skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, full of scams and weird videos

They want to ban tiktok, no matter what [1,2,3], it's quite fishy the way they treat TikTok, the western media are legitimizing this anti-asia sentiment, almost like some form of racism

For some reason it's alway targeted at foreign products, all other social medias are from the US, as if a rule was to be respected, weird

The only places where i find political stuff and scams are Reddit/Facebook/Twitter/YouTube, Alex Jones, Tate, all the disinformation originated from these places, all US owned products

The only content i find on TikTok are people dancing, people traveling, people cooking stuff and cute animals

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...

[2] - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tiktok-ban-midterm-el...

[3] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/02/tiktok-te...
https://archive.ph/qDh86
I don’t get it. Can anyone eli5 to me please?
I was one of the first avid users of netvibes.com circa 2006. They're still around, if you want a nice web-based RSS aggregator dashboard with a fairly intuitive tabbed interface.
Yeah won’t argue that. What a golden age we messed up!
Sabine isn't very accurate though and pushes her own fringe ideas while criticising everybody else.
I for one welcome our new tetrapod exoskeleton overlords.
Same experience as you, but there is a whole another Twitter checkmark market out there for people who want status: https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1589016308968194049
But it's a pretty plausible retcon that I could see Musk himself going for at some point.

The illustrative Calvin and Hobbes comic at https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IMeantToDoThat demonstrates the principle rather well.
It is actually a perfect analogy. You have most of the world leaders and government officials on Twitter. On the other end of the spectrum, I can get local ISP updates and my local fire department is on Twitter.

Twitter really is a public square in the true sense of the term.
From a "legacy code" perspective, you're better off picking an 'easy win' (Hamcrest). Initially, you're not going to convince a team to change their testing habits if it causes them pain. Your goal is to push a testing methodology which moves closer to the 'ideal' which saves them time.

Hamcrest is a drop-in replacement for `assertEquals`, and provides obvious benefits. Politically, it's easy to convince developers onboard once you show them:

* You just need to change the syntax of an assertion - no thought required

* You (Macha) will take responsibility for improving the formatting of the output, and developers have someone to reach out to to improve their assertions.

From this: you'll get a very small subset of missionaries who will understand the direction that you're pushing the test code in, and will support your efforts (by writing their own matchers and evangelising).

The larger subset of the developer population won't particularly care, but will see the improved output from what you're proposing, and will realise that it's a single line of code to change to reap the benefits.

EDIT: I've added a lint rule into a codebase to guide developers away from `assertEquals()`. Obviously this could backfire, and don't burn your political capital on this issue.
Yikes. Good points. And a good time to admit that the person described is an amalgam of what I heard from (at least) two artist friends, in somewhat different industries, about things that happened in the early days of the pandemic. No actual creatives were harmed in the making of this post :)

In the future, I'll try to avoid exaggerating, and additionally, think more adversarially.

All the same: it's very, very hard to be a creative right now, if your creativity is anything other than coding. My fellow coders need to realize that the circumstances that have led to our overpay are indeed temporary, because of the way job titles function as positional goods, and become themselves fought over.

The other field I've seen this occur in are postgrad humanities, where the adjunctification of academe has been accomplished by inflating the status of the work. (And I speak as someone who dropped out of a PhD in the humanities.)

If you're expected to be honored just to be in the room, you can expect to earn only an honorarium.

And that's the future I see for our industry as well, eventually.

There must be some sort of general principle of growth and decay involved.
I'm pretty sure a GA144 can do more additions or ANDs per second than any comparably-sized register-machine microcontroller: IIRC it's about a million transistors (comparable to an 80486, seven AVRs, or nine ARM9TDMIs) and can do about a hundred billion 18-bit additions per second on a few milliwatts. It definitely doesn't decompose stack code to register renaming and micro-ops.

Unfortunately you can't program it either in C or in Verilog, and it doesn't have multipliers, so it hasn't seen significant adoption. But its problem is that it's hard to program, not that its performance is poor.
"designed to be used with them; the Level Lock Plus can be unlocked using one of the best iPhone or best Apple Watch devices even if you’ve forgotten your actual house key."

The way "best" was added to each of those links was the best part of this article.
> I'm not sure why you would assume that?... If you've ever sent a DM on a forum did you think that was encrypted?

The whole assumption here is that Mastodon is supposed to be better than those, right? Or else why are we switching? Twitter is centralized and can read all your stuff and censor it too. So isn't the point that Mastodon isn't and can't do those bad things?

