skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was planning to move away from Gmail, once I ran through 15GB of free quota. After reading this, I am thinking that I need to move to Fastmail sooner. I did not realized that my logins throughout the Internet depend on Google. I can not have anything critical in my life to depend on Google. I guess it’s just risk management.
I don't think it's working nearly as badly as you think.
I wouldn't mind the policy if it was enforced equally.
Usually the embarrassing information is published before the embarrassed party is aware that their dirty laundry is about to go public. Once the information is out there, a copyright infringement suit is usually an irrelevant or losing move for managing the politician's image. I would rate this story worse for Biden if he filed a copyright infringement suit against the computer repair guy or the Post, for example. Using copyright could prevail legally yet lose in the more politically important court of public opinion.
> What makes you think I’m defending Apple there?
That quoted statement is obviously true.

It's a tautology and a miserable attempt at defending Apple.
Like reacting to a victim's complaint by saying "Well animals also steal from each other, most organisms engage in such behaviour"
Then saying - That statement is true so how am I defending the thief here!?

Even asking "hOw DiD I dEfEnD aPpLe" is absurd, when that's literally all you have been doing in most of the comments above. I'll no longer participate in your pointless hairsplitting games.
I think there is a huge risk that the data being collected just isn't meaningful to the problem being asked.

For example, if you are trying to predict the weather you'd really like information on how big clouds are moving but all you have is wind speed and humidity.

Everyone acts like having fancier machine learning methods will solve their problem, but often the data just isn't good enough and getting better data is impossible.
Exactly. Works amazing, no 3rd rate touchscreen experience. No badly made apps I have to install on all my devices. Just does what I want it to and nothing else.

My previous HP inkjet thing that this replaced was a complete nightmare and is in some kind of purgatory state now where it boots properly maybe 5% of the time.
Elaine Herzberg is still dead. Not much upside in that scenario.
OK. And when the public authority is the one that issues the gag order to the company, which is what usually happening in these stonewall cases, then what?
Hunter smoking crack is 1) not news and 2) not relevant to the current election. If that was all that was released, we wouldn't be talking about this right now.

Everything else in the release is 1) far more damaging than the above and 2) far harder to verify as accurate with what we've been given thus far.
Agreed, but I think the issue is the fact the measure becomes a target to begin with. We've structured so many aspects in society to be unforgiving of failure to meet metrics and thrust hypercompetitiveness upon everyone as an almost direct darwinistic mechanism of survival. Because of this, metrics become targets and systems are gamed as a survival mechanism.

The argument for all of these metrics and push for competition is that it pushes out the lazy and leeches of society. What it really does is draws out the clever and lazy or clever leeches of society who are proficient at gaming systems and metrics, all while making plenty of proficient and productive peoples' lives more difficult and miserable.

It also incentivizes everyone to focus more on manipulating systems and target metrics than doing what they're supposed to do. Metrics rule my life so why bother doing anything that doesn't focus on the metrics? Real successes outside the metrics go unrewarded.

When failure is acceptable, metrics often don't become targets they become guidelines to help you achieve success. When I go to the gym, lifting a certain weight and performing a certain number of repetitions can be use to quantify success and improvement. I can cheat and lie to myself: perform a repetition incorrectly that makes it easier or add support and so forth. Ultimately though, gaming these metrics I know I'm only cheating myself. I may not see improvements and it may be discouraging but I know with perseverance, I have a strong chance of improvement. It works because I have no ulterior motivation that makes me want or need to game the metrics and am willing to accept my failures and success alike.
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The equation is different with video games, but I generally agree with you on everything else. There isn't much value in using Word Perfect 5.1 today beyond historical preservation.
What if the accident took out the cell tower and the car lost communication with HQ? Or more likely, the car was totaled and lost communication?
Really? The world is worse off because of the Internet?

The Internet has been the single best thing that has happened to the world ever. Information is effectively free now. It's given limitless opportunity to billions of people everywhere in the world, regardless of class or wealth or social status. Largely, the Internet itself is not discriminatory.

Sure, it has its downsides, like misinformation, and 1 in 10m people getting locked out of their accounts.

I lost my Google account, which was tied to my phone number (Google Voice), a few years ago. It sucked. But, honestly, it wasn't even as bad as losing my license.

I'll take free information for that.
The 6-page e-mail sent to the difficult former board member is interesting: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17tEc9ETL4tjfTmNbpwJJ5OSx...

Given that he posted the e-mail contents online and wrote it in a way to narrate the board member's own bad actions, I'm assuming the real intent to was to warn others against working with this person. He stops short of naming the difficult board member, but it wouldn't exactly be difficult to figure out who it was from all the clues.
Who can see your browser history?
HN hasn't change. It's always been this way since it first started. Even in the 90s, "censorship" like what we see today happened. The actions haven't changed. The scope is what is different. Instead of affected a few hundred people, it's now affecting hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions.

