skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those with platforms have always had the opportunity to lie to large groups, but extending that ability to every single person seems like an EXTREMELY BAD "solution."

Why is it bad? before only a few people could lie to everyone and keep the majority in the dark because they lacked access to information that would expose the lies they were told. Now everyone's voice is amplified and the people who used to have this power are upset because people believe things they don't want them to believe.

> Historically there's been a burden of proof for wild claims because it's been hard to get a huge mass audience.

This seems like a non sequitur. Historically its been hard to spread wild claims for most people because they didn't have a platform. What burden of proof are you referring to?

> And people with those audiences were reluctant to repeat whatever wild bullshit was proposed to them if they couldn't vet it themselves.

Isn't it more likely that they were reluctant to repeat stories unless it benefitted them? Yellow journalism predates the internet by almost 100 years.

> Unmoderated internet platforms with algorithmic jumps between otherwise-unconnected publishers let you borrow and hijack other people's credibility and platforms.

Perhaps. I'm not sure that I could hijack the credibility of (for example) Dr. Fauci by retweeting him. Its more likely that he could voluntarily lend me his credibility by retweeting me.

> Why those platforms shouldn't be allowed to have editorial control - given that maintaining a certain reputation will still be critical for their long-term success - is beyond me and seems to have obvious un-American problems (infringement on their own private rights).

The argument is that they have become large and commonly used enough that they are akin to a public utility. This is an open question and I certainly don't have the answer. Think of it as if the interstate highway system was owned by Procter & Gamble and they began to limit access to the interstate for carriers who delivered their competitors' products, or refused to allow left-handed redheads to access the interstate. A lot of people would say that in that case it would be an appropriate use of the government's regulatory power to nationalize or break up the "P&G Interstate" for the public good. Other people would say that it was within their rights as property owners to decide who they sold roadway access to. You'd have a situation where people's interpretations of fundamental rights conflicted because of technological advancement.

> The trade-off being desired also seems fundamentally bad. More people being misled more quickly seems like a worse situation than slower breaking of news and the ability to suppress some stories, given that we were still able to break those stories you mention in the past. (Of course, I don't know what else might have been more widely reported in the past... I'm having to rely on a "we didn't feel like we were living in a totalitarian dystopia in the 60s-through-80s" assumption.)

Consider that Manufacturing Consent was published in 1988.
If the authorities in my state encourage my population (20s, male, low BMI) to take the vaccine, I’ll take the vaccine.

It’s a risk, sure. But the older people have borne the risk so far. I can’t speak for other young people but I feel personal responsibility to take it ASAP.
Sure. But Mozilla can't afford fighting Apple until someone reins in Google. And Mozilla can't afford fighting Google without other income.
Ted Cruz is fucked
Nothing short of plucking out the 3 horns of the government will prevent the regular logical constitutional succession of the country's executive. And putting his little horn in it's place...
Mac mini core solo did exist [1]. My parents owned one.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac_mini_c...
#1 on Google
We have a republic, because that's how it was organized more than two centuries ago, and changing it from within the system is extremely difficult. But many states have elements of direct democracy in form of public initiatives, and they generally tend to be the states that were settled and organized later (e.g. West Coast), and did so with benefit of hindsight, after seeing many decades of how the original system works.

So I'm not sure if it's even meaningful to say that we do reject the idea. The original designers did (mostly; they weren't a hivemind, either), but we aren't them; and they weren't really representative of their entire society, either.
But is Oracle a great company? :) [I'm a former employee, and my opinion is, it is not]

SpaceX and Tesla leaving CA are bigger loses, but they haven't left yet, and it's unclear he'll move them, other than opening up more plants elsewhere. Boca Chica/Austin might eventually become the new locus of new hiring for example, but the Dragon/Falcon business might remain in CA for example.

HP leaving is basically a zombie company leaving on life support, it would be like IBM or Kodak leaving.

