skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the canonical meme of free speech, but there's a corollary that is becoming increasingly relevant. People who repeat what you just wrote usually seem to ignore it: If every arena where people actually meet is privately owned, and all of these places agree on what ideas are valid topics of discussion, the effect on society will largely be the same as if a state actor suppressed free speech.

We're not quite there as a society, but we are moving in that direction. Some of the biggest public arenas are close enough that it is a problem. As a current example, consider if Facebook, Twitter and reddit all agree that any discussion asking critial questions regarding transgender issues are grounds for expulsion. If this happens, there will be valuable discussions that don't happen, and society will be worse off for it. There will be people who make life-changing mistakes because they didn't have access to a viewpoint that catalyzed an insight that was important for them.

We're not quite there yet. But there are numerous incidents that make me worried that this trend will leave us with a society that's net worse off. Or moves towards violent conflict as the suppressing the free exchange of ideas has economic consequences where those with social access to free speech arenas get better opportunities, leaving the rest without even the possibility of engaging.

You see the latter being alluded to when investors on Twitter or elsewhere state that there are many factually true insights about startups that they would never state outside of a close circle of acquaintances, out of a legitimate worry that it would incite a Twitter mob and cause serious personal consequences. Everyone outside of their own sphere of influence are worse off for not being able to share the knowledge. Yet another wedge increasing the wealth disparity, and more fuel for the anger that comes along with it.
Maybe https://80000hours.org/ research can point you in the right direction about how to make significant impact.
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Please compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidentia... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_presidentia...

Observe: The 1984 youth voted conservative. The 2004 youth voted liberal. And, oh, the 2020 youth voted even more liberal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
I’m interested in being on your future mailing list.
Context: he's not saying he'll start a revolution, he's saying one is coming regardless. And he doesn't want to be shot as a rich person. Maybe he also doesn't like how tech tends to ignore the consequences of the decisions they make.

Bad example of leftism run amok and off target
Linked post references red pilling and 4chan, celebrates being hated by people, talks about how great their terrible user base is, and mentions Christian shit multiple times.

Gives me the impression that it was always intended to be populated by the types of people that populate it.
This is been an interesting read and certainly cleared things up. Thanks!
Actually Ripple is not Vaporware. I work for an MTO and we use ripple XCurrent product. XRP enables MTOs to send / receive without having to use USD as an intermediary currency. This reduces costs on money transfer and also enables money transfer even when US banks are on holiday. So I can say there is real value in the network Ripple is building and also XRP itself being used as the tool for cross border remittance.

As far as I can see they're delivering on their promises.
> Congress gets a lot wrong, but at at least they tend to stay clear of Godwin's law. Diminishing the industrial slaughter of millions of people by comparing it with some minor adjustments to copyright law is certainly not raising the level of debate.

Fascism is about an alliance between industry and government against the people. Genocide is neither necessary nor sufficient to label a system "fascist."
Seems to work fine over on https://meet.jit.si/ ?
Take a modern phone, use an app and connect the phone as a webcam.

This way you save money, time and a blog post (:
I'm pretty happy with my Logitech C920 HD - never had any issues with picture or sound quality.
Good way to burn your battery.
If you have the guts to switch to Raspberry (or follow this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fcbP7lEdzY) the Raspberry HD camera is really good!
Question is where they will end up now that this forum is dead. They will find another one.
Getting investment money from anyone who invests in an S&P500 index. Which is a lot considering how often the S&P500 is considered the default index.
Or play taylor swift.
Obviously we need to re-evaluate our foreign relations with them
I find these types of strawman confusing.

It's obvious to anyone who reads them that it doesn't even slightly relate to what anyone here has said (not letting someone participate in sporting events where they have a biological advantage is not exactly calling them pigs) but people post them anyway.

Is there some sort of costly signalling of membership of some social group (woke group?) going on?
If only you'd read the blog post, you would have saved yourself money, time, and a comment on HN.

He talks about phone-connected webcams using an app.
Screwing up remote access to dozens of servers within seconds
It is covered in the article
There isn't anything wrong. There is a lot of toxicity on HN and users with the ability of downvoting will more often than not abuse it to support their personal agendas.
an application that takes messages from a queue and sends them as emails is a microservice. anything more complicated thant that is just SoA and SoA is evil. stay mono my friends.
> So you pick: them or me?

Don't you create polarization this way?
I simply asked a question you know, I'm neither a proponent nor an adversary of anything here.

I get you have a lot of knowledge on the matter.. but you're biased and quite emotional it seems.

You're shifting topic a bit.

