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I'm not sure I'm following everything here, but I'll try to answer, and if I miss something please let me know.

HN hosts plenty of discussion about harmful ways in which big tech companies may or may not be shaping society. That's one of the major themes here. You don't need me to hold any particular view about it or be in a bubble or not be in a bubble—what matters is how the community functions. Is there full and open discussion of those issues on HN? Certainly there is. (Maybe not as much as the partisans of the topic would prefer, but that's true of the partisans of any topic.)

Your rewrite of your comment that I scolded just rephrases it in the third person. That still breaks the guidelines because you're still insinuating astroturfing and bad faith in the other person. Unless you have some independent evidence you can point to, you're not justified in making that insinuation and you can't do that on HN. This has nothing to with suppressing particular views—casting gratuitous aspersions on another user just because you disagree with them is not a view. It would be exactly the same if your opinion and their opinion were reversed. In fact I don't even know what your opinions are or what you're disagreeing about—I don't have to know that in order to know that your comment broke the guidelines. Important btw: when I say 'you' I don't mean to pick on you personally. This is a very common pattern, which is one reason we have to moderate it.

I appreciate your intention to be compassionate.

I don't disagree with your politics; I don't know what your politics are, nor do I want to. If at some point I gathered that information from one of your comments, I instantly forgot it. When there's a username whose politics I know all about, that's a bad sign, regardless of what their politics happens to be, because it means that politics occupies much too high a proportion of their comments here. (See https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... about that.)

"Is it okay to drown out some voices?" I don't know what that question is referring to. When people break the site guidelines we moderate them, and when they do it too much we ban them. Is that drowning out their voice? Their "voice" doesn't come with any need to break the guidelines in the first place. From my perspective, the reason we ban people is orthogonal to "voice". But it's certainly common, when we ban someone, that they claim that we're drowning them out though (or censoring them, or what have you) because we secretly disagree. That's not true, and it's an explanation people resort to when they don't want to take responsibility for what they posted. It's not as if it's hard to avoid getting banned here.
What will it take to get replaceable batteries on mainstream phones designed for US cell networks?
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it's a bit more troublesome with microk8s https://microk8s.io/docs/registry-images
I've already pledged.

Helping in avoiding making Chromium the default is icing on top of the cake.

Edit: I also want a massively cut down, blazingly fast rendering engine for a subset of html that is big enough for Wikipedia. Specifically I want it to be paired with a strictly limited version of something like Javascript, only limited and with batteries included.

Dynamically updating content on user clicks should be OK, running general calculations should be hard.
Hi coddle-hark -

- Right now we're still undecided / exploring different ways of monetizing the product! (something similar to Adblock-Plus though is our leading idea).
- We're working on a way to disallow users from acting as exits for certain kinds of traffic - so you'll be able to categorically block certain kinds of sites through the UI in the near future.
- Even with DoH on by default in the browser, we can still override / specify a DNS server.

Let me know if you still have questions / any of the above is unclear!
It's a bit of a trope in the books that Holden has a need to get involved in everything. They even lampshade it with Avasarala.
Understanding the new control groups API
Ok, as a former New Yorker, what do you think about this explanation of the outrage with the behaviour of social networks executives:

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/if-unreliable-is-the-issue-why...

?
This is just an advertisement for a guy's writing startup
Yes, human reasoning is not just pattern matching but mixed with deductive thinking. A picture of a stop sign is not a stop sign, neither is a reflection of one. Trying to teach a neural network all of these exceptions seems like a terrible approach and would likely not work very well.
DAMMIT IT WORKS!!! Just found David's song from the Kelly family. In my memory I always though it was an Asian song or something :-) Now this is the kind of progress I like to see in technology. It's about time I'm getting something out of living in the future.
I recently learned that eating raw chicken is possible (Torisashi in Japan).
Just use a custom domain.
Is it that shameful? He chose his words as carefully as anyone should, he said in languages he used. And indeed, a "grouping of numbers" is pretty ambiguous even if you know this exists. It could just mean an array or something more nuanced
>>> correct a design when you have 100 lines of Java code written before I really understand

Holy Cow. 100 lines in an interview ? I had an interview like that once and never again. Want to see 100 lines of my code - github.com/mikadosoftware. In an interview - no thanks

Look we all know interviewing is broken. Hell I have worked with people for months before getting to know them and their coding styles. I think ultimately we are all being a bit too privileged about this : Hiring has three states, acquaintance, friend, spouse.

