skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure I can agree with that either (unless your definition is "does it strictly adhere to end-to-end encryption standards", in which I'll agree with you that it's not the best).

Last I used Riot/Elements (the app the uses the Matrix network), I almost pulled my hair out. It was slow and buggy. Felt like I was using an alpha version of a software from the late 90s.

Telegram and WhatsApp are two very positive outliers in a sea of very bad messaging apps IMO.
pedantically, talking to the database will involve sending a request or some kind of IPC, all of which are usually considered side effects.

[handwavy analogy alert]

people often call it "side-effects" as a shorthand. in reality an expression being of type `IO Foo` mostly just tells the compiler that order of execution matters (which isn't the case with pure functions):

do print "a"
print "b"

-- obviously not the same as

do print "b"
print "a"

and also that it can't eliminate common expressions:

do a <- readBytes file 100
b <- readBytes file 100
doStuff a b

-- obviously not the same as

do x <- readBytes file 100
doStuff x x

it's a way of enforcing ordering in a lazy language where evaluation order isn't really defined.
https://lichess.org/ is also very good. You can play without registering, all features are available to everyone for free, and the site is open source. It's a good clean website without ads or tracking.

(I used to be bitter about chess.com, thinking they're just cashing in on their domain name and charging for features because they can. And that may be, I don't know. But I have seen them organize some good chess events, so they might not be all bad. I think they pay streamers to use their site though, a practice I'm not too happy about.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquiti_Networks
Would you take another look at the account you are replying to here?
Parent post also said the following

> A divergent platform needs a basis in the culture

And arguably TikTok found that.
You broke multiple side guidelines with this. That's not cool, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended. We're trying to stave off the descent into hell that's happening right now.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25732019.
There's been some changes and refinements since Windows 3.1. The current default file chooser dialogue shipped with Windows allows you to put in a full path into both the top file path or in the Filename dialog.

Reference photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_dialog#/media/File:An_%22...

In this, a full path can be pasted in to both the top bar where it says "This PC > WINDOWS (C:)" and also into the blank "File name: | |" box.

I'm pretty sure I remember this dialogue being available since NT days. It seems fairly discoverable to me, clicking in the empty space of the current working directory path changes it to show the text path of the directory. The "File name" box offers autocomplete if you did something like "C:" as a file name, or started typing a folder name of the current working directory.
Their only job is to display HTML as fast and optimized as possible, not to guide people how to browse the Internet and what to read.
Thanks. Also it seems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16885000 (2018)
> I don’t think I’ve ever met an engineer who’s a domain expert who talks like that. Unless you have actual specific information about future plans and reason to believe in them, expecting everyone to qualify their prognostication with “this generation but it might change in some hypothetical future” is just not useful. That’s generally true of all technical topics. What’s stated today can change in the future. These aren’t physical limits being discussed.

If I, 5-years or 10-years ago, claimed ARM sucks because its in-order, then I'd be making a similar mistake as Linus did. There's nothing about the ARM-ISA that forced in-order execution, it was just the norm (because back then: it was considered more power-efficient to make in-order chips).

There's nothing part of AVX512 that says "You must use more power than other instructions". That was just how it was implemented in Skylake-X. And lo-and-behold, one microarchitecture later, the power-issue is solved and a non-issue.

Similarly, ARM chips over the past decade switched to out-of-order style for higher performance. Anyone who was claiming that ARM was innately in-order would have been proven wrong.

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Maybe it takes experience to see the ebbs and flows of the processor world. But... that's what I'd expect an "expert" to be. Someone who can kind of look forward through that.

I mean, I've watched NVidia GPUs go superscalar (executing INT + FP simultaneously). I've watched ARM go from largely in-order microcontrollers into out-of-order laptop-class processors. I've watched instruction sets come and go with the winds.

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If that's not good enough for you, then remember that Centaur implemented AVX512 WITHOUT power-scaling issues back in 2019, still predating Linus's rant by months. A chip did exist without AVX512 power throttling, and he still ranted in that manner.
Key Insights from Deep Work (Cal Newport)
Key Ideas:

- Deep work means those activities performed in a state of near distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit. This creates new value, improves your skill, and is often hard to replicate.

- In contrast to deep work is Shallow work, which means tasks that do not create much new value and are easy to replicate, often being performed while one is distracted.

- A distraction free work session allows you to learn a new skill faster and leverage your current skills to produce more valuable work. This enables you to create more quality work by focusing on activities that matter.

- Newport calls deep work, “the superpower of the 21st century.”

The Deep Work Hypothesis:

- The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a result, the few who manage to cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.

