skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a blog. Let’s say I wanted to let people comment on my blog posts. One day, I get a ton of “I just made $X from my couch!” type comments. My readers try to discuss my latest post, but the spam is suffocating the conversation.

What can I do? They’re not saying anything illegal. If I delete the spam or add some sort of filter, I’m now a “publisher” and liable for every comment my readers make. But if I leave them up, my readers will be frustrated that they can’t have a real discussion.

So I don’t have comments. I really want discussions with my readers, but it’s just not worth the risk.

Now imagine this happening to every website. Every community. Hacker News as we know it wouldn’t exist — probably no voting and certainly no moderation. The whole Internet would turn into a cesspool of spam and flame wars. Many apps wouldn’t even exist in the first place.

All because we decided to enforce this entirely arbitrary “publisher vs. platform” dichotomy.
I don't think moving viral misinformation from chain e-mail to hyper-spread tweets via algorithm has improved the marketplace of ideas.
I think ReactOS is mainly being used by hobbyists, and I doubt Microsoft would want to sue hobbyists. Little commercial or financial gain, lots of bad press.

The situation is a little bit comparable to Hercules, the IBM mainframe emulator (although not quite the same – Hercules is of course a hardware emulator, ReactOS is an operating system clone). You can use Hercules to run z/OS, but not legally, IBM only licenses z/OS to run on IBM's own hardware, or authorised proprietary emulators that cost $$$$. Thankfully though, IBM doesn't appear interested in suing hobbyists – IBM treats the hobbyist community as if they don't exist. But, try building a business on Hercules, as the company TurboHercules SAS did, and IBM's lawyers will start sending nasty letters to you.
They were broken centuries before Islam, or even Christianity.

Breaking or disfiguring the nose is a common punishment trope throughout human history. Perhaps this is because the nose is one of the most exposed and accessible organs on the body if one seeks to damage someone mortally, and it is also core to many cultures' concept of beauty and power, so disfiguring it destroys the target in social dimensions also.
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The audience is the monopoly. The entire media and political class are addicted to Twitter, and they haven't even heard of Mastodon or ActivityPub or whatever.
> Site operators can and should have the ability to ban anyone or remove any content, for any reason or no reason.

If a major fraction of human communication, especially during lockdowns, is facilitated by social networks then they are fulfilling a utility role.
So being in the position of dictating what millions of people will talk about is at least questionable.

> for anything but the most massive sites that could theoretically afford an army of moderators

Ok, I have not considered this angle and it is indeed concerning.

> Destroying the concept of moderation does not make the world better.

That may be the goal of the FCC, but I for one did not say that I am in support of destroying moderation. Quite the opposite, I was thinking how it could be made to work while providing more open communication platforms and putting more control in the hands of the users rather than the companies.
Does this mean you agree in principle with George Bush's 'free speech zones' aka "you can say what you like, but you have to do it over there where nobody will hear you"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
I also hooked my CCTV through homebridge recently with the aformentioned plugins ... it was a bonus, because with IFTTT effectively going payware, I needed to move my automation somewhere else
The United States 2020: All the downsides of Chinese censorship with none of the upsides of 18,000 miles of high speed rail, a peaceful society, and a growing economy because neither party is competent.

I miss the internet being a libertarian place. Now it just sucks.
Cool. More reasonable observation about how ostensible authority is often bullshit, but we'll all just use it as the reason our Republican friends need to treat CNN as gospel and we should get to be the priests.
I'm talking about conversations that might take all day, or days. Breaking down enormous problems. Deep collaborative work.

Can you do this in a virtual room? Yes. Will you achieve the same outcome? Early results (in my case) seem to indicate the answer is "no".

I want the ability to pace around the room at times. Look my collaborators in the eye. Pick up on non-verbal cues that are often impossible to see remotely. Step away as a group to share a much needed lunch break.

And when passionate people are involved, and many viewpoints are present, the ability to all argue/debate a topic vigorously - even show frustration at the right moments - and then all share a beer at the end of the day, is critical. Having that same vigorous debate on Zoom and then dropping off to our individual lives doesn't leave room for reconnecting with each other as humans - something that is critical for maintaining relationships.

Not every project requires this kind of interaction. But for things that do, the remote format just doesn't work well for everyone.
I think ultimately the problem is that infra is an investment in future growth, but the decision makers aren't accountable on failure.
Actively doing what? Hacking U.S. officials and their contacts and releasing the information they obtain? You can argue that's dirty pool but I fail to see how it's "disinformation."
I upvoted you because you're absolutely right.
Leftist totalitarianism.
The "Intelligence Community".

