skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment only seems to reinforce the point that

> This probably shows how difficult it was even then to get something published under your own name as a woman

Or are you suggesting that it was not difficult for a woman to publish under her name, only that it was not customary to do so? Can you point to some supporting examples of this, if so?

> (It's still in use in more formal / old-fashioned contexts.)

formal / old-fashioned / misogynistic contexts.
What bothers me most about it is the lack of a checksum, which is something Go modules support. I think that’s a mandatory feature to prevent certain attack vectors. Other than that, I have no problem with this approach.
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Well, they are all Europeans. I am not denying that racism existed at the time, but hardly any non-white person lived in Europe back then. (Even nowadays in most European countries the percentage of non-white people is so low that, in a group of 30, finding none is well within statistical error).
I don't think you should get to walk back your shitty comments by claiming you were just joking the whole time. Based on this guy's past behavior, I don't think anyone is giving him the benefit of the doubt here either.
Sure, I get where you're coming from, and I'm not even positive I disagree with your underlying stance. I do think "getting out of some speeding tickets" is pretty tame on the list of heinous crimes one could appear to condone. The OP is clearly citing wild stories their dad has told them about escaping one's (his?) past and then putting forth their own lament for the erosion of anonymity and deniability.

The fact is, the original poster wrote:

> I hope more of this AI stuff takes off and we get some of that deniability anonymity back. I truly do think the Internet was an awesome landscape when people could express themselves openly and feel they were truly anonymous.

which you paraphrased as:

> "I'm glad I'm able to create a more believable fake identity online so I can commit crimes and not get busted!"

and

> "I want to be able to create a fake identity online... in order to evade the law while I commit crimes, or escape the law after my past crimes."

which is clearly a hyperbolic extension of the original argument. Also, the only person I see literally ascribing this intent to the OP is you, so I can only assume you are arguing in bad faith.
That is one wide-ranging, apparently well-researched article. Not a fan of the Economist but I think I need to revisit my prejudice. Thank you.
Redundancy. It ultimately equates with security -- including national security.

A reason we keep the older water navigation beacons active.

These people in DC, many of them seem to have absolutely no technological comprehension. Nor basic systems understanding.

Not just in technology, but in accounting, agriculture -- essentially all sustaining human endeavors: You create and foster and innovate redundancies.

Because shit breaks. Nature is "fickle". People are selfish. And you want to survive these things.

Finally, when you do transition to newer systems (and hopefully, newer redundancies), you want to have an orderly wind-down and transition.

Something the Washington buffoons also ignore, these days. For people who claim to espouse "business", they demonstrate surprisingly little respect for a predictable, planful business -- or other -- environment.

Yes, there are always surprises -- including the inherent surprises of discovery and disruption.

But, it'd be nice to leave businesses and agencies capacity to focus on these, instead of endlessly jerking them around with whiplash policy changes and politically motivated jack-in-the-box initiatives.
The most common measure of size of government is spending as a percent of GDP.

Some examples Finland 56% of GPD

Afghanistan 12%

I don't buy your contention that size of government is directly proportional to tyranny and opression.
This runs into the paradox of tolerance[1]. Net, when the things being censored are say, advocating for genocide, the harm they can lead to is much greater than not having people advocating for genocide.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The things I have learnt from Haskell

1. Functors, Monads, Applicative Functors, Monoids are extremely good design patterns, and to me seems like at some point you invent approximations of them if you're not using them

2. Raw recursion should be eschewed in favour of recursive schemes or atleast do folds

3. If Math is the language of clear thought, those closest to it like Haskell ought to be used where clarity is required which is pretty much everywhere in software

4. Composable software has to be based on something more concrete but one-time feel good look good pieces that fit together but a handful of cases, and if a language doesn't back it up with some sort of math structure, then the language is no good. That is why I think Category Theory's place in Haskell as something akin to a first class citizen is extremely important

Where do I use Haskell?

1. When I am not allowed to code in Haskell which is pretty much 99 percent of my projects, I re-do critical pieces in Haskell but Haskell code acts as a clear documentation and my go-to when trouble brews for trouble-shooting

2. The monadic abstractions are the best tools in my tool-set and I use them abundantly and it has paid off quite a bit

Haskell and the Future of software

1. Haskell is extremely difficult and since my first contact with Haskell almost 10 years ago, I've seen people turn away from it because of it seemed too complicated.

