skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Probably in this case it's because metadrama threads like that are a dime-a-dozen and never lead anywhere new

I think that's unlikely. While it would be great to know why users flag the stories that they flag (feature request?) in this case I'd wager heavily that it was flagged by people who feel the underlying story is false and unworthy of public discussion, and not out of concern that the discussion would be boring.

Separately, I'll note that this story was submitted yesterday, quickly got to 38 votes and 7 comments, and then was flagged off as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24881000. I vouched for it, which brought it back briefly, but then it was killed again.

Oddly, that version doesn't appear when one clicks on 'past', or with search terms for "taibbi" or "suppression". Any idea why this might be? Are flag killed stories always omitted from searches?

Edit: This post discussing the flagging of this story is flagged as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24889835. Should it be? It seems like it raises reasonable issues. Vouching for it did nothing.
you post this over and over and over trying to get traction.

protip; fake internet points on HN aren't worth anything.
I got an Asus PN50 today... nice little PC
I really like NextDNS. But right now, I'm pointed to Cloudflare Gateway servers.
Nice post! The spelling errors were interesting--I hope he follows up on that. Also, I wish the blog had a comments sxn.
Can we just outlaw bitcoin already? It’s really the only way attacks like this are practical.
They charge for it above a certain volume and for various enterprise features. It’s always integrated well with Google Ads. I imagine it also boxes out other companies who might want that data.
Don't like Apple, buy something else, period.

I only use Apple devices at the office.

Yeah, really there is such a huge benefit in alternative Android stores, they are blooming everywhere.
Happy to share a screenshot if you'd like :)
The abundance of low-quality news today can be understood as a consequence of the cantillon effect in an inflationary environment. American-style crony capitalism might incentivize low-quality media, but without the presence of massive subsidies propping up News Corp, AT&T, and the other few firms owning the vast majority of American media, I would expect more legitimate and reputable news firms like Bloomberg or Reuters.
It's there, just at the VERY bottom as I deemed it more of a site of examples than a site to make shaders directly. I think you're right though that maybe that was a bad call.
>If DDG simply implemented that single feature, I would never go back to Google.

Here you go. #2 on the list.

https://www.runnaroo.com/blog/the-search-engine-hacker-news-...
Disagree. I love SF. The Symphony is phenomenal, love the Opera and Ballet too.

The parks are beautiful, and you can get out into nature in about an hour's drive.

Living in SF is expensive, but salaries are high too. Especially if you're in tech like most on HN, you can have a very nice lifestyle here.
WebGL procedural city that feels alive and is fun to watch
I think the grandparent is probably referring to upstate in the Hudson Valley sense of the phrase. Plenty of cute towns, but Hudson / Woodstock / Kingston are definitely in the O(tens) of great restaurant options, comparable to a slice of any single Manhattan / Brooklyn neighborhood most tech people live in.
Elon Musk – Mars Society Virtual Convention (Oct 16, 2020)
I like being able to throw a handful of large SATA HD’s in a desktop for tons of storage. A laptop with usb drives of equal size is just cumbersome
You seem biased in favor of Apple. Why is that?

> aren't the only ones doing 30%.

Again, just because "other people do it" does not a compelling argument make. It's just an "argument to the people" logical fallacy.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
I'm glad HN didn't block that link. I've learned a great deal that will affect my vote in the upcoming election.
> In the first few months of Nubank, I asked everybody to be here by 8:00 a.m. every day.

> One of my co-founders eventually came to me and encouraged me to rethink the policy. I realized I’d been hiring all these great people and then basically not trusting them from day one.

That's such a common thing in Brazil, having grown up and started my career there.

My first job there was at a fantastic company. Great work-life balance, they actually cared about my well being, projects were quite decently planned. But there was that rigidity on daily hours, and it was such an "ugh" factor in an otherwise perfect job.

The much more lax environment in American tech companies was a huge relief for me.

I'm glad he changed his views on it.
> These seem to be intentional design decisions (marketed as being necessary for security, but really being power-user hostile)

That's an unnecessarily abrasive view: the Wayland protocol designers do not hate power users. But allowing programs to constantly take in arbitrary input & output information in the background, as well as simulate arbitrary input to other programs, is an obvious and glaring security flaw. Unfortunately, that forbids general-purpose screenshotting and key-rebinding programs - but there is no sensible middle ground.

>Wayland is designed with the thought that users download random applications from the interwebz which are not trustworthy and run them.

I appreciate that the average HN poster, and to a lesser extent the average Linux user, does not do this - but many, many Windows users do. In order to actually break into a mass desktop market, there has to be consideration of the ways people who do not currently use Linux behave.

I would even argue that lots of current Linux users are guilty of this - how many Arch users are checking the contents of PKGBUILDs from the AUR? How many Linux users, when searching for the solution to some problem with their desktop, have blindly copy-pasted commands from some support post - or worse still, just downloaded a "fix it" script to run?

