skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Sphinx's nose has been missing a long, long time.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza#Missing_n...
I haven't given it much thought, but I like Jetbrain's compromise[0]. You pay a subscription to get all the updates, but you get to keep a perpetual license to any specific version (major+minor, you still receive bugfixes) if it has been covered by your subscription for 12 months or more.

This way you can choose to receive updates indefinitely and support development with your subscription, or buy/stay with a version you are using if you do not need/want the newer ones. (Buying an annual subscription grants you the perpetual licence immediately apparently, I have no experience with this.)

[0] : https://sales.jetbrains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207240845-What...
Reusable bags support the argument the GP was making about tradeoffs. Reusable bags are good for stopping the production of plastic waste, but the resulting CO2 emissions are much greater that single use thin plastic bags, unless you reuse the reusable bags thousands of times.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/12/17337602/plastic-tote-bag...
Did I claim that Twitter had no effect on broader society? No. I claimed that Twitter theoretically banning content related to stories like Watergate, the Panama Papers, etc, would have had no relevant effect on the dissemination of those stories beyond its platform. In other words, that Twitter's policies have no relevant effect on the media landscape at large or the spread of information outside of its domain.

Russian bots may or may not be a problem, but that problem is orthogonal to the point I'm trying to make.
FWIW timeline is loading for me, but I am not able post a tweet.
I tried paying money for it. I fought with one newspaper's website for an hour to figure out how to buy one year of access without recurring charges to my credit card. When I finally figured out that I needed to buy a gift subscription for myself it turns out their credit card form only has the next four years as expiration date options (my credit card expires six years from now).

The media isn't interested in financial support from their readership. Too many of us to deal with. They prefer a few powerful interests and a small number of big checks written.
The only happy consequence is that it's probably driving a certain person nuts right now.
> Now we are trying to figure out how to manage real time publishing platforms that can't (or won't?) validate identity, won't take responsibility for fact-checking, are open to targeted manipulation by adversaries, and are capable of distributing damaging lies and propaganda with little oversight or financial consequences.

The identity validation part is worth repeating. I'm not a fan of real names, but I'd consider opting in to an identity that follows me between platforms so I could build a reputation.

I'd also like to see more transparency from social media platforms. I'd love to be able to get metrics on a post. X% of likes came from these countries. X% of retweets came from known VPN IPs. X% of shares came from IPs in known botnets.

I'd also LOVE to filter out people that participate over a certain volume. If someone is spending 8h+ per day on Twitter, I want them hidden because IMO they have nothing to add if all of their experience is from social media and not the real world.
> How would an offline-first Internet look like?

Did people not grow up on Juno Email services?

Oh wow. An entire generation of modern computer users never had the opportunity, did they? You'd connect to the internet to download your email, then you disconnected (otherwise, you'd use up too much of your phone line and get a big phone bill).

The POP3 protocol still works. You can still get Mozilla Thunderbird and grab POP3-style emails from GMail or whatever. But people want IMAP instead, an always-connected model provides better idea of which emails were "read" or "not read", for example.

Ex: You may download all emails on your Phone, but maybe Email#0 is never opened on your phone. If you used POP3, you don't know if Email#0 was read or not, the protocol just assumed you read it. POP3 was more useful back then, when you only had one computer of any sort and didn't have to worry about keeping multiple devices in sync.

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How did forums work back then? Through USENET. A similar concept, where you'd download the messages, then disconnect from the internet as you read all the updates.

BBS machines however were online-only, and the start of real-time collaboration IIRC (not that I ever used BBS, but that's my understanding of that old telnet technology). I don't know the history: whether BBS or IRC came first (or which was popular first...)

The "Killer App" for the internet, AOL Email / Juno Email / etc. etc. was offline-first, by and large. At least, to me (a good ol' "Eternal September" user who joined the internet community well after 1993).

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Anyway, you'd read and write emails while offline. Then you'd hit "send", which would boot up the modem, take over your phone line (woops, Mom's talking on the phone. Sorry mom!!). Wait for Mom to get off the phone, THEN you connect to the internet...
> Democratic politicians are the loudest ones calling for their breakup, ie. Bernie, AOC, Warren.

Censoring Bernie's/AOC's political rivals (carrot) could be a better move to avoid being broken up than punching back directly (stick) which may only motive them further.
How is that related? Environments and languages change. That's entirely different to running programs with zero-downtime deployments, load-balancing and traffic management, health monitoring, logging and observability, secret and config management, storage volumes, security roles, and much more.