2. For those you thinking I am a nut for thinking that this sort of mentality spells doom for the future of software devs remember this, what is the general attitude of the public towards our best tool at modelling reality aka Math? Is it a good one? Heck half of the programming community is still at odds with Math. While you may argue that not everybody needs math, I argue the fact that everybody has this we-don't-need math mentality is the reason a many a things that should have been automated haven't been automated , and loads of people have these bs jobs where all they do is stitch together apis and then call it a day and go home and think they've accomplished something

3. My point: The current average relationship that devs have towards a language like Haskell and it's future descendents is/will be a metric of the state of software now and in the future.
What are the use-cases for such a server? It does not look good for desktop use.
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Surely there's a good argument for non-discriminatory digital payments too, given how much of an advantage easier payments confers.
Trying to prevent people from arguing for an evil (E) never stops E long term. It should be fought with reason and counter-arguments, not with silencing the speaker. Suppressing the speaker can indicate, especially to those wavering, that there are no reasonable counter-arguments and there must be something true in the message that controlling powers are trying to suppress.

There are different modes: I do not have to give someone I strongly dislike the freedom to preach at my home. However, if I have a media content distribution business, and allow creators freedom to create their own message I should also tolerate content that I personally dislike; otherwise I risk my business to morph from content distribution into society manipulation. "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend your right to say it". Patreon is wrong. My 2c.
As an aside...

>the computers are doing what? Looking at a variety of information and judging what will happen

Probably but not necessarily. That code which is explicitly understood and written explicitly to weigh information to choose outcomes certainly is.

But were complex neural networks are extensively involved, they become a black box. In markets where gains could be maximized by cooperation, those systems that find ways to cooperate with other systems outside their organization will eventually be chosen and become the dominant. Chosen purely from their ability to get better results.

Even if completely isolated, signaling is not impossible. A straight forward technique would be to use transactions to communicate in the same way bridge players do.

So potentially software could outperform humans for at least two reasons: better and faster analysis of data. But also doing things humans are unable.
It's fascinating how strongly we believe that now == how things should be. Humans have been using gold as a currency for thousands of years, and yet nowadays everyone seems to believe that nothing but state-backed paper can work as such - and anyone who wants (as you said) an apolitical currency is just weird.
You're not wrong.

Traditionally publishers of books and media have always favored the ruling class (in this case, the white man), and they vehemently protect their "right" to do so.

I guess my major issue is that, finally, a platform comes along where everybody can say their part (PoC, LGBTQ, women, conservatives, communists, fascists, etc etc) and everyone is, to some extent, able to be heard. We finally have a democratization of speech. We can live without gatekeepers and without forcing others into silence, if we choose to.

I don't want to see that slip away in a spiteful jab at the ruling class. But then again, I am a white man, so maybe your comparison is fair and I should shut the hell up =]. I probably won't, though, and I will probably continue to argue that everyone should have a voice even if it does benefit myself and the rest of the ruling class.
Looks like someone saw it coming decades ago.
> the country was also a lot poorer back then.

So was the rest of the world, especially for those not in power.

> U.S. still attracted plenty of "dirt-poor and ugly" immigrants from all over the Western world

True, but also many folks' options weren't exactly great in comparison.

> Can't really say the same about "big-government" countries at a similar level of wealth today.

Germany, the Scandinavian countries for instance is an often-desired place for immigrants. The US is still a very desirable place for immigrants, even though the size of the government has grown.
You see officer, I did all that hate speech _ironically_
The good ole identify the ovals, rectangles and triangles of the subject, draw and color them, and in this case, vary shading to achieve the desired effect.
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Regardless of their eventual use, bitcoin fluctuates a lot, so you shouldn't trust it if you need to have the same amount of money in a year.
The danger in this point of view is that if not held to an extremely strict interpretation and substantial burden of evidence, this is indeed precisely how you end up getting eradications. The greatest irony though is that so often the people history comes to record as the 'bad guys' are the people who think they're the 'good guys' protecting society from some perceived eradication.

Think about things like the Spanish Inquisition or the Salem Witch Trials for extremely clear examples. These people didn't hate the people they were attacking. They'd just become so deluded in their own self righteousness that they thought they were saving society from immense evil. In reality though that evil existed only in their head. And while Don Quixote may have only swung at windmills, in these cases many people lost their lives for doing no wrong.