The real power of the Bay Area is the startup economy, and I think it will be hard to dislodge that, just like it's hard to dislodge Shenzhen, because of the "nexus" effect, or chicken and egg as you mentioned. If all of your customers and workers, and supply chain, and investors are in one spot, as an entrepreneur, you're going to gravitate there, even if the costs are high.

I mean, you get can Silicon Hills, and Silicon Alleys elsewhere, but I don't think they'll overtake the Bay Area.

However, I could see Texas, Arizona, Nevada, becoming the "Mars Plateau" in the future. Realistically, Musk needs a coastal port for logistics, ability to mine resources, and a state that would be complicit in dealing with angry laborers or neighbors who don't like Sonic Booms going off all the time.

CA's just not going to let him run as roughshod as he wants, e.g. the worker safety and labor issues at his plants, the environmental impacts of what he's doing in Boca Chica, etc. That slows down his time schedule a lot, I don't blame him, he wants to get to Mars quick, but then again, if I were living near a Starship test area, I'd also be annoyed by all of the traffic, tourists, and explosions, so I don't object to him trying to get as far away from regulated residential areas as possible.
Ditto, this seems like clickbait to route us to Yet Another Blog.
Why not? Both serve a purpose and a market. At least masturbating on camera doesn’t require semi slave labor for mineral mining.
This is disappointing. Satire of niche tech culture certainly seems like it could fit in around here. Also, I really doubt the “Show HN” addition to title significantly skewed the upvotes.
Hmmm. I hadn't thought about being able to yank output from a command... That's a really good point. (Honestly I would probably use 'xsel -bi' and ':r !xsel -bo', but that's pretty ugly.)
Meh, those poor indiehackers with $10/mrr, better to get bigger boobs!
Robotics founder here. Never used ROS. I would avoid it unless there is a clear need. Once you are on expensive third party hardware plus ROS, you are guaranteed to have no USP.
Unless you could hold the blanket perfectly still and prevent outside light from reflecting off of it, it probably makes zero difference. The cameras don't need large amounts of contrast or even big variances in hue, just small amounts of randomness in the ripples in the fabric you are holding up is enough.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/09/an-os-9-odyssey-why-...

There are apparently some DNA sequencer machines that only interface with older macs. The linked article is just as an 'exhibit A'... It doesn't go into the technical details as to why that is so. I can't find the article on why virtualization is difficult for this case but it was very interesting.
Cooperative multitasking (mac system 5, system 6, system 7 ish era) meant that the running task had the responsibility to yield. If the task was something like 'sample the value of x instrument register every 10 ms' (or something like that) then it could do the quick maths based on the base system clock rate and know exactly how many cycles to sleep between each sampling. In other multitasking scenarios where the os has it's own things it wants to do, the program cannot deterministically know how many cycles to sleep. What if the process will be arbitrarily delayed or interrupted, so some samples are taken 17 clocks apart and some samples are 19? With the priority being JITTER FREE, it doesn't help if the os thinks, ahh i have a million clock cycles this second, and only 1000 things to do, I'll just do some housekeeping... so there are background processes using bus resources, network interrupts, etcetera, all batched up and dispatched because the os thinks it has time to procrastinate this one task that just wants to sleep and sample a register and sleep... but sleeping for EXACT duration.
Did you mean ChromeDevSummit talk or there was a separate WebSummit talk on this too?
> And if a company like Slack can’t stand up to the consolidation of corporate power, consumers’ ability to freely choose the best and most useful product is at risk

That is the flawed assumption. Consumers never had a choice for Slack. It was an enterprise decision
The words "free speech" and "1st amendment" are never used in the article. "Free press" is used only in passing. As far as I can tell, your mention of the 1st amendment is a complete non sequitur, and you are the only one doing the confusing.

The question is whether what YouTube is doing is good for society, and Matt Taibbi says no. He's criticizing YouTube for doing something he thinks is bad, since public criticism is sometimes effective at altering corporate actions. It's pretty annoying that so many people try to sidestep this topic by saying that the first amendment does not prevent private censorship. Pretty much everyone agrees with that.

