skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Unfortunately HN put me in the "You're replying too fast, please slow down" state last night so I was unable to reply, and so I'm not sure if anyone will see this reply now. I wonder if that should be called censorship?)

There is absolutely a "market for censorship," because there's a market for everything a company does! That's the whole idea of the free market - every decision a publicly-traded company makes is a participation in the market, and they take the whole state of the world into account as best as they can. When a corporation says "Happy Pride" or "Merry Christmas" or whatever, sure, part of that is the genuine belief of some of their employees, but there is absolutely a decision that doing so is better for the business than not. (Some of this decision is based on whether it's better for the business to make those employees happy. Most of it is based on whether they'll make potential customers angry by doing so or not doing so.)

If social media companies are getting heat in the public discourse for not doing X, then yes, it's a market-based calculation to say to themselves, "If we keep not doing X, our public image will suffer, which is bad for the business, so let's do it." And since the public discourse changes, the market conditions that lead to certain decisions change with it, too. If on December 1 the media gets mad about people not saying "Merry Christmas," on December 2 the market value of deciding to say it has gone up, and nobody would be surprised to see multiple companies react or expect them to have talked to each other before reacting. If last week the media gets mad about Holocaust-denial content, this week the market value of banning it has gone up.

... And there's a more visible form of this which I left out because I thought it was implied by "responded to market conditions": both companies wanted to make an unpopular decision because they think it will be long-term good for their business, but whoever moves first will suffer a short-term loss. As soon as one company does it, though, that gives cover for any other company. You see this in pretty self-explanatory free markets like competing gas stations across the street: if station A raises their prices, station B is free to raise their prices to match without losing any business relative to status quo ante. So they both end up waiting until they're pretty confident the other wants to raise prices too (which - again - they can judge from the state of the world and not from talking to each other), and then someone updates their signboard, and then the other gas station follows.

It's not collusion when two gas stations raise their prices to the same price. It's how the market works. You can dismiss the fact that the free market is fundamentally an engine of communication as "not interesting" if you like, but that doesn't change how the free market works. It's not coincidental at all - they participate in the same market. But it's also how the market is supposed to work.
I got into a dialog with ‘Jedimind’.

That has brought me back to the thread more often than I would usually bother with, and I’ve commented on things that seem to have more complexity to them than is apparent.
I fucking HATE thinking about E-Mail.
This made me rant about it in my blog: http://dusted.dk/pages/phlog/2020-10-15.txt
nope, they are not scratched out: https://www.google.com/search?q=jesus+Hagia+Sophia
>The number would have been significantly lower if they had used something more effective to inform the public.

Genuine question: what would that be exactly?

I agree that government shouldn't only use private sector communication channels as the primary channel.
For the last two jobs I've taken, I looked at the Glassdoor salaries.

The first was right in the middle of the range Glassdoor stated. The second was actually much higher than what Glassdoor said, likely because I was joining a new team on a new project with a good budget.

Idk if it's being gamed. But if anything, I'd imagine it would be lower than what they would offer, simply because the data might be from employees that have started long ago and haven't gotten raises to match what a new offer would given for salary. As well as dated information (someone added their salary 3 years ago, but has gotten raises and hasn't updated their salary on Glassdoor).
Can't tweet, can't load tweets. Glad it's not just me!
I'm 41 and I am 90% sure I've had undiagnosed ADHD or some form since forever.

How do you go about an adult diagnosis for that? Do I just ask my doc "Hey have I had ADHD my whole life?"
At least one person in that class must have picked that class for an "easy A", wrote class papers and exams as was required, and thought they got a great deal out of it. Education is a market, you know, you buy a grade and you pay with studying. The less you pay, the better the deal, and everyone loves a good deal.
> "The earth is flat" is not a claim that's false upon closer inspection of the available data, it's a claim that's prima facie false

No, it isn't. We view the claim as absurd today only because we have the benefit of millennia of collection of evidence and arguments and theory that has established "the earth is round" beyond a reasonable doubt. But for a person who either does not have access to all that evidence and arguments and theory, or who simply refuses to believe them (and, as someone else upthread noted, it can be a valid heuristic strategy for some people to refuse to believe claims by other people that they can't understand for themselves, in order to avoid being taken advantage of), the claim that the earth is flat is not absurd, which means it's not prima facie false.
"...looking over shoulders and taking attendence."

Being micromanaged remotely isn't much fun either. Like having a stalker. I'd get voice calls within minutes of a Skype status update. "Ah, no, everything's ok. Just grabbing lunch. Thanks for checking."
I think you would agree that there is no plausible amount of spam traffic which would justify google murdering a user to cut the spam down. That it's just incomparable, right? Even though the cost of being dead would be borne by the user and their family and not part of google's bottom line-- murder for spam reduction would be right out.