Some people are not skilled enough to be a work collegue - fizzbuzz and 20 minutes chat tell us that - we all know people who after 20 minutes we think we will pay money to avoid the next 20. Fine

Friends are harder - we gel in some fashion. This is the mid point for most of us - as long as we pass fizzbuzz / basic design, then we can make things work. Yes it might have friction but we can make it work.

Spouse is obviously the perfect level - that ideal together.

I fear that far too much effort is put into finding the perfect spouse in an interview - when really we can be fine with a friend. (no benefits!)

When hiring set your sights lower ...
You're defining skin in the game as everyone "in the game", making the term rather unnecessary.

Skin in the game means a risk of losing some investment you brought to the table, not just losing the ongoing benefits and downsides the game itself provides.
it probably works just fine, it's 100% triggered by handoff.
There are seemingly small moments that stick with us for a lifetime -- if we had more small moments that highlighted our brilliance we'd see some incredible changes in the world.

Everyone 'shows up' at some point in their life. Some march to the beat of their own drum and continue to drive from inside, while others are lost because the hesitation in 'am I even doing this right?' was left unanswered.

Truthfully, this is the most infuriating thing about social media -- there are true moments of brilliance that they see on a daily basis (when someone choses to sign off, how they replay a certain section of a podcast, following links and references made in other mediums, etc) that we could be highlighting and praising... yet none of them do.
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That's mold on a preserve. It's a completely different ecosystem. My personal theory is the stuff that kills us, usually will also kill an animal, so the really deadly fungi and bacteria usually don't form until after the animal has died and the immune system has stopped functioning. That's why raw meat from a fresh kill is generally safe but if the meat is left alone for too long it becomes poisonous.
Teageneration (or: why I don’t trust transporters) (2016)
Funny how this praise is made from an account created mere minutes before..

Could be covert self-advertising of course - but it made me think it could also be from an adverse party :

You see a competitor being talked about in a thread, you create novelty accounts grossly marvelling at their product.
Fantastic read

There are some interesting points where current design is almost exactly the same, only slightly developed. Stderr was missing in this paper, for example.

I guess I can't really appreciate the benefit they describe here, because I'd need to know the alternatives and prior art:

> Another important aspect of programming convenience is that there are no “control blocks” with a complicated structure partially maintained by and depended on by the file system or other system calls.
yeah that was the reason i stopped using quora
I don't see how it is big news that both sides of American politics are profoundly corrupt. If I were American (thankfully I am not) I would be thinking about the upcoming election as a choice between a corrupt arsehole whose rhetoric does not move your country towards a race war, or a corrupt arsehole whose rhetoric does move your country towards a race war.
I think that would entrench the current tech giants because the liability to any startup entering the space would be huge and they wouldn't be big enough to partner with anyone.

On the flipside, you'd have Facebook, Twitter, etc. partnering with media companies big enough to negotiate an indemnification clause into a contract that allows them into the recommendations engine(s).

As soon as you start forcing liability onto those platforms, the content is instantly going to morph so it only includes "safe" publishers. The ToS will get updated so regular people agree to indemnification via forced arbitration and you'll only be able to post content that's widely seen if you're verified.

TLDR; It would be Digg v4, but mandated by the government.

Also, a lot of the current content is created by companies that are already considered publishers and nothing happens to them when they publish misleading news. So how does considering Twitter the publisher instead of Fox or CNN improve that?

IMHO the big media companies would love to see some type of alternate publisher label affixed to big tech because it would detriment big tech to the benefit of big media.
Properly preserved stuff in jars can stay good for decades without too much trouble. The tricky bit is knowing if it was preserved properly.
Hi edf13 -

We're still exploring different methods of monetization, but leaning towards an Adblock-Plus style model at the moment (but would want to keep any ads we served entirely local / we'd never send any data off device & would want to be as transparent about everything as possible). Personally, I think it keeps our interests best aligned with those of our users & helps keep the focus on preserving user privacy!
That's still a SPOF though. Over the years I've had various letters from registrars and registries threatening my account due to missing information or new requirements.

GANDI themselves once accused me of ToS violation because one account uses my initials ( as on my bank account ) instead of my forenames that they demanded. I migrated everything out of that account ASAP.

Ideally you need two completely different domains ( to avoid potential trademark issues ) in two different TLDs at two registrars.
> And them holding this information until 3 weeks before the election points, after having it for over a year, further points it to being false informations.

While I'm not arguing whether the allegations are true or not, I don't think timing your most valuable opposition research findings makes things automatically false.

And in my opinion, these huge platforms that are basically monopolies should not be censoring things based on whether they think something is true or false. It's tempting to believe that every issue is either clearly true or clearly false, in most fields that is not the case and I don't want @jack deciding what's "safe" for me to see.
Sciter is a very nice engine with a solid API/SDK and rock solid engineering behind it. For developers building efficient UI apps it can be a real alternative method to things like electron or as a lighter alternative to QT with QML script. However until now it was only available under commercial licence.

