skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this very moment, the person trending highest across all social media is a sex trafficker hawking his self improvement remote mentorship thing to insecure young men. His basic tactic is to say blatantly misogynistic things to get eyeballs.

I saw youtube's new shorts feature and clicked on it out of curiousity. It gave me a couple funny cat videos and some cooking content copied from tik tok... but after that it was just a doomscroll of the guy I'm talking about above, Prager University, etc.

Youtube has like 2 decades of data on what videos I watch, and it's definitely not that shit, but yet it's clear their algorithm is optimizing to put that in front of my eyes.
The key here was Charter was negligent with the prior incident(s). I fully expect that the appeal drops the award substantially, but a precedent should be set. The further forgery by their legal team is an affront to the legal process and they should all be disbarred and tried.
This is so horrible on so many levels

Could you ellaborate? Do you find it cruel, wrong... stupid?

Just FYI: this is old, from the seventies I think.
or just all marketing, across all time.
I used to work doing epidemic models, it was torture sometimes to see people abuse mathematical concepts (eigenvalues, r0, etc) when talking about covid
Approximately nobody is concerned about vapes as a tool to quit cigarettes. Somehow that's not the use case being widely promoted though, basically all vaping advertising I see is much more "hip cool thing for young people", and more popular with the 16-25y-olds than smoking was before vaping took off.
That doesn't look like a news source I would trust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News
TikTok has ~1.4 billion monthly active users.

Facebook has ~2.9 billion monthly active users.

These are stats from Q1 2022.
Insert clip of O'Brien explaining to cardassians why there are backups for backups
Cannibals are legal in Colorado? Can't wait for the next Top Chef -- Denver edition.
Google delays death of tracking cookies again, wants more time for “testing”
I have heard that same argument elsewhere too, it would also explain why it took a populist outsider like Trump to break through that system while someone like Bernie on the other side couldn't.
Coming next week ;)
In a world where we pay for stamps, why didn't bulk unsolicited mail go away? Why would it work for telephones?
This reminded me of usesthis.com too
Bruce Sterling, one of his shaper/mechanist stories.
If someone spreads dangerous falsehoods (say, an anti-vaxxer) and refuses all rational arguments, public ridicule might actually be our most efficient weapon, and certainly morally defensible.
Social media is a scapegoat, hiding a more important issue that doesn't receive enough attention: increasing polarization is the inevitable product of our two-party system.

As someone who doesn't fit within either major party's ideology, I observe the increasing strife between the two majors with amusement and terror. Social media can indeed accelerate the polarization, but as the article concedes, polarization preexisted social media and I believe it would endure and continue to fester even if social media were undermined. Social media is a sideshow obscuring the root problem.

In a modern instant-communication "infotainment" economy, a two-party system establishes a political game where ideological territory is nearly always split. What do I mean by that? Imagine all political ideology as a two-dimensional plane, or a map. In a two-party system, a position on Issue X taken by Party A will inevitably see the space of opposition on Issue X occupied by Party B, even if that position isn't precisely consistent with the rest of Party B's platform. By occupying the opposite position's territory, Party B can capture any single-issue voters who hold that position on Issue X. Meanwhile, thanks to the stickiness of a two-party system and the totality of their other positions, they won't lose members who disagree on X.

The result is increasingly reduced ideological overlap between the major parties, whittling away opportunities for sympathy and reconciliation. On virtually all issues, the parties are at odds with one another, even if that doesn't seem consistent with their ideological roots or founding principles.

Third parties are where you find overlap, like overlapping layers on the ideological map. But because of our voting system (called "plurality voting"), where citizens may select one and only one candidate for each election, third-party candidates are squeezed out by strategic voting that avoids "splitting the vote." (If you support a third-party candidate, you are strongly incentivized to vote for the major candidate you can tolerate, because otherwise you risk "throwing your vote away" and ultimately supporting your opposition.)

It's for this reason that I believe voting system reform is the principal cause to support today. It is foundational: until we can reduce polarization, we won't have the capacity to address other issues.

If we adopted approval voting (select all the candidates you approve of) or score voting (score each candidate from 0 to N), we would invigorate third parties by eliminating the risk of vote splitting. Following adoption, I anticipate we'd see a gradual migration of citizens to more diversified ideologies; a recognition and empowerment of their innate, personal, nuanced ideology; and a weakening of the one-size-fits-all ideologies currently peddled by the two majors, Republican and Democrat. There would no longer be an incentive for parties to always capture opposing views on all issues because other ideological maps could better fit the populace's actual preferences and therefore get more votes.
For context, I turned a side project into a business (https://vuplex.com) that I've been working on full time for over 3 years. Here's my advice:

- Listen to the Indie Hackers Podcast. I learned an enormous amount from it, and it gave me a crash course in business. The podcast shifted to a new format a few months ago, so I recommend starting with the first episode and working your way forward:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indie-hackers/id120616...

