skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that some of my professional colleagues are some of the most toxic posters. I've got many active filters in place, but in some cases, I've simply muted/blocked some of them.

Done the same on Facebook, which I use mostly for family communication and posting dad jokes. But again, as hard as I try to separate work / family life, colleagues want to connect and they spew the same tired BS I see elsewhere.

So, on FB, I can permanently mute them. Which, I do.

If twitter's business model was to be a toxic stew of partisan talk and censorship of "incorrect views", yeah, they nailed it.
Malaysia stands firm on not deporting Uygurs, risking Beijing’s anger
If you think that is biased then yes it is biased towards the goal of achieving the best less harm outcome.

>the majority of the population understands the huge risks posed by this virus, and will lockdown anyway. The majority of people don't want to go to work in crowded places, they don't want to go to restaurants, they don't want to spread disease among their employees.

If that the case then you don't need lockdown measure. If you need lockdown measure then its shows that majority of people don't want lockdown.

>Most multinational companies were in fact ahead of government lockdowns,

Like I said if you want to lockdown yourself I'm fine with it, similarly if private company want implement lockdown measure themselves its fine, the issue is you are forcing other people to lockdown.
It's trying to explicit and bring grandparent's ideas to their logical conclusion. I dislike slippery slope-type arguments, but I fail to see how one can coherently agree with their comment and not mine.
My Twitter is great. I follow AI, VR, Philosophy, Zen, Mindfulness, Twertzog, etc... all high quality. Same with Facebook. I'm very happy with my feed. I follow vintage photography, various art focused groups, philosophy groups, hacker and tech groups and I've unfollowed friends who post toxic shit. I enjoy looking at Twitter and Facebook in the morning. Twitter and Facebook AI's are constantly surprising me with cool stuff they surface for me, even ads. Twitter and Facebook don't have to suck.
We've gotten a lot of mileage out of that. Trustafarian, Pastafarian, Matzofarian...
Hallowed.
I don't know if it's everywhere, but here in Germany the profit margins on the food tend to pretty low, and the restaurants try to make up for that by selling drinks pretty expensively.

So for takeout, I just order food, and often just drink tap water. I also assume I'm not the only one doing that, so for the restaurants, a significant part of their profit dries up.

They'll have to adjust to that somehow, most likely by increasing food prices, or by cutting into the extra profit from rent differences that you have laid out. If they do exist, I'm not yet convinced.
Nature: get my bike, and go in the nature, pick and eat wild plants and fruits
and it's maybe a dig at Macron's accent at the same time :D
although the author is a student in germany. Anyway you should join the Discord, we discussed this there too...

https://discord.gg/pqTMeP5D3g
Sometimes that just means issues are hosted somewhere else.
And I just read on Wikipedia the fastest speed ever recorded was 396.86 km/h. And the fastest average horizontal speed over 1000m: 325.4 km/h.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingsuit_flying
Yes, and I have the nitrogen exit bag ready to go once the credit cards and cash run out. Thankfully, I have no family or friends or coworkers, so no one will be adversely impacted. https://youtu.be/aNCQuCKQxSo?t=53
Does this mean when we run out of lithium we will fall into some kind of dark age?
Spacewar – Rolling Stone (Dec. 7, 1972)
Not to mention that putting it above a fireplace is a great way to shorten the lifespan of the tv
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No. Data Science is still a very immature field. Like DevOps 5ish years ago. Everyone wants it. Few people know what they could actually do with it. Lot's people people hire for it and then let those they hire figure it out.
You’re kind of nitpicking here. It doesn’t matter how much the expense is: the point is that you can use a credit card to buy time interest-free before you pay off the expense with stock/paychecks/whatever. Regardless of what the expense is, this is clearly better than taking out a margin loan immediately.
Yep, and in such a world, a reasonable level of taxation would eventually be able to pay for a modest lifestyle for everyone who wanted it.

