skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reposting my comment from a dead thread here on the subject:

Ha, I just finished watching the movie an hour ago with a friend. Of course its obvious how the debate was going to be framed from the beginning: Facebook is supposed to be "unbiased" and from this point of view political inaction is the high-minded route over traditional low-minded autocratic rule. Instead of possibly curating a high-quality news feed for users to consume, users get to pick what they want to listen to because to force a user to watch curated news feeds would be biased against the news organizations that operate and compete for engagement on it. So Facebook does have smart leadership and have been proving themselves to more resemble an unbiased company compared than an autocratic government with some fake news initiatives.

However, our individual news feeds are not unbiased. By letting individuals control what they see, increases their bias. From this perspective, Facebook is now inherently biased towards extremism (our sad reality proves this point)

The way out of this situation is confusing and neither Facebook nor the movie talk of any real action. How about, instead of trying to clutch our unbiased pearls, we collectively learn to appreciate and understand inherent biases in everything because everything involving humans and our psyche is inherently biased and there is no end objective truth to the big issues surrounding our differences in values.

Now the question becomes not of bias vs facts, but of better and worse bias. If we could create a Facebook news stream that is inherently biased towards bringing people together rather than splitting us apart, it rather appears to solve this new question quite cleanly and as a plus fixes our pathetic situation. This isn't a radical new idea created in my head 2 hours ago, its a rather established view on this important issue: https://youtu.be/ZbPt66TYsFM

The big question I think should be how do we design this "good" bias into our social media and how do we convince everyone everything is biased literally no point in finding unbiased sources of anything to reframe the debate to be on good versus bad bias.
I believe that the warnings you get when trying to install an APK downloaded using the browser is necessary. Especially with older people, it is much like a firewall and will prevent them from installing malware or 'spammy' apps.
Ads are intended to influence you to buy things, even if you don't need them.
Yes. A lot. this is one of the things that really hit me hard when we closed our office and went fully remote
Ad hoc random conversations about mechanical keyboards, good beers and tech opinions (React vs Vue, iOS vs Android)
A lot of people will dismiss them as superficial (which it is to a great extent) but I still think it made us much more of a tight knit team
I created an issue on one of my repos. It's a really simple set of scripts that manipulate some muni data. I asked for an update from stale data sources/scripts to more recent stuff. Exactly the sort of thing that's great for a first-time contributor -- zero dependencies, small code base, well-scoped issue. I could do it myself in ~10 minutes of work, but figured it'd be a nice chance for someone else to get a first experience working with GH and maybe get a free shirt.

I got one PR that did exactly what I asked. Great, merged! Good experience all around -- exactly what I expected!

Then I marked a PR "invalid" because they made changes to a README that weren't helpful (in fact, actively misleading!). Clearly low-effort PR spam. BTW, the same low-effort PR spam I'm also getting on a bunch of other repos where I didn't solicit help.

And now, because I marked unsolicited incorrect changes to a README file as "invalid", I'm getting new pull requests calling me an asshole.

So... that's my experience with Hacktoberfest. I guess it's my fault for assuming the outcome would be anything else in the month after the Eternal September. Especially with free t-shirts on the line.
My VivoActive 4 tracks this without any external accessories. I've never really looked at the data and can't tell you how accurate it is though.
This Chrome extension named Social Book Post Manager (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m...) seems to be the easiest way for users to delete all their past history (or selective portions) on Facebook, seeing as how Facebook provides no way to bulk delete your likes, posts, photos, etc except by deleting your account entirely. The authors claim it is completely safe to use:

> This extension is completely written in Javascript, and running completely within users Chrome browsers. All the source code can be viewed with Chrome Developer Tools. The code has been analyzed many times by many other developers. The extension has been used by nearly 200,000 users. If there is anything bad, it would have already been reported. You can feel absolutely safe to use it.

Does anyone know if this is indeed a safe tool to recommend to friends and family looking to thin their social media presence?

Are there equivalents for other social media platforms like TikTok, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, etc?
Of course they're going to attack the 30% as too high. Obviously, their best outcome is reducing that percentage to zero.

But to get there, their argument obviously can't be "Apple is a monopoly allows it to extract 30%, which is too high, so we want it reduced to zero". That's not going to work.

Rather, they get it to zero by saying "Apple is a monopoly and prevents competition by banning apps that implement their own payment processing system, so leave the 30% as-is but let any app implement its own payments".

So the actual percentage, and the restriction against accepting payments outside Apple IAP, are two slightly different concerns. Reducing the percentage to 20% would obviously be a net financial win, but it's definitely not their main objective.
One of those dialogs people click "ok" without reading because they are lazy or are in a rush looking something up.
Epic have bought up games and moved them to their store which, as a Windows only platform, has reduced choice. They should totally get regulated as well since they are reducing competition.

