skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a story from college, regarding a business law class (US laws mostly). This class was interesting for a variety of reasons, but also pretty humorous as the professor was a full time lawyer, and taught the class because he enjoyed educating people. Generally, I've enjoyed the classes most where the professor brought real world experience to the podium and this class fit that bill perfectly.

As part of the class we went over a variety of law case studies. The professor had a bit of a schtick or joke where he would ask "can they sue?"--and the answer was always yes. There was no plausible case you could not litigate. The followup question was always where the details were. "Will this case get thrown out?" or "Will they win" was usually where the discussion occurred. The reason for that, is in US law, the bar is incredibly low for being able to litigate a case.

This case is no different. According to the reversal[0], effectively the court found it's plausible that the known reward system snapchat has (popularity, endorphins, whatever you want to call it) in combination with the speed filter, is not unrelated to the accident. That's all they said, and I believe that's the correct decision--they aren't saying Snap is to blame--just that the very high bar to throw out a case has not been met.

Personally, wouldn't read too much past that. Will this case succeed? Most likely not. Will it get settled? Probably a fair chance.

[0] http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2021/05/04/20...
I'm a pretty left leaning person and I mostly agree with the things he's quoted as saying in this article.

I hugely disagree with the way that white supremacism has had it's definition widened within certain circles and how those circles are now attempting to push that definition into wider usage through the type of bullying that's on display in this very article.

For most people white supremacism conjures up images of nazi germany, the slave trade, jim crow, lynchings, the kkk, etc. Our society today does not resemble those in such a way that we should begin using that word to mean something totally different. It feels like an awful rhetorical trick where the emotional resonance of the older meaning of the word is felt by everyone each time it's used while meaning something far more subtle. We're dealing with something far more complicated today, and no number of performative denouncements will help us solve our problems.
Just googled top two people on that page ( + trump ) .

https://twitter.com/jamalgreene/status/1055797078868324353

first person on that list seem to think trump is actually insane

https://twitter.com/cboteromarino/status/896156640986054656

Yeah this ppl thought really hard and objectively about his decision to uphold the ban /s

I assume rest of the people on that committee are ideologically biased.

Silly dog and pony show by facebook.
I think OP has a similar problem to me, which is that for a lot of search queries you end up on shitty content farm websites that don't have anything of value on them. Reddit, Quora, etc will generally give you an amateur's perspective on topics, but at least it is a perspective that was written by a person who gave a shit.

For example, if I look up a given book. The first results will be amazon and good reads, fair enough, but the reviews have been gamed so I'm not going to bother with them. Then it's the blogs that have managed to figure out SEO. They read in a similar style to recipe websites, and I haven't seen any good ones in that category. Then I will find a reddit thread about the book, hopefully on a subgenre subreddit and not just r/books, that convinces me to get it or not and has recommendations for books similar to it.

If you get far enough you will find some personal blog that doesn't care about SEO. HN has link farm threads every now and then where people post theirs, and I have seen some individuals who post insightful book reviews, but you will not come across those in a search engine.
I'm pretty stoked for this. Timescale ability to use time series on a subset of tables (hypertables) really makes it an interesting choice. I've just dabbled with it but seeing that they'll finally be improving their hosted solution make me want to dive in deeper! Anyone has experience running large DB on timescale, would you recommend it?
Popup blocking is definitely not standard and expected. There is a 90% chance of every website you visit to show a popup and not be "blocked" by the most privacy-conscious browsers. But. They're technically not "popups", they're just divs overlaying over the content that you were served but can't see. Or they're little slide-banners that nag you about signing up for a newsletter email or agreeing to tracking cookie non-sense. Oh and let's not forget about the popups asking you to allow "notifications" from this site, or to allow "location info" to be shared.
It's not really a customer service thing. It's staffed by law professors, activists and human rights people, all, I assume, very well paid. It's more a check on high level things like the idea of filter bubbles.
So as is so predictable the moment this "oversight board" gets a controversial case they decide to wash their hands of it and throw it to FB in a game of hot-potato. I guess if anyone fears for their personal safety the safest option is the path of least resistance.

> The Board argued that Facebook had essentially issued "a vague, standardless penalty and then [referred] this case to the Board to resolve".

Yes, that's the idea of your existence. FB wants YOU to DECIDE on cases it may not be able to itself, you know, your entire job?

"Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities" - Not at all, they want to know what you think to make an informed decision, the entire purpose you exist.

> 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 high 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.

