skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Once you tolerate the "non-violent" Nazi, the violent ones won't be far behind.

Alright so...where are they? We've let them preach for 75 years after the war, and we're not exactly being overrun with Nazi murderers.

>Nazism has proven that it cannot be tolerated, period.

Nazism has proven it is a self-defeating ideology. There is no serious threat of it becoming a mainstream force anymore.

>If an amendment to the US Constitution came up to exempt Nazis from first-amendment protection I'd be for it in a heartbeat, because there is no longer any need to be hemming and hawing and talking about how on principle we need to let them have their little march and their website and... no.

Remember those times you denounced the NSA or TSA sacrificing our rights in the name of 'security'? I do, I've been reading your post history.

Yet here you are. Does the hypocrisy not sting you, even a little?

> There is no such thing as a "safe" amount of Nazism.

Yes, yes, you really, really like to virtue signal. I get it.
> Is it because good people prefer censorship?

No, it's because the dominant ideology cannot survive debate.

There's a reason why ethnic nationalism and race realism have exploded in popularity in the past five years, and it's not because the ringleaders are a bunch of trained hypnotists.
I find this odd. One person died at Charlottesville, potentially from an accident. Meanwhile there's been at least one intentional shooting with a higher death toll related to BLM, but there was no widespread "we need to shut this down" backlash there. But all of a sudden some random site writing mostly nonsense is some huge threat that we're gonna put aside neutrality and free speech for?
Kazakhstan. :)
Since no one else has, I'll take the piss out of this "hollier than thou" bullshit.

> Devices are your personal property. We won’t force you to have anything you don’t want.

Devices are your personal property. The SoC is still a proprietary trade secret, the baseband is still spying on you for the NSA, the GPU is still a closed blob piece of shit. No mainline driver support, bootloader is closed source, firmware is closed source. We own this phone, you don't.

> We will always play well with others. Closed ecosystems are divisive and outdated.

....

> Devices shouldn’t become outdated every year. They should evolve with you.

Devices become outdated because shitty vendors refuse to open source and mainline drivers for their components.

> Technology should assist you so that you can get on with enjoying life.

Technology should be trustable, and a device where you cannot tell if or when the microphone and/or camera are recording and being remotely accessed is anything but.

Not wanting to single Essential out too much here - every vendor goes on and on about how great this phone is for you, while holding as much of a vice grip over the operation of the device as possible to make sure you need to buy another one as soon as possible through planned obsolescence. It is just the stick up the ass language announcements like these use is really infuriating when the people making them know full well how much they are screwing you over.

The first actually open platform phone is the one that will have longevity. The rest are snake oil about how good they will take of you because you can't take care of yourself with your own software that you can trust.
Little by little, Silicon Valley is supplanting the government. At this point it should be obvious that Silicon Valley companies feel no need to follow regulations imposed on them by the government. Some do, but those that don't aren't punished and generally wind up with faster growing businesses because of it. The government makes a symbolic effort to prevent hate speech, but where their efforts end Silicon Valley's begin. SVs efforts are much farther reaching and much more swiftly applied. And, of course, there is no oversight, no law or set of guidelines that Google must follow to decide what is and isn't "hate speech." Google gets to decide, they have the power.

Do you think you have a right to privacy in this country? You might have that right, as long as the SV companies decide to stick up for it. But it should be obvious at this point that, that right won't eve be enforced by the nominal "government."
"when did all the platforms decide to start being the moral center of determining what's acceptable speech"

When it became more profitable to do so, or they saw a PR angle. IMO businesses will cater to death cults that murder kittens if it makes money, but only until it becomes a PR problem. Real or imagined.
The platforms are not deciding to be the arbiter of morality, that's just a straw man. They are, however, deciding what they want to see and not want to see on their own platform, which bandwidth/maintenance/etc costs they are footing the bill for, which is perfectly acceptable.

They are private businesses, they are not discriminating against a protected class (to cut short any "but what about refusing to sell cakes to gay people" argument), so they are free to ban whatever users/apps/etc they want off of their platform.

Hey, maybe if Twitter had banned Trump for some of the crap he said, we wouldn't be in this mess.

This is no different from a book publisher refusing to publish your book. Free speech considerations do not apply.
Thanks for that observation.