In a world of such dramatic surplus, it's either that or violent revolution, so I'm fairly sure it would sort itself out.
While I agree with that, it all depends on which direction you look at it.

For example, how much of this reaction is caused by the earlier amplification of other ideas that would have just as easily died out?

I’ve been watching the political machine for a long time and one thing I can say for conservatives is that they are consistent in what they “say” they believe. It hasn’t changed much in years and I can at least respect that.

On the other side, there seems to be a new cause every week. Maybe it’s simply better use of technology, but most of what I see on Twitter seems to be messages designed to benefit the left. Whether it’s drawing attention to a subculture that feels marginalized or convincing that same group that everybody on the right hates them, it’s a pattern that’s really hard to deny. IMO Reddit is far worse that Twitter or FB in this respect too.

Nobody has the energy, time or capacity for the amount of things the right is supposed to hate.

I don’t think a different platform is going to change any of that. I think it’s just going to create a new channel.
I live in a world where those incentives have created a platform where I can buy decent hardware to run the kinds of applications that aren’t available on the preferred platforms. Want a laptop that can last all day, edit 4K, and be operated as an appliance, not a passion project? You’ve got Windows and Apple. I have run Linux forever, from day one, and while it can run the services we need for the whole internet, it’s not desktop viable in the ways Windows and Linux are.

In this argument, I’m not sure that level of product development can be dismissed. I wish Apple had implemented this better, I just bought a Windows machine so I wasn’t dependent on one platform, I’m trying to move towards Linux again (to be aligned with my own values), but the engineering this community wants, and the readiness of the platform & product we can buy any day of the week at Best Buy ... doesn’t exist.

So I, personally incentivized to give Apple a bit of a pass on this one, and hope they iterate this solution in the right direction, and definitely hope they don’t turn the Mac App Store into the iOS App Store.
> At my job I use AWS serverless services and I get a lot of frustration not being able to test and debug code offline.

For my purposes debugging is as simple as crafting a payload and feeding it through the handler locally. I match credentials locally with what my lambda runs as. Since it’s a monolith function it behaves basically the same way, including the usage of a debugger.

To make life a little easier any time there’s an exception it persists that ordinal payload so I can just replay it locally.

But I agree that serverless is mostly overrated for most use cases.
No. The post explicitly said that censorship isn't solving the problem and we need a better approach.

The problem is the asymmetry between bad-faith and good-faith action. In tightly-connected local societies that asymmetry is generally countered by reputation effects and limited scope of bad-faith action. In the worst cases, it's countered by societies being small enough that even when bad-faith ideas take over their spread is limited.

Technology has broken down the limitations. Information is spread by entities with no history or reputation at all (Twitter bots, for instance). The spread of bad-faith ideas is no longer limited spatially. The result of this is that obvious scams like QAnon (created to sell merchandise) thriving because there are now mechanisms to bypass all the natural limitations that used to constrain them throughout centuries of history.

Censorship is kind of like slapping a tourniquet on it. It may stop some of the worst symptoms, but it has a lot of terrible side effects and doesn't work that well anyway.

The biggest advances that need to be made are in recognizing that there is a problem in the first place, and that a "marketplace of ideas" is not equipped to deal with asymmetric bad actors. I don't know what the solution is, but "marketplace of ideas" has proven insufficient to deal with the real world. We need people to be looking for something better instead of claiming there is no problem.
Sinusoids have nice mathematical properties, but there's no law of nature that says you have to use them. Walsh transforms use square waves (actually binary rather than purely square) as basis functions and they have other handy mathematical properties.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard_transform
I got an XPS 15 7590 in part because I read that the "Killer" Wifi problems of old were finally fixed. Well not for me, after waking the laptop I have to manually disconnect and reconnect Wifi for it to work. Have not had time to contact support about it yet, but I'm very disappointed that they've stayed with "Killer Wifi" after the long history of problems.
would it be possible to train on any of the more recent Text to speech engines out there? some of them are very realistic.

this would give you absolutely perfect sync down to the word, I assume... I don't know about the cost if you paid ratecard though, perhaps you can do some partnership with them since yours is a symetrical product
We will never run out. Lithium is infinitely recyclable, is common in underground brines and some rocks all over the world, and has sufficient concentration in seawater that it can usefully be extracted (for non-insane cost) if for whatever reason all other sources are exhausted.
The First DOS Machine (Tim Paterson) (2007)
The Computer Chronicles – Laptops (1989)
Indeed that approach looks very similar.

