skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm having a hard time recalling any service that didn't have any content moderation, even on top of laws. The idea that content moderation makes you a publisher seems a bit silly to me.

If I have a platform for selling say automobiles, and people keep trying to sell kitchenware of something equally not off brand. Removing that content doesn't make you a publisher, it makes you a steward of the purpose of a platform.

The idea that moderation or cultivation of a platform, sudden makes you a "publisher" (which is frankly a term that shouldn't even be used in this case as it is too narrow for the web is) makes no sense.

This is, a bullshit threat to try and assert control over platforms that people interact on by the government. It isn't needed, and is likely to be harmful.
I think it stops at detection, not silence. If the prompt continues you should keep humming.
The elephant in the room is more, like, the conceptual simplicity, interface stability, and portability compared to the never-ending proliferation of Linux kludges ^H^H^H innovations turning out to bring as much problems as they're trying to solve, or more eg https://lwn.net/Articles/679786/
I don't know much about Castro, but the books by Che gives me the impression he works with the hacker ethic and actually a nice guy who sees humans beyond nationality or things as such.

The book on "Guerrilla Warfare" gives insights on his hacker like thinking. In the first page he describes the preconditions required to uproot the revolution and treats it like forming a startup. He summarizes 30 people is the ideal for the initial group to create revolution and describes about different personality types required among them. There is no big words like sacrifice, noble cause and stuff which you usually see used by the authoritarians, just pure information. He also goes on to say even without Castro the revolution would have happened.

By the way I like Che not communism.
If the Press Secretary makes ban-worthy remarks, the people have a right to know what those remarks are.

This is basically secrecy, not ban-worthy remarks. She said something that the public is not allowed to know.
> Translation: "You're dumb for liking this thing I had years ago". What an empty comment.

That’s just your extremely uncharitable and incorrect insinuation of my comment. What I was saying was not about the user’s reaction to the feature but instead about the admiration of the company. It’s not impressive if Ford uses a wheel on their car because a wheel is old technology that others have already done well.
that is in this book by Stanisław Lem, 1971..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurological_Congress

pills replacing reality.. we aren't too far from that actualy.
Because it is to the best of their ability. Sending someone in sounds good, unless of course you’re that someone, and then you get to worry about either dying or killing someone innocent. Police have no duty or responsibility to risk their lives in order to save someone else, just like an emt, firefighter, lifeguard, etc.
I hope this incident of systemic bias by Twitter and others, will not just end in 'amplification' of the story.

I hope the result of this outrage, is that the companies that claim to be 'plaforms', but instead are systemically and agressively -- are 'publishers' when it comes to political content, will face legal system.

Just like a for-profit business would face, when they claim 'non-profit charity' taxation rules.
In case anyone doesn't want to read through all the pages, here are the prevailing themes of this discussion as I see them.

- the facts of the case are irrelevant, what's important now is how the tech companies reacted

- the facts of the case are extremely relevant, because that would obviously inform how Twitter/Facebook deal with the content on their website

- Twitter's response was severely mismanaged (or not, some think it was wise) because it will invite further accusations that they "censor" conservative voices

- The usual, and completely unsettled, debate about publisher vs platform for social media companies

- "How did we get here? When I was young, the internet was a free for all and it was cool. Can we go back to that?"

- Some interesting discussions about if democracy can survive in the social media age

- At times, some philosophical discussions about what is a "fact"

- An interesting discussion about what it means to have "anonymous" sources

- A great discussion about if the "slippery slope" actually is a logical fallacy

There's a few more.

To be quite frank, HN really is a good community. These are all worthy things to talk about! Within the horrorshow that is 2020, it's kind of cool that there's a place where a (mostly) civil discussion can be had about these extremely complex topics.
yeah i just found the kickstarter when I was replying to this thread. Off to go and sign up for it now...
Giuliani says they have a receipt with Hunter's signature on it

Hunter's lawyer has allegedly emailed the store asking for the laptop back

If those two things can be corroborated and they aren't forgeries, it should dispel all speculation about who dropped it off and who it belonged to.
Or, none of the leaked data came from the "computer" in question. Hunter's iCloud backup was hacked, Burisma's internal emails were breached by the GRU last year. Combine those two sources, mix real correspondences with some forgeries, and blame it all on a single laptop a MAGA supporter happened upon in rural Delaware.

Makes perfect sense, if you want it to.
Hypothesis: the baby-boomers, the largest generation in history, have entered their 70’s and are experiencing cognitive decline, as everyone does. This increases the “stupid-average”, giving bad ideas and misinformation greater currency through popular support.
At a certain point moderation becomes speech. Literally these words are not my words, they are Meriam-Webster’s. I just chose which ones to include in my comment. In so doing I convey a particular message.
I love this project, Tasmota on a Sonoff basic makes the fan in my toilet switch on when my Hue motion detector detects motion (and switches the light on), using Home Assistant for the logic. My proudest and most useful automation!

