skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Misleading title on HN (correct in actual github repo)

"Applications" != "Apps"
> ...sell whatever horse medicine he wants to sell.

> Being complicit in the spreading of dangerous conspiracies is IMHO morally wrong...

But it's OK if you do it?
Before the internet, if I wrote a letter to the editor of a magazine or comic book, the editor obviously made the decision whether to publish my letter or not. Was this censorship? No, of course not. And no one complained about it. It wasn't my magazine after all.

Of course, I could just start my own magazine if I want to publish my own content, but that would obviously be ridiculously cost prohibitive. And this was the norm for magazines, radio, TV. There was always strong editorial control by corporations.

Boom comes the internet, and all of that goes away. As long as you can convince your web host to host you, you can say what you like.

But now podcasts and content creators are making deals with big corporations again, and those corporations have the right to make the same decisions the magazine editors did. It's not censorship. It's how things have always been.

You can always build your own website, and the government will not interfere. There is your freedom of speech. Your web host might, but even that hasn't been an obstacle for extreme left/right wing sites, at least not so far. Worse comes to worse you can seed your content on bittorrent.
Who is this anti-competitive for?

If Apple cedes control over the App Store I lose all of the benefits. Who will implement anonymous Sign In with Apple when you can just, create an alternative App Store and bypass this? No more Apple Pay. No more privacy fact sheets and enforcements. You name it. Apple collectively bargains on behalf of users against predatory developers.

I honestly cannot comprehend why people can’t just buy an Android phone if they want the Amazon Prime App Store or the Meta App Store of whatever. Leave us alone. We like the iPhone this way. I’d rather developers stop writing new software than to give up these controls. If apple is this big bad monopoly or whatever seriously just don’t buy their products. When you go to buy your next phone say “I want multiple app stores. Therefore iPhone is not the device for me” and then just buy the Android phone that supports the features you want. Only having one App Store is the feature I want, which is why I buy the iPhone. If this feature is a big deal to customers than they will start buying other products and then apple may have to change how it does things.

But we both know that won’t happen because Apple’s way is the superior model. There’s just a minority of developers who complain loudly and then other mega corps who want to increase their margins. Again. There’s absolutely 0, and I mean 0 benefit to me as a customer to change this, and instead I lose lots of benefits that I enjoy.
> Plenty of people watch Joe Rogan that aren't conservatives

How do you know that? I'm legitimately interested what kind of audience he has now and how it changed after he signed w/ spotify, but I don't think this info is available publicly, at least I can't find it.
> OpenBSD has handled this case for some years. I do not know if there was any breakage or fallout from this.

The other thing about OpenBSD is that when they make a change to their OS, they also go through to make sure all the (third-party) ports/packages:

* https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/ports/

* https://github.com/openbsd/ports

do not break. So they're create patches for the software and and submit them upstream.
> A recent example is Dr Jordan Peterson talking about climate change. He lacks even a basic understanding but was sitting there talking about it with the confidence of a climate expert and as he is a Doctor people take him seriously about everything and it’s just god damn awful.

Ironically, I see this on HN, too. Not always, but frequently enough.

What I'm talking about is comment sections (often about economics, climate change, etc.) with commenters who post with iron-clad confidence, only to be contradicted by other commenters who take the opposite position with the same confidence.

I read these dueling comments and think, "Everyone seems so sure of themselves. But I have no clue as to who is correct here."

I find this jarring because: a) somebody has to be wrong in these wars of dueling facts and b) I'm surprised because I feel that HN is enriched with reasonably bright people who I'd expect would be more circumspect with their comments.

I'm not surprised about the abject confusion that the general public has when discussing similar topics, especially since I am often confused reading HN comments. I know that's arrogant of me, but there's truth in there, too.

tldr: If I can't get a handle on dueling "facts" when reading HN, how the hell can I expect Joe Rogan or his listeners to do the same?
> He can still do podcasting under his brand

Unless Spotify hired a potato for counsel, no, Rogan probably can’t do that.
Clarification; 5 light seconds from Earth, but 10 light second round-trip.
If they gave me access to liquid nitrogen cooled CPUs running at 7-9GHz it would be a really useful service for CPU-bound games (Factorio, Paradox games). I just can't see the business case for streaming games based on what they're offering. I can buy a new GPU easily; setting up a proper overclocked CPU is an entirely different ball game.
> I also think that the portability is a huge factor

At least out here, I’ll often go to the park and see little clusters of 10 year olds, either all wrapped around one Switch, or all playing together on their respective Switch. I’ve never seen that before, even with Gameboys.

I don’t know exactly why, but they did something right.
Who is going to surrender its entire professional network of people to microsoft?

wait...
To give a good example of why something like this matters...

