skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disheartening, but definitely not a new thing. As OP / others pointed out, many are super obvious. Others are less so.

As more and more companies try to go the content marketing route, getting the all-too important backlinks become basically required. If you aren't getting them organically, then this is a great way to "kickstart" that process. Once you are in front of more eyeballs, then the organic growth can start (if your products are good/useful)
That's a really cool idea.

Do you listen to the recordings? What do you do with them?
Code Once. Run Everywhere
Facebook, Twitter make editorial decisions to limit distribution of story
It’s quite common. Many men wear plug earrings. It’s true, hanging earrings are rare for men. When i was a teenager I was wearing one in my left year. Looking back it makes me cringe, I dont know why.
Actually, that's a great idea, there should be a spam folder or something similar on facebook and twitter as well, and instead of blocking, it should just all go there. Then it be similar to Gmail and Phone Carrier. Users who would like to go check the spam themselves in case something that isn't spam made it there by accident could, and normal people who just don't want to see garbage posts at the cost of a few false positives would have a much better experience.
Since the earrings are interchangeable, and can be worn without the module, someone who buys a pair in gold (and we have that too) would keep it for generations! (Granted the module will end up in the landfill though.)
I'm a historian of science working on a journal article/ possibly a magazine article on the topic. There's a ton of misinformation, but one place to start that's really fun to browse and, presumably, a legit source of documents is the CIA's own recent FOIA release from last year, about their "Animal Partners" program:

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/animal-pa...

By the way, on the off chance that anyone reading this was involved in or has a friend or family member involved in this kind of work, please let me know if you think they might want to talk to me! I'm currently interviewing people. Contact info in my profile.
But the phones are clearly not the same and we have no idea what the real cost is yet. Just building a device this year, where transportation and shipping from country to country has been excessive, could account for that difference in cost minus the earpods.
Wait, you mean I can't believe everything i read online!!!
> You can't generally be reinfected by the same strain.

Unless the word "generally" is doing a lot of work in this sentence - YES YOU CAN be reinfected by the same strain. It's called "homologous reinfection": the person's natural immune response is not always up to the task of actually providing immunity to a specific viral strain, and that exact same viral strain can reinfect the patient even immediately after recovery.

This idea that the human immune response is always 100% effective (assuming the patient survives) is frankly a bizarre misconception: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3863957/
I think it is bigger news that Trump operatives are trying to inject misinformation into the last few weeks of the election. They have no respect for democracy.
I didn't realize this was still going on. Saw one of these posts in like 2017 under the handle @elonmvsk. Sad it's still happening.
Your anecdata doesn't refute the article, which uses data (such as the astonishingly high ADD diagnosis rate for boys).

Asking for fixes to systemic issues (e.g. pathologizing young children just because they can't sit still) doesn't negate girls' issues. We can work on both.
Clarence Thomas wants to reel in Section 230
> authoritative bodies can be wrong / misled as well, and shouldn't be the only arbiters of truth

I agree, but with a very large caveat - the human brain is not good at probabilities, it basically only recognises “outcome A is guaranteed” and “outcomes A and B are equally likely”. So how much credit should we give to an authority who is correct 90% of the time?

90% isn’t great when it comes to life-or-death matters, so it’s dangerous to recommend “always trust them”. But recommending “don’t always trust them” results in people thinking that the authorites and the crackpots are 50/50 correct, which results in even more people dying :(
Right but I can't read braille. The content is still a mystery
If signed exchanges work and are popular then a ton of privacy-oriented distributed web cache system stuff can finally happen, and everyone in that space knows this and we have been having our fingers crossed that this or one of the predecessor specs would happen for years now.
I see your “sunlight is the best disinfectant” and raise you a “lies spread faster than the truth”. If you allow the article, the article goes viral, then the retraction a day later gets no attention (because it’s not as interesting) well then now a ton of people are gonna be walking around thinking “didn’t they get Biden’s son’s emails and catch him in a crime or something?”

There’s no cool cosmic justice here, where the Post loses readership because they publish lies or that politicians will be punished for promoting lies from sources they knew to be bad. There’s just this hazy miasma, where the Post is vaguely not credible but also not totally distrusted, and people forget which politician promoted which story a couple days later.

That means the best way to play the game isn’t to research the truth but to drum up the most fantastical lies you can. That game has nothing but bad outcomes for humanity in the long term, and I don’t blame the platforms for trying extremely flawed approaches to prevent it.
It would be a good idea to present stronger evidence before saying HN is astroturfable. It has one of the strongest anti astroturf systems I’ve seen, primarily because of how HN works (which, sadly, is hard to discuss openly).

I believe you about Reddit, but it’s going to be quite hard to buy your way into HN, no matter how cleverly you do it.