Andrew Fedoniouk ( a.k.a. c-smile Sciter's original developer) has a kickstarter to fund open sourcing and supporting additional development to make it more accessible javascript developers. Learn more here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sci...
> I think the quality of ideas has improved. We focus on disinformation, but social media gets used for a lot of other things.

I'm not sure what anything else in your post has to do with the quality of ideas being better. You claim that right wing populism is a reaction to liberalism and globalism, and that ideas are getting better. This leads me to connect the dots and think that your claim is that right wing populism is a good idea.

We know now, in hindsight, that the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression led directly to the circumstances that led to the rise of Hitler. And indeed, Hitler was not alone. Fascist dictators rose throughout this time period. Was the discourse worse then? Was it better then?

This feels disingenuous. "Ideas are getting better." "Fascism is a natural reaction." Please, if you are trying to make a political point, say it. Don't tiptoe around it.
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I think the issue with social networks like Twitter and other, claiming legal benefits of 'platforms' while acting as publishers and crowdsourced-publishers.

It is like having a for-profit business that claims tax umbrella of a charitable organization.

All we have to do is simply recongize, that these social networks are publishers of political content.

So they can choose to continue editorialization by crowdourcing, but comittees, by AI, by whatever they want.

And they can live happily but as publishers.

The ISPs (for which section 230 really was meant) -- can continue to be impartial and claim the protection benefits of that section.
It depends on what you're looking for.

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

With the closed source ones you can take a leap of faith and trust the developer of the project, how it's documented, what it does, and decide whether or not to use it. If you submit to an app store, they can decide whether to approve it.

There are closed-source third-party component libraries out there that have a lot less info about the project and the creator than this one, that get distributed to end users.

GitHub has quite a large and varied audience. Some expect GitHub to have only open source software that can be vetted by examining the source code. For those it's a red flag. There are plenty of other developers for which it isn't a red flag, though.
I can confirm that, scraping Google instantly needs huge effort and money. In our best we can scrape 2500 SERP per IP.

But i must say using proxy services and other things did not helped us much. Because most of them were banned before we use.
> It is ok that these companies might do that, but not OK to hide under shields meant for the companies that do not do that (like ISPs)

What shields? What kind of consequences do you imagine these sites should face for biased content moderation?
Plausibility of synthetic origin of Covid-19
Until reading article above I was of a strong opinion the Covid-19 had a natural origin (see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9). But I am a humble geophysicist. Are there any biomedical experts here who can comment on the methodology and conclusions made by nerdhaspower?
Thanks, it's great to hear this kind of commitment. While it would certainly be possible to switch to Kubernetes if Nomad was ever abandoned, the thing is that I really wouldn't want to. Nomad, along with the rest of the Hashistack, is so much fun to use and feels so polished. Keep up the great work!
If your wife keeps showing up with black eyes muttering that she fell down the stairs, it merits asking every day. If Trump stopped pandering to white nationalists, people would stop having to ask.
What is the point of your comment? The author is stating that the mainstream view has been that tabloid papers sensationalise while broadsheets profess to not doing so. This is not their opinion, it is context for their argument that blocking a link to a tabloid would not be unusual for twitter considering the other links they have blocked in the past.
The interface is.
Just read it off your recommendation here. It's not a hard scifi unless you'd think Transformers also are. Some really far fetched sysadmin fiction.
sounds like you know the area, good chance you have kaiser permanente healthcare.

you can appreciate the scale of this lake if you know the permanente.
Does the New York Times write legitimate articles anymore?
Engineers, not racers, are the true drivers of success in motor sport
Wait, so what's the remedy for the different types issue then? Should he coerce all these diverse types into one type just to do the comparison? That just seems wasteful.

Assuming he has to do the check that way, of course.
Never said we should. Just because they are part of the problem doesn't mean they have to be part of the solution.
everyone at twitter or FB content moderation roles, or execs -- think they are ethics luminaries and moral compases of the 21st century. Sort of the Supreme Court of ethics and moral judgment.

