skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This post is pretty off-topic and unresponsive.

A central premise of Doctorow's argument is the "marketplace of ideas" metaphor. Proceeding from that framing, he proposes that the ACCESS Act as an important middle ground that could, among other things, help stave off the death of Section 230. OP points out that our better angels don't always win in that marketplace.

Let's get less abstract. The article envisions a market-based approach toward online censorship. The idea that a "marketplace of filters" would create a "live and let live" scenario seems extraordinarily naive to me. It seems much more likely that making it easier to choose filter bubbles -- and introducing a profit motive into the construction of such filters -- would just escalate the appetite to censor, on both sides.

> All this to say, we can be adults and let everyone get the same information and make their own choice, or we can go the other way where someone who thinks they know more than us

You seem to be confusing critique with a proposal of some alternative. Just because OP believes that the "marketplace of ideas" thesis is a farce and that the ACCESS Act is probably a non-solution to the wrong problem, doesn't mean OP wants to censor people.

It's possible to both believe that Doctorow's argument is wrong and also not be a full-throated supporter of aggressive censorship.

In fact...

> The most abhorrent idea...

You take rather flagrant liberties when interpreting parent's post, constructing an unrecognizable strawman out of a post that contains phrases like "Is censorship the best way to deal with it? Probably not." and "And before anyone asks who I am to judge the best ideas, I'll answer - nobody".

> The strawman of...

Those in glass houses...
Why is it ridiculous? You don’t respect the potential injustice which can occur due to disparity in information and/or knowledge. Think about the popularity of crypto. How can you think your position of complete lack of regulation is moral? You think it’s okay to allow the targeting of the economically vulnerable to continue without restrictions via ads or - my favorite - celebrity endorsements?

This is ridiculous.
Racket v8.2
I mean, how else are we supposed to know the CPU is busy?
> I make no claims to be one of the group of enlightened ubermensch who should be able to decide for the rest

I would say you did:

> And before anyone asks who I am to judge the best ideas, I'll answer - nobody, but I can see that factually incorrect, scientifically illiterate, conspiratorial, harmful crank ideas gain legs in the online world we've created. Often at the root of these is a profit motive.

You asked the right question (who are you to determine the truth?) but then you didn't answer it. You continued on to imply that, in fact, you are in a position to sort out what's true unlike those other, inferior people who fall for conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.

> Or we can ditch bland cliches and false dichotomies and look at pragmatic steps that can be taken to, for instance, improve access to good information, improve education around critical thinking, and perhaps (as mentioned in other comments) re-examine things like automated algorithms that feed people ever more extreme content because it increases engagement levels, clicks and ad revenue.

"Improving access to good information" is usually a euphemism for some kind of censorship. As far as I'm concerned, all of these "problems" are not problems, they're justifications for controlling other people and expressions of impotent rage at the failure to control those people. I'm vaccinated and I voted for Biden but I do not understand why peope care that others decide not to get vaccinated or voted for the other guy. Part of freedom is the freedom to be wrong.

I think these are not new problems. Democracy, pluralism, free speech, trial by jury, etc are our solutions to these problems. They aren't particularly satisfying solutions because, as you said in your first post, the truth doesn't always win. Rather they're tragic compromises. But I don't see any serious suggestions about how we should improve them.
Ask HN: Could an ML model do a good job rendering in a game loop?
Say you have some state being rendered into pixels at 60FPS.

If the state-space/domain was constrained enough, could you train a model that has high performance and looks intelligible?
I think it's OK to say (1) you are allowed to send pornographic magazines through the mail from your place of business, but (2) you are not allowed to put a pornographic image on the front of your building.

I also think it's fair to carry this analogy over to the internet, and the difference between an email and a social media post.
It's a male thing, nothing to do with poverty.
I admit it's been fun! My old C compiler (Datalight C) works well, but its coding practices are severely outdated. I wanted to see how it would look using modern practices.

P.S. I wouldn't be in the business if it wasn't fun.
Prior to Trump getting banned, an outrage was mounting over Facebook/Twitter banning all kinds of content that was seen as far less dangerous, yet continuing to enable what was seen as extremely dangerous content from Trump.