And denigrating people you disagree with is unnecessarily inflammatory.
Yeah - they admit that they're mixing it with two other sources of entropy... All I could think when I saw this was "not enough entropy - what the heck..."

My guess is they have a couple of quantum HRNGs in those "Linux systems" they discuss that are actually doing the majority of the entropy.

Cool gimmick though.
As I said:

> but it only searches decentralized websites

Hacker news is not a decentralized website..
No. The onus is on you to explain why experts who have devoted their entire lives to groundbreaking vaccine research are wrong. It's like arguing with a 5 year old.
My great uncle was in critical condition, once again - oxygen and useless antibiotics. And about subpar treatment, that branch of family has 3 doctors and couple of nurses, he was actually treated preferentially.
I recall a while back someone was actually being paid to roll dice.
I will wait because I don't fully trust it yet.
Ask HN: What is the best 2 in 1 laptop for development?
I'm currently running on my macbook pro early 2011 and I would like to have something newer.

I'm thinking of maybe taking a 2 in 1 laptop would be really convenient so I can watch videos while laying on my bed.

I my goal is to be able to use the laptop as both a development machine and an entertainment one.

I don't want to be in the apple ecosystem anymore because I'm kind of sick of how I'm forced to follow whatever changes Apple does.

The problem is that I have choice anxiety so when faced with too many choices I get stressed. I'm willing to spend max 2000 dollars on this.
The problem is that the two sides have fundamentally incompatible moral stances, that stem from different premises. There's no long-term consensus to be had here - we can allow "a little" of free speech, and "a little" of hate speech, but neither side will accept that as a permanent state of affairs; at best, it would be a truce.
Do you use teams a lot?

I’m literally astonished to read this.

Teams is the king of “press a key and wait for the screen to unfreeze”, or the “launched but all you get is a white box until you restart”.

It also features what I politely refer to as “no search”, which is where you search your chat history, and conversations just aren’t there... until you go back through your history and find them, and then wow! Suddenly you can search for it.

Screen sharing can cause a meeting to drop out for no reason.

Want to upload a video? Or an image? Well, you can get an empty white box and when you click on it, you’ll get an empty white pop up. Great job.

Now, all of that said... that’s on windows.

Now try using it on a Mac. Ha! Haaaaaa!

Usable? Yes.

Good?? Not in my books.

It’s one of the poorest chat applications I’ve used, personally. /shrug

To be fair, I haven’t had much trouble with the mobile app on iOS, but I don’t use it much, and it’s seems on-par to the slack one to me.

...but I certainly wouldn’t call it a marvel of engineering; it’s just deeply integrated with outlook and it’s mandatory; so people who don’t do “chat” also use it.
These "model"s are inspirational and empowering (so long as they're other people's daughters)
Where is it banned for people with allergies? Source?
If people are too stupid to reject false information that wasn’t curated for them why are they smart enough to vote.

Any argument advocating censorship is ultimately arguing for dictatorship.
Anandtech's deep dive into Apple's Firestorm big cores is definitely worth reading if you are interested in how the chips that use their ARM implementation are different.

>On the floating point and vector execution side of things, the new Firestorm cores are actually more impressive as they a 33% increase in capabilities, enabled by Apple’s addition of a fourth execution pipeline. The FP rename registers here seem to land at 384 entries, which is again comparatively massive. The four 128-bit NEON pipelines thus on paper match the current throughput capabilities of desktop cores from AMD and Intel, albeit with smaller vectors. Floating-point operations throughput here is 1:1 with the pipeline count, meaning Firestorm can do 4 FADDs and 4 FMULs per cycle with respectively 3 and 4 cycles latency. That’s quadruple the per-cycle throughput of Intel CPUs and previous AMD CPUs, and still double that of the recent Zen3, of course, still running at lower frequency. This might be one reason why Apples does so well in browser benchmarks (JavaScript numbers are floating-point doubles).

