skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this, mostly for the OS LAN Video conferencing system. The only one that comes to mind is VideoLAN VC but it seems to be deprecated since 2007.

The wireless part is really just wifi with big antennas. I'm sure you could get much more than 1km with dishes on both sides of the link - I've done 30km file transfers and Mumble chats that were still Part 15 FCC compliant.
I'm also interested in an answer to this.
I don't understand the negative responses here.

At least for me, I want the company to treat me as an adult and trust that work can still get done well regardless where I am sitting.

This is a good move and upgrades Dropbox in my mind.
Yep, exactly.

One other point I forgot to mention - this is not an "alternative to hosted redis". It's still hosted redis, just with fancier jargon and more obscure guarantees. I can't imagine this being robust.
So? Other fake stories are certainly not censored in this manner. To demand the White House press secretary delete a tweet? To censor the U.S. House Judiciary Committee? I mean all parties hold their hot stories to close to the election for the greatest impact, but Twitter is certainly not even trying to appear partisan at this moment. It's quite clear this is not "hacked information", and if it wore, then it would be also an admission of guilt from Hunter Biden.
> Twitter has never once censored any of smears or leaks against the Trump campaign.

Of course not. It's selective interference. They're just getting more brazen about it as we get closer to election day.

Also telling is that they have a pinned story at the top of the empty search page with the link titled, "Joe Biden did not push out a Ukrainian prosecutor for investigating his son, The Washington Post reports"

EDIT: Here's a link showing the WaPo headline that Twitter is adding: https://twitter.com/RepLeeZeldin/status/1316523575373893632
Knowledge being lost and reinvented is a bug, not a feature. Some lessons have been paid-for in blood (like the Therac 25, if you're looking at software development). There is value in understanding how things work and what knowledge came from specific lessons, but starting over again simply invites making the same mistakes all over. I wish we could aspire to be better than that.
> Something like this, even as absurd as it is, will take weeks to thoroughly debunk.

It's hard to learn when you've already made up your mind.
Critiquing is an essential part of finding out whether a better solution does or can exists.
Haskell loses because it takes 2000 lines just to write a logging statement. Scala loses because you can’t even write a fast for loop. Lisp loses because it disrespects 100 years of math.

I’m exaggerating a bit but not by much.
If interested, there was a long piece that talked about Glassdoor [0], and commenters also raised points about the validity of the information on that platform [1].

[0]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/22/improving-work...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16232898
Yes and that doesn't mean that legalizing it carte blanche is a net good either. There are important pieces of legislation missing around controlling how and when politician's can fundraise. Most normal countries legalize lobbying & restrict electioneering to a ~3 month window prior to an election. Additionally, they usually line up election cycles so that you're only having an election every 4 years on all parts of government.

America has no such restrictions. Members of Congress & the President start running & fundraising now ~2 years before an election (& unofficially before that). For the House of Representatives, that means members are in an electioneering & fundraising mode non-stop. The staggered election cycle in the Senate means that a large portion of the Senate is constantly campaigning further making focusing on the act of governing difficult. Fixing these issues doesn't solve all problems obviously but making no reforms isn't going to improve things either.
Compressed air is way more dangerous than liquid fuel. Liquid fuel needs oxygen to burn, so it is slow to start and prone to starving itself. All compressed air needs is an undetected defect in the tank and it will turn into heavy knives flying at supersonic speed.
Yes. Yes it is.

This is blatant disinformation meant to destabilize the election and disenfranchise voters with blatant lies. This action is exactly the kind of thing everyone blamed social media for not taking last time and they're finally doing the right thing.

This is exactly what they tried to do in the 2016 election by getting Comey to announce a new investigation that, surprise, turned up absolutely nothing. There is no substance to these allegations. At all.

Before you get up in arms about a slippery slope about arbiters of truth keep in mind that these sources have burned any credibility they have. Their ideas do not have a right to a fair trail in the public discourse because they are all acting in bad faith.
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WeWork still has a future...

I think companies will increasingly adopt this model as the "big guys" (ie MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL etc..) start to give clarity to their employees that WFH will be the norm.

To counter-balance the solitude, offices will be team building destinations.

WeWork may transform itself into a "business travel company" powered by technology of course. Companies will host off sites once or twice a month in different parts of the country - or the world - and WeWork is positioned to own the entire vertical of managing transportation, housing, event spaces, food...
I think it's a systemic problem. A problem with incentives. Once the site gets big enough, inevitable pressure builds up in the top management to squeeze more money. Top of the hierarchy naturally attracts psychopathic and narcissistic types.
“The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.”

