skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that Shopify clearly documents the cost when moderation isn’t externalized to either ML/AI or underpaid contractors:

> Shopify launched an investigation and the company ultimately restored all items and removed all strikes, but that came at significant cost. “Those efforts cost Shopify tens of thousands of dollars in personnel time and resources.

“Dozens” is legalese for [x>12; x<151], so Shopify is suggesting a cost of moderation per single DMCA of “tens of thousands” / “a hundred or so” = “tens of tens or so”, which is “hundreds of dollars per request” in plain language.

So, if Shopify is placing the cost of actually considering a DMCA notice — as opposed to just machine-processing it like any other bigcorp — then that explains a lot about modern bigcorp account closures. They would rather lose your business to a false positive, than risk owing a process that costs $X00 per “please reconsider, here is my evidence” request from a customer.

This also makes it possible to estimate the potential cost in “risk of exposure” SEC filing terms for any proposed law that compels providers to 1) explain algorithmic decisions, 2) process appeals with human beings.
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Meduza is well known to be funded by the UK FCO project, known for funding propaganda projects such as the push for regime change in Syria, and receiving funding from NATO sources.

Nor are they a “exiled Russian media”. They were founded in Latvia.

Re: my account: I rarely post on the topic of politics, and my last comment on Russia/ukraine was over three weeks ago, and was a discussion on electronic warfare.

Stop lying.
I wonder if this is just not the right crowd. I bet there are workers that crave this where it wouldn't interfere with their productivity.
only if it requires a single click to elevate it
I think it is a typical "depends" situation. I also favour writing new things, but in practise there are many situations where this would be the act that makes you look like you enjoy pain.

E.g. if you have legacy systems that cover and handle edge cases you didn't even know existed. If you build your new thing you are going to learn about them. Probably in production. Suddenly that fresh feeling of writing a new thing will be replaced by another, considerably worse feeling.

It really depends on the problem your old thing is solving. If it is a simple problem, then a new thing can be a no-brainer. If that old tool is however interconnected with other things in a hundred places, good luck. If the problem you are solving is complex but very contained (e.g. just a tool that takes document X and transforms it into document Y), easy — wrire a new one.

But I know many operational people who are genius at understanding their systems and tools, but are not good at developing software.
The comment I wrote at a higher level in this same thread is, ultimately, a criticism of NOT using a statically compiled, statically linked language (because a form of tree shaking like original commenter suggested is already part of the linking step there, except for DLLs).

And yet, full disclosure and admitting to cognitive dissonance, for a (hobbyist) C++ game engine I'm currently working on that targets Emscripten for a web build and native for Debug build, I'm considering not even having a native-Release build at all.

The idea being if it's web-first and the native build being only for developer use for debugging, I could do things like supporting only one desktop graphics API (e.g. just DirectX) and optimizing the native graphics pipeline for simplicity over performance. End users would/could just use the web version.

Granted this is a bit different because I wouldn't be distributing a browser too a la Electron; it would just use the browser the end user already has. Just thought it's interesting that it's easy for me to criticize others, but with the choice of how to spend my own limited developer time (my free time) it's looking like this way of doing it makes the most sense.
> a car that reacts more quickly to driver input is obviously less dangerous

It's not zero, but the times where acceleration is the safest option in response to a danger are very much in the minority.

That's the only area where EVs react more quickly.
I would agree with you that it is wrong. Just because someone disagrees with Israel, or calls Israel out for actions that it has committed, is not the same as terrorism or making a threat. It's a really fine line, and I think regrettably that it moves with the political climate.
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> I don't know what the difference is between a "functional medical practitioner" and a "medical practitioner".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_medicine
Settlements can include promises to change practices and actions not just money.
I hate regulatory capture! The officials heading these agencies are often picked by the industry they are meant to regulate and often become highly paid lobbyists after they retire
At least that’s a thing in Australia or western countries. Here in India, where TrueCaller is very famous, TrueCaller is a platform for abuse.

Even after you use their delisting the customer care duty-fully informs you that your number can still be named and tagged on their platform.

After a while in my case they just didn’t respond.
I used to work with some data that would come across as CSV files but from non-technical people and required leading zeros on some fields. Trying to explain the difference between csv and excel ... or why you should not open those files in excel ... was difficult to say the least.
There's never been a worse time to borrow. It is a fantastic time to buy if you have the cash.
Providing Hamas with missiles for instance. They're not retaliating directly against the US but using asymetric tactics.
> While Kiwifarms is a sight full of degenerates and wicked people - degenerates and wicked people are most often the fringes where free speech should be defended, before laws start punishing those who simply speak out against the government.