We expect WhatsApp and iMessage to provide E2EE. Similarly open-source Signal and Telegram are encrypted. So why wouldn't you assume another high-profile open source project isn't adopting those same best practices for the private-messages part of it?
I think the latter (manipulating the client) is far more likely than the former, and I think it would also be pretty difficult to detect in practice. But the point is less "I think they will do this" than "there is still an element of trust here, even if it is a much harder hoop to jump through." I don't think any situation where signal does anything like this is likely.
Tracing Twitter from Its Roots as a Protest Tool to Elon Musk’s Acquisition
Kyiv Planning for Total Evacuation If It Loses Electricity
Facebook’s problem is that it doesn’t matter what they do, the brand is very negative.

LinkedIn would be an interesting competitor to go after, Microsoft bought it and has no idea what to do with it
I've been using this for years to read my .MOD etc. That I've accumulated in the early 90s, really feels like the original experience!
Legal professionals conclude Microsofts first move should be to admit copyright violation? What is their hourly rate?
Why not? I don't mean literally clone, I mean if everyone had my level of commitment and aversion to initiating violence. Communism/anarchism wouldn't work cause I'm lazy, I would take all I need as long as I can, but work on socially-useful projects that do not interest me as little as I could get away with. But capitalism would work just fine.
There was no reason that the Challenger disaster could not have been prevented.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/28/464744781...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/21/470870426...

If I were Ebeling, I'd've punched my manager.
We get that you hate C++.

But the topic here is type systems, and Rust's is more like C++'s than any other, and vice versa. C++ compilers used to have error messages that were hard to interpret, but competition between compilers has improved them.

Meanwhile, C++ itself has changed enabling better error messages because it is clearer what your code is trying to do.
> You're pretty much describing the Quest Pro.

Speaking as a user of a heavily comfort-modded Quest 2 and recent Pro owner: the Pro is surprisingly comfortable (especially with the below lifehack) and mostly on par with a Quest 2 with a modded Bobo halo strap.

Craziest thing about the Quest Pro is that you can (carefully) pop off the back cushion and flip it. I highly recommend anyone with a Pro try it out since it’s significantly more comfortable and brings a very noticeable increase in FoV.

There’s a thread about this on one of the Quest subreddits - and there’s not a single comment from anyone who prefers the stock placement. It does make aligning the charging dock a bit finicky but otherwise it’s kind of strange that Meta chose the other cushion direction as the default.
That describes what they do perfectly.
> There are quite a few websites with little or no moderation working just fine, like 4chan.

4chan is actually heavily moderated. It may just not be legible to you because they're not removing the stuff you're expecting but different stuff instead.

There are factors like topicality, being small sized, or being highly ephemeral which make moderation easier or lower amounts more viable-- but twitter is pretty weak in those respects, sadly-- I think that's how it manages to both have a reputation for being toxic and overly moderated.
My thoughts exactly. Some minor changes could make it bump and rake resistant and only a tiny (if any) increase in price.
Common phrase in the military going back at least 15 years. Suppose “putting on blast” is more common in that context?
Every 'era' has some set of folk who think whatever hot thing is "invincible" and all of them are wrong, every time. Even in cases like Apple (which was very vincible for a long time) and IBM (which is the only major firm to pivot multiple times over a century and still roam about as a major player) had to adapt hard, and they are outliers.

The rest are just dead, assimilated into other players, etc.

The industry has always been dynamic and most aspects, very very fungible.
We should set the syntax as "try... catch" and call the feature "exceptions". It will be revolutionary for Go.
How much does Tim Berners Lee pay for hosting the world wide web?
This has nothing to do with tech. It's the ad business that's struggling, because of the economic situation and because more players want to have a piece of the cake (e.g. Apple, TikTok).
That doesn’t seem like a fair criticism. Most climate models are physics models. They can’t know how much CO2 people are going to add to the atmosphere. But if you tell them how we altered the composition of the atmosphere, they predict the temperature change correctly. That’s what I mean by good performance.
That's wrong. A "website" can do e2ee. You just need to do the encryption/decryption on the client side. Protonmail does that, Mega, etc.
I feel that deep down inside, Github is dead or will be dead, we just don't yet have anywhere to go...

That's why people talk like that. There's the GitHub the world loved, then there's the Micro$oft version, which we're starting to see problems with.

I think "GitHub" is the old good place, Microsoft Github, is the problematic version we're going to see more of.
Well at least we have seen some ”funny” ads:

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2021/02/11/microsoft_azure_u...
Are you saying beware of i2c on a kilometer long cable?! Why would anyone even think that would be feasible?
I just search up things I'm working with. For example, I'm learning the Erlang library "PropEr", which doesn't have great documentation. One of the main functions/macros that proper uses is ?FORALL, so I search ?FORALL in grep.app and see how people are using it. If I want to narrow the cases down, I use the regex search.
Maybe you're always logged in there or have ad blocking that knows how to remove it but if you view twitter not logged in and scroll down a bit you'll get hit with an undismissable prompt forcing you to create an account to continue reading.