I don't think it's that big a leap to say that it is unlikely that there is any plausible reduction in spam from an automated facility that justifies the kind of extreme harm and disruption created by locking an honest user out of their decades long email-- which might be more damaging to them then a home fire--, with zero effectual recourse. Yet it happens because the cost of the spam is on google's 'balance sheet' while the damage to the user is not.

So that is the sort of argument that I'm making. I think google is creating damages wildly out of proportion to any plausible benefit, but it works out for them currently because the damages are externalities.

Were Google a more conventional company the threat of litigation (even litigation they'd ultimately win) would help internalize some of these costs, but Google has grown to such a size and scope that even the federal government finds prosecuting them to be extremely daunting.
You have the card. Not a joke, that's really it
What about people using it in the US?
This is absolutely terrible. All these other companies deal with fraud and abuse in a more humane way. Why can't Google do the same.

If someone's actually in charge there, they need to really do a big shake up in whatever team deals with these fraud and account closures as they've been ruining the brand
The app looks great. What technologies did you use to develop it?
> What I can't do in C is bind one of the many values of type void to a variable

The type void has no values. It's similar to the nil type in Lisp (which also has no values), except that it doesn't form the bottom of a type spindle in terms of inheritance: whereas nil is the subtype of every other type including itself, void is no such thing.

The claim that void is a type which holds one element is like saying it's the null type/class of Common Lisp (which has one element, the object nil). That's a different beast.

> The C standard, of course, may disagree, and claim that there is no value of type "void"

Since there is actually such an abstract concept (a type with an empty set of values), the C definition holds water.

I just added Common Lisp to the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_type That kind of wrecks some of its claims.
That's why I said "partly due to this effect". I think it makes us more susceptible to these efforts because we are not leaving our echo chambers.
Future Founders Conference for Women Globally
Are you asking if billing will be primarily/secondarily based on traffic use?
Same for me. Toronto
Consider substituting some words and the argument holds. Instead of 'intelligent' say 'uninformed in relevant areas' which would work well to defend non-tech-savvy seniors.

> cynicism should be a default strategy for everything you're not an expert in

This would indeed follow, but if we allow for a small number of trusted sources can mostly be resolved.
"Free amplicfication" isn't about absolute lack of cost, it's about cost relative to older mechanisms. The printing press allowed information to spread much faster and more cheaply than having a monk write it by hand. It also allowed ideas that were not monk-approved to appear in print. When it first came out people were pretty upset about the incorrect ideas that propogated as a result.

Eventually people with power figured out how to mostly control the printing press and so created the heavily gate-kept institutions you describe. The transitions our society is facing now echo these past struggles.
I think people incorrectly assume that a child will type in a childish manner and be easy to spot.

I used to post online when I was 12. I wanted to be part of the conversation and feel like an adult. What usually happened is that people would label me a "troll" and tell others to ignore me. I would genuinely use the phrase "I'm just asking questions", and people would treat me like I was intentionally trying to inflame the situation.
> People dont really understand how dangerous of a situation were in right now. When big tech platforms can amplify or decrease thoughts,

Every form of media has that power, social media is not at all special in this respect. A post getting banned from twitter makes no difference to someone that gets their news from Fox News and talk radio. It's up to the people to manage their own thoughts, same as it ever was.
I miss the fail whale
Maybe temporary due to the New York Post's article..who knows
Rulemaking is a standard function of the executive, to execute laws.
There are regular HTML exports as well as support for daily exports to Dropbox and Google Drive
Debit cards have PINs; credit cards don’t (edit: or maybe they do, but I don’t know what mine is). For credit cards usually just presenting it physically is enough to authorize anything. Online you usually have to provide the card number, verification code (printed on the back of most cards), and postal code of the billing address.
I'm using the term irrational to mean "not within the domain of the rational", not as a synonym for "stupid" or "folly".
Since the beginning of time, civil societies have had police and a justice system. I know it's in the old testament.

Society needs an authority to turn to to resolve disputes or injustice and to maintain order, the alternative is chaos.

That authority may not be perfect, it may have certain biases that need to be worked on, but without it, disputes will be won by the superior marksman.
Mine has a PIN, but I only have to use it if I'm calling support, getting a gift card, or trying to use it at an ATM to get a cash advance.

I'm not 100% sure about the ATM though, I've never tried to use it, plus the interest rate for a cash advance is nuts.
It's certainly possible to twist this situation around to where I don't give you money, like giving it to the guy right next to you.

The action there is separate from the speech. I imagine for these disinformation type campaigns, the action is voting
How many people in a "friends" list are people you actually know?
Unless these second and third order effects are more profitable than the first order ones, I don't see any incentive for social media companies to promote them.
Not if they talk about it in terms like "team energy" or "culture fit," right?
Nobody likes to date people who are always trashing their exes. Board members end up choosing the CEO, do they not? There are degrees of dirty laundry airing that could end up burning bridges with people you've never even met before.