You were talking about part count, not part complexity. My iPhone battery doesn't have a cooling system and my car doesn't need to fit in my pocket (<= absurd arguments for the sake or arguing outside of the original question)
This feels like a 'fake it till you make it' to the extreme. Where is the actual product/functionality? A landing page without anything behind is just empty promises, isn't it?
> because there's a power dynamic. I can accidentally kill a pedestrian, a pedestrian can't accidentally kill me unless they throw a brick off an overpass.

I think this point supports the other side of the argument. The pedestrian already has a very strong incentive to be careful: they might die otherwise. Of course most car drivers would be horrified to hit a pedestrian, but most care much less about a stranger's safety than their own (and some are complete psychos who won't care unless it materially costs them). So placing the main legal burden on the driver will do more to deter risky behaviour than would placing it on the pedestrian.
Access it, saw nothing. Will never use it again. Feedback I use to run a test tool for Telepresence, users were able to see each other and see statistics on screen. They knew what to expect
Similarly, and multiplatforms, I recommend DroidCam (https://www.dev47apps.com/). The interface could use some polish but it works well on android/ios phones to Mac/Windows and Linux.
”On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.”
Twitter's own decisions regarding labeling disinformation are widely panned by right-wing circles and government. Twitter CEO Dorsey has been in congressional hearings multiple times over this.
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I don't doubt someone is repeating the CCP party line on Twitter, but are you actually saying anyone is taking those accounts seriously?

Come on now, I'm on lefty Twitter, and nobody is saying Chinese flavoured capitalism is the answer.
People can just go ctrl+c the response someone else made on the subject.

Bookmark links and have your list of links publicly accessible.
Agree with the others, you're great at this.

I don't like the video format, but yours are always very enjoyable.
Offline wallets plus a private security team should be justifiable given how much is at stake. The physical security aspect would actually be not so expensive since a small room could store all the bitcoin in the world.
This is bound to happen to all websites dedicated to posting someone else's content. Start building your own websites and online communities instead of relying on brands which are cool now but later will do things like this to suck more money out of user-supplied content.
Nobody knows. Dark matter and Dark energy probably, but again no one knows what they are either :)
The problem with those discussions is that they tend to devolve in shouting matches.

Why is that? It's because this really is about people's feelings and sentiments on those topics. And those emotions range wildly from totally supportive to indifferent to deeply threatened.

While that's all completely valid, voicing your emotions unfiltered on the public Internet in front of an audience of anonymous millions comes with plenty of caveats. It's pretty much like standing up in a crowded, public town square and ranting unfiltered about how you feel personally in no uncertain terms. Or, more insidiously, taking on an appearance of reason and rationality, trying to hide an intention of eliciting an emotional response from others that validates your own feelings.

Many people don't take issue with the topic, they take issue with your behaviour. And they will show you their disapproval.

Free speech allows you to voice whatever is on your mind, but that doesn't force others to listen to you or give you a platform. Democracy doesn't imply that any and all behaviour is to be tolerated.

In real life, such behaviour is relegated to backroom clubs, shady bars and questionable small organizations. The Internet unavoidably hosts their digital equivalent. Moreover, as you can hide behind an anonymous handle on the Internet, move between different platforms fluidly, easily find a platform between thousands that will cater to you,... all of that from the comfort of your couch, really lowers the bar further.

The danger in all of this is when all of those digitally pent up negative emotions spill over in public life and starts affecting the very underpinnings that provide security and stability to each and every member society, regardless of who they are.
That sounds interesting. A virtual learning environment filled with content that can be dynamically manipulated and discovered through an intuitive sandbox/playground interface.
A year ago, you could easily buy a good webcam for very little. The Logitech C920 is, to my eyes, superior to the MacBook Pro webcam, and offered at least semi-decent audio quality. Pre-pandemic, it could sometimes be had for £25 (~$35).

Post pandemic, however, webcam prices seem to have at least tripled (if not quadrupled). As I type, the C920 is going for £140. I can understand this as a supply/demand thing, but surprised that things haven't started to level out yet.
Reading this twitter thread, I am embarrassed.
On one hand, as another user noted, I am reluctant to take too seriously somebody who present herself as a the best at her job and suggest the racist culture of the company led to her sacking. This is both generalizing and impossible to check at first glance.

On the other hand, the absence of any tech hires from HBCUs is a potentially verifiable fact that is deeply concerning.