Apple doesn't want negative information spread about it, and if they can control it, they'll definitely try. Very shady of Apple.
Here's a similar script I wrote. Would be glad for feedback.

https://github.com/wneuheisel/Kindle-Notes-Backup
Alphabet had $34B net income in 2019, FB $18B. They could hire a legion of developers in any place which is not California/Switzerland, whose only responsibility would be bugfixing, and it would barely make a dent in their numbers.
the other side of the equation is that you are free not to buy an apple device (for now)

the collective amount of people buying apple devices is what gives them the power to implement these rules on their own.

I forsee a time in the future when you are forced to buy an Apple product from birth, no options allowed.
It's not demonstrably proven, despite being easy to do so.

NY Post doxxed their own source when put under scrutiny, who went on to do an interview yesterday. What John Paul Mac Isaac is saying isn't adding up.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-who-reportedly-gave-hunter...
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You don't get to jump up and down and claim that corporations should have the same rights as citizens and then turn around and say they don't have a right to control what they own.
Woke people think they're Galileo but they're really the church

The book burning going on lately is insane
The similarity between Otto and Waypoint are only skin deep: they both use the word "deploy." The way they deploy, their philosophies, etc. are COMPLETELY different. I talk about that in this comment a bit here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24790491

Waypoint is fully open source. There is no risk of it going closed source. If you are alluding to Otto here, Otto's source was never removed either, it is in the Git history of the project that's still on GitHub and we provided a one-click download link on the Otto website when we shut it down.

EDIT to add: If you're afraid of us shutting down projects, please note Otto is the only project in our entire history we shut down like that. So we don't (or shouldn't!) have the same reputation around that that Google has. Terraform was effectively failing (no growth) for almost 12 months and we stayed committed to that.
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Twitter is not the government. Support decentralized messaging and publication platforms if you don’t like big winners having too much power.
> And the knock-off effects of this will be even more damning. Even if Trump loses, many other countries will take a big, hard look at the possibility of regime change and political interference being done by a bunch of Western Activists. Especially in Asia and Africa, where the memories of Western Imperialism have not yet faded and the wounds are still raw.

Awesome point!
We don't need to unscramble China's eggs. We need to get them to stop scrambling. The people are still alive, most of them, that are being wronged. We're not talking about 1492.
CNAB[0] gives you the kubernetes app package, and can push that and the underlying images to a container repo.

[0] https://cnab.io/
You're talking about backing one side or the other, but are concepts like truth or fact a factor in this argument at all?
I'm interested. I definitely think these kind of things are cyclic.

Glassdoor is now owned by the same parent company as Indeed, so if a company is a client of Indeed's recruiting services there's definitely a conflict of interest present.
What would it take to get a self-hosted version of this, preferably using FireFox on the server? How hard would it be to get plugins working as well? Would this be essentially a way of using Blink/Servo based engine on i(Pad)OS?
I work at Product Mgmt at HashiCorp. There is a Java Spring example here that uses buildpacks from either Heroku, Cloud Foundry Paketo (VMware Tanzu team that works closely with Spring), and GCP Buildpacks.

https://github.com/hashicorp/waypoint-examples/tree/main/doc...

You don't have to use buildpacks, you could use the Docker plugin with a Dockerfile as in this reactjs example: https://github.com/hashicorp/waypoint-examples/tree/main/doc...
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I see it as a hedge against inflation. In boom times with soaring markets, there is (usually) considerable inflation. If you ride the market, you probably won't see outsize returns but you won't lose purchasing power to inflation either.

For this reason I frequently wonder whether I should invest HSA funds exclusively in medical stocks. If healthcare gets more expensive, my HSA has probably grown. If healthcare gets cheaper, my HSA might shrink, but that's fine because healthcare is cheap.
2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awxbu8y5cv8

"A reverse-engineered typewriter hack to make it into a printer. Using a simple MOSFET circuit and an Arduino (actually, a Light Blue Bean+ arduino compatible board), I reverse-engineered my IBM Wheelwriter 6 typewriter to print out text and some rudimentary graphics. The GitHub repository is here, and I'll continue to update it with schematics, etc., when I get some time: https://github.com/tofergregg/IBM-Wheelwriter-Hack"

Same user has a similar hack for a 1960s Smith Corona Sterling Automatic 12: https://github.com/tofergregg/smith_corona_printer
(1) is definitely by convention and not technical limitation, I definitely stated that during our last conversation.

Audio & video mixing is done via "Cortex". Looks like we don't have great documentation for it yet, but here's an old screenshot: http://maurice.kaldience.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/haik...