In Guix search paths are properties of the packages that consume them: for the GStreamer example in that PR all the plugins provide the search path attribute, whereas in Guix it is only set once, on the 'gstreamer' package.

The Guix approach has a limitation though, in that users must manually install gstreamer for the plugins to become visible in the profile. It's one of the oldest high-severity bugs in Guix: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/22138
Your praise of war comes off quite naive. Perhaps you figure "war" or violence as viable solutions despite being a much more connected world where diplomacy and fairness can be judges more democratically. Such talk of war is neccesary is an utterance of someone born on the right side of the fence and quite clearly no clue as what they are talking about.
It's fanfic of that scene in 1984 where the person (whose name I forgot) responsible for designing NewSpeak talked about how the goal was to simplify language until dissent was impossible to reason about, much less discuss.
yes I'm aware of it, I'm deeply involved in XMPP community (XSF member) and have met Kaidan devs a couple of times (it's a promising client BTW).

My client (Salut à Toi) predates Kaidan by years and is not focusing only on instant messaging, also it's not the same technology stack and the mobile frontend uses Kivy, which is well adapted for touch screen.
The problem is when Reddit shuts down r/conservative because they don't agree with the opinions on the sub.
I don't understand what compels people to go out of their way to hurt others that just want to live their life as anyone would. That said, if you really think your neighbors are a threat to your well being, you might want to setup some cameras to record any altercations or harassments.
Given that this type of outcome comes with vaccines that are not well researched, or driven to market too quickly (in this specific case an old vaccine that was cheap, but with risk), will we, as the West, need to take some time before deploying a COVID vaccine?

There is talk of mandatory vaccinations (https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2020/11/07/state-bar-p...).

Others want to require vaccination papers in order to travel (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...).

Given a disease may mutate in the storage case, will we risk making things worse for a disease that doesn't impact that majority of the population?
Your Jane Street numbers are not even close. They're required to report this stuff in the UK, which shows revenues of $229MM (see https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...). And that's just the UK revenue - most of the business is in the US. I would estimate closer to $1MM/head.
Yes. But I have been for years. COVID has actually been somewhat good for me overall as it forced me to figure out for to be happier without external stimuli. I'm over 100 days sober now which has helped my overall mood dramatically.

Still depressed. Just my lows are not quite as low. Most days I can at least get something done. On good days I can even forget I'm depressed.
Wow, that's rather shocking to me. I find Twitter to be a fantastic news source, with higher concentration of good links than HN, and often see stuff there far before it shows up ok HN.

The thing about Twitter is that it is entirely about who you follow, and what those people talk about and retweet. So if somebody is a source of toxicity, unfollow them. I have a very low threshold for both following and unfollowing.

This part, curating your feed, is not trivial, but it is what determines 100% of your experience. I don't blame you at all for having a bad experience and not wanting to use Twitter again! But also realize that it's not the only experience to be had there, and I think that for many, and hopefully most people, it's a positive experience.
Poking Holes in the Bitcoin Bull Case [video]
I am guessing the difference is the level of control of the echoes.
Make Your Back End Layer as Thin as Possible
>> customers aren't willing to pay the full cost of delivery

There is a different market for customers that are willing to pay the cost of delivery, they usually have more mouths to feed, and those mouths are pickier.

If anyone is ever brave enough to actually test this I think they would be surprised, especially during COVID.

