skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think this response is dismissive: it’s a technical explanation of what is happening. Understanding it helps us find a solution.

Netflix (of Facebook) rates content along embeddings, and highlights content along embeddings that users engage with. If a given user engages with clips featuring people in bikini, that system won’t pass the judgement (one that the author is passing, a judgement you dearly regret, ‘Lest…’) — but one that the commenter didn’t pass. No one in that process (at Facebook, Instagram or Netflix Tech team) is choosing to make things sluttier, or asks someone to bend over a little more (Netflix being a film and series producer too, I’ll reserve there).

Given that context, if, like the author, you believe that the content should not engage along certain dimensions then there’s several possible takes:

* a paternalistic approach to downgrade dimensions that are deemed unhelpful; that would have been popular in my Catholic school, less so on Hacker News, I’d expect;

* a empowering approach that either:

* name the dimensions and let users downgrade them; that’s harder than one would expect for many reasons, but roughly: naming is power and embeddings are not human-legible;

* let users downvote some recommendation, even if they’ve engaged with it.

Both Facebook and Netflix but also YouTube, Google Search engine, all have strangely avoided building those negative feedback for click-baits. It many ways, it’s a mystery to me, especially as someone who built so many recommendation systems. I’ve always used implicit or explicit negative feedback, to just engagement and the recommendations were meaningfully better.

I’d love to hear from people who have explored that approach if there have encountered issues implementing them. I can share two details that are not sufficient but I hope are relevant:

* The biggest problem at Facebook has always been that Likes were performative: your friends saw them, by design; people refused to use them as a way to improve their recommendation because of that. When we discussed a drop in posting, or when the five other reactions where debated, there were several suggestion to make a parallel form of Like invisible. I’ve seen those ideas being shot down repeatedly; I was never told why. I assumed there was a fear those would cannibalise the public Likes, and those drove a lot of engagement opportunities, but that was speculation on my part.

* Most effort to understand recommendations (“Why am I seeing this?”) had an abysmal engagement rate. So much that maintaining it wasn't worth the effort.
What's the alternative? Should Safari choose a default search engine by random per user or per session? Google is undoubtedly the best search engine in nearly all cases. Should Apple subject its users to a weaker engine just because Google has a different privacy policy? You can also change the default search engine.

Why wouldn't Apple accept a payment for bringing billions of dollars in traffic to Google?
Its voice capabilities are light years ahead of slack. Which is why gamers use it.
I think the blade are press forged (if thats the correct word) where the blade is press cut from a sheet, ground and fitted to the guard.
It's more like a disfunctional family, where the parents rent the kids services to perverts and beat them up while gaslighting them...
Can someone explain how this is a breakthrough compared to China's satellite system which achieved QKD in 2016? They also claim "ground-based QKD to beyond 500 km using a new technology called twin-field QKD"

https://scitechdaily.com/china-builds-the-worlds-first-integ...
If you were to run covert intelligence operations, you would want to embed yourself in the all forms of the media so you can suppress any stories before they come out.
To be clear because i'm getting downvoted, i'm not opposed to signed builds as the default. For example the GNU/Linux distros i use, by default only distribute signed and reproducible packages. However, users are still free to run any program they want, which is in my understanding why we use general-purpose computers at all.

See also Cory Doctorow's talk "The coming war on general-purpose computation" from 2011 CCC conference.
I also prefer my python to stay simple.

Maat looks really interesting for this use-case.
Perhaps I can partly answer my own question? Section 64A of the in-force Act[1] already has similar provisions for assistance to be provided by a third party in accessing a computer, copying and converting data into a format accessible by law enforcement. However there does not appear to be current provisions for cost recovery if that assistance requires the company/person involved to dedicate significant time and expense.

Table 8 (PDF page 14) of the Surveillance Devices Act 2004 Annual Report 2019-2020[2] states that only 20 such warrants were issued in that year and 11 extensions issued, and none of them were issued as a result of international requests (PDF page 25). The report doesn't indicate how many of these 20 requests resulted in assistance needing to be provided and who needed to provide that assistance.

Given the low count (20) of computer access warrants issued and likely nature that anyone providing assistance would be well aware of whether the request related to e.g. CSAM, I'd guess that most businesses involved may be happy to help out for free even if their business wears a small cost of complying with the order. I suspect though if this Act or new types of warrants generated significant workload for Australian private sector companies, and warrants were difficult and expensive to comply with, there would suddenly be a lot of backlash.

ACMA states[3] that the private sector self-reported costs during 2019-2020 of AUD$24m related to telecommunications interception legislation and AUD$21m related to metadata retention for at least 2 years. It also reported only 8 requests to block websites (7 being ACMA wanting to block foreign gambling websites) and 17 requests for Internet/communications services being switched off.

