skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please, read the rest of my comment.

The idea isn't to focus on any individual bit of misinformation. Its to throw away the whole thing, conceptually, as a bad way of getting information, as a low quality source of it. It might have to include some left-leaning media as well, or most media in general as we know it today, because unfortunately most media today is manipulative instead of informative.

The hard bit is offering a good alternative, based on a decent set of principles, that will preserve its independence. Some principles might include:

- linking and detailed referencing to existing, primary sources

- grading the quality of information sources based on levels of evidence determined by experts

- showing the work i.e. using modern tech to allow the reader to expand on the whys and details if they want to (wiki style) without necessarily getting bogged down getting the gist of it (if they don't)

- you should be able to get from a lightweight, easy-read, to-the-point news article with a video to a full blown code-available paper that is also a Jupyther notebook with the anonymized dataset included, if you click deep enough

- full transparency to the entire process with public versioning of drafts and detailed commentary / editorialization etc - for those that want to access it. Open source and open data journalism, science and science communication.

(I'll be honest, the above list is super rough WIP at the moment - some of those might turn out to be bad ideas)

The reason why people might care now is that they are actually dying or getting maimed because they were exposed to misinformation. Between special interests pushing their narratives and solo manipulative grifters that are banking on building an audience, its hard to tell who to trust.

With a system like this, I suspect it might actually be possible to remove taboos eventually. Taboos are only taboos because we fear their effects on mass misinformation, misinterpretation and other systemic (un)intended negative effects. If we can find a new way of thinking that gains wide acceptance and is immune to those flaws, then maybe we can open up taboo topics.
Or 50-75% of the nonsense that comes out of the mouths of politicians. The solution to a knotted ball of string is not to yank the tag end you see, but it's so very tempting.
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This is a civil case, where the causes of action arise either from contractual violations or from private rights of action authorized by law. The counts alleged are "breach of contract", "promissory estoppel", "breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing" (all three of which are essentially saying "Google legally promised they wouldn't do something they did, and it hurt me"), defamation, and, uh, "termination in violation of public policy" (which is basically saying it violates employment discrimination laws, and is at best poorly drafted in the complaint).

In this case, the tossing out would be along the lines of "the facts alleged in the complaint are, even if true, insufficient to let you bring this lawsuit" (or, more succinctly, "failure to state a claim [upon which relief can be granted]").
Soylent is working on this
Dai managed to keep a reasonably stable value through the 94% drop of 2018.
>It is a valid analysis and I think that my primary analogy still holds - a good browser should be able to find 10M paying users, when something like YouTube Premium is able to find 50M, just because browser is a much more valuable tool - even though free alternatives exist (because free YouTube also exists).

A reasonable point. And I don't necessarily disagree.

Although "Video of stuff I want to look at" may be more compelling than "some icon I click to view the intarwebz," when they see essentially the same thing unless they take specific steps to block ads/tracking.

And that goes double for Android phone users.

My hypothesis was orthogonal to your thesis, but I agree that the data I outlined certainly supports yours.
So the stem cells somehow react to the xenobots?
meh, just saying something doesn't make it true ... as a miner, I use the cheapest electric this part is true, but for those of us in the USA, 100% of the time that is hydro-electric power and you can look up maps of electric kWh costs and the lowest are all in Eastern Washington state and in Oregon around hydro-electric dams on the Columbia river (I pay residential rate of ~0.06/kWh). Saying you can't store all that energy, simply using it isn't really "polluting" anything and in absolutely no uncertain terms is it contributing to climate change.

Outside the USA - There are huge mines in Iceland that use geo-thermal power. China entirely banned mining operations, even though they are ramping up clean-energy far faster the USA—but they are not there yet—mining in China is no longer contributing.

This is really just a simple Google search for "largest bitcoin mine in the world" which of the top, only Russia is still using coal for rural power, for the larger areas it is Hydro (RusHydro) and Nuclear so it is not 100% clear if the big mines in Moscow are on coal. Assuming they are, that is still only perhaps a few percentage of the total.
And what is the definition of evil according to them? Showing ads to users. Then let's sue the whole freaking internet.
I'm not trying to sound glib, but a court can 'determine' just about anything. Whether or not the ruling continues to stand in light of appeals and other court rulings is another matter. There are all sorts of seemingly bizarre rulings, like a house being declared "legally haunted".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stambovsky_v._Ackley
I called my Dad "email dad", always there is answer the phone or send email but never home. And when he was home I don't think we played or talked deeply even though he was around. Didn't matter much after I got into computers and a little older.

I have kids now and it is hard to play with them as I don't know what to do. All I have figured out is that the kids have to lead. My kids are bit older now and love Roblox and minecraft so that's what we do.

