skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that a lot of this is driven by the climate in the USA, so with that in mind I have some examples that I am curious about, as an outside observer.

> It also includes incorrect claims that a political figure or government official has died, been involved in an accident, or is suffering from a sudden serious illness.

1) What is the ruling if I store and share a CNN video of a Don Lemon show in which he and a mental health professional discusses her diagnosis that a political figure, whom she has never met, is mentally ill.

2) Same thing but on Fox News and different political figure

3) Same thing but on Infowars but about Hillary Clinton

> Content that is demonstrably false and could significantly undermine participation or trust in civic or democratic processes.

and

> This includes information about public voting procedures, political candidate eligibility based on age / birthplace, election results,

1) Claims in the media and by political figures that the gubernatorial election in the state of Georgia was fraudulent

2) Claims that a Presidential election was "hacked" by a foreign state

3) Claims that a Presidential election was fraudulent

> Manipulated media: Media that has been technically manipulated or doctored in a way that misleads users and may pose a serious risk of egregious harm.

Again here, dealing in pure objective truth versus media spin and misleading framing:

1) Out-of-context edits suggesting that political figure called neo-nazis "very fine people"

2) A video, absent context, of a fictional reading of a phone call transcript, during an impeachment

3) A statement by a political figure that the COVID-19 virus may have leaked from a laboratory

I will be very surprised if the enforcement does not fall on partisan political lines.
Tesla is going to work on restaurants and also mining now. It’s interesting that they are widening their scope. I wonder how can a company be so confident in their new pursuits?
Rethinkdb-lite: RethinkDB-compatible database written in Crystal
This seems like a move to lessen upcoming monopoly legislation by preemptively banning stuff that the government is about to deem "misleading" or "dangerous."
It presents a potential conflict of interest, sure, but if I'm fulfilling my job responsibilities and not holding anything back or stealing nonpublic info/trade secrets/whatever then what's the problem?

This is a bit like "sure I'm dating one of my direct reports, but as long as I don't show them any special treatment what's the problem?". In both cases even if you genuinely believe what you're saying, it causes your incentives to be very much misaligned with your employer's.
As a viewer of the documentary, I will love that effect instead of a bland voice-over.
But a note should be added on the screen that the voice is AI-generated. Like when they say a war video is a reenactment.
Does Google need a government agency to determine what emails are or aren't spam? Why would it need that in this case instead, and do you really think that would be an improvement? This is a bad strawman.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-climate-change-affect... is a decent place to start looking
Actually, if you check some style guides, you'll find that there is debate on this question. And rightly so.
Recently I made another mistake in my life trying to hunt for a job at a startup. Yes, that was a mistake. I was a helper for the past of my life and I unconsciously transferred my past experience to the moment. Most of startups exploit popular things. Nothing new, unusual, or really crazy. It's boring and I don't want to waste the rest of my life on it. Nothing personal, just life.
I don't think izacus suggested it was. My read: there is no messiah, and a system of checks and balances is how we protect the public interest.
Zero explanation just calling it disheartening...

I can say the exact same thing about his position or yours except you don't have one

All these guys throwing around terms like "free lunch" and "they're so privileged", but turn the tables slightly and it's all just so disheartening?
If you have a supported model, you should try out https://www.asuswrt-merlin.net/

You can do some fun things while keeping stock UI, like blocking ads network-wide.
HOCs vs. Hooks. What to use and why?
> The other truth is we're all outraged when these companies host some stuff that we don't like ... and get upset when they don't host the stuff we do like.

Is this actually true? I only think certain fringe Twitter groups are mad that companies host controversial things.
The public doesn't really know. The shuttle did a handful of secret missions that could have involved satellite service.

There is also a sort of mini shuttle that has launched a number of times in the last decade called the X-37B which some have speculated might be used for servicing satellites.

It's definitely an interesting concept! The way you say the shuttle chased down satellites makes me laugh, as if the satellites were trying to escape and were zig zagging around! In reality, every mission to the ISS does the same thing as the shuttle rendezvousing with the Hubble.
Smoked almost daily for about 12 years. Ran out, didn’t feel like going out in a blizzard to get more. Was snowed in for about a week. The detox was nice, didn’t buy more. I have some now and one or twice a week I’ll do a one hitter, but I use to smoke multiple times a day, and the effect of severely reducing my intake had a really positive effect on my anxiety and depression
The long term value in crypto is the value in their utility as transaction layers, not the currency itself, not stupid smart contract garbage.

Visa is pretty shitty but obviously the best choice for most systems currently. I like crypto, but obviously bitcoin is aging "tech" at this point and wasn't really a great way to send money around in any case. CBDC's will be the future, Defi might also just get regulated out of existence.