Regarding scripting on Haiku, here's a basic introduction to the main CLI tool: https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/humdinger/2017-11-05_scripting...
> Touch ID (combined with a home button) is a lot faster. You can reach into your pocket or handbag, put the finger on the button and press it while you're taking it out. By the time your phone is out it's unlocked and on the home screen. I don't recall seeing people failing to unlock their phones while paying with Apple Pay before but now it's a reasonably common occurrence if they didn't "prime" it ahead of time.

I was excited when I discovered this, but I now consider this “feature” to be a security issue. I used to “prime” my Touch ID-equipped iPhones until I accidental authorized an in-app purchase because my thumb was pre-placed on the sensor.

Never again.

I had modified the Accessibility settings so that resting a finger on the sensor would unlock the device, and when reverting that setting I still ran into the same issue.
My wife is setting up/improving marketing for her employer, a small non-profit. The previous efforts at a Facebook presence was under the name of individual employees. So she attempts to set up the account in the actual name of the company. Facebook programmers, in their wisdom, deemed "Saint" a title and not allowed to be the first name. Clearly, they're no Catholics at Facebook.
See also https://github.com/caseychu/spotify-backup. Looks like Exportify is more polish, though.
The media has been pedaling the Russian collusion story for 4 years and you don't seem to care because it fits your priors and political agenda. The bigger lesson here is that everybody is ready to accept censorship as long as they are not bearing the (immediate) costs of it.
> Glassdoor is just corporate Yelp.

I think this is the inevitable fate of all for-profit review sites which become popular.

The incentives just don't align.
> It looks like they are just using ordinal levels relative to the the ground floor (defined as the lowest floor with level access to the outside) which is sensible

Sensible, but reminds me of my university.

You walked uphill one floor from the base of the building to reach the main entrance, up a flight of stairs, along a short corridor, up four flights of stairs, along a long corridor, up another flight of stairs, and came out at ground level.
Check out browserless for something that's the same direction: https://www.browserless.io/
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Well Twitter just poured jet fuel on the fire now that they locked the account deleted the tweet and now it’s back on Twitter.
Do you think that one person should be able to vote for a president 100 times by impersonating 99 other people?

Perhaps if there was someone on the other side doing the same for the other party's candidate, we can find balance?

What is the outcome? Democracy?
Online review systems are dead. Surely some must still be valid, but the well is poisoned, and nothing can be trusted.
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We as consumers should be valuing real journalism and actually paying money for it. Otherwise this carries on going downhill. Journalism, at least some of it, should not be about clicks and sound bites.
Further background (from 2019):

N.Y.P.D. Detectives Gave a Boy, 12, a Soda. He Landed in a DNA Database

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/nyregion/nypd-dna-databas...
How many images does your app typically need to avoid overfitting?
> consider why you trust 70 meeting participants more than Zoom/Microsoft/Google/Verizon?

For the very simple reason that "the people that I choose to communicate with are people that I have chosen to communicate with", whereas the communication medium chosen is "the least-bad available". I am able to take whatever other measures I wish via other channels to verify and built-trust-in the participants, but I cannot do so with the communication medium owner.
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Why should Twitter be forced to take actions based on your preferences? Make a distributed messaging/publication system and use your power to say what ever you like. Twitter has a lot of power and they are free to use it. The internet wasn’t designed with a winner take all philosophy and the technical infrastructure still supports end user as publisher model.
I generally ignore products who's front page talks as if the person reading already knows who they are and what they do. I have no idea what this is. Clicking on the front page it says, "spaCy v3.0 is going to be a huge release! It features new transformer-based pipelines that get spaCy’s accuracy right up to the current state-of-the-art"

What the heck does that mean? What is spaCy first of all.

This just tells me they're not to be taken seriously.
With the stakes being as high as they are, wouldn’t we want to know if there’s a crumb of truth to the allegations? A President beholden to shady foreign actors doesn’t sound like a good idea. Likewise if it’s false then let that come out.

The bigger problem is that journalists/newspapers are no longer the arbiters of truth, and instead the distributors are.
Cyrano de Bergerac?
Any general concepts/theory/previous code you based your work from?
So, you're listening to the people to said Iraq had WMDs?
The "arbiter of truth" argument is weak. I want the people at Twitter and other platforms to be able to make decisions about whether something is a fact or misinformation.

If they get it wrong, fine. We can use other platforms if we don't like the decisions one makes. But I'm tired of the idea that they should NEVER be able to even try to recognize the difference between truth and lies.
https://github.com/caseychu/spotify-backup
> every tech nerd is mocking their PC tests, because they are just like a vaccuum cleaner test: unbox, set-up, do mainstream stuff, like writing mails and Word documents

That still sounds like a useful test, if only to punish bundling of useless bloatware.
The work we do for the VA is open source! I am a contractor working alongside the US Digital Service - there are a TON of projects out in the wild and lots of movement in the "Government should build open source software" direction.

https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs

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Lobbying as “too big to fail” is an interesting argument, although your “black market” argument could be made for pretty much any law. On the other hand, we know that legislation and court decisions have a large impact because we’ve witnessed the results of McCain/Feingold and Citizens United. At the same time, we can observe how other democracies manage the same issue.
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I used to use Glass door extensively to vet potential employers. After starting at one company however I realized the problem with this.