Doxxing is a crime in some jurisdictions [1] and at least in the EU in some circumstances a violation of the GDPR so parties involved in it can be fined for that. On top of that come situations that are considered crimes across many jurisdiction (libel/defamation/insults). On top of that comes "swatting", which is a crime in even more jurisdictions [2]. What went on on Kiwifarms is going beyond the reasonable expectations on free speech - they not just enabled people to cross the thresholds of free speech, they facilitated actual legitimate crimes. [ETA:] And if that's not enough, they also kept on hosting actual terrorist manifestos [3]. Good riddance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing#Legislation

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/cloudflare-kiwi-farms-...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20190504114633/https://www.nzher...
So you're getting closer to the truth then. Great!
Thanks for the link. I've got a Legacy that's had a 'weak' battery for a while now and it seems like it may coincide with this 3g sunsetting..
The Base64 Encoder Has a Fixed Point
I think there's also some big conceptual distinctions between making software and the other engineering practices it gets compared to in these articles.

If you're making a building or a bridge, it may have some aesthetic or small functional qualities that make it unique, but 99% of the job is to make it with the same success criteria as every other building or bridge. The building needs to stand up, hold people, have X amount of floors, and not fall over. A bridge has to get people/vehicles over it and not crumble.

Pretty much every piece of software is expected to do something new and innovative. It starts off with an abstract idea and details are filling in as you go. You stumble into some roadblock because of some design conflict that wasn't obvious until you were implementing. If the software is being made at the request of a client or your company, they probably gave a bunch of success criteria that has a bunch of inherently contradictory ideas that they'll need to compromise on because users don't actually know what they want until they're using it. You finish off the first version, they identify all the things that aren't working, and now there's new success criteria you need to implement built off a foundation that wasn't prepared for it. No architect ever finished erecting a skyscraper only to be told it needs a major change that will involve reworking all the plumbing.

That's the inherent difference. Software is a game of constantly trying to chase a moving target, and most of it is being built on a stack that is trying to chase moving targets at every level.
Thanks for the well done clarifications!

Two more points of consideration:

> people who died before Jesus were already doomed, regardless of how they lived their life

This is actually not the Christian belief, but only that those who died before Jesus could not enter into heaven until Jesus' death and resurrection (because even they were saved by Jesus sanctifying passion). The term you're unaware of is "The Harrowing Of Hell".

> people are moral ... because that is the right thing to do

That's actually the point of Christian belief too - imperfect contrition (fear of punishment) is a _starting_ point. The goal is perfect contrition, desire to do the right thing because it is the right thing to do (for love of God).
“It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer.”
Like many siblings, I'm male and got a perfect score as well. I don't think that I have perfect vision, but I'd rather assume the test is flawed.
While I personally enjoy Yarn 2+ a lot and prefer it for private projects (I'll explain a bit about my setup at the end), for a long time both the docs and the implementation pretty much guaranteed that it would fail:

- many basic things were missing from the docs for a long time, or at least were easier to find in Github issues (e.g. "what should I gitignore")

- defaulting to PnP meant that, without configuration, things wouldn't properly work on many projects based on frameworks/toolkits/editors

- opinionated defaults made things harder than necessary (e.g. why does `yarn init` create a Git repository?)

You either had to accept/work around these issues, or configure everything to work as e.g. npm or yarn 1 did. I did the latter, and am still happy that I bought in - but I can very much understand anyone who didn't.

My preferred setup with Yarn 2+ projects is:

- use the node-modules linker (I tried pnp every couple of months and always ran into some issue, which I sometimes sent PRs for, but there was always something not working)

- gitignore as described for zero-installs[0] (even though I don't use pnp; this has the advantage that you'll have a ZIP copy of every module cached, leading to very fast local/CI installs and resistance against registry issues)

- create .gitattributes file as described at the end of [0] to hide the binary files from diffs

- add the base SDK[1] for WebStorm support (this rarely worked well)

- add the TypeScript plugin

[0]: https://yarnpkg.com/getting-started/qa#which-files-should-be...
[1]: https://yarnpkg.com/getting-started/editor-sdks
Some of us probably have very warped perceptions about what happened to the Big 3, since humans are susceptible to The Narrative®. GM has never lost its market share leader position in America, and the Big 3 had majority market share until 2008. This, despite the fact that they manufactured pure garbage from 1971-present. That is why I try not to call anything too early. If you had looked at the situation in 1965 and said "50 years from now, Japan and US will contend for market leadership" that would have been accurate. If you had said then "GM has buried itself in a grave of irrelevance", you would have been extremely wrong.
Yes, exactly. Is this not good?)
I feel this so much. The statement "Recently, our industry’s lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence started really getting to me, to the point of me getting depressed by my own career and IT in general." hits home so hard.