Aside from the metadata retention laws which the private sector has reported costing $237m to implement to date (with only ~21% cost recovery from the government), the other costs of complying with law enforcement warrants appear to be fairly minimal in the grand scheme of things and are just a small consideration towards the cost of doing business in Australia.

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2019C00296

[2] https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/nat-security/files/surveillan...

[3] https://www.acma.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-12/Telecomm...
You also will struggle to find the latest software for enterprise equipment because updates are only for customers with support contracts. So you might be able to get an perfectly functional HPE server in the used market but there will be no legal way to update it with the latest bios and firmware.
You'll be happier if you just don't use Reddit.
It's the easiest way for me to connect with the community, and basically every VR developer or VR project can be found there so it's easy to connect with like minded people.

There are also a lot of bots you can add for different tasks.

It kind of feels like a realtime social network.

Where it's really lacking is to structure information that should be available to anyone, but I guess that's not what it's meant for anyway
Among the "historical principles of ownership" are those from the communist countries, where the individual humans had the legal right to own only things belonging to a very short list and nothing else.

However, USA has claimed during decades that such restrictions of the rights of ownership are an abomination.

Even if we would accept that this is just a modification of a contract between the "owner" of a device and Apple, if Apple would have acted in good faith, they should have offered that if you do not agree to let Apple run programs on your own device for their benefit, which was never mentioned when you "bought" the device, then Apple should fully refund everything that you paid for your device and other Apple services, so that you will be able to get an alternative device.

As it is now, you either accept that Apple changes their "contract" at any time as they like, or you incur a serious financial loss if you do not accept and you want an alternative.

This certainly isn't a "mutual, voluntary exchange".
What is the better alternative? I have not heard of a society that has succeeded to incentive people on a large scale without the possibility of profit.

Note that the context of this conversation is someone blaming capitalism for Discord becoming bloated because Discord’s founders have a goal of increasing their wealth.

It seems alternatives to Discord exist for users that do not wish for this bloat, but users do not want to do the work of hosting it (e.g. teamspeak/ventrilo/matrix).

So what I am wondering is where the obligation for someone else to host these online services comes in, and why they “should” not have the goal of increasing their wealth in exchange for doing the work of hosting and servi the online services.
This same thing holds true for parents, especially when they die young. I'm relatively close to the age at which my dad died and I somehow find it really hard to imagine life past that point. Of course it isn't rational, but that doesn't take away that weird feeling.
This is a bit ridiculous. It's a gaming platform before anything else. In that scene it's very common to share your gaming status with others.

Not to mention that you can obviously disable this.
Podcasts on Spotify still aren't available in every country. What's even weirder, there are countries where Spotify is officially present but still has podcasts disable for local users in the app.

For me there's no legal way to listen to Joe Rogan. Not that I care too much. But I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who simply can't.
>When we are talking about many variable numbers, especially of a highly transmissible one, if something can be same, then there are also cases of them being higher.

So, you went with your feelings as opposed to scientific backing on that one.
By that rational, they could also be lower too. In fact, they could be on average lower.
That statement, however, has some backing. From a vastly larger and more random survey:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/research-and-impact/grou...

>The 13th round of the REACT-1 study looked at swab test data from almost 100,000 people in England between 24 June and 12 July. The research found that infections were three times lower in people who were fully vaccinated, compared to unvaccinated people. The data also suggested that people who were fully vaccinated were less likely to pass the virus on to others, due to having a lower viral load on average and therefore shedding less virus.
> surely a generic hardware manufacturer wants to ensure a generic experience?

What they want, first and foremost, is to not be a generic hardware manufacturer.

Quite a lot of those user-hostile choices - custom apps, SaaS-ification, focus on collaboration features - are attempts to prevent the product from being a commodity.

For example, I can replace my current washing machine with any other model of any other brand. Independently, I can use any brand of detergent with my machine. Both the machine and the detergent are commodity products. They mostly compete on price and marketing bullshit, which offers very limited margins. Modern tech companies desperately want to avoid being in this situation.

The most common - but by far not the only - approach of ensuring you can't be easily commoditized is through network effects. Not just "I can't switch from Facebook to Diaspora because all my friends are on Facebook", but also the weaker forms: "I can't stop using Teams because everyone at work uses Teams, and we can't switch because of SharePoint integration - which also incidentally means we have to use MS Office and Windows". Or, "I can't stop using Google Docs because a bunch of non-techies I have to deal with don't know how to (or don't want to) use anything else".

This is why companies fight interoperability[0] tooth and nail - breaking lock-in for users threatens breaking the weak network effects they need.