How To Deep Work:

1. Create routines. Habits take time and effort to stick. By creating a routine, you’re able to ritualise your deep work.

2. Eliminate distractions. You’ll be able to reap the full benefit of your deep work sessions.

3. Focus on the widely important. These are a small set of goals that maximise your deep work efforts.

4. Taking time off from work helps your mind to recharge and work better during deep work.

5. You should schedule blocks of time when the internet is allowed. The internet is full of distractions which can get in the way of deep work.

6. Commit yourself to a hard deadline.This artificial constraint will motivate you to deep work.

7. You need to meditate to sharpen your concentration skills and help you resist distractions.

Original Link: https://www.readinshort.co/deep-work-cal-newport-book-summary
The Atlantic: It's Time to Stop Using the 'Fire in a Crowded Theater' Quote

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
Wait, how does FB Messenger track your browsing or purchase history? Is it tracking that history outside of the app??
I disagree, you don't need a "rock-solid strategy for moderating" "user-supplied content", you just need a user base that is by and large not inciting violence, particularly against government officials.

If I run some hobbyist forum where say 1 in 1000 users is posting hate speech or calling for violence, as long as I have less-than-rock-solid moderation that can clean up some of their posts and ban the worst offenders based on user reports, I wouldn't be too worried. It's also in my interest to keep the community healthy.

Now, if 20% or 50% of my users are posting hate speech and calling for violence, yeah I would be worried, but I would be less worried about moderation, and more worried about why my hobby attracts extremists. Might call for some self reflection.
>> Last summer doesn’t compare.

You can state this opinion as fact but I think it is important to acknowledge that many people experienced the events of last summer in a way that makes it quite comparable to them.
Even ten years ago, there were things like the Great Firewall and strict laws preventing any crowdsourced mapping on national security grounds (so OpenStreetMap never quite took off in China). Sure, things were a little freer, but China and the EU were definitely not comparable.
8. If using social media supports your craft, then use it. However, only adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on your success outweigh its negative impacts.

9. Use the Pareto Principle (80/20 rule): Identify the 20% of activities that generate the 80% of your results. Then double down on those activities.

10. Assign blocks of time for specific activities. By deciding in advance what you’re going to do every workday, you’re able to plan out your day in a thoughtful manner, yet remaining flexible.
Ha! I like Japanese curry too. But I meant Indian curry prepared in Japan. I did not mean Japanese curry.

My point was that people can have discussions about who or what is better and it can diverge into other areas that could be considered hate by very sensitive people. Japan notoriously claimed for example that their snow is unique[1] and thus made it difficult to import European skis some time ago. Today this would be viewed and xenophobic or something when all it was was protectionism.

[1] kinda true. It’s ‘wetter’ than snow in some other places, but doesn’t mean Rosignol should not be sold in Japan.
Well, since many of these "experts" are professors with tenure they can't really lose their job nor readily increase their salary. They might be able to more easily get funding for their research/students from nontraditional sources (e.g. industry grants), but many of them would not, because they value the estimation of their peers which might be (rightfully) hurt. Not all or even a majority even care about money or they wouldn't have chosen the profession. Some of this has changed with startup board positions, industry coalition funding, and academic promotional departments, but not quickly.

All of that goes out the door with pundits and shills, who don't just appear once, but have chosen the field for fame/fortune... and for those who have largely chosen to sell their research topics/results for profit. However, those are relatively easy to spot by most viewers and journalists who care.
I used to think that way, but demographics seem to favor China growth for much more people for longer than US and Europe. Seems that will drive growth quite a bit.
> It’s not that what you said is untrue, but those posts are just screenshots of moderation and reward tools, not necessarily ideological conformity tools.

What do ideological conformity tools look like to you?
The insurrectionists were attacking Congress, so that makes things more complicated.
Good. It should be telling. I'm all-in on free speech. I support the right of everyone, anywhere, to say whatever they want, whenever they want, as long as it adheres to the First Amendment.

Chomsky said it best: "If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”
Ah.... thanks??! But supremacist, how??
What if Parler was a decentralised network?
The metrics they use for exercising editorial control do not matter for this line of logic. The fact that they are exercising editorial control, promoting some posts, censoring others, rather than neutrally carrying the content people wish to send (like a phone company or an ISP) makes them a publisher.

The alternative is to allow these companies to hide behind "but we didn't do it, the algorithm did". The algorithm is an agent of the company and they are responsible for its behavior like any other employee.
I connected Singal the other day to my Matrix server via a bridge:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/matrix-one-chat-protocol-to-r...

