skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile, the attempt to recall Gavin Newsom reached the milestone of 1 million signatures. Obviously what is happening in California is not solely his fault, he's just the heir.
I genuinely wonder what's the real number. It is easy to find accounts that look like they could be bots, but I wonder what portions of those are just very dedicated individuals.

I don't use social media a lot but I do regularly post on HN for instance. I don't know what my average message rate is but it's probably around 1 message/day. Now if I just wanted to spam my political agenda on the site (and the site let me do it) I could very easily copy/paste the same bullshit a hundred times a day on every story on the frontpage. If like 20 other people did the same thing the amount of noise we'd generate is pretty large

Look at random fan wikis to see the amount of free work some dedicated individuals can achieve. I'm certain that many of these super active troll accounts are just that, dedicated individuals who feel very strongly about something and just spend 10 hours every day spamming and harassing and copy-pasting. If your output is like 100x that of a normal user (and you know how to game the algorithms to amplify your message) you don't need a huge number of accounts or automation to become a real nuisance.
Counterpoint: I am extremely scared of the fact that I don't exist on Antarctica and in the center of the Andromeda galaxy. And 10 meters below where I am. I'm just as dead on my roof right now. I'm dead in most of the universe RIGHT NOW and this is terrifying.
Most journalism has an editorial line, which is usually aligned with the people that pay the bills. It is the case for newspapers, radio, TV... even websites.

Very rarely you have journalism with neutral editorial lines.
Just to clarify what I was saying, the iOS share extension (including tags and tag-autocompletion) is the most important feature to me and the share extension is only available after unlock. Tag autocompletion will work elsewhere as the author replied.
This is probably the wrong place to say this, but ... use a fountain pen.
To make sure I understand you: Your claim is that a bunch of people showed up to violently overthrow the government but didn't bring guns because that would be illegal?
I'm tired of fact-based and reason-based news being painted as 'left-wing". CNN is just the news. I miss when we all watched the same news and it tried to be objective and half the country wasn't watching provably false news and wanting to split off into madness and domestic terror cells and make the human race go backwards.
It's pretty simple.

If you go on clubhouse right now, there is a room where you can hear 1) Some of the VCs that in the potential deal 2) Some of the angels that already invested 3) the reporter that broke the story talking about this news and your exact question.

And on top of that, they're bringing random people up on the stage to give their opinion on the matter.

What other app allows for this kind of discourse to happen at the current time?

(Now regarding the actualy valuation formual/number, thats a different discussion. Valuations are high rn anyways so a 1B for a social app is frankly not surprising. Remember that companies can create new products/pivot, but not create smarter founders or this amount of organic hype)
Exactly which people is the parent going to get killed, or calling for violence against? Nothing in this comment targets a specific demographic, or group, or individual. Right up to the line? Maybe. But I don't think it crosses it.
Definitely not. He started on a blogspot site, Unclaimed Territory and argued about free speech and got into fights with Andrew Sullivan. This is well before he got married and moved to Brazil, started the Intercept. He has not always been like this. I stopped reading him before the Intercept. The old Glenn Greenwald would have never have written this article.
A Sun Zhu strategy to take on AWS for the hybrid cloud
It's just about a messenger, not saving humanity.
Comp Sci readings based on Halt and Catch Fire series
I work with RDP almost every day for several years now, hardly been a problem.

In fact just yesterday while I could easily connect with RDP, Slack was just dying when trying to share screens.
So far this looks great. The share interface seems nice which is about the only thing I use these apps for to be honest. Anything that makes that faster to fill out is a win in my books.
Do algebra.

A math-heavy job did wonders for my handwriting.
Yup, if you want synchronous communication with me it better be an emergency or you better be an important person in my life, otherwise, you get async communication.

A lot of things are better handled asynchronously and timing is often abused and exploited in synchronous communication by the person initiating it. They want to pressure you on the spot to make a decision or choice you otherwise would rather think about. They want to use well planned out strategies and game you with social or culture pressures to manipulate you into doing something you otherwise wouldn't.

I limit synchronous communication to those I either have to or those I enjoy to be around and aren't there to try and exploit me for some reason. If you're new, you get some leeway but quickly progress one direction or the other as I decide which list you get chucked into.
Does this app have any USP?
Facebook has money, and automated filtering of content (rather than manually scanning everything) can make it scalable. Given their monopoly it should be possible to hold them accountable / there should be transparency.
Yes they did. For 4 years they blamed and attacked FB and Twitter for letting trump win. The pressure was enough. Enough for these platforms to disable private messaging of bad Biden news story links. Whether you think it was true or not, it’s insane that these platforms did this 2 weeks before an election.
"Last Chance To See" interview?
>I've heard a good deal about Alan Kay's dissent of the state of OOP, but I've never seen a concise summary of his vision or the principles that Kay's 'ideal' realization of OOP would adhere to.

