skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t you think social media impacts policy though?

Take your example of automation. Wouldn’t the way to counteract this be through smarter policy (like an automation tax as an off-the-cuff example).

I think the angle of the paper is that social media makes enacting smart policy that much harder because weaponized misinformation can be used to stymie such policy.
The Coanda effect is not directly related to lift but it is why airfoils have that distinctive shape. Because of the coanda effect, the air will follow the curves of both surfaces of the wing, and the two flows will recombine at the rear. This allows the flow to be pointed in a different direction after passing across the ring. This change in direction induces rotation of the air. This rotation is the true source of lift.
>If they are holders of USDT they have not sold their crypto

Technically USDT is a cryptocurrency but I can't think of a real reason why someone who cashed out of BTC would keep it in USDT rather than cashing out for real USD (the FDIC insured and in a licensed bank kind). If you're only cashing out for a short period of time and are planning to buy back, then you're not really "out", and I doubt that all the tether that's out there is coming from people who wants out for only a week or two.
This is extremely shortsighted. Educated people are a lot harder to exploit. One of these students might one day lead the kind of change we’ve seen in numerous examples through history.
I can't see the reviews, probably because I am in a European country. What do they say?
Very difficult to do when it comes to entertainment. Almost all streaming services have locked down DRM that makes running open source software very difficult.

(I know someone will say “just pirate it then!” but even putting moral obligations aside that’s still not realistic for the average viewer)
> If you access Reddit via https://old.reddit.com it's always the better UI

This is an assumption that I'd had until I read feedback from users who joined reddit after introduction of the new reddit design, that old reddit web interface is ugly. Well, I think reddit knows better than us. They have the data!
> Unless you’ve been off-planet for the last few decades you’re probably aware that it’s no longer acceptable to name teams after BIPOC’ky2 people.

Something tells me this guy thinks he's the centre of the universe. Who talks like that? And what does that even mean. US centric much, bruh?
This should be sorted now! Thank you!
A better question might be what are the ethical limits of gene editing. How long until we stumble over eugenics but with extra steps? It seems to me at least to be the natural conclusion of advanced gene editing. Law of unintended consequences and all that.
I believe the reason you are getting down voted isn't because you don't cite your source, but because the reasoning is absurd.

> You will always find more dirt and problems in public/accessible records than in dictatorships.

Wikileaks isn't some sort Wikipedia of public/accessible records, it's a platform to publish confidential information.

If the US gov is a healthy, democratic, open gov, how and why can Wikileaks be so damaging?

Should we stop newspapers?
Good refs, recommend.
// but this won't make the core belief (here, belief in a god) any more rational, no? I'm interested in your take on this.

I actually really enjoy this kind of discourse and happy to connect in some direct way if you are interested. But here's one train of thought.

A rabbi and an atheist are debating whether there is a creator. The atheist says "there isn't. The universe just randomly happened to be."

The rabbi asks if the man reads the NY times and the man says yes. The rabbi says "you know how that got printed, right? In the morning, a paper truck collided with an ink truck and it just happened to come out as the times". The man says there's no way that happened, the NY times is too complex to come out as an outcome of the accident. The rabbi replies: if the times is too complex to occur randomly, how much less likely that the universe, which is infinitely more complex "just happened" to be.

That's just the flavor of the ideas. An animal does not contemplate the origin of the world, neither does a simple man. A lightly educated man can be told that the universe just is, and can accept that. A deeply questioning man is not satisfied with that explanation.

If you are genuinely interested, you can look into Jewish views on science and how much of what for a long time seemed like fairy tales in religion is actually aligned with scientific thought.

Eg on the topic of creation. Science did not know until the 20th century that the universe did not exist one moment and existed the next (the big bang) but religion knew it all along. In fact big bang was first theorized by a Catholic priest. That doesn't prove the existence of G-d as that's a matter of faith, but it speaks to the intellectual rigor of advanced religious thought.
This while we're getting news that the Delta strain is infecting fully vaccinated populations...while we're at full-steam-ahead towards July 4th...I would not be surprised if the lionshare of progress we've made towards ending this pandemic is nullified before September.
This isn't about a service, it's about devices. The Google TV launcher is the de-facto UI for Android TV devices (like my Nexus Player, which is...7 YEARS OLD and now gets ads) and Google/Android TV-powered TVs, which are made by a bunch of different manufacturers. While my Nexus Player is rooted and I could theoretically install a different launcher, many of these TVs can't be modified. So if you purchased a TV thinking that it's smart capabilities were like a dumb OS UI into services like Netflix or Hulu (which may or may not have ads in their service agreement, as you point out), now they're getting pushed Amazon Fire-esque ads that prioritize spending money with Google from the UI over the services that you want to use.
The teams UI is so fragile that I often end up reacting an embarrassing emoji on random messages.
A single meeting usually drains the entire battery.
I can't imagine how this kind of application gets passed QA and shipped.
it's arguably much easier (nowadays) to use an off-the-shelf app like TimeLimit[0] to achieve the same kind of functionality on smartphones, without ever having to flash custom firmware using undocumented/unsupported techniques. Granted, back in <=2014 this probably made more sense.

