skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

It is always good to recall history. The origin of antitrust laws lies in the late 19th century, when a lot of railroad companies consolidated into a few mammoths. Back then, there were basically no regulations around the use of railroads, which were built by private capital.

Nevertheless, railroads became an important infrastructure of the nation, and the convergence of power towards just a few hands meant that the situation became untenable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Securities_Co._v._Uni...

I can see the parallels to the digital giants of today fairly well.
It's honestly mind-boggling how many people whine and complain about macOS not "letting" them do this or that when they can turn off virtually every one of their gripes in about two minutes.

It it too much to ask to have the normal security protections that macOS provides and still being able to block Apple services with Little Snitch or Lulu or letting Apple services go through a VPN as well?
Facebook practically invented the dark triad of addictive UI elements that are currently partially responsible for driving us all constantly insane (violence for the last 4 years, the attack on DC, etc. ad infinitum):

1.) Animated or colorful icons with incrementing numbers in some context. This is huge for the addiction factor.
2.) Infinite scrolling. Also for addiction factor.
3.) Relative Timestamps. Everything is more immediate and you feel the need to stay on longer.

So, hopefully their employees stay safe, but as far as the company is concerned... Occasionally, to continue to have a republic, we have to slay a dragon or two. I can think of three, actually.
I’m pretty excited about the GitHub Sponsors feature opening up worldwide, think it can actually help foster a culture of contributing back to the people whose work we all use. They’ve got an interesting page where they show you all the sponsorable projects you depend on, sorted by the most heavily depended-on projects first.

Besides voluntary contributions I want to see maintainers refusing to take feature requests and help requests from non-sponsors. Security issues and bugs are always welcome, of course, but it would be interesting to force people to pay for maintainers’ time and attention.

Would also be nice to promote sponsorship as marketing-companies spend tons of money on marketing, and visibly supporting important projects is a great way to do it.
told my father, 75, to install signal.
he wrote me on signal five minutes later
People are more than the company they work for. Be careful not to be reductionist by judging them too much on it.
This sounds very interesting. As I've seen others voice here on occasion, the IDE use case for VR is the one that speaks most to me. Adding a collaborative element sounds wonderful.
Where’s here? Your country or HN?
it's the opposite from my experience. gant, boss, ralph lauren, lacoste aren't cheap (by any standard). but there is usually no logo on zara, h&m etc

or maybe those "expensive ones" aren't higher end clothing in your pov?
When are people going to stop with this nonsense belief that a private entity is required to enable any speech on their platform.

Facebook is not curtailing anyone's freedom of speech; those people who wish to say things that Facebook doesn't allow are still free to do it anywhere else, just not on their platform.

Freedom of speech is only protected from governmental interference in the US, why do so many people not understand this simple concept?
>Why would any president not commit crimes to hold power and then need to keep it within his allies to prevent his prosecution?

It hasn't worked. Trump's chances of holding power would have been greater working within the system. He had his 9/11 moment with COVID and chose to squander it.

I do agree that the executive office has too much power. For a nation that prides itself on having spilled blood to avoid monarchy, The US seems to really want their President to be King/CEO In Chief of the entire government, rather than simply being the head of one of three equal branches of government. The Presidency simply should not be as important as it is.

I think that I would prefer the President have a single six year term, after which they can never hold the office of President or Vice President again. Then at least they would have to spend half of their first term campaigning for a second term. Presidential pardons and executive orders should also either be done away with or should require Congressional approval.

That said, it is surprising how many checks have worked. Most of the chaos Trump has really wreaked has been outside the system, with a band of loyalists willing to help him undermine it. But he's been stopped within the system numerous times, from repealing DACA to getting his wall built to forcing American companies to to his bidding to sending the military in to Portland. He couldn't even get the Supreme Court to rule in his favor over his election lawsuits, and he specifically stacked it for that purpose.

So yes, it's not the best possible timeline, but it's also not the worst, and let's not forget that Trump is a symptom, not the disease. If they had managed to drag Nancy Pelosi bound and, no doubt beaten, out to the gallows and hanged her for whatever imaginary treason, the whole crowd would have cheered it on.

That's the bigger issue American needs to deal with, the effect of two centuries of glorifying and romanticizing the archetypes of the stateless cowboy and revolutionary patriot, and normalizing the pretense of the white American right wing being the just inheritors and righteous executioners of American culture and liberty. And no, I don't believe that and America's desire for Presidential strongmen are at all unrelated. Many, many people have pointed out the stark difference between the government's response to BLM protests in Washington and the Capitol riots. That's also not unrelated.