> internet hacker personalities I used to align with have turned so pro-censorship

I don't see that having changed. Obviously I don't know the specific people you are thinking of, but judging by your comment here and the timeline you are mentioning, I don't see much as change beyond scope.

Honestly, if people think people are becoming pro-censorship, I think it's more a case of ignoring everything that was happening before.
Opening the Amazon black box – Machine automation and protest
I’m glad to see new tooling targeting developers and the local development loop which was neglected because historically was hard to monetize. As an consultant involved in cloud migrations and CI/CD I do see the value of a common language for build/test/deploy, it’s a mess in the enterprises nowadays. I’m curious to learn what is Hashicorp’s opinion about CNAB (which somehow tries to solve the same problem). As Waypoint is complementary to CI tools, do you see this also complementary for the GitOps tooling which is gaining traction in the Kubernetes world?
Hits and misses. It worked great for Galileo.
I start by writing a quick statement about the purpose and the audience of the piece. I keep it at the top of the document as I outline and flesh out the writing. This ensure the material stays tight and on topic.

Similar to you, I write the material out in a single flow and then revise/edit later. I like to let the piece rest and revise at different sitting or a different day. This way I am able to read and critique the piece with fresh eyes.

I prefer writing in the morning.

I don't use any writing app, just hammer it out in Google Doc, or these days in an EverNote note under a notebook called Writing.

I also like to free-write on a topic from time-to-time to explore and uncover interesting concepts. (Checkout this book on free writing: https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Genius-Revolutionize-Think...)
The nudes isn't even hypothetical - reportedly the data included intimate videos.
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How can a site that calls itself a fact checking site possibly be called a color commenter?
The 3 A's from flight school - Aircraft, Area, Altitude
Free speech works even if people don't listen.

Respect/creditable is earned.
Totally agreed ! I still haven’t found something other than jenkins that would work for our use case which is very similar to what you stated.
A baby can crawl in random directions. Of course I'll protect him from crawling off a ledge. But when he has the capacity to understand and judge I coddle as little as possible and expose as much possible. 5-6 is around the right time.

At 3 I don't let him run across the street. At 5 I tell him to look both ways and I tell him what happens to someone who doesn't, then I let him play outside.
The better solution is to not have empty lives outside of work. I realize that's a hard problem to solve, but it's worth solving, and maybe WFH will help spark that change.
Ding ding ding!

Three things actually occur here.

1. Companies pay the employee who left the review if they can identify them. $1,000 to the former employee to take the review down, along with an NDA.

2. Companies push Glassdoor to validate the reviewer was actually employed by the company. Some reviewers may not respond to Glassdoor’s confirmation requests, resulting in the review being taken down.

3. Companies’ HR or Talent Acquisition employees write reviews themselves and promote internally to other happy employees that adding “honest reviews” will help accelerate the company. Basically indirectly fishing for 5 star reviews.

Any startup with more than ~300 total employees (current + former) generally has attention to their Glassdoor ratings. A local company I know of is a huge offender to removing negative reviews and flooding their page with 4.5/5 star reviews in quick succession.
I was born in the early 90s, and likely grew up on the same internet you did in the late 90s/2000s. In that time, I remember fondly, of participating and even moderating many, many, phpBB, vBulletin and Invision forums, and this idea that, in the past, you could post anything you wanted and people would just "put up with it" has never been true to me at least. Even 4chan never had the "free from consequences" free speech that seems to be worshipped.
What needs to be banned is thinking that some people can't think for themselves.
Ask HN: Have any companies formed specifically to manage virtual conferences?
Usually cost/benefit arguments do consider the benefits. If I kill millions of mosquitos and reduce malaria fatalties by 100 per million population while blinding 1 per million, then unless there is a better way to kill the bugs we should consider this approach.

I don't really see how this line of argument really translates to this issue with Google. First of all I should have acknowledged that imprisoning data is almost assuredly unacceptable and that unless Google is acting directly in response to a law enforcement action they should give you a way to download your data when they tell you that they have chosen not to continue the business relationship they have with you.

But there will be cases where they cannot do that, and in some cases it will be a mistake but the reason they cannot solve this problem cheaply is because usually it is not a mistake and so litigating 99,999 cases to find the one worthy of saving is a hard case to make, why should Google pay for that?

I should have mentioned up-front that this article scared the hell out of me and I'm probably moving to Fastmail. I've had my own domain for going on two decades and am still grandfathered into the free gsuite for it but I'd much rather pay someone who will support me than use a free service that could cost me access to data that I might want again in the future. I also realized I could be vulnerable to a trap where my DNS account is disabled at the same time my email is, meaning I couldn't even move the DNS without first recovering access to my mailbox.
New technologies brought new challenges. There was no social network in the 2000s and before. No retweet button, no "curated" timeline that showed you what you "like". YouTube did not try to push more videos like the ones you watched previously until the mid 2010s.