Meanwhile the next CEO knows there's a rat, and can work out for themselves who that might be before their first 100 days are up, by which point most managers have been typecast. After that it's very hard to fully take advantage of major new insights you've had. It's an uphill battle to make major changes to your style of management.
Do you have any links on the past failures? I of course heard some of the attempts, but not the failures.
Telling Twitter what to say violates their free speech.
> Science can have lots of utility and not find us truth at all.

It depends how far you want to jump into the rabbit hole. 2+2=4. It does. It always will and always has. It isn't just utility that is useful for building things. It is a universal truth and until someone can prove it actually does not, then it does. No ones lived experience changes this.

And it's not just about finding facts and attaching moral or ethical considerations to them. It's about making claims of knowledge in ways that are _falsifiable_. Any claim must have a way of being proven wrong, otherwise it isn't something we should accept into the discourse of what is knowledge and what is not. 2+2=4 is a claim that is falsifiable and therefore valid to propose.

> ...but I don't think that the majority of left-wing post modernists are anti-science per say

I don't think most right wing people are either - except when it is convenient. People appeal to science until it doesn't help or in fact is detrimental to their cause. Science will make us uncomfortable and I agree that many bad things have been done because "science". But at the minimum, claims from eugenists were falsifiable and in time they have been disproven.

And yes I agree, we need to be careful how we interpret things. I love the left's idea that "race is a social construct". I 100% agree it is. Yes, there is DNA that determines race and people are therefore biologically "different" - but it's unimportant. The social constructs that exist made race into something more than it is. It's no more important than nose shape, or eye color, or fingerprint shape, etc.
The same system as Amber alerts
My camera (the a6000) isn't supported by this software, so I've been very happy with my $12 hdmi capture card, weird proprietary HDMI cable and dummy battery.
Good read with similar ideas and same name https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html
Yes, I agree. We made our SmartEarrings™ for situations where AirPods and earbuds are not socially acceptable. And yet, in discussing hearing aids, I forgot that AirPods-as-hearing aids won't work precisely for that reason: the social cost of wearing hearables in meetings.
Your coding challenge is costing you good developers
It's your money. Not Wall Streets. Together, we can take it back
$15 for Netflix, $119 for Amazon Prime, $1000s for investment fees? Your biggest expense is the one you don’t know about.
> made replaceable batteries an impossibility

I was pretty excited to see that the new Fairphone actually has a user replaceable battery
> but also that they are entitled to have their thoughts broadcasted at large using the amplification mechanisms I mentioned above.

Twitter is blocking this story in Direct Messages (equivalent to a private email). How is that amplification?

Also, Twitter could de-prioritize tweets with the link on a global feed, while still showing them to people who follow the specific person.

And that too is not amplification - you asked to see messages from that person, you should be able to see them.
I think the quality of ideas has improved. We focus on disinformation, but social media gets used for a lot of other things. Reading a dry article on police brutality (which let’s face it, people just skipped over in the past) is a lot less impactful than seeing something shared by a friend.

I think we’re overestimating the effect of social media. A certain group of highly educated urban liberals is shocked by Trump. (And I don’t say this pejoratively. My college educated friends were literally despondent after he was elected.) And they’re looking for an explanation. And it so happened that social media became a major force around the same time. But I think that’s mostly, though not completely, a coincidence.

Social media didn’t create Trump. Right wing populism is happening all over the world, in Europe, India, etc. Its a reaction to liberalism and globalism that’s been brewing for decades. And social media didn’t create Trump’s audience. My mom, a 70-year old Bangladeshi woman who has voted straight ticket Democrat since she was naturalized, thinks Trump is too unpolished, but loves his “energy” and “vigor.” She thinks he would be a “great President” if he could “implement his ideas.” My mom doesn’t have a Twitter account. (I think she’d love Boris Johnson, i.e. Trump with a bit more polish and competent.)
She didn’t get this from Breitbart. She watches CNN in a loop all day.

Social media isn’t not a factor, but I think folks overestimate how much of a factor.
Stupidity is like charge.
Stupidity mobility, hence conductance, hence current has dramatically increased.
Stupidity mobility.
5.5 year old article. Please note with a `(2015)` in the title.

I don't imagine it's any better today.
PINs ARE required.

It's just American banks pressure Visa and Mastercard not to implement and so they get waivers after waivers to postpone implementation.

Here in Poland and everywhere else in the world PINs have been absolutely required on new cards for over a decade.
Well removing section 230 would actually be deregulation and clarifying the interpretation is just enforcing whats already in place. 230 is legislation that protects tech companies currently. But they are acting as publishers and not platforms which has sparked action.
> When you put those kind of people in isolation and a high stress situation you get those kinds of behaviors.

