skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a question of how much violence. All dispute resolutions involve some form of it, telling one person they're not going to get what they want is absolutely a form of violence. But the violence needs to be managed, legible, and appropriate. Slavery regimes are best eliminated through compensation of the owners. The progress difference between the Dominican Republic and Haiti is directly attributable to the fact that while the Dominican Republic saw a managed transition away from slavery, Haiti saw the entire economy crumble in a revolution modeled after the French one.

It's where you start thinking "this needs to be solved, right now," that leads to senseless, irrational violence. Hang back, spend some time understanding the problem, its economics, its politics. Take action to remove the worst excesses and slowly dig the problem out in detail. There's way more historical examples of well-meaning zealotry causing more problems than it solves than there are examples of zealotry preventing bigger problems from coming to pass.
> Booting someone like Jones from Facebook or YouTube altogether could easily turn him into a martyr among his paranoid fans.

This would be significantly less of a problem if he didn't somehow have a legion of paranoid fans ready to consider him a martyr. Wonder how they got there.

This article understates Jones' Sandy Hook activities, by the way: the parents of one of the victims have moved seven times because their address keeps getting published to those paranoid fans, and they now live hundreds of miles from their child's grave. In response to the lawsuit, Jones has claimed that the parents are public figures because of their involvement in gun control politics, so he can say what he likes about them to those paranoid fans.
Placing asteroid mining in the farthest category seems a bit misplaced to me. If even politicians started to lay down law for space ownership, it can't be that uncertain or far fetched.
“Keep Austin Weird” (but not that weird)
That sounds very strange; was it queens day or something else special?
I suppose that question would require a bit of insight into how you define "affect" and a deeper inquiry into what my "real" politics currently are, in order to draw a meaningful contrast-wouldn't it?

As asked-I'm not particularly sure I'm open to arbitrarily unloading all of that context-and reduce it all down to a simplified yes or no.
""Debate"" needs to have a minimum legitimacy requirement to be taken seriously. You can't just make up a string of provably false stuff and use it as a pretext for harassment, Sandy Hook passim.
If you read moralizing into my statement that says something about you. Yes, there is conflict today just as there was conflict in the past. I'm just telling you, you can't understand history without understanding that conflict as anything but normal.

But I'm sure you have your reasons for approaching history- and today's issues, for that matter- the way you do.
And it's something like 10^35 hellabits / mm³, so we have a ways to go.
They wouldn't have to be the arbitrators if there was a free market for social networking with different instances that set their own rules.

The real issue is that Facebook is a publisher only when it benefits them, and a dumb pipe all other times. Either regulate it like a phone company, and force free speech on the platform, or force interoperability so Facebook alternatives can have a level playing field.
Give positive references for developers who I know are crap because they are nice guys and I feel sorry for them.
Found your claim astonishing, so googled it.

Looks like this is not true, at least the Ob river (3,650 km) and the Yenisei river (3,438 km) are major rivers flowing from South to North (Both top 10 rivers).

So not sure where you did get that piece about the Nile from.
Yup. 4/20 made me realize how much I use the new type-ahead feature on the dashboard. Not sure it's even worth using icons with so many services being offered.
I read that as "CLI tool ... accidentally committed to a Git repo," as in the CLI tool itself committed to a Git repo by accident, and that the CLI tool finds secrets.

Title as of my reading was "CLI tool that finds secrets accidentally committed to a Git repo (2017)".
arguably having infowars be high up on the "most downloaded" podcast list would be worse. especially if they categorize themselves as news or politics instead of entertainment.
All-Optical Machine Learning Using Diffractive Deep Neural Networks [pdf]
In a lot of ways, the answer is "because the big ones are terrible for most users".
Who is the "we" that's trying to get rid of "hate speech"? I'm against censorship of ideas *period". The problem with censorship is that even if started with the best of intentions, it ends up being plain suppression of whatever ideas are inconvenient for the censors. It's been that way throughout history. Censorship is always being justified as being done in the name of someone's safey.

I take it you're the kind of person who thinks a good community is one free of ideas that make you uncomfortable.
Ask HN: Any startup standing against Amazon?
More specifically, is there a challenger in USA against Amazon? While I'm sure Amazon people have worked hard to earn this stature, I hate monopolies (AMZN is 48% of retail business). Probably big corporates have already accepted their second rate position against this Goliath but is there any David still in making or worth supporting?
>> I’ll illustrate this by examples in Julia, using the conjugate gradient method for positive (semi)definite linear systems as guinea pig

Which links to a paper that says "An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain".
I mean, I understand that's the kind of things you use Julia for, but as a dumb programmer, I see the article title, want to read, but I'm a bit thrown off by that kind of things.

