skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a crucial point. We are not talking about someone coming to my house and blaring Tweets with a bullhorn.

If I follow @NYPost then I want to hear what they tweet. Twitter may have every right to censure them, but it’s the wrong thing to do, and people are rightly incensed about it.

If I want to retweet a @NYPost article to my followers that is my business. And my followers can gladly listen or unfollow.

Twitter’s faux rationale about “hacked materials” sticks coming just days after NYTime’s story on Trump tax returns.

If these monopolistic social networks want to interfere in public & private messages on their platform to the benefit of particular political candidates they shouldn’t be doing it with the benefit of Section 230 immunity and/or should be scrutinized for making campaign contributions in-kind, like how National Inquirer got hit with charges for their buy&bury on Trump’s affair.
Neither SQL nor QBASIC syntax is case sensitive.
Them is the IC right?
Having a bunch of replies on the thread that don't bother to read the terms of use or the explanation of the ban is spam as well. Spam fighting spam? Spamalot?
You do realize how insane it is to cheer for war? A PLA invasion of the US is not "interesting", it's horrifying.
It is about political power, Facebook and Twitter shouldn't have the power to significantly alter elections by selectively choosing what information people see.
Glassdoor was acquired by Indeed, who is moving all paid job postings ($$$) over to Indeed. That leaves Glassdoor without a business model, hence this internal pivot.

Source: https://www.chadcheese.com/episodes (scroll down to see the Glassdoor/Indeed episodes)
Permanent WFH sounds great. In some places, like the Scandinavian countries, employers are responsible for the workplace. Ergonomics and such. It is right now unclear how this would work when people will work from home.

One of my clients is worried about this, that employees will get hurt from having bad office chairs, and-what-not, and having to pay up for it. The solution during the pandemic has been to allow employees to come in and grab chairs, monitors, etc., from the office.

It's an interesting development of what a workspace is.
I do, but I also do not use or consume content from Either Facebook or Twitter so....
> What is involved in this process that takes 2 years?

He's not saying the process will take 2 years.

He's saying that no reasonable CEO will sign on to a company that is months away from going bankrupt. Two years of runway is long enough for a new CEO to find their feet, set direction, and work on profitability and/or fundraising.

If the CEO arrives with only a few months of runway, their first tasks will be to cut burn rate by laying off many of the employees. That doesn't create a good first impression.
"How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/how-ibm-wat...
I'm sure this will do wonders for mental health
Building little data pipelines for schmedium data in bash
That's a great deflection, but it's not in the same sphere as the fear of the newly found fears of election interference that is driving people to become anti-free speech. That is directly coming from Russia and China.

Snowden and Assange are quite different, though I am also not opposed to whistle blowers, if it isn't reckless and endanger lives (such as giving up troop positions, etc.)
Credit Card, no

Debit Card, yes
You asked people to read section 230 and you claimed that section 230 says absolutely nothing about impartiality.

I read section 230 and mentioned parts of it that I think are relevant to impartiality. In particular, I don't see how you maximize user control over the information they receive if information providers are going to be partial to one political party. And I don't see how you have forums for a true diversity of political discourse if forums are going to be partial to one political party.

If you can tell me, I would love to know, how do Twitter's actions in this case maximize user control over the information they receive? I don't think they do, I think it is quite the opposite of that, but go ahead and make a case if you have one.

Now it is true that the implementation of section 230 lacks an enforcement mechanism to enforce the policies that it advocates. That's a problem with the law, and it is what some people are advocating that we fix. I agree with those proposals, I would like to see section 230 amended so that companies that don't maximize user control over the information they receive lost section 230 protections. And the same thing for companies that don't allow a true diversity of political discourse.
Bingo. A study I can't find after trying on Google took people with objectively wrong opinions and payed them for accuracy. Magically, people corrected their own opinions when they had a financial incentive to do so.
if you really need someone to give you a breakdown + application of the idea of fungibility to bribes to see the distinction, here you go:

when you bribe a teacher for a better grade, you aren't utilizing a relationship to induce a change in outcome, you are utilizing money, money that holds value independent of who is providing the bribe.

edit:i am making the assumption that parent read at least the wiki blurb of what the parent is replying to.
I thought about that. The real issue I’m running into is page rendering time: I think the processor on it is only 50 or 80 MHz, and modern software generates some pretty elaborate print files.