Smalltalk 76-like...
I just say my request with the urgency:

"Hey, how do i do X with a microservice? Not urgent, take your time."

Or

"Hey, my service is crashing and I'm not sure why, can you look at it in the next few minutes and see if you can help? If not, I'll ask X or Y, no worries, thanks."
Why do we trust twitter etc? We seem to have forgot how newsgroups died. The problem is not solved yet, probably never will be solved with machine learning. ML just moves the goalposts for trusting the algorithm to trusting the employees of each company.
> Sure, this would incur cost for some, but c'est la vie.

How easily we discount costs that affect only other people.
I don't disagree with your overall point. But you're not making a very fair comparison. The guy holding the podium was not the worst part of the attack on the capitol.
No offense, but it’s clear you’ve never spent enough real time with people who are “deniers” to really understand anything, especially if you think what’s missing is a celebrity.

I would say the bulk of the resistance I see comes largely from distrust of institutions and people who are very pro climate change, and then secondary worry about the financial impact of decarbonization on them personally as well as losing competitiveness to countries like China who are huge polluters and honestly dgaf.
It's not triangulation, it's multi-lateration and the spatial resolution depends on just how good the basestation clocks are. And they've become very good. Every telco in the USA stores multi-lateration for cell handsets location for 2-5 years by default. They both sell this commercially and provide/sell it to authorities on request.

>Multilateration should not be confused with triangulation, which uses distances or absolute measurements of time-of-flight from three or more sites, or with triangulation, which uses a baseline and at least two angles measured e.g. with receiver antenna diversity and phase comparison.
Icelandic Man Receives First Double-Arm-and-Shoulder Transplant
They are neutral and trustworthy. Significantly so.

Nobody is absolutely neutral or always trustworthy. It's argumentation error to move from is not completely neutral and has had some issues to saying "it's all bullshit".
Fauci should've been fired for his original comments on masks. Outrageous! His backpedaling comment on why he chose those words was even worse. Given how long he's been in that role, I believe there are powers at work keeping him in, from Big Pharma or something else.

But I really want to know who decided to abandon HHS' plan to mail masks out to every household. If that person or team can be held accountable, I can overlook Fauci's addiction to being a TV star.
What is the best money making business?
Your link is broken my digi-friend?

Think you meant: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/stupid-patent-month-st...
Where did you learn this by the way? (I'm assuming this is not just a speculation.)
I had no idea! This site has too many weird hidden features
I’d love to know more about this as well. That’s the part usually nobody talks about.
> Easy.

Yes. it's that Easy and the most obvious solution to getting out of that echo chamber.

I know it's hard for many to actually uninstall and 'delete their accounts' but perhaps this sounds like a great new years resolution plan to stick to.

This time, you can do it.
Thanks for the context and background. I believe one of the founders has commented in this thread, so I'll let them respond directly to that feedback.

I think you're right, though, regarding side-stepping things. I'd really love for this to be a long term OSS project that could pull in a bunch of developers and designers. I don't mind contributing my time and some hardware to help w/ the problem.
There's definitely more Swiss-made signage and emphasis in Switzerland than anywhere in the US I've been, having lived in both countries. You'd have a hard time finding broccoli, dish soap, or wheat flour labeled with a made-in-US or made-in-[state] insignia in the US, for instance.

In general flag-bearing, however, the US might just beat out Switzerland but I doubt either are at the top of that list.
You should read Transmetropolitan [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmetropolitan
I think his association is not far fetched, did you read the post and the Narrative?

Are they not using the “Swiss” brand as a pretext to convey safety and imply security?

OP is pointing out a clear and recent example that the “Hey this is Swiss” therefore must be “safe, secure, reliable” is no longer the truth.
Nah you’re not a bot, you would know. It’s your friends who are bots! You are a member of a tiny cultish minority, living in a fantasy world, foolishly believing a con while the woke right-thinkers (who have a lot of real friends) laugh at you.
> This is one of the reasons why it takes so long for projects to migrate from Java 8 to Java 9 and beyond.

EDIT: Oh, just realized... it's probably a misunderstanding on my part. "Java 8 to (Java 9 and beyond)" is the intended reading, probably. My bad.

----------- DO NOT READ BEYOND THIS POINT ----------

Maybe it's just a phrasing issue, but...

The Java 8 -> Java 9 (or 11, in practice) transition was special in a few ways (modules, mainly), but I don't see why any future transition should be quite as disruptive? Do you have anything concrete in mind, because if you do, I'd like to know about it!
One form of how this works is something along the lines of: activist journalist find something on the platform they don't like, they write about it, go after the advertisers and try to lump them into it like "Look at what disgusting views you're funding with your money, are this the views your company represents?". Advertisers don't like any controversies so they threaten the platforms to pull their money, platforms establish measures to please the advertisers.