Free speech does not have the same meaning as before. Before it just meant that you could say whatever you wanted. Now people use it implicitly to mean that they can say whatever they want, but also that they are entitled to have their thoughts broadcasted at large using the amplification mechanisms I mentioned above.

While I believe free speech is a good thing, I believe free amplification is terrible.

If you think about it, before social networks, amplification was done through TV and newspapers, and those have editorial boards that filters the content they share. If a newspaper's staff is pro-environment, they can prevent any columnist writing anything that denies climate change, and it's not controversial.

However the problem is how do we decide who can get free amplification and who can't? Based on what?
My preference would be that no one is, and we go back to uncurated things and to an internet where you have to look for the things you want to read/watch, versus getting content pushed onto you.
Your problem isn't Google customer service. Your problem is that your business is, if the case is such, wholly dependent on Google and you can't switch to a different vendor.
Sure, first a short overview of how those OSes used to work and how one can map those ideas into Windows.

Mesa/Cedar also shares some ideas with the other workstation variants from Xerox PARC, namely Interlisp-D and Smalltalk, just based on a strong typed language for systems programming, with reference counting and a cycle collector.

The language itself compiles to bytecode, because Xerox PARC machines used bytecode with microcoded CPUs, whose interpreter was loaded on boot. So in a sense it was still native somehow.

The full OS was written in Mesa/Cedar, and everything was kind of exposed to the developers.

The shell is more like a REPL, where you can access all that functionality, meaning the public functions/procedures from dynamically loaded modules, interact with text selection from any application window, or execute actions on a selected window. And as REPL, it worked on structured data.

Basically similar to what Powershell offers, with its structured data, and ability to call any COM/UWP, .NE or plain DLLs libraries.

Then you could embedded objects into other objects and this the basis of the compound document architecture, basically the genesis for OLE in Windows and COM (COM is just the basic features which OLE is built upon, although more the OLE 2.0, the 1.0 was more complicated still).

The way Office works between applications and its inline editing of OLE documents can be found in Xerox PARC workstations, as Charles Simonyi brought Bravo ideas into Word, as one of Bravo creators.

Since Windows Vista, most new APIs are actually a mix of .NET and COM (now UWP), which expose a similar high level set of OS API (bare bones Win32 has hardly changed since XP days).

Now, many of these concepts can also be found in GNOME and KDE, however due to the way distributions get put together, it is hard to really provide such integrated developer experience across the whole stack.

And while REPL like shells do exist for UNIX clones, their adoption is a tiny blip when compared against traditional UNIX shells.
I mean, you can logical fallacy all you want here but this isn't what OP said at all. I'm not agreeing one way or another, but holy weak argument.
Fwiw DARPA is already investing in FOSS:

https://www.darpa.mil/program/posh-open-source-hardware

https://www.darpa.mil/opencatalog
The monetization is by working with the stores to route you through specific isles
I love Ubuntu and I can't switch back to Windows 10. Windows 10 looks and feels like an entire commercial. Although, I'd imagine this wouldn't be the case for the professional edition. Of course, there are plenty of (high quality) apps that I miss on Ubuntu that do exist on Windows. I guess having a MacOS, you get the best out of both worlds... But I'd hate being stuck to Apple's ecosystem.
If only the dead in the US could talk.
A number of years ago, people speculated that as people in China became wealthier, they'd start worrying about things beyond just having food and some nicer goods in their lives, and start pushing for change, including, perhaps, some form of democracy. Things like local environmental disasters could have moved things in that direction, as people tire of the corruption and lack of action. That hasn't happened, sadly.
This is not true and does not cover fraud.
What if there is a security issue with your OS?
That still misses the point. People want the look of a larger sensor that the tiny ones in a phone's camera. Shallow depth of field, different lenses, filters, etc that a fixed lens fixed aperture lens on a small sensor does not allow.
I'm ready for a social media Butlerian Jihad.
Did Twitter block the NYT story on Trump's taxes, which they did not have any official authority for having?
> I would say that people don’t use the same rose-tinted glasses

You can use different words to describe having less allies, or allies that are less likely to support them, if you want.

