skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We should all be terrified and our government should do something. If it’s not too late already.

Before the hivemind greys you out of existence...

I'd agree that it's a real issue, the more pernicious problem being not censorship but the deep understanding of voters and the ability to (for instance) nudge an election in a desired way, but there's really not much new about this.

Imagine the power that newspaper barons used to have 100 years ago. Practically the only information available to the public, hugely influential in their reach, filled with political bias, the Hearsts of the world could start or stop a war.

People build such incredibly strong internal models, often tribal, atop a mere candyfloss of direct knowledge of a matter that someone will always take advantage of that attack vector. It's as if humans were designed to either be flagellants or part of a conquering army.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/facebook-limits-spread-of-the-...

They suspended the story, not the account I guess.
An important point to keep in mind is that respect and civility do not require a redefinition of language.
Should a man put his wife or his mother first?
Just curious about people’s opinions
The title correctly included the ambiguous word, "might", and accounted for your correct estimation of the level of complication.
> that's a recipe for getting your browser banned by popular sites

Good luck with that. They have no choice but to believe whatever data the browser sends them, data that we control. If their precious content leaves their server at all they've already lost.
Everybody knows that the Austrians believe an increase in the quantity of money inevitably leads to an increase in the price level. It's got nothing to do with the fact that, anywhere in the world, and regardless of what you may think causes the price level to rise, an inflation rate of 2% is understood to mean that the price level has risen by 2%, not that the money supply has risen by 2%. As an example, the money supply (M2) grew by 25% in the US in 2020, yet nobody claims that the inflation rate was 25%. And so this is what the term inflation means, like it or not: an increase in the general price level. This is pretty basic stuff. Even your own quote acknowledges that this is the modern meaning of the term.
Ad blocking by default is absolutely the way to go. Spoof the Chrome user agent if this actually becomes a problem (which would help with fingerprinting anyway).

This is a bit like antivirus software authors worrying about being "banned" by the virus creators.
Facebook Oversight Board upholds ban on former President Trump
The only thing I'm really intrigued to know (and so far, we haven't done this yet), is what would we do with say, a new Adolf Hitler? Would FB/Twitter just go "nah - I'm out", how would the "oversight board" handle an edge case of an individual like him? Would he be allowed back on the platform again? Would he have a right to appeal?

I feel it's easy to draw arbitrary lines but Trump was the first such individual to really challenge platforms with his messages (and the consequences thereof).

I feel in our lifetimes we'll see these lines blurred more and more depending on who it is and what the consequences of their words are (such as those that lead to a war/mass deaths).
I like the idea of preserving the best comments as some form of blog. TheBestOfHN.com might be worth starting up by just compiling all comments with > 200 karma?
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That the US Supreme Court has a "balance of perspectives" is pure fantasy.
This is a problem of optimization, not language design. There’s no inherent reason a chain of functions like that has to be less performant than a for-loop. You need high-performance iterators in the language, and a good compiler.
Rust iterators are beautiful. If you've ever implemented C++ iterators, you'll be pleasantly surprised at how elegant it is in Rust by comparison (actually you could replace iterators with about any language feature and the above holds true.)

I really like Rust as a language, it's like a lightsaber, an elegant weapon from a more civilized era. Go feels a bit more like a blaster (sorry May 4th was yesterday.)

That said, when it comes to getting things done, the blaster seems more effective. I would chalk that up to garbage collection, goroutines vs async+await, and simplicity of the language in general. That said I use both languages regularly because they have different strengths and weaknesses and one is usually a clearly better option depending on the problem and requirements.
Emojis are designed for annotating selfies, and as such, are all mirror images of left hands.
The story, in fact, was mostly bullshit. It was being "narrated" by Belfort (DiCaprio) all along, and the mere presence of some very obviously outlandish/fickle claims serve to establish the unreliability and narcissism of the narration.

For example, at the start of the movie, he talks of driving a red Ferrari, and immediately changes it to white [1].

Another example is the 400lb bench press [2].

I also saw an interpretation on how Scorsese sought to present money and opulence as the ultimate salvation. So it only made sense to write the gospel in a way that extended that narrative. [3]

Edit: Formatting

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxZ99H5_1Z8

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/bvt20s/in_the...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxZ99H5_1Z8
"We've investigated ourselves, and found there to be no wrongdoing."
Users follow prompts, so "people choose a race when presented with a racialized emoji picker" doesn't mean "people want their emojis racialized". It means, people understand what they are being asked to do, and want to get back to their business.