I feel like every application I purchase or download or try to setup is unsatisfying and flawed in some way. I paid $30/mo for access to the EastWest Composer cloud and was excited because I had spent most of my music production career hearing people talk about this near-infinite library of amazing sounds that professional producers use and I was about to have access to it. Then I downloaded their plugin and it was dreadful. Crashed regularly, I never actually got it fully working even after working with support for a month or so.

It feels like everything is like that now adays. Most pieces of software that I use I just immediately learn to smooth over the errors in one way or another. A reboot before creating each new project, etc.

It even works into a lot of hardware things because they need software too. I paid $500+ for a gopro MAX and the GoPro app has been the biggest nightmare in trying to use that device. Plus the firmware is dreadful and the wifi tech they use to connect is clunky.

It depresses me too. I feel like I can't even spend money to find a solution anymore and it feels like I end up throwing my money away more often than not because I buy something and it's clunky and awful but I can make it work so I use it sometimes but I could be getting so much more for that money if they had spent time refining the software.
The Fed went after inflation in all the wrong places. Would have been infinitely more effective to just ban corporations from owning single family homes.
> Then change the form and make the address, email address and phone contact mandatory

That's the context I was referring to. If Shopify requires an address and phone number from DMCA claimants, then won't the DMCA claimants simply sue Shopify for making the process too restrictive?

It looks like Shopify has decided not to play that specific game.
Make Any Code Linter Report Incrementally
In my area, some homebuilder companies are offering owner financing on the homes they build at rates 2-3% lower than what you can get from the bank.
Yeah there's a reflexive defense mechanism that prevents a lot of good people from paying attention to non-mainstream health advice. I hesitate to even use the words non-mainstream or alternative, because they get made fun of, but it just goes to show how successful the push to demonize alternative health practitioners has been. A shame too, because health is the most important thing in the world and too often these well-intentioned people have a very terrible terrible effect on the world.
I wouldn't call "green with a slight blue tint" a blue light, personally. That's still a green light.
>> It's the disease that has consumed software

This is another example of Scott Alexander's Moloch:
https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch

"companies in an economic environment of sufficiently intense competition are forced to abandon all values except optimizing- for-profit or else be outcompeted by companies that optimized for profit better and so can sell the same service at a lower price."
Sure, but if you're free to buy a house in cash you probably don't particularly care about the cost of renting vs buying.

In which case this kind of article really isn't for you. You're looking for real estate investment news, not housing.
My solution would probably be to encourage societal shame upon the people begging companies to become arbiters of morality. Companies generally don't care enough about these things unless some moral crusade comes along and they kneejerk do whatever they are being brigaded to do. It happened with Cloudflare in this article.
The ones that won the war for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba, and drove 80% of the indigenous population out of their homes at gunpoint.

(At least, they are currently hailed as freedom fighters by one side in that conflict. The Palestinians condemn them, but nobody cares what they think.)
There was the SuperDisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk which saw some popularity in Asia.

The real problem was the cost - the real key to floppies is you didn't care if you got it back (at the time people used them, very early on they were more pricey). So CDs did eventually replace them for sneakernet, and USB sticks have finally become cheap enough to be disposable.
Looks like they're still accessible at kiwifarms.net and kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiyxcyd.onion

A crypto donation to one of their wallets is probably one of the most effective ways to fight back against online censorship.
> Still, you generally get enough sound and feel that ... when taken together with the instant response and one-pedal driving ... you can really feel like you're "one" with the vehicle. An ICE feel like you're trying to give kind of suggestions for how the car should drive. Like riding a horse I guess. It goes where you want but also has a bit of a will of its own. An EV feels more like an extension of your body.

I definitely get that. But it's also something you see in higher end ICEs. I went with my Audi RS 5 because it felt very much connected to the driving experience. Responsive, feedback, etc.

Not a fair comparison, I realize, but since I've spent a lot more time driving a Tesla 3 than an S, though I have driven both repeatedly, but I'd say I felt more connected to the RS 5 than the TM3.
Chinese has yet another word for red: 彤. It closer to vermillion or what some people might recognize as "Chinese red" that one sees painted on doors and temples.
It's always like that.

I can't find any exception, sorry.

