skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you're Twitter the answer is to not censor anything and to allow people to disseminate the information and to decide for themselves weather it looks relevant, fake, or whether its trustworthy.

And if you do that, Twitter then becomes a 280 character 4chan/8kun-like platform.

Moderation is essential to keeping internet forums from devolving into cesspools.

The question then becomes, "who should do such moderation?" Should it be private entities (of which there are more than one within any political boundary), the government (which one can't opt out of short of physically moving) and/or both?

I believe that government should stay out of the business of moderating speech, leaving that to private entities who (within certain limits, many of which don't apply WRT digital communications) can moderate/remove any content they choose.

If I don't like how such entities do so, I can vote with my feet/wallet and go somewhere else. Which isn't generally feasible when a government does it.

All that said, there definitely is a problem with disseminating dis/mis-information that has, and will (increasingly) continue to negatively impact discourse and political discussion.

So what's to be done about it? That's a complicated question. For me, the answer is to try and get accurate news (not opinion -- opinion isn't news) from multiple sources and make a determination for myself as to the value/validity of information.

Unfortunately, many folks are unwilling or unable (whether that be time constraints, lack of access, lack of knowledge/interest in sources that challenge their preconceived notions, etc.) to do so. And so many folks just assume that their Facebook/Google/Instagram/Tik-Tok feeds are accurate and honest.

If/when that turns out not to be the case, large swathes of the population are now being misled and won't even know it.

That DHS is looking at dis/mis-information as a national security threat isn't the problem -- in fact, I applaud them for doing so.

The problem is one of institutional distrust (whether valid or not in this or any other circumstance, it exists), providing bad actors the space to spew false/misleading/irrelevant information to advance their goals.

Which makes it more difficult for those with unpopular (not false or misleading -- there's a difference) ideas to gain traction. And that's a problem as well.

How does this play out? I don't see anything close to a positive outcome (i.e., generally free speech and discourse with a strong tilt toward rewarding factual information and penalizing mis/dis-information).

The best-case scenario in my mind would be more decentralization of discussion forums. That gives us both the best and worst of both worlds: Folks can express themselves freely in forums that are accepting of those types of expression, while limiting the impact of mis/dis-information to those who actively seek it out.

Which isn't all that great for a "best-case" scenario, but seems more appropriate than heavy handed, centralized (private and governmental) moderation.

I won't hold my breath.
This is sort of what Boston tried to do with the big dig[1], where several highways were buried under the city. It ended up costing billions and took 15 years to complete. Also, while the RFK Greenway is nice it is also regularly bisected by busy surface roads and on/off ramps so it sometimes feels more like a grassy median than a real park.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
Thanks! Just read that NYC made it mandatory to list salary ranges from Nov 1. Hope the rest of the states follow.
We can use an all HTML, Javascript-free interface that people can still memorize and quickly Tab through.
Honestly, why would you donate even then? It would be better to fork it; copy off all of the wiki into a new one and start fixing all the bias (similar to what InfoGalactic does) than try to fix that crumbling mess of a site. If we stop keeping garbage alive, new stuff will emerge. We need the innovation of the 90s back on the web.
John Graham-Cumming (who's in this thread) wrote this book which I recommend:

https://nostarch.com/gnumake

I just noticed he did some screencasts that make up a course:

https://cloudflare.tv/shows/the-gnu-make-course

And here's links to a bunch of blog posts, from which I learned a lot:

https://blog.jgc.org/2013/02/updated-list-of-my-gnu-make-art...

Of course, the manual itself is really very good!
> Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law

Giving up liberalism just because an illiberal country is producing propaganda seems... stupid.
If it has no effect on metrics but removes as major annoyance for users, why would you not have done that in the first place?
Have you ever thought that maybe all of these governments are corrupt, and the officials in them are shitheads? Maybe that Russians are raping in Ukraine, that Americans did kill civilians in Iraq, that China is genociding their own people, etc.

In my life, I've come to realize that every form of "leadership" or "governance" is eventually infected by those who wish to have power and control, even if the organization was founded on the most honest of principles by the most honest men and women that existed. Eventually, the ends justify the means, and that poison seeps into the whole organization, ruining it's goals and values from the inside. Sometimes it's truly evil on the scale of invading another country and killing people there (Iraq/Ukraine) or sometimes it's just a little thing, like your direct manager continuing to push for things that are harmful to your team or company, but both actions are simply to protect the person in power from losing face or harming their ego, so they can continue to be in power.

I have no doubt that most people, individually, are good and only want a good life for themselves and their families, but those who want power tend to migrate towards positions of control and power, such as government, and then tend to do whatever it takes to hold on to that power.

