skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When water was a source of power and transport, we made a habit of building industry right on bodies of water. When we switched to other ways to transport goods and power, we never stopped that tradition and I wonder how harshly future generations are going to judge us for doing so.

We aren't using the river, but the river is still the same form of transportation it ever was. We don't barge away the goods, but the river will still happily carry any toxic materials that leave the factory by malice, incompetence, human error, or a series of unfortunate events (Fukushima).

I mean at this point, building a factory where you swear not to pollute next to a geographical feature that makes it easy to pollute without getting caught or where any honest mistake is magnified... it feels like a teenager hovering by the display of expensive stuff and saying they are just looking, or playing catch in the living room. You won't be the least surprised when you find out there is something missing/broken. The solution isn't more yelling, it's taking away the temptation to misbehave, and/or reducing the consequences of doing so.

We need public policy to build a proverbial glass cabinet around our core watersheds. Build highways, train and powerlines and zone for factories at a slight separation, along on the route between Here and There, where nothing we care about is directly downwind or downhill.

Tennessee Valley Authority lost a dam and dumped years of fly ash into a tributary of the Mississippi. It's just a matter of time until deferred maintenance takes out this dam, and the lake remembers it was a river once.
The main problem is that review systems of today are funded by investors who want profits, not honesty. That will always translate into unscrupulous companies paying to manipulate reviews, which will generate more cash than honest reviews.

A good review system can exist but it shouldn't be a venture-backed startup expecting unicorn returns.
Because we live in the present and not the future?
Whoops! --sorry. Speed-read your post and didn't notice you were asking for ideas for coding projects. I thought you were asking for other places you could use your downloaded DNA data.
Not for me...
the who-you-know culture serves a totally different function than monetary bribes. bribes are very fungible.
Pre pandemic people who preferred to work from home were regularly told that they weren’t actually working.
Throughout most of history people have believed wildly incorrect things, yet civilization carries on.

Unless you're an astronomer or involved in some pursuit in which the shape of the earth is of material consequence, it just doesn't matter.

Flat earthers find community and identity amongst other flat earthers, and that to them is of much higher significance than whether the earth is actually flat or not.
The rest of your polemic aside, specifically what do you think makes Twitter more susceptible to lawsuits here?
So like Windows in the 90s? That was it’s own nightmare for gaming with random crashes and games not working.
> Banning content with double standards, though, makes the platform editorial, which means people should be able to sue the company left and right.

Unless Section 230 gets repealed, it's the exact opposite, actually.
- Foolishness and stupidity are not remotely the same thing.

- Adherence to norms doesn't necessarily take intelligence, it takes diligence. Those norms are mostly there as 'social rules' so that we all get along and prosper - and it's often difficult to tell 'which ones are important and not'. Sometimes norms are important merely as norms, i.e. 'standard modes of behaviour'. Language is like this - there's nothing inherently moral or 'good' about language but it helps immensely that we are all on the same page.

It doesn't take intelligence to break norms either, but it definitely takes intelligence to develop reasonable opinions about them. Doing so is risky and can appear 'foolish' - which is not stupid.

Sometimes we view arbitrary breaking of norms and 'not being serious' as stupid, when often it's not.

- People have always been stupid, but we now have the internet to highlight stupidity

- A lot of our own behaviours are influenced by emotional/ideological memes, which is why there are so many out and about, and even 'intelligent people' fall for them all day long. All major news outlets are written for a 'dumbed down' audience - which includes a lot of intelligent people.

- Ideology. Even smart people are utterly confounded and made stupid by their ideologies. Carl Marx said some smart things, but a lot of utterly stupid things that continue to be 'orthodox' in some groups. Every 'touchy subject' is piled upon with stupidity because there isn't any nuance allowed in the discussion.
Algorithms didn't silence this article.
We have made murder illegal and there is a “murder for hire” black market. How does that refute my point?
One thing I have come to include in my mental model when interacting with people online is the existence of people who deliberately keep up the "stupid" facade, either with the intention of trolling (think 4chan) or with nefarious agendas, such a government-sanctioned trolling farms that we keep hearing about. This at least helps me rationalize away the worst parts of Twitter, Reddit, or Whatsapp shares.