It seems like this sort of "make the adjustment period take a horrifically long time to reach" effect only happens if the cutover is very abrupt and includes the overwhelming majority of hashpower, and if people are persuaded enough of the outcome of the fork that they don't speculatively bring new hashpower online to take advantage of the suddenly-easier-to-earn block rewards.
I feel like a lot of people think of the worst type of legacy freeloader when they hear 'Harvard Grad', not that it's right.
With Broadpwn; Largely yes. Android and iOS both published security fixed before this was presented at Blackhat. But:

1. Android is kind of tricky though, as firmware updates generally come from the carrier not the manufacturers, and even if its from the manufacturers its still down stream of the actual patches. But the factor is kind of moot if a phone isn't getting security upgrades.

2. Google has been trying to decouple security and firmware updates, but this is only on more recent phones.

As for how much of an issue this is. Its kind of impossible to tell. It been out for less than a month at this point. And of course there are all the devices that are now unsupported and will not receive updates.

Ok for StageFright. Do you have those enabled? How many users do you think will?
My understanding is that Visbiome is also thought to be a comparable product that has the same formulation.
This looks very cool! I especially love the attention to syncing and merging, as well as the section specifically for zsh-autosuggestions. However, I really wish there were performance metrics (e.g. "zsh-autosuggestions used to take me Xms but now they only take Yms, and I have Z entries in my history")
gOS#> ls ~

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Wonder if the already-installed app is still usable or if it relied on some Google services.
If it was still usable I hope Google did a remote removal of it.
Good analysis on SSC: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...
Not to mention drivers for every networking scenario and filesystem under the sun.
Missing belongings are obvious to the homeowner, and if that homeowner has insurance including those items named specifically, and your insurance company believes your story. As it stands now broken locks, broken windows, broken doors also serve as evidence that a crime was committed. At that point your insurance takes over if you have insurance, otherwise that's pretty much it most of the time. I don't think you'd like to see what would happen if you try to sell to police and insurance the notion of bandits was only sign of being in your home was the absence of some of your belongings.
It's because when a mob is at your door, regardless of the issue, you have two choices: Stand and fight, or cave in to the mob. Silicon Valley is being bullied and forced into making a choice. They have chosen to preserve their business and promote PR, rather than fight.
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They got their momentum and they're running with it.
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Sorry, but while speech is protected, not all speech is protected.

Hate speech and incitement of violence is a felony in most free democracies that protect speech.
Fighting Neo-Nazis and the Future of Free Expression
Exceptional where? Netherlands would probably disagree with you.
Even if that meant you couldn't afford that travel?
They aren't the moral center. They're firmly on the left and banning their political opponents. Hate speech exists on all platforms and comes from both sides; it's only an excuse here.
That is indeed a bit alarming. Maybe that's how they manage to hit even that price point with the kinds of materials they're using.

That said, 2 years is the standard replacement period for most postpaid carriers, so it might be that way effectively anyway for many customers.
Hanlon is in the same-but-different territory, because it's possible (or even somewhat assumed) that Hanlon's incompetence comes with good intentions (since you've rejected malice).

Focussing on the good intentions instead of the incompetence may be beneficial for your own mental health.
next dilemma for a startup - figuring out which bit of the splinternet you are going to target - the chinese, the confederate, the islamic or the general part.
Anyone know why they are building in C as opposed to a newer language like Rust or Go? I mean, if you're going to start from scratch, might as well go all the way, right?
"Trust by verify" is always useful. In addition to the caveats you usually have a buffer (of time). A well placed email or phone call can go a long way to clear up (or confirm) any assumptions.

Fighting or fleeing without verification is typically going to end badly.
I'm not saying Charlottesville wasn't bad. I'm saying that the practice of calling everyone who doesn't agree with you a "nazi" dilutes the meaning with bad stuff actually happens (like Charlottesville). As bad as that was, there's only 4,000 KKK members in the US. That's a lot of people, but that's a crazy small percentage of people in general overall. At a certain population number, you'll have a set # of people that have hold terrible beliefs. That doesn't mean it's okay, but it might just be reality. Given that, I still think the best way to engage with those people is to engage with them - not to name call. Case in point[1].

You don't need to infer who my "favorite groups" are. I'm more interested in actual discussion than playing team games. Some of my favorite people in the world to talk with have complete opposite viewpoints from me. We may not agree, but being able to hold a civilized discussion helps each of us learn. That would never happen if we didn't talk and just called each other names.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kkk-klu-klu...
> Gab is aimed at people interested in “Western values, individual liberty, and the free exchange of ideas” looking to avoid the “special interests pushing a very specific agenda” in tech. If that dog whistle isn’t loud enough...

Not sure that's a dog whistle.