You would need to have a theory of benefit, and then design a survey which tests users to understand if that benefit was achieved. You, frankly, are confused about causation -- we put a dialog in front of people and they made a selection, therefore people wanted this dialog?
One of them was about his ideas and goals for the oversight board, specifically.

Isn't the board supposed to be independent of Zuckerberg? Now that the board is created, his ideas and goals for the board should have no bearing on it, right?
> But it only takes one car (or truck) to cause chaos on a freeway.

And that's back to the original point, if you are looking for such small scale problems, make a spike strip and deploy it on the highway. Same scale of destruction as taking one car over, orders of magnitude less skill and money required.

Cars have standard components, but even for cars that don't take digital security seriously (Tesla has that reputation), no driving functions should be on the same network as the external 3G/4G. Yeah you have the infotainment or door opener there, but any ECU running an ASIL-qualified function should be on a separate network, and treat anything connected to the external world as untrusted. That was definitely one of the core architecture assumptions in all car software I've seen. The infotainment system is considered to be compromised and possibly sending malicious data. All the important communication happens on a different network, where internal signing and authentication mechanisms are also used.

And at that level, the internals are too different for the same exploit to work everywhere. What you need to send on the network to make the car brake, or what data format represents the gearbox position, those are different.
There is a meaningful difference between a failure to de-orbit properly as planned, and planning to not have a controlled de-orbit.
Yeah, I'm learning Rust at the moment. Searching on that is ... pretty good. Searching on Java stuff turns up soooo much crap. Presumably because the search volume is vast enough to make infospamming worthwhile :'(
Right, any web page with sidebars, popups, cookie warnings, and other distraction is "not accessible" by default.
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Here's my understanding: to get higher-order function calls to compile to fast code, you need some kind of compile-time code expansion: templates in C++, specialization in Haskell, monomorphization in Rust, etc. But if you make it too easy to have code expand into multiple instances, then you lose the fast compile times that Go's famous for, and that's a hard balance to strike.
You’re probably right. But I’d be interested in how many white people change the default (yellow) vs how many black people do so.
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> $130m, expected to last 50 years.

I read:

> Facebook established an irrevocable trust with $130 million in initial funding, expected to cover operational costs for over half a decade

Half a decade is 5 years, not 50.
Do companies make their discussions or adjudications public without the law requiring them to? I have never heard of this, even with Bridgewater (who records everything internally). Trying to understand where someone’s expectation comes from.
Just because something is used a lot doesn't mean that any number of people wanted it.
So like....a touch screen?
They ought to have a button to put on a high-contrast stylesheet, in fact I bet some hacker has already done it.
Neumann, while being a slippery self-dealer, certainly doesn’t belong in the same sentence as Madoff and Theranos.

Building a real, albeit overvalued company isn’t the same as running a massive fraud from first principles.

WeWork’s model for scalable cloud office space is now basically the default, and post-pandemic they are already selling seats to corporates like gangbusters.
I've used it (as side project) for a fairly interactive application (https://audiotrails.io). I'm also in the middle of rewriting it with htmx, which offers more features & a larger mindshare/future outside of the Rails community. In addition, I used Stimulus (with turbo) and Alpine (with htmx) where more intricate JS actions where needed, for example the audio player, with Tailwind for the CSS, and Django backend.

I can offer some comparisons with Vue which I have more experience with. I'd describe myself primarily as a backend developer with some frontend experience.

In both cases I found it much more productive than building the traditional SPA. Building an SPA feels very much like building two applications: your backend API and the frontend app. This might make sense where you have a team of specialists, or multiple frontends (i.e. IOS+Android+web). If you're a sole developer it's important to acquire "superpowers" that give you a productivity boost to compensate for your limited time and expertise, and Hotwire and htmx feel very much like superpowers. Combined with a compatible JS library like Stimulus or Alpine I didn't feel like I hit too many walls compared to Vue. This made it easier to focus on the UI and backend logic and kept maintenance to a minimum.

That said, the more interactive parts did require some lateral thinking where Vue would have likely been easier in terms of the mental model, for example keeping an audio player open during page navigations and maintaining state without full page refreshes (i.e. to prevent the player restarting). Another thing I missed where the sheer ease of building and re-using components in Vue, and Django templates and tags feel quite clunky in comparison (some other frameworks like Laravel have perhaps a better template component model). Overall though it was so much easier to build a traditional web application compared to the complexity of an SPA.