I’ve been meaning to explore server-side rendering, but haven’t got that far down my todo list.
I also think that every tool has its purpose. Just because it can be misused isn't reason to banish it altogether.

In the end, readability and maintainability of the code is primary concern. I don't really care for those fads that say "you should absolutely ban switch statements". I look at these as a collection of tools that help me make the code more readable.

Usually radical statements like this come from people that will take the simple naive code and make it completely incomprehensible for exactly opposite effect that the "best practice" was supposed to achieve.

Heck, there are even good uses for goto that make the code more readable as long as you follow accepted convention and don't try to be fancy with it. When I spent couple of years working on embedded ANSI C applications I often used it to make complicated inner loops (like reading and parsing input from device) more readable.
So this is an interesting point and shouldn't be dismissed, it may be at the heart of irrational beliefs.

People can 'come to believe' what benefits them.

If an idea is truly exciting or engaging, or makes people feel special, or part of a 'group' esp. of 'special people' - it's just more likely we believe those things as 'factual'.

So in a way - though they would 'pass a lie detector test' and 'truly believe in a flat earth' - it's predicate upon all those things - it's an impassioned or subjective kind of belief.

They would act almost perfectly rationally if you asked them about some completely mundane subject like rocks rolling down a hill.

Our egos tend to believe it when we're told we are good, and tend to be dismissive when we are told we're bad at something, that right there is evidence we're not very objective about taking in data to begin with.
They're doing it because it's easy to do and automate.

If they want developers out of school, it's also better than tossing a die.

However if they want good developers, do they really think that the young myself with a fresh degree is better than me after 10 years of work or 20+ now? I bet I was better at solving quizzes when I was young. I'm sure I can understand and solve real world problems now.

If they don't care, quizzes are OK.
Listen more to what people do than what they say.

There is always a good sounding explanation, especially from those with full time PR people on staff.
> and I think Twitter shouldn't be protected by 230 for their actions

I don't see how. Their actions are explicitly what are protected:

> Civil liability - No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of

> (A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
I'm a copywriter with an odd take-over-the-world plan
> and I would be surprised if the CircleUp CEO didn't realise this.

That was the point I was trying to make:

The CEO went out of his way to make the board member as easy to identify as he could, short of spelling his name out.

I'm not suggesting that people try to reverse engineer it, but clearly the open letter was meant to be partially retaliatory and partially a warning to others in this space.
I'd guess there was a time in the US when if insisted the earth was flat it could have possibly gotten you committed to an asylum.
Interesting timing, as Splunk is running its regular Boss of the SOC and Boss of the NOC starting Monday. This is a simulated Security Operations Center, and Network Operations Center, used for training and competition :)

Signups for BOT(N|S) end today (16th October), check https://conf.splunk.com/connect/boss-of-the-soc-and-noc.html There are also frequent regional BOT(N|S) that are run, more details on the website.

Past datasets for BOTS can be found at https://github.com/splunk?q=bots , and many related Splunk Blog posts about it can be found at
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/tag/boss-of-the-soc.html,. These are freely avaialable, just download the data, copy to a Splunk instance (also free, as the data is already ingested), and you're good to go and start practcing.

Disclaimer, I work for Splunk, and am helping coach in the APAC BOTN next week.

I'll also link to the Splunk Attack Range, https://github.com/splunk/attack_range . This allows you to quickly spin up a small lab environment, then quickly hit it with a bunch of realistic attacks. All that data is then is then sent to a prebuilt Splunk instance for you to practice your investigation and analysis, and even integrate with Phantom, Splunk's automation system. Check out the video for it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIbln7OQ-Ak . Again, this is all free, no registration required.
The FBI referred questions about its seizure of the laptop and hard drive to the Delaware US Attorney’s Office, where a spokesperson said, “My office can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.”
Have you considered as an explanation the concept of "epistemic learned helplessness"[0]?

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...
I checked out the repo for the desktop electron app, it talks to a local server. I don't think the backend is open source. Electron is just a wrapper in this case, I would not consider this project open source.
Timeline is down, but you can look at feeds for hashtags or individual users.
Europe braces for monster 2nd coronavirus wave
First, I'm not for or against any specific actions in saying this, but...

I'd say that if your views on what censorship is haven't changed as the actual social medium of thought has (over 20 years), then you're perhaps being dogmatic about censorship. Ideas around censorship came about when the social medium that mobilized thought were MUCH more viscous.