The real checks and balances we need to work on are societal and cultural. Government is an expression of culture. We got Trump because we wanted Trump. We got chaos and dysfunction because we wanted to throw a brick through the window of the establishment. We got violence because the tree of liberty must from time to time be refreshed with the blood of tyrants or whatever. We fear BLM more than we fear neo-nazis because the former threatens the status quo far more than the latter. We'd hate Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton less than we would if they were men.

Maybe at some point we should stop looking for faults in the stars and start looking at ourselves?
Are you a troll?

Anyway, could you vent your conspiracy bullshit somewhere else?
nice one. #freeasssange
I don't think the latter is true. It feels like the Signal team just isn't interested in taking on work (even work done by others) to improve the UX.

I can understand that they have limited funding and want to focus on the security features first and foremost, but that makes it really hard for me to get some of my friends to use it.

Having said that, I agree that Signal's UX is not bad, just that it could be better.
This comment is completely ignorant of the professional licensing requirements that serve as the hoop you must jump through before making "real money" in pretty much every blue collar field.

What you said is true about tech but a plumber or electrician that crosses borders will start at square 1. They will have to fulfill the licensing requirements in their new jurisdiction. These requirements almost always include requirements that add up to where one must work under person holding level V license before taking test W and then work X years before obtaining license Y which lets them be responsible for work type Z and there will be a corresponding requirement that all job Zs be performed by a party with license Y.

Professional licensing requirements like this are why you have experienced oral surgeons from Taiwan slapping braces on teenagers in California and expert boiler welders from Vietnam building hand railings in London.
From the looks of it here the conspiracy shills must be getting good pay these days. Anyone know the going rate? I could pretend to be a concerned foreigner or write bobble head replies for a few bucks.
How LA Profits from City-Wide Homeless Crisis
China overturns the principle that the West must decarbonize first
That's my understanding as well. The problem, though, is that the virus doesn't completely peter out because it survives in the bats. There is a possibility a mutation makes the virus less lethal, in which case it could cause much more problems when it jumps again from bat to human. Maybe next year, maybe in a hundred years, maybe never.

Disclaimer: I'm absolutely no expert. The above is only my best guess.
I generally think it depends on how they do the branding. I generally wear simple black clothing, though I'll very occasionally choose something grey. I tend not to have much selection in stores, especially in women's clothing. If someone wants to put a small brand on their buttons, a pocket, or something similarly small and non-intrusive, I might just go with it if the clothing fits my requirements.

I'm still not going to wear obvious logos in general, and not wearing prints saves me from the most obvious stuff - and some things can't be avoided as easily. I'm not going to replace the backpacks I have: They were free and functional. I also sometimes have branded shoes because comfort is more important than a logo.
TedsWoodworking – Highest Converting Woodworking Site on the Internet
My country of Finland.
>On one end, you have Netflix practically leading the field with the best of the best engineers and practices.

They may have the best engineers but content wise all I hear are complaints. Mediocre shows and cancelling shows after one season if specific metrics aren't good enough. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
The "a new broom sweeps clean" saying goes back some time. All new leaders want to be visible, and what is a more visible action than a change of guards?

Sometimes I was hoping that this change will come sooner than later. Most notably after a change from a capable CIO to a person who replaced the goal of the company from devops to 1970s application silos.
works the same way at the president / provost / dean level at universities
How does a company that charges nothing have such a big infrastructure?
Yes, when you're young, healthy, and unencumbered by family. Like anyone who is mobile enough to make the move.

It's like the old bait-and-switch swindle.
Jitsu, is an option https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
Bacteria is latent. CFS is not not strep throat. Generally body-wide immune dysfunction is present.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19393200/
> a meaningful, rigorous distinction between “same identity” an “different identity” — I reject that

I reject that? No I don't. I need to stop putting words in I's mouth.
I would like to see this anti-Facebook activism also apply to FOSS technologies built with Facebook money selling data.

Or free beer gets a free pass no matter how it was produced?

So much for moral values.
How is it different from having a mobile phone on the table?
Most terminal usage will be restricted to the English-language software and source code, for expediency reasons or because English is the lingua franca of tech. You can usually get away without RtL and ligature/wide glyph support.

What I would like to see is a terminal that has a default high-performance monospace-only rendering engine, but gracefully and dynamically switches to a different rendering engine that supports the full-blown text layout capability once the terminal detects some input that makes use of these features.
> Although its form is outside the legality of the Constitution, the core principles of America exceed that of any other nation.

BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHA... wow, just wow.
What Is Social Cooling?
It isn't that stark though. There are current policy choices that result in statistical deaths. Other policy choices are quite likely to result in fewer statistical deaths, but you've somehow decided that the current policy is not even up for discussion.
I noticed a similar thing happens with their regional offices, while Google and other companies show their branding outside the buildings, in buildings with FB offices most of the times you don't know there is one just by looking outside or even at the building reception. At least this was the perception I had from the ones I have seen.
What Is React?
This potential role of vitamin D is very exciting!
UiPath GSuite Application Scope Guide
Please not the latter. There are sooo many apps out there where you wonder if it's a honeypot, has more or less functionality, or is a completely different product. All because the name is similar, and the app icon the same or imperceptibly different.
It’s kind of like being hated by everyone on all sides might mean you’re an asshole or something.
Primarily my work is writing and coding. When in deep work on something complicated, what I do is not really take a “real”break where I relax. I just stand up (either go to the restroom or drink a glass of water). I will still be thinking about the task or what I’m doing but I just force myself to not look at the screen and I find it helpful.
Plenty of CS books explain it better than me on an HN comment.
Nothing on Windows had voice and video for a long time but Google Talk. More and more people used Google Talk and Facebook. Facebook never federated. Good mobile support took a long time. Google defederated. Facebook and Google cut off other clients.
Are you kidding me? Donald Trump's election was a big "fuck you" to the system. They absolutely want to upend the system. The system isn't working for them, and they know it.

If the system was working, wages wouldn't be stagnant for 50 years. Housing prices wouldn't have nearly quadrupled. College education prices wouldn't have nearly... you know what, I don't even know the correct modifier... gone up by 5000%. In 1971, CEO pay was at best 30-40 times the median salary of an employee at a company. If you made $10,000 a year, the CEO might make $300,000-400,000. The very best CEOs rarely made multi-millions.

This is not a sustainable system.

The problem is, these people don't really have the education to know how to attack the system to correctly dismantle it (in fact, it might not even be possible to dismantle it from a non-violent / institutional standpoint, but that's another conversation), so they instead riot and install Viking Pepe as their leader.
"They're paid trolls" is silly and tired when it's "Soroooooooooos!" from the right, and it's silly here. There are plenty of nuts who'll happily do this for free.
Clearly it does add a new capability: it gives people an additional assurance that the mic is muted in a tamper-proof way whenever the switch is toggled, which is something that according to the article many are currently wary of.
Why would you do this? Signal doesn’t care about chat history so this is a wasted effort.
Vitalik Buterin on free speech and deplatforming
While I despise Facebook and I wouldn't wear anything with their name even if they paid me, I think this is a society failure.

No matter if you're wearing Facebook clothing, something political, your sports team clothing, etc. You shouldn't have to be afraid for it.
> Kind of gives perspective to how long Google [...] has managed to go relatively untarnished

I reckon that's because Google largely works on pull models: you ask for something and G gives it to you. Its services superficially appear like databases just sitting there, even if we know that's not the case.

FB and Twitter, on the other hand, largely work on push models: you log on and the app will give you stuff to look at, as well as notifying you incessantly. It easier to perceive the app's own agency and priorities.

In this sense, it explains why Google tends to get heat over Youtube: because it's closer to a push model, both with homepage and suggestions.

Also, Google services are largely useful to get stuff done, in a way FB and Twitter are not. That gives G a big pass.
Echoes of BLM protests in which most violent actors were white [0], i.e. not a member of the group in whose name they did violence.

Could be many reasons for this. I’d speculate that no matter the political leaning, some fraction of people are always looking for excuses to be violent, and will readily deploy others’ grievances to this end.

[0] https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/arrest-recor...
That's beside the point: there is _obviously_ a fraction that is much greater than 0% of the people who voted for Trump (whether they voted for him or against his opponents) who will now feel oppressed because the person they voted for - whatever reason - is now banned from the largest social media network in the world. This fraction is from the large (millions) group of people who had nothing to do with the riots.

I mean, read the article: Facebook has realized the same thing and that's why they are recommending their employees to not wear Facebook branded clothing.

Like it or not, the pool of disillusioned people is now much larger and I'm not particularly keen on learning what effects that will have down the road.
My brother once refused to watch anything on TV but Aladdin for almost a year. He’s a grown adult now and can STILL recite half the movies...

Kids will rewatch more than adults will
> reinterpretation had a majority support of Hong Kong people

Source for your claim?

Contrary to your claim, “The Democratic Party strongly believes that reinterpretation of the Basic Law by the NPCSC is unacceptable” https://books.google.com/books?id=1nccBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA348&lpg=...

> UK never granted it autonomy and always controlled it with appointed chief executive

UK didn’t grant democracy to Hong Kong because of the threat from China. China is to blame, not UK.

Quotes from https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-began-pu...

> beginning in the 1950s, the colonial governors who ran Hong Kong repeatedly sought to introduce popular elections but abandoned those efforts in the face of pressure by Communist Party leaders in Beijing.