- After you've listened to the Indie Hackers podcast a bit, learn by doing! If you're a software engineer, you can use the principles discussed in the Indie Hackers podcast to create products and sell them on the internet.
Is that why bars that happen to also have strippers are so normal in Portland?
I think there is some "fortuitous things just keep happening to these people" in much fiction, and certainly the LOTR series, right? If you or I was given a knife that glowed when trolls were around, that would probably be the most amazing thing that ever happened to us. To Frodo it's a footnote, right along with "met and was rended minor aid by the oldest corporeal creature in the universe".

Ultimately, I can only offer conjecture, but given what we know of Tolkein's deeply religious personal perspective, it's not difficult to imagine that his fantastic universe is pervaded by an overwhelming force of goodness that seeks to bring events to their right conclusion through divine providence.
C# objects are boxed too.
I posted the original top post about the newsletter making 2k (because it's my newsletter) as well as this comment with the link.

lol wtf
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Maybe it's just my family because my dad worked in Alameda for a while, but at least for us that's the most quoted line in the movie!
Ya, am I surprised by this too. Like, you have one job, keep the power on.
One interesting and troubling aspect of this that I read in other reporting is they asserted a lot of the cash seized was drug money on the basis of drug contamination, but the FBI has deposited at least some of the cash into trustee accounts at financial institutions so no longer has the physical cash to test, thereby making it impossible to test again and show that it was just, for example, trace cross contamination from the boxes rented by the cannabis dispensaries to store their cash. To me that seems like borderline destruction of evidence.

I think the only reason this hasn't completely blown up in their face is they did manage to nab some shady characters, but the ends don't justify the means.
There is a sibling comment explaining why you might not actually want to live in an oligarchy, but regardless of your preference, there are a couple of flaws in your logic.

First. The greatest predictor of individual wealth is their parents’ wealth. This undermines the whole notion of the free market (or at least in its current state) giving rise to a meritocracy.

Second. Statistically, in a completely free and fair economy where all trade is zero-sum and every player will either loose or gain from a trade is up to pure chance, the money in the economy will accumulate to fewer and fewer hands as the number of trades increase. This is a pure statistical phenomena, meaning that as long as some players have more wealth then others, those players have an upper hand in any future trades for that reason only.

The meritocracy of capitalism is a pretty well debunked theory at this point.
I don't doubt that. What I'm saying is that, if health concerns with vaping is justified because it's safer than smoking, then it makes sense as a cessation product. But that's not the way they're currently marketed, regulated, and sold. But, being "safer than smoking" is not a justification for hooking a new generation of consumers who didn't previously smoke.
can't they both be problems? "people chatting online" is pretty disingenuous when it's what underlies the spread of misinformation and partisanization in politics, culminating in stuff like trying to overturn the 2020 election and Jan 6th
FB products aren't trending down lol.

Facebook:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...

Family Apps:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/947869/facebook-product-...
How is that a lesser concern? How can the public have any influence over their politicians this way? You're saying corporations can choose who gets into power becasuse they finance them, and the public cant even tell what they're voting for to punish them. It seems all around worse.
I wish this is true. But from all the things Swift has supported. It doesn't make compiler or compiler authors happy.

I wish there are more languages that focused on happiness of the compiler authors so that they can write efficient and small compilers with well-thought language features that intentionally limits how much they need to write in the compiler. Today we have such a huge compiler maintenance burden and as a result, you saw inconsistencies everywhere with these languages, and it is after many hundreds of person-year spent.

(Yeah, Go is probably one of the language that focused on compiler authors' happiness)
> but to write a serious game you really want C#.

This is ridiculous. You absolutely can write a full game with GDScript or GDScript and C++. Keep in mind Godot has first class support for C++.

In fact, I'd argue C++ is far better than a bolted on C#...
fortunately there are hundreds of countries already in existence for you to choose from that use this exact system!
> Does that answer your question?

Ha! Yeah. At least you're consistent :-)

Lynch fills his works with characters and scenes that are—at best—plot-adjacent, whimsical/incongruous/uncanny, and full of often-unexplained and apparently-metaphysical mystery or magic. He's as likely to let mood or theme drive the content of and editorial-decision-to-include a scene or a shot or an entire character(!), as plot. It makes sense you'd dislike his stuff if you don't like the Bombadil section of LOTR.

