skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don’t really need to worry about harm versus offense, it’s enough to ask, is there harm to a person in such-and-such a situation?

We should also recognise that the reasonable apprehension of harm is often an allowable basis for an action in law. For example, to assault someone is to present them with a clear threat of harm, whereas battery is to actually carry through with the harm.

Defamation (libel, slander) is recognised to be a problem for a similar reason. If someone presents misleading and disparaging things about me to the public, of course people are free not to believe it and it may be that nothing will happen; but I very reasonably fear damage to my career and social status. We recognise defamation as a crime even when no harm has been demonstrated to occur.

Does hate speech cause harm? Not directly, since sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me. Like defamation, however, it can mislead to a point where people reasonably expect injury to their career or social standing; and like assault, it can constitute a threat of bodily or other harm. Many of the people who push agendas of hatred are little interested in the outcome of the democratic process or in dialogue with the people they hate — they just want those people excluded (or deported or worse).

We live in a time, unfortunately, where we aren’t all working together with a good solid understanding of “public dialogue”, “harm” and “the threat of harm”.

People feeling bad is not harm; but often that is close by. The absence of injury does not mean we can ignore the possibility of it.

On the other hand, though, if we can’t see a concrete harm that (a) has occurred or (b) is clearly in the offing — if all there is, is some hurt feelings — then a restriction of speech would constitute an offence against a person’s rights.
Probably not a novel thought, but what if appearing in the sky over, say, a 100 year period beginning with the discovery of nuclear technology (or earlier) is a way of ‘warming up’ contact races so we don’t die of shock when they land?

It wouldn’t be unreasonable. Any advanced race wouldn’t need to observe at close distance, and wouldn’t need to be detectable.

They may just wamt to sow a little ‘openness to big ideas’ into us. Look at the amount of alien literature and scifi movies there are? I guess it’s working.
My daughter, who read many Rainbow Magic books a few years ago, suggested that a predictive system like this could probably be used to make realistic Rainbow Magic books.
They list lots of problems inherent in democracy. Then, in the conclusion, they hint that the next show/article is going to describe a reasonable system that doesn't have those problems.

But I can't find the next episode anywhere.
What about Art? Are there any good sites for parents and kids to get really deep into art such as drawing, painting, etc?
> How to make a political program out of anarchism?

Just give up radicalizing it. Accept the society AS IS as a starting point and start stripping the state of its powers and ambitions one by one. Read through the laws, legalize everything that can be legalized fairly safely (e.g. legalize drugs but don't hurry to legalize private atomic weapons :-)) at particular stage, remove requirements that are not really necessary (e.g. repeal copyrights enforcement but keep net neutrality). It is crucial to implement this process in a mindful and responsible way, i.e. avoiding dissolution of government institutions that do an important job and have no decent private alternatives established to the moment or repealing regulations that are there to limit the powers of corporations (which will certainly seek to establish tyranny over the nation as soon as the forces binding them weaken).

> We reject all societal processes that break that link — such as private property, exchange relations, division of labor, and democracy.

This is a way too radical idea that can hardly be considered constructive or viable. There can be no hope for a society anything close to real to survive and prosper with no body of power over them unless all its members respect property and interests, safety and privacy, freedom and dignity of other members the way they would like others to respect those of their own. Also division of labor is an absolutely natural thing, goods and services are to be subjects of free market, it is perfectly correct for a doctor to concentrate on healing people and expect the people to care about his needs in exchange so he won't waste time e.g. cultivating foods to feed his family.

The ultimate goal is not to destroy the system. It is to make every individual as free (keeping in mind that security is a precondition to freedom) as possible without infringing freedom of their neighbour, to decentralize and distribute power as uniformly as possible (while still letting and encouraging experts to make important decisions) and to establish Nash equilibrium so only minor fluctuations will occur and nobody will be able to gain enough power to become the new tyrant.
I agree with you. Conflict is always seen abstractly to take place between two or more "forces". "Peoples" not "people". And indeed the groups in conflict see it as an issue of categories, and broadly direct revenge and attack against a conceived organization of people fitting some number of characteristics that are in some way attached to the original concept and reason for killing.

As a Westerner, to once again place blame on an abstract group for causing "themselves" to be raped and murdered is ludicrous, it is actually baffling. Women are being raped and children are being burned alive-- not only Women and Children, but this woman, and this child. They have names, they are not categories, although for one reason or another there are complicated threads and fabrics of history attached to their probabilistic genealogical history.