Wayland is built on sane assumptions, because it also aims to cater to a not-insignificant part of the desktop market. That the response of an X11 supporter is "simply run the correct programs" show how little they have understood the goals and successes of Wayland as a project. It is not X12, and some of us are grateful for that.
Dear bozo. Why are you "considering" vs. solely using a desktop? You obviously do not care about performance or privacy. So what are you complaining about?
> Because in the real world, the therapy method I have mostly seen, was and is keeping people calm with pills.

I dunno, in most common diseases going around right now the solution is to treat people with pills. How is depression any different?
North Carolina is decent. Made the move in 2013, been working for SF Bay Area companies since. Cost of living is very low, kids' education is decent (impacted by COVID-19 currently, of course).
Oh superb, thanks!
No it's bad if your friends gobble up all the food without leaving anything for someone that eats slower. I would never do that even if I was a fast eater. But also, as the other reply pointed out, it was tongue in cheek.
As someone who knows little to nothing about UEFI except what I read on these types of blogs and comments, what do you mean that secure boot is no longer an issue? and that it's been a certificate requirement by microsoft?
I don't use an IDE either. I use the CLI, involving a text editor, then gcc and gdb via Makefiles. To that end I have 4-5 open xterms and a browser window for searching references.

An IDE would add another layer of complexity and just get in the way.
> The payer does not have to know content of therapy session though. Just have two databases and practice good separation of concerns.

A lot of detailed information is often required for the payer to green-light the actual treatment, at least in Germany.

Ideally the payer also wants/needs to keep track of what was already done and for what reasons.

Even if you keep all of that to a minimum, you still end up with a fair bit of meta-data that allows for rather detailed insights.
I used to think that before I became a manager.
immediate danger
> [0]Only 22% of consumers say they are okay with having their information collected indiscriminately by websites to provide a better experience.

That isn't a quote from the referenced link. The quote is "Only 22 percent of consumers agreed that they would be willing to hand over personal data to improve experiences." - which is quite a different thing.

I'm not happy to hand over personal data to improve experiences. But I'm very happy for Google to track what searches I do to improve their results.
I'm not sure the American DOJ considers web traffic in India
I asked my friend who is both a web developer and does ML if he preferred pytorch to tensorflow and he confirmed what I had read online, which was that pytorch is better for parallel ML and other use cases that TF isn’t. It doesn’t appear that all TF libraries are made equal. An of course, Google does have a long history of abandoning their open source projects. However, my friend did admit that TF excels better at low level matrix operations.
I mean, my data point of one isn't all that helpful if you're having issues, but triple monitors do indeed work on my end.

I switch between a station that has a 4k display next to a standard 1920x1080 display as well as my laptop display (3200x1800) and my home setup with the laptop and 2 4k displays.

I had an issue on the 4k displays when I attempted to run two displays and a usb hub on a single thunderbolt line, but that wasn't Wayland, that was me being dumb: The thunderbolt protocol only support 40Gb/s and each monitor uses 20Gb/s and the hub eats another 10Gb/s. If the hub got detected last, it dropped to usb 2, if one of the monitors came online last, it would drop to 30hz refresh rate. Frankly - I was a little floored when I realized that I was the one being dumb and the system was mostly still just making things work. Just for shits and giggles I booted up an x-session after to see what it does. The answer is lots of black screen.
I'm sure they totally would do the same thing for a different political candidate /s
I've recently picked it up, reading "ML for the working programmer". The language is fairly simple, everything just fits. However:

1. Both Vim and Emacs are horribly annoying with their automatic indentation for SML. There is a lot of fighting against the editor in this department. In Emacs e.g. you have to delete whitespace all the time, because otherwise you'd have top-level function definitions shifted 80 characters to the right.

2. I've used Poly/ML and SML/NJ so far. Both of them are purely interactive, meaning I can't just compile a program into ELF and ship it somewhere else without the compiler. That makes it a no-go for me for real-world use.

3. The interactive modes of Poly/ML and SML/NJ don't support readline shortcuts. They are the most cumbersome REPLs I've ever used.

4. Inline type declarations (as opposed to Haskell-style type declarations on a separate line) are very noisy - they make reading the code harder. Omitting them (which is the rule in SML in practice) leads to hard-to-decipher compilation errors when you write a new piece of code and you made an error somewhere which confused the type-inference about your intentions. Suddenly forgetting about a word or a set of parentheses in one function results in errors in another perfectly-good function. It's the horror of C++ templates all over again.
Android devices are so cheap that I have many of them, some dedicated to a single purpose (I have an Android “phone” [without service] and a FireHD that are used only for reading data from my cars’ OBD2 ports and another running my sprinkler system interface)

IOS devices are more expensive, so the ones I have actually get used (and most were bought secondhand so don’t contribute to market sales figures). Our household usage and search share is surely 99+% from Apple OSes, while the device share of devices bought new at retail might be only 40% Apple.
Nice, now I can keep using Spotify without feeling bad.