But I don't know how to do home improvement things that kids might want to help out with either. I am good a programming and can help my kids build roblox games though.

I'm going to take them camping in the summer for like 2 weeks with no internet, for a few days at least..

And I work a lot even though it's from home.
Mortality isn't the only important measure here. A big argument that's been made for the vaccine is that it reduces the likelihood of hospitalization. This study doesn't specifically go into hospitalizations, but out of 31 severe cases of Covid-19, 30 of them were in the placebo group. It's important to note that there were only 31 severe cases of Covid-19. It's not surprising that the mortality rate between the placebo and vaccine groups is pretty even with those numbers.

I'm glad that you're trying to follow the data and not just the headlines, but it's also important to have the base knowledge to understand what the data actually indicates.
> the forked chain would have no legitimacy with users either and they would be quick to dump the issuer's stable coins as quick as possible.

Wouldn't it have legitimacy with the actual fiat banking system though? TBH thats the side i'd personally pick if i owned significant eg USDC and it was only honored on one side of the fork.
Twitter is a private platform that has a 1st amendment right to exercise editorial control about what happens to their own platform. Same for a blog with a comment section, a restaurant review service, a moderated forum about tech news, an image sharing service. It shouldn't matter how large a corporate entity is. Same for the cable news networks. Same for newspapers and magazines.
This is probably a part of it. It took me far too long to learn that my wife had no interest in solving her problems and truly just wanted to talk about them while I listened. I still don't understand why she, or anyone else, would consider that helpful, but for some reason she does. Like you, if there is an issue I just want to troubleshoot it and move on. There is no practical use in just talking about it without action.
"Don't be evil" != "must let me use their platform for my personal moral crusade", though...
Looks like they were innocent. https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedeta...

> In 1998, the defense filed a post-conviction motion for a new trial. At a hearing on the motion, several witnesses testified that they had driven by the intersection days before the accident and the stop sign was already down. Some of the witnesses said that after the charges were filed, they reported to both Hillsborough County Sheriff’s detectives and the prosecution that the sign had been down for days, but the information was disregarded. One of the witnesses said she spoke to the prosecutor who disregarded the report and replied that she intended to “burn their ass,” referring to the defendants.

>The motion for a new trial was denied, and the defendants appealed the decision. In March 2001, the Florida Court of Appeals reversed the manslaughter convictions of all three defendants. The court held that the prosecution had made improper comments during closing argument. The court did not reverse the grand theft convictions.
The point of the original quote was about people with too much control over others already. In which case, a few strokes of a pen could condemn thousands to misery or death. In that sense, there was no need to be aiming a bow at a single individual.

The original quote wasn't about speech, it was about excessive control.
When people start to implement security at the BGP layer, which will likely occur some time soon, we will see things break. We will also see BGP fail if we don't do anything as the protocol is ancient, got an untold amount of undefined behavior between different devices and suppliers, and is extremely fragile.

There has been many that has suggested that we should just scrap the whole thing called The Internet and start from scratch. It would be safer, but I don't think it is a serious alternative. DNS, BGP, IP, UDP, TCP, and HTTP to name a few are seeing incremental changes, and the cost is preferable over the alternative of doing nothing. Ambitious security things would be much less costly if we had working redundancy in place, which is one of those things that flag day tend to illustrate. Good redundancy and people won't notice when HTTP becomes HTTP/2 that later becomes HTTP/3. It also helped development at google that when they added QUIC, they controlled both ends of the connection.
Why would one ever default to believing aliens are likely to be highly enlightened? It's as likely that they're just lucky with resources, location, timing. They might be savages that primarily jump forward in technology by constantly fighting wars amongst themselves.

The aliens observing our supposed primitiveness are just the ones that came out on top in their latest civil war and went out exploring using the technology that the 14,000 years of war cultivated.

Maybe they're the most obnoxious, spoiled, entitled assholes you could ever imagine. Luck rolled their way ten thousand times in a row and they act like it.

There's absolutely no good reason to default to believing aliens are likely to be far more enlightened than we are.
In the Code of Conduct they signed, was "evil" actually defined? Usually contracts go to great lengths to define every single term that is used, even obvious ones. If "evil" was not defined, then who gets to decide its definition for the purposes of enforcing the contract, the writer, or the signer?
Alternatively, the US dollar gained ~300% in value against the Lira. You really trust something that volatile?

Turks who chose to trust their monetary savings in Lira are doing terrible. Their savings have been destroyed.

Turks who chose to trust their monetary savings in Dollars are doing ok. They're still getting debased, but slower than their fellow citizens. And relative their fellow citizens, they're doing amazing.

