skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The age of disinformation" is the crucial fulcrum on which the entire premise rests. There is not more disinformation today than there was in days past. In fact, it is easier to check and see if something is true (not using self professed fact checkers and the priesthood of truth and fact, but by looking around and using your mental faculties) than it was when I was a teenager.

How many of you are old enough to remember bullshit like "if you ask a cop if they're a cop they have to tell you" or "you heard about the kid who's intestines got sucked out of his butthole in a swimming pool"? I remember people telling you things and you just went with it. It used to be very easy to lie. People made stuff up all the time, and said things that someone else made up that they believed.

To use the European context and Nazi Germany example, there is a big difference between then and now. That time was very much like my adolescence was with regard to access to information. Disinformation can spread wildly in an environment where people cannot verify it.

Currently, I could probably unilaterally get the equivalent of a university education in any field for free if I were so inclined, just by searching around on the internet. We do not live in an age of disinformation, we live in an age of unbelievable information availability, power structures and hierarchies once existed to enable the dissemination of information, and the ones that currently exist are beginning to show their cracks, simply because information can be effortlessly obtained at miniscule cost. I honestly believe we are living through social upheaval as a direct result of this revolution, and we haven't even seen the beginning. Making the majority literate was very, very hard. Making the next few generations well educated is something so easy it is probably best to just let people do it for themselves. I truly believe we will not need formal education within 100 years, people will just want to learn things and learn them at a whim.

I don't usually like to attribute motive, but I find it suspicious that it is the very institutions and organizations hammering away at this premise that stand to lose the most from this information revolution we are beginning to undergo. It is very convenient when the old entities with a grip on what people know and don't know happen to be the ones telling you not to trust your own judgment and defer to their own.
Valve doesn't strike me as the organization with well planned or strategic investment, they're kind of famous for letting people work on side projects like this.

That said it's an attempt to break the chicken/egg cycle. The crowd is small because the crowd is small, if you offer a way to grow it artificially than you can gain critical mass.

The big wrench is DRM/anti cheat though. That's the major thing holding me back from gaming with proton exclusively.
I didn’t say Biden himself ordered the censorship, and I don’t think anybody at all is making that claim that I’ve seen.

Wikipedia directly and immediately contradicts you: “Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient." Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions, and other controlling bodies.”
What's the subject matter of the book?
IF you paid off a house in 5 years, you bought way less house than you could afford. Almost no one in America lives with that level of income to expense (as income usually scales with cost of living). Beyond that - unless you got some crazy predatory loan, you should be able to get a loan that will always be less than market returns (averaged over the years) even after taxes (you also get mortgage interest deduction when you have a loan). Rates today are now below 3% and with the economy booming - they were still frequently below 4%.

Home ownership (especially for $500k+) is heavily subsidized in the USA.
Anything that makes the opaque accessible is a worthy undertaking. Kudos!
Be very, very cautious before ever taking VC funds. Unless you are a power plant, bootstrap.
Let's take John out of the discussion.

On Oct 05 the WHO officially announced there were 750m cases worldwide. On that day their official fatality count was ~1m. This comes out to an IFR of 0.13%

Do you have an issues with this statistic as well?
Absolutely preposterous. But then again, given the number of people who have whole heartedly adopted the "qanon" conspiracy theory, some significant portion of people will probably believe it (exactly as it's been spoon fed to Giuliani) without reservations.
It's funny that I can't be sure what you mean by "unlikely to cost him the election". That can be taken two ways. Either nobody minds him taking foreign money, or he's already doomed and thus nothing can cost him the election.
I've been diving pretty deep into networking recently, especially from a self-hosting perspective. Self-hosting tends to turn into a mess of domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc[0].

I think technologies like WireGuard are going to play an important role in reducing that complexity (once we get some higher abstractions). I started a list of useful software I've found in this space here[1].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24475946

[1]: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Not saying it's not accurate, but if you want to debunk a news publication, I think a more reliable source is needed than some guy on Twitter...

"The claims in that news publication were totally fake and deserve to be censored -- here, check out this Twitter user who has the real truth!"

In other words, when debunking an article as true/false, I think extra rigor needs to be put into the debunking -- you can't debunk an unreliable source with yet another unreliable source... (unless this guy is like a NYT editor and I just don't realize it)
Exactly.