With even the article admiting they can't find a valid reason for it to have been kicked from the Play Store, it's almost a self fulfilling prophecy.
Almost all these commits are from Ericsson employees. The community did start contributing bigger things in later years (the improved unicode support is a good example), but the core team is still very central to the development, and their main bug tracker is not open.
I work in visual effects. Large companies (Disney, DreamWorks, ILM, Weta) are all Linux based, while small shops are Windows or Mac. So much of the software is cross platform in order to be relevant (usually Linux first). Maya, Nuke, Houdini, rv, and a bunch more. All of the smaller tools and utilities in open source projects are either Qt or PyQt. Maya, Nuke, and Houdini all had their own in-house toolkits, but migrated to Qt. They all have fairly custom UI requirements, require high performance, and need high end things like accurate color and GPU acceleration.

It's not the same type of app as Spotify or Slack, but is comparable to VSCode.
It's because:

a) there's a lot more demand for alternatives among groups that have been kicked off analogous platforms. You almost have to hide them to avoid the stain. And of course, when a Buzzfeed editor asks why you haven't kicked off $UNPOPULAR_GROUP_X, they're not going to convey your actual principled response; they're going to convey that you're a closet $BAD_THING.

b) people remember offense and want to stay very far away from things that have offended them. Most judgments, by necessity, are made subconsciously. The association between "Reddit Name and Mascot" and "Bad Thing I Saw on the Front Page" is going to be made automatically and take many times more effort to undo.

"Don't shoot the messenger" is a phrase because our inclination is to lash out at the perceived vessel. It requires additional abstraction to take the immediate/physical association out of the mental blame loop.

This is why Facebook starts totally empty. It's why Twitter starts totally empty and then suggests the most banal/run-of-the-mill initial follows. It's why reddit can't shake the edgy atheist college sophomore as it's primary demographic (that demographic upvotes things that appeal to their niche only to the front page, scaring away everyone else).

People don't want a neutral point of view, they don't want both sides. They want their views reinforced and their egos stroked. Nothing else will suffice. Consumers are very unforgiving.

The fact that we can now retreat into an infinite echo chamber via the internet has had highly deleterious effects on civility.
That makes sense. It was not obvious from reading the article and comments. Thanks.
> when did all the platforms decide to start being the moral center of determining what's acceptable speech

they always have, they all have content policies. for example, very few of them allow porn.
the left is mote moral right now. the right has gone off the rails.
> Devices become outdated because shitty vendors refuse to open source and mainline drivers for their components.

YES. This one of the major reasons of the Android versions fragmentation.

However, most of them don't even have mainline-able drivers. See Amlogic which got rejected because of "shitty code".
good post
"potentially from an accident"

We clearly didn't watch the same video.
Regardless of your personal thoughts on BLM, the violence you're referring to is incidental; people involved in the violence may have ties to BLM but the did not commit the violence on behalf of BLM (indeed, BLM denounces all violence).

On the other hand, the neo-nazi terrorists in this country are killing people explicitly to serve their ideology. Hate leads to action, and the last time we let these guys preach hate unchecked it led to a world war and millions of innocent people murdered. We will not let them do this again.
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> potentially from an accident

I'm not sure you are serious, but do you genuinely believe that this was potentially from an accident? The kind of accident where you get into your car, aim at a crowd and boot the accelerator?
> We're going to have a long debate internally about whether we need to remove the bullet about not terminating a customer due to political pressure.

I think you can safely say this has nothing to do with political pressure if it's something you've asserted yourself. You can't say, "We've never taken down a website due to internal moral pressure," but that's something I actually consider when picking a business to do business with, so it stands to reason a business should make decisions based on this. Not everyone feels this way, and that's fine, but I prefer to do business with people I consider principled in the way that I am.

Is this a dangerous notion? It doesn't seem so in practice, in that the only people being banned are Nazis and child porn distributors; tough luck making that slope slippery with those two players.
> In addition, to be eligible for any of the limitations, a service provider must meet two overall conditions: (1) [...] and (2) it must accommodate and not interfere with “standard technical measures.” (Section 512(i)). “Standard technical measures” are defined as measures that copyright owners use to identify or protect copyrighted works, that have been developed pursuant to a broad consensus of copyright owners and service providers in an open, fair and voluntary multi-industry process, are available to anyone on reasonable nondiscriminatory terms, and do not impose substantial costs or burdens on service providers.

https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
race realism? is that new word you made up for nazis?
reddit is the only site that i have white listed because the ads on it aren't obtrusive. If i have to watch a 30 second ad for a 15 second video, i personally find it annoying and obtrusive. I'll gladly donate to reddit via other means to show my support.
this is (should be) a Comcast problem

That's an arbitrary assessment. It is a problem for both sides. Netflix was paying Cogent for bandwidth. Cogent was taking advantage of a peering agreement (peer ~ equal) that was then thrown way out of balance. Netflix switched from paying Cogent to paying Comcast - both sides had obligations to pay for bandwidth from the beginning.
Wow down-voted again on this post for pointing out two simple facts about the rally.