I scrolled a bit through the article and at the beginning I had the same impression other commenters had here. I just see a few loops like in any modern lanaguage that accepts iterables [for element in iterable], and I'm quite confused until I reach the end.

Not really dramatic, but I just wanted to mention it, since the poster seems to be the author, I feel the title, introduction to the topic, point of the article, examples, etc, could be made clearer/improved for the general audience. Or maybe I'm just the wrong audience. Anyway.
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I couldn't access that the article...are they saying that people who work for Amazon paid no income tax?
I think there's a pretty clear distinction between ideas that are commonly seen as wrong-as-in-factually-incorrect that need to be protected for the sake of the advancement of ideas, like the earth moving around the sun, and ideas that are commonly seen as wrong-as-in-harmful, like the idea that the parents of the Sandy Hook victims are paid actors and deserve harassment and stalking.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg and co would not agree with you.
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> Only extremists on the right will be censored.

This is obviously not true. Apple has had a ridiculous "no politics" policy on the App Store for years, censoring the anti-war left.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/538kan/apple-just...
Came here to say this! I've told this parable of the duck before, but I did not know the origin of the story... "get that duck out of there please otherwise looks OK"
SPOILER: AWS inspector has a magnifying glass icon[1], but the correct answer in the quiz is incorrectly marked as "some boxes"

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/inspector/
Hi. What you're describing is a public market much like those that were in Andalus and also in use by the Greeks and for the reasons mentioned on the GitHub page this is what led to the prosperity of those societies. I have a unique set of skills when it comes to Strategy, process and narrative. Soft skills basically. I would love to get involved or at least have a chat with the founders of how I may be able to help. If the founders are reading this, please tell me how I can get on touch.
Researchers are looking into this, this field as a whole is supposed to be called "spintronics".
Not sure in which way e.g. the telephone or lightbulb looked utopian at the time. Most inventions had similar predecessors.

Perhaps you're thinking of social inventions like the social security nets in western Europe - I'm not as good in their history.
Not sure how this can't work, it's just audio jamming, same as for EM waves.

You just need to broadcast sufficient noise to cover the signal, i.e. the S:N ratio is such that the receiver (crisp packet, microphone, etc.) can no longer see the signal above the noise floor. Now, this might mean broadcasting a loud noise signal, which could overwhelm your (or other friendly) receivers (ears, etc.) so optimal placement of the jamming noise source becomes an issue.

Generally, you want it closer to the threat than you, so that distance attenuation keeps it bearable for you but still jams possible recording devices. Or, introduce high bandwidth noise vibrations into the surfaces of the area you are in, such as windows or walls. Anyway, it's very possible and in use today in secure facilities that must be protected from audio eavesdropping.
Economic evaluation–randomized controlled trial: reducing office worker sitting
Personally I don’t think adults need their world wrapped in disclaimers, warnings, and ratings. Particularly when the same become a kind of censorship, like how all DRUDGE tweets come up moderated as sensitive on Twitter.
Getting a deposit notification from my bank every other Friday works for me.
Might require another constitutional amendment.
It's a common misunderstanding. I've heard this "fun fact" mentioned in grade school.
So, what is your point ? Is it correct to punish bad actors but not if it could have a possible political aspect to it?

I mean party leaders/ministers are put in jail when they do illegal things(though all of them complain it is a political attack), the point should be the facts, who was harmed and how to punish and prevent it to happen again if possible.
How could you tell the IQ of people you were working with? I'm struggling to see how you could arrive at this conclusion unless you've 1) worked with an inordinate number of both high IQ individuals, who 2) explicitly mentioned their IQ scores to you.

Personal hypotheses such as this one spread like wildfire online because they're easy to state, play to a narrative and are extremely difficult to disprove. They're stated confidently while skipping over so many little gaps - for example, I don't see anything obvious about how high IQ individuals would stop trying to explain things to low IQ individuals. It makes sense as a heuristic for explaining the behavior of one particular individual who is perhaps a misanthrope or has little patience. But it's very poorly generalizable.
Do you care at all about free speech? You are willing kill this beautiful freedom we have for that?
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There are some times I wish I had gone with this option... would have made a lot of life so much easier than the "but you're so smart, how come you're having trouble with ______?"

Wow that sounds whiny but true.
> extremist SPLC

No.
Darwin actually articulates a much-more-precise law (which serves as a cornerstone of his whole book). I've argued in my papers that the KDL is in fact an infinite-graph-theoretical statement (remarkable because infinite graph theory was not a mainstream "thing" until well after Darwin).

Let G be the graph of all organisms (past, present and future), with an edge directed from u to v if and only if u is a biological parent of v. The spirit of the KDL is: "G does not contain any infinite directed path consisting entirely of vertices with only one parent". Or equivalently: "Every infinite directed path in G necessarily contains a vertex with two parents."

