skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lithium is an element which means it is easy to extract from lithium rich sources like... old batteries.

Compare that to polyethylene which consists of "chain links" with 4 hydrogen and 2 carbon. If you extract the raw elements of a random mixture of polyethylene and polylactic acid then you only get hydrogen, carbon and some oxygen, not neatly separated polyethylene and polylactic acid. Fossil fuels are a much cheaper source for carbon and hydrogen. There is also no shortage of oxygen on this planet. Recycling a mix of two types of pure plastic is already an impossible task. Once you consider that there is actually no pure plastic on this planet because of pigmentation and additives you realize that the problem is far harder than "impossible".
Literally Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. The hallmarks of a whole lot of restricted speech. That was the cornerstone of their power dominance since they had perfect and efficient legal and social mechanisms to not just undermine, but arrest and disappear any opposition. Not exactly regiemes know for their humanitarian activities.
I don't know in what kind of circles you mingle, but the software engineers I know that are working on ERPs are VEEEERY different to the ones that are working in FAANGS and startups. Think (Notepad++ and JDeveloper) vs (vim/emacs and cargo).

And as far as enterprise IT, there are a ton of Windows infrastructure folks, and again, there's little overlap between those and FAANG types. Plus infrastructure folks frequently hate Macs, for example (the stuff to manage fleets of Macs is vastly underpowered compared to stuff used to manage fleets of Windows PCs).

Plus even in those companies, the ERP & infra folks are maybe 1-5-10% of the workforce and they're generally in supporting roles (frequently they're temps or consultants), not in core business roles. Nobody listens to them :-))

And they generally want to get rid of them, they're seen as an expense.

I do agree that Windows-only places are becoming less common, but in big enterprises it's far from agreed that going outside the Microsoft ecosystem has a good ROI.
It does seem a little strange that the article has used an incorrect plural for the very subject that it's discussing. It's hard to believe that no one has drawn the author's attention to this in the four months since the article was published.

EDIT: It appears that both forms are acceptable in English.
I'm not sure what strict regulations cabs have to follow, but for safety I'll take an Uber over a cab any day.

The yellow cab industry might be tightly regulated, but It doesn't seem to benefit the consumers. Cabs suck, plain and simple. Even the worst uber I've personally had was far better than a cab

In general the yellow cab monopoly got smashed apart with a sledgehammer.
> Same is free speech: when actually exercising this right was about printing books of pamphlets that meant a certain level of financial and intellectual barrier to it, free speech was clearly all benefits and no risks.

I don't want to put words in your mouth, but this is also a very dangerous approach in my opinion. What you seem to be saying is: "as long as only the well-off - and therefore likely to be educated - people had the means of mass expression, dangerous ideas could not proliferate". Should it be one group of people, preferably "us", who decides what the other groups are allowed to think and discuss? To me this is much more ripe for abuse than the other extreme. Doubly so because the dangers in free speech can be much better solved with education and removing the ever-widening gap between the haves and have-nots.

So I disagree vehemently that the solution is to limit free speech. That to me is akin to cutting off our own noses because we have a flu. The root of the problem is elsewhere.

What does pretty much every malicious and totalitarian regime start with?

1. Ban free speech
2. Institute the concept of thought crimes
3. Limit education

Concentrating knowledge and intelligence in the hands of a few, and reducing information and idea flow to the masses.

Dangerous and radical ideas can proliferate mostly among marginalized groups who have been excluded from welfare for one reason or another. People who are gripped by existential fears and see little to no possibility of improvement or solution to their problems will naturally gravitate towards radical opinions because they have nothing to lose, no other options and nobody else listens to them. Banning their voice will do nothing just push them further away and radicalize them even more.
I think this over simplifies it.

People are being (unknowingly) manipulated and the sheer quantity of misinformation is being mistaken for evidence of truth.

Why isn’t subliminal advertising considered free speech or free exchange of
Ideas?
My comment didn't suggest if this future is good or bad, or if I am pleased or dismayed by the state of affairs. I stuck to the facts
and my own predictions about future facts and left my emotional opinions out of it.

Perhaps these sort of closed systems are crushing to you, as you have correctly assumed that they are to me. They aren't to most people: the iPhone is wildly popular. Many people will be very happy to get new M1 macs, xboxes, and iPhones this christmas.

Most people prefer the conveniences of central management, having never personally experienced the terrifying and violent failure modes of ubiquitous surveillance and censorship.
Iconic? Iconic of what? Its a naked baby. The baby gave no consent for being photographed naked (as nobody age < 18 can give legal consent for such). A naked picture of a baby belongs only to the parents, not the entire world.