I’m not saying it’s impossible. But it’s so easy to believe, and so hard to do, that it warrants skepticism.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, as I'm curious about that as well.

Your parent's description of the protocol makes it seem like the meeting host generates a key and sends it to Zoom so Zoom can send the key to the participants. I skimmed the whitepaper, though, and it seems what actually happens is the clients generate their own public/private keypairs, which allows the clients to negotiate session keys without exposing the keys to Zoom's server.

Of course since the client code is closed source, you just have to trust that it isn't sharing the session keys with Zoom or a third party. That's the same potential flaw as with something like WhatsApp's, Telegram's, or FB Messenger's E2EE mode: the app itself can intentionally break the security of the system, and you probably won't know it.
Hey there, I’m a longtime Taleb follower (Antifragile was life-changing for me), and I watched him and you and others in your crew commentate on the pandemic and found it highly beneficial for understanding the scenario. I’d consider it a great shame if there were no place for you here.

But this attack on dang misses the mark badly.

pg and sama have always been fully supportive of the way he runs HN (pg hand-picked him to take it over, sama was YC CEO for most of the time since, and they've both repeatedly endorsed him and his HN work publicly [1], including recently in pg's case [2]).

dang’s approach to moderation makes it more conducive to free speech, as, unlike on Twitter, it allows difficult/complex topics to be discussed without being derailed by personal insults.

We don’t need to attack people here; we have the downvote arrow and flag link for when people are being assholes, otherwise we can just focus on presenting persuasive arguments.

[1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/two-hn-announcements/

[2] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1282055086433284103
What's “good” code and does it matter?
The supposed leaker has contradicted his own claims about the material, has refused to release evidence (like cryptographic signatures) that might prove whether the emails actually passed through email servers, and he is a zealous Trump booster, (supposedly) hid the information from the public for a year in order to maximize campaigns impact instead of sharing it immediately upon discovery, and none of the Republican Senators not Republican DOJ, who supposedly had this material for a year already, have mentioned its existence, despite having recently published reports investigating this exact issue.

The purported facts beggar belief -- that an extremely famous person took his laptop, full of extremely damaging material, to a repair shop and then simply forgot about it. That a Mac repair shop owner violated all ethical standards to spy on a customer laptop.
That after stealing the customer's laptop and data and finding supposedly treasonous data on it, he gave it to Trump's campaign team instead of the FBI.

There's no evidence that it's true and substantial evidence that it's false.
> They're not acting maliciously, illegally, and/or destructively, which is how I've always defined black-hat. Am I missing something?

It probably is illegal if they aren't disclosing a paid relationship: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/dis...
One might even argue that Facebook/Twitter are doing this explicitly to ensure a party is put in power that won't try to reform them in any way. Their actions show it, and their political donations show it. That's my putting on the tin foil, but I think you could make such an argument. We always talk about Big Oil, etc being friends to Republicans, but often ignore Big Tech's close ties to Democrats.
What happens if the party that is attacking our democracy by spreading disinformation in the last few weeks of the election gets into power?
Even if you completely ignore V2G and look solely at load shedding via deferred charging if most of the energy requirements of the transportation sector were met with battery electric vehicles that's a massive chunk of power that can be deferred.
The Internet Archive is able to save FTP sites. I don’t know if they actively crawl for them, though.
The Biophony Model: A free Keras model for bioacoustic species classification
The Biophony Model is a free Keras model of deep bio-acoustical features very useful for improving species classification & clustering.

Applied to a small number of clips of a critically endangered bird, classification accuracy increased a whopping 76%!
You dummy. How about actual fraud? Hijacking sites, puting in secret back links. Paying for content is not black hat.
Thats great news. Hope to see some technology that works with existing earrings and is removable/upgradeable so less goes to waste on next gen
No one seems to notice he’s also hilarious all the way through.
Amazon Price-Tracker with Alerts
> Is all of the right wing conservative?

Yes. That's literally the definition: "the conservative or reactionary section of a political party or system."

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+right+wing
This confused me as well. I didn't know that there was the
ENV command for dockerfiles. It never occurred to me that someone would want to use that, and certainly not to put a secret in a plaintext dockerfile.

Seems such an obvious tip first up that it put me off reading the rest of the article.
Just like eating 'fads' lollies as a kid is not a slippery slope to drug addiction. Banning clear misinformation* is not a slippery slope to censorship.

Just like drug addiction, each step along the path to censorship is a clear decisive act. I am way more concerned about the fast train to banning encryption than the baby step of banning misinformation.

And by the way, let's also not lose sight of the fact that presenting misinformation is a bastard political act itself. Fuck those people.