That massive (and growing) unaccountable bureaucracy with secret law that types up the talking points the NYT helpfully launders into national security "journalism".
Counter point, I live in a country with no constitutional free speech and a government with a censorship office, and this country is free and open and a wonderful place to live. So you're going to have to find a better causation theory.
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This reminds me of the weird incident where a guy attached some weather balloons to his chair and landed at LA airport: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair_Larry_flight
At age 65, you can take penalty-free distributions from the HSA for any reason. However, in order to be both tax-free and penalty-free the distribution must be for a qualified medical expense. Withdrawals made for other purposes will be subject to ordinary income taxes. -- https://www.wellesley.edu/sites/default/files/assets/departm...

You don't have to withdraw funds from the HSA at time of billing, however. If you spend $1,000 at the ER today, you can take those $1,000 out twenty years from now.
"With this kind of technology, you can take society into a superconducting society where you'll never need things like batteries again," said co-author Ashkan Salamat of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Didn't know superconductors can be used for energy storage! What kind of energy density are we talking about?
There is absolutely speech that is violence, and it is typically not protected by free speech. Harassment, yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, calling for literal violence against others, these are allowed to be regulated (in the US) and understood broadly to be dangerous.
If the censorship is always on the right side of history, then we would definitely know instances of "thanks a lot for the censorship".
The administration only has authority to make and enforce rules about a law to the extent that Congress delegated that authority to them. Sometimes Congress does so. E.g., the FCC was created by Congress in the Telecommunications Act of 1934, with the authority to make rules regarding various things specified in that law.

If Congress does not so delegate such authority, interpreting the law is solely the job of the courts. They did not delegate such authority for section 230.

Agencies do not get to just look at any random law that is outside the are they were given power over, decide it is not clear, and make an enforceable rule clarifying it.
Finally someone did this. I've got a million songs in my head that I'm humming not knowing what songs these are. And I was dreaming of being able to simply hum a melody to something shazam-like and get a result.
> but you don't have a nice office with meals/snacks

I was watching an interview recently, might have been buried in the middle of The Social Dilemma, where the speaker mentioned that this class of concierge service risks infantilizing people, and in particular in a time when code that young programmers author effects more and more of the population, that's dangerous.

The implication was that we need people to grow up. If they're going to be responsible (in the specific case), then they should be/get prepared to take responsibility (in the general case).
No; I don’t agree with that at all — the idea of extreme specialization for greater prosperity is from the foundations of Capitalism. /The Wealth Of Nations/ was only published in 1776. The Industrial revolution certainly introduced part of the idea of the modern workforce; see /Discipline and Punish/ [1] for a good overview of the evolution of attitudes, but extreme specialization of /worker skills/ was an alien idea. The existence of cottage industries prior to the Industrial revolution is illustrative of this fact.

/Collaboration/ has been a hallmark of civilization; but it is revisionist to say that we have always specialized to this extreme or seen it as a necessary goal. For example, the blacksmith of feudal society didn’t only make spoons, nor the farmer a single crop. If we want to critique previous civilizations; we even need to be wary of the fact that such systems were determined primarily through morality, such as /Plato’s Republic/ or /Confucianism/ rather than any ideal of prosperity. The farmer was a farmer because that was his/her place not because they were better or worse at it.

Even if I’m being charitable and equate division-of-labour to specialization; which, I think is a /huge/ leap — it does not counter the original point which is there is little autonomy in what you choose to do for a living in the logical conclusion of a system where you must specialize to compete.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish
Yes, I'm still using the original SE, and I love it. Even the new "mini" is still bigger than it. Luckily the latest iOS 14 still works on it, but I'm afraid that this will be the last one before they drop support.
That's pretty rich coming from IBM. I spend my day on AIX 6 using shit like Clearcase and DOORs. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.
Well there are lots of little things that I noticed. One example - I found that there wasn't a 'point person' who could quickly get us answers. We're used to having a go-to person who will nag internal team-members and make sure the customer is taken care of. We were shuffled across different teams for no apparent reason which slowed things down. There just seemed to be more internal inflexibility/bureaucracy than we're used to here in the US. We did end up buying equipment from the company in the end, so I might travel there sometime soon and experience the business culture first-hand.
I used to use pocket a lot, but the UI is bad, reading offline articles wouldn't work all the time, and I ended up actually not revisiting pocket much, piling up a lot of articles that I would never read. Should I give raindrop a try?
Well, of course. Corona is a very contagious disease, and we have these options:

1) weld everybody in for 2 weeks (tried in China).

2) deliver a vaccine (but almost half of Americans won't take it)

3) get to herd immunity.

Most countries are fooling themselves by pretending there's another option, including the US today. The US is doing #3, but is in denial.
> Keeping the info private does nobody any good.