Please just put the phone down if some idiot starts trying to explain why "bitcoin is the only true digital currency". ETH heads are also starting to become a problem...

ESG and it's implications to incentivize "green" networks like Chia will also start to get really interesting.

By far, the best long term use of crypto's will be to democratize and streamline the issue of grey area or high risk online payments. Circle and NowPayments.IO are in my opinion the first movers in this space.
A person commented on that page about argument list size. For completeness sake, one can adjust the argument limit on Linux via PAM.

To see your current argument limit:

getconf ARG_MAX

This is based on limits.h and you can adjust with ulimit -s. On my own systems I set this as unlimited but one can adjust to a number they feel comfortable with.

grep stack /etc/security/limits.conf
root - stack -1
* hard stack -1
* soft stack -1

getconf ARG_MAX
4611686018427387903

I believe the default is 8192 which looks more like

ulimit -s 8192;getconf ARG_MAX
2097152

In systemd, this is set in the unit file with

LimitSTACK=
This language has been discussed a lot here over the years. A few big ones:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18843544

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8611922

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14793517
As if these initiatives were born in isolation, and not in response to a decade of obstructionist, blatantly hypocritical bullshit? What a whitewashed statement.
Man I'd love to find test that theory scientifically.
This bit:

> We find evidence that increases in Airbnb listings–but not reviews–led to more violence in neighborhoods in later years.

Has me hypothesizing that an increase in listings but not in reviews means an excess of offer. This could be an early indicator of local socioeconomic degradation that ends up with increase in violence as late-stage symptom.

The exodus of the well-off (and the listings that they leave behind) could be the missing link to investigate in further studies. One way to test this would be to contrast with the change in property sales and rentals. Some of those who are leaving ought to be selling or renting instead of listing on Airbnb. If only Airbnb listings are going up, then my hypothesis would most likely be false.

> neighborhoods which are more violent for some other reason are more likely to end up as Airbnbs

This doesn't look to be the case for me because there's a time interval between those. First the Airbnb shows up, years later comes the violence.
From the link: "After we are notified of a potential policy violation, we may review the content and take action, including restricting access to the content, removing the content".

Would you expect any company not to do this?

Where does it say "Google is analyzing your files for content" in the way you claim? It's not "all content that doesn't align with narratives that a government sets", it's "information about public voting procedures, political candidate eligibility based on age / birthplace, election results, or census participation that contradicts official government records.". That's a lot more specific than you imply, and a lot more like "you can't spin up an overthow-the-government movement using Google services" than "you can't disagree with the government", even if it's literally "you can't say Obama was born in Kenya" - there is apparently a human review involved.
https://eclj.org/free-speech/echr/blasphemy-crime-the-echr-i...
It depends on what part of the system you’re in, and much of the criminal justice system exists after an initial filter and with a particular pipeline that it’s almost impossible to avoid a bias against on a day to day basis.

If your job is to do image/video forensics on hard drives of people already arrested or served with warrants, it’s generally either unremarkable or traumatically upsetting. The latter is going to have the most impact on your perception, and would likely color your worldview on things like encryption or the overall goodness of humanity.
I actually think getting deep fake stuff to the public is the way to go. Basically anyone can create a deep fake. It is far better to get the public used to the idea of deep fakes so they can develop some immunity to it.
https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/5/e000850

$5.32-8.87 cost of production depending on the insulin analog.

As noted above, I did not account for R&D and manufacturing capacity.

Regardless, I tried to estimate conservatively at a $12-13 per vial overall cost. My napkin math is certainly wrong.

The point is that Walmart still stands to generate a multi-billion dollar per year profit on the sale of this insulin. (Unless my market capture estimate is wrong by an order of 6+, which it could be)

To be clear, I’m not opposed (in fact grateful) that Walmart is competing in the insulin market. However, I still find it unfortunate that we in the United States pay more for Insulin than any other country in the world, even with this competition.
Jen Psaki: Social Media Platforms Should Share Misinformation Banning List
"transfer money without over regulation"

That was the idea yes. But is there where we really are today ? I want currency to be stable. Something I can use in a grocery store. Something I can use to buy milk.

In terms of transferring money, it is already solved by services like transferwise/xoom etc these days. I literally can send money in minutes to most countries.
Alas, this situation is even worse if you have an astigmatism, which blurs the blue more than the other colors. I had an astigmatism my whole life (although my near/far vision was otherwise fine), and the invention/popularization of blue LEDs has been a constant source of irritation.

Unfortunately, this effect is even worse if you wear glasses (as described in the article), which I have done for about two decades now.