I currently have Hangouts/Messenger/Telegram and Signal all connected via bridges to Matrix. I pump all my Facebook/Messenger/Hangouts traffic in my browser through a VPN to the server where the bridges are hosted so Google/Messenger won't flag them for security.

This took a couple of tries of logging in outside of the proxy to FB, getting the security warning and then switching back to the proxy with the same cookies so FB/Google algos learn the IP is safe. Hopefully when I move, if I keep all those same rules in place (using FoxyProxy for Firefox or Chrome-based browsers) and turning off location on my Android device permanently (will also move to a PinePhone soon), I can make it difficult for Google/FB to know my location after I move from my current city.

Singal and Telegram are great because they have standard APIs that make it easy for a Matrix Bridge. For FB and Google I have to trick them, which makes them hostile to developers and tech people. We've had to do this for years with libpurple plugins as well:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/there-is-an-ios-device-attach...
Social media, Google phone, my laptop, and .NET.
> Billionaires can be held more accountable than government because they must continually compete for people's dollars.

I don't know what to answer that except that it's the quickest way to get a fascist regime that doesn't even try to hide it's fascist. Monopolies don't need to compete with people's dollars.

> Movements like the Chick-Fil-A boycott and #deletefacebook do hurt companies

None of these movements really hurt these respective companies.
Ironically, Glenn Greenwald is one of the few people who has blocked me on Twitter.
Every time I see this I think our school system has failed to adequately describe the difference between “democracy” and “republic”.

One is Greek for a concept. The other is Latin for the same concept. How this concept expressed itself in Greek and Roman society and law is complex and there were cultural differences, but what has happened between 1789 and 2021 is a whole lot of tea leaf reading into nothing.

We don’t have a King, nor Nobility, nor Serfs, nor Knights, and slavery has been abolished, so we’re a Republic. Or a Democracy, because we govern ourselves and this is the concept these words describe.

A serf or knight can always blame their Lord for their problems, and Lords can always blame a King, but we get no one but ourselves to blame for our problems because they are entirely of our own making. That’s self-government, that’s democracy, and that’s responsibility.
I don't think the missing bit is the "ease" of self-hosting a blog.

The missing piece is that social networks are not about publishing your thoughts ideas or knowledge, they are about propagating your thoughts ideas and knowledge to others. The emphasis of a social network is on "propagation" aka, propaganda.

Social networks push opinions into people's face, it promotes, markets and advertises messages in ways that people can't avoid reading even if they're not looking for it.

They're not designed to make accessible information for those looking for it, but to allow you to advertise yourself and your ideas to others. And definitely not designed in any way to filter for accurate and high quality information.

What social networks do is make it really easy to voluntarily subscribe to propaganda and be subjected to it day in/day out. It's bonkers when you think about it that we all agree to participate in this.
"If you sell culture war all day, don’t be surprised by the real-world consequences"

Isn't culture war 95% of what Taibbi writes about?

This isn't the worst diagnosis I've read, but I don't see him offering any solutions.
Guo Wengui is rubbish. His words mean nothing!
You cannot have both an open community on the internet and unmoderated content. The right says they do this, but it is a lie. Even cesspools like the chans have heavy moderation to keep them from turning into a porn distribution form.
On top of that, this is not like Hertz or Avis suffering a breach, networks and network security is sort of a big deal to ubiquiti. I know they are a more of a networking company than a computer security company but their offerings do emphasize secure networking.
Ubiquiti is slowly becoming Sonos.

The difference is, their potential for bad behavior, risks and attack surface is far, far greater.
This is speculation by an employee who clearly doesn't have power to make the associated business decisions.
They also claim that The New York Times and news outlets the NYT recommends represent "factual voices" that need to be amplified.

I'm looking for alternatives after 24 years with Mozilla.

I used to worry about their sinking market share. Now I celebrate it (2.66% if mobile browsers are included).

Unfortunately most alternatives are based on Chromium, and Google is of course also not a neutral player.

Still, there are some interesting browsers to be discovered. Opera has some really nice features now (like workspaces and a free VPN), but it's closed source and partially owned by a Chinese company. But it shows that innovation is still possible in the browser space.
https://tosdr.org/en/frontpage

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/summary-of-terms-and-conditio...

And elsewhere in this discussion is a list of prior such discussions that might mention others (you could Ctrl+F for my username here to find it, I replied to the list).
Can you give an example of content that was within that range of offense or danger that was posted on Parler?
Prior to this, seeing the writing on the wall, my previous (Fortune 100) employer was already on the way out. I think there will still be plenty of F500 companies that stay, but they will do a better job of fire walking their business from their operations in China and walking away from all but the highest returns.
I can't say for sure, but I think the point is to highlight some hypocrisy of the "free speech" argument.