Regularly in meetings the head of HR (which they called "People") would encourage us to go leave 5 star reviews on Glass door to help with recruiting efforts. It was really spun as a way to help the company.

The problem though is that this company had some problems, things I would normally expect to see on glassdoor. Because of the way they encouraged it, glassdoor was flooded with 5 star reviews that made it impossible to find any negative ones.

I no longer even check Glass door.
I've seen my fair share of cracked, chipped, and otherwise broken granite countertops. Granite can definitely break accidentally and dropping a granite statue could certainly break off chunks of it.
Do we have more evidence? I generally don't like to take the claims of a single anonymous poster at face value. I certainly appreciate the irony in this case.
> So? Other fake stories are certainly not censored in this manner. To demand the White House press secretary delete a tweet?

Frankly, they should do this much more when officials lie (which the current administration has demonstrably done ad infinitum for four years). There's no reason at all for them to help officials lie about important matters.

As a private platform, it's certainly a matter of whether or not they are helping you do something rather than whether or not they are preventing you from doing something. If we want a reliable avenue for public communication, Silicon Valley ain't gonna give it to us, and they shouldn't.

It would be another thing to prevent people from stating that someone else had said something (given that the statement did actually happen). Sometimes, Twitter does block all posts that even mention a topic. This is definitely a bad approach, and I think they do tend to rectify it when this happens, but they still screw it up pretty often.
The entire purpose of a campaign is to manipulate the outcome of an election. A rally manipulates the outcome, as does a debate. As does a news article that raises question about one of the candidate's integrity.
Is it possible to demonstrably prove false a made up falsehood?

What if I accuse someone of something, and then post that I accused them. The accusation maybe bogus but the post is technically not false.
I mean, they were made because the printer was asking the player character to load letter paper, and they couldn't figure that out.

Ok, I don't know what PC stands for, but load letter means you're out of paper, please fill me up. It's not a blinking clock on a VCR.
Do you trust Amazon to remove fake reviews?
What you describe is more the contrapositive of 'legalizing "bad" actions can be a net good.', in that it's "illegalizing 'bad' actions can be a net bad".

Lobbying is already legal, and is mostly a bad action; but if we make it illegal, it will create a black market that isn't regulated. It's the same problem (one of many) that the "War on Drugs" had, in that any activity that's illegal tends to be unregulatable. It also attracts to the market for people who are already doing illegal things.

I think the root of the problem is that politics in the US (and in most other places) is a popularity contest; it attracts people who are charming, lie effectively, and who's goal is to be popular. They, of course, have other goals too, but having the accolades of the represented is a requirement, and people that seek that status end up drawn towards politics.
> Unlike other developed democracies, the U.S. is a country where bribing the Congress is actually legalized, in the form of campaign donations.

That's not remotely true. It is illegal to actually give any gifts to any government official (including elected officials). This extends in practical effect to "we have to charge the DoE for coffee when they're doing a site visit."

You can donate to political campaigns--just as you can in every democratic country I'm aware of. Candidates can solicit donations--just as they can in every democratic country I'm aware of. What's atypical in the US is that the party structure is incredibly weak (which means you get less relative funding from party sources, and therefore candidates have to get more funding from fundraising), and elections are so eye-wateringly expensive that you need to spend more time fundraising to be competitive.
The best part is the syntax highlighter struggling to make sense of the code :P
KDE Neon is. It’s what I use when I have the rare need to use Linux on the desktop.

Basically Ubuntu LTS, but canonical and gnome don’t get to make any poor UI decisions. They even ship a stable version.
I don't think your analogy is valid.

It's more akin to Best Buy telling me I need to visit the house of every customer who bought my widget and slightly break it, otherwise they'll stop selling said widget. And if I try to tell my customer "Best Buy is making me do this", that's "irrelevant".
Apart from copyright issues, probably if the comments were deletrf for hate speech etc, you might be in bigger trouble as well (singe technically your company posted it)
Oh please. Taking steps to fight disinformation is enough to drive you into the disinformation camp?
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There's middle-ground between for-profit corporations and government. There are social purpose corporations, benefit corporations, non-profits, cooperatives, etc.
Worth noting is that WP have officially endorsed Biden.