skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pick - Daily Mail: a newspaper headquartered in London, UK - a 3rd party country, independent from the ongoing US election. Over 120 years long history of investigative journalism.

Your pick - The Daily Beast: a 12 years old opinion website in USA, directly interested in the ongoing US election.

Compare and contrast the opening - your choice focused on "character assassination" via conspiracy theory; my source focused on giving a broad background & overview as facts. The difference in quality of reporting is palpable.
It is well know that Hunter had a drug problem. It came up in the last debate.
This is a very articulate, and well-thought-out comment. Thank you.
This is a pretty standard practice in big tech companies especially after the Microsoft v. U.S. case. When a seemingly naive internal memo can make the company broken up, then why would you allow your employee to write it down from the first moment?
>The standard argument is that freedom of speech only applies to governments, but that's based on an outdated assumption.

>There's nothing special about governments with regard to freedom of speech except that it has always been assumed governments are the only entities with enough individual power to significantly restrict free speech.

The difference is that Twitter can't put you in prison and it can't seize your property. The government can. It's an extraordinary power wielded exclusively by the government.

Consider this: If you think Twitter should be restrained from censoring their platform because the extent of their power is on par with the government, who will enforce any violations of that restraint?
I almost forgot that Bannon was already arrested.
Does anyone know about the legality of this? My suspicion is that this black-hat content marketing is perfectly legal under US law. It's only potentially a violation of individual platforms' TOS (or publishing agreements). Is this approximately correct?
If you control the services, make them read from user-writable files instead of root ones. (Ideally you could skip the middleman and just read from env vars directly!)

If you don't control the services, maybe in the Dockerfile you could write a dummy config file and chmod it?
I worked for a startup that did the right thing even when times were tough… alas, that’s not good for business, and so the company no longer exists :(
Love it but i found a glitch where if you take too much material off the clay it starts adding material.
> I've worked at other companies with the same policy because why would you shoot yourself in the foot?

If you are even slightly historically aware, US labor history is one of the most violent and adversarial in world history. We've had plenty of strikes in this country where the company literally murdered employees. Google itself has been convicted of suppressing engineering wages.

I honestly am so baffled that all these liberal "woke" people suddenly come to the defense of a company (who along with small oligarchy of peers) now own 90 percent of the internet. They think its fine that the company suppress internal and external free speech, especially on the most important items to them.

I find the whole thing just utterly baffling.
> All your points are wrong.

No, yours are.

> We can store the energy in batteries, pumped hydro, hydrogen/methane, as heat and probably half a dozen other technologies.

Germany consumes 1600 GWh of electricity per day. We currently have a pump storage capacity of 40 GWh, so that's about 30~40 minutes of electricity storage.

If you want to go the power2gas route, just have a look at the combustion heat of methane to calculate how much you would roughly have to synthesize to store 1600 GWh worth of energy.

> Renewables are cheaper to build than conventional power.

They are. But they need backup power plants as their energy densities and capacity factors a very low compared to nuclear power plants.

That's why electricity prices in Germany are the highest world-wide:

> https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/

> Power companies hate them because they challenge the profitability of their existing coal plants.

That's simply untrue. Power companies LOVE renewables because they are highly subsidized and the government always guarantees that any kWh renewable electricity produced is also purchased.
I will add one more thing, although not directly related to your comment about deplatforming being commonplace. In banking, we call it derisking ( closing customer's account due to <reason> ).
Today, I flipped a coin and it landed heads, the same as yesterday. Very strange of you to say it would ever land tails.
Thanks. Would you say you need more contributors? And if you do what are you needing? Coders? Project Managers? Designers? Writers?
Interestingly, when you look at e.g. thereyougo's submission history https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=thereyougo there are [dead] but not [flagged] or [dupe] posts from towardsdatascience, imperva, and testcraft. Maybe the sustained campaign got those companies' domains banned from HN? Or there was something specific to those submissions that triggered the spam filter.
Manager at a multi-national corporation. This definitely isn’t unique to the US. If anything, it’s more ubiquitous in regions with higher degrees of regulation.

The whole thing has been taken out of context here. It’s basically just “here’s how you avoid saying anything that can be taken out of context and used against us”.
I would rather know what they did to warrant using over 20x the memory they are using now. I'm surprised people aren't embarrassed about that type of thing, but what happens here is people brag about fixing an egregious mistake.

If someone makes improvements on a mature program that a lot of people have worked on, that is impressive. If someone uses 20x the memory they need, that is fixing something that should never have shipped in the first place.

Then they say this memory reduction is reducing the program's ecological footprint. DDR4 uses 1.5 watts. In one day your refrigerator will use more electricity than your memory will in a year.
The headlines on this story are all over the place - I think the one that does the least to inject their own voice is NPR:

>[Facebook And Twitter Limit Sharing New York Post Story About Joe Biden](https://www.npr.org/2020/10/14/923766097/facebook-and-twitte...)