Vector abilities of the 4 pipelines seem to be identical, with the only instructions that see lower throughput being FP divisions, reciprocals and square-root operations that only have an throughput of 1, on one of the four pipes.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
The possibilities of targeting messaging via fb, youtube, twitter ad budgets go far beyond the freedom of speech the authors of the constitution had in mind, no?

The ability to address a snug fit tailored messaging to specific audiences is a completely new level of "talking". It subverts the traditional democratic communication, where all participants realistically had a comparable and diverse data/information set. In contrast, given sufficient targeting advertisement budget, you can very deliberately dissimimate messages which shift the electorates decisions just enough that you get the political climate and outcome you want.

That's no longer the free speech of the constitution. That's mass manipulation. Brain hacking it was called elsewhere in the discussion.

What can yt, twitter, fb do?

Banning certain content feels bad, but how can they nudge us with the tweets, videos and posts that challenge us a little, like the old news stand always carried the paper we normally wouldn't read. Until we did, once in a while. And of course the paper was not 95% letters to the editor, unredacted.

How can the fb, google ai help us to structure the flood of information in a more nuanced way? Instead of a plump ban?

Until then, I reluctantly take the ban.
The M1 has 8 instruction decoders while every Intel processor maxes out at 4. This enables many more instructions in flight than on Intel.

The M1 can process twice as many instructions per clock cycle than an x86 processor can.
> There are laws against eavesdropping on private electronic communications.

Likewise, people are discussing reform of the laws that govern the behavior of giant media properties. Surely you agree those laws (against eavesdropping) were passed for a reason and are not arbitrary?

> Because paying for a service establishes certain rights and expectations that patronizing a free/ad-supported website does not. In other words, payment creates a contract.

People are not basing their criticisms on the violation of a contract but on the public good of the free exchange of information.

> I suppose in theory, though it would be difficult to show that all parties to the call agreed to such a EULA.

"By continuing to stay on the line, you agree to the end user license agreement available in full online or by mail upon request."
> These types of articles are always insane to me. YouTube is a private company. They're pretty much allowed to moderate the content on their platform in an arbitrary way.

Now post “YouTube is a private company and I support their right to ban BLM”

For the record.
But that's because the pandemic actually emptied out most hospitals. ICUs are not built for Easter Sunday. Here's an article with pre-pandemic numbers: "Although average ICU occupancy was only 68% in 2005, some hospitals, especially academic medical centers, regularly face occupancy levels exceeding 90% (Wunsch et al. 2013), often requiring the rationing of scarce critical care beds."

http://www.elisalong.com/uploads/1/0/9/7/109701801/long_math...
> Would you then cede your decision making to them if it were demonstrably better?

There are, and I use them constantly in the form of domain experts. So does everyone. For example, I would never assume a plumber is wrong and I am right about pipes, though I may get a 2nd opinion.

> Would you argue that you should be free to make measurably worse or less optimized decisions for yourself - by virtue of the value of you being un-baised was more important than you making a better decision?

Yes, and this is the case in most areas. There is nothing preventing me from representing myself in court, for example. I think this would be analogous to Youtube adding content filters to block different categories of potentially undesirable content, including their filter for misinformation, and allowing the user to opt in or out. If Youtube did this I would not object, even it the default was to turn the filters on.
It's a common way to dismiss Founding stuff, but I'm a fan of the Frederick Douglass view that the Constitution is a "glorious liberty document."

So what if the writers didn't always practice it? If it's been unequally applied - there's no stronger case than to hold people to account with the law of the land.
Estimated OnlyFans income distribution: https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1335726357548990464
Flip a penny twice, if you get heads followed by tails, write down 0. If you get tails, followed by heads, write down 1. Otherwise ignore the two flips. Rinse and repeat until you have enough bits.

