skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rossman exploded on Reddit with an Apple device repair rant several years ago, and then leaned super hard into that to keep his views up.

Much like Glassdoor, I find it hard to trust him since it’s clear he has a moneymaker. He’s incentivized to accuse the Big Corps of wrongdoing and he never has to back it up.
It's a web site so you can't delete it ;)
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Where does one go when Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube seem to take these steps in tandem? The joke of "go make your own social network" has been tried with places like Parler and Gab, but they get banned from app stores, ironically blocked from technically, but not ideologically, decentralized services like Mastodon, or even dropped from web hosts. The open Internet is dead.
I've read that before and I've discussed it with a lawyer (among other related articles & topics). He rolled his eyes at much of it, but he also rolled his eyes at the "platform vs publisher" distinction that so many naive people make. Still, he agrees that social media companies are tickling the dragon's tail when it comes to Section 230 protection.

Before you dismiss my anecdote as one mistaken lawyer, note that the chairman of the FCC (who is a lawyer) and Justice Clarence Thomas both think that Section 230 doesn't offer nearly as much protection as social media companies seem to think it does. In response to recent events, the FCC plans to issue statements clarifying the meaning of Section 230.[1]

1. https://twitter.com/AjitPaiFCC/status/1316808733805236226 "Social media companies have a First Amendment right to free speech. But they do not have a First Amendment right to a special immunity denied to other media outlets, such as newspapers and broadcasters."
A government entity cannot censor your speech. But YouTube definitely can. They are a private entity.
That sounds like a good thing. Especially with all the outdoor dining now!
Why would attorneys be disallowed?
Well what else do you propose? The whole system is tied to that: pensions, house values, salaries. If you squirrel away your money under you mattress you probably won’t earn enough money in a lifetime to retire off of it. I don’t see an alternative?
It’s only a tautology if you believe that ethics have a subjective dimension.

That is not a given in this thread, where people are writing comments that essentialise Apple’s ethics.

The reason I made that comment was to highlight this point.

Each of us is bringing a sense of what is right and wrong to this.

One we introduce this, we can start to reason about why Apple is taking what we think of as a wrong action, and what kind of compromises are leading to it.

Simply vilifying them just closes us of from understanding them.

Your analogy positions Apple as a perpetrator, the developer as a victim, and me as an apologist.

Once again, you aren’t actually engaging in a discussion.

You are begging the question with your framing.

http://begthequestion.info/

You aren’t actually explaining why the framing is valid.

As I said, if I were really defending Apple, it would be easy to show.

Just repeating over and over again that I am is not that. You can’t explain it because it isn’t happening.
And obviously the leaked tax document belongs to an anonymous tax payer?
I think "amplification" is simplifying the effect that these social networks have.

Not only do the social networks allow you to amplify your opinion, they also nudge users further and further into bubbles where voices amplify even more.

Before social networks, if you got a pro-environment newspaper, the bias of that paper still had a bound on it. But imagine if the paper was constantly changing based on what you read. Were you interested in the article yesterday? Here is an even more biased article. Read it again? Try this article even more biased. Soon, the original paper would be so moderate that it would almost appear anti-environment.

The number of conspiracy theories floating around right now is alarming. And I blame a lot of it on the algorithms that these social networks are using to promote content people seem interested in. You get into rabbit holes and eventually land up reading extremist/fringe theories.
Exactly - blocking it just brought it to the front page.
I think it only shows for pages with a manifest file (pwa) and I've only seen it in chrome as well.
Your smartphone isn't the problem, the problem is irresponsible businesses. We used to have the same kind of crap in the USA. Companies insisted they couldn't be economically viable without dumping toxic waste into our rivers and lakes.
When it's an entirely new topic, I always build a big picture first: glossary, Key Concepts and How They're Related, What Is Thing For. But that's just how my mind works--have some framework to hang things on.

Then, I tend to follow Feynman's advice: keep trying to explain it to myself until I can make it clear. I typically do this through writing and examples (code, analogy, whatever). I can tell this is working when it's painful, and (for me) it always reveals the parts I don't understand.
i think any review based platform is good, then things can magically disappear when someone ponies up the cash to make an opinion they dont like go away.
> I am acquiring greater wisdom with age as I ought, but the average age of the typical person I encounter stays the same so they cannot keep up. I’m noticing the contrast increasing but misattributing it.