Comparing Hotwire to htmx: Hotwire required more server work when doing atomic changes (HTML fragments returned from AJAX requests). There's an existing Rails gem which does most of this, I had to write my own Django package. There's an expectation that it should be used with websockets, but really that's optional. In most cases though Turbo Drive works pretty much like Turbolinks: once you install it, it will provide SPA-like page transitions for free. Htmx feels a bit less polished, and the learning curve is a bit steeper, but has much more in the way of features and extensions and doesn't require as much rework in the backend. There's an hx-boost feature that works similar to turbo drive but I found it's easier to use htmx' low-level options to manage different sections of the site as appropriate.
I feel like it would be far more politically practical to add subsidies to Nuclear rather than take away existing subsidies on other things.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/technology/twitter-new-yo...
I'm no expert, but the comment threading and indentation using table cells and spacer gifs doesn't seem like it would be straightforward for a screen reader.
To be fair, neither did ice-nine until somebody decided to eat it.
This and many other court decisions are making a mockery of the courts, and makes it impossible to have a simple and fair justice system. This is not about being sympathetic to Snapchat per se, but as with any precedent, you want the rules to apply equally across the board, regardless of the parties involved.

This is the same nonsense that has trained people (and I've definitely done it myself) to write "I'm not a lawyer" and "This is not financial advice" when posting online - as if common sense no longer applies to people reading random internet comments.
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I have no inside information on Starflight but this is typical of Forth systems. They are an image structured environment.

Unless you build your own data structures that are external to Forth's memory image, called a dictionary, everything exists in that chunk of memory. Variables and arrays etc. exist where they are declared in the code sequence. So to save the game they opted apparently to just save the system image. It was the simple way out IMHO. It's trivial to create separate data area and write that out to a file in Forth.
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This. Multitasking certainly prevents you from getting there.
"It seems this person had some kind of unusual attachment to different sorts of computer peripheral cables. In the remains of his house we found computer cables spanning at least 40 years worth of technology. Clearly he spent his life worrying about whether or not he might in future need to connect up peripherals that went to their grave decades before him."
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Cute conclusion. The phenomenon of people inventing entire personalities and motives of others in their minds given some [insufficient] observations always fascinated me (used to do that myself, sure). Somebody should explore this scientifically (no sarcasm).

Honestly, all I'm interested in (in this context) is to share my opinion and see if people might write something interesting in response (thank you for your response, BTW, it's delightfully well-written and thought-helping), possibly help them understand what meant if they get me wrong.

Neither provoking emotions (let alone negative ones), nor arguing (I don't feel smart or interested enough for these) and winning (in fact, changing my own mind feels way more satisfying than changing that of someone else) are what I care about. Just sharing thoughts.

As for the emojis I never felt like they had to be colored in the first place.

We used colons with parentheses first, then we got black&white (like in letters) smileys in WinDings (and I think we should have stopped here) - expressing an emotion and nothing else,

then somebody colored them yellow, then somebody decided we need all the tones from pale pink to dark brown, now we discuss necessity of introducing combinations, and it will seem logical to automate picking the correct one by exposing your skin tone via an API next.

Do I care (let alone want) you or anybody to know my actual skin tone or any other physical parameters? No. Would I vote to add whatever tones or anything if I believed this could actually help ease racial issues? Sure!

Should we just replace yellow faces with green, magenta or something even less realistic perhaps?

PS: I in fact believe all the most outrageous and appalling opinions should better be expressed (as they exist) as long as they are expressed calmly, politely and are not implemented. E.g. I wouldn't mind if somebody politely told me their actual opinion is I should have been killed at birth as long as they don't go on killing me or anybody. I feel like that's a pity people take everything serious and can't bear what they dislike being said. Some times, depending on my mood (chemical balance) I indeed express my thoughts in intentionally grotesquely rude, sarcastic way (like calling people for whom the operation of insult is defined pussies).

PPS: I have grown up in a [rather imperfect otherwise] society where there was no racism (besides occasional antisemitic jokes) and having different skin or face features didn't mean anything more than having particular hair colour. The first time I've consciously observed racism was near my 20s - I couldn't believe people take race seriously, even today this still boggles my mind.

