skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why has free speech fallen out of favour with SV? Ironically, it happened rather silently.

It's not just an Eternal September-like phenomenon. The very same people who used to support it not only don't any more but pretend they never did in the first place.

Speaking of the founding fathers, I ask him what he thinks they would have thought of Reddit.

"A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like it," he replies. It's the digital form of political pamplets.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/02/reddit-c...
This was made before they added that flag :)
Calling it an ideology is an easy way out and baseless. There is plenty of fact and research to support it.

> How many [generations]?

I don't see the point of predicting it. It's happening now. Ignoring the problem or denying it won't fix it.

> the lesson to be gleaned from this is to work hard so you can provide a good life for you and yours

The opportunity to do that is what people are after. Many minorities don't have that opportunity. The government provides poor schools, they are discriminated against by the justice system, the job market, and throughout society.

> invent new [realities]

Widespread discrimination against minorities is in no way new and does not need to be invented; again the facts and research are overwhelming.

> The last thing we need children thinking today, with all the external stimuli they get from social media, is that they did or didn’t achieve something because of their privilege or lack there of.

The last thing we need is for that to be true. We should work to create the society you envision, rather than just insisting it exists.
Maybe it's simpler than "models with a simplicity that is dissimilar to that of other successful models are more likely to be true", though it's not obvious what should be considered simple and not.
According to a study about Reddit itself, banning can do some good:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/business/reddit-limits-no...

The general principle is sound - people get sucked into extremism when they stumble upon it on a large site like Reddit. Voat, on the other hand, you're not going to find unless you're looking for it.
And Uber tells the drivers where to go.
International was actually a drag (29% compared to North America 35% and AWS 42%) Edit: but I guess I should exclude Whole Foods and in that case North America growth is 28%.
Just replying to myself now to add: the solution to high house prices is, like much transport policy, boring and well known but not implemented for political reasons. On the housing front: tax capital gains, limit leveraging ability, implement a land based tax and zone/invest appropriately to encourage new supply. This will bring housing far more in line with what people expect.

This brings us to the other awkward point though: truthfully, I'm sure many New Zealanders, just like many Australians, neither want their housing prices/investments to drop in relative price or to return to closer relationships with local use.

Which leads us to the policy/political pantomime game so often involved in these areas where people want to have their cake and eat it too: "I want afforable housing for my children that doesn't make my property prices drop!"
Ask HN: Which coding bootcamps would you recommend and why?
Bookmarking this.

I do have one request, though, if you don't mind: For the `type` field, would you mind somehow including human-readable form, as well as the numeric value? Either as another key in the same hash (like `type_text`), or by changing `type` into a dictionary with `int` and `text` keys.

Other than that, I have no complaints, and if this becomes a stable service, then I bet people will really love how you can pull this as raw JSON!
Maybe, just maybe, it's because the "far left" subreddit doesn't have content calling for ethnic cleansing?

Just saying.
Regardless of the (extreme) technical challenges to implement something like this...a 6am sunrise in NYC would make for sunset at 3:15pm in December. A little early for my taste!
Both of them are basically "logins". They are not secure and they can't be changed ever. Neither can't be a sole security instrument.
Let's forget that I said "true", and switch it to "successful" instead.
These comments underscore the fact that real estate is increasing everywhere, not just city centers. However, it is magnified in city centers, and here are the (apparently not) obvious primary causes:

- A higher proportion of people want to live in small city centers.

- There are more people, and the same amount of land.

This is one of those things that can never truly be solved, without questionable eugenics programs, some other rate-limiter on population (like famine), or expansion into space.

Please, tell me I'm wrong and continue to blame it all on foreign speculators, corporations, and landlords, like most of these existing comments do.
The main driver in AU and NZ is property speculation, driven by terrible tax and pension policies in combination cheap money.
Can you go into some more detail on how BLM "advocates, tolerates, or embraces" violence?
10% (of assessed value) yearly tax on homes not occupied by someone for more than 50% of the year.
I think you're correct on the large scale but anecdotally, the first 3 houses I put an offer on were purchased by the same Chinese couple at a price much higher than I'd have expected. I stopped putting offers on house when I saw them at the open homes. I have nothing against them they are acting in their own interests and good on them for having the money to buy property. I just can't compete with them and am glad that our government will manipulate the market in favour of people living in the country. I suspect that foreign ownership of land could have a negative impact on our economy as it only extracts money from our economy.
Yay, Socialism!
Likely knew? They had to huddle together and shout into a megaphone directly attached to the recording lathe. There was no electronic amplification at the time.
I think everyone is freaking out about the headline unnecessarily here. From the first paragraph:

has started to implement a new policy to ban content that glorifies and incites violence, and among the first to go were forums for Nazi, racist and white supremacist groups.

