skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Section 230 is from 1996. For reference myspace launched in 2003. It has been modified since, but not in a way relative to this discussion. Section 230 classifies providers such as Facebook and Twitter as "interactive computer services" and not "information content providers." This protects them from lawsuits based on the content they provide.

I'm not arguing that Facebook should be held to the same standard as the person who creates the content. However, when Facebook services misinformation on COVID with negligent moderation or even intentional promotion, or they allow eighty thousand posts by Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA)-controlled accounts in two years near an election, reaching 126 million users [1 (Mueller Report)], maybe there needs to be some amendment. Perhaps not completely recategorizing Facebook, but adding some more responsibilities on these major platforms to at least not promote bad information, polarizing content, and information campaigns from foreign governments. When I did some research into how to disincentivize social media companies from spreading misinformation, reforming 230 was the best option I saw.

Edit: I posted a more detailed version of this elsewhere on this thread to provide more background. Then I realized I couldn't delete this abridged version.

[1] Mueller, R. S. M. (2019, March). Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election, Volume I of II. U.S. Department of Justice. https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download
A lot to unpack in your post, but to tackle just the most egregious one: what would Germany have to gain in keeping its neighbors poor? German companies do far more trade with Poland than Russia, not to mention the other Eastern EU (Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, baltics) and non-EU countries. Germany has every interest in helping the East develop and do so. E.g. in 2020 they quickly pushed for joint EU bonds to inject money into the eastern countries (and Italy and Spain)
> Very recent changes are not captured by backup systems, no matter how competent they are.

Depends, there's backup software for Windows that will watch for file changes and backup immediately. Usually enterprise targetted. You could certainly do that on other OSes, possibly with less nice apis; a half measure would be taking filesystem snapshots continuously or once a minute or ???.

There's filesystems you can use on cd-r/dvd-r, although that doesn't sound pleasant, that would give you the option to go back to any version.
You may have trapped yourself in a different web of hypocritical rhetoric:

Would you also be against civil rights sit-ins and GoFundMe being used to support those?
With a Tesla, you don't own your car, you license it.
IANAL. But you don't have a contract with the receiver for the receiver to receive your mail. You send mail from an IP on a subnet you control to AT&T. ATT has previously received spam from this subnet (maybe before you acquired the subnet), and they've marked it in a spam list. You're not _paying_ ATT to deliver your mail; that's when you can invoke a lawyer and say that ATT is not doing what you're paying them to do. ATT is under no obligation to route your incoming mail to its destination without any form of payment. Their services are offered to their customers, not to you, the sender.

I'm not saying this situation is _good_. It results in massive consolidation and gatekeeping by Tier 1s for mail. The problem is that it's much easier to send mail over SMTP than receive it, so the cost is on the receiver to filter mail. That means the receiver has every incentive to be overly defensive. I think a hashcash/PoW mechanism or a cryptocurrency deposit mechanism could be a great way to fight some of these problems. Pay a crypto deposit and receive a tunnel to send mail through. If you violate any spam policies, your deposit is lost and the tunnel is closed. Or charge cryptocurrency (quadratically?) per mail sent on this tunnel.
If the government has the benefits of the internet, and no one else does, isn’t society less free than if no one has it?
Why on Earth would I want to use the command line to look at who called me? When has that ever been useful for you?

Personally I can’t imagine a more awful thing than using the command line on a small phone screen to do any serious development. Even a tablet gets claustrophobic.
Most here claim that sanctions don't work.

But capitalism has been the greatest reason why wars are at an all time low. Since there is another way to have a reasonable wage/getting wealthy.

Threatening with a war which is happening now, means you won't get the cake both ways.

People there could be victims, but people there are also aiding in the military.

Nope, it's not perfect. But it's a tool in the toolbox and one of the best that doesn't involve bullets and people getting killed en masse.

Note : probably not a popular opinion. But please suggest a better actual solution then that actually is proven to work without giving the bully all they want/threat.
Bit hammered but I'll try explain. Being creative and pushing that energy is great, and will put you into a better bracket than your peers. However, that bracket is still going to be made of thousands of people, so it's worth understanding that we are not measured strictly by our technical ability. We're judged by how we smell, how we look, our fashion, our projection and others personal interpretation of our trustfullness.

I didn't mean to say, don't try unless you're a certain race. I tried to say, understand the factors that work in your favour and the ones that don't.
Bit of a tangent but the way polynomials are often introduced makes it difficult for kids to see why they matter so much.

Polymials are usually taught as being the functions of the form f(x) = a_0 + a_1x + a_2x^2... a_nx^n, which can seem arbitrary. Why functions of that particular form? It becomes even less obvious when you talk about polynomials in multiple variables.