If it wasn't run by a complete and utter dickhead I may have more sympathy.
Basically it will be an issue if a company wants to pay ransom and keep it secret. Which is really reasonable and probably if authorities won't be able to help you and last option will be paying it is not going to be a problem.

"OFAC will also consider a company’s self-initiated, timely, and complete report of a ransomware attack to law enforcement to be a significant mitigating factor in determining an appropriate enforcement outcome if the situation is later determined to have a sanctions nexus."
I understand the mental stress of having people after you all the time, but that doesn't mean that all the people are after you all the time. In this case they may have extended a genuine invitation. And given the historic context, it may have led to him feel like it was a casteist action, that doesn't make his colleagues casteist.
I recognize that these "backwards" attitudes I described may make sense in India, since as you say, the culture and society is very different there. I consider these attitudes to be backwards in the US.
It's based on your primary residence location. "Primary" typically meaning where you reside more than half the year.

In your example, it would be Nevada.
Buildkite is an awesome story.

$20.2 million in Series A funding at a $145 million valuation [0] is stellar for a bootstrapped company. I'll take this as inspiration for my startup. Of course, it's much harder to build this way, but money breeds complacency, so it's probably best not to look for it.

Do you have experience with the seed/Series-A dynamic?

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/18/melbourne-based-ci-cd-plat...
> The big question I think should be how do we design this "good" bias into our social media

Yeah, no thanks. Algorithms aren’t the solution to this particular problem.
The tvs are just too thin, there's no really no room for speakers that sound better than laptop speakers. I think you really need a receiver/soundbar. I'm optimistic and think one day HDMI-CEC will actually work and you won't need a crazy remote control to make that work (but my newest tv is circa 2013, so maybe things are better already?)
I really want to like Apple Watch. Apple end-to-end encrypts your health data, so I trust their stewardship more than most other companies (including Garmin, who recently fell victim to a ransomware attack). And IMO Apple does a superior job supporting their previous-generation devices: They'll replace an old Watch battery for a low, fixed fee, and to my knowledge they generally make new watchOS features available to older devices.

But I've worn my Garmin Fenix 5 Plus for the last couple years, and there's no way any existing version of the Apple Watch could replace it for me:

- It has a transflective LCD display that, while not as pretty as Apple Watch's, is brilliantly visible in the brightest of daylight.

- The battery lasts more than a week when not using GPS.

- It communicates with all my bicycle accessories over ANT+, so I don't need to take my bike computer with me to record a short ride.

- It has a button-operated user interface, so it's still perfectly usable when I'm sweaty and in the middle of an activity.

- It has a nearly indestructible sapphire crystal.

I was eagerly following Apple Watch Series 6's release. But given that they still haven't fixed their battery life, it's very likely my next watch will be a newer Garmin.
> The average person spends 1h15m on FB

Source? That sounds very high. Regardless, it's definitely a silly statistic. It could be that people just lost interest in Facebook.
And by that time I'll have learnt my lesson and bought a non-smart display, or one from a premium company.
This just sounds like you're saying people who disagree with you have no morals, which is an interesting way to see the world to put it mildly. Either way, not sure how it relates to my comment. I wasn't passing judgement on Team Xecuter or the comment I replied to.
I find the microwaves with dials just last longer, and they are usually cheaper. In my experience, the touch pads on the digital ones breakdown faster.
If you really believe that, then there is no reason for you to install any alternative store.
Why is it over dramatic? They are trying to make you buy something, sign up for something, or vote for someone.
> I think the key point was that most Indians don't even know what they're doing is immoral.

Well they know its immoral they just dont care.
It does, but we’re increasingly so busy, distracted, and “up in our heads” all day that the time and energy required for that kind of mindfulness becomes unaffordable to many people “having to function” day-to-day. The way we structure modern society and work life is antithetical to both mental and physical health (“sitting is the new smoking”).

They say “what gets measured gets managed”, and if your internal biological sensors don’t get used enough because your attention is busy processing other, seemingly more urgent, instructions all day, the watch can help take on some of those tasks and theow in an interrupt to “take a break, go move” every once in a while.
Yes, iOS jailbreaking is a good example of this. Clearly it involves circumventing a technological measure that prevents some kinds of copyright infringement, but that’s not its sole purpose. In the US it now seems pretty clear that it’s legal, but which side of the line it falls on in most other jurisdictions remains uncertain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking#Legality
Google I can see an argument for, but Apple? What would you even break them up into? They only make hardware and software specifically for their own hardware
Garmin fitness watches have always been far better than smart watches with battery life. But they're only fitness watches with some smartphone integration. You're not going to get the features the Apple Watch has on the Garmin with over 2-3+ days of battery life right now.
I haven't had Facebook since I gave it up for Lent in 2017 as part of a social media "time out", and I haven't looked back. I watched "The Social Dilemma" with my fiancée last weekend, and she deleted hers after (time will tell if it's permanent, I certainly hope so... she's kept Instagram for the time being but I'm hoping to convince her to get rid of that as well).