Turks who chose to trust their monetary savings in Bitcoin are doing incredible. They took a risk trusting something that many smart people say is dangerous and isn't worth trusting, and they've been radically rewarded for it. Their savings can't be debased and faith in the currency is only growing, even if it's happening in volatile fits and spurts.

Bitcoin is certainly used for money laundering, but so is every other currency. Banks have repeatedly been caught aiding criminal organizations. You're conflating some people using a tool for bad things with the tool itself being necessarily bad. It's not a good argument.

The bitcoin economy is also made of real people, like myself, who work a real job and pay my taxes, but choose to trust my savings in money that can never be arbitrarily debased by easily corruptible humans.
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The government mismanages almost everything it takes over. If it owned Twitter, the employees would take over, unionize, and demand and get a collective bargaining agreement that guarantees annual pay raises while making them almost totally immune to dismissal.

There's a reason why the government was not able to effectively execute on developing a cost-effective space launch system, while SpaceX was. The efficacy of using the profit motive and competition to engender innovation and efficiency is not corporate propaganda. It's the lesson of the last 400 years.

The sanctification of the government, as some kind of healthy antidote to corporate greed, and representative of the collective will, is a deeply misguided and extraordinarily dangerous notion. Thomas Sowell's account of his experience at the Department of Labor in 1960 is a poignant example of how untrue it is: https://youtu.be/v6PDpCnMvvw?t=38
Huh. https://abcnews.go.com/US/sen-rand-paul-attacked-angry-mob-l...
Given the number of people in this thread who care about this stuff: does anyone have firsthand experience with the LG C1 when it comes to privacy, ads, dark patterns, forcing a WiFi connection, etc?

Been eyeing it as one of the better displays available right now

Fwiw I don't mind on-screen menus for even basic functions like some people seem to; I just don't want it doing anything nefarious
Something is off there. I have Ryzen 3900X and it takes around 1-1,5 hours to compile ungoogled chromium.

It is really hard to keep up-to-date with security patches if you need to compile every few days from source with that time..

Edit: Also 32GB RAM which matters
Someone came to our local hackerspace talking about learning python. They had gone through almost an entire python textbook on an android smartphone. Code exercises and everything. We lent out a raspberry pi to them. The upgrade to screen + keyboard + mouse was huge.

Raspberry pi is an excellent computer to learn programming on. These days many people simply don't have access to computers.
High time
I wish there was an easy way to map all my chrome ext to firefox exts. For the ones that don't have an exact equivalent maybe the closest match would work fine. The point is I have over 30 extensions and every time I decide to use ff I realize I'm missing one or another ext. Even if I download the ff version of the ext it's still missing all the configuration and customized key bindings.

This is probably the major blocker from people switching.
I think a socially conservative Christian's definition of evil is almost the same as that of a secular progressive. Moral relativism is about using a small grey area as an example for how the massive overlap is wrong.
And yet, just lately, they have been trying to win back and refresh the third party dev ecosystem by introducing a new API 2.0 and even newer relaxed terms for it's use. These provoked a debate two weeks ago on HN between those who watched the rug getting pulled out from under them when Twitter locked the old API, and those who just wanted to make something [1].

I wonder where Jack was behind this re-evaluation and if it might not get re-re-evaluated in his wake.

API 2.0 just got even riskier for developers !

[1] Updates to the Twitter developer platform
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29231262
Winamp is still alive?
The only thing here that current language models objectively don't have is a persistent memory. GPT-3 already uses 2048 tokens of context as input, but it's not persistent. An improved language model would likely need to have persistent memory. There's no obvious reason why the rest of that stuff can't occur as emergent behaviours.

It was a rhetorical question: there is no possible distinction between a highly sophisticated language model and an AGI. If a language model can't produce all the same answers that an AGI can produce, then it just hasn't reached the level of sophistication necessary to do that.
This article? No, but I see the same sentiment being expressed in lots of other articles that do say that there is something wrong with you if you don't want to sit around and just talk.
It's still readable and editable, AFAIK. At least the CSS files.
At least 25 Americans were killed during protests and political unrest in 2020.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/americans-kill...
Has it changed? It used to be unlimited for open projects.
It's just doing the same stuff Opera did (with a much less pleasing engine).