In comparison, there's Bloomberg:

>[Facebook Slows Spread of N.Y. Post Biden Story to Fact-Check](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-14/facebook-...)

Or CNBC:

>[Facebook, Twitter make editorial decisions to limit distribution of story claiming to show ‘smoking gun’ emails related to Biden and his son](https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/14/facebook-makes-editorial-dec...)
I agree, but I don’t think one point negates the other
Make small, data-driven performance improvements
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When I learned about SEO the guides all started from flimsy scams like these (Virtual Private Blogs used to be all the rage in SEO) and worked backwards to good inbound marketing fundamentals.

Its legal but the algorithms punish it.
It may fall under the FTC’s regulations on influencer endorsements: https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/press-re...
There's a link at the very bottom to a fully annotated, commented copy of the full source code, and a fairly good summary of what was going on in the footnote.
This should probably be made clearer to people who consider donating to the Mozilla Foundation, then.

Because I bet many donate because they want to support Firefox.
Is that because there just isn't the level of verifiably untrue statements from the Democrats?
Your understanding is the new interpretation of Section 230 being pushed by the ruling party in the US as justification for rewriting it and expanding the scope of what is actually a pretty targeted regulation. There's nothing in the actual text of Section 230 (which you can read in about a minute: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230 sections C and F are the relevant bits) about fairness or equality of enforcement.

It is technically a "matter of interpretation" in that one major political party is reading things into the law that don't exist and so it's a very common interpretation, but ... they don't exist.
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This should be the main story instead of whether censorship on twitter is okay or not.

Call out the blatant bias. (So surprising for a company based in a liberal haven)
What about building a service, perhaps a web browser plugin, that overlays a trust-worthiness score + contextual information, over text (bonus for images) on the web?

If a user posts "I recommend product X", the overlay would say "Caution: This user also recommended the product Y,Z in the last 48 hours. 34/34 of the users post in the last month are product recommendations. Sentiment score for users posts: 100% positive. The following internet accounts are likely controlled by the same individual or organization: ..."

Is it feasible? Does it already exist?
Spot-on. When NPR got caught posting fake news recently, absolutely nothing happened to them. When CNN does it, nothing happens to them.

The game is rigged.
FanDuel Data Outage Leads to Outrage Among DFS Players
How is that different from roommates/family that share a computer?
Are you here to question whether this industry as a whole lacks social skills, or do you have some other, as-yet-unmentioned objection?
I wonder if you could represent the game as a collection of "islands" and render them in WebGL. So, initially the entire field is one island drawn as a single sprite with a repeating texture, then you add a "1" and now you split the island into 5 different such islands having the same texture. It's an also interesting problem to know how many such distinct islands you can actually have, I assume the number mostly depends on the number of mines.
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/plain-language/10...
How about using a hardening guide such as CIS as part of the build process?
Okay, first of all: it is 100% true that getting infected with COVID-19 does not provide immunity. There have been two cases identified of people who got reinfected after a full recovery https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/another-covid-19-rei...

Second of all, this is not how vaccines work. Recovery from an illness does not mean that your immune system was maximally effective: a weak immune response coupled with anti-viral medication and hospital treatment could mean that your immune system is not equipped to fight the virus a second time. This happens often with flus and colds.
Two kinds of secrets: build-time (I need an API key to access a download needed to set up the container) and run-time (I need an API key to talk to the database). The post argues against using ENV for build-time secrets, but it's still recommended for run-time secrets. Sibling comments address alternatives for getting build-time secrets in.
If you're using a tag like centos:8 that gets updated periodically, you already do not have reproducible builds. This just ensures you get updated packages as soon as possible
You're going to need to be a bit more specific as your article offers a very similar interpretaiton of platform vs publisher (without using those terms), to what I presented. The only thing of note I see in your article is a "deep dive" into figuring out the "original intention" behind the law.

I believe modern application of a law should matter more than what the writers of the law were potentially thinking at the time.

>Then we get to these early internet services like CompuServe and Prodigy in the early ‘90s. CompuServe is like the Wild West. It basically says, “We’re not going to moderate anything.” Prodigy says, “We’re going to have moderators, and we’re going to prohibit bad stuff from being online.” They’re both, not surprisingly, sued for defamation based on third-party content.

>CompuServe’s lawsuit is dismissed because what the judge says is, yeah, CompuServe is the electronic equivalent of a newsstand or bookstore. The court rules that Prodigy doesn’t get the same immunity because Prodigy actually did moderate content, so Prodigy is more like a newspaper’s letter to the editor page. So you get this really weird rule where these online platforms can reduce their liability by not moderating content.
I'm in South Korea and the banner claims I'm in United Arab Emirates, however it shows the correct flag for my location. 218.146.64.x is my IP address range.