This was the sort of thing that made me consider migrating to a different service.
I think there is a more specific DPA for analytics. But in any event google says analytics isn’t used for search rankings https://www.seroundtable.com/google-algorithm-google-analyti...
Here's mine: https://imgur.com/a/7S3cDfQ
This is not a problem with the anti-discrimination laws but with the justice system itself. In Sweden there is no meaning to get a lawyer and sue everyone because it won't be worth the money for the lawyer. So we do get to have nice things :-)
At worst, the Democratic party will make all the right speeches but ultimately do nothing.

In contrast, the Republican party stole medical supplies from blue states[0] during the acute phase of the pandemic and chose to minimize the federal response to SARS-CoV-2 because the pandemic was only killing Democrats[1]. Depriving your political opponents of medical supplies during a pandemic is arguably a crime against humanity.

Neither of these choices are particularly good, but one choice is far worse than the other.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-admin-seizing-ppe/

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-s...
Doesn't Ubuntu use Mir, not Wayland?
Yes. What’s an LA suburb? Haha.

For reference it was Loz Feliz. But I had further seen issues anywhere from Ktown to Santa Monica.
> Biden is a much weaker candidate than Hillary and he continues to make blunders

That’s your view; however, he is polling much better than Clinton, which would indicate that voters don’t necessarily agree with you (or else just that peoples’ opinions of Trump are lower than last time round, or a combination. But really it hardly matters).

> (i.e. I guarantee that his comments on fracking in the last debate just lost him Pennsylvania.)

Looks like 20-50,000 people employed in fracking plus industries supported by it in Pennsylvania. And presumably most of those would be voting for Trump anyway; it’s not like Biden’s views on fracking were a total black box til now. So it only really matters if it’s very close anyway.
But we had medical care in the past that somehow worked without all of these digital systems? Was that care significantly less effective because of no digital data? It was less efficient, because you had to carry your documents around yourself, but I'm not sure that the care was significantly less effective.

I'm sure that it makes a difference to some people, but so does the vulnerability of privacy. How many people will simply not see a doctor because they're worried about this?
This is true. Thanks for both the other companies, and the important distinction.
2 monitors are easy if your laptop has Display Port and you use daisy chaining, you can have 4 full HD monitors from a single DP 1.2 port. I did that with the previous laptop, the new one has HDMI and USB-C with extended mode supporting DP, so I can link probably 5 FHD monitors in total.
> And no one says a world. No one even dare spending
> 5 minute reading the material. No one cares.

Recommend something that I can give to people that they can read in 5 minutes and be convinced.
> It's literally designed to download content from sites that don't allow downloads

That's not per se illegal. First there are countries where it is not illegal to download copyright protected content for personal use. Second even in countries where this was illegal (but where it is by no means clear what the difference between "download in the browser" and "download in another tool" should be) Youtube contains content which is CC-BY licensed (see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/user/RochusKeller) which can be legally downloaded and used.

> I don't understand the RIAA bit.

RIAA is no copyright collective (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_collection_s...), but just an industry organization. In order to be able to represent the rights of the IP owners in court or in actions like the present one, the organization needs appropriate powers of attorney. This must also be provided for in the statutes. This is not the same as lobbying. If I was a representative of the other party, the first thing I would doubt is that.
> I don't know why you think it would not.

I don't know why do you think it would? Both software and hardware-side, there's no end of complaints that power users are being left behind. All the money is in making Fisher-Price software for the masses. Ain't nobody have time to cater for ergonomics or efficiency in computing, it's only a distraction from milking the general population.

This, to me, is a clear example of the market underserving a customer segment.
That's how I generate my website (and eveything else). There really are no pitfalls. Whenever something is not working, I discover that the answer is in the official Pandoc manual. I suggest getting a recent Pandoc; the version in your package manager may be a bit old.

https://lee-phillips.org
The reason stuff like this gets flagged is, in my opinion, that while the underlying issue is of relevant interest (stinking tech companies caught poisoning yet another thing), it’s too close to simple politics to prevent a thread full of hyperpartisan bickering.
> because they are used as a public platform . . . they are not expected to moderate anything

Says who?

> because they are biased in their censorship

Yes, and reality has a liberal bias, eh?
On a long enough time scale, everyone is the bad guy.
It's...something. But it still doesn't feel quite right. A formal "raise hand" button feels too clumsy of a replacement for the natural body language we use to imply that we want to jump in to say something. I don't want a button that "requests the floor", we need something more fluid than that.

Basically the situation we need to avoid is the example raised in the article, wherein two people stumble around each other trying to figure out who should speak and who should back off. The reason that happens is that both participants have no clue that the other person is about to speak until they already have.

