skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a lot of movement on Reddit in the past couple of years. More memes, less discussion type posts are making it to /r/all (though tbf all has mostly been memes the 8 years I've been around).

There are a few large-ish communities that I frequent that seem to draw a lot of "normies", one of them being /r/fasting. I constantly see comments that are made by obviously tech-illiterate people. A quick google search would answer their questions, but they are content to post a comment and maybe get a response in 6 hours when someone takes pity on their ignorance. To me, this means those users are either very young, or trending older without an obvious career revolving around technology.

There's nothing wrong with those demographics, but as I think we've all seen with the rise and fall of various social media platforms over the past decade, when you reach mass adoption, things change.

For the next few years, I see Instagram continuing to take off. It's a lot easier to ignore the hateful comments or miss them entirely, instead focusing on simply looking at pictures. If FB deems engagement to be too low if/when the masses move off FB proper, I'd be interested to see if they start to include more text alongside those images in users' feeds to drive that same engagement they fomented on Facebook.

Discord is still rapidly growing in gamer circles, with almost every group of friends making their own servers. Heck, my wife is part of one with a few of her friends and she is by no means a "gamer". They just use comms while playing Stardew Valley co-op.

Public Slack groups I fear are going the way of the dodo now that Salesforce has acquired them. They've already been declining in popularity since Slack closed the invite via API loophole.

I am seeing a lot of new movement on Discourse forums. A new bank I'm trying out has one to discuss features and build community support with users, as well as my Home Automation platform of choice. Panic just started one for their new Nova text editor for plugin development discussion. Etc. Really like Discourse and I appreciate that the feature set seems to be standardized across most installations. I'm curious what kind of plugin ecosystem exists for Discourse and if that will grow moving forward. So far, it doesn't seem like many sites are utilizing it.
Ben Thompson wrote an interesting analysis of this issue, that boils down to this:

Trump finally got booted from these platforms not really because of his TOS violations. Rather, he was removed because it became clear that the structures used to manage higher-order social issues have failed (read: The US Government), and so the players lower down the stack were compelled to step in.

"Yes, respecting democracy is a reason to not act over policy disagreements, no matter how horrible those policies may be, but preserving democracy is, by definition, even higher on the priority stack.

Turn off Trump’s account."

https://stratechery.com/2021/trump-and-twitter/
I'll have to take your word for parts of this because I'm not familiar with this proof.

I'm not sure x86 decoding is oh-so-simple, because if you bring in memory the alignment is not guaranteed so you don't even know where the instruction starts let alone where it ends. An x86 instruction can theoretically have an unbounded number of prefixes, meaningful only after decoding something after that - maybe you can do it with a FSM but an enormous one.

All in all this doesn't sound like a master's project in the slightest, because remember I said design and verify not just build a never-used-again toy.

There have been probably hundreds of millions of dollars spent on this over the years, and they're basically stuck on the current width and multiple pipeline stages.
Or, they may also be indicative of the company making its money elsewhere, and thus willing to eat the cost of regular warranty replacement just to keep you tied to their hardware, so that they can exploit you elsewhere.
Since I own an iPhone i use their iCloud storage to store my pictures
Its worth posting Amazon's legal response here [0]. Its certainly clearly and compellingly argued to me that it was Parler who breached the contract.

Note, there is some potentially upsetting language in this document where Amazon gives examples of the type of content on Parler they deemed to be in violation of the contract. Consider yourself warned, if that sort of thing bothers you.

[0] https://cdn.pacermonitor.com/pdfserver/SGS7Z4Y/137165184/Par...
Sadly, I suspect this is not an isolated phenomenon. I’ve increasingly encountered anecdotes of political division souring personal relationships. I wonder if there are systematic surveys or studies of whether this perceived trend is real.
Pure democracy is essentially mob rule and it seems that a lot of tech companies make decisions democratically lately.
it’s not the money ( actually quite underpaid) it’s the attitude
This is not correct. Several votes were changed in 2016. And SCOTUS upheld their ability to do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiafalo_v._Washington (In particular, the Baca case was over replacing a faithless elector)
So Windows 10 isn't hackable now that Windows SmartScreen hides the option to run unsigned software installers?
Many people are reconsidering the way we socially network. I propose making each person directly responsible for what the post, and their hosting.... but layered on top of that is a creative commons license so other people can repost, review, comment, markup, etc.

We need to take back the web.
You should totally fork juicedata to use your route53 technique. That would be rad.
Mibo: The Fun Way to Meet
I’m curious what the Hacker News crowd thinks of the IME* issue Naomi Wu has been trying to highlight lately.

https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/134916717100428902...

Basically Signal doesn’t clarify to users that their keyboard is quite possibly spying on them, rendering all of Signals security moot if you’re trying to steer clear of spying governments. In practice this means that Signal is completely owned for most users in China if they use their phone as Chinese users normally do.

