skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a happy CCC user. Great for Amazon price alerts. And it's just worked for me for years.
Speaking out about legal violations is not only allowed, it's protected by whistleblowing laws. It's an adversarial process, but legally protected.

What Google frowns upon, and will terminate an employee legally for, is speculation outside of that legally-protected space. So going to the SEC with evidence Google is acting bad? Legally protected. Circulating in an email "hey, is thing X that team Y is doing monopolistic?" No, and you'll get canned for having that discussion in an unprivileged environment without legal counsel present.
most people laugh at stuff like this, but I think it's absolutely brilliant! it's just one of those high risk high reward projects that is like "this is crazy but if it would work it would be of amazing use".

and for all the ethical quanderies of the military and intelligence offices, projects like this are one area where they excel. looking at the internet, GPS, etc. and my own experience with some of those departments
Thank you, and I'm sorry!
There's a handful of big game publishers (EA and Activision mostly) that put out big AAA games full of microtransaction nonsense. But after you subtract those the market of quality games without those dark patterns is still massively bigger than it ever has been in the past.

(I am talking solely of the PC market of course. Mobile games have way more widespread crap, and all the app stores have discoverability issues that result in all the good games basically being impossible to find unless you find out about them from somewhere else (yes there are actually good, non microtransaction based mobile games too)).
https://soundiiz.com/pricing
This gives you exactly what they claim to work on without charging half as much. Basically, it's free if all you wanna do is transfer music.
This is clear case of reporting in bad faith from the NY Post. They are knowingly publishing unbelievable smear story. They intentionally avoid reporting anything that connects the story to Russian disinformation.
I think the idea is that there are people who think their desire to do whatever they want is more important than their employer's right to limit bad publicity and legal risk. A quick re-watch of the movie Erin Brockovich might illuminate why this could happen but there are obviously other reasons.
But you believe Clinton can just delete the email and gone forever?
I don't know if that's just for sake of the joke or if you are living this problem yourself, but you can try apps like Digital Detox (for Android), or any other app that locks you out of your device.

Also, keeping the device(s) outside of the bedroom is quite efficient.
> The change you desire would almost certainly require a constitutional amendment

No, it would only require a change of mind (or at least a change of policy) by Jack and Zuck.
What's passive about an algorithmic news feed maximizing outrage?
Improving the web is definitely very much in focus for Mozilla
Outside of California, they do.
> it just poured liquid oxygen on the "reform section 230" fire you're seeing from both sides of the aisle - one using the censorship reason, the other using the disinformation reason

The GOP is prioritizing § 230 reform. Given their likely fall from power and prioritization of the SCOTUS confirmation, as well as Democrat control of the House and its focus on stimulus bills, the short-term threat is minute.

From an amoral government relations perspective, heavier moderation makes sense. A Biden spoof going viral during the election would attract the attention of incoming Democrat legislators. That creates a medium-term threat where there isn't one.

That said, I'm surprised they chose to block the content over de-prioritise it algorithmically and flag it with a warning.
That was for a completely unrelated fraud that had no bearing on the integrity of his stolen-hard-drive brokerage business.
Intel unveils new Ice Lake chip security features focused on protecting data
Why is this being referred to as black hat? Everyone does this. You think the Heroku blog posts are written by Heroku employees? It’s really just online ghost writing. I don’t see how this is a big deal.
I feel it's unfortunate "growth hacking" took on this connotation (ie, "comparable to astroturfing / fraudulent by definition", given the need for a term to describe (genuine / above-board / white-hat) creative approaches to connecting your idea with a market. Reminiscent of "hacker:cracker" usage divide, more generally.
https://cwr-crb.com/television/video-the-amazing-race-season...
I want old pre-AppStore OSX/macOS that doesn’t nanny my installs or screw old drivers, with a good package manager, and easily tabbed and gridded terminal windows without tmux necessarily.

I’d also like GPL’d Windows XP running flawlessly like a mac.

I’d use Linux on the desktop, but I’ve never liked any of the desktop managers and it was never as reliable as OSX/macOS.
I don't see how. Acknowledging what behavior is anti-competitive is generally done by a court, not by us random posters on HN. (If you're a federal prosecutor with some authoritative insight here then please disclose :)
Not everything can be reduced to a O or 1.

Our imperfect species often draws a line in the sand and says you're either on this side or that. Sometimes that line is a fucked up line and we go to war over it. And other times, we accept it (yes there are other states), internalize it and move along collectively as consciously elevated apes with a new feather in our culture-cap.

That you might not feel a sliver of moral dignity in the line that was drawn by globally dominant companies today, fighting disinformation before an election, saddens me deeply.