For its time, the above statement is astonishingly mathematically sophisticated. If anything, Darwin is still greatly underrated.
Yeah, it was a pretty good article with good ideas. But Facebook and Google can't do everything about this issue. The fear and anger which give rise to conspiracy theories are part of being human. We've always been a violent, deceitful species. We have to find ways to acknowledge who we are and deal with it better than we have been. We can't just censor the madness and pretend it doesn't exist. The madness will break out in uncontrolled ways.
MoviePass keeps plan at $10, but limits subscribers to three movies a month
this was one of the more difficult quizzes I have taken in recent memory, and I use AWS every single day. 5/20
And active!

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/paul-mccartney...

(he's released 2 new singles in June from his upcoming solo album)
I need karma to prove my Hacker News account on Keybase
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Yeah, this service is going to disappear. They might have a few months of runway left, getting picked up by a few investments, but I don't see them surviving this downfall.
Would global distribution of signed canaries be a decent use case for a blockchain sort of technology?
ehh, i'm thinking more colbert report's take on conservative tv. john definitely has the wacky "what will he say next" down, but it's not a satire of aj. i'm looking more for someone who speaks like aj does, about conspiracies as dumb if not dumber than gay frogs.
Or to put it another way, Amazon grew by taking margin from retailers and giving it back to customers. Amazon is successful not because they underpay employees or evade local sales taxes, but because the do a better job at retail than most retailers do.

If you're inviting me to take part in an exercise to return margin to the retailers from the consumers, I'll politely decline participation in this farce.
Ask HN: Which organizations made tons of business by capitalizing GDPR?
Given that national security letters originate from the patriot act, I presume the consequences are grave. Certainly, jail time seems probable.
In general, if a court says do X, and you refuse, that is contempt of court. The court can then decide to fine you, and put you in jail until you are willing to comply.

Given gag-orders, and waving the word 'national security'. I expect the court proceeding dealing with your arrest / punishment would be sealed.

Heck, if certain things are marked as US government secrets and you publish them, that is treason which can be punished by death.
In general, I would not expect questions around expect people to remember details about a logo just from a name to work very well. People in general can't do that even with extremely famous logos: https://www.signs.com/branded-in-memory/ Nor can they generally even draw a bike, with physical necessity available to guide them: http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html

However, it is absolutely a reasonable request of a logo that you be able to go from logo to designated product, and while quizzing about details like "which horizontal pole is higher" is definitely a bit of an ask, you should still see a lot of people getting that right from just "feeling" which seems right.
You can export/import the list of users you follow, but the people who follow you will have to re-follow you manually
That’s pretty terrible.
With my old audio set up I had about a 12ms delay from talking into a microphone and being able to hear myself in headphones.

It screwed me up so much from the delay that I had to take my headphones off when recording otherwise I couldn't put together a sentence.
I always thought it should have become E3CS. I recall there's some old lisp manual that followed this kind of naming scheme.
The PowerPC 600 series, part 1: Introduction
Speaking of AWS, shouldn't they also hold a poll on naming? I've seen some saner alternatives in the wild:

https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english.
There are businesses built on top of local economies, e.g. Atalanda in Germany: https://atalanda.com/ (I'm not affiliated, but I know people who work there.)

They partner up with local businesses for the goods and bike courier services for the delivery.
Read through the dead comments here on this topic. Now tell me censorship isn't political.
I use whatever I have to use.

If I have the luxury of choosing my own, I generally prefer to use a tenkeyless, backlit, Cherry MX Blue. Brand doesn't matter much.

I have been looking longingly at keyboard.io's Model 01 for some time, but I'm unlikely to spend so much money without a test drive first.
MoviePass will limit users to just three movies a month starting on August 15th
Nobody ever said you should always choose persistence, just that in the absence of a better plan, persistence will work.
CRDT's looks interesting and are new enough, that there will be more to learn about them. Seems like an important component in distributed systems (almost all new systems)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
GPG Sync v0.2: keeping PGP keys in sync across entire organizations
Yes, I saw him live last year, he was great :) But it would be daft to think his recent works come anywhere near the importance of what he did in the sixties
How Google Is Entering the Cryptocurrency Space
You are drawing conclusions from a false premise.

They never declared that if the warrant canary dies they can no longer be trusted in anything they say or do ever again.

We know exactly what they can and cannot legally say or do once an NSL has been served. Therefore we also know that they cannot be legally compelled to make false statements.
4/20 not bad !
I sense some sarcasm.

Do you want it to be symmetric? Then it would not be the thing we know as racism.

Again, this isn't an abstract rule of a game, it does not get its validity from applying the same way to everyone. Racism in our society doesn't apply the same way to everyone, that's the whole point.
Hong Kong customs using AI to track down counterfeit goods
The most common thing I can think of is putting everything in IO/ST, also known as "C++ in Haskell".
Can you point to any reference with statements on deprecating or otherwise working around CAP concerns?
> Would global distribution of signed canaries be a decent use case for a blockchain sort of technology?