Either way, it does no one service to defend evil, no matter if it's the Russian or American form of evil.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to build a quiz application with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and ButterCMS serving as your backend.
Bitwarden has this feature too.
OP only mentioned private entities conspiring with the government to violate the constitutional civil right to free speech. Context.
I wish there was a way to integrate ActivityPub into static sites. As far as I know, you can't just add ActivityPub to your site hosted on GitHub Pages, for example.
Stories like this make like the employee protection I enjoy even more.
You don't base your decisions on fancy dinners, but you do get invited to fancy dinners! It's all part of the game and those who know how to play it play it well.
> The article is brief and only mentions them being out of spec and under documented. It doesn't say anything about failures.

Agreed. And I also agree that I'd like to know more details (although asking for anecdotal evidence still doesn't provide that...)

> Think wheelchairs or hearing aids in particular.

I'm (luckily) unfamiliar with this. Can you provide details?
Speaking of memes, this is one.

Social science includes: "academic disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, economics, human geography, linguistics, management science, communication science, political science and psychology.[1]"

Now if you're saying that you have issues with some of the common methodologies or lack of repeatable experimentation in anthropology or political science - that's one thing, but if you're saying that linguistics, economics, and archaeology are not science? I do not agree.

Something is science if it uses the scientific method to generate knowledge. The fact that the knowledge generated is highly dependent (e.g. "in mid-century european society, we've found that A and B are likely result if C and D are present") doesn't make it not science. That's a limitation on the conclusions, not a built-in invalidity of the knowledge. There is plenty of knowledge generated by physics, biology, etc. that is highly dependent too.
This law applies to anyone in New York with no stated exceptions for outliers. If he ever works for a company/satellite office there, whether remote or on-site, he's as much a member of the job market as anyone else. Any company interested in hiring him would obviously provide a massive number at the higher range.
Not IOI - he wants to be Gregarious Simulation Systems
Usually, this is an collectivist argument with no basis at all. We routinely conduct trade offs of the most eggregious consequences: Driving is ok in pretty much all countries in the world, despite of horrific accident rates. Or the opposite: that we should impose security checks in airports because 1 guy had gel-based explosives in his shoe, let's collectively force everyone to take their shoes off for millions if not billions of times.

These trade offs have no objectivity. They're done on a whim with the exact thinking that the OP is succumbing to.

So, anytime someone makes an argument for supression of speech "for the good of the people", I am instantly cynical of their motives or their gullibility or both.
There is no law that gives the government power to restrain speech. Where do you see the government restraining speech?
> the loved one of a politician was severely injured

Agreed that's unacceptable, but maybe we could criminalize aggravated assault instead? https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
Interesting that David Sacks and Jason Calacanis are "Staff software engineers" - assuming that's accurate. To my knowledge, neither have worked as professional software engineers. Calacanis is a journalist turned entrepreneur/investor and Sacks is a former management consultant who became a C-suite during the dotcom boom who later became an entrepreneur/investor.
I think there is more trust to be had in the stalwarts still than in the alternatives I see my mother watch and read, notably fox news and OANN and Investmentwatchblog.com .
I can't say I agree with that logic. Would you say that any government official who advocated for the repeal of the 18th Amendment was violating their oath of office to defend the constitution?

It seems imperative that government officials need to be able to openly discuss the meaning of laws and whether those laws are appropriate without fear of punishment for that discussion.
Personally, meaningless animations and memes cause me a great deal of distress. It's enough to drive me away from participating in Slack at work because I find it exponentially hard to scan the channel for important things if the channel is full of pointless motion and distraction.

If I still was working somewhere it was a problem I'd be inclined to get a note from a doctor and go through the process to formally get accommodation for a disability.

HN does the right thing in blocking Emoji in comments because all you get for Emoji is a defining down of people's ability to communicate and lawsuits because some rando sent somebody else an eggplant emoji.
Technical people, especially engineers and those on HN, hate sign up forms but having grown a product to X thousand users, the more you push the sign up form, the more people sign up. You can even plot a linear relationship between the two, which I've done before.
It looks like a bot which scans a comment, identifies some buzz phrases, and quotes those lines, replying with generic linked information (e.g. wikipedia) about those phrases.
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Actually there was a lot of discussion about this sort of thing after the baseball attack.

But in any case, we can't limit freedom of speech because of "unreasonable" implications of speech. Simply saying you hate Pelosi, isn't grounds for any reasonable person to think you try to kill her with a hammer. But if someone said, "we need to kill her" then that is much more prosecutable IMO.

Unfortunately what probably works best to avoid these sorts of incidents is critical thinking and common sense. I do think the echo chambers on the internet create less of this - so these sorts of things will happen more frequently.
> I'm curious what commenters here think should be done about this, if anything?