What is your replacement for all that?
I am in the Bay Area.
The problem is not free speech, people should focus on the monetary aspects which is the root cause of this. Social media and ad revenue are the driving forces. Free speech would still be not an issue weren't it for those conflicting interests of the social media companies.
PassiveLogic raises $16M to simplify the designing of smart building systems
Yes, because you don't know what you don't know, and you won't find out if you don't allow dissent.
If you highlight the name, the highlighted text is {{14}}. I don't think the lead investor's name is necessarily 6 characters. FWIW, I was deeply curious about who the investor was and spent some time investigating who lead the fundraising rounds on Crunchbase, but I couldn't narrow it down sufficiently.
Slowing to a crawl is counterproductive greed essentially as it repels the user base and doesn't aid sales. Google won out with text adds as opposed to "punch the monkey" autoplay banner crap.

Aside from that there is the issue of portability which comes with the power - namely supporting everything and barrier to entry. But the bigger difference is probably convenience. Web typically needs no install and less commitment and gives a single set of servers to work on for everybody.

Take a general referral/word of mouth. Web has more or less "go to the URL and try it with no commmitments or extra steps" and web shopping found not needing to register was crucial for people actually trying. Now compare local first "Hey you should try and download Notepad++/git/etc." And that is before IT policies or licenses get involved which can mean a certain segment get a hard block they wouldn't for a web service unless they specifically decided that say "pastebin is a hard no" and then missed that the new hotness is say clipboard.com anyway.

We had an approach which tried for its own best of both worlds with its own sandbox and that was in browser Java applets.
The Moon May Have Shielded Early Earth from the Sun
I remember Microsoft pushing hybrid apps called "Smart Clients" back in 2003.
So many fine people on both sides of the Silicon Valley soap opera
I quite like it. It promotes a concise writing style which wouldn't be as acceptable if it were on a blog without character limits.

Whenever I write something like this I've found I end up constructing each tweet a bit like a lengthy bullet point. I cut everything unnecessary and try to make my point as clearly as possible in as few words & tweets as possible.

When I write a blog post I naturally end up optimising for writing quality, and what could have been 5 tweets ends up as 1,500 words.
Caps lock is cruise control for coolness
I have an old broken one I'd be happy to mail to you. Contact info in my profile.
What if a pill can change your politics or religious beliefs?
This is not just because of disinformation though. Now, it's easier than ever to second-guess your doctor and any other expert (and I know because I've done this, and even been right on occasion).

For example, every time someone worries about their health, they can sort through all possible diagnoses online, and convince themselves they have a certain sickness just because the symptoms match. A doctor will use Bayesian reasoning and conclude the problem is really a very common infection or something, but when the untrained mind is overwhelmed with information, Occam's Razor doesn't hold.

The same goes for everything else. Information is dangerous for those who don't know how to reason about it carefully and properly, which is most of us, in most fields.
I currently use Xerox "NeverTear" (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00JWLSZY6/) though there are several other brands readily available that I assume are pretty much the same thing.

I might try Rite in the Rain next time I need to restock (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rite-Rain-Unisex-Waterproof-Copier/...) as it looks about 50% the price-per-sheet and is thinner (75gsm vs 95gsm) which may be better for the maps-folded -into-pocket use case. I am amused/confused that one of the keywords in the URL is "unisex".

Though at only a few sheets per run and most organised runs being cancelled right now, I won't be needing to restock for a while...
This must be it. Facebook has been hand wringing about censorship for the past few years and all of a sudden, Facebook and Twitter immediately act in lockstep? It might explain why the Biden campaign can’t deny it as well.
ftfy:

They will go to the supreme court to fight for [a sole proprietor's] right not to sell cupcakes to gay people but then turn around and demand to control what [giant corporation] does with their servers.
I have to agree with this. How is this really any different than blocking spam links or links to undesirable websites in direct messages? How does it differ from moderators on a website removing users from a group for valid or for trivial reasons? Does a company like Twitter have any obligation to allow anything it doesn't want on its platform?

This situation is very much a double-bind. In this case, someone gets to make noise about the "truth they won't let you see" and claim bias.
There are many reasons why I dont believe in self driving cars, the first (and strongest) is to imagine that the software was written by my collegues (and myself).
> I'd also like to see something that takes it a step further--build the docker image AND a set of kubernetes manifests that reference that docker image

You might want to check out Garden for that (https://docs.garden.io/basics/how-garden-works). It thinks about your stack as a graph and manages build and deploy dependencies. And it supports the use case you're describing, i.e., you can combine a Docker image and a set of K8s manifests into a single "module" and the manifests can reference the Docker image.

Full disclosure: I'm affiliated with the project.
>I still wish you can express your views all over the internet without the risk of being cancelled.

I don't, especially if me spreading nonsense directly causes harm to a large number of people and the society. I do not believe my unlimited free speech rights is of higher priority the health and wellbeing of the overall society.