No. There is no need to add an economic element. You could post a bunch of PGP-signed messages, but even that’s excessive.
PWC about the data democratisation in business
A couple of motivational / self-help people I have read before come from pretty much exactly this formula.

I'd like to say I listened to them and applied their ideas systematically, but then the failure to do so is one of the System 1 biases that they all mention... sigh.
Even if the title was "AWS icons are awesome" my results would have been the same
The main arguments of the article about why a ban would be needed are about using the technology for oppression by some local government. If they'd like to follow the suggestions of this article, they can simply voluntarily choose to abstain from using it; but if they don't choose to do so, then the rest of the world banning the technology won't make a difference.
The majority of people may not be professional researchers, but the Web certainly has encouraged amateur research, even on seemingly frivolous topics. There are countless wikis detailing every single character and place in movies, cartoons, and video games. Before the Web, this would have required physical conferences, actual paper publications, and so on. Some of this of course existed (think SF conventions and fanzines) but on a much smaller scale.
Won't change anything.
Do you really think that InfoWars listeners really use Apple as their only point of exposure.

Also a little hypocritical of Apple, they have some very inflammatory/deceptive podcasts run by some pretty nasty people, but because they aren't InfoWars it's ok.

Apple is not virtuous, nor will they ever be, regardless of what they want you to think.
I don't think banning anything provocative is a good strategy anymore. If anything, the triumph of Internet-logic over mainstream logic has involved a wide variety of people being willing to go out of their way to find provocative content.

In a lot of ways, the broad mainstream seems like and often is bland, feel-good propaganda of its own - a product of both the cold war and media consolidation.

Outrageous and destructive theories like Antivax or climate-change-denial circulate because it's easy for their proponents to point at an apparent group-think in the mainstream. Banning everything controversial out of a concern for self-defense rather than truth just maintains this situation. Now that that crazy and not-that-crazy dissent has a foothold, actually arguing with it is the only way to deal with these problem theories. Of course, that also involves confronting real, serious problems in our society, which might be relegating things to an ever-growing bin is desired by the mainstream.

I mean, Jones' most common rant about "gay frogs" is a bizarro-mirror distorted version of a serious chemical pollution problem, estrogen analogue pollution, see;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoestrogen
I think I only made 7/20 from guessing.
It’s also factually true that human violence has enabled certain bloodlines the opportunity to advance, while hindering others.

I’m leery of people who cite one scientific data point alone. It smells like an appeal to authority. And you’re throwing up a strawman with your rhetoric about blocking a communist podcast.

Alex Jones himself has said in court it’s an act and he’s just an entertainer. Sometimes the act gets old and shows get canceled. Is that censorship?

In this case the show isn’t even canceled. Just removed from one of dozens of podcast directories. It’s still findable at the source. Your complaint is really about the creation of a slight inconvenience. There’s no real censorship here.
Agree. If I had to explain Usenet succinctly to someone who had never seen it, i'd just say, "a decentralized Reddit."
Count me among the slow thinkers.

So, how well do you slow thinkers do on interviews. How do you prepare? I'm currently prepping for an interview with one of the larger, popular internet companies. The prepping is going well as far as remembering some of the CS[0] stuff I don't directly use day to day, but I worry that I won't get the solutions fast enough in an interview session.

I'm a respected developer where I work. My coleagues enjoy working with me and like the solutions I come up with. QA rarely has to send bugs back to me[1]. My technical boss, who I think is brilliant, respsects my solutions and generally never needs to change anything. When I am stuck, it's easy for me to ask for help. I say all this because I'm just not sure if it will come across during the interview process because I tend to mull things over a while.

[0] My degree is Computer Engineering so I didn't have as much exposure to CS material to begin with that, well, CS grads would have.

[1] I work with a really cool QA guy. I tell him I like to make him work for those bugs. We get along great and I actually engage with him frequently when I'm building my unit tests.
I hop between several accounts daily and its a cumbersome process.
I'd agree with you if the point of the survey was to collect information, but I think the structure of the survey makes it pretty clear that this isn't the intent.

Just from my own experience, I have used the overwhelming majority of these services and even worked at Amazon for several years and I could not answer more than a couple of those questions. The icons are so divorced from any real world meaning that when I make systems diagrams in Lucid Charts I use the AWS icons to represent abstract systems rather than the real AWS-specific meaning.
Except it doesn’t ...

Compare Rationality Quotient to Intelligence Quotient. You’d think they relate but they don’t ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/the-differ...

This is without considering give-a-f??k quotient, the most important of all, and that by which every test is confounded.