skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday, buried in an article about combatting vaccine fearmongers, a pretty disturbing snippet was included:

"Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages."

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccina...

Though the goal in this case is seemingly well-intentioned, the idea of the government inspecting and editorializing private communications is incredibly worrying to me. I don't trust feds to perpetually restrict this capability to only public health...

Imagine if Trump had the capability to append "fact checks" with any SMS that included a link on articles which cast him in a negative light.
It says No. of Views: 42-100, but it uses 2 display ports each capable of 7680x4320, which suggests it takes just two images and interpolates between them.
Due to the nature of the two, train stations are usually in the center of cities, while airports have to be quite outside.

Also, in my experience there are usually more than one train station in larger cities but even smaller ones have them. While airports are only a few even at a country level.
Yes, these kinds of reports are incredibly biased. I see very little evidence of any "model" in the papers other than extrapolation and number tweaking to produce different scenarios.

For sure, pollution, habitat destruction / deforestation, soil depletion, are all problems. But these aren't inevitable problems. They all have technological solutions - which the report dismisses as futile for some reason...
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The feature name "Fleets" was terrible. I know it was a pun on "fleeting tweet", but the word "fleet" just makes me think of a fleet of ships.
Why is there so much padding around each tab? I guess it makes for clear click targets. Honestly was a fan of the old initial design, though I do lean towards compromising for more screen space.
5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2019)
And also no value?

I'm guessing this is primarily snark, but there are a lot of tweets that are pretty good signal of bad behavior. I'm not talking about some nuanced difference in opinion. For the tweets I'm talking about knocking out everyone that liked it wouldn't be a big deal.

Sure some may use this to craft an echo chamber for themselves, but they're already doing that anyway - and a lot of people 'hate follow' to stir up abuse intentionally to drive traffic. These people wouldn't find this tool valuable because they feed off of the nastiness to drive engagement and grow their audience.
What author?
> YouTube unsuccessfully argued the video violated its policies on Covid-19 “misinformation.”

It sounds like YouTube's stance is that the video may cause harm to their users; one of their criteria for removal.
Now? No idea. At the time I left in 2016, all Storm usage was replaced by Heron, that was the point of making it API-compatible.
One of the problems of that is now you need to list all your internal IP addresses in a public DNS server. It shouldn't theoretically be an issue but it might be stuff you don't want to just lay out there in public view just in case.

Also you might just not want a domain like "my-top-secret-project.amazon.com" to actually exist and resolve to an IP (even if an intranet IP) in public DNS, but you might still want an easy-to-remember intranet hostname that employees can use.
Separate hardware for your stuff is a standard AWS product, for example - you can just buy this.
Ethereum actually pushed the sharding portion of ETH2 back to end of 2022, not proof-of-stake:

> Originally, the plan was to work on shard chains before the merge – to address scalability. However, with the boom of layer 2 scaling solutions, the priority has shifted to swapping proof-of-work to proof-of-stake via the merge.

My ETH is already staked as ETH2, and it looks like the plan is still to do the merge in “2021/2022”.

https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/merge/
Ha, I thought of trying to build an app for this, even if just to get neighbors to share a meal. No one feels like cooking every day but if we could share the burden thusly it might help foster a sense of community.
and would rather buy from a copyright infringing publisher, that allows you to keep the illegal copy of your book?

I don't understand What do you think Amazon should have done here?

It recieved a book copyright infringing, it removed the book from it's devices, and refunded the customers.

Amazon may have done pretty spooky stuff, kindle books are often overpriced. But you making a opinion that Kindle devices are clearly bad, just from a isolated incident related to their store seems pretty short sighted.

This is equivalent of saying, "Facebook removed my post for copyright infringement, I will never use the internet".
I think this is half the problem when people interview at FAANGs -- they think it's like preparing for olympics and you truly have to be in the top 1%.

It's really not. There's thousands and thousands of engineers, from mediocre to truly great. With the right preparation, a lot of it just comes down to getting lucky with who interviews, how they're feeling that day, etc -- luck.

You might find this interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8RxkpUvxK0
Eh, governments could probably take a supply-side approach and throw money at new ARPAnet protocols for developing federated content publishing networks to grow competing networked application ecosystems without resorting to heavy handed authoritarianism.
I'm not sure about regular user, there's a huge spread. I see most big accounts tweet 5-10+ a day. 10x that for media people.

Paul Graham tweets about once per every other waking hour (though sometimes not for days). Patrick Collison tweets every 2-3 days.
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Youtube classified this as "misinformation". They have the power to crush any voice and they are.

