skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If Jim Jones had an amplification like Twitter, maybe it would be 909,000 people that drank the kool-aid and killed themselves rather than the 909 people that did.

The mere fact you say that it shows you have 0 idea how a sect like that works and how it preys and works on people.

> I see far too much right-wing kool-aid being guzzled today

You are correct but it is highly suggestive you only mention right wing lunacies, sure, climate change denial, anti-vaccine movement and oil industry cheerleading are particularly popular in the right win and they will be very damaging to society. But how about left wing lunacy, no reason for concern? From opposition to nuclear energy to GMOs, blank slatism and denial of any significant difference due to sex or ethnicity, forced quotas across all areas of society, cancel culture, a strong government promoted censorship. I am going to be honest I am pretty left wing, for real, not the american variety, and with the exception of global warming and vaccines(this is not so clear cut politically) I find myself more often than not in the other side of the road from them,
According to the author of the article (i.e. the person who sued Google), they correctly won. He did in fact violate the Ad Sense rules.
The truth is that everyone has a list of speech they would curtail. Everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone, everyone.

This is not to excuse it here, to be clear. Just to say the pattern of history is- whoever is in charge gets to decide what speech is dangerous, and then when who’s in charge changes the dangerous speech changes.

You used to couldn’t say the war in Iraq was bad. Now you can’t say ___________.
Work done by US government employees as part of their official duties is in general not under copyright within the US.

But that is a much narrower statement.

Most software developed using government funds is not exclusively developed by government employees as part of their official duties. Most Government funding of software development goes to contractors, where that rule does not apply.

The no copyright only applies to the US, not necessarily outside. Outside the US it definitely can have a copyright.

There are also some weird exceptions for government employees, specifically for the u.s. postal service and for certain materials created by NIST.
I tried 3 songs:

* Everybody Has a Dream by Billy Joel
* Kids by MGMT
* Good Day Sunshine by The Beatles

0 hits.

I know I'm not the world's best singer, but I was humming the right notes.
There's still a lot of actual racist violence by the police in this country. And there's a situation where municipal governments essentially have no power to actually stop out of control cops.

But there are lots of people who want to do something but aren't going to dive full tilt into actually challenging the serious problematics of a violent police force. So there's a huge market for "do something small" which involves challenging fairly petty expressions of racism.

Basically, on "the left" and "the right" you have experts taking people's real grievances and turning them into "feel good" symbology. The idiocy of the social signaling is annoying but the way the actual grievances go unaddressed is a considerably worse problem.
People would find that unreadable, and someone would come along to replace twitter or facebook with a better experience.
> I presume one would have recourse under contract for such a foul up?

Possibly, but delays in construction are what kill you. You can't really FedEx overnight new structural steel framing components, so now you're blocked until they can get

a. rebuilt, and

b. freighted out to you
I mean that is your interpretation/experience of it. Mine is entirely different, which would be entirely different to others.

If your workspace can't handle wfh you have other issues imo
> Voltaire put it well ...

Voltaire did not say this.
Hi, we are not intentionally hiding how Waypoint works. We attempted to make the Entrypoint functionality very clear in the documentation with explicit instructions for how you can turn off Entrypoint injection either during build time (it's never put into the artifact) or at deploy time (a configurable on-off switch). If you turn it off you lose features like the URL Service, logs and exec, but the build, deploy and release workflow is still there.

https://www.waypointproject.io/docs/entrypoint/disable#disab...

https://www.waypointproject.io/docs/entrypoint/disable#disab...
>> "leave this problem alone, it's working just fine"

You have the major internet networks 3 weeks before an election banning speech because if they allowed it it might hurt their preferred political candidate. I mean they can claim otherwise, but they don't apply the criteria they use in this instance to instances where the speech is done by their political party. It is clear what is going on here.

Maybe that is working fine for you, it isn't working fine for me.

The ask of companies under section 230 is that they be allowed to publish libel, publish slander, publish copyright violations, publish content that violates laws against discrimination, publish threats of violence, publish posts by terrorists coordinating their attacks, publish all this with no liability whatsoever.

That is a huge ask. The question is, what do we get back for allowing them that privilege? Increasingly, in my opinion, we get negative value back for that.

It's not working just fine for me, it's time to amend section 230 so that the law advances the policies it advocates or abolish it altogether and let internet content providers live by the same rules that print content providers have lived by.
I think you have your comments for 3 and 5 backwards.
“good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all. Controversy, in short, sells.”
Donald J. Trump, Trump: The Art of the Deal
The question is: Does the news media (which includes Facebook, Twitter, and other social media) have a duty to objective reality? In the old days major news organizations had a public obligation to stick to the truth as much as possible. They had fact checkers, independent editorial boards, and other firewalls against false information.