Confirmation bias also explains a lot. I remember seeing many anecdotes about Trump before the 2016 election that felt quite possibly true but turned out to be false on further investigation. As if the true things were not exciting enough.

Moreover, I suspect that much of our perceptions, esp. on topics that we don't directly seek out, are based on just glancing at the continuous stream of clickbaity article titles that cross our feeds everyday without even clicking them. In isolation, they'd be harmless, but if the same articles appears across HN, FB, and Twitter, they make a mental impact. And these half-digested impressions then color our opinions when those topics come up in debate or discussions.
> Who gets to choose who gets pick the things amplified or not?

I get that you're asking this question rhetorically, but the "obvious" answer is the correct one: the people that own and operate the amplification system as their business model get to pick. Why should it be otherwise?
> I would suggest that it's possible this need is subconscious

It's definitely possible. I'm saying I'd be more inclined to believe the "need" in question is a social need, rather than bad media/"fake news" influence.
Good thing that poster was talking about police as an institution and power structure and not making your strawman argument about about what is in the heart of each and every cop
Which capture card are you using? I couldn't find mentions to it in this thread.
Twitter Outages
Individual Contributors (i.e. non-managers).
> influence your way of thinking.

Yup! I've read a number of papers about this over the years, and it's a big chunk of this whole landscape. The old saw: you either pay for the product, or you are the product, is right on target here.

Gaining attention and clicks from a person is much easier if that person is afraid. And/or angry, among others.
> Which publication do you think has better journalistic integrity?

Should that matter if the criteria for Twitter is whether something contains hacked/leaked materials or PII? Big news often contain the former and most articles contain the latter. Twitter would lose a lot of journalists if they went down that route. Might be good for the sanity of the users though.
Also see the Rule of Goats: Even if you fuck goats ironically, you're still a goat-fucker.
> That narrative is ridiculous - what does intelligence have to do with it ?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014616721878319...

"Further studies demonstrated that cynicism is more likely to be a worldview endorsed by individuals with lower rather than higher levels of education (Haukkala, 2002; Stavrova & Ehlebracht, 2018) and intelligent individuals’ behavior was shown to be more likely to depart from the norms of self-interest (Solon, 2014). Higher levels of education and com-petence in a broader sense might help individuals detect and avoid potential deceit in the first place, thus reducing the probability of negative social experiences, which might in turn contribute to a more positive view of human nature (Yamagishi, Kikuchi, & Kosugi, 1999). Indeed a number of studies showed general cognitive ability to be negatively related to cynical hostility (Barnes et al., 2009; Mortensen, Barefoot, & Avlund, 2012) and positively related to trust (Carl, 2014; Carl & Billari, 2014; Hooghe, Marien, & de Vroome, 2012; Oskarsson, Dawes, Johannesson, & Magnusson, 2012; Sturgis, Read, & Allum, 2010)."
Glenn Gould – How Mozart Became a Bad Composer (1968)
This is a really good critique of Mozart even if you don't agree with it, by the 'wizard' Glenn Gould, circa 1968.
The falsification usually hinges on discrediting the physiological aspects of the hypothesis: specifically, where the "commander" and the "actor" reside in the brain. Jaynes hypothesized that one lives in one hemisphere, and the other in the other, and commands are issued across the corpus callosum. This has since been disproven in favor of the perspectives centering the default mode network.