I thought about writing a point-by-point rebuttable to this, about the obvious lies and wilful misdirection ...

But then I realized that I just don't care anymore. I love being free of this company and I almost got sucked back in to writing flame war comments about [thing that gets more attention].

Folks, just give this company up. You'll be much happier, I promise.
It's fair to say Epic isn't a public utility, but I would say Apple and Google Play app stores are. Because they contain a bunch of stuff people literally need to do their jobs.

"Go ahead, propose that every company only be allowed a 5% markup on its costs. Let's see where that takes us."

In the case of Android, it takes us back to when Google previously had a 5% cut. They've done it before they can do it again.
Because a) the anti-trust issues mentioned and b) it's simply not true that security issue requires that degree of control: Android is open and it's fine. As far as privacy, experience etc. - that should be a competitive advantage offer for the App Store.

If consumers are willing to pay 30% more for guarantees of security, privacy, experience, then that's fine.

Imagine if MS and Apple today banned all Desktop apps out of their own stores or took a 30% cut. We would immediately rethink the issue.
I was looking for dumb TV for privacy, security reasons and wasn't able to find one [1] and ended up using computer monitor for most of my needs. Good to know that there are others who would like to have a dumb TV for the same reasons.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/64-make-tv-dumb-again-privacy-c...
Three things: first, I never said it was easy, only that it was fairly conventional. Second, I never said that anyone cheated on the USMLE (I agree that would be quite hard). Third, some of these comments suggest that somehow I have no idea what it takes to be a doctor. As a matter of fact, my mother is a pediatrician and a professor at one of the top 10-15 medical schools in the US, so I have a pretty good idea what it takes. I acknowledge that it is an important and demanding job; nevertheless, I think it is a fairly conventional and unimaginative path to take in life, compared to, say becoming an artist or doing a startup.
It works by consuming the HN api and noticing how long things stay on the front page. Full source code is provided:

https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/orangesite

I tend to avoid submitting my own sites more than once, and I submitted this one six months ago when I made it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22742607

If you think it should be resubmitted, you may submit it yourself.
Shades of gray.

Facebook’s manipulation is arguably much harder to spot.

Sure they’re both forms of advertising, but at some point a new technology is so much more effective that it should be treated like a new thing.

I think that’s what people are arguing here.
Please read my comment one level higher in this thread.
The movie raises the question of what advertisers are paying for, and conclude it must be behavior modification. From public service announcements that smoking is bad for you to Tom Selleck endorsing reverse mortgages, it seems advertisers pay to "show me ads" believing it will alter someone's behavior at least a little. Given the scale of Facebook's data and the scale of Facebook's audience, advertisers can use Facebook to make small surgical modifications to a vast slice of humanity. To me, this is somewhat compelling argument that Facebooks' "show me ads" business model really is pay to "influence your behavior".
> The food industry typically uses hydrogen peroxide for sanitisation, and in Australia, residues of up to 5 mg/kg are allowed in a food or beverage products.
I don’t think that skim…milk said anything about that this has to be done by algorithms.
Being consistent is almost as good — essentially as good in fact.

I have a glucose meter that’s quite wrong, but the shape of its curve isn’t bad (the error isn’t linear, but is consistent— around 100 it measures about 82; at 150 it measures 130) but now I’m used to it it tells me what I need to know. And the strips are cheap.

I don’t need the watch to tell me if my heart rate is too high but it’s useful if it tells me my heart rate was about the same the whole run.
I'm curious about your labeling the grapes organic. From what I've read, organic fertilizers are generally avoided in hydroponic systems. Also, if the plant that initially grew the cuttings wasn't organic, are the cuttings themselves organic?
The linked report says:

“In FY19, NASA employed more than 18,000 civil servants and had a budget of $21.5 billion. “

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/2020_na...
Repeal the 16th amendment.
Yes, this culture is exactly what I was talking about.
I think it's more complicated than that.

It seems like a lot of markets -- maybe most -- go through consolidation, and the more the market is one whose players benefit from network effects -- like, say, incompatible computing platforms -- the more rapid this consolidation is. Look at the personal computing market: there were a lot of players in the late 1970s and early 80s, and nobody was an obvious winner. Yet by 1990, the IBM PC already had over 80% of the market, Apple was struggling, and other once-major players were on the verge of bankruptcy or had thrown in the towel and started making PC clones. And none of that happened because IBM was "crushing any attempt to take their turf".