[0]: https://timelimit.io/en/
Exactly. Seen it many times
I think so. But if anything I learned to be wary of propaganda on both sides.
Aren't there additional issues with that like if you pay for a flight or hotel or restaurant, you're effectively "supporting the regime" with your dollars, and therefore it's illegal under sanctions too?
Social media is as successful as it is precisely because it works so well as a communications paradigm. No popular social media platform is difficult to communicate on, they draw in so many users because they're easy to use.

My mother who can barely use Windows knows how to chat with me on Facebook. People use social media to communicate between friends, family, coworkers etc all the time. That's how all of that monetizable data gets generated.

Yes, the purpose of social media is to profit from user-generated content and data, but it still works as intended for 99% of people.
CompCert C a formally verified optimizing compiler for a large subset of C99
"What sets CompCert C apart from any other production compiler, is that it is formally verified, using machine-assisted mathematical proofs, to be exempt from miscompilation issues. In other words, the executable code it produces is proved to behave exactly as specified by the semantics of the source C program... In particular, using the CompCert C compiler is a natural complement to applying formal verification techniques (static analysis, program proof, model checking) at the source code level..."

Also relevant:

"Verifiable C"

https://vst.cs.princeton.edu/

"Cyclone a safe dialect of C"

https://cyclone.thelanguage.org/

"Checked C"

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/checked-c/

"Frama C"

https://frama-c.com/
What is it with "search doesn't work/work well" being a universal gripe with all of Microsoft's products ?

It's not like there are no good examples of what modern user expectations are for searching a body of text....
You need to check your timeframe
> So I like the analysis but I disagree with the generality.

Any organization that releases software revisions has this issue. Yes, we do live in a world where much software is now subject to "continuous release" (either applications which are auto-updated to latest, on phones and some laptop OSes or web-only applications where the latest is pushed to deployment). And indeed the specific issue described here is much less important.

However I suspect the majority of software in use is not like that. On the Enterprise side, OSes and applications are updated carefully; an ERP upgrade can be a major undertaking. All sorts of machine control software is ether never upgraded, with limited patching, or treated the same way as other enterprise software. Etc.

The difference between the two is why there is both "git flow" and "GitHub flow" -- it's not like one is absolutely superior to the other.
More people die of car accidents yearly than died of covid in the 80% of the population that is below 55 years old.

The average death from covid is 80 years old with multiple comorbidities.

We appear to be totally fine as a society to let kids kill themselves to save unhealthy old people.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/
I found this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204069

Is there something I'm missing?
It is a bug when you use VH instead of VW on your height attribute. Always use VW on mobile because of the default behavior on mobile browsers to show the address bar when scrolling.
The funny part is neither GP nor the other green accounts invested in defending the point don’t actually expand on what that means. Come on man, if you’re going say something like that under the guise of advice it’s probably best to spell it out.
I'm 90% sure it's when they started personalizing the feeds. You only see things the algorithm thinks you're going to like, but it has a very shallow idea of you as a human being limited to your outward expression.

Then It pushes you further and further to the extremes of what it thinks you like.

People were warning about filter bubbles even before Facebook did it.
Can you watch porn on that? Can you stream random online media? Really curious, I do things on my TV I don't see working in a typical apple eco system
I don’t believe there is any coherent moral argument against piracy in the face of such hostile tactics from media companies.
What an absolute useless waste of energy ! ...
It's a bit skewed since it's a default system installed app and people generally aren't going to rate it unless they are unhappy but hopefully it doesn't blow over. I agree that there are a lot of people who are unhappy (including myself).
You might want to keep it on-chain, which a stablecoin would allow you to do.