The other more phenomenological aspects are not easily falsifiable, nor indeed verifiable. But the arguments he provides at least itch the scratch of explaining strange behaviors and characteristics of our ancestors and the relics they left behind in a way that approaches Occam's razor.
all systems operational according to https://api.twitterstat.us/

down for me tho
What are you talking about? The Linux ABI is very stable.
You’re ascribing a lot of emotion to a pretty disinterested argument. The purpose of police is to enforce laws, not protect people. This isn’t a hateful statement, it’s a fact that has been affirmed in court. If there is a shooter at your local high school, police are entirely within their rights to cordon off the area but not go in and intervene (this is precisely what happened in Florida). That’s not to say that those same police officers were indifferent to the lives and plights of those students, but their goal is to enforce laws, not save all lives by any means necessary. Trying to generalize your experience of police into their policy is a mistake.
Making jokes on HN is pretty hit-or-miss.

Though I suppose a joke based off a typo is pretty low-effort.
I'd argue, at least in part, that the discussion about "lack of knowledge" in these comments is at least partially a result of the author's own failure to define, or even maintain a consistent implied definition throughout his own hypotheses of, intelligence/stupidity (even going so far as to use "wisdom" in place of intelligence in some of the hypotheses).
Why do I find this essay arrogant and superficial?
From the pub to HN, everybody is happy to give an uneducated opinion on the qustion. I'm too stupid, I'll pass.
I agree that the UI sucks but I like the constraints. It gives no room for filler text and every paragraph/tweet needs to have its own point.
> How is this a good analogy for them asking for the names and addresses of individuals to be taken down because they are worried that these might be a call to violence against those indivuals?

Apple is making a moral judgment here, likely based on pressure from the Belarusian government.

Let's look at it this way. Let's say you agree that the current Belarusian president is bad news, and is trying to maintain power by invalidating free democratic elections, and suppress other candidates by arresting them on trumped-up charges. If you don't agree with that, fine, but let's say for a moment that you do.

In that case, Apple's requirement of Telegram is in support of a repressive regime. While I'm not a fan of violence, I will acknowledge that sometimes it is necessary to apply violence in order to achieve freedom.

But the overall point is that what people say on Telegram is none of Apple's business. Strong-arming Telegram's CEO into complying with Apple's moralizing is an abuse of Apple's market position, based on their OS's DRM that requires all apps to be approved by Apple. That's not a world we should have to live in.
I've read so many AdSense horror stories that, whenever I thought to use AdSense, I just gave up out of fear of "tainting" my account. Between the fraud false-positives and accounts getting locked (or even lost), it never looked like it was worth the trouble.
Ignoring the "0.9" satellites, this says 694 out of 713 launched so far are good. Is 97% success bad?
Tfw.... Trying to login to twitter to find out if twitter is down...smh
definitely down
>cloudflare will happily take your money if you're not a neonazi

Cloudflare isn't as ideologically pure as you might think. To this date, they have only refused service to Daily Stormer and 8chan for political reasons. Real neonazi sites like stormfront dot org (unlike 8chan that had many apolitical communities like for games or anime) continue to enjoy their protection because it hasn't negatively affected their stock (the news on DS and 8ch broke before the IPO, but their launch might have been a failure due to bad press).
That's a pretty soft wontfix though. Might be reopenable at this point.
Serious question - do Mac users just not use HDMI to USB capture devices? I got mine for $10 off eBay [1] and it works great with my Sony camera (RX100 IV) with zero new drivers required on PC[2].

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/HDMI-to-USB-2-0-Video-Capture-Card-...

[2] It's limited to 1080p, which is more than I need from a webcam.
Perhaps a better question than “who gets to choose which things get amplified?” is “who is liable for the consequences of amplifying certain things?”
How do you authorise payment?
How did you get here from the comment you are replying to.
States just need to start mandating LIDAR for any level of autonomous certification, in the same way we finally figured out seatbelts were the minimum level of safety for passenger retention.
Yes for me.
I still cannot tweet. I just tried it now. I get the message "Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot."
I fundamentally disagree with your premise that these incumbent commercial social media services are a communications fabric. These companies are in no way common carrier, critical communications media.

