skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has never in the history of western civilization been easier for people to inject random claims into the public discourse. Neither Mike Wallace at 60 Minutes nor Otis Chandler at the LA Times would have given an inch of space for QAnon or antivax, but the "giant corporations" you allude to today do so happily, and at a scale no newspaper publisher would have imagined 50 years ago.
If you think that's the case, you don't know your history. It's exactly the tactic of Mussolini.

Edit: And when he did it, most of the western world/press fawned on him and praised him as a genius until he went and allied himself with Hitler.
is it just me or did the article come across as humble brag?

her other articles: https://stephaniegrunerbuckley.medium.com/

writes for Modern Parent:

https://medium.com/modern-parent/i-used-to-be-cool-now-i-emb...

https://medium.com/modern-parent/my-kid-is-an-asshole-how-do...

she is just using her family as muse for writing fodder. pay no mind.
Ben Thompson of Stratechery has some insightful analysis of the internet and free speech, in my opinion:

https://stratechery.com/2019/the-internet-and-the-third-esta...
It's an article about government censorship and China is one of the most strict censorship and surveillance states on the planet. Bringing it up is on point and relevant to the topic.
> while that may be _mathematically and theoretically_ sound

The particular idea suggested in the GP actually isn't. See my post upthread.
The new Air only weights 2.8 lbs. I'm curious, what difference does a pound less really make when it's already so light?
>Being able to question the system is what supports democracy

Questing processes when there is legitimate doubt supports democracy, "Questioning" the system when there is no evidence of wrong-doing undermines trust in a functioning system and improves democracy about as much as creationism or Flat-Eartherism improves science.
> Also, because Apple created the most valuable mobile software market in the world,

No, they created the possibility for the most valuable mobile software market in the world. Third-party developers were the ones that created it into the most valuable mobile software market in the world.

> by creating the iPhone

Creating the iPhone does not explain the source of the App Store's value, only that one is "tied" to the other. Which leads to my next point.

> You can describe this as anti-competitive, just keep in mind that you're assuming your own conclusion.

It's anti-competitive according to the law. The practice of selling a service (ie: commissions from App Store) as a mandatory addition to the purchase of a different product (ie: iPhone) is called tying. In the United States, most states have laws against tying, which are enforced by state governments. In addition, the U.S. Department of Justice enforces federal laws against tying through its Antitrust Division [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)
>On the other hand, people my age that were only allowed one hour of Nintendo per day as kids, are still craving the next PlayStation like grown up junkies. Last time I played a videogame I was maybe.. 22.

This is awfully close to gatekeeping. All hobbies are fine in moderation. One is not inherently 'better' than any other.
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> Are your principals so low that you wouldn’t accommodate change of language and behavior to be more welcoming of others?

I'm saying that if someone finds the word "master" offensive in this context, they want to be offended.

If someone wants to be offended, they will find something that offends them.

Nothing you do will ever make such people stop being offended.

Next they'll be insisting that "bit" and "binary" need to be changed, because those words trigger people of non-binary gender, or something.

All of this is just making extra work. Repos and scripts have to be updated with the new branch name. The default behavior of Git is changing in a way that's not completely backward compatible, which means things that rely on it might break.

There's a definite cost to changing technical language, especially in the context of names in computer software that are part of the software's interface and might be relied on by other software that interfaces with it.

Changing perfectly passable names unnecessarily is just creating work for no purpose.
cycle.travel (my site!) is OSM-powered bike routing, including a “n km from start point” feature. Always happy to hear comments and suggestions.

https://cycle.travel/map
They’re not employees, they’re often contractors. I think that’s the point.
I'm not aware of any govt agency censoring Twitter - only conservatives complaining that Twitter is censoring their tweets.
Leaflet JS is a generic library that works with mapbox and other tileserver apis. So yes you actually could do this trivially right now.

The API to tileservers is trivial, you provide a URL template and request the tile with the x/y/zoom you want and the tileserver responds with either a cached tile or it will render it on demand.
This resonates with me because when I was a kid I really enjoyed video games and I would program them into my cheap, rudimentary computer. I even sold some games I made on cassette tapes. My parents were really distressed that I was wasting my time. But-- surprise-- I had/ have a long and successful career making video games.