The purpose of flipping twice is that it offsets any potential static bias (caused eg by weight difference) between the two sides.
He could have copy/pasted some of his code on Github as 'filler'
I Paid $250 to Drive for Lyft Last Year
Yep definitely. I've already had the rona, and while it didn't do anything severe to me, this madness with governments killing small business needs to end. It looks save and the promise of mrna vaccines is quite extraordinary.
The Lady, or the Tiger? (1882)
> Why those platforms shouldn't be allowed

The key word is "allowed". YouTube should be allowed to do everything they have the right to do. They have the right to stop providing all free services (unless they have contractual obligations). They have the right to ban all creators whose names start with "K". They have the right to add a 10-second delay to all page loads. They have the right to put Goatse on their homepage.

However, if they do any of the above things, the rest of us have the right to be disappointed, to think YouTube sucks, and to tell everyone else about it.

So, if they demonstrate that they have no respect for the principle of freedom of speech, we have the right to call them cowardly, un-American, probably unfair in their implementation, counterproductive even assuming their goals, etc.
What happens when all megaphones are either government- or large-corporation-owned, and whenever you try to speak on your own, the nearest megaphone just yells over whatever you have to say?
Can't read it on a small device.
The j is the hook to get geeks to flamewar about it, re gif jif. Brilliant.
We made a cyberpunk-themed Original Prusa MK3S+
this was also a scythian belief, and iirc some peoples of ancient mesopotamia
This is, of course, all pretty silly. Collecting entropy for a fleet of services is not a real cryptographic engineering challenge, and it would be alarming to learn that Cloudflare actually somehow pipes output from these things into all their systems.
When I worked at Google, a friend of mine lived in the parking lot. He had BBQs there. This was a decade ago but it's not nearly as crazy as it sounds. He could park his RV at B42 but he was plenty comfortable in the Pi lot.
Two are close I think.

A capped webcamera, CCDs pick up enough stray electrons to be reliable source of entropy.

A old cheap radio tuned to static plugged into your microphone port.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/81946/7-sources-randomne...
None of those criticisms apply to these vaccine studies. There are many issues that can arise in trials, of course. But the current batch of 3-phase mRNA-based vaccine trials have all been intensely scrutinized at every turn. I think it will be difficult for you to argue otherwise, but feel free to enlighten us about the data corruption conspiracy if you have some evidence.
It would behoove us all to ask why this exists other than the obvious reason, which is to look down on the models for doing something wrong.

AKA Nephew, delete this.
I’m not going to answer your exact question and instead respond with an alternative: Nobody blames AT&T/Verizon when an absurd scammer calls you, or a grandpa wife’s money to a Nigerian scammer because of a phone call.

Think long and hard about why you blame Facebook/YouTube for the same. You’ll inevitably coalesce around the idea that these “platforms” did it to themselves by Arbitrarily banning legal content.
> start collecting real data on who their users are

This is a survey of r/emacs. There isn't a strong reason to believe this is reflective of Emacs' actual user base. Who are these people who feel a need to participate in a community based on their text editor? That religion stuff was normally meant as a joke.
Or they could just use stock Intel or ARM boards and SOCs and just use getrandom, which works and scales just fine.
This is speculation. It is not an interview with the decision makers at Slack.

It's an opinion piece.

We definitely could do a better job of "championing the little guy." But the title here -- which is not as click-baity as the actual title, is something I experienced as misleading. I expected this to be an interview with someone in the know, not speculation by an outsider based on previous public statements.

You can infer a lot based on public statements, but there may be things that weren't being said publicly. It can be impossible to know "the real motive" behind something without a direct statement by the person who made the decision.
But men didn't have a choice either, they had to do physically much more demanding and dangerous jobs. Women entered the workforce when we had comfortable office jobs around not when your granddad was plowing with an ox. And it still is that way nowadays, SV men don't experience it but men in general do the shitty a dangerous jobs and die doing it at astonishing rate compared to women.