Without such protections people end up believing convenient lies at a much greater rate, which is destructive to society. We've tried the big experiment with unfettered flow of information and it resulted in people being less informed and more radicalized. Clearly it doesn't work, at least not at scale.
Inkjet printers are not reliable well because sometimes ink clogging or something bad is happen if I don't use frequently. Using printers in convenience store is no hassle.

Personally nearest convenience store is not near so I have an inkjet printer.
Why is violence your line? What makes violence unacceptable but verbal harassment, abuses, bad faith arguments are deemed acceptable. Honest question that I'm still not settled on. What I still believe is that society should be the one managing this boundary area, and the state should stick to it's defined rules on free speech.

People should be able to boycot people, free enterprises should he able to manage their media channels, the state should not.
The problem is this isn't a Freedom of Speech issue except from Twitter's point of view. They can delete whatever they like on their platform. People are free to leave the platform if they don't like that policy. Everyone gets what they want (as reasonably as possibly!) in the end.
Wake me when they have transparent open governance like the Debian project
Too much friction. Didn't try.

I gotta update the app or install something on Chrome. Why not just make it available on the web somewhere?

I must have an older version of the app. Followed the instructions and it recommends Shazam!
Cleaner porta-pots.

I think everyone on job sites would appreciate that. A hand-washing station would be a nice touch too. Freshen up before getting back to work.
Just because it passed the bar at NY Post doesn't mean it passes the bar at Twitter.
> The internet has opened us to a Babylonia of different belief systems

With all due respect, there is nothing 'new' about QAnon. It's the same recycled theories about santanic pedophiles tweaked slightly to fit new surroundings. I would argue a new banality of evil that Facebook/Instagram/Twitter provides, where dangerous lies reside right next to actual news and photos of people's kids.
The Video Game Source Project
But it's okay, because they own the platform. the people on twitter complaining about it are free to start their own twitter-like platform. It's a great country that allows this.
Beginner's Guide to Creating Original AI Music Through Neural Networks
I actually don't care who said it, I like that quote because of its meaning and not due to the authority (or lack of thereof) of whom could have been its author.
It is rational to not waste time and energy thinking about things that are unlikely to matter. Being rational doesn't mean that you always make the correct choices according to some artificial metrics, it means that you make the correct choices based on the information available to you and your goals. Intuition and folk tales is a part of the information available to you, so keeping them in mind is a part of being rational (although you shouldn't put too much weight on them either).
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

America has never been about quality. Quality is a result of vigorous and excessive competition.
I assume by mentioning Plaid, you'd be using their services to extract the transaction data?

I keep hoping to find a (maintained/viable) open source project that uses headless browsing to login locally and extract transaction details.
(there are good imap clients, at least for Android, which support a sometimes-connected network).
Welllll..... did it work?
What was the artist's channel?
Bias is demonstrated with privileged accounts. Get rid of the privileged accounts would be a good way to take care of the issue.
It has to be better for people to want to switch. Right now they're offering a monthly subscription for latency and unreliability.
> [msync] checks whether this range is in the allocated virtual memory region. .... [L]et's write a function that will check whether the memory area is allocated by the process or not.

The range of memory mmap'd into a process is a superset of ranges allocated by the process--e.g. returned by malloc.

Furthermore, even if you queried the process' internal allocation state, it would only be useful, if at all, for diagnostic purposes. In a threaded program it poses a TOCTTOU race; for example, it could asynchronously become "invalid" immediately after the test but before actually operating on the data.

More generally, what use is it knowing alone whether a pointer is part of an allocated region or not? You have no idea of its type or logical validity. Reading it might accidentally result in divulging sensitive secrets, and writing to it (which you could attempt using read(2)) might corrupt your program state.

Please, do not employ a trick like this. It's very typical for new C programmers to take an interest in low-level memory semantics and play around with the possibilities, but it's just as typical to go off the rails and implement a solution (as in this case) which is wrong and broken in almost every conceivable way. Both the technique and the premise (that the technique can be gainfully employed) are fatally flawed.

Coarse validity checks can have a role in bug and exploit mitigation, but 1) the example technique is woefully inadequate, and 2) such techniques must be applied, if they're to be effectively applied at all, outside the logical structure of the program, as part of a compiler or runtime (e.g. malloc/free implementation) or, at least, whatever component has a distinct, special relationship to the data.
Finally!!! I was waiting for this for years
You can (and I personally do!) say that Twitter should have the freedom to make censorious decisions while still encouraging them not to do it. It's like saying "everyone should eat healthy meals" - that doesn't mean the government should force them to!