It would be great to get a comment from the anon on here about what was so wrong.
Direct links have never been disallowed, either by design or policy, so not sure where you're getting that.
> 1) It’s 100% reasonable to have a high degree of skepticism within a low-trust environment.

The problem is that people aren't able to accurately judge when they are inside a low-trust environment when using one of their many digital devices.

People are watching their neighbors return from the mysterious Facebook fog spouting fake-news bullshit like it's gospel. Then they themselves blithely enter the fog with the reasoning that they would never get taken in by something so crude and obvious.

If you've ever watched a shell game in a big city that fallacy will be familiar. You watch a frustrated victim keep losing and notice a subtle thing the scammer is doing to cheat. You then place your own bet and choose the shell where the cheating scammer inconspicuously tried to move the ball.

Then you lose, too, because you didn't consider the possibility that the scammer had yet another trick prepared just for people like you who think you're smart enough to figure out the game.
Doesn't seem like a very difficult choice to me.
First they came for the Nazis, and I said nothing because I was not a Nazi.

Then they came for the far-right, and I said nothing because I was not a far-righter...
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I know at companies I've worked for the split-license for Qt caused concern. This was pre-Electron (although I seriously doubt it would have been in contention). They went with another toolkit and a few years, after conferring with their lawyers or whatever, decided to move everything to Qt.
Bit premature to list Flash..
xet7 is not the original creator of Wekan, so it would be hard for him to say. ;)
Related, Gobe Productive. Vaguely similar to Microsoft Works in that it incorporated basic word processing, spreadsheet and vector art functionality, but you could do all three as tabs within any single document.

Originally came out for BeOS, then there was a Windows version.
Why does He Type like This?

HE SHOULD HAVE EDITED IT FOR PUNCTUATION.
Reddit gold opts you out of all ads, not that there are any ads on videos now.
Everyone assumes that everyone looks out for themselves first. That is not a controversial or novel idea.

The question is whether, in a team situation, one assumes that others are looking out for the shared interests as a group. If no shared interests exist, then the team has a much bigger problem.
Because the last time we let nazis spew their bile unchecked it led to a world war and millions of innocent people murdered. We're not going down that road again. End of discussion.
Seems to be blocked by uBO filter:

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Arguably an issue with the filterlist being too broad. Changing the alt-text would probably work as a workaround for now.
If some of the comments in this thread are to be believed he'd fit right in.
Once you start believing that all your political enemies are utilizing "dog whistles" and "code language", it's basically a lost cause. There's no arguing with someone who will literally assign a negative meaning to otherwise innocuous words and statements if they can't find anything real to nitpick.
Or maybe they are private businesses run by people like you and me who like to have a say in what is published on their platform?

For a community that is very pro-company founders, I have a hard time getting a lot of the kneejerk reactions here.

Should physical stores not have a right to decide what they want and don't want to sell? Why should it be any different for Google's digital store?

Even if their reason is "the 3rd pixel on the 2nd row of their app icon is too red for our liking, we're taking it down", they're perfectly in their right. You, of course, are also perfectly in your right to not do business with them, or even launch your own competing business.
Here's the original:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/%D0%9C%D...

He actually determined that the highest compression of the mixture takes place at roughly 46% alcohol. (p. 93).
You sound pretty privileged to only be asking for all of us to get along when so many people are asking not to be shot or subjugated by systems built to work against them.
We created too many silos online.

Too few companies have far too much power
Omg Apple is violating free speech!
And without running proprietary javascript, their page displays no text. So, ya.
For public forums it may be that People just prefer to be isolated from the other side by a barrier larger than a single platform and therefore a single overarching takedown policy can provide.

I think Facebook skirts it because it doesn't really have a public forum rather it has a large buffet of build your own forums that are not publicly visible from each users friends feed and a "let's solve for a feed of content likely as possible to keep said user on our site using as much history / personal information we can datamine about them, their k-nn's, and users in general"

For example "how voat turned out" seems to be ideal for a certain portion of internet users unwelcome by other sites and so perhaps they congregate there thus skewing the sample towards the way it turned out.
> How about they charge heavier people more - that's usually not genetics, so seem mor fair.

Someone's gender is genetic and men would pay more under your scheme as would taller people.
So is Illumina basically the "selling pickaxes during a gold rush" of this space?
The NSA is our spy organization.