skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Censorship and other forms of regulating free speech is simply never a good solution. Perpetrators of lies will even hide behind this, and create a false image of rebellious heroism, instead of facing public discourse and the consequences thereof.

> YouTube is a private entity but they correctly assess that they have a significant responsibility here. But curating social media content is not unheard of, Wikipedia manages it surprisingly well. Instead they could for example certify and emphasize content that is grounded in science and verify content creators of such. This is from the top of my head but there are certainly other people who have smarter ideas that don't involve straight up censorship.

I'm 100% certain that some crank and their followers are complaining about censorship on Wikipedia right now, because that community decided to not present their tendentious opinions or lies as the truth or to not present them at all.

The word "censorship" has been ruined: it's devolved into an epithet to describe any barrier, not matter how justified, between a speaker and his desired audience. It's not censorship for YouTube to ban this content, just like it's not censorship for me to ban anti-vaxxers and white suprecemists from putting signs up on my lawn. The mass dissemination of truth (or our best approximation) has always depended on decisions to not disseminate. You can't expect the common man to sort through a bag of 99 compelling lies and one truth to find the truth. That's too much work for an amateur, and too many will settle for a lie. Everyone relies on others to improve the truth-to-lie ratio to some manageable ratio that an individual can handle.

It's also worth noting is that one of the main reasons Wikipedia does better than YouTube is that it's process is 100% manual. Google's bias towards totally automated processes driven by some quantity of shallow data points greatly reduces how effective they can actually be.
This is true of most companies reviews. If they are reasonably small enough (say under 500 to 1000 employees), they all have the same pattern (chronologically): Sparse to no reviews for a while. One or two negative reviews. A few days to weeks later... a huge influx of positive reviews for a few days. Then back to nothing.
If only they would be willing to leave the extra money they get for manipulating public opinion on the table, right?

But it’s so easy! And so profitable!

Joking aside, the reviewing-anything niche is getting very difficult in the age of sock puppet accounts. Any platform sooner or later becomes a space for dispute, manipulation and outright war between entities with competing agendas and no ethics.

It’s a very difficult space to provide a good service - there are enough players ready to say anything and poison the well.

We live in the era of everyone getting a dip in distorting reality :(
This is the same for sites like Checkatrade. The business owners can remove negative reviews which makes the entire site worthless.
I suspect it was a bait&switch scheme all along.
Just push it anyways, SB 32 is always flaky…
Doesn't matter if the story reeks or not. This is about censorship and even application of "community standards."

Twitter has never once censored any of smears or leaks against the Trump campaign.

Also, your criteria for this story to reek shows your bias. It's not like Joe Biden himself bragged about getting the Ukrainian prosecutor fired with the threat of holding back a billion dollars. It's on video, just Google it. And Hunter Biden is an admitted drug addict. So nothing that has been exposed from that laptop reeks too much.

You want to say Hunter was set up? Okay, I'll go down that rabbit hole, but to say this is all false? Well, again, your bias is showing.
No, Yelp was extorting a friend's small food business. He had lots of 5 star reviews, but only a handful of bad reviews (supposedly made up) were showing up on the main page. Yelp contacted him at some point and offered to fix the reviews if he signed some kind of contract with them that amounted to around $2000 of monthly advertising on their site. He told them on the phone he couldn't afford that, he was a small business guy. Couple of days later 2 corporate guys in suits came down to his business, uninvited, to talk business which of course still didn't make sense, nothing had changed and he could not afford that type of money. He ran some numbers in his head and asked if they could send him business instead and make a cut, but their offer wasn't guaranteeing any new business, just crappy advertising on yelp. The bad reviews not only stayed on but started to multiply he turned yelp's offer down. Yelp is not anybody's friend and their business model is very unhealthy. I'm not surprised others review companies such as glassdoor resort to similar tactics. These are proconsumer in the beginning stages then they get corrupted.
Microcontrollers don't need additional ports either. Take a look a the ARMv7-M status/control register. It has a few bits of state to allow ldm, stm, and if-then to be resumed in-place.

At that scale, those mechanisms aren't micro-coded, they are state-machined. You just have to restore the state machine.
PRINT "Hello!"

If I had to give an introduction to programming to someone with absolutely no prior knowledge, I might still use QBasic (or rather something like QB64 or an online interpreter) for it. The simplicity of the syntax and no required boilerplate for getting started really lends itself to it.
And the screen size, too…

It wasn’t until home widgets became a thing that I actually began entertaining the idea of getting a Pro Max.
The Modern Data Science Stack
Anyone know if there been any action around reverse engineering the hardware connectivity?

