skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's clear that people in the industry will be able to figure out who the letter is addressed to - and I would be surprised if the CircleUp CEO didn't realise this. So the censorship is mostly for show.

The fact that the VC isn't named, makes it difficult for them to reply in a public way and respond to some of those points.
He owns a apple repair shop and complains about apple all the time. He just happened to go viral on reddit once (actually a few times). He makes most of his money from his repair business, his sitting-in-a-chair videos (that aren't about apple), and his bike videos are just him talking. I don't really agree with a lot of what he says (esp. about NYC) but I don't think he's being biased in this video.
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Is Twitter down? I don’t know where to look to check if everyone can see if Twitter is down...
Take heart from Albert's opinion...https://www.azquotes.com/author/4399-Albert_Einstein/tag/fai...

If you're mainly running a one-man business, perhaps getting input from others could help?
Seeking input from target clients can be useful.
That's purely semantics, and everyone knows it.
We most definitely still use cargo ships for freight transport.
Coral doesn't typically die due to rising ocean temperatures... it flees the reef. I think these articles are trying to be contrarian on semantics. Not great.
The idea that speech should have limits was driven by the same think tanks that spread the lies and propaganda on social media. You are being played on both sides. The establishment is threatened by free speech since it is now accessible to everyone so they are painting it as dangerous.
Really this is patchwork on what needs to be a major regulatory overhaul.

Things that need to be addressed: no advertising to kids, mob control, fake accounts/social manipulation, free speech, transparent and auditable algorithms (screw their IP). Its not an easy task to achieve all of these and other goals but it needs to get done before society literally goes into a civil war.
Thanks — but I'd need a USB-A to USB-C adapter to use that. Is there one for USB-C?
Or maybe it could be that, given their prior beliefs, the reactions to your arguments are, in fact, _rational_ in a Bayesian sense?

I think, with Bayesian probabilities, you can have a setup where, given the same data and two different prior distributions, you end up with two wildly different posteriors after updating the initial beliefs. Unfortunately, i don't have an example at hand but i remember there is a very interesting passage on this phenomenon in E. T. Jaynes "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science". Can anyone else expand on this?
> Can you remember one time in history where we now like "thanks god they censor these thoughts!"?

Well, the honest answer to the "can you remember" question is going to be misleading. By the nature of the thing we're talking about, the historical things like that are things that people aren't going to remember.

If you believe in "to the victor go the spoils" on the information front, then successful censorship (and more generally propaganda) is always on the right side of history.
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I can access specific tweets ie. this one from current HN homepage: https://twitter.com/ryan_caldbeck/status/1316730252295454720 but not my feed
The only thing that has changed is that the power that used to be in the hand of the press and those with access and control of the press is now in other hands and in some ways more transparent.

A lot of the people yelling about the power of social media giants now are yelling because they represent the old status quo, not because they want democratisation of thought.
They do have a PIN, you probably just don't know the number.

Go on your Credit Card website and there will be a place to request that they send you the number.
Obviously you've never worked in a bureaucracy.
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It’s weird how happy people are to give up freedom, isn’t it?
American Democracy is absolutely, 100% under attack on the internet today. We should be doubling down on the freedoms that make America the amazing place it is, rather than sowing the seeds of tyranny.
Thread Reader really helps for this, given the length (and some weird issues at least for me with twitter web).

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1316730252295454720.html
Absolutely, 100% with you on that.

I guess, then, at the heart of the 'defund the police' movement is an attempt to move toward working on those biases.

That is what is lost in much of the conversation - we need to fix certain things in the policing of the US - because people immediately turn to 'what will we do if there are no police'.

I guess, how do we turn the conversation from 'defund the police' to 'fix this shit' without losing people along the way?

I don't have answers for any of this.
For a language that doesn't mention BASIC anywhere in its influences, it looks an awful lot like BASIC.
America is all about quantity. And the quantity of ideas has exploded in the 21st century.

We’re still figuring out how to find the pearls but giving carte blanche to a handful of tech monopolies is definitely not going to work.
micro-hdmi is about as proprietary as micro-usb

The dummy battery is what annoys me the most, since it means you have to swap out a battery every time you want to use the camera, vs just pull out 2 cables.
I clearly meant within the United States, and even with popular vote the country is fairly 50/50, 40/60 at worst.
But that standard has never been used before and was manually engaged here.