What BS and a waste of time this "board" is when they refuse to do their job.
yeah but if we take a summary with a bias its easier to validate our opinions.
Of course, despite being employed by a giant corp myself, i'd like to think that i'm not completely amoral :)

But I have become very cynical of any sort of corporate gymnastics done in order to justify their actions.

A future where corporations are self governing is not something we should support IMO.
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In defence of the OP, I've also heard that less women are identifying as feminists because they feel the movement has lost its way somewhat. It seems like there's some debate if that's true or just wrong things that people repeat. I've never seen numbers one way or another - and your link doesn't present numbers either, it talks about gender equality not whether more or less women identify as feminist.
I see your point. The short answer is that it would quickly become uneconomical to hand people $10 notes IRL.

Subjectively, I would consider a single interaction that merits a $10 cash transaction effectively "organic": proof-of-human-work, as it is. Anyone thinking otherwise would be free to add parties caught in off-the-books transactions to their personal blocklist - as is the case with ad blocking today. Entities compiling blocklists could then be rewarded accordingly, and in turn withdrawing trust for a blocklist considered "corrupt" would be a one-click operation.

The long answer: the commonly leveraged argument that it's impossible to conclusively verify that the contents of a distributed ledger correspond to some sort of "base reality" is simply moving the goalposts. It is already impossible to independently verify that a private database on a cloud somewhere is consistent with itself, and thus that it corresponds to any reality at all - you have to blindly trust that the organizations involved would prevent conflicts of interest. And as long as they can get away with it, they're going to tip the scales in their own favor - which is the reason public ledgers face such vehement pushback from entrenched authorities.

To continue this line of thinking, society operates just fine on a shared consensus about what "reality" is, even though in the grander scheme of things it's impossible to conclusively prove anything at all - except maybe some abstract mathematical statements. All that blockchain technology is trying to do is leverage those to introduce increased transparency and granularity into the mechanisms of establishing societal consensus - which already operate on a scale where classical methods of public oversight are insufficient.
So Blacks aren’t a “real people”? Is your actual argument that African-Americans don’t exist as a distinct ethnic group? If that’s your argument you should say so.
I don't have an account but I was able to read this. Strange that there's a paywall for you but not me.
This seems to be a mild deterrent at best.

most doors can be kicked down fairly easily. A window with plastic foil is only as good as its framing.
Yes, Americans invented the Cotton Gin and Racism around the same time, and no other culture ever has cared at all about representation or inclusion./s

I doubt this was solely Americans or that Americans are the only group of people that care about race/ethnicity. Maybe your findings are different. Please let me know where to find your publishings.
As do the NY Times & Washingon Post - see The Hill video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81GaWYA5cJw&t=366s

Same with Russiagate.
I often do the same. "forum" is also a good one depending on the topic. The problem is Google is all junked up with useless pages so scoping it down to "a human actually wrote this" is quite tough otherwise.
The word "tweet" wasn't added to the OED, just a new meaning of it.

Two entries for "tweet" (one for the verb, one for the noun and interjection) have been in the OED since 1916, with citations going back to the 16th century.
Pretty sure is the ask was to solve the Halting Problem that you wouldn’t get in trouble.
I honestly wonder if there might be room in the market for a paid-membership search engine that included only a curated set of sites.

You'd lose all the long-tail quality stuff (e.g. my own write-only blog :P ), but also all the garbage. It might be worth it.

I don't think you could kill Google with that, but it might make a viable lifestyle business.

Edit: and I meant to add - I was looking for info on a specific Synology device the other day. Google turned up Synology's own website (good) and a zillion crappy affiliate-link-spam sites. eBay and Reddit were the best sources of info when I sighed and started constraining the search with site: prefixes.
This is going into technical documentation as well. Even for tensorflow/keras related questions on specific methods the tensorflow documentation is at position ~5-10. Sites that literally just copy a random version of the docs are ranked higher...
I use ConnMan on my desktop. I wonder if there is something for me to worry about and if I should switch to NetworkManager.
The GP mentioned UTMs specifically, which are coarse-grained. Generally all links in a campaign will share the same UTM parameters. Sometimes different sizes or A/B variants will have distinguishing values. But as a matter of course, these are not unique to the user. Their primary purpose is to aggregate data, not to distinguish it.

This is different than the type of tracking you're talking about. ID-type parameters like gclid, dclid, and fbclid are all unique to the ad impression, and tied to the individual that ad was served to. Which means they can tie it back to other data sources they have about the individual. Like social graph data for Facebook, or demographic or interests data for other advertiser networks.