HR tends to know nothing about solving "performance issues" -- especially since by and large, they tend to have next-to-zilch understanding of what the day-to-day work is actually about - let alone what constitutes good or bad "performance". So from there - their role pretty much boils down to:

"OK, so you've decided to start pushing this person out of the company's bowels. Let's make sure we do with with proper legal CYA and minimal side effects, otherwise. In fact we have system in place already - it's called PIP:"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_improvement

"Ya see, you just gotta make up some quote-unquote 'goals' for the problem employee to 'agree to'. And then of course, don't actually support them (and just for fun, sometimes outright block them - subtly, of course) from reaching them. Whether they quit and/or have a nervous breakdown -- or inevitably fail at achieving the 'goals' we set out for them -- either way, in a month or two they'll be toast -- guaranteed."

The very essence of being a good manager, then -- is helping to resolve (or at least clarify) performance issues before they get "escalated" to that level (which is an ironic term, given that again, it pretty much always boils down to -- "how do we get rid of this person?")
I am genuinely baffled by the number of people who are slipping around this point. We don’t regularly have hospital ITUs stuffed full of people with influenza, threatening to overwhelm capacity. We don’t generally have city-, region- and country-wide lockdowns where transmission is massively curtailed. Even a very casual look at what happened in different countries makes it clear that this disease has an obviously different character.

It really feels lately like there’s some kind of weird “iamverysmart” syndrome banging around on HN in particular - every single post mentioning COVID is full of these shallow armchair analyses that seem to think rejecting all prevailing wisdom is an inherent good. It’s totally possible to be critical of the global response and analyses of it without this honestly fucking weird assumption that everyone else except you is a mindless sheep.
I haven't looked it up in decades, but it is what I was thinking of long before IV built and patented their thing.

It would have to be in fairly deep ultraviolet or insects could not fly in daytime.
That thread questions how the data was acquired, not any of the claims against Hunter Biden
Haha! That's crazy! Though, it does point out that many listings may have been created by copy&paste, leaving them with incorrect information.
Wait till you are older than 30. Suddenly they become much much wiser.
I would argue a solid 1-2% can get you a promotion in HW companies. You put 5 of this improvements and that’s a generational improvement.
I didn't check if it is PROCHOT or not. But two XPS 13 laptops and a Surface Pro I have owned downclocked below the base clock under heavy workloads. In fact even in this benchmark you can see frequent drops below the base frequency during compilation of the linux kernel. And that's with 0% load on the GPU.

https://openbenchmarking.org/embed.php?i=2010162-FI-TIGERLAK...
You can cough and sneeze into a mask if you want. I think it's disgusting.
I find all the pearl-clutching on HN about "free speech" to be rather boring when these have always been heavily moderated platforms run by for-profit businesses that have always given special treatment to whatever advertisers were willing to pay the most. Nobody bats an eye when they're the ones profiting off of it.

I'm sorry if that's dismissive but it's extremely frustrating hearing these kinds of things in the context of social media companies, who have never had a problem with advertisers milking FOMO and gaslighting their entire audience with this stuff for years now. (you are inadequate if you don't buy this product, you are a loser if you don't share this article right now, you are an enemy of the state if you don't vote for this candidate, etc) And actually they love all that because it drives clicks!

The uncomfortable situation they find themselves in now is: At what point is the line drawn, where companies and special interests with millions to spend on ads can no longer lie and gaslight the public? It seems to have been easier for these companies to be the ones to dismiss this when the stakes weren't as high.
> If instead the ISP was doing that filtering, I wouldn't be able to discuss it anywhere online

If Twitter, Facebook, and Google all blocked some content, the odds of it being found is way less than if a single ISP blocked it. Yes, you, personally would not be able to see it if it was blocked and you had that ISP. But collectively, the content is still there.

Facebook and Twitter are 90% of social media and have network effects making alternatives implausible. They're no different than Standard Oil and trains were. ISP like trains shovel 1s and 0s around (raw stuff). But people also particularly cared about getting content or oil (specific stuff). Twitter and Facebook have a monopoly on that "specific stuff" and with legal indemnity to boot. Who cares if you have the capacity to transport oil if you can't actually get it delivered? Who cares if you can get 1s and 0s online if you can't communicate with anybody about relevant content?

As an aside, remember when it was social "networking" and not social "media"?

Let's not pretend that these folks didn't want to play the content publishing game. It's the only way to funnel clicks into ad revenue.
A speaker is a precision open-loop voice coil that precisely translates input current to force that displaces a membrane. A laser galvanometer is a precision closed-loop voice coil that translates input voltage to a specific position/displacement. The mechanical components to ensure repeatability and the electrical components that 'close the loop' are what generally make them (much) more expensive than speakers.