I keep hearing people say “use signal, it’s secure” and very few people also say “and the keyboard may render all of that security useless”. Thoughts? Naomi Wu has expressed recently that she feels totally ignored in this issue. Almost as if Signal doesn’t want to discuss it.

* Input Method Editor
Got a link to a declassified report? Or is that just a rumor?
> The crowd sourcing and eyes on the information of regular people could have predicted it.

> By creating even more and more internet bubbles, the 'regular people' do not even see what the 'irregular people' are up to anymore. They cannot talk them down from their ledge, there is no intercommunication now.

What kept 'regular people' from hopping on 8ch and stopping Christchurch by talking him down? Fun fact: The whole thing was well known in advance and even observed online by law enforcement.

Point is, the argument doesn't hold up. Bubble or not, things like these are accessible in every way for almost everyone. The problem is that it's not taken seriously. This has nothing to do with isolation. Simply no one cares, that's what it is. There is just too much of this on the internet at any time. Are you supposed to go after every hate comment? How would that work? It doesn't. It's just too much, even with regularly banning people.
Gallows are a time-honoured protest prop (eg, [0]), one being present isn't really the manifestation of gross negligence that this post wants to make it out to be [1].

This is not a very interesting post. Yeah you could predict that there was going to be a protest from Parler. There would have been people saying "hey, there is a rally on the 6th, lets go there and show our support".

[0] https://www.victoriabuzz.com/2019/11/climate-activists-plan-...

[1] Refering to "Parler allowed the idea of attacking and hanging politicians ... through gross negligence or willing ignorance. This idea manifested itself in the gallows erected outside the US Capitol on January 6th.
I'm in the unique position to interact with clients from the 3 digit to 8 digit ARR range, and it's so hard managing expectations across the group. All of these clients are massive, it's just a matter of what stage of adoption they're at with us. More 0s = all hands on deck, two 0s = "I can't give you any kind of timeline and may never be able to". All of this is to say please be kind, it's generally not up to the people you're yelling at, even if you're paying for it.
On Multivariate Least Squares and Extensions [pdf]
Backblaze, all 600 Gigabytes of them from 1997 to the present.
There's an 80/20 rule in the ACA [0] where at least 80 percent of the premiums paid must be spent on healthcare costs, otherwise the difference between 80 percent and the actual amount paid must be returned.

Sounds great, until the insurance companies figured out that the best way to make more profit with this profit cap is to pay out more and increase the premiums accordingly. [1] Obviously, the hospitals don't mind that either.

[0] https://www.healthcare.gov/health-care-law-protections/rate-...

[1] https://www.aeaweb.org/research/regulating-health-insurers-a...
Maybe because trolls and jerks have no goals beyond heating the discussion? Most calm and constructive forums and mailing lists I’ve ever seen had an unwritten rule (written actually, but who reads ‘em, right?) to ignore “hot” messages or at least the hot tone in these. It doesn’t prove that it’s the only way, but once the reply is done, every other user feels urge to add to that, because it is in a human nature that something said repeatedly or upvoted has more weight than something stated once, but it is harder if you’re first (crowd psychology). It is a culture of a public place (a thing that supports healthy cooperation) and they have to learn it, no matter how strong is their desire to respond.
People say: man up. I’d say let’s ignore the toxicity and go about our way. If someone wants to be an asshole, fine by me, but I’m not letting them take my fun out of my life. Therefore it would be good to have a way of hiding stuff that you don’t feel like putting your energy into. Sort of shadow banning but only for yourself.
Worth looking up John Mack. He was a psychologist and Harvard professor who researched stories of alien abductions and tried to make sense of them from a psychological point of view.

To the best of my understanding (do your own research), he hypothesized that many of these stories were true, even if the explanations were not really aliens. They were spiritual and cultural phenomena that people really experienced.

> entire schools full of children reporting metal objects landing with beings coming out to communicate with them telepathically

You're referring to the 1994 incident in Zimbabwe, which Mack famously studied. It's certainly an interesting one!

I remember going through all the videos on the internet about that incident, and ultimately being unimpressed with the investigation. There were 60 kids at the school, Mack only interviewed a few. Why is that? I get the feeling they actually interviewed many more but cherry-picked stories to fit their narrative. There were also stories about UFO sightings in Zimbabwe in the days leading up to that event, I'm sure many of the kids had heard about it before they went to recess that day?

I've never read any of his actual long-form publications on that incident though (don't even know if there are any), so perhaps I missed something.