I spent a bit more than a year as the most senior dev on the team that owned the sign up page for a cloud computing company. We faced bot attacks constantly. They had a variety of reasons to attack, but International revenue sharing fraud (IRSF) was a major one. In short, bots would convince our sign up flow to make verification phone calls to numbers that charge a lot of money but don't actually exist. (Note: whatever "why don't you just" you're about to reply with, we had an entire team of people doing nothing but trying to stop this for months and years- we tried that and it didn't succeed, or there were business reasons it was not feasible.)

I switched companies. In my new role, I happened to be on a team in the same org as their sign up page. Chatting with them, I learned that they were not facing similar attacks, but identical ones. The countries involved, the patterns of the attack, everything- this was the same attacker, going up against two completely unrelated companies.

I don't know if this system is the right implementation- I need to do a deeper dive on this- but I do know that something like this is needed so that companies can coordinate their defenses.
In the case of the hotel example there is also another issue: a hotel is a lodging.

Throwing someone out in the street with a proper reason is not entirely legal in most jurisdictions, at least not in mine. Proper reasons include disruption, property damage, violating the rules, committing crimes, being intoxicated, not having paid, being past the leave date, etc.

In this case, the reason is "hotel staff from another hotel need to stay in your room", which is not grounds for expelling anyone.

Even when hotels make mistakes and overbook they can't throw out guests that are already accepted and accommodated. Hotels even go the extra mile of directing the additional guests to other hotels and foot the bill.
Turkey, you were doing so well
> Why is it that the means of distribution is relevant at all?

The medium is the message [1]. Recitations and radio shows have as much in common as linear-TV talk shows and streamed ones.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
> Graham Hancock

Just discovered he lives in the same town as me.
We have torrents, cheap hosting and bw, tons of stuff. There is no excuse for this madness. There is a culprit however, mobiles
Can someone summarize how this compares to Plotly and ChartStudio? Also flexible and easy for non-programmers to master. And open sourse.
I agree with the PC + Switch combo. I generally buy Nintendo first party + (puzzle, platformer, strategy) games on the switch and leave (open world, shooter) games for my PC, basically games that I likely wouldn’t play in portable mode.

Before, I had just a PC, and I found myself never playing the graphically simpler games (if I’m sitting at my PC, I might as well be playing an intensive game), but now I can play the mechanically simpler games in bed with the switch!
How to Authenticate for a Dual Platform Mobile Deployment on an Existing App
Aren't release events usually a midnight thing? I think they may skew far heavier to the adult market than the actual game audience.
You seem to be conflating safety and privacy
Ex-Neuralink President Invests in Competing Brain Startup
I think the author slightly misses the point in the "why do they do it" section. People do it because being a software engineer, at least in US tech companies, is one big pissing contest. People, even if they're being nice, are just constantly trying to demonstrate technical prowess -- technical superiority over others. That's how you get respect and that's how you get promotion.
Yeah.

Coinbase is a business, and the primary goal of a business is to win ... financially.

Any tool or approach that furthers that is to be embraced.

It's not a moral or ethical argument, it's strictly financial.

And this isn't Coinbase's doing, it's the game that the Western world (particularly the USA) has dictated.

All Coinbase is doing is being better at playing that game.

This is simply one of the purest manifestations of the ethos of Corporate America ... voted into power by the good ol' citizens of the US of A.
Amazing - you should be proud of your team’s work! On Spotify, my experience was that it’s recommendation system would simply recommend songs from the same bands I’ve already told it that I like. But Apple will dig up some obscure band I’d never heard of and - POW! - it would be awesome and a new favourite band.

The recommendation system alone is what keeps me looking past all the errors with the software being unable to play a song on demand on a regular basis.

Congrats again!
I don't really agree with the "all censorship is bad" argument either. The counterarguments are too obvious - every viable community on the internet has a moderator team or equivalent. And it isn't really a question of whether this can be done. Spotify have done it and nobody is pointing to a broken law. There isn't anything interesting here legally or technically speaking (and that is proper - Spotify should control what is accessible on Spotify).

The problem here is Spotify are screwing up their editorial responsibilities. Joe Rogan has reached the sort of critical mass where he gets to decide what is in the public's interest to talk about. These faceless censors at Spotify aren't qualified to do that, or qualified to decide what is and isn't misinformation. They are acting foolishly outside their wheelhouse of creating platforms. They are screwing up by taking down interesting and entertaining content, making decisions that is going to get a very large audience upset with them.

They pay Rogan because he is better at this sort of decision than they are. This is a poor follow up.
I'm mostly indifferent, but if I had to pick I do like the new icon a tiny bit more than the previous one.
The government didn't ask Spotify, the surgeon General suggested Spotify should do take it down on MSNBC. Totally different, and if they want to take the governments suggestion that isn't government enforced censorship even if it leaves a bad taste in your mouth
Shall the government have a monopoly on spreading fake news ? During this pandemic all governments were caught red handed.