PPPS: I dunno why do I write this much to explain myself. Too much coffee, apparently. Excuse me.
The ALL part of all your services.

General purpose computers do general things. As much as people say things like 'safety first' or 'security first' (do people even say security first?) it is quite clear that getting products to market is the priority. If you don't get to market, then security doesn't matter.

As you add components to a computer enabled product, you add surface area vulnerable to attacks. This would indicate that you should have a small number of well designed and tested components, but remember your product does not exist in a vacuum, a competitor will release a product with more capabilities; customers cannot easily compare security, but they can easily compare a feature list and a price point.
You could argue the same for gendered emojis.
>I don't see any justification for why humanity in 2021 is courting prion disaster to a greater degree than it was in 2000 BC.

Because the 'scientific' community need to keep their jobs. You know they too have mortgages to pay...

So... point being there is endless stream of fear mongering (some of which ends up being true) to justify their existence.
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They absolutely do that, but when you copy-paste them to share elsewhere, you can manually strip all the tracking info out.

For example, when I search Google for 'Hacker News', the URL I arrive at is "https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=hacker+ne...". If I want to send that to a friend, I would edit the link to be "https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news".

The dedicated share buttons will often give you a link generated on the fly, with all the tracking info on the back end. For example, if google was to do this (which they thankfully don't), the link might look like "google.com/?query=cce1602b-5af6-4d95-965b-e88450afc266", and in the database there would be all sorts of tracking info tied to it. I can't edit that URL to dissaciate from that information, so if I share it, they would know it was me who shared it, and not someone else visiting it on their own.

Of course, companies can and do track you via less obvious means all the time, but this is just one small way you can foul a data point for them.
This initiative was started under a previous administration.

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/ai/
How is banning Bitcoin censorship? Seems like a great law to me; laws are usually the best way to prevent a tragedy of the commons.

I’m also pretty burned out on all the crypto fans warning of a slippery slope to tyranny if crypto is not allowed to operate in a libertarian free market. Come on. Not everything is a road to tyranny. We live in a state of laws and sometimes those laws impact you. It doesn’t mean that’s you’re the victim of the early stages of a fascist regime. It’s childish to think so, in my opinion.
Ideas about how to run governments need to be thought of in context of how the government operates. If was emporer of the USA, I would do what you suggest. But if I was president, I probably could not.
Right, but direct physical access is a bit different from "can mess with your car from 100 m away". A security camera will effectively deter one but not the other.
I'm not quite sure. Within my work team, Word is only used occasionally, specifically for anything document related. Excel, on the other hand, is used all the time from typical number crunching to keeping track of tasks (despite how much I despise using it for the latter). I also imagine that small businesses, like restaurants, don't require Word very often, but a lot of them use Excel for finances, inventory, etc.

In regards to PowerPoint, I imagine it lags pretty far behind in usage compared to both Excel and Word. Not many people are making presentations in the grand scheme of things. My intuition says that it's mostly upper management and maybe a single person in a group using PowerPoint "often".
>> Having clear rules that apply to all users and Facebook

> No, no and NO again! There needs to be rules much stricter for those in extreme places in society - the president is not an "ordinary" user and should have much stricter rules to adhere to, as should be expected of elected officials.

I'd argue for the reverse. The statements of a political figure must be evaluated in as positive a light as possible. Otherwise you end up with every single statement they make being grounds for removal (e.g., "We need to fight against the special interests!, oh no, he's suggesting we fight!).
Your point is valid. Any business model that is dependent on collecting visitor data is flawed and its appropriate for these companies to either change or wither. I hear the concern, but IMO the need for privacy is greater.
I think a large number of people are unaware that you can scale web pages up with Ctrl -, Ctrl +, particularly older people who complain that "text is too small".
Google Search has been becoming less useful to me starting around 2003, but in the last year or 2 has become more useful so now its usefulness is back up to where it was in about 2015.

The main causes of the decline are the rise of content farms and SEO and dubious "improvements" to browsers that make them better software platforms but worse browsers of the written word.
They can call it the Fifth Generation Computer Systems initiative.
I'm already feeling uncomfortable having access to this private information. I don't want to make use of it in any way, and there's no telling how the family would receive the news.
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"In the wake of Abscam, Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti issued "The Attorney General Guidelines for FBI Undercover Operations" ("Civiletti Undercover Guidelines") on January 5, 1981."

Short answer: The AG made it much harder to do that sort of thing.