The Puritans were by no means the only people of that time who had mainstream beliefs that we now consider delusional. You'd be hard pressed to find any significant body of people of that time who didn't.

> For example, climate change denial.

I would also say, climate change alarmism. Which, if you are inclined to disagree (you might not be, I don't know, but I suspect at least some people reading this will be), illustrates another aspect of the problem: it's hard to improve mainstream beliefs when there is not general agreement over how to improve them--which new beliefs should take the place of the ones that are claimed to be wrong.
I really want to tweet about twitter being down but I can't because twitter is down.
I agree that the problematic investor shouldn't be outed here. The investor isn't here to defend himself, and outing him will cause him irreparable (and perhaps undue) reputational damage.

[edit] Is giving the accused a platform to defend himself that unpopular of an opinion? Online shaming often gets out of hand and goes too far. I recommend this TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_ronson_when_online_shaming_goe...
Twitter being over capacity makes me wonder what event just hit
Lidar used to cost $75,000–here’s how Apple brought it to the iPhone
these cheapo hdmi capture cards work great: https://www.ebay.com/itm/HDMI-to-USB2-0-Video-Capture-Card-1...
Great Barrington Declaration Is Wrong About Herd Immunity
Getting an HTTP 500 Internal Server Error from https://twitter.com/i/api/2/timeline/home.json (in Developer Tools) along with the message '{"errors":[{"message":"Internal error","code":131}]}' which means an unknown internal error occurred: https://developer.twitter.com/en/support/twitter-api/error-t...

The status page still shows green: https://api.twitterstat.us/
In the U.S., 95-98.
Brain Makes You a Different Person Every Day – Issue 91: The Brain
We are not talking about next video suggestion here. We are talking about censoring direct messages or feeds people deliberately follow. Tech companies inserting their political bias in direct communications. Not amplification.
I trust apple with privacy, I don't trust Amazon. That extra money is well worth it imo
fwiw I think k3s also has an option to use canonical's dqlite.

Edit: they deprecated the option https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/installation/ha-embed...
Until you are delisted from google, banned by youtube, blocked by facebook and twitter and now your online potential was reduced in 90%. Imagine being blocked from every walmart,costco, 7-eleven and being told that it is freedom because you still have the choice to go elsewhere
I see the value, but 1) this is a solution for a problem that's been cheaply solvable for years via brand-independent options, and 2) I find it kind of funny that people who strongly care about buying extra hardware/dongles would use Apple products...
"slippery slope" is not a fallacy. It happens all the time. It happened with privacy. Do you not remember when a printer driver phoning home with usage stats was a national news story? Now you are a a bad company if you don't do this.
I gently encourage you to dust off your copy of the CIA Sabotage Field Manual and set about getting your tormenter fired.
I think you meant switch(y) instead of case(y)?
I'm not a fan of Javascript on microcontollers, but you can't ask that question without asking "Okay, so which language?"

Your really small language alternatives:

1) BASIC--Okay, but not exactly mainstream nowadays

2) Tcl--My favorite on small devices, but it's more like a Lisp than a mainstream language so there's a barrier

3) A Scheme/Lisp--again sufficiently different that it presents a barrier to entry

4) Forth--For those who don't find Lisp different enough

5) Lua--1-based in a 0-based world AND you have to add so many "extensions" that its no longer "small" when you finish.

And ... ?

As opposed to:

A) Espruino aka Javascript--everybody and their dog can put together 10 lines of Javascript and make it work. Resources are everywhere. You're probably not building anything large enough to activate most of Javascripts negatives (generally related to concurrency and building in the large)

B) Micropython -- a lot of people with scientific background can throw together a couple dozen lines of Python and connect to something in their lab. Lots of resources and help available.

MY problem is that I would like something like one of these languages but that runs in <4K RAM and <16K FLASH. I want an actual small language that runs in something smaller than an Apple IIe, thanks.
Big citation needed on that. I highly doubt twitter's user base is 40% Republican-trump supporters. Only 20% of their use base in is in the US. And Republicans need to remember that because of the electoral college their electoral wins do not mean there is a silent majority of supporters out there.
Mine has a PIN. Only place that ever asks for it are gas pumps.
Well, he was definitely investigating Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky. The prosecutor's office seized several of his houses and other property in February 2016 [1]. Ten days later, Biden urged Poroshenko to fire the prosecutor. Another four days later, the prosecutor was asked to resign.

[1] https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/322395.html
It's too bad that giving critical feedback in your own name (to show skin in the game) is going to burn you in other jobs. Few want an employee that can bite the feeding hand.

Interestingly, I tend to trust more some anonymous answer on Quora because the person won't get any upvotes to display on their profile so (hopefully) their only incentive was sharing their story.