It was outrage over inconsistent policy it wasn't your cynical read that people are just self-interested morons.
How can you do research without going beyond 10 tabs? I typically go horizontal. If i'm trying to solve problem, will middle click on top 5 results etc and go through them until problem solved. Then there is research on various topics that require deep dives into papers, those papers then have citations that require other papers or open up other queries. Then going through email generate various links that I need to see, via google alerts, groups etc, and that doesn't even get started with links generated out of hn/reddit etc. How do you get away with less than 10 tabs? I also use multiple tab managing plugins not just for memory, but for searching between open tabs, and then to manage and collapse entire windows etc...
Airtel Nigeria yet to receive approval for licence renewal, says NCC
They released a dedicated iOS app on the same month the App Store launched (July 2008), about a year after the first iPhone was launched. They had m.facebook.com (dedicated mobile site) in time for the iPhone launch (Remember when Steve Jobs said web apps were the future? I remember!)

Messenger as a standalone app was released in 2011. They bought Instagram pretty much within two years of birth.

The UX of a lot of the mobile products might not have been good - I don’t remember - but all things considered I would say they moved fast on mobile, at both the engineering and strategic levels, and it paid dividends.
No date on the post, but the mention of perl5.10 puts this between 2007-2010, per https://www.activestate.com/solutions/perl-version-support/

Understanding the history of how we got here is crucial.
Curator Economy: Why Human Curation Matters?
>It’s almost as if Apple is building their Macs to be rogue nation-state resistant or something.

This claim feels a little weak when there are two other posts currently on the front page discussing a zero-click iMessage exploit in iOS 14.6, which has been abused by nation-states to spy on journalists and opposition leaders.

If this is truly their aim, then they are likely a long way from having adequate software security.
I think the MB framework is decent. The issue is that the test is noisy, is context dependent, unstable, and a middle value isn't well defined. But the tail ends are very interesting, relevant ways to categorize personality.

If you forget the test and just consider the ideas, it's useful
It's not good to both observe that crank ideas rise to the top due to the profit motive, and to think the solution could be that the people who are best at profit should get to censor speech.

Maybe we attack should sleazy commerce rather than speech?

The reason people go in for crank ideas is because they recognize that the people who sell them things are constantly manipulating them. They work so they don't have time to investigate everything themselves, so as a proxy many tend to believe marginal people who they don't know at all due to the signal that their speech is being suppressed by known liars who are never called out because of their power.

Meanwhile, the upper middle-class people who provide the infrastructure and strategy for the biggest frauds are smug in the belief that their betters are being honest about what is true and false, because their income depends on it.

The problem with people is that they are unmoored, with absolutely no sources of information that are not trying to squeeze cash out of them. They come up with sketchy heuristics to give them some semblance of stability between shifts at work and climbing pointless complications in their lives created by rent-seekers.

The problem with the comfortable upper middle-class is that they are too moored, too sure they're at the end of history. Too sure that they know what is true between stitching together half-remembered NYT and WaPo headlines with their discussions with each other at restaurants and dinner parties. Too sure that truth can and should be dictated by people who have a better degree than they do. As if maintaining that comfort is not an interest, as if bias towards themselves as "the middle" is actually the definition of being unbiased.
What are they doing about toxic coal plants?

How can we minimize the external costs of energy production?
This is something new to me.

Do athletes have sex with other athletes?

Edit: I just did a search on it [1]... this is..... wow.... just wow.

[1] https://www.espn.com/olympics/summer/2012/story/_/id/8133052...
AES has been broken for over a decade. 256 bit AES is actually only 255 bits strong. It has not progressed any further, and AES is the most popular algorithm globally and has had over two decades of eyes on it.

This definitely is not generally true, especially for “academic breaks” that don’t even approach feasibility.

I really think security people fear the wrong things. Unless they are fundamentally flawed very few actual crypto breaks happen in practice. Most real world breaks are the result of implementation bugs, side channel attacks, and social engineering.

If I had to choose between a buggy code base implementing Noise with the latest hipster crypto and a well written memory safe audited code base and protocol using RSA-1024 and RC4, I would feel safer with the latter. (Unless my adversary were the NSA or someone else at that level, in which case I would layer three or four systems for defense in depth.)

This is not an argument for the use of weak crypto. It’s an argument for fearing the implementation, deployment, and users more than the crypto.

Big blobs of C are scary regardless of what they implement, especially if they are messy and have not had many eyes on them. The meat bag in front of the computer is usually the least secure component. If you look at real world breaks it’s usually bad opsec or phishing. The hipsterest crypto won’t help you if you are tricked into running malware or you have an insecure PHP script on a web server.
> when they get rid of their circuit switched fallback networks