Like, yea, your logical brain might be short circuiting right now but can't you see the bigger issue at play?

I'm reminded of the post circulating on HN a few days ago about how FB shut down some Holocaust Denier groups, and the commentary thread just blew up about "violating free speech" etc. That really messed me up, and made me lose faith in this community.
I just turned on Google Assistant screening about a week ago. The spam calls have gone to zero
The "both sides" of an argument thing does not work when one side is intellectually dishonest and bases arguments on misinterpretations and mistruths.
If you live where it’s legal, a micro dose of THC has done wonders for my Insomnia. For me, my insomnia manifests with a difficulty in falling asleep. Completely sleepless nights are not uncommon. 2-4 hours of waiting to fall asleep was the norm. 2-5mg edible thc about 2 hours before bed and 0.5 mg melatonin 20 minutes before bedtime and I am able to quiet the mind and drift off to sleep on about 20 minutes. Keeping the dose low means you don’t get high, (but you still might get some munchies and enjoy some music a bit more than being completely sober) and also means there is no morning hangover.
https://et20s.com/films/star-trek-discovery-season-3-episode...
https://cwr-crb.com/television/star-trek-discovery-season-3-...
I've used CCC the chrome extension for a long time. What is newsworthy here? Is the landing page new?
Armon, just wanted to say your whiteboard videos are excellent. And the clarity of thought demonstrated in them over the years has been a great ad for the products too. The low tech aspect also feels more human.

But I had a chuckle at the idea of you wheeling a whiteboard into your house (if that is where it is filmed).
Oh,hey its you. I have used your site for plasma fixes and tricks before. Thanks a bunch for the quality content.
I'd be happy if Firefox were a modified version of Chromium for developers/power-users/hackers that prioritized every feature in the user's interest (at their own risk).
> Why on earth would any company encourage its employees to speculate and talk freely, when doing so would get them into legal/PR trouble.

There is another view, and another analogy.

A monopoly that closes ads accounts without any explanation (pointing to their 'terms of use' is not an explanation)

A monopoly that removes apps without any explanation

A monopoly that swallows competition, their patents to further suffocate market space

Is just evil.

Small businesses hurt, consumers manipulated and fair competition practices are poisoned.

So an analogy would be a private contractor for state prison system, is threatening their employees not to talk in public about their practices. While being investigated for corruption, unfair usage of federal and state empowerment, and unfair treatment of the prisoners.

I think this would be ok as far as legal practice, but hardly something one would applaud to, given the context.
If they didn't say it out loud how would you even know, and what does it mean to harbor feelings? You read their diary? Saw it in their eyes? Used your intuition?

Aren't you worried you could be wrong if that's the standard, or someone could use that standard against you and be wrong?
You seem to be refuting claims I never made. I'm simply perplexed that so many people don't know this market exists (as is indicated/suggested by the number of upvotes).
You built hacker news?
> the phone company was (historically) a monopoly

Phone companies are natural monopolies on account of the cost of building out a physical network and network effects. Social media has similar dynamics. The only difference is there is no requisite physical layer.
These posts are indeed great.
National Review definitely has a slant, but I’d be hard pressed to find anything they’ve said here that’s factually inaccurate.
How should they make it clearer? Their donate page says the donations are to "carry out our mission to keep the Web open and free" and links to a FAQ that details what the donations are used for and how Firefox is separate.
if Twitter had killed even one hundred people with a tank column I would not argue that it was reminiscent of Tainanmin square.
The NY Post claims Hunter Biden's or one of his associates' laptops was hacked.
There are more leftists that take what he says seriously than his own fans. People like him because he's willing to tout nonsense but seem serious.

He's literally the Jim Cramer of conservative voices. Everybody who listens to him listens with the foresight that there can both be positive and negative repercussions depending on how much of what they say you'll believe.
Maybe the companies that have been accused of allowing misinformation to spread and disrupt the democratic process are making an active effort to "do something" rather than further contribute to the problem.
Most news articles based on leaks are uncorroborated allegations.

Even if the source was Putin himself, shouldn't the question be "are the emails authentic" rather than "who leaked the emails"?

Wikileaks has had questionable sources in the past, but they've generally been authentic leaks (for example the DNC email leaks had authentic and signed email headers).

I'm not saying the emails are authentic, I'm saying the question of whether they are authentic is unanswered and that should be your primary concern over who the source is.