> Chinese leaders were so opposed to the prospect of a democratic Hong Kong that they threatened to invade should London attempt to change the status quo.
I'd want the source and the build chain for all the mcus on that board, you can turn many things into a microphone. I wouldn't put it past FAANG to get cute with it.
Ironically my more elderly contacts added me on Signal nearly immediately after I sent a broadcast message to the WA users I chat with frequently, it was the younger contacts that I had more resistance from.
The inability of the American and U.K. electoral systems to reform themselves will destroy both countries.
The app-level keep alive will work for a while, probably a long while, but could still fail if there are enough connections using the method and the CGNAT routed has too few source addresses to map thing to. If the router needs to find some ports to use for new connections, and there are no apparently idle connections to throw out, it has few choices:

1. Just stop making new connections until some ports are freed. That'll make people happy...

2. Kill the connections that have least recently seen activity even if they have sent/received packets within the usual timeout.

3. Kill the longest running connections that aren't from a whitelist of target ports like 80 & 443 (P2P and VPN systems will just reconnect, the user will hopefully see no more than a short blip SSH will not fair so well).
You can start by the links on my comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25743690
Google is Search. Facebook is The Feed.

However you frame it, Google are showing you things you want to see - it's an affirmative feed back mechanism.

Facebook at best do that. Frequently they show you things you don't care about. Also things you don't want. It's an adversarial feedback mechanism.

In this light it's not surprising Facebook has earned a lot more ire a lot more quickly - though not undeservedly either.

On some level this still feels like you can squarely pin it on "optimizing for engagement". I highly doubt Facebook would be earning the anger it currently does if The Feed has remained a simple linear timeline. They were functionally getting into editorializing when they went with the new thing.
> Opt-out is more profitable than opt-in.

I know but so what? It's not "protecting my privacy" if it's opt-in by default...
So I guess this calls for a led monitor project!
> it pr(e)tends to be scientific, whereas it is merely a futile quibble of semantics.

It doesn't pretend to be scientific. The question predates science.

> I... My... I... I...

Identity, identity, identity, identity!
Telegram stores everything. You can send GBs videos and it will be stored and downloadable on any device from anywhere. It's like on a Dropbox or Drive. This costs a lot of money.

On the other hand, I think Signal doesn't store anything once it has been delivered and any backup will have to be made on separate via some DropBox or Drive.

So the cost should be far far less than Telegram
This is incorrect. Your link is from 2016. In the last few years several studies have brought to light that persister Lyme is real and very hard to eradicate with standard antibiotics. Even the CDC is starting to change their tune as their website now mentions persister Lyme as a viable theory.

An example: https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2019/three-antibiot...
Yes, they sell to different clientele. The Ralph Lauren/Lacoste/Calvin Klein/etc clothing that has gratuitous logos is basically a different product than their higher end products. You won't even see it sold in the same stores as the higher end clothing.

Luxury brands also frequently sacrifice a brand every few years and drop it down the "status" level, such as Michael Kors/YSL/etc, and you will start seeing low quality product with the huge labels slapped over it sold in stores like Macys where they wouldn't have been seen before.

Zara/H&M/Uniqlo are nice in that they sell non logo'd utilitarian clothing at the lowest cost (I'm a big fan).
> So, ignore evidence of fraud

Who is ignoring evidence? Courts?

> because you and others summarily deem it not widespread or systematic

"and others" includes every court presented with such evidence. As luck would have it, those weren't courts that could be said to be exactly "hostile" to the administration either. That would have been problematic.

I'm not trying to claim there is no substantial evidence of fraud. Anyone who has that evidence is free to present it in legal processes. If it has any merit, there could even be a case. There has been no such examples. That means either a) there was no significant fraud, b) there was fraud but it left no evidence, or c) there was both fraud and evidence but courts across the country rejected it because they are hostile to the administration. Which one do you suggest happened? Or put more clearly: what should happen before you believe a)?
I'm sure there are lots of... brands... that don't have any visible branding on their clothes.

2 that come to my mind right now are Uniqlo and Muji. But I'm sure there's plenty more to buy from in every country.
I used my whatsapp chat history to successfully contest a traffic fine.

My parents wanted me to check on their house while they were away. I messaged them on whatsapp when I left my house and then again when I arrived at theirs.

A month or so after my trip I was sent a fine for not displaying my car license while my car was parked on a public road. I had driven down the road where the fine was recorded during the trip. Using the timestamps of the whatsapp messages I was able to show that there was not enough time during my trip for me to have stopped to park.
apt-get install 5G
Well, that’s freedom of expression. Not quite the same, but I will concede your point :)
All Big Tech censorship related posts have been pushed to the 4th page on Hacker News. Even if it has more upvotes than many items on the front page. Even Hacker News is in on this censorship.