But another way of putting it is that polynomials are the functions you can form from variables and constants using only the operations of addition and multiplication (a finite number of applications of them, that is, and including multiplication-by-self, i.e. exponentiation). Any such function can be expressed in the canonical polynomial form.

If you put that way it's obvious how general and interesting polynomials are, and how the concept applies to multiple unknowns, not just one.
GIMP. If it didn't exist someone would probably have started a fresh effort for an OSS Photoshop alternative which doesn't suck.

I've tried soooo hard for decades to become comfortable in GIMP but I can never get close.
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I would argue that programming is one such application which makes math interesting. I'm not sure they are really seperate worlds of problem solving at all.
I'm also a solo founder of a SaaS company (B2B, ~20 employees, profitable). I can't help much on how to go minimal, but I'm happy to connect if talking things through with a peer might help, email me! (Same offer to other CEOs/founders reading this... It's a lonely job and I'd love to connect with people running similar size companies) - brandon@localizejs.com
Your second message would have gotten a chuckle out of me if I'd seen it out in the wild.

I think the second word in the third message is supposed to have a couple of `--.` in place of the `-..`s. And the first one's third word I think is meant to be `.-- --- -. -` (`---` instead of `-` as second letter) instead?

I've been learning the letters of Morse code via Anki for months now (casually, on and off), but I feel like reading them as words here instead of as individual letters cemented them in a different way in my brain. Maybe it's time I graduated on from the letters deck to a words-based deck, it's a pretty fun task too, decoding these.
I'm very lucky that my wife and kids typically leave me alone for a week every year by going to her relatives. I do join them later but I also really appreciate this week alone.

Since my business can be always switched to low-maintenance mode, I can do anything I want during that week. Anything. And I imagined it would be a bunch of stuff but after x years it's not. It's mostly watching movies (projector with nice audio setup) and riding a bicycle. Movies that you don't have to think whether your wife or kids would like. Stupid action movies. Classic b/w movies. Good SF, bad SF. Sometimes I do small fixes around the house with music playing in the background. It brings different kind of satisfaction than software work because it's something physical and you can see and feel what is done.

I really get very refreshed after such week. Maybe because I'm an introvert? It's not comparable at all with any kind of vacation. You don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to do anything, and then things you enjoy the most tend to pop up and stick. It's not like I would live like that 365 days a year, but at least I know what I want when it comes to those rare my days. And then I tend to push for a moderate amount of that during the rest of the year.
> We had a free society and democracy before the internet.

But if the internet had been developed earlier, we would have debated something like this in the past.
Yet, curiously similar.
> These people seem incapable of understanding the existential threat to free society and democracy posed by limiting everyone's ability to communicate private thoughts.

I proffer instead that this outcome isn't a side effect but their ultimate goal.
Look up "git wip", configure your editor to use it and it keeps an unintrusive 'second branch' in the background.

https://atom.io/packages/git-wip

"git-wip is a script that will manage Work In Progress (or WIP) branches. WIP branches are mostly throw away but identify points of development between commits. The intent is to tie this script into your editor so that each time you save your file, the git-wip script captures that state in git."
Dude! Time to grow up. Unidimensional people are boring. You wanna know what? If all Joe can do is yack in the microphone ... Maybe the fact some of his post casts went missing is much Ado about nothing. Wanna also know what? MLK or Ali would figure out how. Maybe Joe or you or both are unmotivated
Yeah, you seem to be on a pretty good track here. Most people who attempt learn that usually have more mathematical experience, so some things seem to them more natural than to you, e.g.:

> Finally, I have a vague understanding that a scheme is the result of gluing some affine schemes together. Sheaf stuff is involved.

For most mathematicians, this step is actually rather clear, because the intuition here is that "you glue schemes from affine schemes same way you glue (topological/differential) manifolds from pieces that look like R^n", and people studying mathematics typically have extensive experience with manifolds before they encounter schemes.

> and in the category of affine schemes it becomes an equaliser, and equalisers on "spaces" are supposed to form subsets somehow.

The intuition here is something like this: let's assume that R is algebraically closed, for example let R = C, ring of complex numbers. Then C[x, y] is a ring of polynomial functions defined on complex space C^2, and C[x, y]/(x^2 + y^2 - 1) is a ring of polynomial functions defined on the subspace V = { x^2 + y^2 - 1 = 0 }: if you have two functions f, g \in C[x, y], such that f(z) = g(z) for all z in V, then function h = f - g must be zero on the entire V, so (by Hilbert's Nullstellensatz), h must be in the ideal (x^2 + y^2 - 1). So, two elements f, g of C[x, y] restrict to the same function on V = { x^2 + y^2 - 1 = 0 } precisely when their difference is in the ideal I = (x^2 + y^2 - 1), so the ring of functions on V is exactly the quotient ring C[x, y]/I (or, as you call it, equalizer, which is correct, but it's never called this way by geometers).