Discord solves this beautifully with push-to-talk. Since I have to press the push to talk button _before_ I speak, the UI can hook into that to naturally indicate that I intend to speak just by lighting myself up. I can just hold down the button and wait for the current speaker to cede, or jump in myself at a suitable pause. This latter case is now possible since everyone in the chat can see that I am about to do that, rather than be caught by surprise. But more importantly, _I can back off myself_ just by letting go. In Teams, you'd have to "rescind" the raised hand explicitly (not even sure if this is possible).

Now combine this with a shared virtual space: everyone sees the same order of faces, and when someone pushes-to-talk, they move up. Everyone sees this at the same time, so it's much more natural for that person to start speaking!
Content moderation is a form of free speech.
> Polls don't predict anything.

Semantic nitpicking. Clearly, my comment was about how well the polls reflected reality.

> Some of the poll-based forecasts made errors like....

You're making a different statement than the person I'm responding to, who said that the polls didn't align with reality because they did not weight for education. That is something that is easy to verify. I was simply asking if it was verified by showing that weighting by education made the 2016 polls align with reality.
> I run a 4k display and a 1920x1080 display side by side, and X is utter garbage at handling it.

I'm running 3 physical monitors, split to 4 "virtual" monitors with overall 3 different resolutions and I have no problem whatsoever (minus dealing with nouveau on 1060).
That may or may not protect Santa, but once he's covered head to toe in viral particles, whatever he's got floating around in his blood isn't going to protect all subsequent kids sitting on his lap, nor the families they return to afterward.

The impact is a lot broader than for just the performer. It won't be easy to shoe-horn "normalcy" into this year's holiday season.
You hear a lot more talk about the suppression than the actual story because the news media you follow isn't covering the content of the story.

There are emails being released constantly detailing various business dealings with CCP linked companies including undisclosed loans from Chinese banks that the Bidens continually roll forward.
Thanks all! Updated with SML/NJ in the major list again too.
I personally have no problem with platforms choosing to squelch lies. If they over-step their authority then the market will correct them, right?
>And while landlords held firm through the second quarter of the year, asking rents for office space in the city dropped nearly 6 percent in the third quarter alone to $78.45 per square foot (per year)

as expected, rents are still on the NY retail space level
Looking at an office tower and a residential tower being built side by side by my window. I would never live in a converted office building.

The resi tower has concrete separations between floors and if you are lucky, between flats on the same floor. Office buildings don’t have any real separation between floors as you are supposed to walk on accessible fake floors and have fake ceilings too.

The sound insulation between flats on a converted office building must be nil.
> as such they are not expected to moderate anything

When even the president's tweets have been squelched or tagged, I highly doubt that anyone reasonably familiar with Twitter over the last couple of years would have that expectation.
But the bootscreens work! X11 withmodesetting ddx works!

Moreover: when I pass through the dGPU to a virtualized macOS, all monitors I plug in just work!
ZeroMQ does allow you to register file descriptors on an event queue, which if you dig into the code you'll find tmq using mio to accomplish this.
How come on Ubuntu and Debian I don’t have any problem whatsoever?
On Kubuntu 20.04, and honestly ever since I first tried it from Kubuntu 16.04 on up, multi-monitor support has been terrific for me. Maybe Gnome has problems, but not KDE on X.
So this would make censorship a form of free speech.

We've reach a contradiction, so there must be an error in the chain of reasoning. My money is on "content moderation is a form of free speech" being wrong.
It's the opposite of simplistic.

I believe the developer's constitutional rights were violated and I would contact the EFF and ACLU for help.

For some context, at one point:

> the US government designated encryption software as a "munition"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
On that note, why on earth does Google meet always put other people's webcams at the bottom of the screen? Such a dumb design decision.
Here in San Diego, for instance, we've generally had net inbound migration. It's pretty much the opposite of Philly, though, in terms of both coronavirus and violence. But it is an "alternate choice" backwater city, compared to SF or LA, kind of like the way Philly is to New York.
Nice that the article links to the original Time Out "Eavesdroppers" article, but only mentions an "American journalist" as author, ignoring Duncan Campbell. Both were given a hard time by the authorities, which Campbell wrote about at The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2015/08/03/life-unmasking-british-e...

Edit: having read it, very lightweight as you'd expect. Interesting they are publicising their new in-house historian (https://twitter.com/TrooperAbs) but not the new authorised history that has just been released (https://twitter.com/GCHQ/status/1320292272488009729).
Because each stage of the boot sequence is still verified:

- the root of trust is in the TPM

- by default, the initial shim stage is verified using a Microsoft cert in the native trust database, and after the shim (which has an embedded Canonical cert) loads grub, then it verifies and loads the kennel

Grub also has its own trust store it can use, if I recall.