I don't know what can be done. This conflict makes me sick.
That is what an ice axe would be for, I presume.
Its a jab. AnCap is next evolutionary stage of a society (atleast for some socities). Autocracy --> Democracy --> AnCap.

Not quite there ofcourse but they are getting there:

https://www.seasteading.org/floating-city-project/

https://www.freesociety.com/
Libertarians reject the initiation of coercion or violence but accept forceful response — at the gentlest intensity necessary — to repel such invasions. For example, a libertarian would be fine with a homeowner shooting dead an armed robber who had broken in.

Ludwig von Mises was a minarchist, i.e., he advocated for the smallest state necessary. His student Murray Rothbard referred to himself as an anarchist or an anarchocapitalist.

Of course, Rothbardians and Marxists mean entirely different concepts when they use the term anarchist.
Well how did they get it? Did they shoot one down? Did one crash? How can it travel light years yet run into a mountain?
"We are adaptation-executors, not fitness-optimisers."
> I suspect that these neighborhoods have a level of density that, if proposed in a typical American suburb, would spark cries of "Manhattanization."

Well yea, density is what enables a transit-centric, and American having an intense phobia of density is part of what makes them so car-centric.
Just to share an opposing (and unpopular) viewpoint, I am from a country where legal ownership of firearms is basically impossible. One of the reasons I chose to move to the US was my strong belief in the 2nd amendment. And I am absolutely enjoying the newfound sense of freedom that US has offered.
In autocracy, cooperation can be called subordination. But not otherwise.
This discussion on Reddit[0] would indicate that quite a few people saw this behavior unexpectedly, so even though it was off by default, it came as an unpleasant surprise to people who had opted in. It seems that they thought they were opting into Mozilla-lab-like experiments for improving the browser. Instead, they get an ad/easter egg that makes them think they-- or the site they are visiting-- have been hacked.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7k8pf7/firefox...
what did you find disappointing about it? First time I heard about it, what is it they do that's worth subscribing?

On researching, yeah it's honestly a chore everytime because so much disinformation/misinformation.

I'm not sure what decentralization would look like or even make sense. It seems like you just need some central guy like CR to vet and test out all the products. I go to Youtube for that tho.
This is so clean! I usually use Adobe Color (used to be called Adobe Kuler) so this is so nice to see! Any plans on being able to show more than just the dominate color?
I didn't say I agree with that logic, but I can see someone subscribing to it. I don't see the logic for the anti-stab clothing though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Commonwealth
I figured there was a way; thanks.
It's not positive value if you were intending to sell your Supercharging-enabled car to one of those limo drivers.
Thank you for your comment. I'm sorry I hadn't seen this earlier; I stopped reading the HN thread a while ago. I have added this to my article:

>It has been clarified that an about:config flag must be set for this addon’s behavior to be visible. This improves the situation considerably, but I do not think it exenorates Mozilla and I stand firm behind most of my points. The study
has also been rolled back by Mozilla, and Mozilla has issued
statements [0] to the media [1] justifying the study (no apology has been issued).

[0] https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-slipped-a-mr-robot-promo-plugin-...

[1] https://gizmodo.com/after-blowback-firefox-will-move-mr-robo...
Here's my guesses...

> Why isn't there a pedestrian bridge?

Signals that you don't really care about people walking or people with disabilities and want them to drive.

Ok, that was flippant, I realize, but the only time I've seen anyone use prefer overpasses and such is the Vegas strip and that's because it is outright hostile to walk next to or across.

> Why is there a major thoroughfare in front of a school?

Everybody is driven to school. Look at the land use around the school.
I would be interested to see results of similar studies compared across different cultures.
>while letting the autosuggestions work their surreal magic

I think that (unfortunately) gives way too much to the autosuggestions, and that the humans are doing the vast majority of the creative work.