The whole "individual rights always triumphs over the interest of the society" is exactly the type of American exceptionalism I mentioned. It's a very strange notion in many cultures (and no doubt you'd say those cultures are inferior) and it's more or less another symptom of a culture that worships narcissistic behavior.
And to top it all off, their BBQ isn't really good. So on top of getting mediocre BBQ, you now have to deal with cleaning up fraud on your account.
>HackerNews could not exist in your proposed world

Provably, definitively wrong.

1. HN relies on the "platform" choice to avoid responsibility for 3rd party posts. HN also relies on operators like dang moderating at the server side.

2. The proposed model would prevent operators moderating at the server side, when the "platform" model was selected.

3. Historically, Usenet had workflow, content, and userbase similar to HN - multiuser, near-realtime threaded discussions with text and links, on technical & related subjects.

4. Usenet didn't rely on centralized moderation by the operators; instead the moderation was performed at the client side, by end users. This was entirely sufficient for the purpose. This was done partly in collaborative ways, with sharing of moderation tools & datafiles.

5. Certain groups were centrally moderated through middlemen; participation in those was optional, and content was explicitly submitted to moderation. Those were generally ran in parallel to similar unmoderated groups.

HN, and other fora, would do just fine as "platforms whose operators abstain from interfering in the flow of content", as informed by the historical precedent.

It irks me how quickly we forget the hard wrought lessons from the early internet.
It might be the same problem. Candidates get national security briefings so they might have been advised not to deny it.
Stepping outside the US, there is evidence that misinformation spread of Facebook (including WhatsApp) was directly responsible for the Rohingya genocide and forced migration [1]. At what point do these platforms have an obligation to not allow themselves be used for such campaigns?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
I've personally seen my (and others') negative google reviews removed. I reposted mine since I'd saved it; we'll see how long it stays up.
FWIW, USPS tracking page is incredibly slow right now
If that's true we were already doomed, being given the choice between two very crappy paths.
I'd cite portrait mode as counter-example. The optics are irrelevant if the software can emulate the look. And thus far, from what I understand, portrait mode systems have not had to use the depth sensors/lidar that's available!!! I would be very wary of assuming the larger format optics are necessary or helpful!

The look can be done. There are some advantages retained by the larger sensor but it's a category that will shrink.
True - I’d generally want to put the same information in both, but there are many companies that don’t.

One is part of the retail store experience, and the other is a kind of technical note. It depends a lot on what kind of developer you are and what kind of product you make whether these are the same.
I wonder if it will swing to an extreme the other way, as many pendulum like responses tend to. In other words, if WFH will become more common than is reasonable as we reach and then pass an ideal.
Hiding negative articles about Biden that wouldn't have been hidden if they were about Trump goes under which of those kinds? Section 230 lets you filter out unrelated disturbing content like porn, it doesn't let you inject political bias.
"Almost free speech" doesn't necessarily mean dissent isn't allowed
Justice system, yes. Police? Not so much. Find an Old Testament reference to a police force, if you wish to be credible on this point.
If it forces wikileaks to redact the CC details of innocent bystanders then I'm all for it.
We should at least have local software for home automation. It should not be necessary to go out to "the cloud" to set the thermostat or turn on the lights.
Stop-and-Frisk Never Ended. Now IT’S Gone Digital
We've built a local first social media app, planetary.social, it's in testflight, but go to bit.ly/planetarytesting to join.
> A stated rationale for protecting internet platform providers was to provide true diversity of political discourse.

Citation needed.

The most prominent case that led to the passage of section 230 was the decision in Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co. which had nothing to do with politics.
I think it will eventually. We're still in the advent of computing technologies in the grand scheme of history. Much like how companies can pay someone to make their own custom software, they'll likewise be able to do it with their own custom distros and operating systems for particular security. I would say we're still a solid 100+ years out from that.
> If 90% of your insight into social interactions comes from clickbait social media sites selecting the most egregious stories and videos from around the world, of course you're going to think "stupidity is expanding"

Agreed. Isn't this the majority of people though? And if this is in fact the majority of people, then doesn't it mean that stupidity is in fact expanding?

I don't think any of us are going to hit upon the end-all-be-all decisive proof either way, but I think there's value in considering how everyone perceiving it getting larger may be the definition of it getting larger.
"Hey, I'm going to leave the control of all my personal files to a faceless third party who can arbitrarily lock me out of access without due process."

No. Don't use the cloud for that.

"But maybe we can fix the cloud by adding more cloud to the cloud, so that we can back up the cloud to the cloud?"

No. Stop using the cloud.

"But I have (hundreds of gigs of photos|twenty years of emails) there! I was going to pour a glass of nice Chablis and gingerly sift through them all on a Tuesday evening!"