The underlying physical infrastructure, sure, the underlying standards like the TCP/IP stack, DNS, Ethernet, etc, well those are too, but these are categorically not quite same as what you are arguing should also be included in that group.
Midwits, not nitwits. Obviously these people are very smart in a particular sense. But yes I agree with you. The super elites with competent financial advisors will just roll over into gold or crypto.
If you don't want to get dox'd.. get better opsec
>there's no coordinated media

Ahem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=x6U2Un5kEdI
The price history data shows that the retailer is using AI to increase prices of items in and around pay day in Europe.
whimsicalism says >"I think it is stupid to not vote for Biden over something like this. "<

IMO Biden's likely to pass away before he's elected and so I think it foolish to vote for him. He looks like a dead man walking - a paper cutout that Democrats move from one empty rally to another.

BTW who becomes the Democratic party nominee should Biden

a) die or fall very seriously ill before the election?

b) die on the eve of the election (i.e., halfway through the voting, when some votes have already been cast for the deceased)?

c) die after the election but before he's sworn in as President?

I see Biden's health as extremely precarious.
They should also be taking responsibility for copyright infringement in that case, which to my understanding is what the section 230 changes are?

If twitter wants to defer to users being responsible for their speech, the users should be having the rights to post what they want.
Feel the need to point out that "Photoimpact" is still available and works well for me.

Started using it years ago - corel bought it I think, and they did not kill it thank goodness.

It's easy for me, easy for me to teach other complete noobs how to do most things with it, and no subscription for internet required to work.
For any given question, there are few right answers and many wrong ones. Therefore it's a lot easier to be wrong than to be right.

Combine that with the permanence of the internet and you have a few right answers surrounded by a sea of things that range from almost right to complete nonsense.

I think B:9 is related. I really liked this article. A lot of the points made me go "hmmm".
Chinese SMIC Tapes Out First N+1 ‘7 Nm’ Chip, but Mass Production Uncertain
It depends? https://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2013/07/are-unmarked-polic...
I was going to say, that theory sounds an awful lot like Stephenson's stuff about neurolinguistic programming.
This is not only for Mac. Also, you really don't see a value in a camera supporting that without buying extra hardware, even if its cheap?
Huh that's a cool comparison. I guess society will have a rough patch when a new, more accessible medium of communication is mass released to the public.
It's entirely possible it was in a contract.
> ...are you suggesting that progressives have more "dirty laundry" than conservatives in general?

In general yes, that is true. Or said another way: Progressives say different things internally and externally, far more often than Conservative's do.

Usually when Conservatives' emails are hacked there is nothing in them that people don't already know.

Note: I'm not making any judgement on the content of what they say, just the difference between what they say internally vs. externally.
Look up the Skripal poisoning. Russian agents have operated in NATO countries before to do stuff like this.

That said, the “hack” theory is pretty weak, I believe it mainly relies on a coincidence that Burisma was hacked last year https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/politics/russian-hacke...

However, the computer shop guy claims the laptop was dropped off in early 2019 and this article says the Russians hacked Burisma in November 2019. The email PDFs themselves provided by the NY Post are dated September 2019, so stuff doesn’t add up here.
Superconductors aren't magic. You can't just stuff a few million amps into a tiny wire. Just as there is a critical temperature, there's also a critical current density. While those two numbers are related, you'll need quite a bit more than "room temperature" superconductors to carry currents like that. And there's a temperature/current tradeoff: if the ambient temperature is close to the critical temperature, then a whisp of current can make it go normal.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Solids/scbc2.html
I think the proportion of stupid to smart is the same as always. It is just the internet has given stupid a much bigger amplifier than it has given to smart. It is just as easier to distribute a stupid idea to billions of people than it is to distribute a smart idea.
The fact that machines are helping these people accomplish their goals does not mean that people don’t have goals and that they shouldn’t be liable for the consequences of accomplishing their goals.
The most concerning thing about the tweet to me is the popular replies which support Pai's statement.

