skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Surely Facebook and democracy can coexist if we get better at teaching people to think for themselves?

There are some serious limitations on that approach.

We have limited time to devote to going into an issue in any depth. We can maybe handle thoughtfully evaluating all sides for one or two issues if we are getting honest information from all sides.

When you have one or more sides deliberately trying to mislead, they have a huge advantage. First, since they aren't burdened by the need to actually be correct, they can generate a wider variety of arguments and do so in greater quantity than those who are arguing in good faith.

Second, we have a variety of built in cognitive biases. The people trying to mislead can purposefully craft their arguments to hit those, increasing the chances we'll believe them.

On top of all that, social media's algorithms for determining what to show us are trying to maximize engagement, and the things that most engage us are the things that fit in with our cognitive biases. They have a huge amount of behavioral data on us, which has made them very good at picking out and prioritizing stuff on our individualized feeds that will hit those biases.

You can't really think for yourself without high quality information, and because they are based on maximizing getting your attention social media tends to mostly show you low quality information. In short, the way social media sites like Facebook are designed makes it nearly impossible to get accurate information from them no matter how much you try to think for yourself.

There was a recent article in Scientific American covering research into this, "Information Overload Helps Fake News Spread, and Social Media Knows It" [1]. HN discussion of that article [2].

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/information-overl...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25153716
Every tribe is working very hard on language preservation and some are getting much better results than others. Some have been lost, but the folks in Alaska are putting a lot of effort into it.

I asked a question on HN for a grant that was directed about using ML to aid in language preservation. I didn't get any responses. We were trying to expand the tools available.
> It is also targeted at consumers
i smell audiophile

I own the xm3, i own the Beyerdynamic DT770 which is way more popular with studios and drummers; passive isolation vs ANC is not even a discussion
> Why aren't they being criticised?

Because newspapers have editorial boards, ombudsmen, and liability (in the form of libel) for what they print. Facebook has the conceit that it doesn't have any perspective, that it's just a carrier of speech of others. The concern is that Facebook (and YouTube and Twitter) already has preferences (such as for controversy over dry facts) and is developing more (curation through fact checking, etc.).

If Facebook came out and said, "Yeah, we're more or less like Readers Digest but for the internet" I suspect they'll still have detractors, but it will be more of the "I don't like reading Readers Digest" variety, not of the "Someone needs to break up Readers Digest!" one. They might also lose accounts, too, because who wants to write for a paper with clear points of view and biases that work at cross purposes to their own?
> Thefts of smarphones were rising very rapidly but then diminished

Did it really? In absence of official statistics, I think it just got normalized. When everyone has a monthly contract with insurance, it's not a tragedy if the phone gets stolen: you make a call, they send you a new phone, life goes on.

In the UK at least, phones do get stolen all over the place, it's just not reported anymore because it's simply a fact of life.
Can you expand on build quality? Do you mean that apple does not know how to build quality hardware? Or materials are cheap?
Or do you mean something entirely different by the build quality?
> Are there any powerful stakeholders who benefit from interoperability?

All those companies selling motherboards for gamers etc?
The danger is similar to any backtested algorithm. You can always go back and find theories to fit your data. That doesn't mean they will be predictive going forward. It also doesn't mean they _won't_ be predictive, and I would say they can form a good hypothesis for a new experiment. It's not that it's meaningless, it just lacks the power of scientific evidence. It's comparable to a non repeatable experiment, where the hypothesis counts as a first "repetition".

At least that's my interpretation as a non statistician, but I think there's a difference between statistical significance and scientific proof. The findings may be statistically significant without actually proving anything.
Cyberpunk 2077 uses a B125 instead of a D400 manhole cover
I'm only half joking, kopeng mi. One of the startups I currently have on the back-burner is a space resource commodity market and mining claim exchange, to jumpstart an investment market for asteroid and lunar mining startups.
I think I did clearly say that; what's unclear? The federal assault ban covers fully automatic weapons, not semi-automatic. Here's a pretty good explanation of the differences.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2017/oct/02/difference-be...
Human-made materials now outweigh Earth's entire biomass
The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, was also _the original creator_ of VK. Some say “he's the Mark Zuckerberg of Russia”, an unfair comparison if you'd ask me. While both Pavel and Mark have built successful social platforms, that's where the similarities ends.

Because he refused to comply with government demands to identify activists using VK, Durov was personally ousted from the company (and self-exiled from Russia altogether).