Another one is: journalists don't like their outlets getting outperformed by some "whackos/conservatives" on facebook, they go directly after facebook and demand that they downgrade those channels and promote theirs. They demand fact checking routines which are then in part outsourced to outlets that share their values.
Hahahah v good point. I'll see what I can do about that ;)
With articles like these, I wish they would provide examples of what they they are talking about. As in, examples of likely bots, and examples of the problematic tweets. It's not too hard to provide the evidence to really make their case.
Liberalism is inherently at odds with itself and unsustainable. This situation was inevitable.
Damn awesome. What % allocation of net worth did you go into BTC?

I bought in at the low in March, but was playing with it and didn't just let it ride and hodl. Still got a solid amount of the rise.
>No one was interested in his idea of trying to monitor component use during runtime to pay developers.

Well, today we call it "function as a service" and Serverless...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_as_a_service
What was the worst part of the event at the capitol? What do you think would make a fair comparison?
LiveView or its derivatives.
Are you sure he’s not referring to how journalists are continuously calling for censorship? For example, a headline from the outlet he just left:

> Facebook and Twitter Finally Do Slightly More Than Literally Nothing About Trump
The temporary deplatforming of Donald Trump is the perfect distillation of Big Tech’s attempt to pantomime principles.

It also sounds like he thinks that illiberal millennials graduated, got jobs as journalists and editors, and now are happy to parrot propaganda from government authorities rather than investigate and report on accounts from whistleblowers.

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/07/trump-capitol-facebook-t...
A peeve of mine: pretty much all "made outside the US" messaging is sketchy, because one of the most important differences between stuff run in the US and stuff run outside the US is that NSA doesn't need special permission to hack stuff run outside the US --- in fact, hacking stuff outside of the US is basically their whole charter.

I'm not saying you should purposefully select US technology in order to avoid surveillance, just that "hosted or made in Switzerland" messaging in privacy tools isn't very meaningful, and takes advantage of an emotional reaction in prospective customers, not a rational one.
> What about all the other big EU countries that have comparable death rates? (The UK, France, Spain, Italy, etc.)

Isn't the US richer and also... exceptional? :-)
This seems like an extension of "“Nothing to hide, nothing to fear” (NTHNTF) fallacy [1][2][3]

[1] https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Identity-Privacy-and-Tru...

[2] https://www.wired.com/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-...

[3] https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/secrecy/you-may-...
This was a thing in IRC long before Google existed.
I think they should at least present an outline of how they'd improve the status quo, otherwise it's just like filing a bug report and walking away.

It's very easy to say "this is broken", and to present that in a glossy and slick manner, but the real challenge is contributing to the fix.
This is a practically a motto in my org at AWS.

During any point in the day, I'm usually:

1.) Doing my actual job
2.) Chatting with a work friend
3.) Helping 1-3 other engineers with their jobs

If you just say 'Hi [name]', you're going right to the bottom of the priority list. I got things to do right now. Just tell me what you need from me so we can get down to business.

When things are less busy we can chop it up and chat. But if I don't know you, I'm not going out of my way to see what you want from me. Especially since I got 3-4 other balls I'm juggling at the same time.
Is this in any way related to Software Foundations Volume 2: Programming Language Foundations [0] (in Coq)? The table of contents looks quite different but the choice of name suggest some commonality.

[0] https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/plf-current/toc.ht...
The title of this article has a typo in it. It is Only Sponsors not “Sponsers”.
All true, but electrons are also discrete in number...
Previous discussion from a couple of weeks ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25742547
CIA and BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst, the German intelligence service). They actually owned the CryptoAG company. It's become a big political scandal there, with accusations that the Swiss intelligence services knew and deliberately misled their parliament.
Since that's got an active thread, we've merged the comments thither: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881704. Thanks!
I also started with GitHub sponsors after reading about Caleb's post about sponsorware in May 2020 and have managed to grow my sponsorships since then to more than $1k a month.

To those who are interested how I did it: I'm the author of Material for MkDocs [1], a popular solution for technical documentation. I created a private fork called "Material for MkDocs Insiders [2]" where all new features landed since then and tied those features to funding goals at $ 500, $ 1,000 etc. The promise is that the moment a funding goal is hit, the features are merged back into the original repo and released for general availability. It works reasonably well so far, better that I would have thought.

My Twitter following is rather small (700), but I'm posting a lot about Material for MkDocs and new features and try to engage the community. I guess if you have a large following like Caleb, you could up the amount in a few months, given that you have something on your hands that users want and solves a problem.