Like imagine a physical surface on some liquid medium, in which its initial properties were such that a small force rippled to such a degree due to viscosity. You'd generally know the forces other points would feel when event Y happened so much distance away. But if suddenly the liquid developed very different properties, and now waves travelled differently through it, you must respond by adapting (or at least CONSIDER adapting). Whatever science or activity or measurement was happening on that surface before, that would need to be adapted or changed or even discarded. One's views on how to navigate the environment must change to respond to such an important change in the mediating layer.

Sorry if that's a bit of mixed metaphor, but I truly feel it's more than light analogy. Anyhow, be well!
Plug for my open source "local-first" alternative to Google Translate (https://github.com/argosopentech/argos-translate). It has a Google Translate like GUI and lets you install packages to support translating between different languages.

It currently doesn't have the ability to go to web services for translations you don't have installed locally but that's a feature I'm considering adding at some point. It would seem like the best way to do this we be to track (locally) which translations you use frequently and then save them locally (a one way translation package between two languages is ~100MB). This would give you the privacy/offline access of translating locally for language pairs you frequently use, while also seamlessly supporting the large number of languages supported by cloud services. You could also give power users much more fine-grained control over which translations they keep saved locally.
> We view the claim as absurd today only because we have the benefit of millennia of collection.

This premise is just historically false. Ancient civilizations knew full well the earth was not flat. More people in the history of mankind have known the earth is round than how to multiply.
It seems like if many people don’t know, then it actually makes a difference that they don’t know. I don’t know the details but it seems possibly important, not just for show?

See:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_stair
My guess is the two competing town halls, and people trying to live tweet them.
It's only stupid if you're trying to optimize for social good, makes perfect sense as a short sighted, profit maximizing corporation.
isn't claiming something has a value of X but you can now get it a value of x/n like a marketing gimmick?
That's possible but it's something that pops up more often. The problem with it is that people then try to fix it by just telling people the knowledge they supposedly lack (typically failing despite their supposed superior intelligence).

Needless to say it's somewhat pointless to just tell a flat-earther the earth is actually round.
> blockchain signing of all content, so one could mathematically prove trustworthiness of facts

Open source the algorithm a platform uses? Don't think Jack or Mark would go for that. One could mathematically construct, for example, how much one candidate is favored in ads and content.
Trump can’t win & has installed hackers since he can’t run the fake story about Hunter Biden.
Yep, the Emergency Alert Systems have existed since at least WWII.

From a quick Google search:
Canada has a National Public Alerting System (NPAS) which provides emergency management organizations across the country with the capability to rapidly warn the public of imminent or unfolding hazards to life. Public alerts are issued through radio, cable and satellite television and on compatible wireless devices
If it were terrible, they wouldn't be doing it. I imagine the billions of dollars make it quite pleasent
The only fundamental thing that’s different is that SpaceX doesn’t need to build the infrastructure in-country.

Subscriber relationships are going to be the same, and all of the regulations surrounding commercial operations are going to apply. If SpaceX can’t legally operate commercially in any locale then it seems incredibly unlikely that they will try. The satellites know where they are and their phased array antenna will know approximately where the terminal is, especially if gps is embedded or they do multilateration of a signal with multiple satellites.

This also is the big problem with the post, the satellites will be doing lots of beam steering to maximize throughout and minimize latency. Flooding the entire area underneath them with a single signal would severely impact service.

That said, they will almost certainly have to implement some or all of these controls in support of military operations.
> The Puritans were by no means the only people of that time who had mainstream beliefs that we now consider delusional. You'd be hard pressed to find any significant body of people of that time who didn't.

We will be mocked for sure in 300 years but OTOH witch hunts maybe weren't as mainstream all over Europe as you might think.

For example, in Europe between 1450 and 1750 35,000 witches were executed. Of those, only 1,000 were executed in Spain, Italy, and Portugal in 300 years which for sure were religious countries (I'm from Spain).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Early_Modern_Europe

I'd be surprised if there wasn't some debate as to what caused those witch hunts. Was it societal paranoia or was it just a way for the church to exert their power?

> I would also say, climate change alarmism.

I don't know what you consider alarmism in this case, but the situation is certainly dire. I don't think it's far fetched to think that if we continue in business as usual, modern industrial civilization could be at risk.