No. Stop using the cloud.

"But I'm working on the next Great American Novel and I couldn't possibly be tasked with syncing a backup of it to a USB stick!"

No. Stop using the cloud, damnit! How hard is it to understand?
After 65+ you can withdraw the funds for any reason without penalty. The so "prevailing wisdom" seems to be to not use the HSA for medical expenses and cover those with after-tax money so your HSA can continue to grow.

Of course, this is predicated on being able to cover medical expenses without your HSA.
If you want to hear what the NY Post has to say, you can sign up to their email newsletter [1]. You can forward those emails to those who care what you like.

In regards to section 230, the whole point of it was to allow platforms to selectively restrict content from third parties. Before 230 some courts had ruled that if they restricted content from any third party, then they shared in liability for any third party content they did not restrict. So if I deleted spam for boner pills from my chess BBS, but did not delete someone’s accusation that a particular chess book was plagiarized I might be sued by the book author for libel. To ensure I would not be liable for that kind of thing, I would have to let the boner pill spam stay, along with anything else that was not illegal.

[1] https://email.nypost.com/
About 5% of domestic and 60% of international freight for the US is by water by weight.

It is not an easy comparison to do because the last mile distribution kind of freight gets mixed in with the raw materials kind of freight.

Canada and Mexico aside, you can’t really do international trade without ships, in 2019 international trade volume was 10% of our GDP.
What happened during the early 2010s is that colleges and universities started implementing Stasi methods like anonymous reporting on professors and making professors write humiliating self-criticisms.

All this to appease a fragile and spoiled generation.

The effects now show on the Internet, where "open" source projects implement similar oppressive tactics in the name of attracting new "contributors" (who rarely do anything useful).

Unfortunately, the boomers, who first raked in all the money and leadership positions in SV companies, support this cultural revolution in a last attempt to preserve their power.

[1] former East German surveillance apparatus
Oh, so you are agreeing with me?

Ok then!
But it would fall for a cardboard stop sign on a stick held up by a troublemaker.
Of course convincing individuals not to use these services is important. But it's not a solution to the problem.
I believe the vast majority of the content you see on Twitter and pretty much everything you see on Facebook is from people you follow (ads excluded). Twitter/FB though use an algorithmic feed mechanism to reorder the posts which makes sense. I think they should be transparent about how they generate the feed, but I don't think you can hold them accountable for the content of a post someone made just because it got reordered to the top by an algorithm.
Remember all those "Build a Twitter Clone" coding tutorials? They'll all have to be updated to now include legal teams and should probably include a primer on the political process as well as a primer on the history and continued evolution of free speech.
> And often digging out the inscription of the name of the king depicted -- which implies they could read it

Does it? Wouldn't the name be set off in a conspicuous cartouche?
Can you add some more steps to the flow chart? wondering how insane we can sound here.
But, it seems like there are more polymaths in the past than now - more people who were extremely smart, even if the general intelligence of people nowadays has increased.
I think being a "casual" polymath is the important part: like the article mentions, you'd need a deep understanding of a subject to actually have it's interdisciplinary benefits. I think with the Internet today, it's easy to see so many interesting hobbies and topics, which takes time and effort away from just pursuing one or a few things really in depth.
Apple is clearly treated by the media differently than other companies, in both positive and negative ways.

Sure you don’t see any reason why apple shouldn’t have the perception of them ‘hurt’.

But that’s not the point - the point is that Apple doesn’t want the perception of themselves to be hurt, and so they are going to act accordingly.
I'm not a CEO, nor do the livelihoods of people depend on me.

But I feel the pain everyday of having to answer to my managers who are constantly asking for status on my projects. I care about my managers but I don't care about the projects. I hate my work.

There are so many things in life that I am curious about like singing, drawing, gardening, bird watching, etc. I'm not good at any of them (nor do I wish to be) so they won't bring me any income. Every day I put my curiousness aside to code some stuff to make my managers look good.

I can't quit my job to take a break because my wife and kids depend on my salary for money. My neighbors are suffering more because they are not in tech. They are trying so hard to have my life and I try my best to help them get into an industry I don't even like.

Money brings so much suffering and our entire society is built on it. Society is greedy and wants to expand infinitely too! Everything in nature must eventually be owned my someone.

It seems like the only way to escape is to become a CEO, make millions, and buy a bubble of eternal happiness as Ryan has done.

I hope I don't end up behaving like his former board member.
So much confusion about this. What the prior commenter describes is exactly the OPPOSITE of what section 230 does.

Under current law, companies are free to - specifically encouraged to - moderate and delete content as much as they want, while they are also immunized from being treated as the publisher of that content and immunized from any liability for that moderation and deletion of content.