Is there any way to confirm this assertion ? The other ones seems hard to investigate (although just as problematic if they are true).
> and then there are many back and forth arguments and nobody changes their mind.

except that people routinely rewrite java code in C++ in 2020 and run around the Java code in circles, even when tuning GCs etc etc, à la https://www.scylladb.com/2020/10/06/c-scylla-in-battle-royal... or Minecraft Bedrock edition (C++) vs original Java Minecraft

How many times have there been rewrites from C++ to Java that ended up being faster ?
Does this mean that for any user interaction some of your code will run on backend which means you'll need to monitor the behavior & performance of the server. Imagine something breaking in a Server Component in production. Your breakpoint debugging browser-skills now need happen on the server.

Btw there's nothing wrong with this. I dig the idea of owning more of backend and Server Components are a really interesting paradigm to enable that!
Discussed 4 months ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24087247
> Why would defector accounts be biased? They have little to gain by exaggerating their plight.

Defector accounts are actually often inaccurate or exaggerated. North Korean testimonies often fall apart: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/13/why-do-north-k...

One of the incentives is that they make money, or gain a visa, through such testimonies.

Back in the days when China was poor, many Chinese defectors or political refugees were actually economical refugees. They made up exaggerated stories in order to get a visa on the grounds of political asylum.
> So there is a market gap between so-so webcams for $100-200 and a full-blown setup with a mirrorless camera, an external mic and lighting panels that will cost almost a grand or two, if you're so inclined.

Nope. You can get a mirrorless camera set up (with mic and lights) for around $500 to $600. There are plenty of 1" compacts as well in that price range.
I think the author lost me when they said that a good webcam has to have "decent sound quality" and uses the MacBook as an example.

I have literally never seen anyone suggest using your webcams /laptop mic except as a last resort.
The trick to great picture quality is to use good lighting and drop the ISO on the video as low as possible. I've been using Reincubate Camo for my iPhone along with Key Light Air Lights. The quality is better than any webcam. Most webcams crank up ISO so they can work in the dark and that is what ruins picture quality.
Actually that company is now dead, and one of the owners is an international fugitive.
I’d prefer for there to be more market incentive to avoid needing as much car travel.

Which is happening organically thanks to the cost of living increases, urbanization putting more people closer to necessity (which we should be expanding into neighborhoods; but austerity for the rubes, bailouts for failed CEOs and boards!), services like Lyft, and teens worried about the planet being sustainable for them in the future thanks to old people deciding it’s ok to just wreck it and die.

Since the 80s the number of teenagers getting their license has fallen off a cliff, from 50-60% possessing one in the early 80s to less than 30% last I saw the numbers.

The only group where possessing a license went up is 60-70 year olds.

Let’s hope we’re on a downward trajectory of forcing the entire species to eat, sleep, and breath toxicity. Though looking at the US’s concern for its neighbors I’m not that hopeful.

Full speed ahead towards the end of the world then. Super metal to ride the rocket into the sun.
I read about this a few years ago. I really had no memory of their attemps.. but what I wonder is how deep they tried to market these attempts at telephony and other devices. in the 90s. Was it more a little side game or did they claim to 'reinvent the phone' back then ? The only similar event I can remember is the newton.
GP:
> I have zero interest in debating with anyone whether or not my family and I should be gassed to death.

You:
> Coming into contact with bad ideas is the risk we take to participate in any conversation. Every time people forget, the outcome is some horrible event like genocide.

Yup, we should never forget that rejecting arguments that promote genocide may lead to genocide!

(Seriously, I don’t even know where to begin with this. Part of me thinks you can’t possibly be serious. But in case you are, maybe look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance )
> but you are ignoring until recently it was commonly accepted that women are weaker,

Last time I checked, women's weightlifting or running records were nowhere near those of men. So it is an objective law of nature that women are indeed physically weaker. (To compensate for that, they have unique abilities that men totally lack.)

> therefore the assumption must be that women are paid less because of of this perceived difference

The assumption must be that everyone is paid as low as he/she agrees to work for. It that amount is lower for women, it is only because they agree to work for less. Any rational employer should hire the candidate who asks for less money, and any boss who does not do that will likely go out of business soon, since he can't make rational decisions.

By the way, it is also possible, that a person overestimates his/hers real value to the employer, believing to be doing the same work as another colleague, but getting less pay, starting this fight for 'justice'. In the reality it is most likely that a colleague is only perceived equal, but is somewhat superior in reality.

TL;DR: your salary is an objective value of your labour. if you think you it is worth more, negotiate a raise or go get a better paying job. If you don't get it, you are not worth that pay.
> It's easy to buy some "random" sensor that was around for years and most certainly has "meh" quality by today's standards, but we need a good one, with good dynamic range, HDR capabilities and low-light performance.