Once you flash it and turn it on, it becomes a hotspot to help configure it to your own network, so smart, from that day on: OTA updates. Mine is hidden in the ceiling and has been there without problems for over a year now.
Facebook and Twitter have never been impartial principled venues for free speech. They have blocked content from the very beginning, mostly relating to sex and violence. Facebook even banned photos of mothers breastfeeding their children.

And they make editorial decisions constantly about what content each person sees. The fact that these decisions are scaled by computer algorithms does not mean they are not happening.

This idea that they are neutral and free communications channels is a marketing message that they invented and pushed, because they thought it would help them succeed in business. We don’t have to believe them.

They’re just private companies, two among millions. If they make unpopular decisions about how to operate, they will fail. They should be allowed to do that.

Conversely, if they make popular decisions that you disagree with, it doesn’t mean the whole concept of free speech is damaged. Again: just two companies.
Amazing, this was a hit in Hungary when I was little, my mother used to love it.

https://youtu.be/-0mlFNmj-vU
The problem is that they don’t have lidar and therefore can’t reliably measure depth, right? A billboard far away high up in the air may appear in the same direction as a closer road sign if you don’t have depth perception. You should be able to infer it from a camera with the right model but those methods are more fallible. Similar root cause to that time the guy got beheaded by a white truck perpendicular to the highway that looked like the sky.
I can’t imagine, damn. My condolences.

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Under the Kickstarter information:

> "...Some of these directions better suit Open Source development model for many reasons."

So they want $100,000 to give people the source code. Then they're saying it will suit Open Source Development (also requesting free labour from the community).... this is a red flag
I for one, would specifically exclude the legal owner of a set of data from copying that data and giving it to a third party from the definition of "hacking".
You first stated that these concepts are hard, which is really not the case. Many more terminology is really good explained here: https://webrtcglossary.com/

Not understanding the byte protocol is understandable but a quite different topic. You really don't need to understand it, there are libraries for many programming languages doing the hard work for you. And if you want to understand it, it's normal you have to read a lot of different documents. If you would have no understanding of HTTP/2 you would have to read a lot of RFCs too as every version is built on the former version with retaining many of it's concepts
NYPD (in decades past) is an bit of an outlier... but even then, there's a gulf between "have a good experience with" and "don't piss off".

Modern polling is what I based by contention on, and I don't think citing the most notorious counter-example (and reaching back before reforms to solve exactly the problem you allege) is much of a response.

Minority communities routinely poll in favour of INCREASED presence in their communities nowadays.
> reading Chomsky as a teenager, Plato in college and Kant after that were much more significant events in terms of my political views

I can relate a lot to this. I'd say my formative reads were:

- 1984 and Brave New World. The former should be mandatory reading for everyone, everywhere.

- The Bible. Going from "I was raised Christian" to "I'm gonna read this and ask myself if I really believe this stuff" (I do, but in general I deviate massively from mainstream evangelical Christianity).

- Dune. Yep, profoundly transformative. I'm bummed that some people I've recommend it to don't seem to have had the same experience as I had reading it.
Social Media Is Like the Weirdest House Party Ever
I’m more and more convinced we are living in a prestige economy. 10 lines of code and you’ve added to your prestige. No college education necessary, you don’t have to compete on kaggle, you don’t have to make anything useful in comparison to the competition.
Just prestige in starting a car, saying you can make a car and walking away.
That is a good point. Thanks.
I love Svelte.
A Cryptochemocracy government iirc, that book is amazing. They made a movie that is very very loosely inspired by it, just called "The Congress." Nowhere near as awesome as the book by any stretch, but excellent animation and some great sound bites.
As far as comment wars go this a been very civil. Thanks! :) This will be my last reply in this thread but I wanted to try to make the case against conservative populism one more time.

Don't impute principles to the market.

I'm not saying the market has principles. People can be moral or immoral. As you have noted, the market is amoral. I was saying that the debate over who can say what and where they can say it can be solved by the market. Twitter owns their severs and can decide what they want to do with them. You don't have the right to compel them to allow you to use their severs. You are free to build (or rent) your own servers and scream into the void. No one is obligate to listen to you but you are free to provide them something of value in return for their attention.

Those companies wouldn't touch gay rights with a 10 foot pole until one day all of a sudden they're beating their way to the front of the line at the pride parade.

This is very true and it should be of great concern to conservatives. In the previous generations, conservatives had a lock on the culture war but since the 90s they have completely ceded the field to progressives and liberals.

Republicans have only won the popular vote for president once since 1990. Trump isn't even attempting to win the popular vote this year. The median income in 2018 was 10k higher in blue states than red states. And you wonder why advertisers (and thus twitter) value blue tribe users more?