Edit:
*on a non government platform
Rule #3: Don’t skimp on the attorney. Get the best you can, regardless of cost.
Your assertion was that using (linking/calling) Boehm GC causes the C program to violate ISO C and thus in some sense stop being a GC'd C program. This is then a property of the interface of libgc. If you're relying on an implementation detail of a library that's not visible from outside the library to make an argument about the actual language of any program that calls into it, you're violating the library abstraction.

A C program doesn't stop being a C program because it calls into a BLAS library that happens to be implemented in Fortran or some low-level library implemented in assembly.

Again: what property of the interface of Boehm GC breaks any revision of the ISO C standard?
You're not thinking about this the right way. Check it out:

Most users don't have a problem with a SaaS accessing their data - it's 'what happens when they get bought out or close up shop', etc. The problem is the user having limited access over their own data.

I mentioned VST/AU audio plugins and the ability to do just this. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/UAD2SatTB38--univers...

So, let a SaaS like Notion have access to your data, but you store it...or it's colocated. If they close up shop or get bought out, your data doesn't disappear because you already have it.
I'm actually running into this issue right now, in the context of a test that I'm writing. The test needs to copy some data out of an image. The image contains a full filesystem, and some of the files are read-only. The copy is done via docker cp, which requires elevated privileges on the host to copy read-only files (see https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/35987 for more info).

As a result, the test needs to be run using sudo to work correctly. The test environment is containerized, so there is a Dockerfile, but as the article mentioned the user in the container should not be root. Is there any plausible way around this? Updating the image is not under my control, and changing the copy code is also riskier than I would like.

Since this is in the context of CI, the threat is lower than live production, but still....
Thank you, Akiselev! And that's exactly where we are: trying to figure out sourcing.
The poster being old enough to have paid taxes that paid for bonds which funded those activities doesn't seem unlikely.
They do not get even a slap on the wrist. There is literally no enforcement for any of this.
Oh, I dunno... a global pandemic, maybe?
Yes. Reddit upvotes are dirt cheap and sites sell article spots all the time.
Twitter explains actions we’ve taken with respect to NY Post articles
Good point. USB C came first, and people would be happy to have all their Lightning cables turned into garbage.

Look, no one said the current state of things is good. I said no matter what Apple does there are downsides.

Obviously when faced with a situation where choice A annoys customers and makes Apple more money and choice B annoys customers and makes Apple less money, they’re going to pick A. They do sometimes leave some money on the table (you used to have to pay for the OS!), but only when it makes customers happy enough to offset the loss in money with gain in good will leading to future money.
I think that anti-astroturf systems are definitely one of the things that should qualify to remain as proprietary data of the people who run the servers.

Much the same as the best online payment processing anti-fraud services are an opaque black box that you feed some data into, and you get a result back. They don't tell you what's going on inside the black box.

I would not be surprised at all if the top vendors for online payment processing fraud detection also offer services for anti-sockpuppet/anti-inauthentic user detection. Some of the methods going on in the back end to analyze the validity of a transaction will also apply.

Considering the modern weaponization of social media to manipulate stocks, elections, protests and such, I would consider that sort of SaaS to be a growth market.
This seems like a poor tool for journalists. History tells us that Google will roll over for just about any subpoena a grand jury might ask for.
Maybe I'm not seeing the powerful features, but I don't understand why people are calling it impressive. It seems to be just moving existing mesh nodes in the normal direction which is an extremely simple operation to implement. The more you sculpt, the worse the mesh quality gets until it starts self-intersecting, and you can't extrude from the side of an existing extrusion. I work on 3D meshing software and the hard problems are ones that involve modifying the connectivity of the mesh not just moving nodes around.
You cannot conclude it is very likely just because there are lots of stars. That's not how math work.
How I initially joined HN: Made an account to point out an astroturf post I saw someone promoting elsewhere to upvote spam.

I was just a passive consumer before.
"classic" games on BSD used to mean rogue, sail and dungeon/zork
there is a spam folder on Messenger, currently for people you don't know
> which, sadly, is hard to discuss openly

Why is this?
Except he walked straight into another CEO position and it's never been a problem despite everyone knowing about his donation to a political group.

Literally all he did was monetarily support a cause ($3,100) in private. He was not out there making statements or instituting changes to the company.

What does that have to do with "leadership and communications"?

I certainly don't align with his political position but respect people's right to hold one without fear or favour.

It has to be one of the most egregious acts of employee activism. And look where it got Mozilla now, the politically palatable replacement has driven it into the ground while it's only held afloat with money from Google.
I don’t think anyone here has mentioned that Firefox is also deprecating FTP.
Sorry but I don't see that as new. Just off of the top of my head the Age of Aquarius new age nonsense, the belief that war would end with World War 1, and fascists believing that democracy was obsoleted with industrialization, heck even the French Revolution and the Enlightenment had similiar lines of thought. There have long been beliefs along those lines about how this time is different.