It's natural right ? You can't just have your cake and eat it, too.
> ... and you don't have to be a Muslim to support Palestine, you just have to be a human being

One can support innocent Palestinians without supporting Palestine, the same way one can support innocent Israelis without supporting Israel. Not sure why they decided to sneak in some dehumanization into what masquerades as a positive sentiment.
Not to mention whoever it was that burned down Dresden and Tokyo
I hope that I would be able to finish this quickly because I want to focus on my other project (https://github.com/yousseb/atfal-ai & https://github.com/yousseb/atfal-site) which is an effort to track missing children/people and use AI to help find them. I love meld, but as a person who has lost his brother in a way that he couldn't come back - and I keep losing family in Gaza -, I want to help reunite families who still have the chance to be reunited. Everyone is welcome to help.
That's how MBAs talk, not how engineers talk.
Like this? https://www.gdbgui.com/

There's plenty of FOSS developers that work for intrinsic rewards and likely produce better software.
I suggest a rebrand. Check if zimbardo.io is available.
I don’t understand, your complaint is that the project is too well done?
Not really-- prices are still quite elevated. Although the current cash buyers are probably in for a rude awakening when we finally exit this cycle.
And the Fed can do that how?
Was the compensation a step down? Plenty of tech companies levels are different. Boggles my mind someone might turn down a better job with more pay because for whatever reason they give a slightly lower title.

I took a 'step down' in title at a FAANG and still got a huge jump in compensation.
From what I've seen the faster solution is also usually the simplest, which makes it faster to deliver and easier to maintain. We're far away from what Knuth warned about (micro-optimizing assembly). It's more at the level of high-level design, technology choice, etc.

Like at my last job, we had something like 50 microservices, Kafka, rabbit, redis, varnish caching, etc. For under 1k external requests/second and some batch processes that ran for a few million accounts. If we cut out all of the architecture to "scale", you could've run the whole thing on a laptop if not a raspberry pi. And then a real server could scale that 100x.

The company was looking at moving to a "cloud native" serverless architecture when I left.
My local library offers 3d printers, a mid-high end laser cutter, soldering stations, sewing machines and lots of tools.

It lagged behind the library of the next town over, but is now comparable.
> I doubt the likes of Ursula, who come form extremely privilege backgrounds and have been groomed since childhood for high ranking leadership positions

Not sure that she's the perfect example for what you're trying to say

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen
Thanks for replying! You're right - I had to experiment with the pre break reminder a lot before I found the right balance (both visuals and the timing). I've published an update which will allow you to see the time remaining in menu bar (can be enabled in settings), and LookAway will now auto pause when you're in a meeting or on a call. It'll also resume as soon as the call is ended.

Let me know if you have any other feedback! Happy to hear :)
> what is your solution to letting them still project their voice on private property without infringing on the property owners rights?

Presumably these people expect the same sort of regulation as utilities: unless you're directly impeding the power company's ability to provide service to others, then they can't just refuse to serve you.

Edit: edit for clarity per the below discussion.
Hi! Thank you for your comment. So do you think this is bad, right?
That's funny I remember a time not so long ago when just questioning the origin of a virus, or the efficacy of a vaccine got people outed silenced. I remember when just having discussions around if men should be allowed to compete in women's spaces got people blacklisted and shamed.

I remember once when a landscaper that made the okay sign was fired from his job because everyone on the internet reached out to his employer to tell them he was a white supermacist when he had no idea what was going on.

But you're right now we should have nuance, and distinction when shaming and doxxing people who are wrong.
I also think DMCA is terribly designed, but it is no wonder -- it was designed by and with only interest of copyright holders.

As to chilling effect on reporters, I disagree.

We have laws to protect people from libel, and yet it does not have chilling effect on reporters. And yet it is essentially exactly the same thing I am thinking about.

The damage from libel is to an individual. The damage from misinformation is to entire society.

The reason libel laws work is that the number of cases isn't overwhelming the court system.

But if you rewind time 20 years and you suspended libel law for a moment, if everybody could publish in a newspaper or TV whatever they want about whoever they want. What do you think would happen? A deluge of false information about everybody.

What would people say about somebody wanting to introduce a libel law? That "it would have a chilling effect on journalism".
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS

https://www.redfin.com/news/housing-market-update-home-selle...

Not quite yet. Lots of sad sellers holding out hope for a macro long gone. Supply is constrained, but mortgage rates + risk free rate means house prices will come back to mortgage payment/wage governed prices. Folks who can will stick it out, folks who can't (relo, death, divorce, etc) will set the comparables/comps in their market.
J.Toobin asks if certain other types of behaviors can be autoblurred too?
I've added this setting in the latest update. Thank you for the tip :)
A resume is not just a piece of paper. It’s a piece of paper with lies on it. And it can be the difference between not getting a job and not even coming close.

-Dave Barry
American cars in the 90s were terrible. The domestic automakers wouldn't be in business today if people actually bought based on reliability. Now you can buy almost any brand and reasonably expect it to last over 100k miles.
This is one of the reasons the announcements about WebGPU made me cringe. Yeah, just what I need, more unnecessary complexity added to webpages. Especially when there's seemingly a chance people will use them to mine crypto on my GPU while I'm on their page.