skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post will pretty quickly fall off the front page. Political and controversial posts often do. If you find one, be glad. Look at it closely.

Look how many comments are in the grey. There is a lot of controversy. Always scroll to the bottom too and look at the heated debate.

I've had friends in Australia who would always criticize Amnesty International and talked about the harm the organization harmed. I liked a lot of the videos they produced in the 2000s, including their video against US torture by the CIA and the documentary The Anatomy of Hate.

But it's important to see all sides of and organization, and reading these comments and looking at all of the sources on all sides, I can see why a lot of people oppose them and how they can also do a lot of harm.

These posts don't stay on the front page for long. Learn from them. This is the information the main stream media keeps from you.
> let's use the typical examples, e.g. child porn sites, malware domains

a futile game of whack-a-mole that only serves to make politicians feel good, and so they can claim they're "doing something" about social threats.

malware domains can be adequately addressed at the application level through things such as: https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=goo...
The thing is we don't even need opaque algorithms to do that, we do it to ourselves. Not a week (I should probably even say not a day) without a "cancel campaign" on Twitter to go after some rando's job just because they didn't tweet The Right Thing.
Yep, I ended up using https://www.xmlunit.org/, which seems to do the job well.
It's not the math, that is wrong. The math is correct.

The inputs and assumptions made by the people selecting the math is the 'morally wrong' part.

Bias is real, like it or not. Your worldview, as a data scientist or programmer or whatever, impacts what you select as important factors in 'algorithm a'. Algorithm a then selects those factors for other people in the system, baking in your biases, but screening them behind math.
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Oh I totally agree, money's only really 'real' on the small scale. When you're able to wield the authority and sovereignty to make you're own central bank. That's when money becomes a policy tool. Hence why central bankers hate bitcoin.
That's strange. I have an LG (a couple of years old I think?) and it defaults to whichever input it was on previously.

So if I turn it off while on HDMI 3, it turns on to HDMI 3. If I turn off to antenna, it turns on to antenna.

Only irritation I really have with it is that it's run into the odd error and will reboot suddenly. :|
Concurrency is really broad problem space with a million applications, but not real-time editing of an indeterminate data object. Concurrent modification of a row in a database is a perfect example of deeply complex problem that 99% of us don't really need to understand beyond how to use the API. If you know how to commit a transaction, you don't need to read the thousands of dissertations on how to process them optimally.
This judge has the wrong perspective, but it's to be expected for someone not in our industry.

A Nintendo isn't a general purpose computer.
The question is - is picture/scan of your palm YOUR data? or is it Amazon's data? I'm sure corporate lawyers can find ways around simple things like GDPR.
The US is a massive country and in most of it rail is a niche. It's cheaper and faster to go by plane even counting security, getting there, getting from there and so on. Worst of all you need a car as local public transit is lacking so arriving in the middle of downtown via train is actually a negative as you can't easily rent a car.

Amtrak has proper service in the areas where it's economically viable like the northeast. The rest of it loses money and is basically there because it's legally required.

edit: San Francisco to LA, a relatively short trip as far as the US goes, is the same as going from London to Scotland. Seattle to LA is the same as London to Rome. That's not counting cross-country which makes those distances look small. Rail just isn't competitive at those distances.
This reminds me of the time we wanted to ride the Amtrak Coast Starlight from Seattle to San Jose on our trip to the US in 2014. It's supposed to be a scenic route, and takes about 24 hours for that leg. (The train carries on to LA IIRC.)

When we got to the station in Seattle and checked in our bags they told us the train was at least 5 hours delayed, so we should go do something else for 3 hours and then come back for a status update. We also left our mobile number and email address with them in case there was anything else. (Though in theory they should already have had these from the ticket booking.)

Anyway, we went off to a café round the corner (it was an apparently rare snowy day in Seattle - hence the delay, plus we didn't want to stray too far) and had some drinks and brunch.

After about 2 and a half hours later we wanted to stretch our legs and wandered back to the station. Whereupon we were told the train had already left without us… but with our bags, but we could have a refund or take the train on a later day. ️

We only had overnight bags, and an onward journey planned the other end, plus we were now super annoyed so we ended up scrambling to find a flight that would get us there by the next day. That was the closest to the flight time I've ever bought an airline ticket, less than 3 hours I think. It worked out OK in the end, we got our bags from San Jose station the next morning as we'd beaten the train there, though the contents of one of the bags was damaged from rough handling.
Holy shit CRDTs totally make sense for Jackbox. (Btw thank you for the awesome games!)
It's the number associated with my bank account that dictates how much I can travel, where I can live, what kind of education I can get, and even whether I can eat. This is pervasive throughout modern civilization. China's social credit system is trivial in comparison.
It's not really the same because the reason Valve built out all of this infrastructure was so they could take the middleman's cut. Basically, GameStop buys games cheaper wholesale and resells them at a higher retail price. Valve gets all of that by being the direct retailer to the end consumer.