So if someone takes the extra step and says they endorse Twitter's actions here, I think it's fair to call that pro censorship.
Why are you dependent on Facebook for these things? If you suddenly lost your account, you would lose those friends or would you find another way to communicate?
Maybe there's a higher principle here than partisan warfare?

You're going to call me a neoliberal shill ;) but I'd say my higher principle is the market. There is a reason why Nestle, Version, and Disney spend loads of money on twitter and not on gab. Nestle doesn't want chocolate chip ads next to holocaust denial. So yes if twitter decided that pissing off their liberal users grossed more revenue I'm fine with it.
Wondering why they've launched this as part of their Search App (and not as a stand-alone app). Maybe they're afraid of (yet another) anti-trust lawsuit?
The existing satellite providers could provide a 1Gbps plan, but it's not economically feasible. Any of the multiple Gbps communications satellites could do that. SpaceX can also do it, but it's not economically feasible based on everything we know about the cost of the system. I know Elon gets a pass on pretty much anything he says, but it's not okay to continually make claims that will clearly not be true.
> by the time I swipe up to unlock, it has already long since identified my face

With Touch ID and a home button I do not have to swipe up to unlock - in the accessibility settings there is a "rest finger to open" option which brings back the pre-iOS10 (or around that time) behavior where the lockscreen is dismissed as soon as your finger is recognized.

This means that before I even take out the phone out of my pocket it is already unlocked and is on the home screen ready to be used. You can even start opening apps purely through muscle memory while you're taking the phone out.
Thank you, I’m great full for the input. Yes. Moderation is needed for free speech to work. Without it, the effective exchange of ideas breaks down because the communication medium happily amplifies noise.

Viral and malformed ideas will beat facts every time. Counter speech fails.

Moderation is what FB/twitter are doing.
Please familiarize yourself with HN guidelines on comment etiquette: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This confirms my suspicions that IBM Watson is on the bullshit end of the AI spectrum.
I wonder, does it know how to transpose? People may end up humming tunes in different keys that their voices can more easily reach.

Also, why the hell do I need an app for this? Is it actually running a local model? Because my guess is that it's just hitting an API.
When they can influence billions and shape elections, it's time to seriously review their power.

Yeah, but it seems like FB and Twitter have been reviewing their power over the last four years.

They looked at the power of trolling-network, botnets etc to the influence elections. They basically triggered a circuit-breaker when a heavy hit-piece hit their networks.

Which is to say "the power of social networks" isn't just the power of the owners of the networks but also the power of groups embedded in the networks. Should these providers be fair brockers for all kind of manipulated viral content as well as for individual positions? Should they use their position of the ultimate kill switch to be the ultimate authority? I don't know but I don't think you put the most recent events as Facebook versus Organic Content - it's more Facebook versus Rupert Murdoch.
Its authoritarianism. One thing that frustrates me so much as an independent, is the refusal of even very intelligent people to acknowledge the y-axis of the political spectrum. People accuse the left of going right while the right goes far right, but that's not it! They are both going "up"!
Am I the only one who cannot load this page? It renders for a brief moment, I can just begin to see the rocket animation, then it renders as a plain blue page.
Same results on Firefox 78.0.2.esr (64 bit) and Safari Version 11.1.2 (11605.3.8.1).
I have a Sony ZV-1. It took a bit to get it going but I'm now seeing the crispest image in OBS on a webcam that I have ever personally used. Coupled with the shallow depth of field with the ZV-1's fast(ish) lens it's a huge step up from my 2016 MBP 720p webcam.
The problem is not the design or the firmware. The problem is the production of the actual physical printer. Building real things is not like compiling software. Nothing happens exactly the same every time. The minimal exposure I had to manufacturing has shown me that even simple manufacturing steps are infuriatingly difficult to get consistent.
> Anyway, you'd read and write emails while offline. Then you'd hit "send", which would boot up the modem, take over your phone line (woops, Mom's talking on the phone. Sorry mom!!). Wait for Mom to get off the phone, THEN you connect to the internet...

And then send the whole batch all at once.

You can still do it if you want to.

fetchmail to handle the mail retrieval. Add notmuch if you want fancy indexing. Any local client to compose. Delivering is a bit annoying to setup initially in my experience.

https://notmuchmail.org/software/
The reason to transition to in-person for a dating app is because the relationship is supposed to become physical. Not so in an office - I don't think the analogy makes sense, because they types of relationships are so different.
> Why are you assuming the poster is a foreigner?

"american football".

> On a multinational message board like HN, I think referring to it as American Football is entirely appropriate.

HN is not a multinational forum. It's an american forum where anyone can participate. Also, the article is about USC linebackers.

> High school football is far more than just "dragging down" the opposition.