> I have no idea how you compute with this, especially given how elaborate the definitions are.

Let me give you an example that I found very illuminating, which just so happen to talk about the scheme Spec(R[X,Y]/(X^2 + Y^2 - 1)) you mentioned: see section "6.5.8. More examples of rational maps." in http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/216blog/FOAGnov1817public.pd...
In the spirit of being blunt medical doctors specializing in vaccines and critical care are, by definition, domain experts in the domains of vaccination and critical care.
I believe that the period you refer to had local newspapers, tv stations, and radio stations that were largely independent from this handful of corporations (ABC, CBS, NBC?). During this period, there was limited opportunity to perform population-wide surveillance on the discussion of this coverage. In those days your TV tended not to be equipped with technology that could report what you watched.
PowerToys Run is a great idea with some awful jank. One of the best things about Alfred is that it appears instantly when I hit the shortcut, every time. PowerToys Run just... don't appear sometimes. Or appears several seconds late.
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Fungible simply means “interchangeable”, legality has nothing to do with it [0] (especially, it seems to me, in regards to a system that doesn’t seem explicitly subject to legal constraints like bitcoin.)

One bitcoin is, in theory, interchangeable with any other without a loss of value. However, bitcoins with a dubious history of transactions can, and apparently are, being refused in some circumstances. Clearly some bitcoins have less utility, less value, than others.

The traceability of a bitcoin leads to it possibly being rejected in some transactions, not because ant given bitcoin is (again, in theory) no different than any other, but because one bitcoin’s history may be tainted.

The “blood diamond” analogy seems appropriate - such a diamond remains a diamond, and is technically no different from a comparable “clean” diamond, but reputable dealers and customers will avoid them. Effectively rendering these diamonds of less value than others.

In theory bitcoins are fungible. In practice they are not.

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fungible
Authoritarian abuse is second to war in being the most bipartisan issue.
> If they want to investigate stuff, they should have to get warrants and literally send out operatives to physically compromise the targeted equipment. This puts a limit on the scale of government operations. This is how it's supposed to be.

i think that's mostly right. i also take the controversial view that consumer encryption should have a front door for law enforcement. there should be a mechanism where if they are in possession of a valid warrant, and said warrant is validated by third party watchdogs, then they can enter into decryption protocol that will immutably log that the protocol took place in a public, yet cryptographically time embargoed location.

i don't agree with the idea of mass-surveillance data mining dragnets, i think they're constitutionally problematic, but on the same token, if a valid warrant has been issued, investigators need to be able to do their jobs and we as citizens need to be able to audit that said powers are not being abused.

but i will admit, this thinking is immature. the prevalence of information systems in our lives has resulted in the most detailed and rich records of human activity that have ever existed. this is new. on the flip side, advancements in communication have enabled all sort of new paradigms in crime that weren't really possible before. i suspect that getting all of this right will be quite difficult as we don't even fully understand how much the game has changed with these new technologies pervading our lives.
Don't PowerPoint[0] and Keynote also have collaborative editing? What is better about Google Slides' collaborative features?

[0]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/share-and-collabo...

[1]: https://support.apple.com/guide/keynote/intro-to-collaborati...
Patreon, for example, will not accept a pre-paid card.
If 10% of $20 bills (by serial number) were not considered legal tender, then $20 bills would no longer be fungible.

The ramifications are the important part. If 10% of bills are essentially fake money, you have to verify every bill you handle, adding significant friction.
> Ask yourself seriously: what is it you want to do that the Affinity Suite (which costs about, what, £150 and then £20 each for the two iPad apps) cannot do for you.

I tried to open a raw image and it didn't seem to process the XMP sidecar file I had alongside it properly. The photo looks quite different from what it looks like in Photoshop. This is despite the fact that I can confirm via Process Monitor that it actually does actually read the XMP file. It just seems to ignore the contents for some reason.
The original author, Terry Davis, died in 2018. There have been numerous forks, and ZealOS is one of the active ones. But TempleOS proper will remain as it is.
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Fastmail now has labels.

https://fastmail.blog/productivity/fastmail-labels/
It was. Or wsa ti?
You’d think Americans would better adopt those stupid stupid $1 coins (wow I hated getting 17 of those and a transit token for my $20 bill).
Torrent indexes are illegal, and yet a lot of them exist very publicly. Pushing e2e encryption into the same category as them does not seem very effective.
wise also offer virtual cards, which works in NZ, possibly in Aussie too?
https://wise.com/nz/virtual-card/
The “personal” plan is free. I’m always cautious with free things that use my personal data - if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.