As a small example, consider the wildfires of Russia in 2010 which triggered an increase in the global price of grain and many experts believe that fueled the Arab spring revolutions of 2011.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/world/europe/06russia.htm...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-an...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/17/bread-f...
No thanks, i'll trust pinboard, he's a down to earth guy and while you might have some features that he doesn't have. They aren't worth it for another delicious shutdown or evernote going to shit.
Sounds like an interesting book. I will check it out. I am wondering if in it, he addresses voting rights? Please don't mistake my retelling of history for bias when I say that before 150 years ago, voting in the United States was limited to white male property owners. The race and sex restrictions are not relevant to my point, but restricting voting to property owners was a prime example of ensuring "skin in the game".
It seems a bit odd having a Twitter API status page that claims everything is operational when it hasn't been for a while. I guess the 'Check if things are working' API has also failed
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What do the words “in good faith” mean in that context?
For clarity, the printing press was for books. Newspapers did not come along until much later.

Interestingly, the Catholic church was very concerned about the ability to mass produce literature and wanted to have control over what could be published. They didn't want just anyone to be able to publish a book. Imagine giving people a platform to speak out against the Church!
Fucking hell that's a nightmare haha
Trump can’t run his fake story on Hunter Biden so he unleashed his weirdo hackers. DAF
It's really poor quality thinking to call this censorship but whatever, it's your hill to die on.
I really wish that you were right, but you should consider the possibility that it's you who is being naive. I've met a real-life flat-earther (a relative of mine, actually) who definitely was not trolling. From sufficient distance flat earth beliefs are not really that different from anti-vax. Both employ the same questioning of conventional science and fall back on plausible-sounding but discredited theories. Yet, I don't think anyone would call anti-vax a troll movement. There's also a political dimension to these movements that should not be overlooked. If you have time, I highly recommend this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44
Most of the tech companies have decided that China will soon dominate the world. They appear to be getting ready for China's attitude towards free speech to be imposed on the rest of the world.

I hope I'm wrong.
There are a couple options that come to mind:

1) Contact the accused party and ask him for a written response. By giving him the opportunity to defend himself, you get a more balanced view and decrease the likelihood of cruel & unusual punishment.

2) Out the investor in private forums where data/information that arises after the publication of this article can be fully considered. YC and many other founder networks have investor databases for this purpose.
I was expecting to have a few more years yet before AI beat a Go grandmaster, but that ship already sailed.

For Watson to be able to convert code, it's going to have to be able to determine the intention of each block of code, and know how to translate those intention into the new code.

You will, of course, end up with "You can write Fortran in any language" output, but if they do manage to succeed, then this will be the first time in my career that I've ever been remotely worried about the prospect of computers taking over the job of programming.

In all likelihood however, it'll turn the process of creating software into a conversation, not unlike the negotiations between a builder, the customer, and the architect.

Honestly though, if we'd have ever cracked the modularity problem, we'd just be loading this old code as opaque blobs, possibly through a cross-compiler. But we never succeeded, and over a time span of decades, lots of coding conventions start to resemble premature optimization, making it painful for modern eyes to look at this old code.

In fact the latter may be the stumbling block for automated translation. If the old code wasn't so 'quirky' (read: byzantine as hell) we would have ported it already.
Really good.

Heh. "... and not least of those dangers is the hedonistic pursuit of improvisation as way of life ..."
Read the article and find out.
Unrelated to the parent comment, but what is this Dropbox comment?
yeah I have ProtonMail with 2 custom domains. It's decent I have gotten blocked from sending emails to Google custom domains. Total bullshit IMO, I think they do it on purpose.
Mine too. I'm from Toronto. I think it's related to the whole Biden controversy
Facebook and Twitter make money through the sale of advertisements and the sale of data for market research purposes. If their power needs to be moderated, people can do like the old television days and boycott their advertisers:

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/28/arts/a-boycott-of-tv-adve...
Is LIDAR not susceptible to this? I guess it might be more robust against random hiccoughs (though I have no basis for this whatsoever), but is it also protected against malice?
Wow, this really struck home with me. I left a FAANG about a year ago to be employee #1 at a startup. 6 months ago, after some headaches and vision issues, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. My work has been great through all this, but I can't imagine the additional stress of being a CEO whilst dealing with all that.
A JavaScript Utilities Library?
There is such a thing as moral authority, you know. Look around you. Does it look like you're sitting in a philosophy classroom?

(If it does, take the opportunity to freshen up on your Kierkegaard.)