Not even having to manufacture a physical good is a separate cherry on top of that.
> but if you go apply for a loan or a job, you still have to disclose your real self

Then doesn't this discount the threat being posed by the "Social Cooling" theory? If social media activity doesn't matter "when it comes down to real transactions" shouldn't we be less worried?

I think the answer is somewhere in the middle. Obviously you can't "social media fake" your way into a mortgage (I hope) but it may stop you from getting a job or being elected to office.
> as if my garage startup doesn't count because I'm doing it part time.

quite possibly it doesn't, because it is likely won't be a (ideally big) paying customer afterwards, so they don't want to bother.
> Any meaningful benchmark with JIT runtimes should take several seconds, at a minimum, in my opinion. 8 milliseconds is not enough.

Maybe a benchmark for JIT runtimes, but you should always keep in mind what the expected use case is.

I recently ported a program from lang X to lang Y. It's a command-line program that you're expected to invoke in your terminal, and it processes some input and then spits something out (not unlike, say, a compiler or a static site generator) but it's expected to be used "interactively" i.e. no significant pauses for processing typical workloads, just like you expect from invoking mkdir or ls. Zero percent of the effort during porting was spent on optimization. In fact, the lang X version uses specialized, algorithmically-sophisticated collection classes, and the lang Y version does the dumbest possible thing. Despite this, for typical workloads, the Y version completes sooner than it takes the X version to do the same. No amount of benchmarking in the world is going to change the fact that the dumb Y version is faster than the clever X version.

For our program to have taken "several seconds, at a minimum" to run would have been a failure case, so there would have been no value in benchmarking that, let alone optimizing for it. I expect the use cases are the same for this project, which is supposed to be processing untrusted scriptlets that need to finish in the smallest amount of wall clock time possible.
That is insane. Obviously there’s nothing you can do to avoid something like that. I guess most of us were under the naive impression that, having paid for our televisions, we were entitled to use them in peace.

I might still be naive, but my point was more that I’m having trouble imagining how the reputational damage to Samsung here wouldn’t, ultimately, impact sales. If I was thinking of buying a Samsung TV and my neighbor told me that his suddenly started throwing ads in his face, I’d never consider anything from Samsung.

It might take a little time for the word to spread, but am I wrong in assuming this tactic will turn out to be disastrously unpopular with consumers?
You can bankrupt a nation by giving everyone what they want.
The language choices are very strange. Certainly not the most popular languages around. I'm just now hearing about `E` for the first time.

I'm curious what the drive was to use scheme and E for development?
This is a question that I have wondered about. It feels like it’s just being heavily advertised more so than gaining any traction.
I will build a faraday cage around my house!
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Let us never forget that some people enjoy doing things the hard way, whether it is pragmatic or not. Things are built by people and people will always build their personal idiosyncrasies into their projects. They will over-engineer things to scale that do not actually need to scale.
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This boondoggle brought to you by the oil, gas, and auto lobbies; who paid our politicians to kneecap Amtrak and more generally, our rail industry. Bonus: libs are placated by nice bike trails on the bones of dead infrastructure, happy to "do their part" to reduce oil use and blissfully ignorant of the difference that electric trains would make in displacing diesel trucks.
The content is brilliant. Very, very, very well done. From engineering POV: I'm amazed that I visited a website that set no cookies, that no resource was blocked by uBlock / nanoDefender / nextdns. Amazing. Just amazing. Such a rarity nowadays.
It's panic porn because it doesn't apply to the "big one" everyone is worried about.
I'm still not sure about the design with a big and small button.

Honest confusion:

Does the big button correspond to a big amount of water? Or is it for a little water, with a big button because this is the most commonly used button?
Interesting, so triangulating people forwarding "open" internet over consumer-grade microwave (like Ubiquiti or similar)?

I assume they can't do much about Toosheh since it's "read only", multiplexed with legitimate TV channels on the same transponder, and uplinked from the UAE.
>There are very few airlines that offer more legroom and even then it's not comfortable.

American tried. American failed. Nobody was willing to pay more.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/04/business/american-air-to-...
That's the motte. The bailey is that the ML fairness people use any inconvenient output of a model as prima facie evidence that the model inputs are tainted by bias --- then these activists demand that these inputs be adjusted so as to produce the outputs that please them. They've determined the conclusion they want to see beforehand. This attitude is the total opposite of truth seeking.
Thank you! These are wonderful!!
Though to be fair, the part of America which most resembles the Chinese government isn't the American government, but American corporations.
Shipping India's able-bodied workforce to the US and driving the rest of the local economy with low-wage factory jobs absolutely hampers a country's ability to govern and develop itself. The threat of pulling manufacturing out of a country becomes too great and forces governments to bend to the will of foreign investment.
disqus is horrible, wish they replaced it with a discourse-based (community.cloudflare.com) comments system that some other have done[0,1].