I hope a crisis takes some power away from them.
I think it works like a lenticular - the 3d only works horizontally (because our eyes are on that plane). So the 7680 pixel resolution is divided into pixels being sent in a variety of directions to create the depth.

We have one at work and it’s quite cool. But also quite small even though we have what was previously the large one.
I found that phrase confusing -- what makes it or made it for travel sites in particular?
>First, just because you made it work, doesn’t mean that applies to everyone. Congrats on your success, but let’s not generalize with one data point.

This is bizarre because I think most reasonable people would make an identical argument against taking VC money..

>Second, what about marketing costs? What about a first-mover advantage and staffing up to win that advantage? What if you want to tap into a network (YC, tech stars, etc.)? What if you really value the good feeling of being validated by having a round of financing? What if bu raising capital you get attention that kickstarts your business that otherwise wouldn’t have come?

If you are profitable and growing according to plan then none of these are good reasons at all to accept VC money..
It sounds like you and I actually have fairly similar opinions on a lot of things.

For me, free people exchanging goods and services in a voluntary manner while respecting each other's property is ideal capitalism.

> IMO, the capitalism = progress relationship is coincidental, not causal.

So, this is the major point we disagree on.

I believe that what we have today is crony capitalism, and that's why it's easy to believe that capitalism doesn't bring progress. At this point we barely have a capitalist society.

This still doesn't get to the heart of why we're all addicted to smart phones and whatnot though. I think that's more to do with culture being curated by mega corps in conjunction with rapid technological progress.

Culture would normally be enough that people would eventually reject unhealthy practices, but with culture all but forced on us, and the pace of technological growth, culture has not caught up.

I don't know exactly what the solution is, but cord cutting as a movement was a major net positive. I think the next step may be something like leaving walled gardens for decentralized culture hubs.
People keep bringing up the Arab spring as an argument for Twitter being socially beneficial.

However, I am not sure the Arab Spring was a net positive. Tunisia turned out ok, but Libya is still a disaster. Egypt went from Dictator to Islamist Party to Military Dictatorship. Syria has seen massive death and destruction and Assad is still clinging to power. Yemen is involved in a nasty civil war.

I think many in the West take a too rosy view of the Arab Spring. For the average Middle Easterner in those countries, the Arab Spring has been a disaster.
Switch to “latest” view instead of “home” and you receive a chronological timeline without seeing the liked tweets. I can’t imagine using Twitter without this. See the instructions on how to switch on this Twitter support article: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-timeline
Over 10k species risk extinction in Amazon, says landmark report
The universal VM we call browser
The difference is that using a mail subsystem to handle this handles a lot more of the implementation than "use an atom/rss feed".

Notably, in choosing to use an atom/rss feed, you need to determine what the webserver serving it is, how to implement authentication on top of it (is it a token/oauth, HTTP auth, param auth, etc), what is the underlying data store (SQL/NoSQL, some message system), how to scale that system if you expect it to be large and span multiple servers and/or datastores (mail systems right now deal with hundreds of thousands of users and gigabyte plus mailboxes of millions of messages).

Choosing IMAP to deliver this info means there there are well worn solutions for all the decisions you need to make (including howtos to implement oauth at the server level), as well as client level libraries in almost every language. Basically, you could decide to use it and not have to worry about forging a new path on that system basically ever, because there's plenty of people that have already implemented it at a larger level and with the same features (even if you would be using them to slightly different effect), and they've contributed the info on how to do it and what the performance ramifications are to the public domain.

I'm not seriously advocating for it, but that's more because clients will look at you funny than for any technical reason. Technically, it actually has a lot going for it. Unfortunately as an industry we fetishize the new and bespoke because obviously our own unicorn projects are so new and special and will serve so many people that some off the shelf solution could never be as good....
>Their only winning move was to stay neutral and do nothing but comply with legal requests.

No? This narrative is a bit ahistorical - and it's fueled by this idea that hyperliberal boogeyman started censoring everything.

If you look at what happened in 2017, Google started "censoring" things because advertisers threatened to boycott. The platforms couldn't stay neutral because advertisers became more and more concerned with staying out of any potential scandal.
Oh, I thought they meant it the other way around. At least when one of us gets too into wine we don't start a crusade.
As someone who learned C++ when it was C++03 and followed the language as it went through 0x all the way to 20, I have no idea how you would be able to avoid crippling a newcomer with the sheer volume of permutations of symbols and language behaviors that a C++ developer might regularly encounter. As a consequence of the ecosystem of older libraries, I've never had the pleasure of fully stepping away from old C++-isms. There's always a naked pointer or a malloc floating around somewhere in code I have to be able to read.