Trump's taxes were repeatedly shared and there are photos of the content (not to mention the content itself, which is far more private than an email address).

This standard has never been applied like this, and you can still link to the Web Archive version without limitation - same content.

It's also not "limitation of deliberate misinformation" - that has never once been used on deliberate misinformation like the Steele dossier.

Ahmari of the NYP had a reasonably good counter:
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/if-unreliable-is-the-issue-why...
Mandating how a certain outcome should be achieved generally is not the best (efficient, quickest, cheapest, etc.) way in getting to that outcome. Autonomous certification should have its safety requirements for each level and require the vehicles meet that standard.

Autonomous vehicles have the potential to reduce deaths and injuries dramatically and increasing the time to get there will cause thousands to millions of more deaths and an order of magnitude more injuries, not to mention property damage.
I suspect this kind of task is actually pretty well suited to ML. It's taking a broadly accepted set of patterns at one time and mapping it onto a new set of broadly accepted patterns, plus or minus, with a margin of error. A proper test suite (haha) and some manual review would likely show decent results IMO.
...and centralize.
Teams schedule conference rooms. Even fully remote, teams will presumably get together physically a few times a year. Whether you're "fully remote" (and maybe have to fly to a get-together) or schedule weekly/biweekly office time will be a function of how a team/company wants to operate.
That's pretty much the only success Watson has to point at. The cognitive services stuff that they sell is utterly commonplace crap.
China wants to, yes, primarily because they can't sustain their population with the farmland they presently have.

However, I am quite interested to watch the PLA--whose soldiers died of starvation three weeks into a battle with Vietnamese peasants--stare eye-to-eye with not just the US military but literally hundreds of millions of gun barrels.
I didn't realize that was even a word. I guess it crept into our vocabulary for a good reason ;p
And yet,here you are, freely spouting non-sense, misinterpreting the second law of "thermal dynamics" and arguing for a very strict and highly-self-convenient notion of freedom of speech.

I still wish you can express your views all over the internet without the risk of being cancelled.
My conclusion about flat-earthers is that the vast majority are just trolling. There are probably also a fair number who get sucked in by the idea, but they aren't the ones out there making the arguments for it. The frustratingly persistent people who can come up with one outlandish argument after another are too smart to actually believe what they're saying.
1) It's his personal opinion
2) He doesn't have anything to gain from it
Most Americans have a positive experience with police and with police protecting them. This is true in minority communities too.
I hate trump and can't wait for him to disappear but I can still admit that he was unfairly smeared and severely attacked by the media. It just backfires and leads to people not trusting both sides
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stupidity concentrators so good. Always remember folks, you get good at what you do. I'd like to coin the term intelligence concentrators. We need some of those.
Hacked billboards are hard to come by. We've already seen signs that autopilot can be tricked by malicious lines on a road.

Not that long 'til somebody points a projector at the ground in front of a Tesla and it crosses into oncoming traffic. You could even mount that projector on a panel van, and use image recognition to target Teslas and otherwise stay inactive
There we go:
"Investigating Irregularity with Twitter APIs: Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. More updates to come. Oct 15, 21:56 UTC"
Misinformation and hate speech are clearly important issues. But loosing free speech would be a colossal mistake. I used to live in a country with no free speech, trust me the USA in its current state is hundred million times better and more just.
Free speech is just super fundamental. So, in my opinion, nothing restricting free speech is acceptable - the downsides of that are just too enormous. We need to learn to live in a society where information is easily available and free speech has absolute protection. And yes, this involves learning to be able to detect misinformation, manipulation, etc. without outright banning it.

Voltaire put it well: ""I disagree with what you have to say, sir, but I will defend, to the death, your right to say it."
Always prefer simple over clever. Both statements do same thing but only one of them is simple to understand and hard to break for a novice developer (or roughly 3/4th of your team).
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> And this is being done under the banner of progressivism

I think it's a very confusing time. A lot of people want to be "good people". They don't understand how the definitions of words have changed and what they're really signing up for. "Anti-racisim" sounds great - what reasonable, moral person wants to be racist? But you begin to read the text and you start to see it isn't what you think it is. That it isn't anything like what we've been working towards in terms of civil rights and equality.