Frankly, I really didn't expect a repeat of that in the mobile space. It was clear to me in 2007 that the iPhone was going to be a big deal, but it wasn't clear to me that Android was going to take off the way it did, in no small part because I didn't expect everyone else to dramatically collapse in three years. One of the other players was Microsoft, for heaven's sake. Nokia was a market leader and had MeeGo almost ready to go (right? right?). Blackberry had bought QNX and were surely going to leverage that talent into a next-generation OS (right? right?).

The market as it exists now is down to two players, but this is kind of the confounding factor here: neither Apple nor Google got to their position in the mobile phone market by "playing dirty." Apple got there because people keep buying iPhones; Google got there because just about everyone who isn't Apple went with Android.

So supernova87a is, I suspect, fundamentally correct that we got to where we are now because of market dynamics. It's arguable that because the market now is down to two players -- and is orders of magnitude larger than it was a decade ago -- that there are antitrust concerns around app stores, although I think that's actually even more complicated.
B&O use LG panels. That's a big premium for privacy and a nice finish.
What? Do you just want to harvest FANG eng emails? Because that’s what this feels like.
If you just need health aspects get a hybrid smarwatch (I recommend Withings or Fossil hybrid HR) - it has pedometer, HR monitor, ECG and VO2 max sensor, sleep tracking - but most importantly it lasts about 20 days on a charge, is super lite and actually looks like a nice watch - really low key.

There are others too, but I don't recommend Garmin Vivo move - I got the 500€ gold one for my wife and it has constant issues, the battery barely goes 4 days, etc.

I currently use a Samsung galaxy watch I got as a gift and the full smarwatch experience has a few advantages :

- find my phone - I constantly mute my phone and this lets me ring it up even when it's muted so I can find where k put it - also helped me once I left my phone in a wordrobe in the mall - no reason why hybrids don't have this but they don't

- reject calls/turn off alarms without touching your phone - again no reason why hybrids don't have this but they don't

- music controls/smart home controls

- talking through the watch - was actually useful more than once - imagine cooking and not having to grab your phone to answer your wife or stuff like that

My wife also has Apple watch 3.

Overall a smarwatch is a chore to charge and you can't get good sleep tracking because you often charge over night - hybrid watches last 2+ weeks in practice but sacrifice some features
From what I can tell Epic has two (three, depending on how you count) main arguments against Google. The first is what you mentioned - that they _do_ have the option of sideloading an app like Fortnite. The problem being that they lose out on a massive market because they don't want to use Google's IAPs. This is made worse by the fact that Android gives "scary" warnings when trying to install an app from an untrusted source - which is arguably a good thing for safety/security, but at the same time questionable when Google also benefits from it.

The other issue is that Google actively makes it harder for an alternative storefront to operate on Android by forcing OEMs to only include the Play Store (though I think OEM's own stores might also be acceptable? not sure) if they want Google Play Services (which most apps require). Which means Epic can't go out and make a deal with an OEM to add the Epic Store (or possibly even just a single app like Fortnite that doesn't use Google's IAPs, not sure) to an Android device because said OEM would have to drop Google Play Services.

And they can't just tell you to download the store - there are limitations that you cannot bypass without being a system app (i.e. something preinstalled). The most notable one for a store being that it can't auto-update other applications.
Uber hires Amazon ex-VP Sukumar Rathnam as new CTO, & more AI leader moves
> Now this is the kind of well-informed intelligent debate we need more of around here.

You're being rude.

I'm tired of companies profiting off open source while simultaneously closing down access to mainstream computing technology, harming the open web, imposing taxes, and limiting access.

Tech was better in the 90's to early 2010s, before these companies got a stranglehold and executed Microsoft's failed vision of embrace, extend, extinguish on the internet.

You shouldn't be able to sell a generic computer and control the only marketplace with which to get software onto it. Not in this country. It's a regression. These aren't silly, cheap gaming consoles where teenagers often have more than one. For many people, their phone represents their only access to the internet. It's how they conduct their life - banking/payments, job search, dating, contacting friends and loved ones, photos, and an endless myriad of other functions. A company shouldn't own that entire stack.

You and I aren't going to agree, and that's fine. I'm writing my legislators. You write yours.

The solutions I'm proposing to Lucy McBath are:

1. Requiring that phone operating systems allow installs from the web and/or USB. Companies are free to maintain their marketplace and charge whatever they want.

2. In the extreme case, break the companies up into hardware and software services. This is more relevant to Google, which has a dangerous control over advertising, search, and the browser. Their browser needs to be taken away, along with AMP and their interest in web standards.