I can't think of a good reason to keep it in USDT that sits on a centralized exchange, but maybe someone has one.
I looked through this thread when searching for a workaround but this method didn't work for me (2019 Shield TV Pro), I had to swap the launcher.
Sounds pretty authoritarian...but still I cringe to see this downvoted. Perhaps "Educate about the dangers of social media, and promote health, responsible, reverent use, because the kids are gonna do it either way"...
Does Bret realize that private bills were in fact a common method of naturalizing people up until the 40s or so?
The original Mac or Lisa was good in some ways, but it also problems with faux minimalism. In particular, Jobs insisted on a single-button mouse for 'simplicity', but that required inventing the entirely undiscoverable double click, which had to be taught, and still causes confusion today.
There's a lot of 'political' content on instagram. do a quick google search for 'politigram' and you'll see what I'm talking about. That being said, there are definitely per-platform affordances that may change the degree and extent to which its expressed (and, crucially, to whom).
That’s a legitimate issue. Handwriting makes my hand cramp up quickly, and has since elementary school. The moment I was allowed to stop writing and start typing, I leapt at the chance. Turns out I enjoy stringing words together when it’s not physically painful.

My experimentation with fountain pens helped a lot. You have to use a much lighter touch; if you mash a fountain pen against the paper the same way you would a crappy ballpoint, it’d make a huge mess and probably rip through the paper. Being forced to dial the pressure waaaayyyy back, and in the case of the Lamy Safari to hold the pen with a “proper” grip, make writing dramatically more comfortable. But know what’s many times more comfortable than that? Almost any keyboard that’s not completely awful. I’m writing this with an Apple Smart Keyboard Folio, which isn’t even in the same league as my main desktop keyboard, but is still vastly better than any pen I’ve ever used.
Windows 11 won't work without a TPM – What you need to know
Not at all. The UN's human rights department has found it to be so:

from https://news.un.org/en/story/2016/02/521632-wikileaks-founde...

> The founder of the WikiLeaks website, which published confidential diplomatic information, has been arbitrarily detained by Sweden and the United Kingdom since his arrest in London in December 2010, as a result of the legal action against him by both Governments, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said today.

Skipping bail to seek asylum in a country that will attempt to preserve your human rights, when not skipping bail means you get extradited to a country that will torture you via extended solitary confinement prior to trial is not what most people mean when they use the phrase "skipping bail". If any description is dishonest here, it's that.

A sham trial that you get tortured before getting to attend is always something to be avoided. Let's not forget that Manning was tortured to the point of multiple suicide attempts in prison prior to trial, as well as being declared guilty in public by a sitting US president (also before trial).

Several senior officials in the US government called for Assange's summary execution for publishing. There is approximately zero chance that he will receive a fair trial or humane treatment in the USA.
I'm wondering that too, or specifically how it compares to Matrix run as a Tor hidden service, which is apparently possible:

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2111#issuecomme...
I usually ask myself a few questions:

- Could I see myself happier somewhere else?

- Do I dread work days more often than when I started?

- Is there room for me to grow (career or personally)?

Best time I knew was when I kept butting heads with my department head. More often than not, the arguments were over things one could easily Google. I determined if I already was closer to being an expert than my direct boss, maybe I should make a change. Best career decision I've made.
Makes sense given the cap they have on how much foreign currency they can buy
Agreed. It's like saying "oh well I just fly the airplane really carefully". A lot of codebases eclipse the point where one person can understand the whole system. Testing, static analysis and tooling are what allows us to keep the plane flying.
* Reading

* More and better work (I work for myself, so this is actually great)

* Movies (I don't consider these to be part of the bottomless well. I would very rarely watch more than one in one sitting).

* Actively listening to music and singing (used to sing in a metal band, if I'm bored, instead of going on Youtube, I'll just growl Metallica or Megadeth around the house like back in the day)

* Hanging out with friends

I've done significantly more of all of the above since I quit.

I'm also feeling more creative and entrepreneurial thanks to the feeling of mastery over my time, and the frequent boredom that comes with not having a quick digital fix that ends up turning into hours of infinite scrolling.

My biggest drains were Youtube, Reddit, and news media. I've easily reclaimed anywhere between 10-15h just from quitting those.
They are all negative 1-star reviews complaining about a new giant banner that takes up a third of the home screen.

Google did the same thing to the iOS YouTube app recently.
The edition with Weaver's introduction is also very good, especially if you would like the context and ramifications of Shannon's theory.

https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2383164/component/file_2...
Extraordinary claims (Trump colludes with Russians, Russians hack DNC) requires extraordinary evidence. In over 5 years, this has not been presented.
Ask HN: Best “I brought down production” story?
What is your best "and then I brought down production" story?
Grandmaster, the Story of James Canty III
I understand the reaction to this maybe-slightly-over-simplistic statement, but there's definitely a conversation to be had about defanging at least the most the toxic effects of social media. Unfortunately we're still in the "gold rush" era of social media, societal health be damned.
> Most of the "channel" apps are also very nice, the exception being Amazon's clunky Prime Video app.