Why? Isn't that stuff they run in software (on network hardware) and could emulate forever for a low cost? (Or at least for another decade until very, very few people would care.)
I don't get the hate for TouchBar. I have the one with the physical Esc key and it proved useful number of times. Fast-forwarding ads on YouTube was nice until I discovered good adblock. Screenshot shortcut always ready. Emoticons ditto. Shortcut to format my code or comment a line of code in Xcode? Yup, thank you.
Not where I live. Is your request simply not to be seen as selfish while making a selfish argument?
People who use modern Apple computers are not "hackers". They are hipsters, slaves to the system. They are people who would sell their soul for a few more FLOPs or a few more square pixels of resolution. They hate exploration, tinkering, general computing and freedom. The devil comes and tempts you with a CNC milled chassis, another millimeter shaved off in thickness and magnetic gadgets. And you will take his gift for you know: Your soul is already worthless, it is already corrupted and compromised.
Censorship is a symptom. It is a means. The ends is control. "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" changed my understanding and view of not only Big Tech, but the broader political context as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Surveillance_Capi...
>I dislike web based apps, and I refuse to use them whenever a native alternative is available.

I agree with you, I'd use native Signal desktop client written on Rust if there was an option. But there isn't, thus I'm using the Electron app. It's not lightweight, but it's secure by default.

I wouldn't use Telegram native client written in C over Signal Electron client, because Telegram doesn't offer E2EE on that fast client.

>Doubtful - it would increase the amount of compute required on their side, sure, but if done properly it will have close to 0 impact on the end users in terms of latency.

AFAIK, there is no efficient group DH key exchange mechanism, especially not one that's forward secret. Signal will always do effectively a for-loop over group member list and send message to each contact encrypted with the key used to send 1:1 messages. Sure, it has some cool optimizations like encrypting attachments with symmetric key that is multicasted to each party. But still, this can't beat Telegram in speed.

The nice thing is, AES doesnt' have to get slower, neither does X25519, smartphones and computers are getting faster, as are networks, especially with the advent of 5G. In a few short generations, they will be indistinguishable in speed, even with groups so large expectation of privacy can hardly be assumed.

>As opposed to _x_ from country _y_ that WILL take responsibility if their servers are hacked? Please.

This is a really stupid time and place to play the game of whataboutism. The point clearly is, vendors that use ubiquitous E2EE, don't have to worry about messages leaking from server.

>I will continue to talk about what I like about the user interface and what it does better than the competition because I want to.

Yeah sure, you do that. But perhaps also check your privilege before you make recommendations to others wrt the nice UX being worth the massive security trade offs. You can't say you haven't been warned.
Not really. Used to have more occasional crashes but my iPhone 12 crashed only once since I got it at launch.
On the plus side, having persistence means attackers retain access through iOS updates. Their "persist-less" exploits will eventually be patched by Apple, at which point anyone who applies the update has a clean device.
It’s bonkers to me that “Epstein didn’t kill himself” is a joke. Like here’s a known pedophile and sex trafficker connected to almost every powerful person in the world who was very very very obviously murdered to prevent him from testifying about something and the reaction of the mainstream media is “haha, that’s weird, anyway…”
In this case i'd say yes. It's a DB purposefully written for learning, with good references and documentation.

However if it was just another DB.. especially one competing in an area no one really feels deficient, prob not.
That might be the case, but newspapers seem to devote an enormous amount of space to opinion. It's especially stark compared to my favored medium for local news: local news channels - which incidentally tend to be profitable.
Thank you for clearing that up.

However, I’m not sure how this idea is helpful. We can pretend everything is made up and it’s only power structures that impose reality on people but it’s not helpful. In the end you have to consider society is and will be and you can either participate in it in reality or you can cynically scoff at how it’s all make believe anyways and live miserably.
How could this not be an Intel opp? He ran in plain site for decades with token prosecution.
There was a report by a psychologist who said Native American mascots have a negative effect on children of native Americans.

This may or may not be the case or may be true in some specific circumstances (Redskins, for example) but may not be true for all, however, many high schools are changing their team names based on this one study/conclusion which was funded by a tribe. Which is fine, but usually when there is a conflict of interest one wants to have additional independent studies that come to a similar conclusion.
The company is the “stock market” class.
>We’re at the point of, at the very least, barring NSO Group

I haven't followed the US response to the behaviour of NSO Group but if things like you mention have already been done I very much doubt it isn't a smokescreen. The US is arguably the biggest user and customer to these kinds of services.

>Financing terrorism is a crime

Yes but if you have the power to define what is and what isn't terrorism (or journalistic suppression) then a law is useless. Fixing this is beyond the reach of a representative democracy and the likes. It needs a full-on direct democracy and enough citizens that are against it or a Dictatorship with a dictator that is against it. Otherwise any law pretending to be against stuff like this are at best a smokescreen or at worst a plot to keep it for those in power but out of reach of anyone else.
In at least one of the articles I've read so far they mention an American citizen journalist living in the UK whose phone was hacked. He was reporting on IMDB and looks like UAE corruption was why he got hacked.