Back to your basic question: "how could all these people be crazy?" I don't think anyone knows, and I'm not sure many people are studying it. But even a super smart Harvard professor couldn't make a strong case one way or the other, even after studying a school full of children directly after one of the most compelling UFO sightings in history. So it's probably best to move on, assume it wasn't aliens, and wait for someone to capture an alien craft clearly on video. Personally I use it as a reason to upgrade my iPhone and get those sweet new cameras ;)
Is it possible to have a socket for additional support using chopsticks/pencils?
One of my colleagues suggested we hang out on a tropical island yesterday instead of Google meet. It was so much fun! Try it with some friends or family.
It's still guesswork how many ports it actually has.

You can measure the ROB pretty accurately but the execution units have to be used to be measured.
Thought experiment: Let us say that Anthony Fauci, well respected Dr., had a brain tumor and suddenly started telling people during a live TV interview to do something stupid and dangerous like drink bleach or expose their lungs to intense UV. Stuff so dangerous and stupid that only an idiot would think of it..

Should the broadcaster cut him off? I say YES!
They can keep pests, such as rats and mice, in check. And some species that are harmless to people prey on poisonous snakes, reducing the chance of a deadly encounter.
Google blocks Australian news in 'experiment'
> I can’t think of something less American than a bunch of business owners ganging together to strangle the life out of a small business

This is the most American thing I can think of if you remove the last bit about "because of politics".
Oh dear ... good luck to their moderation team.

Be unlawful or be made in furtherance of any unlawful purpose. User Contributions must not aid, abet, assist, counsel, procure or solicit the commission of, nor constitute an attempt or part of a conspiracy to commit, any unlawful act.

Unlawfully threaten.

Incite imminent lawless action.
They based border restrictions on bigotry, not science. And the cost to wait and collect more of that data is time and corpses, so it's not so cut and dry.
Startup claims wearable can measure blood glucose without a needle
Why stop there? I'll add more to the list of Parler transgressions:

1. They live streamed NZ Mosque Shooter. https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/444349-christchurch-shoote...

2. They helped ISIS in propagating terror material for 2 full years. They allowed ISIS to post beheading videos and threaten the then President of the United States Barack Obama. They even got sued for it but took protection behind Section 230: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-isis-lawsuit-idUS... and https://money.cnn.com/2016/12/20/technology/twitter-facebook... and https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/war-goe...

3. It was used to incite Genocide of an ethnic group causing mass migrations: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...

4. They were party to toppling of foreign Governments: https://www.smh.com.au/technology/can-social-networking-over...

5. They were used by foreign Governments to censor Citizens and Oppositon: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/7/16/it-exists-to-demobi...

> They banned themselves.

Oh yes they banned themselves. The proof I have given above validates your point. I am wrong, you are right! Congratulations!
MacBook lids are really thin.
> When did speaking truth to power become "bullying"?

It _can_ become bulling when people will arbitrarily claim that the victim of the bullying is the one who "had power" while the mob that got them fired, say, was just "speaking truth". Which maybe they were and maybe they were not.

Not every incident of a bunch of people attacking someone on social media is "bullying", but neither is every incident of such "speaking truth to power", but a lot of the incidents of the former sure do try to pretend to be the latter.

I suspect that you're thinking of a specific set of incidents and that j_walter is thinking of a quite different set of incidents, for what it's worth.
Ignoring pip constraints during new stricter dependency resolution behaviour
mute/block button?

of course the implementation varies from product to product but is usually not obvious to the other party
Always found it impossible to use Google Voice outside the US.
Yeah i just hate dynamic linking and wish we’d moved past this already. Makes everything more complex for no real gain as far as i can tell...
Aka: gig economy requires you to have a skill set of 5-10 people, perform the job of those 5-10 people, and get paid a fraction of 1 person's salary.
In my case, it took about 20 years. I don't make the FAANG money because I prefer to pay other contributors, but the project raises that much. I was willing and able to sit back and enjoy the ride. YMMV.
Being fair, I said 'the closest thing to' a smoking gun. Plus you can't take these videos in isolation without considering that they were taken by trained observers using military grade sensor equipment. Not some random yokel in 1975 with an instamatic camera.
Punching people in the face for disrespecting him was his job? I guess you can say shooting people was Billy the Kid's job, then.
Payback by way of an easy ride with the incoming administration. I was jumping to conclusions regarding what side you're on but the tone of your comment suggested left wing?

You will learn over the coming years that silencing ones critics does not make them go away or make them less angry. What you will find is that moderates, such as myself, who want a balanced view of what is actually going on will be forced to seek out information from sources which become more and more partisan and extreme in their tone.

Neither of us really wants this to happen but this is the road you currently appear willing to travel.
I wonder if this is an instinctual mode of motion or if the snake just has a lot of degrees of freedom and is smart enough to figure out what to do on the fly. I guess crossing-over and tying itself into a knot wouldn't be trivial to figure out.
I've found the opposite more often than not: Users are nice, but the maintainers are arrogant, unwilling to listen to your issue, close the issue without explanation, disrespect you for bringing something that breaks their product or shows a major flaw, nitpicking until cows come home with PRs, rejecting PRs for no reason at all (screw you for putting all this effort in the PR, right?), god-forbid if you ever talk about any drawbacks or issues with the license. Users are usually nice and other users moderate them if a wild one appears.

