skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to persuade you that your specific personal preferences for a "Safe Mode Internet" are wrong. I'm saying that just because you are personally comfortable with Google's current set of moderation choices, this does not mean that it is right or optimal for Google to start enforcing these preferences for society as a whole, particularly when it requires them to become the arbiter of truth and basic facts, while also avoiding the normal regulatory obligations associated with this. That is the slope we are on.

There is also a difference in kind between porn and this sort of speech. Different laws apply, different social norms apply, different technical options (and trade-offs) apply, and so on. I have also heard that there are many other porn hosting websites, and Google does not enjoy any sort of monopoly.

Perhaps we're talking past each other here but to put my general point a different way, and it's only relevant because Google is effectively a monopoly: If you were told you could be born into a world with a free internet, or a curated internet, but you had no influence over who would do the curation, which world would you choose?
> In a thread where the debate is about "people being able to form their opinions on their own" it seems like they really like to depend on spoon-fed talking points.

This belongs at the top of /r/selfawarewolves
Listen, the debt problem is still a debt problem that isn't fixed in one year and definitely not this year or the next couple. We aren't near a tipping point on debt so out of all our problems right now that one is sitting very low at the bottom. There are many lenders standing quite happily to provide debt to California for ultra cheap rates.

We aren't getting out of this pandemic financial mess through cutting spending. Literally no republican or democrat is pitching that solution - do you have your own economic crystal ball to read the future? Go look to how that worked out for the austerity measure put in play in the EU or during the great depression.

As well right now debt is ultra cheap so any borrowed money to cover downtime when people can't work to protect their health is likely going to have upside in generation of jobs, general well being and future revenue.

If you want to go take that generational wealth tax fight argument probably better to start with the federal government instead of wagging your finger at California.

And in terms of stability of the system that is a much larger macro economic question. There is a great amount of debate in the academic community on how much debt countries can sustainably support especially with Modern Monetary Theory getting traction. I don't think MMT is grounded in its origins but it has pointed to a greater sustainability of deficit on our countries balance sheet as well as us getting to a higher level of employment in our population than we had previously though.
In what way did California subsidize them? The federal tax credit is for all EV and has not applied to Tesla in 2 years.

> All those oil guzzlers would have laughed Elon Musk out of the state.

We are talking about global production not sure how that matters if people in Texas didn't like them.
By "at risk of a relatively common complication", I'm not trying to say that the vaccines contain any known allergens. I'm not enough of an expert to know if those specific ones do or don't. I'm just saying that people with severe allergies often have allergic reactions to vaccines.
Advent of Code – Postmortem 2: Scaling Adventures
I've grown to be extremely suspicious of anyone taking labour laws as a barrier to be brought down, as it's always come from people who've got nothing to lose from it and weakening them seems to systematically translate into lower standards of living and higher income inequality.
YouTube removes content from their platform every single hour of every single day. Those of you who are upset by this action should reflect on why this is different than any other content policy or removal they perform. Just like those of you who are upset with private businesses requiring you to wear a mask have never been upset with a "no shoes, no shirt" policy. Stop hiding behind some supposed principles here. Just admit what is really bothering you here.
If you dont have doubts about this election, you've been thoroughly brainwashed.
Because more js and less html is always better. Also rendering html on server is very expensive for backend apps

Also if your company has many js and backend libraries, you need to use them, at least on one place
In case anyone else is wondering,

"That’s a reason Balan, with a stated net worth of $50,000, gives to explain why she is representing herself — she doesn’t have to pay lawyers, so time is her only expense."
That would be terrible and only monopolize everything further.

Essential services should be provided by multiple providers. That's called competition and ends up serving everyone better.
What a pretentious (and wildly indemonstrable) take.
I know this comment was meant to be facetious, but this is actually how many people spiral into addiction. Recreational drugs feel like they're "working" when they make the person's problems temporarily disappear, but in reality the person hasn't solved anything. When the problems inevitably return, the temptation is to reach for more drugs. Tolerance is real, though, so people tend to reach for escalating doses over time. The cumulative effects of drug abuse and avoidance behavior begin to add up, compounding the original problems and digging the person into an even deeper hole.

That's why these successful programs are always therapy-first, rather than drug-first. The focus is first on identifying and fixing problems, using drugs to potentially amplify the therapy rather than avoid the problems.

Sadly, most of these studies lack any control groups (e.g. therapy-only) to compare against. If you look at the graphs in the study, patients were already reporting massive improvements after the first 3 therapy sessions, before taking any MDMA at all. Unfortunately, I don't think we can draw any conclusions about the MDMA in this study other than it didn't appear to make things worse when it was introduced.
I already said it was off topic... it was a hypothetical.
I remember reading an article or something that was something like "Soldiers with PTSD try MDMA, give rave reviews"
So you would memorize a master password and then hash it + the websites name?