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In reality the paradox of tolerance, as it is used in common rhetoric is completely nonsensical. Popper made an extremely clear distinction between words and violence that people often ignore when appealing to his argument. When a person moves from speech to unprovoked violence, eliminate that individual from society with the greatest of urgency and severity. Until, and after, that point - tolerance thrives without condition.
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books go native on web => ability to publish and update book on your own site just like a blog => my readers engage with me => meh copyright laws held by middlemen. ;-)

you have something on your mind?
What are your thoughts on religious discrimination? As a former christian, I am well aware that being a christian is not innate. Furthermore I consider christian doctrine to be inherently discriminatory against people like me. Should it be legal for me to bar christians from my restaurant?

Of the 11 federally protected classes, religion stands out as the only one that isn't innate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group

Incidentally California prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of political activities or affiliations, which is a step further than the federal requirement: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/california-employmen...
I have in the past, the response was (paraphrasing) "the company pinky promise not to do it again so we're not going to do anything else".

One time was a "travel to X for only £Y" and when I checked the actually cost was at least double the advertised price, there was no such ticket available. Not even under limited availability.

I've seen the same thing since, but not checked if it was the same (train) company.
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I would argue that it is the law censoring me, on behalf of Apple. I think the law is wrong and unjust in this case, though.
Am I reading HN Christmas Special Edition, or is it the case recently that one cannot read any comment thread without finding "government is evil" flamefest?
Plus if you're doing a transition from RCA to digital it requires a single converter one time and you don't need to keep recharging it.

How is that different than the lightning adapter to 3.5 inch headphone jack that came with the iPhone for the first two years after they remove the headphone jack? It’s still available for $10.

The difference here would be removing all input ports and requiring that you stream everything via your wireless internet. Then you'd have to charge your television but only when you weren't watching it. Everyone would think that was a stupid design choice.

The iPhone comes with wired headphones with lightning and there are plenty of third party lightning headphones and there is the aforementioned adapter.
They said it wasnt an example of it without suggesting anything

You dont need to have an opinion or dissertation on the topic of dis/enfranchisement to make this observation
> should we get rid of net neutrality because Comcast

NN governs as though the service is a public utility. There are some businesses that are crucial for upholding FoS (they could be equated to soapboxes). Patreon is not crucial for protecting FoS, nor is YouTube.

> Especially when they have de facto monopolistic control

The important determinant is that it is not de jure.

> left vociferously condemned

The left condemned it because it was pluralist, and the left agreed with majoritarian ideologies (hence: democrats).

Furthermore, things were radically different back then. The Democrats originally supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republicans rose as the opposition. All that tu quoque proves is that times and people change.

In more practical terms: a private corporation consists of human beings, who may not want to deal with certain ideologies.
That argument looks like it was written 5 or 6 years ago, long before the modern cryptocurrency boom (and the associated rise in large-scale mining, e.g. in China). It hasn't aged well.
It's a fair tradeoff. You can't have everything.
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Libertarian silliness isn't apolitical.
For what it’s worth, all of the arguments against your choices are inadequate and don’t really wrestle with the complexity of the domain. And I suspect the authors are not considering this as though they’d be the one responsible for making these decisions for a company like Slack themselves.
The Euro Sign was designed in secrecy

From Wikipedia[0]:

> There were originally 32 proposals; these were reduced to ten candidates. These ten were put to a public survey. After the survey had narrowed the original ten proposals down to two, it was up to the European Commission to choose the final design. The other designs that were considered are not available for the public to view, nor is any information regarding the designers available for public query. The European Commission considers the process of designing to have been internal and keeps these records secret. The eventual winner was a design created by a team of four experts whose identities have not been revealed. It is assumed that the Belgian graphic designer Alain Billiet was the winner and thus the designer of the euro sign.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign
They started already a few weeks ago. But right now the calm days are starting. The next half year or more will be about people forgetting about Bitcoin.
> Would you ban her from Instagram?

Honestly I don't find free speech to be an interesting topic, so I'm not interested in continuing this. I just wanted to point out that it's possible to be so charitable that you say something naive.
Governments might be bigger, but they are a lot more limited. Indeed, we consider the Chinese and North Korean governments to be an aberration, even though they would have been considered ridiculously progressive 3000 years ago.

Also, let's not forget the 100+ million people governments still managed to kill in the 20th century, even with all those handicaps.
Not sure why you're being downvoted; this is a very reasonable question.

...and truth be told, I'm not exactly sure what I mean. But I do think that it's plain to notice that the internet tends to facilitate a style of sharing that is inconsistent with the "copyright" model of intellectual property (in addition to precluding a functioning patent system, as you point out).