So maybe it's a matter of time until these "good" sensors reach the open market, can be bought in smaller quantities and become commoditised. Then, we may see a good upmarket webcam.
i.reddit.com works plenty fine.

The site that pushes you to the app is just for your average idiot to find. A lot of the garbage we find obnoxious is training wheels for those idiots, and they love apps for everything as well. The persistent app nag is a benefit for the target user.
I can't say the same about my experience with (other people's) webcams.

From all the video calls I had this year, people either used

* their notebook's built-in webcam that's complete garbage

* any other webcam, and their image is clear as day, or at least video quality is limited by lighting or bandwidth.
How to make $2000 in 2 hours with this software
I'm not familiar with the type system of Rust but it seems like a really nice language.

Ofc a type system that helps you deal with mutable data responsibly goes a looong way to alleviate the problem but it's not a guarantee. And often times such a type system comes with weird and unexpected quirks. Here are some examples from C#:

For example "readonly" is not immutable, it's a compile time guarantee that a value can only be assigned in the constructor of a type and to that instance of the type only.

This means that for type Foo with readonly int bar, you can have a constructor Foo(...) : this(...) and the value of bar is mutable in the context of those constructors. For most intents and purposes however, the "readonly" only field however acts immutable enough to give a reasonable degree of immutability.

The you have something like private setter functions. They go a long way to guarantee encapsulation of state. But there's no compile time guarantee that an instance of Bar int baz { get; private set; } won't mutate the baz value of any other Bar instance. In-fact, it's a common misconception that private modifiers make something private to the instance, whereas it's only a compile time guarantee that it's not visible to any other type.

Furthermore, private modifiers don't actually prevent anything from actually utilizing it in runtime. You can simply use reflection or other techniques and do what you will.

Then you can do other weaker forms of type-checking "immutability", for example only exposing getter functions in a IFooReader interface.

These things all help alleviate "dark mutability" to different degrees but the underlying values are still mutable. I guess the point I'm trying to make is, yes, it massively helps to have a type system that guarantees encapsulation and immutability to different degrees. The caveat is that we are still at the mercy of that type system and the way it enforces immutability is often non-obvious and less immutable than one might expect.
A high end Logitech with a Zeiss lens and auto focus is superior to any webcam you can buy. It'll also last for a long long time.

Of course a bigger sensor and a bigger lens (DSLR, Mirrorless, etc.) is something different.
Can you recommend any dslr models or what to look out for when buying used with the intention of only using it as a webcam?
This is even worse advice! If you have a small input, you want a hashing function that matches that size[1] of the input as closely as possible. Collisions aren't important here (so "strength" isn't important), just the randomness. MD5 and SHA families give you (mostly) random distributions. The bias in the results are practically meaningless.

[1] https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/12822/are-the-sha...
But it's not remotely like sending your children to a bad school. It's more like living in an actual city where the streets are lined with the guy from that change my view meme:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/steven-crowders-change-my-min...

You can just walk right past them. You are only subjected to them insofar as their existence is recognisable, but no more than you wish to engage. Personally, I'm happy to engage them more than you seem to be. We need look no further than the many accounts of ex klan members and other hate groups to see that exposure to the edges and outside of their bubbles are what causes the bubble to burst. Go and visit hyper left anarcho communist subreddits like breadtube and find endless first hand accounts of ex-redpillers in the comments saying the same. Minds are changed every day by debate on sites like reddit, as much as it's nice to play the cynic and claim otherwise.
Try these oral history samples from the 9/11 memorial website: https://www.911memorial.org/learn/resources/oral-histories
Just disable javascript on the site.
If you work for Facebook, you have blood on your hands, you are an amoral person, and you are a disgrace to humanity.
I think most microservice implementations get it wrong. You're not supposed to run one service per machine or even process (that leads to orchestration hell and fragmentation cost at the loss of redundancy): The way you get all benefits of a microservice architecture is if you run all services on all machines: by VM sandboxing them all on many distributed machines f.ex. like this does: http://host.rupy.se

This requires your entire solution to be async.-to-async. end-to-end though. But performance, scalability and strength is unmatched: it becomes anti-fragile!
I asked about that, but apparently it was too resource intensive: https://twitter.com/MozillaHubs/status/1247599808271077376
I'm pretty sure there's more nuance to this story than you're suggesting.
This seems to be what the original idea was
Macbook Pro mic is literally much better than most webcams mics right now.
I use this rule:
Go right when you can, go left when you must.