Personally I care about ID parameters a lot, and UTM-type parameters not at all. But that's just me.
This is a neat extension but I think we should acknowledge that stripping parameters like these from affiliate links is going to cause major problems for websites that are financed through affiliate revenue, even if they are open and honest about it.
The way I read that is that they have to please Facebook if they don't want to get fired in 5 years.
Trump started his own website yesterday. Its basically a blog where you can share the post onto other platforms like facebook and twitter.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/desk
I think it's charming personally.
Can we work on getting real intelligence into Congress first?
pg has a great article on AirBnB bootstrapping their business by doing things that don't scale. He says that they would go door to door and early on would take pictures of the rooms so that their on-boarding was easier. What I have come to realize is that all businesses do things that don't scale, and not just during the bootstrap process.

Open Source software scales perfectly, and therefore is worthless.

The naive public view of Google is that they are a Search company. The HN take is that Google is not a Search company, they are what they make their money in, which is Advertising. My claim in this comment is a company is whatever they do that doesn't scale. Google is a tracking company. They use that tracking to produce better search results, which they monetize by selling advertising.

It's the tracking that doesn't scale well. And Google knows this, and that's why their Search results punish slow loading pages. They want their tracker(which loads slowly) to be the only tracker. If all sites puts 25 different trackers all with their different stacks on a website, they would lose their 'doesn't scale' property. They then push this even further, by taking control of your browser with Chrome and your device with Android, which also doesn't scale. The market will never allow 100 browsers or 100 mobile operating systems. Developers Developers Developers after all.

So we can see that every company is what the things they do that don't scale. Once they have that, they constrain it and hold it within their walled garden, and from there they can bring in Open Source software. In essence Open Source Software allows the area of the garden to grow. Once OSS grows to being able to do anything that it can possibly do, we will still be constrained to the things that don't scale. These things will allow the companies to enforce monopoly rents within their walled gardens.
Drop loop cursive and get the book Write Now which teaches Getty-Dubay italic to adults.

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I'm not so sure the real world answer is "no". What are you basing it on? Why are organisations that promote dangerous activities (e.g. paragliding, cycling challenges) asking me to sign liability waivers? I think this is evidence against your claim in the real world.
... and I thought I was harsh with marketers. I don't want their calls, their unsolicited email, etc. I don't want them to have my personal information or be able to buy or sell my personal information. But I don't begrudge their ability to get word out for their product or service while funding content that I would otherwise get nickeled and dimed for or not have produced at all.

Nothing they say is trustworthy by virtue of conflict of interest

Everyone who says anything has that same conflict of interest. You do, I do, marketers do, salespeople do, engineers do, politicians do, scientists do. Completely dismissing value of an entire profession based upon self interest doesn't have a limiting principle.

Marketing, even if you naively limit the term to just cover advertising, is a rich and useful function of capitalism and society in general. The key to dealing with it is in protecting basic freedoms like a right to privacy.
FDA is heavily regulating medical AI products and there is an extensive legal framework around them. See 501k
Thanks for this! Awesome tip!
Yeah this is pretty much how these decisions are made at many companies. If it's not a direct kickback its a friends of the decision maker and they go golfing together four times a year. At the vendors expense of course.
Times and paradigms change. We need to thank these people or we would still be using Java EE
I usually put https://pypi.org/project/taskipy/ in my poetry dev dependencies to achieve this - then I can just run `poetry run task start`
At least all the Abrahamic religions, which I'm most familiar with, emphasize the good of sexual pleasure between spouses. That sex is only for procreation and not pleasure is a common misconception of the Christian view.
Wow, I didn't realize how many people add " reddit" to the end of their search. I've also been doing that for over a year because the search results are absolutely useless. I think this may also be caused by way shittier content though.
Not to completely derail your point, but I think if Snapchat added a "confirmed kills" counter it would be a net social positive and would make catching murderers really easy
Is there a real difference between the classic MS office applications, though? You can do spreadsheets in Word and Outlook, have styled text in your Excel document, add animations to your titles in Word, etc.

At this point they can just as wel get rid of the different GUIs facade and instead implement some contextual interaction model (and hopefully they'll include an API so we can generate these documents programatically and don't have to deal with this nth clippy generation :) )
The first amendment does not give you the right to say anything, in the sense that you can be prosecuted for convincing someone to commit suicide for example.
A rhetorical question offered in support of the thesis sentence, "This is absurd," where "this" refers to a civil suit.