Only thing it has going for it, is that when the album was released there was no widespread Internet usage among civilians. With no Internet as we know it today available, that makes an eventual outcry about the picture less likely, and more difficult to organize. But I for sure remember it being controversial back then.
It would be great if they added something like DDG’s traffic.html page so we can follow how they’re doing.
>Pornhub has far less illegal content than platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.

What has Visa and Mastercard todo with Facebook and Twitter?

>and these payment processors actions are the result of a puritanical anti-porn campaign.

You mean they don't support platforms that accept exploitation and illegal material?
>I used to tell people that first class tickets on planes are a waste of money because: You're still on a plane, it's still noisy, you just get better food.

You get much more leg room. You are getting much more space than an economy.
Maybe in languages other than English it's a great name. It's not an anglophone world only.
Also not on the scientific end, but if you search Reddit within specefic sub's dedicated toward the mental difficulties they are aiming to change, you'll find healthy discussion of the developments and personal experiances. Avoid /r/drugs and all those.
The most pessimistic and paranoid commentators saw this coming back when the "fake news" and "fact checking" narratives were being ramped up, and it seems they were right.
> I am guessing different sports have wildly expanded vocabulary

You're looking for the phrase "term of art"

https://www.lexico.com/definition/term_of_art

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/term-of-...

e.g. if I say I'm going to "bounce the box", I don't mean that I will throw a cardboard container at the floor, I mean that I will reboot a computer. And the sysadmins will know exactly what I mean.
> but in france display of religious symbols (such as wearing a cross) is banned in public places

That is not true; you're free to have religious symbols in public places. What you cannot do is wear them ostensibly if you're acting as an official for a public service. Teacher ? no cross/kippa/etc. while you're teaching. Cop ? same. Mayor in the process of marrying a couple ? same again.

Parent helping teachers during a school outing ? you're perfectly allowed to have such signs visible, you're not an official representative of the French republic. Same goes in public places in general.
Thanks. That's useful feedback.

Our index is 3.64 billion as of today; new servers in the next month will allow us to grow that much faster.

We are crawling/indexing those two sites but maybe not your content, yet
https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fgithub....
Seems like a whole host of other lifestyle factors were completely ignored.
This is insightful, but it's more complicated than that.

In the same way that people with money find it easier to make more money, people with social influence can leverage that to obtain more social influence. It's a positive feedback loop. The "multiplier" is never 1.
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> This is just a fancy way of saying "people saying things I don't like"

Not just "I don't like", but things that "aren't true". There's a difference, and it's important.

> How so? Like GP said, you can just not use facebook and freely exchange ideas with your peers through other channels.

The how is that the constant exposure to lies makes people doubt everything. A lie is easy to fabricate, will create controversy, and social media will reward that controversy and show that lie to even more people. A truth usually requires more research, and given that more people agree with it it will create less controversy, less engagement and the platforms will not reward that content.

That's how you end up with what you have now: people living in completely different realities because the things that spread the most are lies. You can't have a free exchange of ideas if people don't agree in basic facts of reality.

We really can't ignore the damage that social media is doing to society by dismissing the concerns as "well it's just that people have different opinions". It's not about the opinions, it's about the type of content that gets rewarded now.
"to give a mentally fragile person a mind altering out of body experience is a bad idea"

There was some early research which reported success in using LSD and psilocybin to treat schizophrenia in children:

https://maps.org/news-letters/v07n3/07318fis.html
And 168 to comment on it years later on hacker news.
>But perhaps you think lying to people on an industrial scale is ok?

Nobody seemed to have this much of a problem with propaganda back when the common man did not have access to it.
Exactly. Facebook along with google, Twitter, etc. become an echo chamber based on their tracking your precious history of what interested you.
One of my favorite albums from the 90s has possibly the lamest cover in jazz history - not offensively bad or distasteful, more along the lines of “high school portrait”: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Groove_Elatio...

If you had shown me this cover without me knowing who John Scofield was, I would have assumed this album was particularly dorky elevator music. But it’s great stuff: https://youtu.be/QBWTJ--Son8

That said...... there are cases where you can probably judge books by their covers: http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/letmetouch.jpg
> I see no evidence that this harms consumers at all. Quite the opposite.

You don't see how a lack of competition keeps prices unfairly high?

> I like the walled garden and have no interest in it going away

Competition does not mean anyone is taking your app store from you.