(this is not intended as some kind of judgement, to be clear, I was just curious if works with similar qualities had the same effect for you, or it was something specific to that kind of element being in LOTR in particular, maybe because of the context or something)
New study finds conclusive evidence that head trauma leads to CTE
We generally are talking capitalists when discussing such things, and those other people you list are “socialists”.
> It is a better "making of" experience than any professionally produced featurette or documentary.

This shouldn't be true but, sadly, it probably is. Many "Making of"-type docs and featurettes used to actually show interesting things about how the film was made. As someone with extensive experience in video and film production, I always found these fascinating. In fact, seeing some of these as a kid strongly influenced the fact I worked in the technical end of production.

However, for at least the past decade, outside of a few trade-specific publications, the vast majority of such docus feature very little that's not obvious about how something was made. These things now focus almost exclusively on celebrity actors because they have the broadest appeal to the mass market public and such docus are funded by the distributing studio's marketing dept.

The rare exceptions are some massive-budget, effects heavy, blockbusters which already have huge fandoms where the marketers have enough budget and perceived interest to fund the creation of real behind-the-scenes, making-of content. A good example is some of content released around The Lord of the Rings trilogy which actually focused on individual aspects of production not directly involving the actors.

As someone with a lot of production experience, I should add that I disagree with the idea that "just walking onto a set and watching" is a good way to learn anything - or even very interesting. I have a tween who was fascinated by movie production, until I actually took her to some movie sets where she got to experience just how slow and boring the process can be to watch. Hours of rigging, lighting and camera tests for two minutes of shooting, which you often can't clearly see from most places on the set other than directly behind the camera, and it's rare to be able to hear any significant dialog unless you're almost in the shot. Frankly, even I find visiting a set as an observer pretty boring (other than seeing old co-workers and friends), and I actually understand and like the arcane technical aspects of production like lens focal lengths, color temps, etc. I'd much rather watch a well-produced, insightful docu which shows the gear and setups being used edited together with through-the-camera results and narrated by the technical crew when they aren't busy actually working. Unfortunately, that kind of content is all-too-rare these days and most featurettes called "Making-of..." are 90% celebrity actor/director interviews focused on the marketing team's talking points about the film slapped over a little behind-the-scenes B-roll.
Actual title:

Generating PDF invoices using Lago
It's pretty widely agreed as being acceptable for sites to advertise to their users based on those users activities on the site. For example, if you read a lot of NYT news on investing the NYT might choose to show you investing ads while viewing other NYT news stories. The same goes for Youtube and other Google properties using first-party information in first-party advertising. I haven't heard people claim this is anti-consumer behavior?

First-party and third-party advertising are to some extent competing for the same advertiser dollars. An advertiser could pay to advertise on Youtube (to Youtube's audience with Youtube's information: 1st party tracking) or with Google Ad Manager on many smaller sites around the web (to those site's audiences with Google Ad Manager's information: 3rd party tracking). I'm just giving two examples here, and there are lots more in both categories; YouTube is an example of a site with a big 1st party audience and its own ad system, but so are Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, etc.

Since Google has a large 1st-party presence, competition regulators have raised issues with them making browser changes (removing 3rd-party cookies) that would have a side effect of shifting advertising dollars from 3rd-party to 1st-party contexts.
8-bit learn to code platform
Us laws COULD stop these scammers, but the govt has been too scared to actually lock out the carriers that are carrying these spam calls or selling these big blocks of local numbers. It seems like they are starting to play hardball, but we’ll see:

“ The Cox/Jones/Sumco Panama operation appears to be responsible for making more than eight billion unlawful prerecorded message calls to American consumers since at least 2018. The robocalls include prerecorded marketing messages which encouraged consumers to follow prompts to speak with a “warranty specialist” about extending or reinstating their car warranty.

As announced on July 7, the enforcement bureau issued a notice authorizing all voice service providers to cease carrying any traffic originating from the Cox/Jones/Sumco Panama operation consistent with FCC regulations.

At the same time, the Bureau sent cease-and-desist letters to eight voice service provider to warn them to stop carrying this suspicious traffic. The eight service providers have not responded to the letters and so, as provided in the public notice, the bureau is directing all other carriers to refuse to carry this traffic.”

Basically what the FCC decided to do was ID this org, tell the carriers who sell to this org to stop, and if they don’t stop, require other carriers to lock out the carriers who sell to the spammer.

https://www.mykxlg.com/news/national/fcc-targeting-phone-ser...
If anything, people with a track record of amassing wealth should be treated with more suspicion on entering public service.