You could argue that it means that we aren't sufficently historically literate but I don't see how it stands out as worse given ample precedent.
If that's not a backdoor, what in the world is?
It's an idea we considered seriously. But ultimately we decided that we wanted our customers to have the option of throwing away the module when it got outdated, but be able to hang on to the jewelry especially if they buy a precious metal version.
Just curious why you say this is disinformation given the lack of proof. Is this your opinion or are you attacking the article based on the source?
Yes, that's pagination :)

It should be possible to script that out too.
Bringing up false advertising demonstrates a clear misconception that I think is central to your misunderstanding. A claim of false advertising is predicated on the foundation that a reasonable person could have been mislead. But no reasonable person could be mislead into thinking that Google was offering actually unlimited storage, since it is clear to any reasonable person that such a thing is impossible. “Unlimited” is a perfectly acceptable shorthand for “unlimited as far as nearly all users can tell, interested users are welcome to read the full text of the legal contract agreement for more information”.

Olive Garden, after all, cannot actually provide you with “unlimited breadsticks” either.
Nice! If any KDE devs are lurking here, please remove that annoying as all hell bug that makes a sticky note on your desktop whenever you hit ctrl+v. I've tried pasting files several times only to see something I copied 10 minutes ago pop up on an annoying widget I have to spend 30 seconds removing. This happens several times a week, if not daily.
>Twitter is a public forum akin to a government institution and is now censoring political viewpoints it disagrees with.

No it isn't. It's a platform run by a private company for its own ends that offers membership under terms of service which grant it absolute, universal, irrevocable and arbitrary rights over user content and accounts. Terms of service that everyone with an account agreed to beforehand.

That it has global reach no more makes it a public forum than CNN, the BBC or the Wall Street Journal, and "akin to a government institution" is just an attempt to muddy the waters between the definitions of public and private enterprise.

If you or anyone wants to make this a free speech issue, don't misrepresent the nature of the problem. State that you want the government to take over social media platforms, restrict their free speech rights and force them to publish content against their will. Even if it's racist, even if it's false, even if they're not a general purpose forum, the men with guns should force them to.

People who claim, for instance, that it should be a crime for websites to moderate any content, in any way, that isn't strictly illegal, or that all moderation should be subject to judicial review (both positions I've seen repeatedly here) should realize just how radical and potentially authoritarian such moves would be, particularly given their correlation with the current atmosphere of anti-leftist panic.
If you can show me the invested COW cost of electron is low enough I can live in electron apps.

If Microsoft re-works W10+ to be a thin shim over the kernel and Office works on Linux clean-port, not webapp, I'll be fine too.

Mostly what people want is the plan9 plumber: the ability to point and select things, and have s/w contextually work out how to DTRT with it. This is ORM. Corba. whatever.

Patents suck. If you depend on patented methods to make fonting hints work, you are evil.
Here's the thing, Apple, for better or for worse, dictates what looks good and what doesn't. These are clearly a technical downgrade from AirPods, but I'd also argue these are a fashion / status downgrade as well.

To me, this is the kind of thing you'd see in a kid's spy kit toy. It's tacky, and in my opinion, destined to fail hard - if they even make it to market.
Boxers certainly take a knee or quit in the corner, but it is frowned upon. MMA is just a completely different dynamic. There is no standing count and the trend of refs stopping fights early on flurries of arm punches is undeniable.
Don't confuse Buzzfeed with Buzzfeed News. The former is a full of lists and click-bait. The latter is an award winning news site.
I first came across this while studying Roberts Rules of Order. Since these rules are followed in many fraternities, unions, and even the US legislative branch government. It’s very likely that the phrase is being used “incorrectly” by people familiar with that style of meeting.
To be fair, it is to “call the question”, and I very likely misremember it as “beg” because it’s so common.
To “call the question” means to end debate and vote. In this regard, the meaning used “incorrectly” in logic terms, is very precise in a colloquial one.
So, if you feel bad about the grammar nazis breathing down your throat, say: “...which calls the question...” and you will be safe.
Alternatively, though, you could reserve the phrase for the times that you genuinely see a logical fallacy. The only downside to this is that you’ll likely still be surrounded by people who don’t know, and probably don’t care, about the difference.
> Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, broke the omertà in October last year, telling a conference in Philadelphia that he was “something of a conscientious objector” to social media.

I wonder if this reversal in his conscience has also compelled him to return the fat stacks of cash he made with Facebook.