It seems to me that we need to make peace with the innate tendencies of information, including the tendency of data to be copied and shared. The myth of Prometheus teaches us that this is a message deep in the species, and yet somehow governments have gotten the idea that they have the power to reverse it.

If the internet and governments clash head-to-head, of course the internet will win. The forward march of time does not yield, and especially not for something so fragile and childish as a claim to own an idea.

So I don't exactly know which notions of IP will become outdated and when, but I can visualize easily enough that some of them will at some future point.
> I am a white man, so maybe your comparison is fair and I should shut the hell up =]. I probably won't, though

The 21st century in a nutshell lol.
Ask HN: Any news about Pocket being open sourced?
It's been almost two years since Pocket was acquired by Mozilla [0]. It's still installed by default on Firefox. Does anyone have any news about the server-side part of Pocket being open-sourced? I'm asking because it would be great to eventually self-host this kind of service.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/27/mozilla-pockets-pocket-in-first-acquisition/
"This month, the site’s moderators received a complaint about Mr. Benjamin, who had risen to fame railing against diversity and feminism during the GamerGate movement in 2014. Mr. Benjamin used the N-word and anti-gay language during an interview posted to YouTube on Feb. 7, Patreon found."

If you read the transcript you can see why some may view what he said as offensive. Personally I think it was a poor choice of words and a rather unwieldy attempt at a satirical jab.

From what I've gathered, though, the uproar isn't to the fact that Mr Benjamin was kicked off but more around the ambiguity of the 'trust and safety" guidelines. Patreon claim he was kicked off for using 'hate speech', they don't say it was because of using the N-word because the N-word is littered across their site for about 50 pages of search results (https://www.patreon.com/search?q=nigger&p=50). If hate speech is the issue the definition of what that is, is apparently missing.

The uproar I believe is related to the fact that content creators can not self-police and that patreon can arbitrarily define the boundaries of acceptable speech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window). This boundary is extended to policing on 'other' platforms like Youtube or Twitter which I believe is a little ludicrous.

The finger pointing at Patreon at the moment rails the accusation that
this has nothing to do with morals and hate speech but everything to do with political bias due to its lack of specificity. I think this conflation is clear, the NYT article is peppered with the mention of political affiliations and repeatedly casts the detractors by associating them with hate movements or the political right.

Hate speech does exist, but this here seems to me to be a polarised conversation about left and right politics in America than anything else and the platforms being the next phase of this debate. Rowan Atkinson gave a talk a few years ago on hate speech in England, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3UeUnRxE0E . Notice it is a levelled critique of hateful speech and says nothing about left or right, conservative or democratic. I wish the NYT had taken a more measured and thoughtful approach in teasing this story apart and doing what good journalists do: separate the signal from the noise and tell the truth intelligently in the language of the everyday man and woman and not adding to the confusion.

For a bit of context, I'm British and black and we have our own share of problems trying to deal fairly with 'hate speech'.

- "Man guilty of hate crime for filming pug's 'Nazi salutes'" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-43478925

- "Teenager faces prosecution for calling Scientology 'cult'" - https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/may/20/1

- "Gay horse jibe" - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4196447/Arrest-for-g...

It's difficult, but let's not pretend for a second that Patreon dealt with this fairly and transparently. Let's not pretend either that they are deserving of our custom because of their moral virtue.
I also really enjoy board spots in general, and I find there seems to be something unique about them that attracts introverts like myself, even though snowboard/board-sport culture can sometimes be a bit "bro-ey". I often find myself acting more extroverted and easily making friends while snowboarding/surfing/skateboarding.

I think it has to do with the simplicity, independent nature of board sports, and the self-reliant DIY attitude. There actually seems to be a lot of parallels to hacker culture, which is what I think makes it really unique when compared to other sports.

I'd really encourage others to try them, as they are a great way to get out of the tech bubble, make friends, and be active. They really aren't all that difficult to get started with. The learning curve is steep but short, and for the most part they aren't all that expensive.
> we cannot enforce decentralization

Sure we can, it's called antitrust law.
In my understanding, humor is surprise.

The article talks about wit because the article is an excerpt from a book on wit. Maybe that section was not fit to be an article with such a specific title?
It was simply the way a married French woman would be addressed at the time

Not just in France, and not just in centuries past. I've met women in the United States, England, and Austria who refer to themselves as Mrs. husbands_first_name husbands_last_name.

It's formal. It's not insulting. You can see it commonly in 19th- and early 20th-century literature.

Several of the Christmas cards my wife received this year were addressed that way, plus "and family."
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