Now I am a parent and I tend to let my kids play a lot of game on their computer. But it is different. In the old days computers weren't really that entertaining except if you programmed them. Now they have a lot of passive entertainment value. It's a lot more like watching television or talking on the phone then the engaging hobby I had as a child. I tell them it is important to create media as well as consume media.
I agree the vast majority of computer users do not get those benefits, since their main computer is their phone. Phones do not lend themselves to learning about computers, they provide sterile environments that try to get you to forget its a computer in the first place and scroll facebook instead.
An internet user's bill of rights would be a good first step here. Define the requirements up front and then let the companies adapt to them. I really, really don't want the government dictating technical specs to the broader community.

Look to the requirement for phone number portability as an example. The providers weeped and gnashed their teeth, and then got together and implemented a working system.
One of my favourite mapping apps is iOverlander. Basically an offline first wiki build on top of OSM, which I believe contributes back to OSM. Which I guess makes it an OSM client of sorts.

I love it because it’s super basic, no monetisation, no bullshit.

Without OSM, these things can not exist.

(Note the website version isn’t great, but on iOS is works perfectly)

http://ioverlander.com/

Knowing that more corporate / larger entities are utilising OSM makes me want to contribute more. Primarily because I know my contribution will then be useful in the products I, and my community, use. Unlike google maps, which enables “offering suggestions” of which I can only assume nothing happens (into the black hole of google)
How is that any more bad faith than opposing the opposite?
Its an honest observation.
Looks great! Just curious - I often hear the benefits of breathing exercises, are they scientifically backed? Any studies finding correlation between breathing exercises and wellbeing?
You can't have both censorship of things you don't like (anti-vaxx things) and no censorship of things you do like.

Religion could be classified as mis-information but that helps a lot of people.

Who is the final arbitrator of what is determined as misinformation?

If one religion took control that one religion could classify another religion as mis-information and censor them.

If one political actor took control they could qualify another political groups information as censorship.

SOME censorship doesn't work. It's either all information available and you trust people to be smart or you have a censored internet.
The only benefits React has over Vue is popularity, unmounting components (I think that's whats being referenced), and docs?

I don't think any of these would crack the top 5 of any devs list of React vs Vue. Maybe docs, but Vue has pretty decent documentation from what I've seen.

React has legit advantages over Vue (and vice versa), but this comparison doesn't even begin to touch on them.
Basically, these concerns are split in half now, between components and design systems.

In my opinion tailwind works out best if you use components or use template partials in a component style. In that case, there won‘t be that many places where you declare what your primary nav looks like. You just go into the PrimaryNav component and change the class.

In the other case you mention, you may want to use a semantic color name, which you can do in tailwind.config.js no problem, so your color class could be bg-action-300 or bg-red-action. Now this is not the same as some action-primary css class which could contain color, layout, an IE hack whatever. It‘s only predictable design system primitives like color, spacing, typography style, shadows etc. You can think of these like types in a programming language because they are enforced and predictable, not ad hoc thought up by developers per project.

Both of these things have emerged more strongly in frontend in recent years, so it makes sense that different things make sense than 10 years ago (semantic classes)
You've failed to make the case that the government is not a "bad actor". They've used all sorts of manufactured consensus techniques to get us into unjust wars or to give up our liberties (i.e. mass surveillance, lockdowns, etc) for over-blown threats. We aren't going to get education from the government. Open debate and discussion are really the only cure for propaganda.
That is a more charitable read. I think I can see how you mean it. I will make an effort to read that tone in the future.
Wtf, people who work at computers, having to work in offices, now? It’s the very worst it’s ever been! What are they thinking?

I’d expect almost everyone who works at a computer screen to be working from home since March. Even if it requires expensive technical solutions to ensure it. I can’t imagine moderators need more than an internet connection and computer.
"state censorship" at least in The USA, is pretty limited.

So yes, I would prefer the existing system, where state censorship is extremely limited, to a situation where instead censorship is much more broad and effects more people.

If the speech is legal, then it should be allowed on major communication platforms.

There is even existing laws for this, that we could expand to cover new forms of media.

Those existing laws are called common carrier laws, and they currently apply to the phone network, and they could be changed to include many of the major new platforms.

Common carrier laws are pretty uncontroversial. I would hope that you do not think as they apply to the phone system, that they are some huge example of unfairness.
I've long wondered why recommendations (especially shopping) are so bad.

You just bought a light bulb? How about a dozen others?

But I've realized that accuracy is not really a problem for them, because a false recommendation at most slightly annoys the user and get glossed over. Among 1000 wrong recommendations, if one works, it's a win (for the company).
Historically this existed a _long_ time ago, as in about 12 years or so. It was called Mapstraction.
I'd love to see everyone in Facebook's chain of command above the moderators being required to do a week worth of the actual moderating.