My money is on this. You wouldn't typically argue with a kid, but on the internet you probably are.
Especially since the article contains lots of cluelessnes about the meaning of their reported facts: Clay that is radioactive at three times the normal background is called: normal clay. Your living room might be three times above background because of Potassium-40 in the wall bricks. Totally normal and harmless, except if you want to stir a panic among the clueless.
Refusing to comment on something is also about ignoring things of no substance and not letting an opponent control the conversation. If you read "The Ass Is A Poor Receptacle For The Head: Why Democrats Suck At Communication, And How They Could Improve" by Barry Eisler, he actually talks about how traditionally Democrats fail heavily at this. They respond to every distraction their foes throw at them, no matter how nonsensical. This let's the people on the other side control where the conversation is.

Instead of responding, I would hope the Biden campaign talks about policy.
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No, the intelligence agencies already have said this is a Russian disinfo campaign and the Post should be mocked and shunned for knowingly propagating it.

https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/131658513181811507...
If I was Biden I wouldn't talk to any Murdoch owned property either.
How exactly is press free amplification? How do I get my random opinion broadcasted to a newspaper audience? I would probably have to write an opinion column and send it to the journal, then they would read it, and decide whether or not they want to publish it.
If it's the NYT for example, you can be sure that no matter how well written your piece is, they will never publish something that pushes the theory that COVID-19 is a plot by Bill Gates to put chips into everyone.

But you can probably find a sketchy, low-audience journal that would.

Well it's the same thing, a well known community was banned from Reddit to prevent them from using Reddit's amplification mechanism (/r/all etc), but they now have their own clone of it, with a smaller audience, that you are free to consult.
I can't think of a way that you can provide equal amplification to everyone. Physically there is only so much space "above the fold" on a website or on the first page of search results. Something has to be put front and center, thus receiving more amplification than other things.

How would you determine what can fit on your mobile screen? What sorting algorithm would you choose?

If you sort based off of what the most recent submissions, you might not ever see things that interest you and you might leave the platform.

If you sort based off of most recent or the most comments, then the most controversial posts would be amplified above more moderate and well thought out posts.

You can think of any type of sorting algorithm you want, you can even provide options/combinations. However it is impossible to give all content the same access to free amplification.
so say if you have an NFS share (server A) on a public IP-address, and NFS client (server B), that mounts an NFS share with that sec=sys option. Doesn't that mean that a rogue server C can connect to server A and impersonate any user?
Well, now I know what I'll be doing over the weekend. Specially on using it in tandem with Nomad.
This is somewhat naive, but even if we grant the premise, it must be balanced against the built-in job security and predictable promotion schedule which is typical of government bureaucracies.

Less motive to take bribes? Yes, somewhat, although there's no amount of money where someone might not want some more. But a system where doing a good job is strictly supererogatory doesn't tend to lead to satisfactory outcomes either.
> If healthcare gets cheaper, my HSA might shrink, but that's fine because healthcare is cheap.

Isn't the conventional min/max strategy to not use your HSA for any medical expenses? That is, you just treat your HSA as a traditional IRA and don't touch it until 65+.
yes, apt can get temporarily broken if your boot partition fills up - but it does not make a system unbootable when this happens (Which GP says he encountered). a few apt-get removes and apt-get installs -f, and it's all back to normal - but it's only ever "apt" that stops working, and only until you fix it. (I've seen got in the habbit of doing "apt-get autoremove --purge && apt-get autoclean" regularly on all machines I manage.

The only borked Ubuntu kernel upgrade I've ever seen did not render anything unbootable, but a bad OOM Killer patch caused programs to get spontaneously killed in some cases - and I'm runnig, and automatically updating, tens of Ubuntu machines automatically all the time.
Yes, they should be considered too, but they have their own failure modes.

I guess what I’m saying is that an organization’s form of government isn’t a reliable indicator of its trustworthiness and you have to consider other signals as well.
This is completely rewriting history. The purpose of the UN is quite literally:

> To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace

That is directly copy pasted from the UN founding charter, it goes on to talk about friendly relations, cooperation and harmony. You can read the rest here if you like:

https://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/chapter-i/index.ht...

The only lesson that the UN has learned from the LON, is that if you kick countries out for breaking the rules, then the whole thing falls apart. So in those situations, the UN takes the approach of doing nothing.

> It's not even designed to do last minute conflict resolution. It is designed to take the motive/gain out of war.

This is also rewriting history. The reason we haven't had a major conflict since WWII is because every country capable of creating one has nukes now, and nobody wants to get into a major conflict with a country that has nukes. The reason the US and USSR never got into a direct conflict during the cold war was because they both had nukes, not because the USSR was a member of the UN. Kennedy and Khrushchev resolved the Cuban Missile Crisis together (without the help of the UN incidentally) because neither of them wanted to be nuked, not because they were worried about the other one complaining to the UN.
Not official, and no personal experience with it, but it sounds like this is what you want:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/epoccam-webcam-for-mac-and-pc/...