I don't think "Progressivism" is the right word. There's not a good name for this philosophy yet other than derogative terms like "woke". Social Justice maybe but I find it unjust. I've seen "therapeutic totalitarianism" as one candidate.
> By stepping in actively censor a news story that has yet to be disputed

That's not why Twitter "censored" the news story. They removed links to a story that violated their published policies.
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> Mine has a PIN, but I only have to use it if I'm calling support

Really? You say your pin code over the phone?
What semantics? They were granted immunity with regulation and that regulation/immunity can be taken away.
I think a better argument is that being on the side of forcing people to do things is being on the wrong side of history no matter the issue. People should be free to decide, of their own volition, that they want to choose to not amplify something. That's different from being compelled to not amplify it, which is generally bad.

But I can think of a number of examples of censorship that history has not judged poorly:

- Libel and slander. If I say "I used to work with 'hartator and they brought in KKK flags every morning and broke the build every evening, you don't want to hire them," it's generally considered reasonable for you to get the government to force me to stop and also force other people not to repeat what I said.

- Planning crimes. If I say "Hey, let's get together tomorrow evening and murder some strangers for fun," and we start talking about how to do it, it's generally considered reasonable for the government to consider that a crime.

- Trademark infringement and other fair competition laws. If I say "These headphones are recommended by Apple" and they're not, or I say "These apples are organic" and they're not, or I say "This is an all-beef sausage" and it contains pork, it's generally considered reasonable for the government to say that I can't keep saying that if I want to keep selling the things I'm saying them about.

- Employment agreements. If I say "Hey, new employer, here's a list of my old employer's customers and here's some of their source code," it's generally considered reasonable for the old employer to object.

(There are a number of cases of compelled action that are currently not considered unreasonable - prison labor, military drafts, etc. - but I think those stand a much higher chance of being on the wrong side of history, in the long term, than any of the above.)
HackerNews could not exist in your proposed world.

I doubt YC would hire a full-time staff of moderators to vet every single post. Since we remove things for being off-topic or overly mean, the only possible conclusion is that HN would shut down because they do not want to bear liability for the posts they leave up.

The Internet as we know it would not exist without S230. Please read this[0] for a primer.

[0]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
I am still using my galaxy s3. I've got a few broken galaxy s3s that I've harvested for parts when something has gone wrong with my current s3.
> 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'm imagining someone who messes up badly enough to get banned from all those places and still somehow blames the stores rather than their own actions.
Can you expand on that? Bribes do get you position or grades, so I do not see the distinction.
That’s a good point. In many ways it is a free market for attention span. Except that people can now pick not from a short list of established editors, but from a massive list of interesting people to follow.

I think people should be the judge for who they trust and/or want to listen to.

I don’t see the “but now we can’t control what they see” objection kindly.
> while lobbying starts with "talking to an elected official about laws that concern you"

For the purposes of discussing government corruption, "lobbying" mean "talking to an elected official about laws that concern you, with the implication that their response will affect how much and in what direction you use money to pervert the electoral process". (Obviously, corporations generally don't actually explicitly say that part, because plausible deniablity.)
I hoped this was an update from the 2015 article, but this is the article from 2015. I’d like to know if there have been any improvements in China on this issue.
I begrudgingly upgraded from a 6S to the new SE back in August due to a shattered screen.

Other than a substantial camera upgrade, louder speakers, and no headphone jack I honestly couldn't notice a difference between the two. The 6S is still a rock solid phone.
In the current environment of everyone against 'big tech' it would be hard for Adobe or Salesforce to justify the acquisition of Segment from a competition standpoint, for they would consolidate the CRM market even further.

Acquiring companies that are adjacent to your core business makes total sense in adding value to your platform, and not acquiring core functionalities allows you to claim that competition is getting stronger.
I was just thinking this! Remember the days when this happened every other week?
> I believe it's highly unlikely that they'd lie so directly.

That's why lying so directly works so well!

In their T&C page, the "Removal of Content" section (6A) says they remove content, or portions thereof, at their sole discretion.

Trust IS central to their product. A direct lie usually begins with a true (or unfalsifiable) statement.
One of the pyramids at Giza was built over the course of 20 years by tens of thousands of slaves.

Taking the (shamefully low) minimum wage in the USA of $7.25/hr and assuming your employees work 40-hour weeks with 2 weeks vacation, that's $14,500 (again, shamefully low but let's roll with it).