While refreshing my Durov trivia, I found he published a text a couple days ago, and this following passage just had a good vibe;
“I focused on what I enjoyed most – creating social platforms that (hopefully) bring good to humanity. I spent most of my personal funds on Telegram for people to enjoy a free service that strives for perfection.”[1]

[1]: https://telegra.ph/Consume-Less-Create-More-Its-More-Fun-12-...
I don't understand the obsession some people have with ranked newsfeeds. I don't see what's wrong with showing people content they want. What content that is always depends on the user themselves. If they've liked a lot of horrible stuff before, they'll get more horrible stuff, if they've liked a lot of thoughtful stuff before, they'll get more thoughtful stuff.
> These days, the popular apps try to inhibit blanking by talking to "systemd". The design of the systemd method easily and trivially allows an app to inhibit the screen saver, crash, and then never un-inhibit it, so now your screen will never blank again.

> Furthermore, since the systemd method uses cookies to ensure that only the app that sent "inhibit" can send the matching "uninhibit", simply re-launching the crashed video player does not fix the problem.

This sounds like a terrible design. It also doesn't appear to actually match the documentation for systemd-logind's inhibitor locks API:

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit/

The Inhibit method returns a file descriptor:

"As soon as the file descriptor is closed (and all its duplicates) the lock is automatically released. If the client dies while the lock is taken the kernel automatically closes the file descriptor so that the lock is automatically released."

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong documentation? Or maybe the quoted text is a tiresome, ignorant rant?
When it comes to Stockholm, I can have an image. I've been there on vacation for a total of 2 months. I've made friends in Tensta, Södermalm and in Östermalm and slept in all places.

If someone tells me that Östermalm is now a place where people rob you more easily than 10 years ago, then I have enough of a feeling how the social landscape changed. In Stockholm, I've experienced a couple of crime-ish situations in those 2 months that I didn't experience to such a frequent or great extent in Amsterdam (where I live).

In short: it might be that things in Stockholm have gotten a bit more sour.
Good business class configurations allow you to lie completely flat.

Depending on the configuration you may have a real (narrow) bed feeling, or you may be lying in a sort of tube with not much space to move, but definitely completely flat.

If the price is not outrageous I always go for a business flight on long haul.
When a single platform controls a large part of public discourse, without democratic control, and actively stifles competition (the jury's still out on that one, but that is the allegation), then that places a lot of power in private hands.

This doesn't mean that power is being abused (though it gets increasingly hard to tell) but it's hard to call that kind of platform 'free'.

Sure you might be fairly certain that Facebook isn't limiting free speech right now, but the main reason you know this is through other channels. When their monopoly is complete there'd be no way to tell if speech truly is or isn't free.

And of course there's no way to tell if your posts are unpopular because of some well intentioned algorithm, or a more malicious algorithm. At the very least Facebook's incentives don't align with the rest of society.
Complaining about both sides isn't really a take, is it? "I don't like any available option" isn't really worthwhile writing, is it?
Well, it doesn't so much block as it redirects to something most foul.
Not sure why they think The Final Countdown cover is so bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why can't we automate data cleaning?
>Apple has no interest in making it easy to run other OSes

I'm not convinced that this is necessarily true. They advertised running Linux VMs during their presentation, they made a tool specifically for installing Windows on Macs and they even recently stated how Windows on ARM Macs is really up to Microsoft. If you could run Windows on an M1 Mac, it'd really turn it into a powerful and power-efficient "do-it-all" machine, since you could still boot into Windows and run that niche Windows software that you need from time to time.
Another problem that I have is that this is once again allowing law enforcement to further damage others, which they absolutely and totally refuse to take responsibility for.

Shoot someone who took a jab at you 6 times with a strong suspicion and history of racist motive ?

1) You're a private citizen: death sentence. Hundreds of thousands to millions in damages to be paid. And you can be DAMN sure nobody's will ever grant you any kind of clemency.

2) You're a police officer: Not only do you go free, you don't have to pay any damages and the incident is stricken from your record ... You MAY be asked to resign if protests get too bad.

If by some magic, there are damages to be paid, they will not be extracted from the perpetrators of the crime.

This, and worse, is what these protections will also be used for. Defending law enforcement personnel from the consequences of their own mistakes, their own racism, from attacking their ex-girlfriends or ex-wives, ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52905408
Referencing Shakespeare or Stormzy I wonder
Nietzsche on Truth and Lie (1991)
> your entertainment or gaming app inappropriately references the COVID-19 pandemic in the metadata or binary. Entertainment or gaming apps that directly or indirectly reference the COVID-19 pandemic in any way are not appropriate for the App Store.

LOL, what a bunch of stupid people.

EDIT: I can see many legitimate uses of the "viruses" screensaver (so sad that we've got to the point to need to discuss these things). For example, let's say that you work on a lab that investigates this virus. You may feel very natural to use this screensaver, that matches your similar desktop background. All in all, it's difficult to be angry about that. The author of xscreensaver voluntarily accepted apple's policies, implicitly and explicitly, by choosing to publish for this platform, so he had it coming.
CSS paint API: Being predictably random – JakeArchibald.com
Worst part is "They need signal handlers. " Nothing guarantees that the signal handlers are run, the program may not be in a sane state when it is about to crash from a bug, made worse that it is already hard to write a signal handler correctly without running into any of its API limitations. Basically: signal handlers are not a solution to the problem.