Shall we remove videos of speeches from our gouvernements spreading fake news ?
All of this surprises me at some level, this cultural tendency toward censorship. It's not even really about whether it's in Spotify, Twitter, YouTube's rights to do it as private companies, it's why do some feel this need to do it at all?

Is Joe Rogan really the problem? If you don't like it, don't listen to it. I don't.

Someone else framed this in terms of centralized vs decentralized distribution, which brings up a lot of important considerations — if Neil Young or Joni Mitchell would just distribute their songs themselves, they wouldn't have to issue an ultimatum. Likewise, if Rogan did so he wouldn't be the target of censorship.

But why isn't Young making that his hill? He doesn't care about freedom of speech, he just wants his ascendant. And Spotify could do what used to seem to me to be common sense, support its artists and drop those calling for restrictions on other artists' works.

This is a bad cultural route we're headed down. It doesn't go anywhere well. "Cancel culture" became a sort of buzzy topic of conversation, but it's a real problem and goes deeper than the referent of that catchphrase.
That's not by definition at all. A view that is fringe in a scientific or medical context can still have strong appeal to a non-scientific and non-medical audience. In Joe's case, platforming fringe views in addition to his regular guests creates a compelling sense among his listeners that they are being given a fair and balanced presentation and the freedom to make up their own minds.
His attorney said he intended to. They settled 3 days later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Express_Flight_3411_inc...

Search for "confidential settlement"
> MR PRICE: It is intelligence information that we have declassified.

> QUESTION: Well, where is it? Where is the declassified information?

> MR PRICE: I just delivered it.

Epic exchange.
Pay $100 million dollars for a creator and his content just so you can delete large portions of it after putting it on your service. Smart....
> When the government asks Spotify to censor Rogan

Political appointees making public statements isn’t the government asking anyone to do anything.
> once the airline asked him to leave, even if they broke the rules it’s still trespassing

Being right but getting your head beat in is .. not winning.
Being right but getting on the no fly list is .. not winning.
Being right but getting involved in a lawsuit after flying is .. not winning.

How hard was it for Dao to realize there’s no way to come out on top in this immediate situation, and the only logical next move is to comply and use the inconvenience to get something out of the airline?
I am not as free as Joe Rogan to get paid $100 million by Spotify for doing a podcast. So we don't all seem to have the same amount of "freedom" here.

Spotify's arbitrary choices about what content they want to host comes into it, what content they think is good for their business, etc. I don't think Spotify's choice to pay Rogan $100 million but not me is any more or less "censorship" than their choice of what episodes they want to include for that $100 million.
This is straight up extortion. Either you start paying for a "free forever" service, or you lose access to every account you registered using Google OAuth with your custom domain email address.

You can migrate your domain and email, but you CAN'T MIGRATE your Google OAuth, and without that you lose access to all your accounts ON OTHER THIRD PARTY SITES.
Basic programming course teacher on uni told us that if we ever make such an obvious comment/docstring we'll be failed at the speed of light, no second chances.

His example was: "i++ // add 1 to i"
Ok. Then why is there an issue? Just buy a different phone. Everybody gets what they want.
From the wiki pages for the people you mentioned:

> Graham Bruce Hancock… promotes pseudoscientific theories… An example of pseudohistory and pseudoarchaeology, his work has neither been peer reviewed nor published in academic journals.

> Mark Lehner, an American archaeologist and egyptologist, has disputed Schoch's analysis, stating, "You don't overthrow Egyptian history based on one phenomenon like a weathering profile... that is how pseudoscience is done, not real science."

> Historian Ronald H. Fritze has described Schoch as a "pseudohistorical and pseudoscientific writer".

Randall Carlson doesn’t have a wiki page.

I hope anyone who is interested in these people is listening to them out of morbid curiosity and not because they think they are deserving of any credence whatsoever. The scientific method is not optional. If you don’t use it, you’re not a scientist.

Rogan, however, appears to genuinely want to believe (and promote) these theories, whether they have any factual basis or not.
I just think that Spotify has an added responsibility on how they should manage their content.

>you paid me for that picture, so you have exclusive rights

>you take it down?? ehhh maybe if you prevent me from publishing it elsewhere now?

Well that's an extremely simple take on the subject... again there's a context.

A better take would be to not publish your picture because of someone claiming that you were acting/acted in a "improper manner" (not in the legal sense).

You have a name, JRE is a brand as well, not to mention the guests he has, so removing the content that was once published in a sense it's also sending a message to the public.

I have no clue why they removed ep. "#91 - Bill Burr". I like Bill Burr, he is a funny comedian. I look for his content to be entertained, not to be informed. Is he paddling misinformation? Is he homophobic? A racist? Or he said something someone didn't like?