Conservatives can't gerrymander the market. They are going to need to find a way to compete for relevance with the majority of the public not just their base.

They'll follow what's popular, and if that's liquidating jews, they'll do it (some of them did!).

This is a straw-man. No one is in favor of letting billionaires commit extrajudicial killings. The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is higher in my principle stack than the rights of market forces.

In conclusion, I will say there is a way out of this morass for conservatives. They have to kick the neo-nazis, the proud boys, and qanon out of the party. They have to accept science and that the scientific method is the best way to determine objective reality. If they continue to call anything that falls outside of their accepted narratives "fake news", they will continue to lose the culture war. And thus, be more and more sidelined from the national discourse. Due the undemocratic elements of our constitution they conservatives may retain political power, but in the end, the consent of the governed is more important.
Yes, fake experts are everywhere and draw from the Well without peeling back the layers of abstraction or demonstrating knowledge by putting something back in the Well. This writing seems to me to be an elaborate way of saying this, and it makes me wonder if he has been professionally or personally jilted by such personalities in his knowledge domain(s). The article oozes with insecurity.
Progress can no longer be measured by growth in GDP
Oh, the latter. Cleanup would be expensive.
My iPhone 4s' last upgrade made the phone unuseably slow. Whereas Android 10 on my pixel OG still feels modern and silky smooth.
Curious how you do quality control and machine-to-machine variation studies? Do you have CSAM inspection or some kind of X-ray inspection techniques for finding voids/abnormalities?

That was really interesting to read. I shouldn't be so dismissive, sounding like an old record. I would however be dismissive if proper analysis isn't done on the parts and generally deteriorating standards on quality of parts. People's lives are at stake and we were very conservative in building the frames I worked on. Not just FAA but other agencies were watching us.
reminds me of discontinued mozilla prism
How many people have you asked?

This is like the review site problem... people don't tend to walk around giving random anecdotes about good experiences with routine or common services.

But the polling is what I based my comment on. Even in minority communities, increased police presence polls significantly higher than decreased presence - and that's before proposing any reforms.
What if a pill could change your sexual orientation? That one would cause quite the chaos.
Seconded

If you ask me about fizzbuzz I'll complain. Or maybe try to do it in a quirky way

You should have addressed if the candidate knows how to write basic code in the phone interview, not wasting my time with a stupid problem on a whiteboard
They posted twice, with a minute in-between, both with glowing reviews.

https://i.imgur.com/fTfgcyN.png

My reply was instantly flagged of course.
Any narcotic drug can change your politics/religious/moral views while in use. Of course it also depends on the quantity taken. Most narcotic drugs will also leave permanent changes in your body. So YES: a "pill" can change your political or religious beliefs. This is also the reason why it is often given to soldiers before combat...
If Twitter wants to editorialize in this manner, then perhaps it's time to revisit section 230 after all.
I remember that, and I remember playing a game with my girlfriend at the time where we tried to get it to recognize any song we hummed. We had an in-joke where Smooth Operator was literally the only song we could get it to recognize.

This isn't just "big tech replicating a commonplace feature", it's big tech implementing it at all where little tech could not.

This is a common fetishization on HN, but HNers forget that execution is all that really matters. Little tech demos do not. Though we on HN act like tech demos are the hardest part.
> It depends on what you're looking for.

Security, for starters.

There is no way around this.

> It's similar to other third-party component libraries out there. There are open source and closed source ones.

You're trying to side-step the fact that a random user uploaded binaries that were crafted to do god knows what to the host's computer in a way that circumvents basic auditing and security checks, and did so while hijacking/piggybacking on popular software projects.

You can try to spin this any way you want, but you need to be crazy to download and run these binaries as there is zero assurance they are not malware.
Quote:

Your algorithm will likely be an O(n^2) (n-squared) algorithm because you’ll be iterating over the data in an exponential way

End of quote.

Ok, so the technical interviewer mixes up exponential and polynomial run-time in a blog post about interviewing. Can you spot what's wrong with interviewing in SE?
The world’s first prescriptible wearable for continuous heart monitoring
I've never heard such service exists and uses browser extension user's network. It looks horrible. Possibly random browser extension user may arrested by unknown reason.
"Tell em about the twinkie."
You can’t make a billboard do that remotely.
Where is Jon Stewart. He almost disappeared before 2016 election, even if it was almost made for him/his sense of humor.
I'm not American, but the same thing is happening in many countries. A stable country where the citizens trust the government and judicial systems is resistant to corruption. If you can destabilize those countries by spreading lies, hate, disinformation, etc. there's an opportunity for the most corrupt morally bankrupt scumbags on the planet to come in and seize control of important assets and infrastructure.