Thanks for writing the book!
For policy makers to earn the respect and attention of the average Joe, to impart important and scientifically sound information. If they're so bad at the job that they can't refute the ideas of Covid flat-earthers, maybe nobody should be listening to what they have to say anyway.

The real issue is that the media and many authorities have squandered their trust and political capital. And now instead of building that up they want to substitute authoritarianism and censorship.
"If" they have an agenda? Really? Jack Dorsey admitted his bias. In the Joe Rogan interview he couldn't address any of the examples of biased censorship.
For the advertising - the stuff you want to buy doesn't need the advertising to sell it to you, so who's paying to show it to you? The point of the advertising ecosystem is to make you want to buy stuff you don't already want to buy
>Meanwhile NYC and other shut down areas are seeing an exodus of the wealthy

I think you're not as informed as you think you are.

I live in NYC and we started opening back up in late June. In fact, pretty much everything but indoor dining, gyms and large indoor gatherings have been open since August.

We've had some hot spots recently which have necessitated geographically isolated restrictions, but the majority of the city is open, as is indoor dining and gyms.

Sure, there has been a goodly bit of economic impact, as many continue to work from home (before the pandemic, the population of Manhattan would roughly double on a working day) which has impacted much of the hospitality industry.

Broadway theaters, the Opera and the Philharmonic are all closed until at least next summer, but those require being in large groups indoors to be profitable.

But museums are open.

NYC is certainly not "back to normal," but in a place where the population density is 27,000/sq mi (what's the population density where you live?) that's not surprising.

What is surprising is how low we've kept the infection rate since the end of May[0].

In fact, given the circumstances, once we got things under control (mid March- late May were horrific and deeply disturbing here), we've been doing really well.

[0] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
I hadn't heard of this idea. Very cool!
But the video comes from the same laptop...
Isn't it a big load test? Make sure the right number of servers have been bought for Q4, and scaling bugs get fixed
"First the neo-Nazis had to text their friends about a new Stormfront post instead of sending it in a Twitter DM, and I said nothing..."
Nope, young enough to be paying interest on the debt ;P
Is this a good approach to have projects which require editing of hosts file?

In the projects I have worked on, there was a config file or environment variable which cleanly switched servers to localhost, no hosts editing necessary.
Yes, what you described is what happened. That's also why the submissions appear to have stopped about 25 days ago, even though the submitter was trying. The recent history will contain more "cover" (legitimate) articles than sockpuppet posts because the recent sockpuppet ones never saw the light of day.
Why should the political opinions of the employees be preferred over those of everyone else? They're a very unrepresentative sample of people that the company's actions affect. There's a reason we have democracy, not programmerocracy.

Political changes aren't objectively "for the better". If that was true, they wouldn't be political decisions, but business decisions. The whole reason they're political is that we can't determine if they're good or bad scientifically so we resort to distributed opinion instead.
If they're really being collusive, then you investigate them for violations of antitrust law or otherwise figure out what they're doing that's breaking the free market, and you fix it.

Alternatively, if every company in a free market seems to believe that X is objectionable, then X is considered objectionable by all of society, and it's not the place of the government to override that. If Facebook bans 419 scams, and Twitter bans 419 scams, and Reddit bans 419 scams, and Craigslist bans 419 scams, a fake Nigerian prince shouldn't be able to lobby Congress for a Constitutional right to force these private companies to host his content. They're allowed to be "collusive" in establishing shared, society-wide norms - that's how society works.

(Or we could conclude that we cannot make the free market so fair as to fairly represent all of society, but as far as the Overton window in the US is concerned, that's an absurdum, and so one of our propositions must be wrong.)
> And this sentence seemed goofy [...]

It sounds like it’s riffing on The Worlds Most Interesting Man [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/IxgiTeXKOOc
At first I thought it is a tool to fight against clickbait / spam videos, which could be quite useful. But no, it is a tool to report videos about opinions that made you feel uneasy. Wow.
As a man I can confidently say we do just fine and the system teats us very well thank you very much. Rather than stopping the "penalization" of boys, we need to stop making excuses for and accepting their (our) poor social behavior. Lord of the Flies is basically a middle school boys documentary IMHO.

Alternatively, if you really feel like this is a problem, then recognize and speak up about the negative impacts that this behavior has on everyone else in the system, particularly girls.

I speak from the perspective of the head coach for multiple elite "travel teams" for both girls and boys in the middle school age range, as the father of many daughters, and as a former boy.
Second that, what's wrong with NTT? 250mbit fiber for a fraction of what it would cost in the US. IPv6 ready. Basically no down time in 5 years. Very polite service staff.