> I like that my mom can install apps and not worry about them spying on her.

Well one, they do, but two, no one is taking your mom's app store away.

> I don’t want to input my credit card into your black box payment system that might or might not charge me correctly.

No one is suggesting you do this?

> I see that it does harm developers, but that’s a different conversation entirely.

It harms everyone.

> If you want to install whatever apps you want, buy an android phone! And have fun while their bloat ware and preinstalled crap spams you with notifications and scams you.

I want to install whatever applications I'd like on the computer system I paid a thousand dollars for.

And I guess you didn't notice the un-removable iPhone apps on your phone when you bought it? Or is that some special kind of fancy bloatware?
"The money from services far outweighs the money from the sale of the hardware, in the long run for most types of users on most devices."

I believe that this is true for the USA market but not true for many markets worldwide. From the perspective of the developing world (containing most of the users and most of the devices, but not most of the revenue), the market is very different, much less relevance of iOS/Apple Store, much higher preference for free apps instead of service subscriptions, etc.
I’d rather have that than the current situation on mobile where because of the 30% cut, every game is littered with ads or pay to win tactics to increase their margins. The situation for games on desktop and console and handheld portable consoles is leaps and bounds better than mobile.
That's just how a lot of people speak.
Facebook Business Verification
Hello everyone,
a client of mine, which is located in Aruba is having trouble verifying it's legitimate business so that they could benefit from the WhatsApp for Business API.

The business is absolutely legitimate, with a website whose name matches that of the founding certificate at the chamber of commerce etc.

The problem is that FB, now for the second time in 2 months, refuses to validate the business despite all provided documentation etc...

They also won't reply to any of the messages left at the verification page.

Does anyone of you know if there's a possibility to lodge a complaint with FB, and if yes where and how can it be done.

Many thanks in advance.
I think OP is referring to things like coordinated propagation of articles/post about how Trump won this election, and that the election was rigged. Democracy depends on most citizens believing the election process is fair and free so if some organization is spending tens of millions of dollars and using psychographics to convince people otherwise, they are by definition trying to destroy the concept of democracy.
Foone addressed this point: https://twitter.com/foone/status/1066547670477488128

Micro-blogging is just easier for some people. With tweet unrolling like Threader.app, it's pretty much indistinguishable from blogs.
Well there's tremendous leverage ultimately the greatest productivity is slavery perhaps that is where we are headed.
Mice are really into cheese - hence become a mouse to avoid Alzheimer's later in life.
Nobody is asking for free speech absolution.

Facebook already has tons of policies for civil conduct that will get you the boot.

Every platform does.

This was never a case of free speech absolution - I think those doing that are straw manning it a little bit because they want to stop the ability for people to have controversial opinions.

'The Challenge' probably boils down to how to deal with otherwise nominal speech, that at scale, can have problems.

For example, total fabrications about COVID vaccines.

Having the opinion: "I think the vaccine is harmful" - is not so bad - hey, it's just an opinion.

But when you make a vide with all sorts of lies in it, and it causes 200M people to believe the vaccine is an instrument of government control and that it has nothing to do with COVID etc. ... well then it becomes a public health issue.

That's a problem.

When foreign actors use to misinform to change the outcomes of elections, obviously that's a problem.
It is a known bias.

The first time you see a technology you immediately see things that solve some of problems you have, especially because authors tend to market pros more aggressively than cons.

Finding issues with technology takes some experience handling it.

For a relatively new thing that is in growth stage there is disproportionate amount of people who just joined and so have skewed perception.

I also thing people who would write about a product would usually write quite quickly after adoption but then won't follow up later after they got some experience.
Recently seen some statistics (if I could just find them) where clojure was one of those languages with more people wanting to work with it than jobs.
Compared to something like Go where it was the other way round
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Why does it take 100MB to download the business rules for that particular country? It will take some data, but you will need some to book the taxi anyway.
> Most people buying computers don't want flexibility, they want reliability

I think this is a correct statement, for the reason that what was once a enthusiast activity (using computers) becomes a necessity, and tolerance of problems reduces drastically when your life/salary depends on it working flawlessly.

Imagine saying these things about a dishwasher? Who’d care if the circuitry driving the buttons controlling the pumps etc is proprietary and e waste when it’s dead.
That’s not what the replication crisis is; replication crisis is more like 20 groups doing experiments that have a 1/20 chance of success if the effect wasn’t real, the one who got the positive result publishing it, the 19 who didn’t keeping quiet about it, and nobody else bothering to replicate the experiment with the one success to see if it was real or fluke.