If all of their other decisions are geared toward increasing their wealth, one has to wonder whether the decision to enter public service is also geared toward increasing their own wealth.
Ask HN: Resources/news sources for climate tech?
A major US climate bill seems in the works. For folks who are passionate about solving climate-related problems, and could be encouraged by incoming funding: what's a good source of industry news to understand trends and needs in this sector that software (or tech in general) might help solve?
Write a simple JavaScript userscript using ViolentMonkey, TamperMonkey, or GreaseMonkey, and it should be fairly easy to accomplish this.
They're tuned to increase engagement. They figure out based on inputs what does that. There's no morality, no value judgement, etc. They try to increase engagement.

Why toxic (which is subjective) appeals to so many humans is really the question here. The algorythms has no say in that.
As I understand it these typically just use the power rails of the USB interface. I've used several AC->USB converters in the past, and they haven't been detected as a device. This is unusual at least in my experience.
That's part of our plan! The idea is to build a data platform that can drive a 10x better AR/VR experience that teaches you interactively.

Doing it from an app like this is just the first step. New products need a wedge.

I've heard from the grapevine that this application is one of the huge efforts in Facebook's metaverse effort. Let's see if we can do it better...
As an adult I want this feature. I’ve received dick pics unsolicited. Sometimes I want to see, sometimes I don’t. I’d like blurring by default for those moments when I’m screen sharing or looking at my phone in public.

Kids receiving unsolicited pornographic content is sexual harassment and nobody regardless of age should be subjected to that. Giving people tools to opt in seems great to me.

But that would be censorship so Apple=bad.
Thank you so much for the definition, to clarify: as the API is already open source, see above comments, I was asking what else was requested / missing.
https://comparecloud.in/

https://github.com/ilyas-it83/CloudComparer

Tangentially related, and more cloud focused, but this tool is the best resource I have come across to compare cloud services and offerings between the six cloud providers.

Yes, even has IBM, Oracle, and Alibaba :)
Isn’t Google responsible for this? They rank results based on how long users stay on the page, plus how much they scroll. Forcing all those “when I was a girl in Sicily…” stories at the top of a recipe that nobody wants.
>> Sounds like this goes against the old saying "I may be stupid but I'm not dumb", i.e. I'm not book smart but I have common sense.

There is another saying "You can't fix stupid" so giving them more knowledge doesn't help, it just expands their sphere of influence.
It depends entirely on how AWS architected their power redundancy. Given that the outage affected a portion of one DC in one AZ, we can make some assumptions, but the truth is we just don't know.

It could be that their shared-fate scope is an entire data hall, or a set of rows, or even an entire building given that an AZ is made up of multiple datacenters. I don't know that AWS has ever published any kind of sub-AZ guarantees around reliability.

Datacenter power has all kinds of interesting failure modes. I've seen outages caused by a cat climbing into a substation, rats building a nest in a generator, fire-fighting in another part of the building causing flooding in the high-voltage switching room, etc.
IJ has been fighting this.

https://ij.org/press-release/security-deposit-box-owners-ste...

https://ij.org/press-release/fbi-offers-to-return-property-t...

https://ij.org/ll/fbi-vaults-over-the-constitution-to-illega...

EDIT:
> Everyone has the right to contract for a safe, private place to store their property. That’s what Jeni Pearsons and Michael Storc wanted for their retirement nest egg. But now Jeni, Michael, and hundreds of other innocent people must fight to keep what’s theirs after the federal government broke into their safe deposit boxes, rifled through their belongings—and stole them all.

> Jeni and Michael live in Los Angeles. Seeking to diversify their savings, they bought a few hundred dollars of silver whenever they had extra cash. To keep their property safe, they rented a safe deposit box at a California company called U.S. Private Vaults.
Haha, thanks so much!

`edgedb-server --help` is pretty elaborate, but yeah, we don't have an official page. What kind of info are you looking for?
We've made it deeply unpopular to discourage obesity in society.
I think part of remedy is promoting an informed electorate. I imagine this would start at the level of schooling with promoting critical thinking and instillation of democratic supporting virtues (like always vote)
Can't go through all of them, but I'm curious is there anyone who uses Linux on their machine?
So to fix crypto, you need to give voting rights to crypto holders (and take it away from miners)?
It was a few years ago now so I don't can't recall the details. But the way I remember it, the testing out system was better than nothing but not good enough.
The other case is not… it’s virtual commodities with artificial limits, while the market itself lacks the historical protections built up over time
except recommendation platforms are more popular all the time. ppl will choose the algo feed bc they like it more. idk why but everybody is taking america off the hook for wanting toxic shit and gravitating to it. its at least half a demand side problem.

if u want an example: tiktok has the for you page (algo discovery) and the following page (just ppl u follow). its the fyp where ppl spend time.
>> This is so horrible on so many levels

That's just reality bumping into your egalitarian nature ;-)
Meta cracks down on low performers staffer says feels like a 'witch hunt'