> Just download drivers to your PC/Mac and you're ready to go! Connection is fully automatic, no need for manual setup. You can connect wirelessly over WiFi network or with with a USB-cable.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Android on here. The Galaxy Note 4 is now 6 years old. It was the last flagship smartphone with a removable battery. It still works great.
It's good to see web developers taking resources into account. Something the rest of software development has been doing since the start.
> Charisma is a pattern by which other people, for reasons that are hard to parse, and through mechanisms that are invisible, do things for the charismatic person.

Sounds like a great evolutionary advantage if your group is out to kill a mammoth.
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Fair point. On reflection I think I will deploy the phrase in a situation dependent, weaponised way, à la your suggestion.

One never knows when the next scotch with an education secretary is coming, and it is well to be in good habits.
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> lazyness of spacy developers by making everything dynamic they broke the autocompletion that is normally working in python.

Actually it's the opposite of "making everything dynamic". spaCy is mostly implemented in Cython, which is a language for writing C extensions for Python. So things are statically typed and memory managed, which sometimes doesn't work well with inspect. We set whatever compilation flags we can to make the annotations passed through though. It's definitely not a question of laziness though...You could say we worked extremely hard to break things in this particular way.

In v3 we've been able to finally ditch Python 2 support, which means we're able to embrace type annotations. Our machine learning library, https://thinc.ai, is extensively type-annotated and actually you can get type hints and type errors for composing layers incorrectly.

Personally I use vim and don't use autocompletion, I find it makes the typing laggy and I've just never really wanted it. We do have developers on the team who use autocompletion though and I think spaCy actually supports it better than you suggest, I'm not sure whether you had a specific problem, but maybe see whether it works if you install spacy-nightly.

Btw I do think you've come across as a weird jerk in this thread though? You might want to read over your messages and think about that. Like, I (and I think most others) genuinely didn't get what you meant in your first few messages; I thought you were saying spaCy didn't let you _build_ autocomplete.
Sure, I hear you— but then are you really looking for good modelling? Or are you looking for an entirely novel sound processing that just drew inspiration from the physical devices? I understand the latter. I don't understand the former... except for maybe as an exercise.
Never owned gun, and never thought of owning one, until this year, precisely when politicians told us, on TV, that calling 911 is a privilege, and when politicians condoned publicly looting and robbery and violence and abolishing police. I never felt so much need to own many guns and train for tactical shooting to defend my family when needed.
Surely Biden's strategy is to wait it out and deny it if there appears to be no further evidence and the veracity of the existing evidence can be attacked, otherwise give a cover story. I don't think that's more honest than blustering a denial no matter what: it's just more calculating.
> Also, that I will accept Google will track every move and shake of mine and show me ads based on that data (assuming just Google gets to do it; I'd buy a stock Android phone).

You do know you can use the private DNS feature to block ads and analytics system-wide, don't you? There's also a "VPN service" app called Blokada[1] that effectively does the same thing but in a less optimal way. Anyway, blocking your own devices from communicating with the servers of malicious actors feels like basic infosec hygiene in 2020.

Actually, I should probably release that ad-blocking DNSoTLS server I made for myself and had been using ever since Android 9 came out.

[1] https://blokada.org
Put another way: humans evolved living in fairly small groups that were often related to each other. Their brains are optimized to operate in that environment. Put those brains into an environment where the number of other humans is orders of magnitude larger and most of those other humans are not physically present and not related to you and...that brain doesn't work well.
Isn't this just extortion and racketeering with extra steps.

"Hey I have this magic problem I created for you, now you have to pay me to fix it or your business will dry up."
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Fastmail, maybe? Their premium tier offers a 100GB mailbox, looks like, and a retention archive on top of that.
I think Banzai (get banzai.com) has become a mostly-online conference management company.
Generalizations are often false. Including this one.
In your example, nobody hapened to talk about politics. There is no neutrality, just the absence of discussion.

But if the plumber tells you that his boss is a capitalist pig, you can either report him to his boss, or not. Neither is neutral.
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> It’s quite clear this is not “hacked information”

Setting aside the speculation at the end, this summarizes the issues with the story: https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/14/suspect-provenance-of-hunt...
If you're an entrepreneur today and you start an internet company without paying Google or Facebook money for advertising you're probably not going to succeed. The only question is how much marketing "tax" these companies will extract from you. If you have direct competitors, you'll at least have to pay Google to keep their name off of the first search results for your company.
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Huh? Assuming only talking about USA, AOL had more than 30 million subscribers. And that's not counting their family members/guests. Twitter claims to have 40 million active US members, a claim I doubt heavily. They aren't far off.
Do you have a source for that? How could that possibly be illegal?
Reminds me of that one movie Idiocrasy.
> Similarly, when Facebook wanted to inform its users that 30% of the fees users were paying for online events went to Apple, Apple didn’t let Facebook do it saying this information was (once more) “irrelevant”.