Just sounds like a normal password with the same amount of steps.
The universe is a shade too bright
Half truths are inherently half lies. Politicians lie. Some better than others. I'll take the bad liar over the good one myself.
So we're only allowed to talk about what the courts deem appropriate? And people are ok with this? Screw that.
Sorry, but you are trying to speak on my behalf and I strongly disagree. I learn english for various reasons but leaving the EU is not one of them. The EU has lots of faults and I won't deny it, but so does any other place. So what? One day I might leave to retire on a caribbean island, but it won't be out of bitterness. If you don't feel the same way, be honest and don't project it on others.
"Cornell University announced this week that its faculty has voted to change the name of the English department as part of a broader campaign to eradicate “structural forms” of racism at the university. The department will now be referred to as the “department of literatures in English.”"[0]

When the same people who draft the curricula are responsible for ridiculous stunts like the one above, it's hard not to be sympathetic to the students who reject them out of hand.

[0]
https://campusreform.org/article?id=16112
I didn't see any information here regarding the mode of access. Is it physical or remote?
The problem here is that objective reality is being politicized. There are two parties claiming to have won the election, and one of those claims must be false. But the partisans of the losing side are creating a parallel set of beliefs not based in fact, and creating a media ecosystem around those lies, and it is entirely possible for believers in those lies to avoid all truthful sources of information.

What's more is that the language used by the losing party is extremely dangerous. Just yesterday, the verified Twitter account for the Arizona GOP asked its followers if they were ready to die for the cause of keeping Trump in power. Disinformation does not exist in a vacuum, and it is being used actively to cultivate violence.
The biggest challenge would be the advertising. Moving photos is far easier.

Replicating and building out an ad platform like FBs from zero would be very very hard. None of the other social platforms ad networks are even close in quality but especially interface/targeting/features. Snap / TW I would say are at maybe 5% if I had to pick a number...

Especially especially taking into account integration with FB pixel.
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Its a slippery slope. There will always be the "bad" guy that the establishment needs to put the heel of their boot to.
A lack of conscience can be a very marketable trait ;)
That’s more a question of leverage rather than being private or public.
Weren't you the toxic sludges trying to DMCA your way out of EasyList and co?

How do you sleep at night?
Apple currently earns roughly $10 / Active Devices for default search engine placement from Google. This excludes China for obvious reason, at an estimate of $10B pure raw profit. And this consistent income is the foundation of its whole Services Strategy.

Every two years these article pops up, going back as far as 2010 if I remember correctly. And I am now reasonably confidence it is one of those Apple tactics / submarine articles [1] in renewing contract with Google. Just like they did with Intel Modem, Qualcomm Modem, and Broadcom WiFi. ( Every two years Broadcom threaten to sell their RF / WiFi unit [2] to retaliate ) And of course if you dont you end up like IMG PowerVR or Dialog Semiconductor.

I mean I cant be the only one who notice this. It is getting old, repetitive and boring.

There is very little incentive for Apple to give up the $10B raw profit. They will continue to push Siri Search and Siri Suggestions with their own search engine while leaving the less lucrative search to Google. And in the name of privacy sending very little Data to Google. Basically Squeezing Google from all corners. So Google are now paying more for default placement, and getting less revenue per Ads. And to combat this Google put more Ads into their Search results, lowering the UX, which pushes more users to Apps and Siri Suggestions.......

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

[2] https://www.everythingrf.com/News/details/9456-Broadcom-Look...
Book publishers are.... publishers. Youtube is not a publisher, at least they claim they aren't. Rules apply differently to publishers.
That op-ed is anti-porn though. The only source is Exodus Cry, an evangelical group trying to shut down the entire sex industry.

The author briefly mentions the Internet Watch Foundation's objective stats and then dismisses it when they say they don't know why it's so low compared to Facebook and Twitter. Maybe because it just is?

Why are Mastercard and Visa not "investigating" Facebook and other sites for allow child abuse uploads in the millions?
A non-insignificant proportion of your population believes the earth is as young as 6,000 years old.

A non-insignificant proportion of your population believes Obama is a Muslim anti-christ who wasn't born in the U.S.. Fun fact, the current president is one of the people who participated in stirring up that last part.

A non-insignificant proportion of your population believes Joe Biden defrauded himself into the position of president elect.

Providing a platform every fringe/crackpot conspiracy theory has legitimised some increasingly insane viewpoints in the U.S. and social media appears to be pushing these to even greater extremes than we've seen in the past.