My predictive keyboard on android offers 3 words, and if I try, I can delay the trap of falling into a loop and get a small amount of diversity in my sentences. If I had 18 words to work with, and they were specifically trained on the content of Harry Potter, that's a lot of room to exercise the kind of creativity that is still (for now) unique to humans.
Then maybe she should work from home
Because it's a FLIR (thermal) camera, which is a technology that has practically nothing in common with your phone's camera. You're comparing apples to oranges.
The fraud was clear cut, though. Bankers were treating mortgage pricing in different areas as independent, and that was the entire underpinning of CDO risk tranching. That assumption is obviously wrong, and it was obviously wrong before the crash. The reason I know that is that it was obvious to my entire class of interns at Citi in 2006 during the bank's training sessions, and we asked our lecturer how you could assume a lack of correlation in housing prices in different areas and even nationwide. If it was obvious to a group of quant interns, I don't buy that the people structuring them didn't know on some level. At best it was financially-induced blindness.
In this video[0], economist Richard Wolff talks about all the things he didn't learn studying economics at the US's most prestigious universities, because they were never mentioned. Fascinating talk. Towards the end he talks of a Spanish company run by its workers, which sounds like it has successfully transformed work for those people to something democratic, and, well, something free from what anarchists (and we all..uh 99% of us anyway) want to be free from. It sounds doable to extend that to other areas of life. Watch it! Highly enlightening ...and 'hope you can believe in' isn't that common nowadays.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbgMKclWWc
> I can see the bulletproof part - don't want criminals to be wearing it and thus forcing police to have high power rifles around to take them down

Bullet proof clothing typically covers the chest area and wearing it doesn’t mean you won’t be injured. As a police officer’s primary job is to diffuse a crisis situation, not “kill every suspected perp”, I see minimal reason a bullet proof vest on the perp would impact the police significantly.

Try getting shot, especially multiple times, wearing a bullet proof vest and you’ll understand completely why my opinion isn’t out of line.
This is awfully childish.

Anywhere you have two or more people "asserting a direct and unobstructed link between thought and action, between desires and their free fulfillment" you are going to have conflict... which means not everyone is going to be able to get and do everything and anything they want.

Notice that this has nothing to do with democracy. It's an inevitable consequence of the existence of people who want things.
> Anarchism is a political ideology that's never met the real world, like a lot of ideologies on HN and elsewhere. This might convince the random Internet reader, but it's not going to convince anyone who has studied the topic.

Although there have been some widespread and fairly comprehensive implementations of anarchism, namely the Makhnovists in the Ukraine and the Spanish Revolution in Catalonia, Aragon, Andalusia, and some parts of the Valencian Community, anarchism is more of a political tension "from where you are standing right now" than an attempt to conquer a territory to establish anarchism. That should follow from the name itself.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-th...

The Situationist movement had some enduring effect on French culture from the first-person perspective. (Situationism is not anarchist, but it is libertarian and communist). The Spanish revolution less so, because it was followed by General Franco's rule.
my understanding is that the issue is that the full Hessian of the loss is too expensive to compute at each step for the relative size of the increase in learning speed
The statistics are useless in this case. Subjectively the chance is perceived 50/50: one is telling the truth, another is lying.
I really think there should be a .text TLD.

That would be great -- I'm imagining a whole TLD full of sites like http://text.npr.org and http://lite.cnn.io/en.
> You could argue technicalities for either, but semantically, it's off by default.

That’s a very dangerous type of justification there, not one I expected someone at Mozilla to get that wrong.
Can digital good replace physical goods?
For the California/bay area folks there is a tram from Silver Lake to Lake Agnew over in the Eastern Sierra (near june lake) that has a max of about a 105% grade. Sadly, you can't ride it but you can hike up parts and around the station at the top. Even trying to climb up is quite a challenge. Its quite amazing. Built in 1915 to support construction/operation of the Lake Agnew and Gem Lake dams. I suggest going up in the fall when the aspen are changing color.
Unfortunately, it does not really work.

* The denser the area, the slower the transportation (by any mean).

* People in dense areas spend more time commuting than people in sparse areas.

* When you upgrade the infrastructure making transportation faster, people move farther, keeping their commuting time constant.

It's just that packing people around the same area is not a very good idea, whichever way you do it; there is no true solution to the problems it causes.
> as I'm using FB comments

[Smacks forehead.] That definitely explains why it looked so much like FB comments. That's a neat approach. FB moderation handles spam and blatant trolls.

Next layer moderation - promoting insightful content / burying lazy content - was more what I was thinking of originally. But that is such a tough problem here. Maybe unsolvable with comments on something so sparse as, well, literally everything online. Wikipedia has a whole (sometimes hyper vigilant) army of volunteers, and that's a tiny subset of this problem.

Hmm, yeah, I think you're probably at least at the local optimum with FB stopping spam and trolls. Good stuff.
Post more Hackaday articles here.
Check this out: https://github.com/sol-prog

Solarian programmer seems to be a talented C++ coder.