Just watch closely for a while and you'll see it happening everywhere. There are lies and misinformation and hate and fear directed _everywhere_ no matter what "side" you're on and the volume of it is massive. Then the media and influencers and regular people amplify it and spread it and debate it until they all hate each other and don't trust anyone.

It's working too. America is imploding. The UK got duped into Brexit. Several countries have a growing following of citizens that think immigrants and minorities are the cause of their misfortune even though those tend to be vulnerable groups that are exploited the most. Cancel culture is dialed up to 11. It's crazy and scary.
That may be true but that was a reason they used later, as an excuse.

Hence they don't ban the Web Archive mirror (which has a static URL), and they don't ban any of the previous leaks about Trump taxes, health records, etc.

Not to mention Wikileaks - by definition that is a trove of email addresses and completely uncensored
private information that you can tweet with impunity right now.
We've banned this account - it's not ok to mimic someone else's username like that, but it's especially not ok to add sockpuppet accounts to a thread you're already in. Doing that will get your main account banned as well, so please don't do that again.
Hi! Link [4] is missing.
Really interesting, thanks. I didn't realize my fellow democrats were using a formula - must have missed that brief from Soros.
Why is polycarbonate inferior to metal? It won't slip out your hands so easily and it is far tougher than soft aluminium.
I'm personally a great fan of esphome.io. Use simple yaml files to configure a firmware built exactly to your whishes for various esp32 and esp8266 variants. Includes support for a ton of peripherals.

The list of supported hardware is actually a great place to look for which sensors are commonly used for for e.g. air quality, c02, temperature, humidity, power monitoring etc. Almost all supported sensors are available for a few bucks on aliexpress or equivalents.

You can connect the result to home assistant, but you can also move all or some of the logic to the board. So your light still switches on when motion is detected when your WiFi or the server is down. But if motion is detected at certain hours, you'll get a notification via home assistant
People often shut their minds if you try to prove they are wrong. It is much easier to ask to stop topic.

And truth often is boring. It is only one. At first I've told my son only truth how it works (Feynman style). Now I engage in making fantasies (Diskworld style). I present all fantasies (theories) as equal, some can be constructed by physics laws. The game is to find which one. All sorts of interesting questions arise.

What is the difference between plane and satellite?

Can airplane flew that fast through air?

Is meteor burning? What is its speed?

> 120,000 km

That's third of a distance to the moon. Not sure how you got it
Hmm, doesn't ring a bell :(
HN, forums etc could still have all the rules they like, but they'd be publishers, not platforms, if I understand the GP correctly. Sounds reasonable enough, they aren't platforms that anyone can build on, they decide what goes on their site and what doesn't, even if they outsource part of that process to trusted users.
If you want to get an answer to your question, you should make it clear what exactly you do not understand in the statement I made.

Do you disagree with the premise? Do you think that what Bill Gates did wasn’t actually fraud?
Do you think that a politician behaving like that on a daily basis is not the essence of corruption?
I'm hoping Chromium become componentized. E.g. I can package WebGl component only for game or I can strip out the WebGl component for normal HTML/CSS app.
Why are you ignoring the "in any language I’ve ever used" part of the quote?
> It seems that the Biden campaign isn't denying that the emails are authentic. That would be strong evidence that they are

That's absolutely ridiculous logic.
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thanks man! I'm good at the moment (i have 3 to scrounge parts from), but I do appreciate it. Also your contact info is not actually in your profile currently.
As soon as I saw the title I remembered this Julia Evans post about the same issue: https://jvns.ca/blog/2015/11/21/why-you-should-understand-a-...
Skimmed over the article: Oh, commom problem areas have nothing to do with the skill of coding but only with the skill of being a good interviewe. Kk thx bye
Not sure it has a name, but it looks like this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HDMI-to-USB-Video-Capture-Card-10...
It's fantastic, works anytime with no issues.
Very unlikely that they are considering the actual sung or hummed pitch as very few people, including professional musicians, would start singing at the correct pitch without accompaniment.

Most likely they are mapping the interval between the sung notes and using that as part of the ‘melodic fingerprint’ for matching.
_cries in Altered Carbon_
US teachers are paid well above the OECD average: https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/teachers-salaries.htm. (OECD figures are usually adjusted for purchasing power in each country.)
Being a public figure doesn't mean your rights don't exist.

I actually abhor that the photos of Hunter were shared, but he's a public figure too. As this (and other recent reporting) has shown, he was using his father's name and implied access thereto for personal profit.

Note that there is no evidence Hunter ever actually got Joe to do anything for him. What is a matter of record is that Hunter was IMPLYING he could do so, which is scummy but probably not illegal. Johnson-Grassley investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe and I want to stress I'm not alleging otherwise.
Ernie Adams - Bill Belichick's football brain. He's probably a somewhat big part of the reason the Pats have been so successful for so long with other teams' "cast offs".