I've used Vivaldi for years but now I'm getting split on it. I've got regressions that are just unacceptable (especially when it comes to video playback), but at the same time it comes with features I can't live without.
It's free, just 24 interest-free payments of $0!
Douglas Crockford has been very willing to give special license to use things for evil; you just have to ask. (May not be good enough for Debian, I guess)
They mention togas a lot, most Romans didn’t wear togas day to day, they were ceremonial like suits.
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/displays/4k-uhd/
I need the money now more than I need the potential increase in value sometime in the future.
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Likes and Retweets are the big annoyances, IMO. If I'm following someone, it's because I want to see the content that they are consciously putting out, not just whatever they impulsively click a heart on. And unless you're a personal friend or a particularly interesting content aggregator, I probably don't care about your RTs either.
All this messaging, if it's to be of any use, has to come with some sort of challenge attached to it. For oversocialized professionals, "be vulnerable and talk about our feelings," is no challenge at all; they've been doing it all their lives. For these sorts, the discourse around mental health/modern masculinity arms them with an array of manipulative techniques and stymies genuine personal/social development. There is absolutely a need to cultivate sangfroid.

But I'm not sure how many men the above paragraph actually applies to. When you live online, it's easy to forget how, uh, primal the world can be for so many guys. I know people with good reasons to be happy, but due to some emasculating hangup (domineering father, absent father, bad dating history, height, etc), they view life through such a paranoid lens, seeing every interaction as some sort of competition. To them, letting one's guard down, stepping away from these masculine expectations, and being open about their fears still presents a legitimate challenge with legitimate reward.

This discourse seems tired because the demographic that needs it the least engages with it the most.
AppleTV is not analogous to a Roku stick however, unless I'm misunderstanding. It is an app that already requires a connection to Wifi from the TV; Roku stick is what provides this connection. Additionally, AppleTV does not support Netflix or Disney+ among others. [1]

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/29/apple-tv-channels-services/
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The people who will win this are the lawyers. The plaintiffs will not win.
Yes, that’s a fair restatement of what I said. I’d only add that some self-published writers can’t traditionally publish. So it’s not exactly their choice that they can only contract with an editor in a way that doesn’t best serve the book.
I strongly sympathize with the following observation:

> The way altcoins market themselves, generally, is to highlight the shortcomings of Bitcoin as though it were old tech or “Boomer coin”, and then explain how they are better than Bitcoin.

> When you dig into them, however, it turns out they are making tremendous trade-offs in one area to achieve additional capability elsewhere. They are sacrificing some degree of security, decentralization, auditability, and so forth, in order to achieve things like more features, more speed, or more throughput.

It is exceedingly rare to see altcoins describe the tradeoffs they made in honesty.
To save others the trouble, here's the relevant section:

The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
I would find it hard to believe that the failure mode of these headlights wouldn't be "points straight and doesn't auto-dim ever", which reduces it to the previous implementation's graceful aging modes, but you are right a new possibility is introduced.
Oh, I thought this was about Google encouraging the rampant consumerism that is causing so much environmental degradation...
Brave is also based on the Chromium engine, and using any Chromium based browser would work against open web standards.
Keep in mind, that only holds as long as it's a religious practice, and it doesn't work.

Start getting a greater than 50% success rate, and I'll bet you see changes real quick. The Supreme Court case will be amazing.
Lesson learned: Don't give bad customer service if you work in the World Trade Center.
Delta Omicron. Founded 1909. Unfortunate 112 years later.
What do you think feminism has taken away from men?
You underestimate the difficulty. You need almost as much delta-v to get from LEO to moon than from the earth to LEO.
Of course, exceptions don’t prove rules, they disprove them. Maybe Musk is showing that CEOs could say a lot more than they choose to, at least if they have charisma. And run certain kinds of businesses, appealing to a certain kind of investors and customers.
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> "The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3 as is"
Before Twitter you didn’t have a voice you were afraid to lose.

Edit: re-reading this, I’m giving Twitter too much credit, but I hope the point I’m trying to make is still visible.
You just reminded me that I have it somewhere in my book shelf already, but I've never read it!
How do you switch? Can you do it with just the keyboard?
cant anyone just make software that I purchase? I see a subscription model and I click away.
Mistakes come in pairs, though. If you try too hard to avoid making one mistake, you make the opposite mistake.

Absent parents vs helicopter parents. Disciplinarian vs. too permissive. Et cetera...

So, yes, don't make the mistakes your parents made. And you have to work at that, because what you saw is the default setting for your own parenting. But don't overcorrect, either.
I don't think it was your intention to say eugenics is a legitimate solution, so I'll go on record saying it isn't a solution. It's a recurring problem across the world.
Was that brilliant guerilla marketing or just serendipity for them?
Read both and they're very good.
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What about when it’s in your employment contract that you can be fired for “being evil”, and that you’re expected to speak up if you perceive the company “doing evil”, and then you’re terminated for speaking up over perceived “evil” actions by the company?

Does it form “a contract” then? Because that’s what the suit in the article is alleging, by my reading.
That's a valid 3rd reason!
Except this Las Vegas is going to world-wide. I wonder what will it do to the society?
Yes, a few of the protestors were killed by the state. It's sad, but I'm not sure what the point you're trying to make is.