Thanks for the projects.

The Docker post was a niche thing. There's other posts for getting a system running with Clang 5 on other platforms: https://solarianprogrammer.com/2017/12/13/linux-wsl-install-.... Another cool post about C++17 and raspberry pi a few days earlier: https://solarianprogrammer.com/2017/12/08/raspberry-pi-raspb...

Sure, I wouldn't use Clang in a Docker container (heh). But there are some points. If building from LLVM+Clang from source, installing files/headers and such can mess up systems royally. One docker container could theoretically test drive clang everywhere without mucking up a system.
You’re still generalising your prejudice across a whole gender. You talk about prejudice while exhibiting the very quality. I see how it’s difficult for you but don’t project your difficulties on others.
As a scientist myself, I don't care nearly as much about possibility as I do about probability.

At present and without extraordinary evidence to the contrary, I see human error as vastly more probably than "inertialess technology".
It's not that they need less sleep, it's that they don't sleep as well as they did in earlier years.
If she is getting only 4.5 hours of sleep, the best use of her time on the train on the way to work is to sleep, not drink tea and chit-chat.
its slow going, but that's what i'm trying to do with heropunch[0]. our goal is to create a p2p application platform using a handful of libre technologies: secure scuttlebutt, ipfs, lxc, enlightenment foundation libraries, rust, and elixir.

[1]: https://www.heropunch.io
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callahad 4 hours ago [-]

Even if the add-on is "enabled," it's doesn't initialize itself unless a specific about:config value is also manually flipped

Attack surface 101 / reason nobody else does this
Feasibility for the individual is a matter of being able to afford meat that is currently 50 - 100% more expensive per comparable cuts.

Feasibility for society is complex.
Where I live, grass fed cattle is mostly grown on short term leased land. Sellers and long term speculators of farmable land make cash on its interim usage for cattle. Non-feasible.

In Australia and NZ, there are huge chunks of the country suitable for raising livestock, not suitable for land development or plant farming. There's more livestock than people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50MbPACZF-4
Australian outback cattle farmers mustering with helicopters
The root cause (whether nature or nurture) seems to be a lack of empathy.

Could you detect empathetic capabilities with fMRI? If deficient, would you mandate treatment? Besides therapy, is there a treatment?
Sure, but their closest marine neighbor is also very hard on drugs and drugs dealers (Japan).
I'm aware of anarchism's role in the Spanish Revolution, but I'm not sure what we can really say about that experience. It lasted a very short time, mostly due to factors outside of its control, but also because it was part of an unstable political front with the communists and other liberals. How much of that instability was due to anarchism itself? It's difficult to say.

Don't mean to sound anti-anarchism, because I understand the sentiment. Thanks for more examples. Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_anarchism
FTA:

>The teen was crossing from the junior high Monday about 8:30 p.m. when a southbound car struck him

This didn't happen during normal business hours.
It's always crazy to see HN and Drudge link to the same article.
I really doubt you will leave, at least for this particular reason. Maybe you'll find a job elsewhere, or find another good reason, but I think you understand intuitively that the chance of being shot, even in the US, is lower than the chance that you will die in a car accident. Our founders were way more concerned about state tyranny (the Crown in their case) than private crime, and I would guess that they still would be, even after being shown what an AR-15 can do. I wouldn't dismiss their conclusions too quickly.
Presumably because positive reviews cause people to buy products, they don't necessarily blame Amazon if they turn out to be bad, nor do they return them.
The key is to never buy from an FBA seller. Only buy from Amazon.com as the seller.
Some people think Mozilla is different than the other browser makers, that it protects the internet in some way.

Personally I don't see how Mozilla could have any impact on important decisions about internet governance, DRM, etc. with such a small marketshare, and I believe the internet would have turned out the same even if Mozilla had never existed. I can't think of a single case in which Mozilla prevented some standard from being adopted when Microsoft and Google wanted it to happen.

In any case, Mozilla differentiated itself because of that image, and that was one of a small number of reasons people stuck with Firefox through the past several years. I bet a lot of those people are now thinking that they might as well use Chrome because Mozilla is the same as every other commercial vendor.
As mentioned by make3 and ajuc, this is not a pure creation of machine learning. It's a human-algorithm collaboration.

Everything that's interesting about this is probably the work of human judgment to maintain a sense of high-level salience & meaning in the story.
The Manga Guide to Microprocessors
Every good one already has one
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