Edit:

We're seeing the same thing in Europe with Q-Anon/Coronavirus/Anti-vaxx conspiracies taking hold as well.
In my experience, people saying “opposing viewpoints can coexist unlike California” really mean “conservative viewpoints are the norm here”. That might not be the case for the GP comment, but it honestly reads that way. It’s a common complaint and refrain from conservatives at the moment.
Not entirely true. If your business functions as a "public square" then it can be held to the 1A standard:
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/20/nyregion/right-to-distrib...
LGTM https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/684
You probably switched off your TV the last four years (and you were right to do so). But the likes of CNN and MSNBC have been pushing their own fake news continuously for 4 years, pretending that the election had been stolen, that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, etc.

I think all of this is bad, but I refuse to accept that this is a bad behavior that just came up and is the monopoly of a single side of the political aisle.

All this is, is Youtube picking a side in this fight.

By the way, on the back of the David Fincher's movie I re-watched Citizen Kane. I love the part where Kane's newspaper prepared two alternative front pages the night of the elections: "Kane elected governor" and "Massive fraud at the polls". 1942. Nothing new under the sun.
"And then it would eventually come back together." That would be hilarious.
How do you propose having multiple electricity providers or multiple water/sewer providers? What about multiple emergency medial providers or multiple fire brigades? Sometimes the right move is in fact to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Also, "competition" necessarily implies a company can refuse service to a customer, which is not what I (or most people) want with essential services like electricity, water, police, fire protection, etc.
Yes you are correct. Take something like the Super Nintendo, it typically displayed hundreds of colors on screen, however each graphical element could have a maximum of 16 colors (4 bits).

The way they solved this was by having CLUTs (color lookup tables), so for the Super Nintendo (if my memory serves me) you had 16 different CLUTs that you could assign to a graphical object, each able to contain 16 unique colors.

This is what made something like the Super Nintendo graphics look so much better than say the Amiga 500, both used bitmap graphics, but the Amiga did not have a CLUT solution, so you were stuck with 32 colors except for more advanced graphic modes which weren't really usable for games.
Agreed.

Robots are very hard, and Boston Dynamics has been around for almost 40 years and still isn't anywhere close to making a lot of money.

Apps have added a lot more value to my life than BD ever has.

Fwiw I interviewed with BD a few years ago, and am focusing on robotics, so I'd like the opposite to be true
The only way forward i see is massive campaign finance reform. what's happening now is a travesty and the citizenry doesn't benefit from it.
And mass market EVs weren't really a mass-market thing until Tesla pushed the luxury brands to compete with them.
It's cool to see "DHH" still in these changelogs.
The most interesting data point here for me is that they went from nothing to IPO in about 7 years. That seems to be much shorter than the typical or median time to IPO of other startups these days. Am I correct on this? What does the distribution of time to IPO look like for more recently IPO'ed tech companies?
Wow, this is huge. I just wonder how would it even work if Instagram was forced to separate?

So this means Facebook and Google were hit with lawsuits, when is Apple and Amazon next?

I can even understand the Google lawsuit, but can someone explain to me how is Facebook a monopoly? I find a bigger problem Apple than Facebook. It is Google and Apple that have a death grip on the mobile market...
I work with open-source for the last 8 years, as a business owner and as contributor.

There are a lot of people who assume that the biggest value of using open-source project that it is free. Additionally there are a lot of idealists who think about oss as foss.

Open-source is not dead, it just trying to find a sustainable model for survival.
None of the active OSS projects you know exist without money flow.
Even if you have hyped project now, without money it will be dead in a year.

More and more companies consider open-source as default option, because there are a better tools right now to make business out of it. And everyone essentially wins from it.

Yes, old models of OSS are mostly dead.
But new ones are alive more than ever.
> There's evidence to the contrary that is yet to be addressed.

No there isn't, and no one has yet even CLAIMED in court that there is. Every time the Trump legal team went before a judge, they themselves denied that they have any evidence or even CLAIM of fraud.

Sure, on TV they say all sorts of crazy stuff, but when it really matters, they back down.

There is no evidence of widespread fraud in this election whatsoever.
Reminds me of the old Dilbert cartoon where the boss tells his employees to do something, then grabs the binoculars thinking "This will be the easiest round of layoffs ever" [1]. Sometimes, suggestions from upper management that employees should let their guard down and do something they normally wouldn't are just clever tactics to encourage "undesirables" to out themselves.

1: https://dilbert.com/strip/2000-08-18
And had they been able to, what do you think would’ve happened to Skype had it been acquired by Facebook back when it was the main game in town? I think that’s the point.
> Future employers
> damaging to the global social fabric

I'm skeptical there'd be any hard feelings from other global corporations, arguably doing the same thing
a) Boston Dynamics might be a cool company, but they don't seem to have a widely used product on the market (and they were founded 28 years ago).

b) Is there a specific app with just a few thousand users that sold for more than $1B?
1. If huge swaths of Americans are forced to vote by mail, wouldn't you expect the rate to decrease?