And even more unfortunately, it is even worse with the shift to progressive lenses (due to age-related presbyopia) in my experience. It has gotten to the point where all my computers are configured to use blue sparingly, and almost never in pure blue color. For example, there is no blue in my IDE color schemes anymore, and any mostly blue color is made magentaer or cyaner.
Chobham armour is the informal name of a composite armour developed in the 1960s at the British tank research centre on Chobham Common, Surrey. The name has since become the common generic term for composite ceramic vehicle armour. Other names informally given to Chobham armour include "Burlington" and "Dorchester." "Special armour" is a broader informal term referring to any armour arrangement comprising "sandwich" reactive plates, including Chobham armour.

Although the construction details of the Chobham armour remain a secret, it has been described as being composed of ceramic tiles encased within a metal framework and bonded to a backing plate and several elastic layers. Owing to the extreme hardness of the ceramics used, they offer superior resistance against shaped charges such as high explosive anti-tank (HEAT) rounds and they shatter kinetic energy penetrators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chobham_armour
From the AP version (h/t @tareqak) [0], "identification of anyone engaged in foreign state-sanctioned malicious cyber activity". Key phrase, state-sanctioned.

This has less to do with tracking down cybercriminals, and more with creating a case for foreign policy agenda.

Remember it was WMD informant "Curveball" testimony to then Secretary of State Powell, that was used as one of the key pretexts to invade Iraq.

Essentially if an administration comes with an agenda to start a new war, they put the right people inside the State Department and then those guys just need to comb for anything (validated or not) to find "informants" to make the case for cyber attack. Followed by making the case in media that cyber attack is military attack and it requires military retaliation.

This will bypass the entire US intelligence system to validate the source of threat. It just needs one person to claim they were involve in cyber attack against US and it was sponsored by the government of Iraq, Iran, Venezuela, or any other country we want to go after.

I highly recommend watching this portion of the town hall with former US Congressman Dennis Kucinich talking about how non disclosure rules prevented the Congress from speaking out against US State Department spreading false information to American public [1].

[0] https://apnews.com/article/technology-joe-biden-europe-busin...

[1] https://youtu.be/s-W9b-_K_Xo?t=2433
In my opinion REBOL was a great idea, and I also wrote quite a few extremely terse but readable inhouse apps before REBOL v2 development completely halted, and a useable v3 never materialized. As proprietary payware, it didn't really stand a chance.

I hope Red turns out better, but they're a bit late to the party, and need a lot more hands to evolve. Since I'm not in a position to help, I'll stick with Go + fyne for whatever can't be a web app.
I understand your sentiment – I’d expect NASA to have some overhead – but, as you asked, who else is building space telescopes? How do we determine if the cost of a telescope is “too high”? What kind of mission profiles should be targeted?

I am sure someone can build a cheaper space telescope, but for whom and to what end?
Smash it to pieces with a hammer.
There is no such consensus.
In a sense that's what this is. It's sort of going, Russian oligarchs are impossibly wealthy and can pay to do anything they like and run their government and are/are like the Russian mob?

Fine. The United States as a country is also impossibly wealthy, Texas alone is worth more than the country of Russia GDP-wise. Therefore, go on with your oligarch selves and you can just compete with the State Department, bribe against bribe, payoff against payoff. Have fun.

Seems clever and practical to me. If you're up against folks who can put a price on anything, outbid 'em and you're fighting with their weapons on their terms.
what was required to qualify for that maximum?
I'm not sure that when you go down that rabbit hole folks will believe much at all...

I don't want to go down the rabbit hole here but everyone hears about 'fake news', they know what it is, they just label things they don't like 'fake news'. I'm not sure that's helping.

Either way we are going to find out.
The thing about those addictive behaviours is (for me), like most addictions, you have a tenuous association with enjoyment and the behaviour but mostly it leaves you very dissatisfied.

Scrolling through feeds or watching videos actually causes me to become pretty sad, but sometimes I find myself feeling quite a compulsion to do it. It's usually when I'm stressed out or anxious, and the behaviour aligns perfectly with escapism. So there's very little enjoying involved.

I think it's important to consider what enjoyable means, and how we frame it. Instant gratification is only a small sliver of what could be considered enjoyable, in the scheme of things.
"...they are inalienable..."

I'm not sure that word means what you think it means.
I'm really sorry for the off-topic, but I've been waiting for a chance to ask because I see it here very, very often. What are people intending to denote with the "private" in "private company", especially where the company is so obviously and well-known to be public[ally traded]? What are you trying to distinguish it from by calling it private? Are you just pointing out it's not the government or quasi-governmental? Are you emphasizing that it has its own prerogatives?