Really the problem is not with liars, it is with liars that wield lots of influence, power -- and try to actively and systemically circumvent existing law.
Using this threads sidearm to promote YouTube Premium is pretty much beside the point. I wasn't trying to emphasis my particular dislike for ads. In fact, if the ad is haflway decent, or even interesting, I dont mind getting the occassional ad, especially since I see it as a way of supporting the actual channel owners. What I object to, and in particular in the context of this posting, is that I regularily see ads which never would make it through on more local media. Some of these are outright scams. And I wonder, what is the difference between someone spreading "misinformation" on their channel, and someone else paying YouTube to spread "information" which will ultimately be used to scam the user.
Also, YouTube has channel which upwards of 1 mio subscribers which only consist of pirated content. I truely wonder how these slip through the cracks.
I very much do agree with you with regards to giving more trust to companies (or individual journalists) with a good track record. My issue is mostly that Twitter isn't using that as a policy (at least not as a stated policy) but a more vague thing like "can't contain information gained by unauthorized access" and then applies that selectively.

I kind of understand why they don't, because that would likely be hard to quantify and you'd have to decide what basket a company goes into, which would act as a gate keeper (if you don't have a good track record, or none at all, you can't publish visibly) and they'd likely have to constantly monitor for changes. Not something that scales well or can be automated, and definitely something where they'd get roasted each time the NYT commits a faux pas.

> If the current publishers don't suffer any repercussions for anything, how will it be different if Twitter is considered the publisher?

True. In a post-fact world, consequences for publishers reporting falsehoods might need to come back on the table. On the one hand that's a problem because it stifles reporting, on the other hand they have been playing very loose and saying "oops, sorry, we'll do better next time, promise" every time doesn't work.
> Are you saying that a special immunity from prosecution, granted to particular businesses, is a civil liberty?

I think that moderation is a consequence of the rights to speech and association. The ability to choose what content you host, and whose content you host, is a consequence of those rights.

Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, whomever, cannot violate your civil liberties. Only the government can do that. And when they pass laws that, de facto, restrict the ability of companies to associate and speak freely, they restrict those essential liberties.

Section 230 ensured civil liberties, both Facebook's, and yours, and mine. It means that anyone who wants to can create a website for broadcasting and discussion q-anon conspiracies theories, and they can ban anyone who chooses to disagree. But just the same, I can prevent those people from posting things on my website.
55 hours to go and not even a third of the goal completed. I’m an optimistic guy but I don’t see this happening.

EDIT: I wouldn’t mind being wrong.
Chewing Food More Thoroughly Results in Reduced Insulin Output (2013)
"Bill thought the whole thing was corrupt.

These clubs were building their businesses off the backs of these comedians."

But without them he would not have known they existed.

Step one in informal economies.
fizz buzz

In my head I just think - Bro why are you asking me to paste code I can memorise?

I use this to figure out which jobs I don't want. It's not the best metric but its worked ok so far.
I don't think it's a necessary condition that your interests are aligned with the state for the police to protect you, unless you're applying a very flexible interpretation as to what the interests of the state are, in which case the point becomes pretty weak.
Could be a "drip drip" play - wait for the people in question to explicitly deny the authenticity of the messages, then drop the raws for maximum impact. The longer they sit on this, though, the less likely that is, and I'm not sure if I trust the Post to be savvy enough for that kind of thing.
I also think the industry as a whole would benefit from more fluid movement - easier to get hired means it's also easier to leave. Honestly, lots of hires (including myself for some places, I'm sure!) seemed great early on but then didn't quite work. Does usually take 3-4 months to feel that part out. And then eh, this isn't quite working, and I'll see you later. Or, as often, eh, wasn't sure how things would go but actually we work great together.
> We've also changed our tagline, from 'The magical disappearing UI framework' to 'Cybernetically enhanced web apps'. Svelte has many aspects — outstanding performance, small bundles, accessibility, built-in style encapsulation, declarative transitions, ease of use, the fact that it's a compiler, etc — that focusing on any one of them feels like an injustice to the others. 'Cybernetically enhanced' is designed to instead evoke Svelte's overarching philosophy that our tools should work as intelligent extensions of ourselves — hopefully with a retro, William Gibson-esque twist.

https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-3-rethinking-reactivity
The argument has been beaten to death by every thread on the topic here, so I don't particularly feel the need to take the bait.

Your comment also implies that I'm cosigning Electron being a bloated slug of an environment; I'm not. You will never unseat it by offering a pale imitation of it in place of it, though - and these comparisons result in little more than that.
C-smile (OP) ported Fabrice Bellard's gcc code to standard C (without gcc extensions).

The Sciter engine currently uses TIScript - a language c-smile orginally developed and the kickstarter proposal is to open source Sciter as is, then replace TIScript with the QuickJS engine. (TIScript is a very nice scripting language in itself that is easily picked up by JS devs)

The standard C version of QuickJS can be compiled using visual studio on windows as can be seen in this repo: https://github.com/c-smile/quickjspp

(Edit to update to latest repo)