(certainly not the only one, but what is irritating people in this sub-discussion).
Twitter sources say company reached out to fired people asking them to come back
Man home priced are going to get hit double hard if rents go down the rent/own Math will really go against ownership. But also in the current environment I don’t see building new units to be possible
I dont think your analogy to rosy retrospection applies here.

The issues we have with todays social media are the same issues IRC, usenet and other primordial internet social tools have suffered from in the past at scale. People abandoned those for what they thought was better. They went on to myspace and eventually they gave up myspace and went on to facebook and twitter because they thought these would be even better. And they were for a while. Facebook was really cool when people limited to sharing meal and travel photos with friends and family. Twitter was cool when limited to sharing fun short stories or updates.

Then gradually the noisy plebe invaded. The drunken pub types debating angry politics, pseudo intellectuals, wannabe thought leaders, cheap scammers and sleazy politicians.

And instead of banning or pushing them towards network ghettos, algorithms where made to amplify specifically their voice, in order to bait all the decent people into engaging with platforms even more. These algorithms developed habits in us that turned everyone into a little bit of the above.

We tried this. Doesn't work. We need to iterate what worked. MySpace did. I fail to understand why facebook and twitter didnt put more thought into how to monetise the platform in better ways. Was it lack of imagination or the lack of people skills of their founders? Anger and politics are not the only things that drive sales and profits. Social networks are a reflection of our society and in a society you tend to marginalise the angry violent mobs that try to capture your attention and suck your energy, and instead you go where you can do your shopping, eating, reading, traveling, entertainment consuming safely and peacefully. Social networks can monetise on that.

Instead they made us fight each other.
“I worked at Facebook when we [were] 200. [Twitter’s] layoffs are appropriate”
(title paraphrased since the 80 character HN submission title limit is hard to work with)
For 3 months I visited the Fosstodon server daily (and tried to participate, but ...) My overall impression: there were few incidences of conversation going on. It was like a blog for a group of hundreds of people who had somewhat related interests ... but (unlike HN) no sense of community. I left disappointed; the technology worked, the experience pleasant enough (if museum-like) but something very essential was missing. (A critical mass? Forums?)
The way I see it, this whole article seems to reframe the age old debate between utilitarians and deontologists (moralists) He tries to bridge the two philosophies by suggesting a more vivid imagination of the future consequences increases the present utility. Then you will do what you ought to do, not just out of duty, but also out of a better appreciation of how to maximize future utility for others.

But in the end, such an approach is a bit unsatisfying. Like the trolley problem, such a framing of consequences in purely utilitarian terms comes out ultimately to be value judgement on the threshold of utility that would cause you to act. A value judgement is subjective, and how do you make the subjective decision? Utilitarian or deontology?

Do I have a solution? Absolutely not. Just pointing out this just a reframing of an old dilemma.
You are certainly aware that Twitter did not start as a public square either (the original idea was to share SMS messages with a group of friends). So I am not following your argument.

My argument is that there is a place online where anyone can go and express an idea and challenge ideas of other’s. That place is (among others) 4chan. It’s not some obscure personal blog, it’s a large and influential platform. Is it working as a public square? Are you using it to challenge ideas you disagree with?
Page seems to continually loop and not load. And archive.is seems to be having the same problem with it.

Does anyone else have a link for this story that will actually work?
Companies already pay a lot of money for datasets to train models on in other spaces outside of software development. On top of that, they spend a lot of money on labelling and what not.

Software is unique in that there is a cultural trend to share source code, so that makes it easy to compile into "free" datasets.

I wouldn't say it's an unsolved problem, it's just that there are no incentives to compile or pay for datasets when Microsoft already has petabyes of code to train on. If anything, I expect Microsoft to sell datasets based on GitHub repositories if Copilot-like models survive this lawsuit and are conmoditized.
Well lucky for us paragraphs of prose are artistic expression and the snippets of code returned by Copilot are utilitarian.

The only things covered by copyright are creative choices. In software, as established by Whelan v. Jaslow [0] this is the structure, sequence and organization [1].

The district court ruling in the Whelan case drew on the established doctrine that even when the component parts of a work cannot be copyrightable, the structure and organization of a work may be. The court also drew support from the 1985 SAS Inst. Inc. v. S&H Computer Sys. Inc. in which it had been found that copyright protected organizational and structural details, not just specific lines of code. Structure, sequence and organization (SSO) in this case was defined as "the manner in which the program operates, controls and regulates the computer in receiving, assembling, calculating, retaining, correlating, and producing useful information." SSO refers to non-literal elements of computer programs that include "data input formats, file structures, design, organization and flow of the code, screen outputs or user interfaces, and the flow and sequencing of the screens."