I still occasionally write C++ when I need to, but it's been a long time since I actually enjoyed doing it.
There is some sort of film on top of the display that allows "selecting" pixels based on viewing angle. This is not unlike those 3D postcards that were a fad some time ago, or the Nintendo 3DS, only a much more sophisticated version of that.
> people here are pretty submissive when one is asking for advice on legal options against these companies.

I think to be fair to the HN community on this topic, most of us are not lawyers and shouldn't be providing legal advice. And maybe more importantly, at least in the US, the most rational advice starts with step one being "have at least $500M in a legal fund", which precludes most people from being able to effectively execute a suit against Google.
> This used to be nigh unto a human universal: your parents raise you up from a helpless infant to adulthood, and this obliges you to love and care for them for the rest of their lives.

Alternate take on that human universal: your parents had unprotected sex and fulfilled their obligation to raise the offspring produced to adulthood, this obliges you to nothing.

I'm not saying this means everyone should estrange their parents, but the idea that a child has any obligation to their parents for raising them seems misguided at best and damaging at worst, imo. Any attachment between children and parents should be due to mutual feelings of love and respect, like any other relationship - if those are absent on one side, why should the other suffer a relationship with people who they would otherwise remove from their friend group?

(Note that I have a good relationship with my parents, so this isn't coming from a place of personal pain, but rather a dislike for the idea that two humans procreating and fulfilling their obligation to the offspring that comes of it should impose any obligation whatsoever upon that offspring.)

EDIT: I should clarify that I do believe that parents who went above and beyond that obligation to show their children love and respect and receive nothing in return have a right to be upset - however, what about situations where a parent thought they were doing the right thing (based on how they were raised, religious briefs, parenting advice from a friend or magazine, etc.) but the thing they were doing was actually harmful? There's a lot of nuance in this, but I think that a blanket "honor thy father and thy mother [out of obligation]" is a bad idea.
I can understand somebody not enjoying video games, but movies is a tough one for me. Does the same go for plays? If so, is there any narrative media you enjoy?
Google signed a contract? Do you have the text of this contract?
Being a serious researcher is only good for stock picking if everyone else is going to come to the same conclusion, just more slowly. This is not true recently, what does meme stock performance have to do with serious peoples' opinion on Tesla?

Actually, value investing hasn't worked for a lot longer than that, and it's probably because everyone else can see what you can for a public stock.
There are lots of submission and articles on Windows 365, but none of them really explained the intended usage and benefits. This video at least answer a few questions I have in my mind.

And I will add, nearly half of the current Windows user base are cooperate users. And this could transition those Windows license into a subscription services which cooperate loves. They much prefer low monthly fees as a cost of business rather than a high initial cost.

I am feeling this could be a big thing for Microsoft revenue generation.
Good for them, seriously, but I don't think it takes a lot of "picking and choosing" to point out how influential "christian" churches were in the fight to preserve America's white supremist hierarchy.

The SBC was and remains the largest christian organization in the US, and it was founded for the express purpose of defending slavery.
Dave Beazley is a truly amazing presenter. Another favorite of his of mine is his epic tale of how he ended up demolishing an opposing side's case in a civil lawsuit... by sheer luck of having a Python interpreter avaialable. For for you viewing pleasure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8
>One of the problems of that is now you need to list all your internal IP addresses in a public DNS server.

You don't actually. You can just have them resolve in your local DNS server alone.

My current setup is that the public DNS records for my internal network just return CNAME records, so "mail.myserver.com" has a CNAME record to "mail.myserver.internal" and my private DNS server has an A record for "mail.myserver.internal".
Can we stop pretending that the right didn't do this to themselves? It's fine for politicians and elected officials to have their own opinions, it's not OK for them to misrepresent them as outright facts. That's literally the definition of "fake news" which they love to tout anytime someone says something uncomfortable about them. As these politicians continue to live in an alternate reality, they bring with them an inordinate number of voters. As we go from stretching the truth to lying, the lies become more extreme, as do the political views. We are no longer Americans with different views, we are opponents unable to have a discussion about the issues. And of course now the left is also free to use similar tactics going forward. It's a slippery slope. Both parties must be held accountable for their b.s.

I'm an unaffiliated/independent voter and I've voted for both parties in the past (with varying levels of regret for both parties.)