I'm saying that we should keep the identifying info private until the accusations are substantiated.

The internet mob is merciless, and will very likely ruin this guy's reputation once he's outed.

By outing the guy, you are presuming him guilty and inflicting steep punishment when he could be innocent.
Before the internet was a thing, the "National Enquirer" existed. A lot of people spent money to read it, and even more picked up copies that were laying around. As with pornography, there seems to be an unquenchable thirst for viewing the nonsense.
> What you call “amplification” is just something that makes the marketplace more efficient—it allows ideas to disseminate faster so people can decide which are the good ones and the bad ones.

Can you cite empirical research showing that the process works the way you believe it does?
I dont understand this unspoken contest to make new programming languages look like archaic ones from the 1960's. No beginner programmer wants to see := or upper case keywords.
A random suggestion that may help: I switched my display to Greyscale recently, and have found it produces less strain.
Cuomo and DeBlasio made terrible decisions. But NY only accounts for 15% of US covid deaths. This is a nation-wide problem.
How does cordoning off the area and not going in reflect enforcing the law to the best of their ability? Mainly in contrast to cordoning off the area, and then sending at least someone in.
> A core assertion in the article is demonstrably fake. Biden did not pressure Ukraine to fire a prosecutor that was investigating Burisma.

Biden did pressure Ukraine to fire that prosecutor, that's not in dispute, he's on video saying he did it. What is in dispute is whether he did it out of a corrupt motivation to benefit his son and the business he was working for. That's not asserted in the article. It merely lays out the timeline of events -- granted, in an order which is meant to point the reader in a given direction. They even include a section with the Biden campaign's take on the prosecutor's firing.
This is a killer feature. Good job, Google!
You're welcome. Thank you as well.

I'll write more tomorrow, it being wee hours here. In the meantime, please consider that:

> I score fairly "non authoritarian" (aka not so conservative) on this test.

means you (or for that matter any normal conservative) neither have a high RWA score nor are the subject matter of the book.

Edit: compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24795611
Actually, I don't think the "free speech" argument as deployed in defence the unmoderated promotion of fascism actually has a coherent concept of quality: the entire point of the argument is there will never be a time when an idea can legitimately be locked out of "the market", because there simply isn't any fair way to judge ideas.

Whenever the market idea is mentioned, it's always to invoked the principles of unregulated exchange, and not to remind readers of things like legislation about quality control for products to enter the market. And it is always argued that this market should have a constant and unceasing exchange (and more to the point that their particular idea should be given more space), so this isn't a market that works toward a consensus but rather a site that needs to be maintained in constant conflict.
with extremely limited operation capability...because its experimental. Like, not where it has large risk of hurting others. Thats what I dont get about this experimental nonsense on public roads
While I feel for the guy's struggle with cancer and the fertility issues he and his wife went through, I'm seeing the same tone in some of his other tweet threads (and threads from other people) and it's starting to feel like an intentional pattern done for audience building.

Which, I don't doubt he went through all this, but just can't help the bad taste in my mouth given the "I'm just selflessly saying things to help others" tone.

But hey, maybe I've just grown to be overly cynical after spending too much time around growth marketers.
Naming the investor is counterproductive.

Bad investors, bad board members, and even bad incubators are a dime a dozen.

Naming this 1 investor focuses the discussion on that single investor, rather than bringing awareness to the situation itself, and how commonly these things happen (yet how rarely anyone talks about it).
Step 1: Slip the code fragment that puts the compiler into an infinite loop into a Git commit for a large collaborative project.

Step 2: Watch the fun.

Step 3: Profit?
I was sure I've had autocomplete work for me, so I just tested with this nightly release and VS.Code and it works fine for me.

Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/9bcgPkz

There's a lot that can go wrong with getting Python autocomplete working, and it's possible you are seeing something different. But I would suggest it is environmental rather than something Spacy is doing.
I am convinced the world is "stupid", but it's not because I passively browse the front page of reddit more than I should. In fact, before you pointed out that it's mostly a stupidity concentrator (nice term btw), I didn't even notice that. When I read the front page of reddit I don't deduce the average intelligence of the participants by the most popular (mostly negative) posts of the day, I'm banking on the most upvoted posts being somewhat entertaining to me, nothing more.

What has convinced me the world is stupid is that as a whole we cannot get our shit together to deal with a global pandemic. You signal your intelligence when you show blatant disregard for the rules/law when you don't wear a mask when required. There are so many reasons why people do this (not knowing any better/not believing they work comes from lack of education), but it all stems from lack of intelligence (in my opinion). The fact that some parts of the world have effectively contained
while others are miserably failing, causing so many needless deaths, knowing what needs to happen to create this outcome, you can only conclude that as a whole, we are morons.