What you’re quoting is more of “follow up studies will look at this”.
there is no current alternative for Google this days

just dont post personal data to the internet and dont search for illegal stuff with your actual account
Let's be honest for a second, we saw enough leaks that upfront prove that Silicon Valley is not a political tool for radical left wing ideology. Not only the whole industry is breaking up but the state itself is going through a severe crisis.

At some point we will have to face the truth. Companies should not be allowed to use platform protections to becoming lobbying companies. That's how they are able to erase people like Bernie, Tulsi, Wang ... they keep pushing crony politicians that can be easily bought up.
The debate should really be about the reward system - the like counter - thats the only new thing Facebook has injected into society.

It props up all kinds of things good and bad and Social Media execs have fallen into a pattern where they take credit for the good (using the good to defend the Like Counter) and pretend that the bad has nothing to do with the Like Counter.

Old social norms go out the window because everyone is busy pointing at the Like counts they have accumulated to justify their actions and behavior.

So we are at a stalemate on every debate.

Social media companies will talk about everything under the sun other than what happens to society built on top of a like counter.
I love comments like these.

Android phones largely out number iOS devices and phone home far more than iOS devices.

This illusion of caring about "security" or "privacy rights" that hackernews expresses never ever passes the sniff test.
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May be you should keep a watch at https://whatscookin.us.

Its a community meal sharing app. They are almost in production. I was a contributor there sometime back.
MS had x86 emulation for a while, but not x64 (Windows on ARM could run 32-bit binaries, but not 64-bit).
I get results about the subreddit the_donald, which has been deleted by reddit.
Favorite quote from the article - "Fail safe" is just the most basic of all basic engineering techniques. I shouldn't even have to say this out loud.
Very minimally, and DDG are quite cagey about it. My understanding is that it largely feeds Instant Answers, though I may be wrong.

DDG also uses Yandex for web search (mostly Russian content).

I've used DDG near-excusively since 2013.
Passing an affiliate code doesn’t mean they’re tracking the individual, it’s just meant to get credit for sales they’ve driven. Affiliates just get a payout of commission from the merchant, there’s no data-sharing beyond that. Affiliate cookies can be cleared by wiping browser cookies whereas Google’s data-mining (as present in Chrome) can’t be stopped.

Affiliate marketing is means to generate revenue and a better than taking massive payouts from Google, which is the primary funding source for Mozilla Firefox.

As a privacy conscious user I’d rather see a browser that be sustained without Google’s support. Given the co-creator of Mozilla (and .JS) is behind Brave, I trust it more than the fly by night browser.
> Restricted speech has killed millions.

You don't need to restrict speech to kill millions, you just need to have a louder voice than the people you are oppressing, deafening out anyone who might otherwise listen to them.
> This is just a fancy way of saying "people saying things I don't like".

No it's not, unless you also think somebody aiming a high pressure fire hose at you is just a fancy way of moisturizing your face. There are differences in quality and quantity that you're just glossing over by claiming that some generalization applies.
Why would this be an impossible technical challenge?
I see that it would generate overhead however i know VPSPs which bill by the minute or second.
When the discussion thread abounds with people who have no idea what this "stories" concept is about, and none of them seem to care to find out,... that's the first hint that you might want to question some of your assumptions.
Mainstream media is no better, look at how many pages of newspapers are dedicated to columnists, editorials and opinions instead of news. Why aren't they being criticised? It's exactly the same principle.

In the end it comes down to the fact that people are being conditioned that they should have an opinion or position on everything, because "everything is politics". And many people fall for that and therefore search around for some indication on what opinions are out there.

Instead we should be propagating the message that it's entirely fine not to have an opinion on something that doesn't affect you. Indifference is actually a virtue.
In that case, why not blame Hillary Clinton for normalizing relations with the genocidal state, so that American corporations could have access to a new market?
I wonder if you'd be as nonchalant with those same "terrorist deeds" if you or one of your loved ones was caught in the crossfire. We've already seen how some targeted posts by the military can spark genocide in places such as Myanmar. We've also witnessed how prolonged exposure to hate speech can drive a teenager to cross state lines and shoot two people in Kenosha, WI.

At which point do we put our libertarian fantasies aside and say enough is enough?
If people are unknowingly being manipulated how do you know you aren't being manipulated also? There are plenty of examples of manipulative and fake news coming from both traditional and alternative media.