Then let them say in public that they're doing their best for their employees.
Thanks so much for the comment - I was trying to do that with the stable source yesterday evening with no success. Saw your tweet too, but don't have Twitter to ask you over there.

Current source works fine
I,ve watched this happen on reddit, with new moderators removing anything against the mainstream views on Corona. Then they complained about me to reddit and had me removed as mod of community I had started.
No, before you had to be rich enough to buy the newspaper to print crazy bullshit, but that certainly happened (and still happens) too.
The reasoning course should start at first grade
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Possibly stupid question, but I'm really concerned, considering buying Librem 5 myself: what do we really know about Purism, and how do we know they are not NSA honeypot?
If all you want to host is a "slippy map" tile server for maps, but no search features, it's considerably less.

In my case, it's not hard for me to create an off-laptop VM as a resource... I would not want to attempt self hosting OSM on my own laptop. No matter how powerful it is.

If it's for any sort of for-profit company use (like the ISPs using openstreetmap for network monitoring maps I mentioned in the same thread), fairly powerful used 16-core, 1U and 2U rackmount servers with 128GB of RAM (dell r620, r720, etc) are available used for $430. Then add a couple of 1TB SATA3 SSDs.
There are very good reasons to avoid alcohol. Unborn child during (planned) pregnancy, for starters. Having to drive / commute / get home. Employment. Social responsibilities. Then there's the myth that in dinner it 'evaporates' (TL;DR it does not in a meaningful way). Think about it as well: if it would, they wouldn't take the effort to include alcohol. Alcohol is highly addictive, which alone is a valid reason to be afraid of it (e.g. my partner's father was an alcohol addict *and indirectly died from his addiction). There's a nice saying about if it'd get discovered tomorrow instead of 'existing' already it'd get illegal right away. It is also a hard drug. The only one available without a prescription. Having a high enough age ("being an adult") suffices. Turns out, a lot of people have the number of an adult age, but not the responsibility, plus more often than not alcohol addiction is a symptom of deeper rooted issues involving the individual. Still, it aids in a downward spiral.
This is a valuable guide through the entire process. Thanks for sharing.
For only the low low cost of everything in your bank account!
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Start with going through the settings [1]. You will learn some new things along the way.

There's also a great WebStorm Guide [2], with many tips applicable to other languages as well.

[1] https://darekkay.com/blog/intellij-idea-settings/

[2] https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/guide/
> Those make it easy for foreign propaganda to influence the public and hence run the countries from outside.

Foreign propaganda is a problem. But it's tiny compared to propaganda by domestic actors. There's huge amount of disinfo, gas lighting, demoralizing perpetuated by mainstream media, big tech, and intelligentsia.

If you are concerned about propaganda, you have to mention the elephant in the room. Or else, you yourself are propagating and amplifying the dangers of foreign propaganda and minimizing the huge blame mainstream media, big tech, and intelligentsia should get.
They wouldn't know they lost the auction until the result have come out; at that point crying foul would mean admitting they were involved in trying to steal an election; and since verifying the correctness of the voting system would be extremely hard they might not even be able to dispute the result.
It’s like a more complicated version of teaching people to recognize phishing attacks, I think a belief that the median human isn’t capable of learning about their weaknesses seriously underestimates humans.

You just need to frame it correctly.
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I'd be fine just getting the minute back of my life that I spent reading it. I don't think that reading off a list of contemptuous claims and insults is in any way productive, even when they are intended as satire. Are we not divided enough?
Alternate version, points #1-5:
We're so tired, so very very tired of doing this.
The problem if induction attacks the idea of experiments leading to anything meaningful.
Photon is good for self-hosting - it’s the pre-compiled Nominatim index (you can download a dump) with an autocomplete-friendly Elasticsearch interface.
> in which, the generator of risk has to bear the liability

Do you think this in general, or just for content moderation? For example, is it reasonable that I can buy car insurance that covers me if I cause an accident?
> Battleships were designed with an "immunity zone" - a range where incoming fire of the designed caliber (generally the same caliber as the main battery) would be at a high enough angle and low enough velocity to fail to penetrate your belt armor, and shallow enough angle to not defeat the relevant deck armor.

Did you accidentally switch belt and deck armor? Isn't deck the one protecting from high angle and low velocity, and belt armor protecting from shallow angles?
> not only playing games but also learning programming

I think the basic question is: Are you consumer or producer? When you program or using excel or writing a blog posts, you grow as a person. Apps can be both, so It's more about the ratio. You can try to make nice & creative photos for your Instagram profile or just browse and see what others are up to.