Who knows. We just know that one of his appearances is no longer listed.

At this point the best would be to let the man go with the money.
> You definitely can. Search for _NET_WM_PID. Now this being X11, this is again just a convention, and a client could put any information it wants in that property.

That was the reason I mentioned that "it is not possible to know", perhaps "for sure" is missing at the end of the sentence.

> Really, it doesn't.

As a user (at least in my opinion) it does.

> If these programs want to share information, they already can. If these programs want to spy on each other's memory contents, they already can. Unless you are running these programs as different users and with different home directories, which is not usual right now in desktop GNU/Linux (but is on Android).

The point is, when the user copies a piece of information he has a clear target for that information (clipboard is the tool he uses do copy from one window to another), why would all other apps have access to it?

It is the user that wants to share information not the apps.

Even taking account all those capabilities, many pieces of malware rely on detecting and replacing information on the clipboard, that is a clear indication that some sort of isolation is missing here, or at least, and indication regarding that the information was changed/accessed.
It's optional whether it's followed. They're not threatening Spotify, and if Spotify chooses to listen to them it's their choice
Some back end devs unwilling to learn React are planning to try it.

However as I understand, it's using WebSocket. At my previous job, building a customer service view that used it solely for real time updates, I wouldn't use it for anything critical without some heavy fault tolerance (like checksums or a simple incrementable number to count how many messages have been sent). The messages can be randomly dropped by whatever is in between.

I wouldn't want to write in Stimulus as a front-end dev. It looks like writing AngularJS from 2012, way too imperative. Template and logic are also separate which makes legibility harder compared to JSX.
Is the study of these animals really more important than their welfare? I can imagine this equipment -> https://img.atlasobscura.com/UC6CwEZZ85Acxf1_v1AK52TfEYf_ZWd... has a non-negligible impact on the animal's life.
Show HN: Google Apps add-on for syntax highlighting
This is an add-on to write code in Google docs and presentations.

When I worked at Google there was an add-on go/kodify which allowed to write code segments inside Google docs and then use it to syntax highlight all code.

When I left Google I decided to recreate such an add-on. I added a few tweaks here and there and made it work for presentations as well.

The code is open-source at https://github.com/floitsch/syntax-addon
At least they aren't putting up a pretense of "security"!
> No one is arguing Ivermectin isn't an amazing horse dewormer...

You're spreading misinformation by implying that ivermectin is only used as a horse dewormer. Should you be censored, too?

> Ivermectin is used to treat human diseases... [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin#Medical_uses
Maybe not a different reason but a combination of factors.

The vaccination share has been almost constant since August 2021. As recommended almost everyone got booster shots the last two months, but that is as much a precaution.

I think the final thing to getting restrictions removed have been the mild Omicron variant, that does not cause many hospitalizations with a serious outcome.

COVID and the seasonal flu are now very much alike, so to me it is common sense to remove all restrictions now.
What happens is that you find out why this is a terrible idea.
Don't forget SvelteKit / transitional apps!

Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? | Transitional Apps with Rich Harris, NYTimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=860d8usGC0o
Drop and Run
You can still click through the phishing warning
It's a few hundred k probably - juries hate airlines :)

Most attorneys have no problem taking these cases.

Also note that once it's clear it's not legal, the police/city also can be sued if they intervened.

Part of Dao's settlement was an agreement not to sue the city of chicago for that reason.
I tend to obsess with detail[*] and used to be quite self-conscious about my work.

I am yet to find a small project I regretted sharing with people.

You spend weeks working on something that never leaves a GitHub repo. Then, 3 years later, you see someone else, implementing a similar idea and sharing it. "this could've been me, if I wasn't such a coward", "my project was better because of x and y", or: "I'll never get anything done in my life" are the usual types of rumination that kick in. I know will resonate with some of you.

So, now to keep myself in check I try to:

1. build toys, things that are too small to overthink them (https://sonnet.io/posts/reactive-hole/)

2. have a place where I keep intentionally shitty, unfinished drawings(important meeting notes): https://potato.horse

The point of 1) is to build things that just give me joy, they don't have to solve a particular problem.
The point of 2) is to get more comfortable with things that are messy, broken. It feel more honest when I put unfinished doodles there. I don't care if people think they're ugly. (spoiler: people like my shitty drawings more than anything I try to make look perfect)

With 1 and 2 it's just easier for me to get things out there, talk to people, learn that besides some parts of HN or Twitter, people are more likely to be excited about whatever the thing you're doing is, instead of judging you. I wish I had this mindset 20 years ago.

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[*] which is somewhat ironic as I used to train people in prototyping and love hackathons
Not sure why you care what I say, I’m just an HN commenter!