Picking off a mosquito will require positional accuracy of say 1mm. If you want a range of 10 meters you're going to need positional accuracy of ~.1 milliradian. Most galvos have a rotational range of .3-.5 radians, so you're not going to need extreme positional accuracy relative to what's on the market. A controller, pair of quality 16 bit dacs, galvo hardware and decent power supply should be adequate. I have some of the cheap $300 ebay 2-axis galvos and those are not sufficient. You're going to need a step up and are easily getting into the thousand dollar range for the galvos alone.
The very first tweet is enough to draw into question the entire narrative: "Hunter Biden, who lives in Los Angeles, decides to fly 3000 miles across country, to drop off 3 MacBook Pros at a repair shop run by a blind guy who charges the insanely low price of $85."
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On it. But not this month. The underlying technology's web support is still in beta (Flutter).

Also, sadly GitHub and GitLab only have all/none access to private repos. OAuth access to specific repos isn't a thing. So Desktop support is more important for me.

Also, here is another similar project - https://github.com/taniarascia/takenote
What source is this tweet storm making a mockery of?

Could you link to it?

Have you seen some of the emails yourself?

The emails I've seen look authentic & reveal major corruption.

e.g. https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/emails-reveal-how-hunter-biden...

On the contrary, twitter & FB would never suppress such a story about trump.
Well Epic killed Linux support for Rocket League awhile ago so it's a bit redundant how it performs
The VW ID3/4 are not remotely competitors, other than being compact electric cars. Very different size, performance and materials quality.
> State censorship is not the only kind of censorship. Private-sector repression of speech and thought, particularly in the internet era, can be as dangerous and consequential. Imagine, for instance, if these two Silicon Valley giants united with Google to declare: henceforth we will ban all content that is critical of President Trump and/or the Republican Party, but will actively promote criticisms of Joe Biden and the Democrats.

> Would anyone encounter difficultly understanding why such a decree would constitute dangerous corporate censorship? Would Democrats respond to such a policy by simply shrugging it off on the radical libertarian ground that private corporations have the right to do whatever they want? To ask that question is to answer it.

I would! I don't know why The Intercept thinks Democrats are undoubtedly hypocrites.

Facebook, Twitter, and Google are more than welcome, as private corporations, to legally make that decision. If they want to do it, I will not try to use the government to compel them to do otherwise.

However, if they do it, they will lose a sizable fraction of their user base and their employees, all of whom are also welcome, as private individuals, to legally make that decision. I certainly will not try to use the government to compel the employees to stay.

The market will respond. Is there a reason that The Intercept thinks that heavy-handed government regulation is required to solve something the market can quite clearly solve?

(I do think that breaking up these companies on monopoly grounds is perfectly reasonable, and that is the market-believing, American solution to this problem - not regulating the incumbents and keeping them incumbent. They do talk about this, and I agree with that portion of the article. And then they go off into repeating the Republican talking points about finding things in Section 230 that are literally not there in Section 230.)
Hey I came across this about a week ago and the idea sounded pretty cool! I ended up making an MVP of this: https://flowtyping.herokuapp.com/

It was pretty fun and I'll most likely start adding more features to it: saved notes, words per minute, improve layout, etc...

Let me know if you end up using this or if you have any feature you'd like to see :)

Edit: I posted a link to another HackerNews link that showed a whole bunch of related tools that did similar things but I wanted to take a crack at it myself.
The emails have already been confirmed to be real, at least some of them. The technician spoke on record about getting the laptop from the owner who abandoned it, and by law became his.

There are gaps in the story that need to be investigated, but who the heck are Facebook and Twitter to make that call minutes/hours after the story broke?? This is not some weird obscure conspiracy story.

The other thing here is the double standard. So many hacked information has been freely circulating, from wikileaks to Trump's tax records. Why now, why so suddenly? Really hard to deny political bias.

I'm pro free speech, I think everyone should err on letting information flow. But whatever you do, if you use a double standard you'll have no reasonable argument to save you.
Thanks so much for the feedback. I think you're spot on that some of the more abstract stuff would be more compelling if it was more concrete and tactical.

I'll also revise the email signups a bit, that's helpful too.
Note that the article in question is not suggesting the story is true and goes as far as to paint a picture that it is surely sensational and intentionally misleading. It is specifically interested in a change to the nature of which social media companies partake in censorship of information in a way that is unprecedented.

Personally, I think that Facebook and Twitter are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. If they do interfere and censor perceived misinformation, they run the very real, maybe inevitable chance of censoring information that is, in fact, true, or maybe just as bad, censoring misinformation with bias. On the other hand, if they do not interfere, they will surely be blamed for not doing anything to curb the misinformation spread on their platforms.

I think it’s all a symptom of the fact that social media websites like Facebook and Twitter that are effectively unmoderated trash fires should probably just not exist. Exactly why they should not exist is up for grabs but my personal pick is the seemingly reduced-to-zero liability they seem to have on many horrible things going on on their platform that wouldn’t be looked over on a small forum even if the owner tried to claim it was “unmoderated.”
If the data was acquired through an alternative means then what was stated doesn't that raise questions about the validity of the claims against Hunter Biden?