Sorry, this has just been becoming a peeve for me on this site. I just want to know what you're trying to express by calling a company that is not privately owned, "private". Thanks.
> which mean a malicious client could circumvent rulesets we have in place

Note that your HTTP certificate pinning is easily bypassed on both Android and iOS by a determined actor. A malicious client will circumvent rulesets you have in place. If you do not validate client inputs, you will be exploited.

Indeed, it doesn't really differ that much from DRM. It's an attempt by the author of the software to impose control over the user, preventing them from using the software how they see fit.

If I've trusted my own root, and you've decided you wont trust anything on my root, I now need to take steps to disable the certificate validation routines completely on my device, in order to bypass your restrictions.

I get that there are cases where it's extremely valuable (and in some cases, required by regulators) to enforce certificate pinning, e.g. mobile banking apps, but there are plenty of cases where it's just bullshit DRM (e.g. gym app that performs unauthenticated requests to an https endpoint to retrieve occupancy stats on each of the chain's gyms).

In the latter case, all I wanted was to track how busy the gym was over time, so I could adjust my schedule to enable me to go when the gym was quiet. I couldn't be bothered to jailbreak my iphone and install nabla-c0d3/ssl-kill-switch2, so instead I quit my gym and switched to one that was less stupid.
Refusing to reveal all the parts that were AI generated is very unethical IMHO. It's an extraordinarily bad precedent too: Imagine a world where this is the norm.

The only benefit to concealing this important detail is generating controversy and getting his film talked about. This is a very selfish move by the filmmaker.
Not how i intended to kick off the discussion but is anyone else seeing really messed up formatting? Like this https://ibb.co/5LF2fY0 (bit of mare today getting ghost on a subdirectory...)
I agree, and if they don’t that feels like negligence on their part.
That is great! I think there is a lot of room for innovation with dual use keys like this.
The ideology of young activists basically boils down to power. You either have it, or you don't. Foucault in a nutshell. Abstract principles that should apply equally to everyone are just a colonialist legacy, or something.
That's your choice.

Isn't the point of the free market that consumers are free to vote with their dollars?

I don't want to give my money to companies that host things that I find morally abhorrent. That doesn't mean other companies can't host that data, simply that I don't want any of my dollars to go to those companies.

If the vast majority of consumers also don't want to give money to companies that host that content, that's the hosting company's problem. The free market is speaking. Nobody is making it illegal for that data to be hosted, but nobody is obliged to pay for it to be hosted. So it seems to me that things are working as intended.
I think this is such a massive and fundamental restructuring of the US's historical way of doing things (and the popular conception of "how it should be done") that pushing for incremental change like livable minimum wage is probably more effective in the short-run.

In the long run, if UBI continues proving its success in real-life trials and we're able to get a larger share of the population on board, I'd vote in favor of trying it.
The post said "all the experts are saying may actually be true". The "may" (not "is"!) there is pretty key in making the meaning a lot closer to your (B) than anything like your (A)... Did that comment get edited after yours? Because it seems like you are arguing against a strawman, not what was actually said.
> but those requests are hard to get approved.

I had no problems getting approval for a tiny 2D home-trainer game I worked on this winter..

I suppose it varies depending on what you do. But if you work on part of it during 20% time, you probably can't do this.

disclaimer: I work at Google.
One of my favourite series in art is Yves Klein's blue work. For anyone unfamiliar, he found a blue that he considered the bluest possible blue [1], and went on a journey painting everything in that blue. I loved that he did this, and then eventually managed to get to an exhibition of his work at the Tate Modern and was absolutely blown away by it - it really needs to be seen in the flesh to appreciate it. There's something about his blue, that when painted on to a sculpture, almost makes the 3D disappear and the sculpture looks 2 dimensional. Extremely beautiful.

As a side note, some (many?) cultures around the world have no word for blue, blue is just other shades of green.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue
Agreed, this whole issue could be solved with a message before the film runs about how the voiceover is created, and then a "recreation" label during that scene.
Sync.com already exists and is e2ee. Why people keep using non e2ee services and get outraged when their data is misused I can’t understand.
If you have the capability of engineering such a gravity wave then Earth's resources aren't worth your time.
Google actively suppressed holding Fauci accountable for gain-of-function research.

I don’t believe their censorship makes people safer — in practice, it seems to enable establishment dishonesty.
This is reasonable as an ideal, but could be harmful in practice. A significant percentage of the U.S. population believes inarguably wrong and demonstrably dangerous things at this point. It is possible that the only effective way to fix that is corporate censorship. That wouldn’t make me happy, but I’m not going to agree with letting a crazy person steer the Titanic into an iceberg just because it’s their right to do so.
Tools like Skiff[https://www.skiff.org/] are on the path of being that "alternative" which is, quoting from their website "..a privacy-first collaboration platform with expiring links, secure workspaces, and password protection."