If that state is handled by systemd then it needs a way to reset it once the program setting it terminates. If systemd does not have the functionality for that then people are using the wrong tool for the job.
Warning: don't click the link to jwz.org if you have to worry about NSFW images unexpectedly appearing on your screen.
You can block time changes under Settings > Blocking in version 4 now :)
Give me a way to pay for this, I want to be a customer instead of the product. What is the lowest per user price you can offer, if 1% of them paid reliably? I assume it scales inversely with % who actually pay.
Ask HN: Are there successful startups that have been rejected by YC?
How is shaw?

Anecdote: I was surprised to find they honour TTLs on their DNS service. Everyone else I have access to seems to return the new IP almost immediately, but shaw waits it out.
There are far more news sources available today than in the 20th century. Not only can I read local newspapers and magazines from all over the world, which wasn’t easy to do before the internet, but also there are tons of new digital-only publications and millions of blogs.

In the 1990s in the US, before the internet took off, most people had access to one local paper (two in some cases), maybe an a few local magazines (include “alternative weekly” newspapers), a few local TV and radio stations, PBS and NPR, the 100 or so cable channels their local provider offered, the hundred or so magazines and newspapers the local Borders or Barnes & Noble sold, and whatever magazines and newspapers their library had in the periodicals section. And a lot of this media was owned by a few big corporations like Time Warner, News Corp, Condé Nast, etc.

> versus when you have just one, and that one actively works to prevent other options from emerging.

How has Facebook tried to prevent news outlets from emerging? They benefit hugely from news outlets, and kind of even depend on them for existence. They need the content for people to post and share. New publications like Vox probably owe some of their success to Facebook, and vice versa.

FB might have a lot of power to amplify traffic to certain publications (kind of like the big retail chains did in the 90s only more so), but that’s very different from actively preventing new news outlets from emerging.
The lazy collections are an interesting case, because as you build up a stack of transformations, the type itself grows in ways beyond simple A -> B type substitutions. That's a really good example of a case better served by GATs than HKTs -- they're not that kind of Functor to begin with.

To be explicit, a lazy collection type in Rust is more than just `List<T>` -- it needs to carry an additional type describing the set of transformations being applied. You'd really have something closer to `List<F, T>`, and as you apply transformations, F grows while T is substituted.

(You could avoid this by storing a trait object for your transformation stack instead of parametrizing over F, but half the point is that you can often flatten the whole stack down into highly-efficient generated code, and abstracting over the precise F hinders that flattenability.)
Isn't that the same case as if Uber where the users uploading content should become employees?
>I hope that the possibility of an industry-wide switch to ARM doesn't take away the flexibility we now have with the PC

That's a 100% inevitability. Every new CPU architecture incorporates an entire set of new restrictions under the guise of security and privacy.
They are not public forums. You me and three other self-appointed bicycle fanatics are not having a lively discussion about cycling shoes in the New York Times, subject to oversight from the New York Times.
In theory I can play old games on it, like Daggerfall.
Just tried searching for "lynis hardening" (1). First hit was in french. 2nd hit was a 6 year old blog post.

The most "correct" result was 4th, but even this goes to a very specific page (2) in the documentation rather than what it should go to (3).

I don't know how to build an index, but language and date seem like low hanging fruits.

(1) https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=lynis+hardening

(2) https://cisofy.com/lynis/controls/hardening/

(3) https://cisofy.com/lynis/
Beware the house mouse. With its access to processed food, it is likely to acquire dementia later in life, and become a burden upon its caretakers.
Thank you! I was thinking of switching it to "Your future self will thank you" because a results from a quick poll I did. Now I'm not sure :)
The article leaves it open whether the user needs to double-click the malicious file or whether it is executed without user interaction through some exploit.

"drive-by download" _usually_ refers to the latter, but the rest of the article not being more explicit and the use of legit-sounding file names makes me think that this may be just another attempt to make non-news appear interesting.
In most countries, as far as I'm aware, TV started out as a government controlled medium, which has its own problems but is definitely not privately owned.

And to the best of my knowledge there's still nothing preventing you from buying radio bandwidth. It's not really my area though so I could be wrong.
Second that. Can I have Apple serviceman in 4 hours at my doors after I call that something is broken? Will that serviceman arrive with the new computer just in case the old one cannot be repaired? Dell, etc. has that and this is something IT in every company wants.
I had this feeling aswell, but the noice reduction was worth it for me. After a week or two of much usage at the office the feeling went away. So, atleast for me, getting used to them helped.
Ask HN: Best home router set-up
Ranch style house (i.e. it is long) and the work from home, school from home, stream everything at home, etc. is taxing current setup (5 year old eero mesh setup with 3 units).