0: https://blog.codinghorror.com/welcome-to-the-internet-of-com...

1: https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedding-discourse-comments-vi...
> Everyone with a website needs to know some basic facts about their website: ... What other sites sent traffic to my website?

No. If this product is capable of collecting that sort of data in the first place then it's not privacy first as far as I'm concerned.

> ... we don’t “fingerprint” individuals via their IP address ...

That _can't_ be true. How else would a single "visit" (their terminology) be tracked?

A self-hosted analytics solution (ex: https://github.com/mikecao/umami) would allow you to actually preserve user privacy if you wanted to.
Kodak monopolized the aftermarket for parts and service after their customers were "locked in." The primary market for their equipment was competitive and they didn't have monopoly power, but the Supreme Court still decided against them. This established that a single brand could be a "relevant market" for antitrust purposes under certain circumstances. This is the case that Epic is relying on against Apple. Unfortunately for them plaintiffs almost never win under Kodak antitrust theories.
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From the 1950s to the 1970s there was a regular service transporting cars by air between the UK and various airports in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. It cost about twice as much as the boat from Dover to Calais.

They initially used Bristol Superfreighters, which were replaced by Aviation Traders Carvairs (converted for the purpose from second-hand Douglas DC-4s). The Carvair could carry 5 cars and 22 passengers- the cars were loaded through a door in the nose.

The "air ferry" service was killed by competition from the new RO-RO car ferries (when it started flying, cars still had to be loaded onto cross-Channel ferries by crane) and especially by the hovercraft service which began in 1968- a crossing by hovercraft with a car didn't cost much more than the conventional ferry while being as fast as the plane. The hovercraft, in turn, stopped being viable because of competition from the car-carrying trains through the Channel Tunnel- it stopped running in 2000.
The idea has always been widespread but not accepted in the open. In the US the Trump administration’s embrace of white supremacy has lifted the fear of social recourse for supremacists (racists, sexists, fascists) and I suspect the same goes for other far right parties around the globe.
No one elected RSS leader.

People have elected BJP leaders.

There is a spectrum of right-wingness b/w BJP and RSS.

They don't really want Hindu Rashtra. Most of them issue Hindu Rashtra rhetoric for mass-appeal just like every politicians use "God" in western democracies.
There are different social contexts. Everyone recognizes this; you'll say things around friends that you won't say in a work meeting.

Online communities have contexts that are just as real, but they have the digital discontinuities we all know and love, so the odds of doing the equivalent of dropping into that work meeting after several beers is much more likely and happens far more frequently.

A separate issue is preservation - of course all this is on Your Permanent Record. And the future only has very different, limited interest in what the context is now.
They're already doing massive flow sampling at the GFW complexes today. They can police down to individual flows if they want to. They scale wide by distributing out traffic based upon src or dst IP.
Tivo started running a commercial before watching a recorded show. Ads in the Comcast menu was one reason I switched to Tivo.
For now. Both next-gen consoles have "digital-only" versions. I myself have opted to preorder the digital versions of both, because I see no reason to own physical games anymore.

It's only a matter of time until this will be the only option. Will your argument change when this comes to pass?
Devil's advocate response: If these content blockers are just 'futile games of whack-a-mole', then why are you getting up-in-arms about their existence? Should be easy to avoid them if you truly believe what you say.
I just looked at taking the train from Ann Arbor to Chicago, and the times that it leaves are all super early in the morning. It's very much tailored to business travelers instead of people who just want to go to Chicago for pleasure. While going fast is nice, I'm not getting up to take a train at 7:20 AM.
Worldwide share could be made to matter during the trial (assuming it reaches that point). It demonstrates that Apple's position in the US is a consequence of consumer choice, as they do have real competition. It's just that their competitors have (for various reasons) failed to take (or in this case failed to hold) a larger share of the US market.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held...

Shows the marketshare of mobile OSes by year from 2012-2019. It's worth noting that Apple's > 50% market share is a recent (2019) phenomenon. It's not like they've held that position for the entire decade, and it's not at all clear that they got that position by any illegal or unethical methods [0]. So consumers have made a clear and (somewhat) informed decision by electing to by iPhones.

[0] I'm sure someone will talk about green bubble/blue bubble, but seriously people: stop using SMS/MMS it's crap. Get your friends onto Signal or, hell, even WhatsApp so you can have real cross-platform, secure (less some metadata) communication.
Things that transmit generally, in all sorts of bands, lots of countries where the government holds an armed monopoly on connections to the outside world.