However:

The Whelan decision initiated a period of excessively tight protection, suppressing innovation, since almost everything other than the broad purpose of a software work would be protected. The only exception was where the functionality could only be achieved in a very small number of ways. In these cases there could be no protection due to the merger doctrine, which applies when the expression and the idea are inextricably merged. Later the same year, in Broderbund v. Unison the court cited Whelan when finding that the overall structure, sequencing, and arrangement of screens, or the "total concept and feel", could be protected by copyright.

For a brief overview of the merger doctrine:

https://www.lucysnyder.com/index.php/copyright-law-merger-do...

So this excessively tight protection was rectified in CAI Inc v Altai [2], which established the legal doctrine of Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison [3] which says "As we have already noted, a computer program's ultimate function or purpose is the composite result of interacting subroutines. Since each Subroutine is itself a program, and thus, may be said to have its own 'idea,' Whelan's general formulation that a program's overall Purpose equates with the program's idea is descriptively inadequate."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whelan_v._Jaslow

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure,_sequence_and_organi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Associates_Internatio....

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari...
As much as I love seeing this kind of hardware stuff, the problem with "pick and place" is the vision integration, not the motor control. That's where everybody gets stuck.

It's not a "pick and place" until you've got the cameras and alignment working.
Rieko Kodama
There would have been engineering cost to designing a better lock. Also, that's not their product concept. These are not locks for people who care about security, they are for people who care about iphone ecosystem synergy.

If you look at it a certain way, this isn't really a defect: when this lock gets bricked by a firmware update or recruited into a botnet, you won't be trapped on your porch for too long before your neighbor's kid can let you in.

But also, full agree on "our goal is to be better than an open window." I hope they don't extend a job offer to that marketing intern.
I can't believe apple allowed their name to be attached to something so shoddy.
You can use it with most any lock set. You’re paying for the bolt, not the lock.
Don't mistake a stagnant market for a dying one. If stagnant equalled death then Japan's economy would have been poor long ago.

> I'm not having trouble finding Facebook data. Did you get that idea from me asking you to back up your own claims?

You've asked me repeatedly about geographic and demographic data that Facebook (and plenty of 3rd party data mining sites) post publicly. If you actually care just compare it to other sites and make your own judgement calls.

If Facebook was really dying in the west then we'd be hearing about it. You seem to be using anecdotal data, in my life everyone I know hates Facebook but at least 75% of them use it... especially 90% of the non-technical ones who tend to be the best ad targets. Maybe you're not talking to enough regular people?
TSMC Arizona is N5 [0], but by the time it opens Taiwan will be on N3.

[0] https://tsmccareers.com/tsmc-arizona/
For sure, it’s tradeoffs all the way down. Fiberglass would lend well to a “production builder” that’s looking to leverage a mold for reproducibility. But I also do one-off fiberglass stuff so it has its place there too.
> Mastodon is supposed to be better than those, right?

Here are the ways mastodon is better than twitter:

- It can't be bought by a billionaire man baby

- It can't be coerced into hosting awful people because they drive revenue

- It doesn't require advertising in order to continue existing

- Because of that I'm not being endlessly datamined by adtech every moment I'm using it.

- It can't die because one website goes down, and everyone on it doesn't experience awful performance just because one instance is falling over.

- If I don't like the admins of the instance I'm on, I can move to another instance and bring much of my data with me without having to exfiltrate it with tools that violate the TOS.

- I can use whatever clients I like with it and I never have to worry about the company deciding it doesn't like third party apps and killing them slowly with api rate limits.

There are also a lot of ways it's worse than twitter, though they're mostly along the lines of "some of my friends aren't on it". Things don't have to be "better in every way" than other things to be "better for me (or you)". There are always tradeoffs.

Re. WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and iMessage are all apps you run on your phone. And if you can read the messages on them from a website (as you can if you turn on a feature for imessage), then the admins of the service also have access to your messages.

Again, we're talking about a website here.
Yeah let me know when this is possible!
It can even be opened with the newest apple product: the iRake

(sold separately for only $29.99)
I'm abroad right now working remotely, I've had nothing but extremely positive interactions with the culture here and it's about as distant as two cultures can get. The crusades are over, I can't say I've met a ton of other digital nomads but I never got the impression anyone is going around destroying communities they're visiting. Learning more about and experiencing other cultures has deeply enriched my life, I do my best to be a good guest in the country and a lot of people seem interested in learning more about life where I'm from too. I know my argument is anecdotal here, but at least anecdotes are better than your wild and unfounded speculation.