I’ve wanted a clicker page turner for a while. It would be amazing if the usb interface was figured out.
Or “not actually scaled”
Phoenix LiveView Updates: Introducing Uploads
If they're giving you money, you have the space and ability to do it. I don't see the problem here.
Thanks Sasha! The magic of new messengers and new communities is that early on, its always a special group of people. There is culture of trust and collaboration. Hopefully, we'll be able to keep this spirit as we grow.
The thinking behind this strategy is: there is enormous incentive to make the market perform well, which is why society will make the market perform well, with whatever means necessary. The incentive to make the market fail is much smaller (and even those shorting the market do eventually have an incentive for a well-doing market, because the money they make is worthless if it's not spendable for stuff, which depends on a well-doing market).

You can clearly see this play out right now in terms of current worldwide monetary policy: for the sake of a well-doing market, central banks are printing money like there's no tomorrow.
That sounds like a good time to me!

Thanks for making this. As someone on the spectrum for whom the job application process is extremely tedious, I will be reading this cover-to-cover.
I much prefer the western system, but really all our experiments are ongoing.
> If the results are reliant on your RNG method I would not settle for less than crypto strength

Whenever a post on PRNGs comes up, I'm reminded of this post from a while back about Chrome:

https://medium.com/@betable/tifu-by-using-math-random-f1c308...

Near the end is a Monte Carlo estimate of Pi using 10^10 iterations:

Chrome 3.1418697000 0.0002770464 1301.903s
Firefox 3.1416998084 0.0001071548 249.595s
Safari 3.1416692728 0.0000766192 7172.207s

The first observation is that the error was significantly higher for Chrome. The second is that Safari, which apparently did use a CSPRNG, was an order of magnitude slower. If you let Firefox run that long, I imagine that it would have performed many more iterations, resulting in much lower error.
Phoenix LiveView is definitely interesting but they didn't really have a framework in place to handle browser uploads until now. Seems like a pleasant and flexible API.
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I think these new MagSafe accessories are an interesting idea, but I don't see how it could possibly work. Is it safe to put my credit cards in this case? Most places have moved to chip readers, but I still swipe my card every once in a while.

Is this going to kill everyone's mag strips?
The other side is people get mad at them for allowing legitimately fake news to propagate.
It's a bit of a different model though since Consumer Reports are often producing the reviews themselves (which may or may not include some survey data from users) and have first-hand experience to editorialize.

With things like Yelp [1] and particularly with Glassdoor this is a difficult model to emulate. You generally expect users themselves to contribute quality reviews which you then publish directly (plus maybe do a bit of curation to gather sentiment). It's difficult to both ask users to pay you for the service and also contribute the very content you charge them for.

I think the only way to make a user review site work are:

(a) Be a non-profit and have a donation based model. Would people actually donate though? I'm not sure... but at least you don't seem like a greedy middleman.

(b) Charge a membership fee, but grant free durations of membership for quality reviews. The downside here is that you're likely severely limiting the already small pool of people willing to leave a review.

[1]: The nearest comparison to CR<->Yelp would be Zagat (well, pre-Google Zagat) and Michelin. However, they both only cover a narrow slice.
According to newspapers, about 30% of people born 20th century have this mutation.
No more so than defending a government because you like what it has provided.
Papers with long-earned reputations do themselves tremendous discredit when they hire full blown political activists with no regard for the truth, as the WP, NYT etc have done for at least a decade.
No, they impeached Trump for withholding aid illegally if they didn’t help him by investigating if there might be something there to aid Trumps campaign.
From https://www.ottoproject.io

It was an ambitious project, and we feel that it has not
lived up to expectations. Rather than having a public project
that does not meet HashiCorp standards, we have decided to
close source the project so we can rethink its design and
implementation. The source code is still available for
download, but Otto will no longer be actively maintained or
supported.

It looks like this is the successor to Otto, just with a bit of a different architecture.

The thing I'm worried about in terms of considering trying/adopting it for any project is whether this will suffer the same fate, if it's not as successful as Hashicorp hopes. I don't want to learn new tools that give a small increase in efficiency if I don't have a guaranteed return on that effort and some reasonable confidence using that tool will help me in other areas too.

Especially if the code behind the thing has the risk of going closed-source... it's kind of the Google problem (http://killedbygoogle.com), and I really hope Hashicorp can avoid that (which they have, as they continue to support well-used even if not-flashy-anymore tools like Vagrant).
Literally the same thing that happened with the FBI announcing that they were "reopening" the Clinton investigation right before the election and then promptly deciding that they found nothing afterwards.
I'll point up to the original topic. Do you think it's a good idea to let a young child watch anti-vaccine videos? What about political videos which claim that 'the other' side supports killing babies? Young kids don't yet have the context to understand lying and propaganda, and it's not clear when they'd have the mental maturity to understand it.

More specifically, I was raised in a generation where adults didn't worry particularly about children seeing violent or upsetting content and it brought me nothing but nightmares and a lifetime of insomnia.
It is not only reviews companies it is any company in which revenue is not aligned with the company's product objective, you find the same things with dating apps for example.