Easy. Don't believe everything you hear/read on the Internet. If some random Internet commenter is telling you about the secret torture dungeons in the basement of a pizza place that doesn't even have a basement, you should be able to readily conclude that they're just making $#!+ up.
Related: Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem trilogy deals with the 'Dark Forrest' idea of cosmological society. Very briefly, every civ is hyper paranoid of the other ones, like hunters in a dark forest. If you shine your flashlight to see, then you run the risk of getting shot by another hunter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis

I think I'm more of an economist in this regard and reject the underlying Dark Forrest theory. To me, it's not a matter of security, but a matter of scarcity. In the universe, the most scarce thing isn't moons or planets or hydrogen. It's life, and intelligent life is likely to be even scarcer. New civs in the cosmological economy/society then have the highest 'price'.

I guess what I'm saying is that we should be most afraid of any alien civilization that comes at us with a lot of balloons, glitter, banners, fast-talking, and overly long contracts. The 'Used Car Lot' civilizations are the ones I think we'll need to look out for.
"Is there actual evidence of that? I mean, which exact "influential figures" lead to this crime?"

To the former, I imagine this was brought up as an example. Whether you think it's the strongest example seems immaterial unless you're saying there is no example at all in the history of the world?

To the latter, that seems to be the exact purpose of courts and lawmaking, no? To take the murky uncertainty of life and create a reasonable line of evidence that binds two points together. That we, in American society, have decided not to draw the line between those two points to see if they intersect the same victim is our choice. Unless you believe no ones words are influential in any context?
Non-technical non-users are not dissuaded, they sign up. Technical non-users using adblock aren't profitable conversions anyway, so "who cares?" is an entirely reasonable decision for the PO/PM who made it.
I don’t think productivity was ever the goal of this software. It was to have a record that is standard, digital, transferable, etc.

Going a little further, this was appealing in part to avoid simple medical errors & oversights. Losing the record, mixing up records, incomplete history, and so on. Eliminating medical error is incredibly valuable but doesn't show up as "productivity".
The self-hostable Bitwarden server also has this functionality.

https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/
I think that Fabien Sanglard's Game Engine Black Books about the creation of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom are good examples of software development in general and game development in particular at that time. He also has a book about CP-System.

https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbwolf3d.pdf

https://fabiensanglard.net/gebbdoom.pdf

https://fabiensanglard.net/cpsb/sbook.pdf
People going back to the office with 2 hours of commuting won't be more productive than people who work from home.
Employee salaries is only 1.5B of their 4.5B annual costs.

Edit: per Wapo but you can see the cost structure from 10ks mostly
From the article:

> Amin teamed up with one of CentOS’ founders, Greg Kurtzer. Apparently the two have been working together for 13 months to build a real-time kernel to run complex workloads and complies with the Linux open source community.
Fortnite, Roblox and Minecraft are arguably "metaverses" by any reasonable standard of the word. They started as video games but have evolved into mediums where people can interact with each other and spend time consuming other content. Especially so in the case of Fortnite with all their concerts and things happening in game, literally the only difference is that one is in VR and the other is in your screen.
Dude needs to work on his Dunning-Kruger syndrome if he wants a career in kernel development.
what other features do you need in a text editor other than typing text and getting code completion?
The actual quote from Benjamin Franklin is

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I really don't see how we estimate f_l in Drake's equation? Other than knowing it's >0 I mean.
I am proud to work for my own company
Dark Matter and Dark Energy make up 95% of the Universe (the rest is all the normal matter and energy in all of the galaxies put together). Our understanding of physics is both very complete, and contains large unknowns. You might imagine that there are a lot of aliens hiding in the Dark Matter, but as far as we can tell Dark Matter particles pass right through each other, as well as normal matter. They cannot clump together to make stars or planets or life forms the way normal matter can. Thus all aliens would be made of normal matter like us.
Keyboard controllers but those generic shmoll boards are used for other things too with all their GPIOs and usb-c connector.
Exactly, I'm a bit surprised that this needs to be legislated. Many people will not apply/respond to recruiters if the salary isn't posted. I'd think employers would be doing this simply because it makes things easier for them.
Interesting idea. But, wouldn't that be competing with TikTok? And, Vine hasn't been a thing in what, 6 years? That's not so much "bringing back" as developing something new.
Japan spent $43B in October to defend the Yen
So many incorrect statements and assumptions... our current footprint would be unrecognizable from few hundred light years to even a bit more advanced civilization looking straight at our Sun. So yes there very well may be aliens just like us technology wise say 200 or 2000 or 2000000 light years away and they nor we simply wouldn't know.