How are they able to keep this free?
40, but same story. I just got over Omicron last week. It was roughly the same experience I had when I got the first Moderna shot. I rarely get the flu, and never get a flu shot for the same reason— the shot guarantees me a week of flu symptoms. At some point, I’ll be far enough along the risk curve to warrant that annual unpleasantness, but I’m not there yet.
I would need hard evidence to believe a credit report had someone’s prescription medication listed on it. Or anything non borrowing money related / identity / location history listed.

https://www.usa.gov/credit-reports

Even the Medical Information Bureau report should not list medications:

> Doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, and other health professionals can’t submit information to MIB. The report won’t include every diagnosis, blood test, or a list of your medicines.
cancel the credit card, dispute billing, many options
You've oversimplified on the assumption there is only a single transaction rate (30%). In the real world there is not (even on iOS, though Apple does make it difficult and force it to be hidden), hence why the real world examples given above did not follow your theory the 30% is built into the initial optimal price setting. It ended more like 3%, i.e. the average transaction rate, for anyone not using IAP and as close to +30% that could be reached using typical $0.99 or $0.49 price increments for anyone using IAP (or just cancelling IAP).

This is what the above examples are actually doing, not a theory of what I think it makes sense for them to do.

In the Apple utopia where everyone would always use their payment method your simplified answer would be more correct and the Apple tax would be somewhere between >0% and <infinity% (though usually marginally less 30%) as well as a unique value per app. It would never be <0 though it would be possible (and almost expected) for the app price difference between platforms to be greater than the Apple tax alone. This method of course is god awfully impossible to actually compare as it's theoretical values of multiple what-if's, hence why I went the "more complicated" route of just explaining the Apple tax has to eventually hit the consumer on some level from a recoup perspective.
I think all kids should be introduced to programming (I hate "coding" and "hacking" as terms!), but should not be forced to learn it.
Makes you wonder if email will someday become so unusable we'll go back to using the post.
Siemens software was also notoriously flakey and required patching workstations to involve a shamanistic ritual to improve the success rate.
I think that's a pretty poor way for NASA to have put it, because the vacuum of space 1AU from the Sun isn't particularly cold as such. Actually, as a vacuum, it tends to make things there hotter up to a point, not cooler, because you can only radiate that solar heat away. So satellites that are in sunlight, like you are at L2, can easily be at 150°C and even up to 300 depending on various factors.

If the JWST were out by, say, Pluto, then you certainly could describe that vacuum as "cold" (inasmuch as a vacuum has a temperature), because you hardly get any sunlight. In fact, Pluto itself has a temperature around 40K.
I hate when kids are underestimated and taught "programming" via Scratch - it's one of the certain ways to make them not interested in programming!
I immediately assumed the author might have been pretending a bit in order to motivate the article. Self deprecation sometimes makes things more relatable. I bet there’s even a name for using self deprecation initially as an excuse or motivation to make a point, but I don’t know what it is.

That said, I’m well aware that opacity is multiplicative, and yet it still caught me off guard before to realize that the commonly used lerp blending mode (SRC_ALPHA, ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA) is incorrect in the alpha channel. Pre-multiplied alpha can also be unintuitive at first, even with a decent mental model.
What if a ransomware group starts to airdrop a few Satoshis to everyone?
Per the article, the ROI is a 2-4x reduction in hospitalization risk vs. a vaccinated-but-unboosted individual. Given that the side effects of the mRNA vaccines have essentially zero hospitalizations[1] and no deaths[2], that seems like a good deal to me.

I mean, it's true anecdotally that the immunization is worse that the disease. It was true for my family at least (four Omicron cases, all extremely mild). But it's not true for everyone, and some of those people are going to die. I regret nothing.

[1] I haven't seen numbers but haven't heard of any

[2] This one is attested.
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you expressing that Spotify taking down episodes is not censorship? Or that a popular podcast with 11-million listeners is not a significant cultural node?
The tasteless "conventional" varieties found in chain grocers across the USA are basically inedible if you're turned off by the texture, since there's not much more than the texture being experienced.

This applies in varying degrees to practically all the "conventional" fruits and vegetables I encounter. Even if you don't buy into the organic health arguments, it at least tends to have more appropriate flavor and less chemical aftertastes.
Dude you’ve got to talk to someone. Not professionally (maybe that too) - but just a peer To talk to as a friend. The factual shit to ground you and connect you to someone else: where you grew up, how to met your wife, what college was like, your kids, etc.
I jettisoned Materialistic for Glider and despite its "don't use the reply feature, it's beta!" warning have made several replies successfully using it: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/nl.viter.glider/
> You think a doctor saving the life of a white supremacist is the same as publishing content that promotes white supremacy?

I do not. That assertion is unrelated to the topic, so Im not sure why you imagined it.

To be clear, I have implied the consequences are equal or, worse, probably multiplicative...in the context of the theoretical consideration you posited.

> It's unethical to publish content that promotes white supremacists

Again, how does this relate to any ethics that applies to Spotify?