To be fair, I've not seen any other platform where Prime Video's interface isn't terrible, and that's including Fire-whatevers. Been that way for years. I guess it's working OK for them, since they don't seem inclined to fix it. In particular, they probably regard making it hard to tell whether something's free-with-Prime or pay-per-view until the moment you choose whether to play it, as a feature.
What assumptions? It's a thought experiment showing off one end of the spectrum.
No? Not the Kodi I have at least, it feels like a huge open source community with many clunky but usually working apps.
I 100% think that social media is shrinking our collective attention spans, and the cumulative effects of this are unpredictable.

Infinitely scrolling through flashy, zero-effort "snackable" content is the equivalent of mental junk food.
So great call out. My mention of the downvotes wasn't in reference to my comment, but into the parent I was replying to who is clearly newish to Monads. And their summary is actually fairly accurate.

If you can read and understand this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27639779) then you understand 80% of the practical use of Monad.

And the majority of people who understand that comment, could now implement the flatMap/join/>>= for the "Maybe a" Monad. And could probably implement ">>" for it as well.

And if you can implement "bind" for a randomly requested Monad, while you may not know what a Kleisli Category is, nor be able to define the monad laws and might still make a mistake implementing one, you have the essential concept of a Monad.
There's a vast difference between acceptable behavior for guests and making something illegal.

HN is a forum where we are the guests of pg, dang, et al. They have rules for behavior -- https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Not abiding by these rules can get you banned. Are you going to complain about that? Are your rights being trampled on?

edit: p.s., it's "banned", not "band"
> That is nonsense, otherwise the driver would have to be loaded at boot time,

This is already common - see valorant as an example.

> Which is expensive since you now have to pay for the hardware instead of your customers paying for it, so that too is about profit. I

No, it's about latency. See the absolutely vehement reaction to streaming services for twitch shooters on gaming forums.

> Something has to reconcile those, which might as well be the server rather than the client.

The problem here is that the server is some distance away from all the players. Waiting for a round trip from two players with server frame times could be up to 250ms, so for a better experience, some element of that is usually left up to the client; you can spin that either way, either the shooter gets the advantage, or the defender gets the advantage.

> Most cheats that don't involve a broken game engine are of two flavors

Most game engines are broken. The reality of the situation is that 1) this stuff is _really hard_, and 2) there are tradeoffs to be made at every single step of the process that affect how the game plays and feels. Moving processing to the server means latency, predicting and correcting server-side calculations means rubber banding. Neither of these things feel good in a twitch shooter.

> A) Can be prevented by reducing the information the server sends to the client to the necessary amount to render their current view.

Not just their current view, but everything the client needs to know about the next X ms before it expects its next server update (which might even be adjusted at a later point in time). And that state is just sitting there in memory, waiting to be (ab)used.

> B) cannot be prevented by any means as one could always hook up the output pixels of a GPU to an external computer and an emulated mouse via USB,

The number of people who are willing to do that is drastically smaller than the number of people willing to pay $130 a month for a rootkit that they willing install [0]. As I said in my previous comment, this isn't about eliminating cheating 100% - it's a cat and mouse game. It's about raising the barrier to entry from credit card to specialised hardware.

[0] https://www.skycheats.com/store/category/6-overwatch/

> Neither of those have to do with the client determining "I shot at X" on its own.

Even if you send inputs, and allow for a small amount of correction (because both clients have different representations of the game state at the same time), all it takes is one client to send "I actually did shoot at that guy 50ms ago".
Yep, but the installation is far simpler than the procedure for installing a Linux application not available at repositories or an application that uses unstable libraries likely to change the ABI. All one needs to install an MacOSX app-bundle is to drag and drop the .app folder or .dmg disk image to /Applications. MacOSX reads the plist metadata and finds the icon and the executable path, then renders the icon making easier and intuitive for non technical users to just click and run the application.

On Windows is easier to build self-contained applications as there is no the RPATH issue. All one needs to build a self-contained application that is easier to ship and works everywhere is just add shared libraries at the same directory where is the executable and create a zip archive or a MSI installer. When applications are installed, they are installed in a single folder and files are not scattered across the file systems like binaries in /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, /libs/, /usr/shared, ..., as in Linux and other unices.
Cool, we can only show stories where it worked
CRISPR injected into the blood treats a genetic disease for first time
Reddit's design is what actively pushed me to Hacker News, the Risks Digest, and a healthy mix of paid news (WSJ, FT, Bloomberg, etc). The site is really being redesigned to enable astroturfing and user manipulation on a commercial level. Ads are made to look like posts, and sometimes the posts themselves are just ads.

I've come to the opinion that it's impossible for any free social media platform to avoid this unless the people running it are doing it as an act of charity. If you want to make money, you either make users pay or you sell access to / information from the userbase itself.