some boss. When they are used as head count moment to see everyone is in the office working on things. Then it turns into status report for that manager and maybe he starts even micro managing people by handing them tasks and asking questions to each person.

If standup is needed by the team and it feels natural then it probably is useful. Nowadays with remote work I kind of like to have at least 10 mins to see people that I am working with each day.
The proliferation of macroeconomic policies which delay some pain at the expense of endless, worsening systemic dysfunction have lead us here, and until we get a new Paul Volcker, things will just get worse. Rates need to go up. Bad companies need to go OOB. Common people need returns on their savings accounts.

We've created a financial regime where bond holders (who do nothing productive while collecting returns), are guaranteed to avoid all risk and inflation. If bonds threaten to lose 5%, the fed steps in to buy them. The fed would argue they must to protect pensions, but they could just directly protect pensions themselves.

There's no macroeconomic puzzle or mystery here. You don't have to be Harvard faculty to understand. Investors got >> 14$ for every 1$ of covid stimulus (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL). The fed has assumed the risk of 1/3 of us mortgages. Investors gain without risk, common people endure the reality and soon will deal with a debased currency. Most smart people I know are working on escape plans of various sorts.
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The minimal effects of TV debates between candidates
Who are they held to rigorous standards by? There would need to be a another pure body to hold them to task, and so on indefinitely.

If billionaires were controlling the purse strings, it seems unlikely they would be as willing to report negatively on them or their businesses either.

I'm unconvinced there is any way to deliver reasonably unbiased 'truth' journalistically
Public or private, we still ascribe financial value to it.
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That isn’t how commodity markets (which aren’t on wall st btw) work. The traders don’t now frames or, except by mistake, barges fill of coal; they sit in the middle and rarely touch it.

A farmer can sell their crop before it has grown to improve cash flow, chocolate companies can buy cocoa that they will need next year so they have a predictable price and these guys sit in the middle.
Don't be surprised that your (and likeminded people's) experience may not be representative of the world or even the country's at large. Poll after poll shows that 40% of the USA still supports Donald Trump.

Remember the famous (mis)quote "How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him"
Literally any vegetable is good with salt pepper and butter :)
Timescaledb the company wants to make money from their managed service, thus they are protecting it from competition. That’s fine. They are not true open source but that’s fine too.
Scientists create world's smallest 'refrigerator': volume = 1 cubic micrometer
It's funny, I almost mentioned Stadia in my initial post talking about how skeptical I was about people purchasing the service and in-service licenses for games.

I fear that people who invest in Stadia are in for a rude awakening.
Because (heating) Oil and Pork Belly weren't life necessities?
The billionaire class in countries based on export of natural resources do not depend on a well-educated and civically competent citizenry. For example, in Russia only some 10 million people are needed to run the oil-and-gas economy, and the whole rest of the country has been termed "superfluous population" by some commentators. So, why would billionaires be interested in helping the average person out?
Standups are Scrum (possibly XP), not Agile, but Agile is dead and Scrum is wearing its skin as a macabre disguise. It puts the lotion on its skin...

Standups are the first time I ever noticed that "X is ableist" without someone else having to point it out to me. My introduction to standup meetings was a bit after I screwed up my ankle. I spent a lot of time thinking in that meeting about all the injuries and disabilities that would make the forced standing still for 15 (or let's be honest, 30) minutes an imposition. Spines, knees, hips, ankles, toes. In our industry you have to be able to manage sitting at a keyboard for 8 hours, until 'Agile' came along.

Writing this out, I'm beginning to wonder if standups (the "Stand Up" part) aren't in fact illegal under US and/or EU law.
If leadership actively cares about employees maybe they should eliminate free snacks altogether. Obesity kills about 300K Americans every year. The last thing that highly-paid tech workers with sedentary jobs need is more food.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/192032
Google probably made a lot of money with this low-hanging fruit. Think about all that data they'll be able to purge.
Note that I can do all of that with my Sony TV.

And this idea that a smartphone is a necessity is ridiculous given that most of the world doesn't have one.
It’s interesting you bring up disabilities since forcing apple to open up to other app stores will likely harm accessibility.

Accessibility on iOS is second to none. I be surprised if many disabled users were in the “open up iOS” camp.
I am not arguing for them to continue their status quo, I am saying that without competition Apple/Google have no incentive to improve.

We would all be better off if Apple lowered prices and we got alternatives. That's a win/win even if most users don't use the alternatives.
If I look at websites like Quora or Medium they usually ask you to select broad categories. I haven't thought deeply about it but tags that are already used on YouTube and Medium seems to be the most obvious to classify the content.

Do you have an idea in mind?
>Electron-Transparent Thermoelectric Coolers Demonstrated with Nanoparticle and Condensation Thermometry

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c03958
I think the disparity is that, for most organizations, Standup isn't "talking to your team to ensure that you know what others are working and and they know what you are working on", but instead "A person gives vague generalizations about a story/ticket number, the rest of the team pretends to listen."

And yes, sure, that is objectively not the point of the meeting and blaming the meeting for people misbehaving isn't right. But it's a cowpath argument to me. If the meeting is in service of a team and their collaboration, collaborate in the ways the team finds most meaningful. Do not force a team to pretend to be collaborating.
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That article is referring to the Apple Watch.