The media, and those of us who understand what Pai did to net neutrality, need to do a better job of communicating to the general public exactly what Pai is, and what he's there to do.

It would also be nice if people understood that section 230 protections allow the internet as we know it (not just the social media giants) to exist, but I'd settle for just the bit about Pai as a start.
Or, it’s good that people will be forced to build social networks outside of their work, as it was a bad development that citizens began to depend heavily on work for meaning and connection.

Once the pandemic is over, of course.
It’s loading for me but I can’t tweet.
For a product that’s still being tested and not fully rolled out, you could block it from operating in those spots, if you can reliably map where they are.
Half the country isn't going to out looking for conspiracy theory garbage. They just want to see pictures of their grandkids. But if you expose them to the conspiracies they can get drawn in.
Good bookmarking app is something that I would actually pay for without hesitation (and I'm not very generous with software subscriptions and such). But what I'm absolutely not going to use is bookmarking or note-taking app, storing my data on remote servers while not being fully e2e encrypted with something that cannot be broken in 50 years with all quantum-computers of the future and whatnot. This is ridiculous, especially when compared with all the fuss around "highly-secure" remote password managers, that you use to store a bunch of passwords (which will expire after a year) for some bullshit throw-away accounts (everything important has 2fa anyway). Heck, I'm not even always changing some passwords after I accidentally send them via messenger, because who cares. I wouldn't want to accidentally send to somebody the full collection of my bookmarks/notes.
Firefox currently only has it as an experimental feature which you have to enable manually in about:config. I would have to say it still lacks a bit of polish. You can find it by searching for firefox ssb.

https://www.maketecheasier.com/enable-site-specific-browser-...
When we loose important features and usability for simplicity
Isn't it wonderful? :)

Although, sometimes the irony seems just a bit too rich to be true...perhaps a Matryoshka troll?
Maybe the problem is that (because of multiple reasons) the way of thinking is nowadays trending more towards extremes, meaning that people are not able (or don't want) to see/admit that often something is not absolutely good/bad, white/black, etc... .

What then comes out of sticking to any sort of extreme thought/position/behaviour about something is then often wrong, and this might be seen as "stupidity".
Nassim Taleb wrote a whole book (Skin in the Game) under a similar premise: “Never trust anyone who doesn’t have skin in the game. Without it, fools and crooks will benefit, and their mistakes will never come back to haunt them.”
A bit of a tangent, but I feel like I have also created an artificial scale on a rating system myself. I use Untappd to score beers. But it turns out there is a pretty wide variety of beer that I like so most of them end up as 4 +/- 0.5 our of 5.

But I'm not the only one. The overall rating system most beers end up in the 3.5 to 4.5 range. Where 4.5 becomes "oh my god, these brewers are doing incredible things with this beer" and 3.5 becomes "ugh, this tastes worse than bud light"
Just like the communists have always been doing.
That was well put. Nasseem Talib wrote a whole book about skin in the game and how it is essential for believability.
And how are platforms to be regulated? Do they allow anonymous posters? Who investigates and removes harmful content?
Sure, but that's a problem of the legal system.

Uber was still reachable by authorities, and did show up in court.

All I am saying is that self-driving companies aren't going to pull off a hit-and-run and dodge the fact that an accident did happen. So one doesn't really need to worry about how a self-driving car deals with the note-on-windshield part. More than likely their HQ would be aware of the accident remotely and have legal responsibility to call 911 immediately if necessary. And in the event that a car's algorithm pulled off a hit-and-run on minor property damage, the company would still be easily reachable by authorities and respond to a court summons.
You can't talk on Twitter. Any thread loses its order and it branches randomly. Different users sees different threads. It is made to encourage monologues. I guess it is why it is popular among politicians, celebs and journalist.
Can it be permanent?