That is, if you claim censoring ISIS speech is okay but not Parler speech, then you must also be claiming that there is a line somewhere between the two that is being crossed. You are therefore acknowledging a limit to free speech. But that isn't the point yet.

The point is that you (not necessary you) are drawing a line at all. It's that there is a line. And if there exists a limit to free speech, it means someone has to decide where that limit is placed. We are almost to the point.

And if someone gets to decide where the limit to free speech is placed, who gets to make that decision and why? Clearly you have put that line between ISIS and Parler according to your own belief system (or maybe not, you haven't explicitly denoted anything). But the point is that there exists a reason to limit free speech. I promise the point is coming.

If there exists reasons to limit free speech then we have a problem. You see, you and I may agree ISIS should be de-platformed, but other people may believe other things and therefore have other reasons. The point is that there is no such thing as "free speech". That everyone has their reasons. And that the people shouting "free speech" often mean "free speech within the thresholds that I am comfortable". That nobody actually, truly, deep-down believes in "free speech".

The point is that "free speech" is a myth.

So quit wasting your time calling out Amazon for infringing on something that doesn't exist (again, not necessarily you).
Why'd you put "white supremacist" in quotes? He's a proud neo nazi.
I believe Macaroons[1] attempt to solve this problem.

[1] https://research.google/pubs/pub41892/
Going back? Thunderbolt 1 and 2 were both Mini DisplayPort connectors. I don't disagree that having a seperate plug may be sensible, but all iterations of Thunderbolt so far used a pre-existing connector.
> My suggestion is that any "expert" who volunteers an opinion that later gets falsified should be canceled permanently from the public sphere, with no forgiveness.

That will lead to one of two things: (1) information paralysis, where no-one authoritative is willing to speak in public for fear of making a mistake (and so the public sphere is ceded to the ignorant); or (2) constant churn, where experts are constantly removed from the public sphere (because everyone makes mistakes), and so we only hear from the people who haven't yet had enough experience to make a mistake.
>> 'I want to spend an hour of time a day with my child' is both specific and measurable.

This is probably not a goal but a system and systems are much preferable to goals. This has been discussed elsewhere and I personally prefer to have systems than goals.

I have still not reached a stage where I can define systems without a goal as a starting point. Even then I let the system make the goal fade into the background and eventually make it invisible/irrelevant.

The key difference is systems eliminate the end stage of a goal and the resulting emptiness after completing a goal.
Why Isn’t Telegram End-to-End Encrypted by Default (2017)
Isn't that exactly the point? Apple removed them because: Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people’s safety. We have suspended Parler from the App Store until they resolve these issues

And AWS said:

“Recently, we’ve seen a steady increase in this violent content on your website, all of which violates our terms," the email reads. "It’s clear that Parler does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service.”

If they were removing the illegal content, then why did AWS say they don't have an effective process to remove it? If they can show that they already have effective moderation, then they should win their lawsuit against AWS and quickly be back online.
Old people need to yell at each other? FB has peaked I think. Their endgame looks like Equifaxbook.

Smart view on TikTok though. I thought the purpose of TikTok was for teenagers to be on a platform without their parents checking up on them, and the CCP was right there to collect kompromat on the next generation of potential western leaders.

I am suddenly very optimistic about the purposes for how new platforms will emerge. Younger people will figure it out.
You seem to be asking me to jump through some hoops to distinguish what I posted from justification of slavery. Also, as best as I can guess, you are advocating for nihilism.

How "logical" is it to say that because I have some values, they are indistinguishable from justifying slavery?

This sort of "there is no truth or good or bad" is exactly the sort of reasoning that's used to brainwash people into supporting anything and everything. Because once there's nothing true, there's nothing false.

If somebody is feeding you this line of reasoning, or some group, or some forum, I would recommend trying to reconnect with mainstream human thought and value of human life for a bit, and see if the nihilism still seems logical. Try to read a mainstream history of the Nuremberg trials, for example. Or read a book about the Reconstruction and the oppression that happened even after slavery was abolished.
> "encourage and incite violence."

98 examples is nothing. We dealt with an entire year of content on Facebook encouraging and inciting violence but it was okay because it was aligned ideologically with the powers that be.

I personally lost track of how many people just in my own friend's list advocating for "punching nazis", where "nazis" is a generic term for "anyone I strongly disagree with politically". Heck, I saw multiple people post videos of violence against people they consider "nazis" and celebrating it.

Personally, I'm 100% against the violence both last year and on Jan 6th, but it's amazing how egregious the double standard is between last year and Jan 6th.