That's the passage I meant. I wouldn't have imagined that Apple would be in the capacity of letting or not letting Facebook do something.

On a separate note, you seem to have replied to pretty much everyone in this thread, may I ask why?
Typo; "for ther rest of us" on the front page.
>free amplification

This amplification isn't magic. You can't build an audience on YouTube (or anywhere) unless people actually care about what you have to say. And doing that is hard work.
All the crazy stuff about Trump is true and all the crazy stuff about Biden all appears to be made up by the Trump/GOP camp.

So we don't have an apples to apples comparison
These companies think they're some kind of trend setters or they're embracing some kind of new way to work, Nokia was doing this back in the early 2000's in the Americas. No one had a desk unless you needed one. Otherwise you came in sat down where ever you liked, plugged in and went to work. You decided your hours, you decided when you came in or worked from home. They also subsidized your home Internet connection by about 50-60%. They had complete respect and trust in the individual.

Took a Pandemic to change these companies minds about WFH or flex schedules, etc.
My favorite (not actually horrible) switch statement trick:

Instead of

string x;
switch (y) {
case 0: x = "foo"; break;
case 1: x = "bar"; break;
}

try an IIFE!

string x = [&] {
case(y) {
case 0: return "foo";
case 1: return "bar";
}
}();

Once you get used to reading it, there are a bunch of advantages. Among them, you can't forget a "break", and you can't forget to assign into `x`.
Not without consequences.

As a recent example Alex Jones reversed his conspiracy theories on the threat of a lawsuit. Spreading misinformation comes with penalty.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School...
I hate misinformation strategy and I think it's nasty. But, I don't support censorship of any kind. We should find a better solution to fight misinformation. Perhaps the law system should hold politicians and their campaigns accountable for their lies. Currently it seems just an effective tactic that has no penalty.
I'm totally buying into the vision. Was discussing this with a co-worker a couple of months ago: there hasn't been much innovation w.r.t deploying apps within the last ~4 years (for on-premise at least). Still the same tools with bad UX, scripts, CLIs. Hope Waypoint can improve the status quo, it sounds like the missing glue.
That really sucks. Since its from google, im not that surprised.
I'm working on them for side projects, which is why it's important for me to minimize the boilerplate I have to write. Since I usually just want to make something that works reasonably well, I usually reach for MicroPython, unless I need a library that isn't available (and I can't write it quickly).

Having something higher-level but performant, like Nim (or Rust) will make my life much easier.

What's also very important to me, though, is documentation/examples, etc. I usually use the Arduino framework, so I'm not very familiar with ESP-IDF (or Nim), which makes good documentation important to me.
I've seen comparisons of how popular songs nowadays use simpler and less diverse words than they used to.
> What if the accident took out the cell tower and the car lost communication with HQ? Or more likely, the car was totaled and lost communication?

What do you do if you are HQ in charge of an expedition team going along a pre-determined route and the team suddenly and abnormally loses communication with HQ?

What do you do if a flight suddenly disappears over the ocean on air traffic control, and there happen to be some other planes and ships in the area?

What do you do if a hiker doesn't come home and they left a note saying which trail they were going on for the day?
ohh :/ Thanks, I'll fix it :D
The A mount is practically dead, it's been surpassed by the full frame E-mount. Only somewhat recent Sony cameras are supported by the webcam driver, and there simply aren't many recent A-mount cameras.
It is not true in all states that corporations must be represented by an attorney in small claims court. In California, corporations must be represented by a non-attorney employee for small claims actions.
There is no difference between "censorship" on Twitter/Facebook and "censorship" on HackerNews. Each site has a set of rules that must be followed. Don't like it? Then start your own website.
>It seems that the Biden campaign isn't denying that the emails are authentic.

Not denying something doesn't make true any more than not confirming something makes it false.

I neither confirm nor deny that I have a bank account at a large commercial bank. What does that tell you?

Nothing.
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Those projects failed because the general public agrees with FB/TW/YT’s actions so far. When they bad QAnon, the only people annoyed enough to leave are QAnon adherents, so you get a new social network full of trash. As a result, nobody else follows them.