Ten thousand of those workers costs you $145 million per year, and for twenty years that's some $2.9 Billion.

It's pretty obvious we could build a pyramid, which is basically just a hill of rubble with worked sides, for a lot less today if we only needed it to stay up for a few years.
That's what the article says. Hacked billboards were one method, drones with a projector were another, and the image only had to be shown for less than a second to cause the car to react.
Clever but don’t forget you can also ‘hack’ human drivers by showing flashing patterns or just generally distracting them.
Just insert your card.

That's it. Occasionally they ask you to sign on the past or hit the ok button but usually not even that.
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Camera companies are stuck in some sort of car company stagnation loop it feels like, limiting themselves as pro tools. The only one approaching innovations was samsung, and they peaced out years ago.

* No touch-id in the shutter button

* No cell phone connectivity / android app support to instantly share your photos to insta, fb, etc & to sync as you go.

* No ordering prints right in the camera

* No google pixel / iOS quality level HDR & night sight modes

* No GPS

* No braindead obvious webcam mode

* Most can't run off a usb cable indefinitely, unlike smartphones

* etc
If the powerful choose what is and is not amplified, they will try to avoid amplifying things which hurt their causes, and to amplify things which support them.

I don't want to be a pawn of the wealthy, or of governments, or powerful people in general. I don't trust my own government to do what's in my best interests, let alone foreign governments. I certainly don't trust the wealthy, either. That's why I think it should be otherwise.
>or restricts itself to only talking about those that are man-made

The author probably did that because those are the only breakages which are interesting. Erosion is interesting in its own way, but the reasons why people do things have a much wider audience.
I think one big problem with this approach is that if the people behind this find a niche good enough its very easy for browsers to just implement the new ideas and completely kill the competition giving everyone has a deployed browser already.

Im doing something that is based on browsers for instance, but the end product diverge quite a bit from traditional browsers and if they try to play the catchup game, i have at least a 2-year window of opportunity.

Remember PhantomJS? And Phantom was actually providing something browsers were not doing at the time.

It has no real distinct features from what browsers already do right now, and whatever way they make it easy to use, if the product by some change get traction, it will be easy for them to just ship with that feature built it.

It may provide some value on convenience, but its easily copiable by a competitor that is deployed everywhere, which is a big threat to their bussiness model.
It sounds like Watts was really into it, and helped guide some of the design process. But yeah, any adaptation will have differences between creator and adaptor.
Aha, so the frame rate of my TV sufficiently undersamples the motion of the ball that a blur would appear. Clearly, a zero phase noncausal filter used because there is a pre-echo, and it’s symmetric. But I’d still like to know something about the details of that filter.
At least he didn't put each one of those statements in separate classes to make you hunt for half a day to figure out what his code does.
Yeah, Section 230 protects them, and I think Twitter shouldn't be protected by 230 for their actions.
Sounds good. Who plugs in your monitors and other tools? :)
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At that price, it would be cheaper to just buy a $5 adapter and leave it on permanently
> What you can do is use Microsoft Office formats, but Google makes that rather difficult.

This right here is amazing and describes very well the moment in time we are living in. When using a Microsoft file format is [righly] considered the "open", "friendlier" option it really means the alternative [Google] is terrible. Microsoft used to be the Evil Borg that had everything proprietary.
Yes you are correct, it is the damn commies. That's why people like Snowden and Assange received all sort of protection by the western democracies for their roles in unveiling bad stuff done by powerful people. Could you imagine Snowden in Russia or Assange in a left latin country? Yucks.
This does not work.

Example: I want to set up a forum where people can discuss a specific topic. Such as the Arch Linux forum, or ones for vehicles (https://www.ninja400riders.com/, https://www.civicx.com/forum/). I am clearly not a publisher; I do produce content and do not want to produce content. So I am a platform.

Am I no longer allowed to decide what is acceptable on my platform? Even if I am running a forum about the Ninja 400 motorcycle, I now have to allow people to post about their Toyota Corolla or about how vaccines cause autism or the earth is flat? What about if I want to moderate the forum to keep discussion on topic and I need to delete trolling or spam, or lock/delete threads that devolve into political fighting among forum members?

You can't have platforms without moderation.