I pointed out that whether Snap, Inc, committed a crime has little bearing on whether the civil suit under discussion is absurd.
Was I downvoted because (a) the laptop doesn't exist, (b) the laptop wasn't Hunter Biden's, or (c) it didn't contain any information that might be interesting to a voter in 2020?
What's odd about life and dating coaching is it usually ends up in an unqualified person practicing psychological counseling.
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I think “dating coaching” is usually a term used akin to “pick-up artist” i.e. using manipulative tricks to convince people to have sex with you.

I don’t think having there’s anything wrong with having some sort of social interaction coach or the equivalent to help learn what the social norms around dating are. Although not usually for dating, that is a form of therapy that can be helpful for people on the autism spectrum who may have trouble understanding the social cues on their own.
The definition is "the use of an interstate wire communication to further the scheme".

Email and phone qualifies, and it does not need to play a crucial role in the scheme to defraud, it only needs to be made in order to advance the scheme somehow; a single email exchange about the kickbacks with a vendor sales representative in another state might be sufficient push it from "normal" fraud to wire fraud.
This lame excuse is as infuriating as it is erroneous. If I hand your child a gun and drive them to a school and help them squeeze the trigger as I use every psychological trick to coerce them in to killing their peers, is it my fault or yours? Sounds like you think it's yours.

Perhaps modern social media isn't coercing kids in to crimes quite as overtly, but they are absolutely using their billion dollar budgets to manipulate our children in any way they conceivably can. And you want to blame the parents for what happens?
The newest car that I've had without Bluetooth hands-free was actually a 2005 BMW. But it was basically the last year facelift model based on a 90s design. I think the completely new model came out in 2006 and had Bluetooth handsfree.

It's probably way later than 2005 when pretty much every car included Bluetooth handsfree.
I bet that Altavista had its highest-ever user numbers right before Google appeared on the scene.

I bet that non-digital cameras had their highest-ever sales numbers right before digital cameras hit the market.

That's the problem with all "it won't die, it's more popular than ever" arguments.
The culture of "self-service" in companies is more like the culture of "self-waste". What just used to take a single e-mail earlier now takes navigating a plethora of half-broken apps, sites, wikis and issue-trackers - all done in the name of cost, process and 'metrics'.
Because whataboutism doesn't apply to the 'D..O....S.' that's the answer.

Also why are you asking too many good questions?

Downvoters: So we both got downvoted for 'wrong-think' and 'questioning' the obvious facts with the parent making a good point. Care to explain why?

Or maybe they hate us because we are right.

EDIT: Great I'm now flagged for wrong-think. Absolutely magnificent.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is in the same category. I don't really care if any of it was true, they're both phenomenal flicks.
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> What problem does adding all of these random 'hieroglyphs' solve?

That's a dodge. You proposed a five year moratorium on new emoji. I'm asking what harm is caused by these that justifies that.

"I personally find them pointless" isn't a great reason to deny the folks who clearly find proposing and implementing them to be worthwhile.

(Side note: "Update your device to get the new emoji" is a great way to get folks doing their security patching regularly.)
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I support nuclear power and oppose subsidies for it. A better approach is to remove subsidies from their dirtier competitors.
More importantly the hardware changes and the patterns designed to plug platform shortcomings would have to go away.
Thanks, I just bought the book (maybe the last one in stock?) from Amazon for my kids.
Yes, missing a friend's wedding or an on site interview or ..., because no more connecting flights until same time tomorrow, with a probability 1 in 6 is pretty bad odds
The simple lack of commercial slime counts for a lot.

Lately I have been printing out 8x8 and other sized cards with anime figures that have a QR code in the back and often I point these to a site that they come from.

By far

http://danbooru.donmai.us/

would be my favorite site to send these people to because it loads several times faster than twitter and pixiv because it is not stuffed with trackers, third-party CDN, ads, etc.

The reason danbooru is "clean" is that you will find the full width of the sexual imagination on display to the extent that even pornographic advertising networks can't advertise on danbooru.

Because danbooru doesn't show pictures on the picture landing page I can send people to a page like

https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/4354543

and know they won't see anything they wouldn't want to see on that page. (However, if they click a bit they will find something anybody won't want to see.)

Sidebarism is rampant on the mainstream web, pornographic or not.

The advertising economy destroys everything it touches, stackoverflow has become the idiocracy warned about in this blog post:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/a-world-of-endless-advertiseme...
Google search doesn't work without JavaScript anymore
In the sense of contrasting significantly from light backgrounds.

Maybe.
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