Restaurant doesn't deliver? Provide an option to deliver for $20 and I am certain that you will get orders.
I understand the point of the original article, since I agree that most people are entitled whiny jerks much of the time, myself included. I’m not here to argue that anyone should be obligated to provide help or fixes for their open source software, paid or otherwise.

I do feel that’s an important point — paid or otherwise. There’s a similarly whiny attitude people have: “I paid $5 for your thing, so you have to do as I say!” I don’t really think the distinction is how much it cost. If you have a support contract that says “in exchange for paying me, I’ll help you with X, Y, and Z”, that’s a different story.

But what I really wanted to remark on: to the point of “activities that take no time at all”, when I report a bug, I often spend hours of my time trying to understand what’s broken, narrowing it down to specific conditions and observations, often a attempting to fix it myself, and then writing everything up and whenever possible including test cases, screenshots, videos, etc. By the time I hit send on that bug, I may have contributed hundreds or thousands of dollars of my time to the project.

It’s also possible to just take 5 seconds to fire off “your stupid app is broken your stupid too fix it”. All I’m saying is that painting all bug reports with the brush of “trying to get free support” discounts the amount of free QA open source projects can benefit from.
> I can choose to drop Google any second.

Good luck with that, Google is everywhere (search, maps, mobile phones, and many more). You have to make a lot of effort to avoid it.

It is far easier to drop EU government because elections happen every few years. In case of Google you don't have elections (or maybe you have, but it is shareholder voting, so more like plutocracy).
When you use the microwave oven also for cooking, not just for reheating, then the power selection is mandatory.

Cooking meat at 1 kW will usually make it explode.
I find the most interesting discussions surrounding this protocol are about whether or not it should support deniability / repudiation of messages. The Off-The-Record messaging people--including specifically Ian Goldberg--were unhappy that this was a non-goal, and the reasoning on the mailing list at the time was frustrating (that deniability can be used by "terrorists" to dodge investigations); but, I have also seen them have better arguments on their issue tracker (about power imbalances... though this argument was also controversial).

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/mls/ZJ4e78obXSdYWnxmsN...

https://github.com/mlswg/mls-architecture/issues/50
A Study in Dark Patterns
I personally like Ruby better than Node and Svelte better than React.

So that weekend could rabbit hole into complexity figuring out which framework to use.
DMX is a one-way single-master bus.

That means you can't have multiple light switches on the same network without quite a bit of complexity, you can't detect what's on the network, you can't update firmware or do device setup over the network, and so on.

In stage applications that's not a problem because all the light switches are in one place - the lighting desk - and the lighting guy there can see all the lights at the same time.
looks great ! I'd love to see this kind of thing in SF.
Wireless lighting control is an inelegant solution to a nonexistent problem.[0] How many years of his life has this guy wasted in order to save himself the trouble of spending 2 seconds using a wall switch a few times a day?

[0] https://www.theonion.com/horoscope-for-the-week-of-october-3...
So, if my python program uses a lot of dictionary operation, I can claim that my python program practically written in C?
Amazon Halo Is a $1.5B+ Opportunity to Manage Baby Boomers' Chronic Conditions
I suspect we will continue to see services that unbundle social media's hottest topics.

I've seen this before with Usenet groups that got too bogged down with infighting and trolls, so splinter groups formed off on handmade vBulletin/phpbb sites or wherever.

They always imploded shortly afterward. A safe space eventually falls to the same splintering, just in more fractal detail.

Some of them survive the implosion and come out of the wreckage in okay condition, but a lot never come back.

Clay called it right, 17 years ago. https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisit...
This is an opportunity.
how real-time do you need it? if you use a streaming API you can even use google and there isn't too much lag, and it's continuous.

Agora also talk about this, but I haven't used it myself
https://www.agora.io/en/
Why Parler Exists: The Thread.