Theoretically, if Russia had proof of corruption would you not want to see it on the basis that it's Russia and it's close to an election?
I can't find the photo right now, but absolutely the same thing exists in the android app ecosystem. If you read and write fluent Mandarin you can probably find such in 30 seconds of searching within-the-GFW search engines.
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The parent comment talked about political policy in the future putting lives at risk with regards to proper decommissioning of nuclear reactors. The administration's current policies towards the covid crisis are an example of the type of possible political irresponsibility the parent comment mentioned. I don't see this comment as a flame war or tangential. It's fine to remove it, of course, next time I'll add more substance to the comment. Hope you are having a good day, and thanks for the hard work on moderating this site.
To think amazing Servo engineers were let go to save funds while this project still exists.
Braille uses raised dots which are pressed through from the reverse side, so you could have raised dots on both sides, as long as the dots are offset.

A blind person can only feel the dots on one side, but it would be possible to decode both sets visually.

It's conceivable that the dots could also be just raised blobs, which would not be evident on the reverse side.
Iirc there has been a class action about this.

And in just amazingly classic Apple form, they added the ability to see if the device was being throttled... in a point release of the then-current major version of iOS - and did not back-port it to the previous major version.

My device wasn’t being throttled. But in order to have the privilege of even CHECKING that fact, I had to upgrade the OS and move my iPhone further towards its obsolescence.

(That’s kind of hyperbole... but only in that I personally didn’t upgrade the OS specifically to check whether it was throttling.)
These are awesome! I used to work in call centers and have suggestions for you on audio quality and also design earrings on the side for fun and whimsy. Will send you an email re: partnering/ideas.
Freedom.. absolutely.!! An employee is free to find another employer.
To the extent they can, Google assumes its employees are mature adults and can discuss just about anything.

The rare exceptions usually result from collision with legal constraints on that policy, such as conversations that can get the company in legal trouble. Because whether or not Google as a company wants everything open for debate, US employment law makes it fairly clear that there are some things you're not allowed to say---for financial securities reasons, hostile workplace reasons, and lawsuit vulnerability reasons.
The fact that I can pick up a fake class and slosh water in it doesn't change the fact that I'm doing something I can do in real life that is...as equally boring.
Did you know that the NY Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton?
"120 years long history of investigative journalism"

I should have known I was being trolled; my fault for taking the bait.
Back when I got tested, one of the smart things the huckster said was that we can adopt personas as needed, but not being our natural state it takes more effort.
It's a 12 minute video claimed to be in the possession of the fourth-largest circulated newspaper in the US. They released some screenshots from it.

If they don't actually have the video in their possession they are subject to a massive libel suit that they will lose.

They'd also be stupid to release a Hunter Biden sex tape in its entirety. Hulk Hogan sued Gawker Media into oblivion for doing the same.
Right? You could easily have 10 people try and train 10 different cats for a particular task, and pick the best one. Cats are basically free, and I imagine it wouldn't be hard to find 10 employees willing to adopt and train a cat. Seems like a waste of time to strap equipment onto any old cat and hope it works.
> I don’t see how this is a big deal.

It may not be a big deal to you, and that's fine, but it was a big deal to some of these publishers. Many of them take their neutrality seriously, to the point that they edited the articles to remove mentions and/or links when they learned about the undisclosed conflicts and the sockpuppet promotion.

Also, many (most?) of the publishers hadn't seen something like this: for-hire operation, well-known startups, and getting distribution in some of the largest technical blogs. While that certainly doesn't mean it isn't happening, it does mean that there's value to publicizing the details.
>But pushing some information (sort of propaganda) and hiding some information (sort of censorship) both lead down a dangerous path

What information is this pushing or hiding? This is trying to better understand how YouTube is making these recommendations, so it is a known factor when you talk to your kids and peers.
I'm a first generation immigrant who moved to North America because I didn't like living "like the rest of the world".

Mind you, most of the world lives in poverty fueled by endless tribal fights. Shia-vs-Sunni Muslims, Mexican drug cartels, endless tribal wars in Africa. Sponsored by the local "top ladder" successfully running the "divide and conquer" strategy. I don't see anything good in bringing that standard of living to the 1st World countries.

And, mind you, China is completely unaffected by the processes tearing the U.S. apart. They are more than ready to take the place, and also they don't give a slightest damn about human rights, freedom of association and many other Western virtues. Read about Uighur camps if you have any doubts. Be careful for what you wish for.
Headers are also bad:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3750422/

Although I bet it would be easier to outlaw headers in soccer (aka football :) than somehow avoid concussions in American/gridiron football.
I feel my point is clear.

People who advocate that Twitter should not exercise editorial control over content are hypocrites for using HN's community editorial control tools to suppress, or remove, content that they don't agree with on HN.

People who value free speech as an absolute right in virtually all contexts have no business curtailing what they argue is an absolute right when it is exercised by people who have views they disagree with.