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[0] - Except "API interoperability", which isn't really proper interoperability for users, as it's governed by business contracts between API providers and API consumers.
Does your friend work with User experience researcher? I know it sounds ridiculous to delegate “this looks creepy” to an expert, but that’s where those people are valuable: they can enrich an impression with detailed feedback.

Also, if your friend has any sway, can you beg him to suggest a “Stop recommending this to me” button, if they haven’t. The platform is better at removing movies I’ve stoped watching from the “Continue watching” selection after a week but… that’s still a bit long. I just want the agency of telling the machine No on occasion.

And if that works, thankfully, we can get a “stop showing me the same image” button too.
You must know a lot of people who take themselves too seriously.
There's a network of Dutch subreddits, 99% of which are managed by the same clique of mods.

Recently I noticed comments I had posted in those subs over the last few months had completely been ignored.

It turns out I have been shadowbanned, and not just on the primary /r/thenetherlands sub, but on every single one of the communities they manage.

There is no apparent reason for them to have done this to me. My messages to the modteam are being ignored and Reddit support won't help because "moderators are free to run their communities as they see fit".

I have been locked out of engaging with the communities I was most interested and active in, for no apparent reason and likely forever.

And this is just one of many reasons for why having so few moderators control so many communities, is such a bad thing. Allowing them to operate without oversight or accountability is not helping the situation either.
I feel the opposite. I used slack for sometime and I felt it to be bloated. Discord feels much better to me.
Big Tech groups make cyber security pledges after White House summit
Valneva and Pfizer announce Phase 2 study for Lyme disease vaccine candidate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing

Wikipedia disagrees with you in the opening paragraph about strong and weak typing: it's contentious. For all practical purposes that I can think of, TypeScript creates a strongly typed environment.

The problem comes when you're interacting with non-typed (or, worse, incorrectly-manually-typed) libraries, or misuse `any`. Honestly, I'd be interested to see a pure TypeScript program and where weak typing comes in. There are definitely a couple of language escapes (again, `JSON.parse`, previously `fn.bind`), but these are going away as TS gains better inference and type-propagation logic.
“Apple makes is very easy to stop sending your user data to third parties.”

Better?
“B*tch to Boss” by Mozilla Firefox
Podcasts were nice and free because it wasn't a big industry. It's like the Internet before ads. Nice, cozy, but hardly a place to make a living. Spotify wanted to do for podcasts what YouTube did for videos. I understand it's more complicated, since the growth of YouTube correlated with growing connection speeds that made watching videos online possible at all.
I am convinced that moderating the top subreddits is a very mentally taxing job, not to mention the amount of time that must be spent. Someone who does that kind of work for free is either paid by someone or mentally unbalanced. Neither option seems good for the community.
> “From its peak post-dose 2,” the study authors write, “observed VE [vaccine efficacy] declined.” From 96% to 90% (from two months to <4 months), then to 84% (95% CI 75 to 90) “from four months to the data cut-off,” which, by my calculation (see footnote at the end of the piece), was about one month later.

> And it’s hard to imagine how the Delta variant could play a real role here, for 77% of trial participants were from the United States, where Delta was not established until months after data cut-off.

> Only 7% of trial participants actually reached six months of blinded follow-up (“8% of BNT162b2 recipients and 6% of placebo recipients had ≥6 months follow-up post-dose 2.”)

> 93% of trial participants (41,128 of 44,060; Fig 1) were unblinded, officially entering “open-label followup.” (Ditto for Moderna: by mid April, 98% of placebo recipients had been vaccinated.)
What a sad story. You could take it as a shadow of what's to come if this isn't dealt with now though, so in a way something good may come of it.
> almost identical

If that were so, you would still be in business. The whole thing is products try to continuously evolve, which is what the parent is against. He/she says don't evolve so much that you become a new product. Instead shut shop when it becomes unprofitable and make a new product.
Indeed, it's a valid point when the people in question are directly employed, and do the same work.
I didn't recognize the name, so I looked it up (so you don't have to).

"Ghislaine Maxwell...known for her association with financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghislaine_Maxwell
That screenshot is from /pol/ so I'm curious if the complaints about "censorship" were that people couldn't call it a china flu.
The intelligence community's silence is deafening
Not even close. The Australian electoral system uses instant-runoff for the House, and single-transferable-vote for the Senate.
Almost all of the examples listed are in relation to hardware. As far as I can see, hardware vendors see software as a cost centre and at best don’t care about quality and more often than not try to make up for the cost by bundling crapware with the drivers.

General purpose application software is leagues beyond the crap that hardware vendors pull off.
> If they don't, they will sink their ship.