I mean, liars are gonna lie about more than one thing.
> Excess death in places where hospitals were overwhelmed (Lombardy, NYC, Madrid) was so many standard deviations above normal values that I am not even sure how we can be having this discussion.

Sure, you may have very high excess death in a few areas, but unless you think people from New York are somehow more important than everyone else, all excess deaths must be weighted equally. Remember, we're trying to optimize for all-cause mortality across the entire country.

> Sweden could be a special case, but Brazil literally had 0.1% of its population wiped out.

Every year, Brazil loses 0.65% of its population to all-cause mortality. COVID-Mortality in Brazil may be high, but it is pretty much on par with Chile, which has had a severe lockdown.

> In Manaus there were five time as many excess deaths as confirmed COVID deaths. If that's not healthcare collapsing I don't know what it is.

Yes, for a brief period, hospitals in certain cities did indeed get overwhelmed. That's very visible.

What isn't visible is people that would suffer and die in the next years because their livelihoods were destroyed because of a lockdown of questionable efficacy.

In Chile, you have starving protestors clashing with the police. In Brazil, approval for Bolsonaro is at the highest since his presidency started. Put two and two together.
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Are you saying that elderly prefer to see their children die first or themselves? We're not debating whether they want to die or not, that's obvious. We're debating whether they value their lives more than their children or children's children.
The core issue is actually by allowing companies to harvest hyper individualized information about you, so then they can then design algorithms to maximize engagement by exploiting our psychology, and thus harvest our attention and clicks...

Literally if we just started to pay for stuff we’d see this problem improved. The consequences of the current model is that the internet has become the modern equivalent of a welfare state, in the sense that our experiences are sponsored by our wealthy corporate benefactors. Clearly not a good recipe for civic engagement.

So, as consumers we should pay for things if we want to have nice stuff, and also businesses simply shouldn’t be able to follow literally every person in the world around, as they stroll around the internet, and write down and share what they’re looking at. That could be done by creating liability around data collection/protection, as in the case if HIPPA, or outright banning the technology that enables ad tech at scale. I’m sure people here have much better ideas than this, I’m just offering an ethos.

Also the internet itself should be treated as a public utility. The sad thing is by not paying, we’re still paying, just in less direct ways, since the ad tech that sponsors our internet lives still has to get money from somewhere...

Edited for clarity
There's no straw man in the argument you're replying to. All that was said was "maybe the idea that things should be censored is a bad idea and should be censored." It is a very clever way to demonstrate the danger of what you're potentially prepared to embrace, and how it can be used against you.

Nobody can hold a monopoly on the marketplace of ideas. Nobody. That genie is out of the bottle.
DKIM?

Link to independent (non-tabloid) confirmation?
Coase would have said transaction costs. An efficient market doesn't imply no transaction costs. And if you take things out of economic theory it's pretty obvious why you'll hire people for some things and not for others.
One of the issues with this comment is that, while it aims to elaborate on certain aspects of C++ that make it unattractive, it tacitly promotes the idea using C++ gives a person "complete control over certain aspects of your program". Given the intent of the message, this is actually kind of harmful. There's a certain class of chest-thumping/-puffing programmer who sees this as vindication for the language. So, perpetuating that idea is bad news, especially since it's only true if applying very, very loose criteria of what it means to give a programmer "complete control".
A bit mysterious, but seems as files will now have nanosecond accuracy since 1901 (in the 64bit unsigned int), the quota timers are still 32bit and have been downgraded from 1 second to 4 second accuracy to cover the full bigtime forward time range required (for 1970 unix epoch).

Seems to be described in this patch comment:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/xfs/patch/157784114490....
Its tempting to think 2486 is a long way off. You may still be around then anyhow, so your future self may thank you.
Exactly. So every time I see news of twitter/fb 'fact-checking', it reeks to me with a far too familiar KGB / STASI odor.

Going down this path will not end well.
I don't really feel that there's prejudice on job hopping in Europe nowadays (at least in the software industry). If you're at a place for at least 2 years you kind of start to be considered an old timer.
Why would someone publicly post this letter, even with the redactions?
It isn't just students. The classic Knuth vs McElroy comparison shows that the right abstractions can matter quite a bit:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg...
I don't have a good answer. My original comment was just to point out that I don't believe social media can be treated like the telephone.

From a legal/political standpoint SM is on new ground: a privately owned (i.e. non government) platform but with massive reach. Free speech laws are aimed at the government so should they be applied to private companies? I can understand both sides and I don't think there's an obvious solution.