They aren't banning Nazis because they are Nazis. They are banning Nazis that glorify or incite violence. And anyone else that glorifies or incites violence. A quick look at /r/blacklivesmatter shows no posts of that nature, but I'm willing to be corrected.
Just because they don't describe it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

Communist governments have killed more than Nazi governments. Banning one without the other is hypocritical.

Perhaps Reddit is okay with being hypocritical, just as long as they own up to it.
not enough, I want a 5 seconds timer on every new attempted input line. You either type something or you don't.
What about people who have lived in neighborhoods for decades, but were since evicted (i.e. their SRO was converted to luxury whatever)? Sure they may be near the economic fringe, but the poor will always be with us. How can we enable the poor to participate in the rich economy that cities create? Or should cities become only playgrounds for the upper middle class and wealthy?
The lack of paper ballots or hardcopy proof of voter intent in the GA system is unacceptable. Transparency and verifiability - using means comprehensible to the average voter - are more important to free and fair elections than efficiency.
Huh. Funnily enough I don't follow Australian politics; I checked out of politics almost entirely after leaving NZ (where I was quite involved with the LibertariaNZ).

Been doing a bit of reading about the last election in NZ, though, as you can probably tell :)

It should be an entertaining coalition collapse. Apparently they have a 31-MP executive!??!?!

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/10/strengths_and_weaknesses_...
It's going to be interesting to see how the rights of free association evolve as platforms kick more and more people off of them.

On one hand, most people agree that platform owners get to make the rules for their platforms.

On the other hand, some bans might amount to discrimination based on protected classes.

The most interesting thing imo is that political activities and affiliations are protected classes in California, theoretically political bans are violations just like bans on religion / race. We'll see how it pans out.
Not sure why this matters. Due to both publications I decided not to vote for either of the two candidates. It would not have mattered when either piece of information was released, both were enough to convince me that the third party candidates needed more love.
Maybe take it as a mark of grim respect.

Far left and anarchist groups are generally considered to be unsuccessful in the arc of modern history, with even China partially adopting western aspects of governance to remain competitive. Their successes are almost entirely in appealing to moderates and with heavy appeasement of capitalism. One of the most famous attempt at true communism ended spectacularly, with a bulk victimization of many marginalized people who had been coaxed out of the shadows by a regime that failed to hold power to protect them.

Far right groups are taken much more seriously, because a conflict they started and escalated blighted an entire continent.

If it seems unfair that it's okay to make a video game (admittedly: a very fun, enjoyable game) about killing nazis by the dozen is pop culture but games about killing antifa can't even get news coverage, maybe that's true. It's because the victors of the last conflict against organized fascism accept violence as a constant reaffirmation that the binding substrate of civilization is democracy. You're "in-tribe" if you're on that train. If you seek to subvert or destroy democracy, that triggers violent a rejection by most of the western world.

A topical example: It's generally regarded as somewhat funny that Richard Spencer gets punched. Technically, it's illegal and we accept violence is no way to treat citizens in principle. Yet a lot of people in the US do hold racist views even if you take a very narrow definition of racism, and we don't see mass punching at scale. Spencer's singled out because he's publicly part of the ideology proposing the subversion and destruction of democracy. This turns off many of the typical restraints we'd exercise. Bannon and Yarvin probably need to be cautious of punch sqads as well as their profile raises.

Perhaps unsurprisingly (and imo, justifiably) so. As a general rule, America bends its own rules when it perceives something taking advantage of said rules. That's not a new thing, and it explains a lot of the legislative dithering that we have seen over the decades and a lot of the political rhetoric we see playing out today.

But I really do want to stress how much fun it is to have pop cultural license to go back and play a mindless game like Wolf2 for a bit.
Yeah, I heard the "loser" bit. Somewhat comforted by the end of my third year in industry, in that my compensation was 2.5x what new profs was making. The postdocs I looked at included a number for which the salary for 60+ hours of real work/week would have been (well) below the poverty level for my family.

This was a bridge too far, coupled with the 1000+ applicants per position. Made it hard to make a case to continue in that field.
Ruby on rails and postgres if thats what you mean
Those are some massive long templates . I was looking for a something simple like these https://volafile.org/privacy
This seems to redirect to a 404 at the moment?

The associated YouTube video is still up, however: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXmFRhA1VTk
The general story told by people who had no choice but live in these "wonderful" state-does-everything countries.