Why would gamers stop using it?
Well, I'm sure he was making pretty good movie before and yet he was independent, people talked about him, reporters wrote stories more often – in the long-term he could have monetized that even better.
> Only #IPCC AR6 Socioeconomic pathway SSP1-1.9 keeps warming at 1.5°, but assumes a flow of gigatons of CO2 into the ground as large as the current gigaton flow of all fossil fuels out of the ground.

https://twitter.com/GriffithSaul/status/1429912590218575881
>I think a lot of people are missing this. 10-15 years of grinding and I'm free.

One might also die in a couple of years from the big C, heart, covid, even a car accident...

So, those 10-15 years might never even arrive...
Nice to see the usual suspects on The Cabal. People who believe ivermectin is some kind of miracle covid drug (even the manufacturers say its ineffective) and those who deny COVID even exists. Quality people.

https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/05/26/bmjebm-2021-111...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02081-w
Same, there's probably hundreds of thousands of business back-end applications that use confirm, as shiny buttons aren't a requirement.

Will they just remove the API (so a JS error) or will it default to "no"?
From my experience:

Free

Able to hop servers/channels extremely easily (for a game it's just hey join this discord server/channel -> click and you're able to start speaking immediately)

Search is good, as it @ing someone to get their attention. Private messages also good

Share screen really easily

The bots are phenomenal. I use it to play world of Warcraft, we have a "raid bot" which is fantastic to organise stuff, and also have several music bots where everyone can hang out and listen to the same Spotify/YouTube playlists at the same time. I'm sure there are plenty of other bots but these two are just what I use.

Inline images, GIFs, videos etc are really smooth, as are reactions/replies

Drawbacks I've found:

App isn't the best. If I close it in the background as I do with most of my apps, I don't get a push notification so if someone PMs me I don't see it until I open the app again to check

Channel notifications can get overwhelming quite quickly, but tbh I'm not sure there's anything they can do about that other than maybe add an option to default mute everything and then only get notifications for what you want on joining a server.
You probably don't need meth. I once tried meth out of panic when I had an overwhelming pile of work and really too little time to do it (I had to design and develop a comparably serious app from scratch alone in a week to production + do a lot of accounting-related paperwork). It helped great and I had no problem quitting (but it felt a way making me sure most of the people will so I strongly recommend to stay away from it). I tried amphetamine in about a month and it had almost no effect so I concluded the medicine I would have to be taking if legally could is Desoxyn.

A couple of years passed, my brain chemistry recovered from the damage (tolerance in particular) meth does and now a minuscule speck of black market amphetamine dissolved in the morning tea is enough for amazing, satisfying full-day productivity and happiness. And it is many orders of magnitude less harmful than meth is.

Don't take meth. Also don't take amphetamine if you can. An alternative I actually use when I really need productivity is simple nicotine in form of a vape - it's not nearly as good but also helps significantly (if you only use it a couple of months a year). But I still recommend everyone to avoid starting with nicotine either.
I've enjoyed your comments here, and have learned a bunch from them over the years, so I'm honestly surprised by your comment. Are you saying personal interpretation always supersedes direct clarification by the person or group in question?

Seems like a lot of what ails modern discourse is simply imagining malicious injury or oppression when we should work on finding commonalities instead of what differences are there.
Ah, you're right, I didn't see that setting. The button to disconnect is white for me, though. I'll have to look again next time, maybe I'm going crazy.

> It's just inherent to being an electron app I guess.

A barebones Electron app has maybe ~100MB memory overhead and starts without noticeable delay. To me this seems like the same problem that leads to oversized and sluggish websites. Snappy, lightweight Electron apps exist, though they're uncommon.
Have you used the slack client with more than one server? Last time I did the whole UI would reload when you switched.

Discord took off because:

* The message search is much better than free tiers of slack

* You don't need to set up a separate account per server

* It didn't have the user limits of Teamspeak

* It didn't have the ads of Skype

* A big inflection point was Skype launching their desktop client that was basically Web Skype in a window and sucked

* For a server with your gaming buddies, a drop in drop out perma voice channel is really a better model than distinct calls for slack. Also for public servers. And if you want to VC with your friends 1:1, the option is still there.

* Link sharing to invite users to a server vs having to set up a server/bot to give out invites as running a public slack used to require. Also used to not even require an account so was great for that pick up player you found for one night

* For the large server setups, discord's permission/moderation setup is way more flexible than Slack's. Slack basically has admin/not admin. (though discord does need to separate pinning from deleting other user's messages)

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For a summary, Slack is targeted at the business case. In a workplace chat, there should be no need to moderate, since bad behaviour can be taken to someone's boss/HR. And the sign up/multi server flow was not optimised for this usage model as Slack didn't care (at least when I last tried public Slacks, these days the only Slack I use is my employer's).

Discord is actually optimised for consumer use cases, and consequently built up such a network effect that even if Slack did invest heavily in their UX there, would be quite behind.