[1]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
[2]: https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/insiders/
How you can get banned from Facebook permanently
Well, it does remain anecdotal evidence. The point of the above commenter is that while they could be made the lack of creativity in planned economies lead to them not being made, not that there were made.
A simple password manager written in Go
> We seem to have forgot how newsgroups died.

When Digg, MySpace, and Slashdot became more convenient sources of disinformation?
Simulation is easy, probability is hard
It's sad that just because Greenwald doesn't toe the line, he's considered fringe and insane. Our Overton window is in a weird spot these days.
Awesome first project; if you need those other features you mentioned you could just use pastebin.com iirc
Yes. Most likely. Allthough I just read that hyperreals can be a subfield of the surreal.
> there were people in WY before it formally became a state

I believe I addressed this in the rest of this sub-thread.

> a thoughtful and intentional check upon the tyranny of the majority

That's an interpretation. There are others, including that it's a thoughtful and intentional way to preserve and even magnify the interests of those who own land.
Oh I have one friend like this. He's lurking there and typing occasionally "Hi" when he feels I might be there. I know that if I answer immediately, I'll lose half an hour of my life. So after seeing the message I deliberately wait a few hours, and then answer "hi" and immediately log out.

I consider it rude to demand someone's attention for an extended period of time without asking for it first. At the beginning of synchronous communication I always ask "Can I take N minutes of your time?" - this allows the interlocutor to evaluate the situation and make an informed decision.

At the same time I feel we should develop the culture "it is perfectly fine to be a nice and well-behaved person and not to answer phone calls at all, only returning them when possible".
A lot of people at DayJob do the "Hi" thing, waiting for a response. Like you, I just don't respond.
The Pascal programming language. Whether this is a feature or a bug is left to the reader...
> Are you just objecting to the phrase

Yes, I am, which is why I referred to “moralizing” above. Public policies kill people directly or indirectly. If you reduce GDP growth by 0.5% you can convert that to a body count.

Rhetoric like saying people have “blood on their hands” is just an attempt to emotionalize the issue. And it destroys our political debate and discourse.
This is kind of what Musk has been constantly warning about. Also important in another scenario is that legislators, police heads, and civilians simply have no idea how task specific AI (rather than general purpose) that governs them works so its a tiny unelected shadow club mass governing people.
The filter component is a bit optimistic lol.

It also has a hardcoded list of languages that totally don't exist on the site. I went ahead and raised an issue for this.
https://github.com/rysolv/rysolv/issues/19

Thanks for the feedback!
I'm reading this hoping for good points, but I mostly am seeing weak arguments. Also the title is baity.

>> The worst thing Trump ever did to any of them was to say mean things about them in tweets. Those aren't assaults on press freedom.

It's hard for me to imagine him not understanding why consistently denouncing the legitimacy of print media in an era of conspiracy theory (especially post pizza-gate) may matter.

>> [Facebook and Twitter] had to start censoring…because journalists at CNN and NBC and The New York Times demanded they do so.

I feel like making any of these arguments without mentioning the capitol riots is somewhat a bad-faith narrative.

>> [Seems to be arguing that millenials care about free speech less because they are coddled]

I'm not even gonna touch that one.

>> They began to censor because journalists demanded they do so, in part because journalists are authoritarians who believe that the modes of information [should be] regulated by them and by others. That's just unfortunately the modern-day mentality of the journalist.

If he hadn't slipped the word authoritarian in there, I think this might be the most interesting point of the piece. I think a lot of people, including journalists, scientific journals, textbooks, wikipedia, even HN believe in rating/filtering information on its quality (is it true?, is it divisive?, does it have an agenda?). In fact, the filtering/amplifying of information is the primary job of such platforms.

As far as I can tell, pre-internet conspiracy-theorists and demagogues never had a guaranteed platform. We tried a great experiment letting anybody say anything with amplification of the masses. Based on the results of the great experiment (Qanon, Trump presidency, "stop the steal", capitol riots) people want to pull back to the tried-and-true pre-web-2.0 journalism (i.e. gatekeepers).

This is where a good-faith exploration would really be interesting.

>> [Seems to insinuate that the NYT doesn't believe in whistleblowers like Snowden.]

I hope that's not true.
Radicle.xyz, or something else?
>I don't think we're any closer to plug and play "Software ICs" than we were in the mid-1980s when he introduced the term.

A lot of modern infrastructure works like that -- function as a service, serverless, k8s boxes, etc.
There's no question a new gaming pc equivalent to a ps5 will be much more expensive than a ps5.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19069671
Lying in a hospital bed with your medical treatment paid for is still a much worse experience than being healthy in the first place.
Used to be, people we disagreed with were bots. Now we just pathologize them.