Sure, if you look at how they design their websites, signup process and router UX, it's... a bit special (from a "western" perspective) ... But it works.
This isn't inviting Section 230 reform, as some are arguing. It's a move to get out ahead of it.

From the DOJ's proposed 230 legislation[0]:

>>The second category of amendments is aimed at incentivizing platforms to address the growing amount of illicit content online, while preserving the core of Section 230’s immunity for defamation claims.

>>Section 230 immunity is meant to incentivize and protect online Good Samaritans. Platforms that purposely solicit and facilitate harmful criminal activity — in effect, online Bad Samaritans — should not receive the benefit of this immunity. Nor should a platform receive blanket immunity for continuing to host known criminal content on its services, despite repeated pleas from victims to take action.

Enforcing a hacked materials policy is fully consistent with the DOJ's proposed change. It's a classic strategy to curb potential regulation - clean up your act to show that you don't need to be regulated.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-unveils-pr...
I wholeheartedly agree. But it's perhaps a case of "what's obvious to you, but not to others"
I wish I could do that... If I don't get enough sleep, it's hard to focus, listen to people in meetings, think of complex solutions. It kinda ruins my whole day...
Sounds like competitor A does something and competitor B decides to keep up, or both of them responded to market conditions.

If airline A decides to offer free checked bags, and then a couple days later airline B does the same thing, would you think they're colluding?
It helps that research papers on scientific domains have relatively easily verifiable data. It is much harder to claim ( not impossible ) that 1 is actually 0 if looked at from the right distance. Once we get to news ( assuming we bypass the whole conversation over how what passes for news is often opinion, or clickbait these days... ) you find out that 1s could indeed become 0s, you might not know all the facts, writers have bias, editors have bias, culture won't allow certain things to be said, polite society won't have a given phrase used.. the list just goes on and on.

It is not inability. It is just a ridiculous exercise in futility. Chomsky can barely do it. And he has way better memory, command of language and reasoning skills than I do.
Nit: It's a collective act of censorship if downvotes lead the comment to be removed from public view.
I thought this was mostly unenforced or unenforceable in cases like this -- where it would be really hard to prove that someone took a payment. I'll keep digging. Thanks!

One more thing -- this isn't an explicit endorsement. It's content marketing. I rather thought that made even the FTC rules hard to apply.

Also: "The Guides are not regulations, and so there are no civil penalties associated with them. But if advertisers don’t follow the guides, the FTC may decide to investigate whether the practices are unfair or deceptive under the FTC Act." https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/truth-advert...

edit: more details
Interesting also to note that comments like yours pointing out the flimsiness of the evidence are being heavily censored by HN.
If the RGB colors are equal it doesn't matter if you use a linear or non-linear color space, the color will always be gray. The brightness might be different but I'm not even sure that's true.
> English but with some words switched up, e.g. Customer -> Clown

At most places I’ve worked, “Clown” was already a well-established code-word among the engineers - it’s code for “Engineer” :P
NTT the carrier and NTT Docomo (the horrid mobile phone provider that I was forced to use on a trip there) are different, probably.
Online Censorship, Information Warfare Are Re-Writing History in Real-Time: Oped
There is a difference between a foiled attack and one that is prevented.

For example if you lock your bike and when you come back, you see bolt cutter marks on your lock and your bike it still there, you know that it stopped the thief.

But for one attempt like that, there are probably a hundred more potential thieves that just passed by, saw your lock and didn't do anything.

Seeing your lock untouched doesn't mean it is useless. It may or may not have prevented your bike from being stolen, but there is no way to be sure.

In the same way, a terrorist may have had plans, but because of surveillance, he knew he would never have succeeded, and gave up. Seriously I doubt it, but that's a possibility.
> I didn't know that black-hat content marketing existed

seriously? I think I first saw it in 1996. Sock puppets are nothing new or innovative as a general concept.
I don't endorse this behavior at all but can it really be said to be black-hat? imho seems more gray to me. From what I understand, content _is_ being generated and there are attempts to boost the SEO, so they're providing a service and it's not outright theft. At worst it just sounds like poor practice and gaming the system. They're not acting maliciously, illegally, and/or destructively, which is how I've always defined black-hat. Am I missing something?
"Here are Horizon Data we ensure the longevity of your data by implanting it upon the two dimensional surface found beyond the event horizon of a black hole. Retrieval does come at a cost (it's impossible), but knowing that your data is safe is what helps us sleep at night."
speaking of SEGA, Twisted Electronics just released an FM synth that uses a pair of FM audio chips (YM2612) similar to the one discussed in the Sega Master, this one is from the 'Mega Drive'. https://twisted-electrons.com/product/megafm/