The problem is that kids will tell you that they will produce and learn, but then spend most of the time consuming, which will slowly kills their creativity.
Sorry I didn’t see the username change.

But I don’t understand how a workspace that was full of any kind of aggressive messaging is healthy even if I agree with it? That sounds pretty toxic to begin with.
So similar to "We use a proprietary data store instead of an off the shelf RDBMS" or "We wrote our own cryptographic library"?
> Amazon keeps recommending me tampons (I'm a guy) ever since I've had a coworking office with a female colleague in 2015.

Men can menstruate too. This statement of yours is harmful because it perpetuates cisnormative stereotypes. Please stick with "I am not a person who menstruates" in the future or something similar.
Why would regulators care on who owns a bank?

If I had to guess, probably the other way around. Banks have obscene amounts of regulations, audits, compliance that would seem archaic and insane to most tech companies. This is already baked into banks operating expenses and procedures. Tech companies would have to take on massive amounts of cost and this would affect their reported earnings. Then there is the aspect of operational speed, agility, speed of R&D. Banks move incredibly slow because of the compliance burdens, at least that was my experience.
- "The pressurised chamber allows more oxygen to be dissolved into the tissues and mimics a state of "hypoxia", or oxygen shortage, which is known to have regenerating effects." This seems counter intuitive, anyone know the mechanism here?

- Did this article fail to link the paper, or am I failing to see the link? Poor reporting if the former.

- There is a gap in reporting here...anyone know exactly how telemeres actually lengthen from this?

- Unrelated: Is anyone in the industry actually interested by Brett Weinstein's supposed involvement in lab mice telemere issue discovery, or is he seen as an irrelevant pest within these circles?
Doesn't count, season 5 was terrible.

Gilfoyle strikes me as more of a vi guy.
Totally agree that viewing negative feedback as a tool for self-improvement can be a useful and resilient perspective.

My main concerns over the advice in the original comment are that:

- It suggests that people only give feedback to you if they care about you or have to work with you again, which isn't true.

- It implies that you should value whether people like you (or care about you). You're obviously free to choose whatever values you want, but external validation is a poor value imo because it's largely outside of your control. A more resilient mindset is to derive self-worth from intrinsic values e.g. hard work, self-improvement, kindness.
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Hey Adam! I know the video's meant to be over the top but I'd be curious who/what you worked with to make the visuals and animation if you're willing to share :)
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> thousands of engineers observing realtime metrics to make small tweaks to make you use something just a little bit longer.

As one of the thousands of engineers dedicated to making you use your consumer electronics a little bit more: it's really easy to defeat my work. You make a conscious decision not to use the product, you catch yourself using it, you stop. Do it for about a month and you've broken the habit. That's why we look at metrics like MAUs and L28s. There is basically nothing I can do about a user who actively doesn't want to use the product; we basically throw up our hands and say "Not our target market."

The reason my job exists is because hundreds of millions of people don't think like that, and don't have any conscious opinion one way or another about my product. It's those users we're trying to influence, the ones who are basically ambivalent, allocate their time based on emotion, and don't have any strong beliefs one way or another about what they should be spending their time on or how they want their life to look. There are enough of them that this market is worth billions, but everything I do - all the engagement work and instant gratification and positioning subtle hints in the UI - is about influencing the people who don't care one way or another. If that is not you - if you have actively made a conscious choice what you want to spend your time on, and it's not watching TV more - you won't even see my product. (It was actually pretty awkward when I took my job, because I work on TVs but watch basically none and didn't even own a TV beforehand.)
So, we appear to be drifting off topic here.

The root-level comment is basically asking why the kernel needs to know anything at all about H.264, rather than just shuffling bytes back and forth between a hardware accelerator and a userspace library (which has a gigantic complex H.264 protocol encoder/decoder in it).

I pointed out that in the 3D acceleration world, the kernel doesn't know anything at all about shader ISAs, and just shuffles bytes back and forth between a hardware 3D accelerator and a userspace library (which has a gigantic complex compiler in it).

I still don't feel the question has been addressed. H.264 is hideously complicated, like shader ISAs. Why don't we move all that hideous complexity out of the kernel for H.264 the way we have for shader ISAs?
> I'm guessing they decided the increased value of their products from more smaller developers creating apps for the platform is greater than the lost revenue.

My guess is that creating apps for the App store is actually far less profitable than Apple wants us to believe. That is, unless you are a large publisher.

I'd really like to see the distribution here, I wouldn't be surprised if there is a huge income gap.
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