We don't know what we don't know from physics, the arrogance of thinking we get it all was there numerous times and it was always a wrong emotion, we even realize it for our current theories. There may be quantum entanglement communication, higher dimensions, strings or basically anything your nor my mind can't even come up with right now. Just like cavemen simply couldn't come up with general relativity even if it was all happening right in front of their eyes.
For context, this is probably posted after Apple ExtensionKit[1] made it to the homepage of HN.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/extensionkit
Kirk wasn't a womanizer - it's just that all of the women liked him.

Some of it does seem odd to a modern audience though, such as the episode where he gets flirty with a girl hitting puberty in "Miri." The odd part was he was taken aback when the others told him that she liked him.
Based on what? Social media is addictive. For people to get off of it, they're going to need some help. We don't currently have facilities to help people kick the habit.
hahahahahahaha usar a folha.uol como fonte? Wikipedia é 70% mais confiável
How to Protect Your Attention and Fight Digital Overstimulation
The GUI apps have the benefit of being easier for onboarding. We've redesigned the workplace to deal with constant employee turnover.

I guess they also make more sense to management since it looks like something they could do themselves, or at least understand.
Why would you give to them?! They actively censor entire websites from their archives under political pressure. They have openly gone against their core values.
>Elon already tweeted that this is false.

Did you expect him to say it is true?
What do ad blockers have to do with invasive sign up modals? They show up regardless. I think you missed the point.
Come back to where? Are CPUs gold mine? It is saturated and highly competitive market. Maybe they achieve leadership again in performance or some other metrics, but how would that turn into profits?
There actually was another Information Revolution we can draw historical comparisons to - the printing press. The Lutheran Church is a direct outcome from that, as were some much more interesting and exciting events - check out Dan Carlin's Hardcore History for an entertaining overview.

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-48-prophe...
If the global west weans off russian oil, and india and china use russian oil to replace coal, this is all still a huge win for the CO2 of the atmosphere and india and china's local environmental air quality. Though I don't like developing economies being shackled to russian oil, that will just cause a repeat of what we are seeing today in a decade.
> Practically how is that damaging your use case by using CentOS stream? Do you see many things being unstable?

I don't know what the actual rate of bugs ended up being; I burned CentOS from my infrastructure when the news dropped.

> It doesn't refer CentOS as a beta release of RH.

Yes, RH is quite attached to their lie that the thing that gets changes before the next stable version of their commercial product isn't a beta. It's unclear to me whether they somehow actually believe this (and if so, why they're giving free users a supposedly better product than paying customers), or if not why they expect anyone else to believe them, but that is indeed their official claim.
Or it isn’t, because “discovered” doesn’t apply to most participants, who are only exposed to a narrative and likely never see followup.
But not for the same reasons
So what is the precise number you pay your senior developers?

Sorry to call you out, but I simply don't believe the answer is anything but "it depends on a range of factors". Unless it is a government job, but even then, likely it depends on a range of factors, and often even government clients flex their budget to meet their recruiting goals.
That is quite common, but what is really surprising is him quoting 'bronze age mindset'.
Whenever I see a headline with the word "misinformation" or in this case "disinformation", i replace those words with "free speech" and it really worries me about the future of this country. Putting the power to decide what information is right and wrong into the hands of a few is extremely dangerous.
twitter could invoke the "faltering company" exemption given that its now saddled with many $B LBO debt, or unexpected contracts loss given that some advertisers are pausing spend.
Looks like the application requires macOS v12, which is only a year old. What features does it require that means it can't be backwards-compatible? Is it a SwiftUI thing?
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Good moderation is labor (and likely forever will be) and Mastodon by its very nature has a lot higher moderators per consuming users ratio than Twitter ever had (even on messages originating on and "not leaving" Mastodon's biggest instances). (Just like if you are evaluating school districts you want a higher teachers per students ratio.)
There is a similar effect in some countries with strict labor laws which make it difficult to fire employees. Unemployment rates end up being high, but productivity is also high because companies are only willing to hire the most productive workers and won't take a chance on anyone else.
Who are the Russian security forces upholding Putin’s brutal regime
I'd argue it was also due to lack of alternative options for leisure time. When everyone was stuck at home there's only so much Netflix the avg person can watch. People likely spent some extra time on work because it was something to do.

Now with everything reopened there are many more options.
It's 10 lines here, 10 lines there. But they're not really 10 - in practice that's going to be 100 once you get past the most trivial use case and add good error handling. Then there are tests to make sure it works. Once you write all of those bits you need properly and start sharing it with your next web app and add some generalisation/config... you've created half a custom framework.