What is the current state of the art? Especially when dealing with a long house with lots of walls?
The french debate on the face-covering ban was well broadcasted internationally, and it was clear to me then that it was about burqas and niqabs. The law came in place when there were thousands of people wearing religious face coverings, not before. I do not agree with the sentiment of your first paragraph, in fact it seems to me that you are being either intentionally misleading or ignorant.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/22/islamic-veils-...

He called the burqa "a problem". And he said that somehow it's not a religious symbol (of course it is ...).
Really? I live in Malmo, Sweden (affectionately called "Crime City" by the locals) and I don't get the impression I'd be robbed.

Mostly because criminals know that the resale of apple goods is entirely on the parts, which is not worth much.
I worked there when I was an undergrad (many decades ago). It was right beside the elite Rosedale neighbourhood. I served a lot of well-known faces in my department including the at-the-time billionaire owner of the store, former and future prime ministers, and famous actors. That's not to say it was elitist, but the elite couldn't be bothered to go all the way to Simpson's or Eaton's so it was convenient for them.
the website is not encrypted, could've been some other party too that did the injection. Are you at a public wifi hotspot?
How did they exclude factors like goat, which is like lamb, but more goatey in flavor. Also, what kind of cheese? Gouda?
Monitoring users without violating their privacy is the point of Brave. Affiliate links do not violate the integrity or the privacy of the browsing experience. These are great things, it keeps the browser free from cost while still protecting your privacy. It is how they continue to exist without financial support from Google.
What about the three-fingers gesture? It seems more convenient than a standard touch-and-hold.
No-deal Brexit is now likeliest, Ursula von der Leyen tells EU leaders
Yeah, it's strange that Americans on the whole are not well versed in what secualrism means.

They think it's some sort state-enforced communist atheism or some anti-religious-freedom agenda, without understanding the pains the country went through in the past 300 years (sometimes to the brink of civil war) to remove religion from the State and ensure religious freedom and equality for all.

For most, religion is a personal matter. It starts becoming an issue when it is used as a political ideology that aims to destabilise the State.

It happened before with Catholicism and there are now some fringe Islamist movements that want the same.
The following article goes into the technical details of this phenomenon. TLDR: it's harmless, caused by an unnatural increase in volume as you move across the frequency spectrum (from great noise cancellation at low frequencies to nearly none at mid-frequencies).

https://www.soundstagesolo.com/index.php/features/178-eardru...

Earbuds don't tend to exhibit it nearly as much as headphones.
Intel Based Hackboard 2 Priced to Compete with Raspberry Pi
There is a current federal legal complaint against Facebook with exacting detail about their anti-competitive practices, we don't need to speculate on this one. There are literally hundreds of numbered paragraphs each with a specific allegation of anti-competitive behavior.
But passive isolation will allways struggle with low-frequency-sounds. Motor-sounds, like the engine on an airplane, is easy for active NC - while passive struggles with it.
You made quite a few big leaps there. Care to expand how all those are linked and immigration is therefore the cause of violence and crime?
And what is the problem with that? It's a salient example.

Making sure that Apple is represented in an equal and positive light should be a small concern compared to these consumer device privacy issues that affect all vendors.
I think the point is that for the vast number of people, PCs are already appliances.

It isn’t this change that made them into appliances, it was their natural change in usage - as noted by a previous poster.
What's true to the US and HN "bubble" right now, will be the norm for the rest of the world a few years from now. no?
> Not that much has changed...

Facebook is also a public forum. Normal folks talk about things they care about, including politics, on social media. Normal folks did not peer-to-peer discuss the sinking of The Maine in the pages of The New York Journal. So there was never the issue of The New York Journal promoting, hiding, or editorializing that peer-to-peer speech.
> The best and only way to defend and nurture it is education. Teach people to think for themselves, critical reading,logic and analysis. This is the best inoculation against totalitarianism.

I agree that education is one of the best ways to combat this problem. I don't necessarily agree it's the best one.

> Not that much has changed, except that people now rely on centralized, AI-driven funnels of information and entertainment.

There's no reason why middle grounds don't exist. We can guarantee Free Speech without everyone having access to Instagram, FB, Twitter...

I bet most of the problems could be solved by making these platforms pay to use. Moderation loads would get reduced significantly. Excessive tracking would stop (because now ads are way harder to justify). Accounts would NEED to be somewhat verified by a payment, which makes it harder for trolls/manipulators/abusers of the platform to hide new accounts etc.
Trials to test combination of Oxford and Sputnik Covid vaccines
I remember this tune during 90s and 00s with Microsoft, it was so cool back then...