So yeah, I'm sure social media is definitely doing some damage, acting as a conduit for false information, spreading theories on 5G towers spreading the virus etc, but taking 5 watching some dumbass total his car via /r/idiotsincars because it was upvoted into /r/all does not make me feel hopeless, what makes me feel hopeless is getting on a tram, making a quick scan and concluding that I have to move into the next section because in the current one there are too many people not wearing a mask.

Your post has made me reconsider browsing /r/all though.. it is all pretty bland these days and /r/WCGW isn't entertaining as it was when I first found it
Your definition of consensus was worded in a way which was confusing to me, so I have reworded it: "Conensus is what most scientists think is the best interpretation of the data".

Sure. I don't have any significant disagreement with that definition.

>The bacterial hypothesis is another good example. The data supported that stress and diet was the cause of stomach ulcers. That was the “scientific truth”.

Not scientific truth. Perhaps the strongest theory given the evidence. Point is, consensus irrelevant non-factor for scientific strength of theory.
Hasn't this existed in Google assistant for a long time? Or does that only match the song itself (playing on the radio/store speaker/...)
> I'm not sure how much that's the case with application development though.

Not all apps fit neatly into a container. In the data warehousing space an app could consist of client code, middleware, and database objects, and then there’s probably data in object storage, and ETL code to deal with. There’s code in your workflow/scheduling system to be updated. The CI and test frameworks need to be updated.

And it all has to be deployed and tested in a synchronised way, especially if you want it to be reproducible.

I’d rather use a purpose built tool for this, than the mashup of tools and scripts that I currently use.
Modern software that does more or less the same thing as old software uses 10X to sometimes as much as 100X the resources to do the same thing. I am arguing that more colors, higher resolutions, and prettier text is not sufficient to account for this bloat.

Examples: simple paint programs, text editors, terminals, mail clients, basic word processing, and so on. In all cases resource requirements have exploded to an extent that can't easily be explained by gains in features or capability.
If only USA would do the same thing in the middle east today... Right wing extremism is a huge problem there.
I mentioned this elsewhere in thread, but here is an image of it working with VS.Code: https://imgur.com/a/9bcgPkz
"Vulnerability porn" is an intensely annoying trend among Twitter tech personalities.
> Tabloids are nothing like the NY Times or Washington Post, which attempt to present objective, unbiased news.

You sure about that?
>What does "hackers" here even mean? Is it just a throw-away disparaging term?

No, my point is that the Julia team includes a lot of people who aren't primarily software developers. Many of the top committers to Julia are working scientists who have first-hand experience of running HPC jobs with Julia; their input is a crucial factor in the success of Julia as a numerical computing language.

Python is a very good scripting language, but it's not built for numerical computing and it's not built by people who understand the needs of scientific users. It's not a bad tool, it's just the wrong tool for the particular jobs that Julia was built for.
I’m surprised to see this point take on HN. Most people who suggest this don’t realize that it would eliminate public participation from most of the internet. There can be no comment sections or Reddit or HN or StackOverflow or Wikipedia in this model. It would be very difficult to have any discussion forum at all. It would lead to an internet where powerful voices are even more powerful (because they have big publishers that will stand behind their words) and where the average user has a much much harder time being heard.
There is prior case law to support this idea.

This would be similar to the central area of a mall or when companies provided housing to workers to prevent unionization efforts. Both places were upheld as places where the First Amendment must be upheld, despite private ownership.
You won't get much disagreement from me on that basis though I wish that was the reasoning they gave-- rather than the transparently false statements about leaked documents.

I'm also dubious about applying that to private messages: Twitter isn't a party to those messages, interception of the content is an unlawful wiretap. Without unlawfully monitoring the content of the users private community it's not clear to me how they could be suppressing the content.
I dont consider the web and offline first / local software to be mutually exlusive. PouchDB is a database built on web technology in order to enable offline capabilities to web sites / apps, Service workers handle caching static assets reasonably easily.
The challenge with this framing is that you're equating social media to newspapers which provide editorialization. IIRC, one of the core distinctions that allow many tech companies to avoid liability for consumer generated content is not having an editorial role. If they embrace being media companies and editors I believe different regulations will apply to tech companies than currently do.
Unfortunately this article seems to be written in the same casual polymath style it claims to warn of, with people making broad generalizations without any deep knowledge of what they are talking about.

I stopped reading at the point where JFK’s 1947 election was claimed to be purely due to wealth. Although JFK is today remembered much more for other historical events--

He was already a nationally known war hero before 1947. See, for example, this 1944 article in the New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1944/06/17/survival
Most of these points are also true for Microsoft Office.