One way to solve that, is to stop offering free service and make users pay to access the service. If you have Glassdoor but it is not the companies who pay but the users then the issue is solved
I have been pretty vocal about being against censorship from social media companies. But with the stakes being as high as they are this close to an election (not just this particular election, but any election in general), I see no problem with social media companies deciding they will not be a party to the spread of misinformation intended to sway the election.

These companies are not neutral communication platforms; they have no duty to neutrality. Although I agree they should remain neutral as much as reasonable, drawing the line at election manipulation is perfectly reasonable and consistent.
Investors are desperate for growth, and the prospect of investing in a company that could 10x in value over a very short span of time is just so tempting.

It might seem outlandish, but there are many startups that have exploded right after IPO recently, so investors are asking themselves, what's the next hot stock, and how can I spot it before its valuation explodes?
Remotion raises $13M and announces its video workspace for remote teams
totally missing the underlying problem here. this sort of thing is endemic. you will end up pivoting too if your site displaces glassdoor.
Thanks for the response Mitchell, and I love your work!

You make an excellent point re: abstractions and consistent workflow. But for Terraform, you still need to know the underlying provider; to use Terraform in AWS I have to know what AWS resources I'm looking for, Azure resources in Azure, and so on. But Terraform adds value through abstraction. I don't need to learn the specific AWS/Azure calls; Terraform does it for me. Terraform provides a sane, consistent syntax. And it encourages a declarative workflow that the cloud providers themselves don't do very well/at all.

I don't necessarily see Waypoint providing that same value. You need to know the underlying provider to know what you want to do with it, but the abstraction seems to make it more difficult to use that provider, not easier. But I am a devops professional, not an application developer, so I might just be the wrong market for it.

Either way, congratulations on the release, and I'm excited to see where Waypoint goes from here.
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There's nothing like a network of people you actually know to find out whether something is shitty.

Be it a company, a product, or a service - ask people you know personally. As a fallback, most online communities do have an "unrelated stuff" subforums or chats. Asking there lowers a chance of getting an answer from a marketer. I do sometimes get (and provide) good advice from a local gaming community.

The key is to ask a community that is unrelated to what you are considering to buy, i.e. skip those groups which an unscrupulous company would swarm with fake advice.
Maybe, but that's not astroturfing, which is what the implication was. Astroturfing is fake accounts or purchased votes.
Can you show a US law that stifles "hate speech"?
When you order a product on Amazon that immediately breaks and then you find out that of its 10000 reviews, 9750 of them were fake, I commend your ability to put your personal feelings aside in lieu of the greater fight for free speech.
People talk about batteries "exploding", but really they're just burning fast. An air tank explosion however will decimate everything nearby. Even small SCUBA tanks can release a tremendous amount of energy when they go, which is why they are typically refilled inside of water baths.
Check out https://github.com/caseychu/spotify-backup

I'm a user / minor contributor. It could use some polishing, but it gets the job done (JSON or TSV output). I wonder if it could sidestep Spotify restrictions by not providing an explicit interface for uploading playlists to competing services -- just providing the download portion?
Cribl sets out to fix IT observability lock-in with $35M from Sequoia and CRV
I am on Windows, a 14 Inch machine. And using the web version. It is not resizable.
Not exactly, because it's less socially acceptable to wear AirPods in meetings and other group conversation settings, especially if people think that you're wearing them because you're actually hearing something from them. Many / most people put away their AirPods when they're in such settings, but it's exactly in those settings when people with hearing loss need their hearing aids the most.
This is just how ATC conversations go. The plane could literally be on fire and the controller would still be like "Ok. So I guess now that you're on fire, you want to turn around and land?"

Pilot: "Yes we can do that."
The Extravagance and Drama of Baroque Architecture in 10 Pictures
Yeah. If these new investors are so dumb then why aren't you making money off of them hand over fist?
Thanks for all your (and teams) hard work! Really liking Streamlit. One thing I've encountered is odd aspect ratio / figure sizing in matplotlib / seaborn plots, but otherwise it's been great
A Galaxy Note device will permanently solve this use case. I love paper, and use it (and fountain pens), but my Galaxy Note with S-Pen made the process of signing and sending legal documents far more pain-free. Open PDF, sign, re-save, send back. Done.
If the US government wants to they could host their own ActivityPub[0] compliant application and do whatever it wants from its server infrastructure.

The technology exists for the public sector to disentangle itself from these commercial platforms. I don't know why pols and journos are so blind to this.

[0] This is a W3C Recommendation -- a protocol, by the words of Wikipedia that is in "the most mature stage of development. At this point, the standard has undergone extensive review and testing, under both theoretical and practical conditions. The standard is now endorsed by the W3C, indicating its readiness for deployment to the public, and encouraging more widespread support among implementors and authors." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Consortium#W3C_...
I'm on the team, so obviously biased, but I absolutely love using Remotion. It's enabled us to move super quickly – make fast decisions, get unblocked, bat around ideas.