But my point still stands. They either have less allies, or those allies are less likely to look at these tech companies through "rose-tinted glasses"

Glad you agree that their former "allies" are no longer looking at these companies so favorable, using " rose-tinted glasses".
You can't be self reliant. No one will deal with you of your only contact information is GPS coordinates
> Although self-driving is a hard problem, automatically determining that the car may have had an accident and alerting humans in your control center is a much easier problem

I have a sneaky feeling that detecting whether a driverless car has hit a cyclist is not an easy problem. I can imagine scenarios where the contact took place towards the rear of the car (and therefore not at the primary focus of sensor attention), the cyclist goes careening off to the left or right and the car blithely goes on. I'm not saying such a scenario is impossible with a traditional car but it's a dam sight harder to ignore.
That was a very strange interaction... I thought this was something to be avoided by ATC, suggesting things. Usually the conversational training is asking out details with no influence, and repeat question to make clear the answer was not understood. Right?
There is really no way to time the market. If you could do it, you’d be rich quickly and massively. The only sound advice is to buy an broad ETF, preferably by Vanguard, and just hold it for a long time. You’ll probably make something around 12-15% per year compounded after a decade or so. Will your portfolio be at 50% of its initial value at some point? Could very well be. You need to see through it and just hold the stocks.

Read JL Collins for more depth.

https://jlcollinsnh.com/manifesto/
The problem is the scale and centralization of power with social media.

Global conglomerates serving billions where moderation is controlled by a few individuals with absolute control and no accountability. This is a major issue as these networks are quickly becoming a critical medium of communication and expression in this century.
I think the suggestions are insidious and lead to binge viewing by design. However, adults are adults, and they can make their own decisions. I am okay with suggestions in general but maybe they should be completely removed for news or political content. And they should be removed for kids accounts.

It should not be possible to search for a Biden or Trump speech and half an hour later, through suggestion surfing alone, you are viewing alt-right or antifa extremist content.
He is referring to the tech companies, you are referring to "the internet"

Are you certain you two are speaking about the same concept?
>Is Cuomo a clown elected by idiots

Yes. Is he the same type of clown as Trump? No. But Cuomo's an idiot.
But the existing end runs are generally for things that the Executive already has administrative control over, refuses to abide by restrictions/oversight, and suffers no repercussions - similar to how none of Trump's personal crimes are being prosecuted while he's president.

What are the possible results here? Finding sympathetic (ie corrupt) courts that will straight up ignore what the law says and defer to the executive's decrees? Or just directly ordering those federal goon squads to physically take over Twitter et al?

I don't want to deny the possibility that such fascist takeovers could happen. They just seem unlikely, compared to gross ineptitude leading to a lack of any results.
I've actually been looking for an alternative to YNAB since they forced you into a cloud subscription model with data hosted on their servers. I mean, they didn't force, but they essentially stopped updating the standalone product.
yep! https://actualbudget.com/docs/developers/using-the-API/
I remember writing code like that.

Basically, I used a switch statement as a goto.

I must deeply and profoundly apologize. It will never happen (by me) again.
> Throughout the interview, Mac Isaac switched back and forth from saying he reached out to law enforcement after viewing the files in the laptop to saying that it was actually the Federal Bureau of Investigation that contacted him. At one point, Mac Isaac claimed that he was emailing someone from the FBI about the laptop. At another point he claimed a special agent from the Baltimore office had contacted him after he alerted the FBI to the device’s existence. At another point, he said the FBI reached out to him for “help accessing his drive.”

He can’t get something as simple as who initiated contact over the device straight? If I was a small fish about to source a story of this size, I’d have every single detail rehearsed and committed to memory. This guy doesn’t come across as legit at all.
There's probably some management company handling the space in any case.
The absence of a denial does not at all constitute "strong evidence" of anything.
Who is we? Fox News has been at 6.5 since Bush Jr.
So HN can't remove posts either because that violates free speech? I grew up on the internet too and forum bans were always a thing. You haven't convinced me this is different.
The UAE began vaccinating thousands of frontline workers with a Chinese vaccine
It's 100% inline with free speech to let a given website decide what they want to publish. Even if it is a very popular website.

If they make bad decisions, then people can go to competitors; it's as easy as typing in a different URL. That's how the Internet--and open societies in general--are supposed to work.

What it looks like to me--someone who has been on the Internet since before the turn of the century--is that a more recent generation of people grew up with these very popular websites as part of their lives, and they came to believe that these very popular websites are somehow inherent to the Internet and to society in general.

They're not. The Internet is more available to entrepreneurs, startups, and new ideas today than it was when Twitter and Facebook were started. They're not too big to fail.
Unhinged entertainers is one thing, but it gets pretty scary when similar language is coming elected officials.

"A county prosecutor has again denigrated constituents, this time with the alarming claim that we must “cleanse society” of the “diseased thinking” of Trump supporters."

https://mynorthwest.com/2231869/rantz-county-prosecutor-clea...

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/a-prosecutors-anti-trump-post...
That “independently verified” part was that they talked with the same source and were told the same thing.
Who gets to decide whether I'm being misinformed or not?