It's not OK for Fox News & CNN to be political party propaganda machines. It's not OK for Twitter/Facebook/etc to censor only the right for their opinions. Having said that I think it's completely fair for them to kick them off their platform for perpetuating outright, destabilizing lies.
I might be alone with this but I really dislike Apple increasing the overall height / element margins on the top controls of Safari. They've been consistently doing it bit by bit with each new release and it constantly feels like I'm losing screen estate that could be filled with content to bits that are not and that I rarely interact with enough to justify it taking up so much space. I really liked the slim header part of Safari previously, especially switching from Windows and its set of browser design conventions.

I rarely if ever use the cursor to do anything with these controls because macOS has great gestures and it also has keyboard shortcuts to make the process feel a lot more result-oriented, rather than process-oriented with extra steps.
Change your timeline to "latest" from "home", and you will stop seeing tweets liked by people you follow.
The Usenix conference proceedings and other publications are usually very good: https://www.usenix.org/publications

I was an on-and-off-again ACM member for 40 years, and one of the better publications was ACM Computing Surveys: https://dl.acm.org/journal/csur -- even older issues are pretty high value, and there are tons of references to follow.

[edit: update Usenix link to something much more current]
I think the worst part about being clinically depressed is how it feels impossible to do a little bit for a few days at a time, and then all my context/momentum/enthusiasm burns up by the time I come back to a project.
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>>> The GDPR didn’t give a 6 month timeline.

This ruling came out in 2018 and they were given an extension until now, 3 years is sufficient enough to implement most things
I didn't love Fleets personally, the medium was mismatched to Twitter's niche of a public social network. Ephemeral media is ideally paired with a small/private network to maximize personal expression.

The next question is will LinkedIn kill Stories? I'd guess they're probably noticing similar low usage levels, but operationally they might not be as open to killing experiments quickly.
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> I'd bet there's a good chance that scientists, engineers, and enterprising people will find ways to make all these dire predictions wrong.

I'm generally pretty tired of the argument that tech will save us. It's even arguable that tech is part of the problem since tech allows humanity to scale and thus consume more resources well beyond what it could before.
Electrify America doubling charging network with 1k stations and 10k chargers
They can keep it hot in memory similar to serverless. If everyone uses the same base copy of Windows, then they can easily fork from one parent copy. A copy on write network filesystem + some Windows Registry and Explorer tricks can take care of the remaining 20%.
Definitely agree on this. My biggest peeve is that carbon emissions is a misdirection or at least not anywhere near the #1 issue. US has produced less CO2 (almost) every year since 1990.

The real concern are the pesticides that have reduced insect populations. They build up in the ecosystem and can take many years to flush out.
You seem to assume that if they cared, they'd be on your side. What makes you think that that's the case? They are first and foremost accountable to shareholders who want profit. It's unlikely that they view the world the same way you do. You probably don't want them throwing their weight around

You can argue that you don't like that they are accountable to their shareholders but it is true.
Do you have some more details about this? Because there's nothing informative in the article.

I find it extremely difficult to believe that Google signed a contract obligating it to host any and all content uploaded by the user, regardless of what it is. But hey, I've been surprised before.
I thought about that, but have not fulfilled it. I wrote an application designed to be private and one-to-one. This particular application allows sending of texts, and file system segments directly from the browser. Encryption would just be a matter of one time public key exchange. I can do that just using the Node crypto API. No central authority needed... yet.

The problem is that identities can be faked easily if the application allows anybody to spin up a new instance/identity with few commands. The standard solution to this is centrally managed certificates (certificate authority). A user should always challenge the identity of the remote party against an agreed upon third party to verify trust before any encryption occurs. This is more challenging.
the industry may have changed too - in my early days I remember more fantastical failures where the whole website would be down for an evening or other tragic mistakes.

As more and more ppl got involved and things started to be worth more and more money we were more or less forced to put in more safe guards as there is less tolerance for failure/mistakes. I think the trade off between speed and safety will always be there and business folks will always want both despite them being at direct odds w/ one another.
Ah, too bad, I've grown to quite like the previous beta! I don't tend to have a gazillion tabs open though.

I want my webpage to be as much page as possible, w/ as little chrome.

I think there's some danger in listening to internet outrage as your design process -- every big change generates a lot of dislike, but that doesn't mean it's actually a bad change, or that most people dislike it, or even that the people who hate it at first won't come to like it.
> Our Fleet ads test, which concluded as planned last month, was one of our first explorations of full-screen, vertical format ads. We’re taking a close look at learnings to assess how these ads perform on Twitter.

Glad I stopped using twitter a few months ago.
On top of that add websites that take up half of your screen with adds and other marketing or paywall crap.