You live in UK? Come visit the Eastern Europe sometimes.
> I don’t believe in this new religion

Not really a factual argument. To call these ideas or support for them "new" is to overlook decades and centuries of history. Civil rights and postmodernism are older than probably most people reading HN.
there's a better way to deal with the mentally ill and disenfranchised

Enabling them is not a good way to deal with them. Allowing easily discoverable safe spaces with which to reinforce their neuroses and paranoia only adds to the problem as new users can more easily be recruited, preyed upon, etc.

This goes for much more than just violent white supremacists, it also applies to things like pro-ana, which creates an extremely dangerous feedback loop for vulnerable, damaged people.

Private sites not only have no obligation to provide the resources for these extreme codependent communities, but as we're learning, they actually hold a moral obligation to remove them when they form in order to prevent their growth.
The effect is largely the same, now isn't it? In fact, they recently published a study showing the efficacy of their sub closures from a couple of years ago. People leave, effectively silenced.

They can do that. It is their right. It's okay.
for me it's "date" and "data" since I type both of those quite a lot (I don't have a clock on my desktop, I just use date when I need to know the time, I find a clock distracting because I get that "well it's 27 minutes til that meeting, never getting in the the zone in that time, better check HN" thing).
> There's limited evidence available that it's foreign buyers primarily responsible for our high house prices :/

It doesn't matter if it is the primary cause, it is one of the causes. And it is the one to change that causes the least problems to the people of the country you represent.

In Australia, things are compounded by the incredibly greedy negative gearing rule, which also needs to be banned.
Cloud is hard business though, and requires far more than chips.
There's no shade of gray here? Either you host nazi propaganda, or you're "anti-free speech?"
Without verifiable paper receipt and ballot electronic voting just can't be trusted.
These are the rules posted on /r/farleft:

- No harassment or degrading of any leftist tendency or individual comrades. Debate and disagreements are fine, as long as they remain respectful.

- Sexism, racism, ableism, homophobia, xenophobia, and all other forms of reactionary bigotry have no place here.

- Liberals and other non-leftists are allowed if they are willing to learn about the far-left and should be welcomed.

- Keep the edge to a minimum.

- Shit-posts are allowed, just not shit-shit-posts.
Having a different opinion is not a reason to downvote.

- Don't be a jerk.

Doesn't seem like a violent place. Why do you think it merits a ban? Just because of the name?
I just discovered https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/dns-over... is marked as Last Modified 2016. So it should probably be marked (2016).

For reference, previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12609752
Care to give some evidence for your claims?
r/the_donald is not just about "disagreeing" it's literally the worst kind of ecochamber of conspiracy theories, veiled (and sometimes not-so-veiled) racism and constant calls to action against "the left". They are such an ecochamber that 90% of the time they speak on memes that nobody else understands (or cares to understand.)
That article describes the process but it doesn’t actually say how much property was purchased or whether this affected the real estate market.

It might be other Canadians performing the real estate purchases. Until BC actually publishes some stats about what percentage of places are foreign-owned, we won’t really know.
I suspect that people who avoid social networks will start to form increasingly independent social circles from people who generally engage in social networks. Furthermore, these circles will change over the lifetime of individuals.

For example, I was an avid user of IRC back in the late '90s. That medium formed my social experience and those people became many of my life-long friends. These days many of my friends from that time (including myself) don't use social networks much at all; Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter included. We've been there, done that, and are finding human engagement without social networks to be more satisfying. Consequently, my contemporary relationships are not significantly maintained through social networks and whether someone is or is not on Facebook or Instagram has no bearing on whether my relationships are maintained.

A wise friend of mine once said "Facebook is for people you don't know!"
The city caps rents for a large portion of renters, and there are strict laws against short-term rentals and subletting https://www.fastcompany.com/3053734/berlin-models-how-cities...
Actually this hasn't been the first approach, there's been a gradual tightening of access to mortgages via what's called the LVR, by upping the deposit amount required for mortgages to buy a house and differentiating between the family home and investment properties. Arguably this has slowed down the rampant price rises in the past 6-12 months without crashing the market. Currently LVR rates are 20% owner occupied and 40% for investment properties (ie rentals). There's some exemptions and some other tax rules that have been put in place also. Anecdotally we're not seeing the craziness of 24mths ago. Auction pass rates have increased and the number of for sale signs have dropped dramatically. This new policy is probably more politically motivated than will actually have an effect.
I think the logic goes like this:

1) Insurance company has customers that don't get vaccinated

2) Insurance company pays for vaccinations of uninsured people

3) Uninsured people don't get sick

4) Uninsured people don't infect their unvaccinated customers

5) Insurance company has lower payouts because their customers don't get sick as much

From a financial point of view, this probably only makes sense if the cost of the vaccine is significantly lower than the cost of care of someone who catches the flu.
That is certainly a driver, but I'm not convinced that it's the main one in Australasia. Certainly, it's not the main one worldwide.
Amazing ( well, more like sad ) that the first comments I see are "well, we can agree that nazis are bad, but this is a slippery slope, what about BLM, and antifa"

Nazism - The belief ( on pseudoscience i may add )that other races ( a term that has no scientific basis ) are only worthy of extermination ( death, MDK )

BLM - The belief ( on experiences of some in society ), that Black people are not treated the same in their interactions with the government. Main vehicle, in your face protests.