Try setting up an independent two-way satellite based C or Ku band earth station in Ethiopia, offer service to your neighbours and armed men will come to dismantle it.

Commercial spectrum analysis tools are an essential and important things in the hands of network engineers, but also a tool to crack down on anything that transmits that an authoritarian regime doesn't like.
You don't have to look any further than YouTube comments to see this abuse vector
I've been making music for close to 20 years now, and haven't retained a single piece of 'proper music theory', including names of the chords or notes I play. I've been in countless bands across genres, released albums with multiple artists as a producer, and have placed with major record label artists. Every time I try to 'study music' I feel boxed in creatively, and not knowing these concepts has not once hindered my ability to play music collaboratively or create it independently. What exactly can I not accomplish by not knowing a scale, again?
That's a function of it being a Switch game, not a Walmart discount. They'll be the same price at Target.

Nintendo Switch titles tend to cap at $50, not $60.
Not a direct answer to your question, but somewhat related. When the iPhone was first released (or a year later when the App Store was released) we did have more competition than we do today.

Windows Mobile, Symbian OS, BlackBerry OS (and to some extent Maemo) all had the opportunity to compete with iOS and Android but were either too slow to transition to market demands or did not get a lot of traction to start with.

While not officially a monopoly in my book, I think it's safe to state that we're now down to iOS and Android for 99% of the market with KaiOS Ubuntu Touch (Tizen?) picking up some of the more niche or cheap devices.
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Yeah, sybill attacks are pretty hard to get around. IPFS itself doesnt entirely depend on a DHT though, it uses it when it can, but also falls back to a more gossip style approach of just asking peers you connect to for the data. So if you wait long enough, and the content is out there, you're very likely to end up finding it as your node makes and receives random connections throughout the network. This does still mean that the sybill attacker can severely degrade the quality of service though, so other solutions are getting looked into. The 'easiest' one that comes to mind is just forming an incentivized DHT of some kind, with the simplest start to that being a requirement that all DHT server peers stake some funds. There are a lot of weird things in this problem space, and its still pretty young IMO
We spend as much on our military as the next ten largest militaries combined (all our allies), I think we can afford this.
That's a bummer. I have an Intel 700 series I got several years ago that I've been torturing on and off for years. Still no problems. I think it was their first NVMe/PCIe drive too. Hell, the haswell era i7 and the god-knows-when era quadro feel much more "long in the tooth".
Don't worry too much, most Indians i meet online don't like my country either.
Because changing things out is hard and the benefit of pulling in that much more code and complexity is dubious.

It seems like you could implement a p2p solution as a pull through registry... as in host a registry (even per node if you like) that Docker will use as a pull through cache, still speak the same distribution protocol, but have the registry use p2p to get the content.
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That applies equally to air travel.

I've heard Uber and Lyft are popular.

Cities and regions built with density, walkability, bikability, and transit in mind avoid or greatly reduce this problem.
If you want a dumb box, can't you just un-network the TV itself? I don't see the point of smart TV's personally. It's way easier to just use a Roku or AppleTV or w/e. We have Sony's and the built-in smart TV platform is a horrible experience compared to Roku.
In short, yes, there's quite a bit of evidence of this.

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/03/the-facts-on-white-nationa...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/18/white-national...
Really?

Didn't US have a mail service at that time?

I think that is an alternative "platform" for communication (just like Android to Apple), a bit of a stretch but not much.
Shekar Gupta's coverage of "Cut the Clutter" gives balance view points
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I'd be very surprised if this would actually work. There are many contributing factors to poverty, not just a lack of resources.
Doesn't it make it worse, from a fear perspective?
Every single toilet I've seen in the US over the past several decades, single or dual flush, has used the more leak-prone drop valve system anyway. So here in the US at least it doesn't sound like dual flush will be contributing to more leakage.

There is a bigger problem here though, which is that manufacturers seem to have no incentive to develop leakproof designs since they aren't paying for failures, and there isn't strict enough regulation on these products.
I assume Google cannibalizes more brand power than it actually creates.
Oh, there wasn't anything secret presented at the conference as far as I'm aware.

It was a European conference and, for instance, I hadn't previously known about the Prüm Arrangements [1], or perhaps I had and forgotten about them. In any event I was not aware of the ability to freely share such highly private information about individuals across borders, and quite shocked to learn about it.

Mind you, the majority of the attendants of the conference were absolutely uncritical about such regulations being in place. In fact, they were mostly in favor of them it seemed, which is not surprising given that that's what their research is based on.

[1] https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/mayors-office-policing-...
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