Can maintainers please be nice?
Answering my own question... CDC page has better information - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/testing-... this is basically at the point of departure, so the airline won't let you board in the first place, and the awkward issue of not letting citizens into their own country won't arise.

Most places in the world don't have reliable means of getting a test done within the 3-day return time. I guess when I go visit my family abroad, I am going to fly back to somewhere like Tijuana, cross the border, then fly domestic back home. I'd encourage as many people as possible to do the same.
I don't think the problem is just related to social media, that is a pretty narrow way of looking at it. We use online services for everything, from buying stuff to ordering food or hailing a cab. I suggest reading the source cited by OP https://www.socialcooling.com/index.html there are many examples such as

> If you return goods to the store often this will be used against you.

and

> Your health insurer may collect intimate data about your lifestyle, race and more.

Anecdotical: if I have a night out, I tend to pay cash rather than card. Even though I don't think I'm doing anything wrong, just having a few drinks with friends. The bar where we usually go has slot machines ("pokies" as they're called here in Australia) who knows if having many transactions at that bar lowers whatever rating somewhere...

I'm 40 and if you told 20-year-old me that people would have this kind of issues in 20 years, I would have dismissed it as yet another dystopian prediction that's never going to come true.
Oh so that's why some people want 2007 back. The collider won't be turned on for another year, and you get to see cute emos.
Dinosaurs were around for a fair amount of time.. as were and still are, perhaps, cockroaches and dragon flies.
Guys you just have too much faith in AI. AI is NOT all that smart. They probably bloced Ron Paul for the same reason they blocked this ad : https://nypost.com/2020/10/07/facebook-blocks-canadian-onion...
I wonder if snakes will ever figure out they could live inside a shell, coiling up most of their body inside it and using what is outside to slither along, retracting fully inside when there’s danger.
Of course, it wears on me too and while I have constantly heard the same through my life it never broke me down but rather did the opposite. However I think this may be an age thing. I am just too old to experience the extreme wokeness that is going on many campuses around the world right now. But also, I think european campuses are much less woke than american ones.

I am so very glad I am not a student in america right now.
I think it's reasonable to critique the fact that OWS has received $100mm and I can't even add all my devices to my account (they limit it to 4 or 5, iMessage permits at least 10), or add any other phones (only tablet and desktop can be linked).

Being an asshole is unwarranted, but oftentimes one wonders where the money is going with that group. Their production is certainly behind reasonable expectations. We have stickers but not backup, we have some SGX thing for safe server contacts but video calls on desktop are still basically broken/unusable.

For that kind of cash they should have a lot more to show.
I was thinking the same. Doesn't even have to be a roadmap, even merely opening an issue for a feature long in advance, saying "comments about x go here, as we intend to implement it at some point in the future".
If it's a blog or equivalent, with content served in HTML, you can disable JavaScript for that site. The page loads faster, as if we were 20 years back in time and the adblock check doesn't happen. uBlock Origin and uMatrix can do that. If the content is served by JavaScript, sorry.
I've learned that when it comes to banks, assuming things like that is usually wrong.
I strongly hold the belief that, for the long run, the success of open source depends on establishing a profitable business model that rewards people like yourself who put their hearts into it.
I distribute a Mac app outside the app store. In my case, it's a freeware tool to hide the cursor with a hotkey or idle timer: http://doomlaser.com/cursorcerer-hide-your-cursor-at-will/

Architecturally, it's two "apps", a System Preference pane and a daemon that actually does the hiding.

There's a new dance in the last year or so where you must notarize your app before distribution. This is a bit more involved than just code signing, but it's workable. If you codesign and notarize your app, it's still possible for everyday users to download and launch without too much trouble.
WebKit? Edge is using Blink, unless I’m misunderstanding?
Those guys have at least five forms of locomotion, according to this link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectilinear_locomotion

Add a sixth motion, to which I was witness when I was a small child: Almost flying up, after "standing" on its tail :-)
Notcurses and derasterize struggle for textmode supremacy
This doesnt sound easier. My process is I wash my pan with soap and water, with a sponge. I don't need special equipment. I don't need to oil it afterwards. There's enough seasoning, it's fine. I'm using oil next time I cook.

Other people seem to have a bigger problem with burnt-on bits than I do. I don't know why that is, but I'm inclined to trust my process.

Also I like washing all the cooking oil off so I don't have used oil sitting around going rancid. Surfactants are good for that.

Acidic stuff is also fine. If my pan looks thirsty afterwards, I've got the squirt bottle and paper towels, it's easy. Cast iron is the least sensitive, most versatile tool in my kitchen. I'm not babying it.