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As a substantive question, I agree that Twitter is large enough that it should be regarded as an infrastructure platform, akin to the phone carriers, and should not be expected to unilaterally decide on the fair bounds of political speech. That much power does not belong in the hands of any one CEO. Absent a more suitable long-term legal framework to combat propaganda, however, unilateral action is the best of a set of very bad choices. The political situation in America is far too dangerous for potential disinformation to spread unchecked.

If there is truth to the NY Post story, it will be corroborated by other news outlets and will eventually find its way to Twitter via that route. Until that happens, however, October surprises of potentially dubious validity should not be allowed to spread unchecked.
Basically this. I don't know where the idea has crept in to people's minds that work places are a politically neutral environment, but that's not a principle that holds true in general. Union shops can require their employees who are union members to phone bank for politicians the union favors.

Work is highly political and I don't think anybody has ever pretended otherwise.

I mean, hell, political campaigns themselves are workplaces too. ;)
I can confirm the magnesium and meditation has done wonders for my insomnia
Opened this site, turns out it does scrolljacking. Every time I press Page Down, it skips forwards two slides.
Even if Guliani got the source from Russian intelligence, that does not mean the emails are automatically not authentic. Does it mean the Russians are interfering? Probably. Does it mean their evidence of corruption is void? Not really.

If this is the Russians (unproven speculation on your part), it does not mean the emails are not authentic.
Twitter is still profiting off you with ads. A transaction is still being made.
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I'm looking forward to the day Genode brings capability based security to the desktop. We can actually have computers that don't turn traitor at the first string buffer overflow.

I want computing as secure as when we had MS-DOS and floppy disks. You knew what disk (and therefor what data) you were risking at any given time. You could write protect the OS.

We can have it back... it's a matter of time now.
This is a pretty garbage article. It confuses PRISM, which is a data integration project to ingest data from the FBI into the NSA's databases, with Stellar Wind, which is the phone metadata collection program that this article is about.
Will it need to carry an onboard rocket motor to counter the solar wind pressure?
Midway through this project, I ran into that pure HTML one here and chuckled that someone else was making their variant as well. It really cracked me up! Then there was another, and then I ran into another (yesterday's), so I went ahead and shared mine.

Obviously programmers like to reconstruct things as a hobby, make their own implementations, clones. Just surprising how many of us picked minesweeper. For me it was probably the fact that it didn't come with Windows 10, maybe, when I was jonesing to play it. Also I wanted to see if hexagons would work, without knowing about or seeing similar variants.

I'm glad I did this because it gave me first-hand working experience in a few theoretical things I knew would work but I didn't know what their quirks were, like setting up websockets/socket.io to work with SSL, using multiple rotating apache backends with a graceful restart to perform upgrades without downtimes, responsive and fast SVG rendering techniques.
> why are we holding Twitter to such a high standard of integrity and not actually journalists?

Virality. Information spreads in a fundamentally different way over print [1] versus social media. It spreads faster. It spreads more insidiously. And it mutates--not per se, but in the context attached to it.

There is also social media's concentration. Before cable news, broadcast television was held to stringent standards. As competition emerged that went away. Facebook and Twitter are singular in their domains. Holding them to a higher standard while an election is underway seems reasonable.

[1] A newspaper on a website still behaves like print media. It has to be explicitly shared.
Here is an early prototype. This should help you see how we approached the issue. This prototype, btw, weighs nothing! It was an encouraging start.

The best part was our model's reaction. When the earring was done pairing, it spoke in her ear, and she shrieked in delight :) That was unexpected validation.

https://youtu.be/aAUIfNSVauY
Analogy fails, it’s internet Pope not internet Jesus
How about this: stop penalizing kids who can’t sit still in school. Statistics show that the “sit still and listen” model doesn’t work for many boys, but the stats show that the model doesn’t work for many girls either.

The recommendations in this article are solid, but apply to all kids.
> I don't think having more positive stories about a Democratic president makes a publication left-leaning, especially given that Obama is the only president in recent memory not actively involved in some scandalous behavior.

This gave me a real chuckle.

It’s easy to not be “actively involved in scandalous behavior” when the media refuses to consider anything you do scandalous or investigate it further. It’s a self fulfilling prophesy.
It seems like the GOP might lose, but it’s hardly “likely”. It’s probably a good idea to consider what might happen if they don’t.
No problem -- I didn't do any of the research so it was very easy. I got a brief intriguing introduction to consensus a long time ago in university but never really appreciated how interesting the space is until much later. I really ought to send an email thanking the professor that taught the class.
I put it together myself, but the custom illustrations were commissioned.
The magnetic field could help shield Mars from radiation. This recent paper on building an artificial martian magnetic field with a few thousand kilometers of superconducting wire looks fun.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05546