I don't really consider varsity/jv football players to be "children".
speech is communication.

communication is between two or more people.

You seem to be misguided as to what Free Speech means.
Sure you can, to a degree substantial enough to afford the entire advertising industry.
If Windows 10 didn't suck so bad, I'd agree with this post.

But honestly, the Windows 10 network I used to manage had just as many, if not more problems per-machine than my linux network at home.

Honestly, I can not recall ever having a major issue with Grub. It's probably the most reliable part of a Linux machine. Sure, getting the right graphics drivers can be a pain on Linux. Then again, I can say the same about the process on Windows too. And as far as gaming goes, I can play 85% of my Steam Library right out of the box with default settings. Steam has it's own Winetricks built in. And default Winetricks has come a long way too. There really isn't any Windows program I can't get running with 30 minutes of tinkering.

As far as linux being niche and for techie people, you're somwhat right but it's still a frustrating misconception that an average Joe couldn't figure out Linux. I mean, modern Ubuntu is no more complicated to use than Windows 98 was. I just plugged in a Canon printer/scanner into my Lubuntu desktop tonight and fired up included SimpleScan and did some scanning. I didn't need to open a terminal. It all just... worked. Most of the casual things I do just work. It's me messing with stuff that makes things go haywire. But I'm one of those techie people and that's what I enjoy doing.

Don't think of Linux like a geeky alternative to mainstream. Think of it as the mainstream that Windows is trying to improve upon. In all reality, it is. Linux is to computers what the manual transmission (stick shift) is to automobiles. It takes some getting used too, but it's easier than it looks. And if you can drive a stick, you can drive literally any vehicle with wheels. Same with linux. If you can use a linux PC you posses the knowledge use any PC.
Let’s say this regulation passes and YC does decide to operate HNaaS. (Presumably they don’t want to, or they’d be doing it already, but under this regulation that’s how they have to operate.) So HN Prime pops up — which is basically HN as it exists today — and then a bunch of smaller constellation communities that allow things that Prime doesn’t, like spam and porn.

And that’s different from present situation because…? We already have Twitter Prime (Twitter), as well as the constellation Twitters — Conservative Twitter (Parler), Nazi Twitter (Gab), [Niche Interest] Twitter (various Mastodon people instances), etc. We haven’t fundamentally changed anything; all we’ve done is move the moderation “problem” around a bit.
The loss is that he left (supposedly) incriminating data on a laptop. That is incredibly valuable no matter how rich he supposedly is. It's just not a credible argument.

(And again, note that the repair shop owner never saw who dropped off the laptop. He just inferred it was Hunter Biden because there was apparently a Beau Biden sticker on the laptop.)
There is a lot of well-aimed critique in this comment section and the piece could benefit from rigorous editing and scrapping of the examples which are very unfortunately chosen. I think the steel man for this piece is:
1.) Qualified generalists and charlatan generalists look the same if you aren't an expert in the fields in which they opine.
2.) Experts in one field using their native lens to make conclusions about another field is not a polymath practice but something closer to a hammer that sees only nails.

I think we, as software people, are susceptible to 2—software is successful in some cases because of this kind of cross contamination where it replaces the tools and methods of a separate field with its own, sometimes with great success (art, finance).
> Not that many people need accessibility.

100% will require accessibility in some form if your timeframe is long enough. We aren't young forever, you know.
Nice! It showed up after I reinstalled it. If I end up wanting to do so, is there a way to potentially replace Siri with Google somehow in the settings?
Starting and audio course creator platform
This article is about blocking a story by the NY Post.
It may be true or may be false, but it already passed
the traditional gatekeepers.

It passed a gatekeeper, and was refuted by others. And if you're describing the NY Post as a "traditional gatekeeper", you're not familiar with the NY Post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Post#Style

It represents roughly the midpoint between a serious journalistic operation and the National Enquirer.
I've moved from cloud print to CUPS-based printing at home just recently, and the latter has been more reliable (at least for the setup I've got; printer is not cloud-print native, so was using a raspberry pi as a print server). GCP would sporadically not respond to print jobs, then sometimes, days later, print them all out. The only annoyance is that the only PPD file for my printer is in German, so my print options are in German.
How would alternate platforms work when platforms result in winner take all dynamics?
This is an experiment (I think) along the lines of the Turing test. I am quite pissed at the moment so take what I say with a pinch of salt!

The text I see may not be the same as you. I see this nonsense:

"It’s not difficult to imagine how this happened. The flip side of disaggregation is that each would-be expert is able to read broadly as well. The world of atomized content through hyper-specialization isn’t a stable equilibrium. We are all casual polymaths now."

It is bollocks. Complete and utter rubbish. It superficially looks like ... something but it is cobblers.