So perhaps that's a way in? If not law in civil court? pardon my lack of legal jargon/knowledge

"Also listed in the leaked records is a UK phone number belonging to the American investigative journalist Bradley Hope, who lives in London. At the time of his selection he was an employee at the Wall Street Journal."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/ft-editor-roul...
I often wonder if it’s just easier to crack at the phone level and just get data from memory as it’s unencrypted on the device rather than the quite good protocols that may have some problems. Are we all looking in the wrong place? Personally I’m sure if state actors want they can read your messages, one way or another.
Do you have a point?

The article is a random, that points to the original gov data
Enragement equals engagement.

If that's the world you want, good news, that's the world we have now. And the magic of AI and recommender systems has disrupted that old and stupid model of if "it bleeds it leads" to get you outraged faster and with far less effort than it used to take in the old and stupid days.

But that's not the world I want to live in personally and if it takes some imperfect even sometimes ham-fisted regulation to get us to a better place I'm willing to deal with that rather than embrace the status quo because it sucks and it's just getting worse as the tools to hack social media have been democratized at scale.

Ideally I'd love to let the free marketplace of ideas work this out (and it eventually will and I am a huge believer in weakly efficient marketplaces), but unless I get a 1000 plus year lifespan, I only have so many years left in my lightcone so I side with being more proactive.
> This book assumes existing knowledge of computer graphics at the level of an introductory college-level course

It also assumes existing knowledge of calculus and physics.
Without commenting on your comment...why on earth is that video age-restricted in the US? That's the most chilling thing I've encountered in a long time.

Here's an unrestricted version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb2z0XwMtH8
Where in the aesthetic or canon of solarpunk is this "fighting like hell" evoked or depicted?
Using inheritance in this way is a hack to emulate some of the functionality of ADTs. Grammars are perhaps one of the most poignant examples where the various constructors in your type might have no behaviors in common, so adherence to a shared interface is nothing but a vague indication that these types are somehow related. Sealed classes let you recover a little bit more of the functionality.
The point of OP's original comment is that it isn't enough for the seller to assume that the customers will use the product in a legal manner. Once you start holding the seller legally liable for use of their product, the primary purpose of that product becomes irrelevant. All possible uses must now be considered when selling a product.
The articles show that his wife (or whoever was his partner idk status) was hacked around the time of his murder.

Also reports Mexican journalist was hacked, then executed right after at an obscure location. Heavily implies GPS tracking was used for the hit.
UIView animations do not run on the main thread, and will not be blocked if the main thread is blocked. This does help a bit with keeping the OS feeling smooth, but it is far from the only reason.
> When do we start getting serious about visualizing a future without police?

There will always be rules, people will always break them and some group of specialists will always be trusted with extra responsibility to deal with those people.
I've been hearing of Pegasus for a good 3 years now. Is it so hard to patch devices to close whatever means it uses to hack them?

Or is there also a Pegasus V2, V3, etc that plays catchup with OS's security patches?
So true. When I had to clean out my parents' house after my mom died, there were boxes and boxes of photos. Just in boxes, not really organized. Had been saved for years. I gave some thought to scanning them, but ultimately was honest and told myself that nobody had ever looked at these and nobody ever would. So they just got thrown away. Nobody really cares, years later, about day to day minutia preserved like this.
The usual idea of a marketplace is preserving people's freedom to go to alternatives. Yes, sometimes that freedom has to be preserved via intervention to preserve choices (e.g. antitrust laws), but it's always weird to me to see the critique used as a reason for less freedom rather than more.
I see you’ve edited your earlier comment so it is clearer.

So your point was to complain about how Docker took a long time to update their code. I guess that’s not good.
They released this on github. I would love for them to put out a simple tool that allows you to lookup if your number is on the leaked list, they can copy that has my password been pwned technique to make it safe

https://github.com/mvt-project/mvt
>This is why you don't optimize first

The internals of an optimizing compiler might very well be the worst place to apply that principle. Who else is supposed to implement these optimizations, if not the compiler?
This is a nice daeimorsttn of a real peehmnoon, but the eaailoptxn geivn (that olny the first and last leerttrs maettr) is iccenorrt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typoglycemia
I heard by his referred to jokingly as the Real Man Starter Kit, aka the set of values that everyone thinks are requisite.
my #1 interest in mobile devices right now is who makes the best cooling systems. this device seems to really get that high performance pocketable system's have to prioritize cooling.

hoping the steam deck has good cooling, can burn some watts.
Time travel movies of all time