2. Trump is incredibly polarizing, so, sure

3. What was the previous turnout / percentage increase?

4. The GOP specifically passed laws that disallowed counting ballots until election day in many districts, which, combined with lots of mail-ins, makes things much slower

5. This was an accident, and was corrected
But are there not multiple phone companies now instead of just one?
We spend way more in software (also online services) than in hardware.
Right now (as of ~81) Chrome will load first website from previously saved session without waiting for extensions to initialize - all privacy/blocker extensions are ignored on first page load, "run_at": "document_start" is not obeyed, because loading first website 200ms faster once per daily session is more important than loading adblocker! https://github.com/Tampermonkey/tampermonkey/issues/1083

The 'making extensions safer for everyone' Manifest V3 keeps the ability to spy on all traffic, but removes ability to modify headers/block requests. Killing Blocking (blocking = synchronous meaning wont complete until extension decides what to do with it) webRequest API means no more:

-intelligent/dynamic blockers

-User Agent modifications

-modifying CSP rules to disable javascript/web fonts etc

Google is removing control from users hands, from the code users want to run. This is one of the steps in a battle against general computing. https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html You no longer own a computer, you own a Google Web Appliance.
If you really felt like that, you could take a two hour walk or even a two hour drive every day for the same effect.
The POTUS has made claims that need to be thought about rationally.

Does the tech world really think that electronic voting is reliable when done the way Dominion did it?

Is there is a rational explanation when votes jump from one candidate to another on live public TV?

Are there too many acceptable mail in votes to make sense?

Etc.

The conclusion for someone who does the research may be that things are OK, that all is legit. I don't know, as I have no interest in doing that research.

But if you start removing all the videos that present any arguments in that direction, than I will definitely assume there is fraud going on.

It is far better for all the "proofs" to be out there and available, than to have people saying that all of the "proofs" were deleted by the people with obvious interests.
> On one hand, forcing Facebook to open up its social graph would have serious privacy implications.

There shouldn't be much additional privacy concern with a Facebook user saying "I trust user Alice and service example.com, so please send all my posts to alice@example.com using ActivityPub."

Similarly, Alice should be able to tell example.com that she trusts the Facebook user Bob with ID 123456789, so that example.com sends her posts to Facebook addressed to Bob (perhaps authenticated with a pre-shared key that Bob emailed her).

Once users are free to move between providers, those providers can compete based on their level of privacy and security, which right now Facebook has little incentive to improve.
Taking the top comment as proof of groupthink is possibly misunderstanding how voting dynamics work on HN.
Could someone explain why this acquisition makes sense? The core competencies between the two companies seem to have little overlap from my outsider perspective. Is this diversification or does Hyundai make more than automobiles?
Without detailed understanding of BD's assets and liabilities, it is difficult to assess a single deal.

If BD lives up to its perennial hype/technical-success and is not encumbered with significant liabilities, Hyundai may have gotten quite a deal.
Warzone RAT comes with UAC bypass technique
I like how the drivers are always depicted as underpaid yet... they flock to the app!

If it paid more to have a minimum wage job, why are there so many drivers on the platform?
>Many people have beliefs about Trump where, IF I had the same beliefs I'd totally be on board with voter fraud to get him out of office.

I wouldn't, but this is because of the game theory sort of nature of democracy. If I can do it, so can my opponents. Suppose Trump is evil, and defeated, and next election my side has a truly wonderful and excellent candidate. (again, I'm just being theoretical.) I don't want the other side to be able to beat my candidate using voter fraud. Ideally, no one can beat anyone using voter fraud.

>The rationalistic question is something along the lines of "how do you adjust your priors of voter

I'm not sure what you mean, but I'm guessing you mean "this party has previously had issues with voter fraud, and therefore it's not stretch to be concerned about it again." If I have you correct, I'd again say that this is a fine suspicion, but then evidence must be produced. If evidence cannot be produced, then the priors alone are not enough. To use a very flimsy metaphor, suppose in a small town there is a kid who has robbed a convenience store. Later, when another convenience store is robbed it might make sense to suspect the kid. But, you had better not charge or convict him unless you can produce some real evidence. (and to be clear, I am not comparing either party to a common criminal, I just wanted a simple metaphor which I thought best explained the argument.)
WhatsApp can just be considered as worldwide communications infrastructure. More important than text/calls. No way should all of that be in the control of one single (also cretinous) company.

Good luck on this one America. I have low expectations but high hopes.