We're an all-remote company and I've only met the founders in person, but I still feel super close to my other teammates because we have plenty of catchup calls.
Did you work for Dolby or RED? I've always thought it'd be fascinating to work in software for pro film production. I'd really like to hear anything you have to share about your experience.
Oh, this programming model (and overall goal) look quite like http://witheve.com/
I have one too, it’s superb. Love that a business exists that is doing this.
We need a review site for sites with reviews...
I wonder if FB and Twitter are in contact with some of the national intelligence agencies. US intelligence officials talking to NYT suggest that this "leak" is a forgery by the GRU.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/hunter-biden-...
> They [China] Debt-Trap poor nations and exploit them.

Please don't be racist and mention China's use of these debt mechanisms without also mentioning the West's use of them. Debt-trapping is something that North America and European countries perfected first, in the modern age [1] [2].

[1] https://aljazeera.com/opinions/2012/9/27/the-world-bank-and-...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/britain-stole-45-t...

Any research by Jason Hickel, Ha-Joon Chang, Paulo Freire, Walter Rodney and others on this topic reveals a very different story from the 'Captain America' version of American statesmanship that is propagandized by Marvel, and Hollywood in general.
I had always suspected that Glassdoor would eventually succumb to this. Every metric is a gamed metric, after all. Why would Glassdoor be immune to this? Companies have very little to lose from bullying employees into leaving fake positive reviews. Yet they have much to lose from true negative reviews.

I have checked every workplace on Glassdoor prior to applying, taking things with a pinch of salt / applying some awareness of what reviews seem fake (like the famous split between loads of 1-star and loads of 5-star reviews, which tells you something is fishy, like loads of products on Amazon have).

I think I'll dial up the awareness for future purposes...shame.
> Let's take the country I spend the most time thinking about: Kenya

I’m a Kenyan SWE based in the US. Really appreciate the insight you’ve provided in this post I’ve always thought about moving back to Kenya and building a startup but systems and government bureaucracies are so frail and corrupt (perhaps I’m being a little unfair to the country as a whole, my bias comes from stories I’ve heard). But really unsure where I’d even begin or how I’d raise money for a startup out there. Are you working on any interesting projects/startups related to Kenya? How have you navigated maybe any challenging conditions you’ve faced if you have started a Kenya based startup? Let me know if you have useful resources for those interested in starting up a business in Kenya. I’d love to chat further and glean more insight from you. Thanks
Ahhh:
1. We must censor terror propaganda and child abuse to avoid harm & because it's the law

2. We must censor stormfront and the far right because it's the right thing to do

3. We must censor covid misinformation because it could kill people

4. We must selectively censor news reporting for political candidates we are aligned with because it's probably false.

---- we are here now

5. We must remove all news critical of our position .

6. We must actively force people to be re-educated to avoid harm.

7. We must exterminate dangerous elements.

The mental gymnastics used to justify this kind of censorship are frightening. Most news is full of inaccuracies and outright lies, from all sources.
May be worth mentioning that Hashicorp has a lot more sway and influence in this arena than most who might have or are attempting or maybe thought to attempt this in the past. There may be something to be said for that. I know Google and AWS are pretty all in on kubernetes, but this does offer an alternative & a layer of abstraction on top of that.

My bigger worry is all these deployment abstractions might lead to a scenario where when something breaks very badly, nobody really knows how to fix it other than to nuke the whole thing and try again. I feel like we're already there with that in a lot of ways with these devops systems. The weird kind of lock in they have to me is that they aren't enabling smaller teams to easily adopt these things, its aimed at either cloud providers or large insitutions that can afford to pay a dedicated engineer to manage these systems.

I'd love to see something aimed at smaller teams that makes these orchestrations easy and multifunctional, and work across more platforms, like DO. Hashicorp et. el. know what the best practices are and how to keep things secure, just give me something that enforces those things on any fleet of servers/containers/whathaveyous I want to use.

As a developer on a smaller team who spends part of my time working on these concerns, that would help immensely.
Just as a reference, 5-10 miles out from LAX would pretty much be an area between the 110 to the 710 freeways. Roughly.
I'm surprised that Overstock is simultaneously still running at a loss and is seeing rising share values.

Every time I've tried to shop there, I've found a terrible selection, middling prices, and a mediocre UI. (To be fair, every e-commerce giant has a mediocre UI.) I see them casually mentioned in lists of "Amazon alternatives", but I've never once had someone recommend Overstock for a specific purchase. I don't think I've even talked to anyone who actually buys there.

Are they growing gangbusters in some niche I'm not aware of?