Now you know.
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Except for the people who simply downvote and never explain their position. Plenty of them on here.
OOC are you a Parler user/have you visited the site? If this is a victory for free speech, it's certainly a Pyrrhic one. Twitter and facebook comments seem like the pinnacle of civil discourse next to the stuff I found on Parler just by creating an account and following all the recommended content in the onboarding process.
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I'm not talking about the weather changing. I'm talking about the growth of climate control using electricity in states that aren't California has led to continued energy demands.

Honestly your reply is frustrating because you sound like you don't understand my point. Please re read my comment from before.
"both sides" eh?
I bought a set of 20 pound dumbbells and a 50 pound kettlebell for less than $100 when I was in college. I got a pull up bar and some athletics rings a few years ago. I haven't had a regular gym membership in years. I can do 80% of what I want at home. It helps my mood a lot to do 6 sets of 12 pull ups and dips twice a week.

Start simple.
In the US ordering (free) water is common for casual restaurants. There is a lot of profit to be made from selling alcoholic drinks, but that’s not in everyone’s business plan.
Sever the internet connection to certain, key nations. Or even targeted strike stuff. Foreign propaganda is not to be tolerated as “free speech” like it came from a citizen.
I avoided this discussion like I avoid Parler itself. Hard to imagine an upside.

But there are almost 500 comments and thus far no one has mentioned Dave Troy's unbelievable thread res arching how Parler got started. He very much points out that coverage like NPR gives here, reviewing it as it wants to be seen, carries water for the team, fails a necessary obligation to report on just how shady & murky the founding & running of Parler is.

Until someone gathers better research, this is, by far, the most important write up on Parler. A company with strong ties to russia, trying loudly to undermine the safe harbor & free speech protections we enjoy, & as a company a gathering place for political swindlers & ultrapartisans. This kind of intel on who Parler is is extremely important, at least as much so as who joins & goes there.

The amazing Dave Troy: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1327259427481800704.html
I do know what OP means.

Aren't there any good serverless frameworks that simplify this complexity?
I’d like to see the emergence / resurgence of discovery tools/services.

What if people could run their own search engines?
> Apple fanatics routinely deny evidence to support their sorta-religion.

As do anti-Apple fanatics. That’s what being a “fanatic” means. You can say the same about gun fanatics, or meat fanatics, or vegetarian fanatics, or Android fanatics. It’s staggering how often people who are anti something fail to perceive the irony in behaving exactly in the manner they are decrying. Someone having a contrary opinion doesn’t make them a fanatic.
Are you talking about the Superfish vulnerability? It's never affected the business class Thinkpad lines [1], but it has affected a lot of the other laptops that Lenovo has shipped.

[1]: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/ps500035-s...
He unfollowed you when your 5 minutes were up. Good morning.
I had a look at it a few years ago, but I've never played around with it. Do you like it?
Why bother? I work on a very UI-heavy interactive app (it's a gantt chart) for work and therefore have been doing react daily for 1.5 years. React is probably making life a little easier here, and I don't hate it, but I don't love it either. If I didn't love my team so much I would be looking for a job working on a more classic web app in Rails. And when I profess my appreciation for Rails, I could just as easily be talking about Django, Phoenix, or any other _opinionated_ backend framework. [edited for spelling]
I tried the IKEA bulbs. They have coil whine turned off any made my unable to fall asleep. Apparently it's a known issue: https://i.reddit.com/r/tradfri/comments/arlyiz/coil_whine_an...

At the moment I have standalone lamps with Sonoff D1 dimmer and halogen (yes, really) bulbs that can actually be dimmed 0-100%.
That's a reason I can get behind. I agree though, most people probably don't need that, but in such cases it's great to have a tool like that available. Thanks!
Have seen concepts like this many times over the last decade. Have never seen any that made it to market. Assume they're piggy-backing off of Covid to test the market. Bored of it now.

Actively looked into it for a clever way to design a house recently. The closest we came to succeeding was to repurpose electronically/(or manually) movable library shelving. It's possible at a reasonable cost but needs lots of upfront research.

Interesting stuff, but these concepts annoy me in the same way as most concept cars do.