Antifa - an aggressive anti-hate group ( whose tactics, in the view of some, seem to make them a violent group ). The anti-nazis if you will.

Really? Do these things seem REMOTELY equal?

cue in the nitpicking about my definitions...

PS: to be perfectly clear/blunt, since it seems as I suspected people started nitpicking... One group calls for the extermination of HUMAN BEINGS.. the other calls for the extermination of IDEOLOGY... now see the difference?

free speech DOES NOT and HAS NEVER given you the right to call for the extermination of others... that is as clear cut case of "not protected by free speech" as there is.

and yes.. if you take on the name of "nazi" or "national socialism", well, you don't get to redefine those terms in a "wink wink" manner.
Really? May be a generation thing. I'm in my 40s now and we learned about that battle around 6th grade. And this was on a Hauptschule (secondary modern school) where I spent two years.

Also German TV is full of historic documentaries about that time - at lest the public service broadcasters (phoenix, zdf info, arte, etc). Of course you will not notice that if you only follow the private channels.
If you dig into the comments on each of the subs, you will see it isn't just left vs right.

One has doxing/harrasment/violence, the other doesn't.
As another Australian, our housing prices is broken for multiple reasons but foreign investment is a _major_ contributor.

Credit Suisse research indicates that "foreigners are acquiring 25 per cent of newly completed supply in NSW and 16 per cent in Melbourne, or 21 per cent if we combine the two states". The total value of new houses in both states was $39 billion over the relevant 12 months.

After the Chinese government cracked down on monetary restrictions (i.e. Citizens of China can normally only convert US$50,000 a year in foreign currency and have long been barred from buying property overseas), Lend Lease reported 30 to 40% of foreign purchases now being cash settled.

Transparency International consider Australia the worst money laundering property market in the world.

Foreign investment, especially for countries which avoided the 2007 housing bubble such as Australia, is a major issue.

A friend will be posting an article on the multiple bubbles he sees in the Australian economy, and property is potentially the most concerning of all given how exposed our banks are to housing loans.
We may find Australia finally seeing their house bubble pop like the US in 2007.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/property/australian-property-...

https://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/publication/doors_wide...

Updated to include direct link to Credit Suisse: https://research-doc.credit-suisse.com/docView?language=ENG&...
Bear, Bat, or Tiny King? On the Rorschach Test
> Agree. Noon should be the moment when the sun is at its highest altitude in the sky, or a close approximataion thereof.

I too want the same time worldwide but I guess the best we can do is UTC. I mean we could do it but I fear we'd just be sweeping the ugliness under the rug. I don't want this kind mess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_China

> Currently, timezone usage within Xinjiang is roughly split along the ethnic divide, with most ethnic Han following Beijing time and most ethnic Uyghurs following Ürümqi Time.
How is this not immediately obstruction of justice? The article makes it seem like they know who actually wiped it, so just ask them who ordered it and follow the trail, no? It can't even be an accident since not one but two backups were also wiped.
Show HN: Headless CMS for Google Firestore and Firebase
The answer is easy - because people came face to face with the downsides of free speech, and also how it has been gamed to promote the very worst of humanity, culminating in the election of the most dangerously, maliciously unqualified person to ever lead America.

New evidence can lead to reevaluating opinions.
Actual report, much easier to ingest data (1)

That said, what I'd be far more interested in is where the labor shortfalls are expected to be. Also, we can predict that the health aide labor market will eventually fall off. High school class size maxed out around 2009 (2)

1) https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecopro.pdf

2) https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/mobile/Enrollment_ES_Pub...
I didn't speak to whether or not this applies to anything expected to happen within 5 years, or ever at all, or whether you should expect this to be practical information.
> Why permanent daylight savings time? Why not just permanent real time? Clock noon should be roughly the same as solar noon, all year round. 'Daylight savings' is an impossibility.

Because if my commute involves driving fifty miles east in the morning and fifty miles west in the evening, I don't want to have to adjust my clock by about 5 minutes twice a day.

(At the equator, this would be 3 minutes - the further you go from the equator, the greater the difference that fifty miles would represent).
Is this the digital equivalent of corporal punishment?