skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm addressing point 1:

> John Milton, Thomas Paine, and John Stuart Mill all made the point (in various ways) that every time you stop someone from saying or publishing an idea, you are also preventing others who want to hear or read that idea from doing so.

But no one who wants to hear or read racism is prevented from doing so — they just can't do it on Patreon. The parent's concept of free speech is fully compatible with this point, specifically because alternatives exist (and will always exist, given liberal enough laws protecting freedom of speech).
> The comment that it was customary to use a husband's name preceded by Mme. thus does not negate this original claim, if anything it reinforces it.

We don't have anything to support or negate the idea of whether a French women could have published in her own name if she was single, or if she was married and addressed herself in a non-customary way.

We just don't and the conversation never went that direction. This is in your interest to understand alone but in a conversation where nobody has provided anything. As such it will be impossible for anyone to prove or disprove your assertions, and may have to be your own area of research, alone.
Let this be solved in userland through compilers, like everyone already does today. The stubbornness from current node maintainers on this subject is astounding. Years of feedback, like you see in this thread, ‘but-what-if’ and ‘you-dont-get-it’ handwaved away.
But in this case, they're banning the people coming for us...
> I don't think it's widely used.

You may wish to look at this: http://site.icu-project.org/#TOC-Who-Uses-ICU-
Show HN: Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
In your example it's called service teams, but where do those services are running? OP said AWS too expensive so do it yourself, your example doesn't describe what OP is asking for: DC infra, managed / rented servers same for networking / storage.
If an allied country is mad keen on military spending and demonstrating their power while you aren’t, why would you spend on your military?

Could this be a factor in how other countries operate?
> Largely because the opposition did exactly that: they started deplatforming and attempting to more coercively prevent right wing views from speaking. Deplatforming grew in popularity around 2013 or 2014. Students at Brown shut down Ray Kelly's speech in 2014 [1]. We did prevent these groups from going out into the sunlight. That gave them the chance to grow in the shadows.

I'm not a fan of de-platforming, but there's pretty decent evidence that it can be effective [1]. I'm aware of no empirical data supporting the notion that it is counter-productive. That being said, it's certainly a theoretical possibility. It could be the case that exposing ideas to the light of day robs them of their power. But then, why are conspiracy theories so persistent? Why was Alex Jones so successful, in spite of the unbelivably simplistic and falsifiable lies he was telling?

I see almost zero evidence that sunlight acts as a disinfectant for ideas that appeal to people's preconceptions, and a lot of evidence that the modern left's tactics of shaming and de-platforming are actually the most effective ways to change culture and minds. To be clear, I don't like those tactics. I think that, in the very long run, they are probably harmful. But it is hard to seriously deny their efficacy.

> Also, with regards to Trump, I largely see his election as happening despite his association with the alt right rather than because of it. It's a big liability not just for him, but the Republican party. Trump's biggest advantage wasn't anything to do with him, but the fact that Democrats had alienated manyc centrists in the leadup to the election, and fielded a candidate that lacked the enthusiasm to rally their base.

I think that's part of it. Another part of it is that Trump saw through the stalemate stable equilibrium of left/right politics in the US. He correctly surmised that there was a middle path, that activated ethnic and nationalistic identities of the right, while simultaneously stoking economic anxiety traditionally associated with the left, to form a coalition that had unanticipated electoral power.

1. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjbp9d/do-social-...
Once you get the hotkey driven workflow and the, personally amazing, non-overlapping windows it's super fast to use. I'm much faster of an artist in Blender than 3ds Max or Maya. I do admit that it took awhile to learn, but since I've been using Blender which is since before they went open-source, I became accustomed to some of it's unique features.

I will admit somethings are horrible in the UI, like a hotkey available but not a menu item. Or the Keyframe Type being in the Timeline but only viewable in the Dopesheet. (I argued with the developer to no avail.) But the idea of the interface, with non overlapping windows just works.
News organizations used to be much more interested in presenting the “other” side. Sometimes referring to outsider writings when they felt their own biases prevented them from doing justice to the ideas they disagreed with.

My favorite example is Edward R. Murrow giving an entire episode to McCarthy (unedited) to explain why he felt black listing communists was necessary.

Letters to the editor are vestigial examples of this lost chivalry.
Is that because of CPUs that are only available at major cloud providers?
The Hollywood blacklist—as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generally known—was the practice of denying employment to screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and American entertainment professionals during the mid-20th century because they were accused of having Communist ties or sympathies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist

He's asking whether you think it would be reasonable to reinstate this policy, but directed against "racists" instead of communists.
IIRC someone high up in the daily stormer publicly claimed cloudflare supported their views due to not being taken down. That lead to a decision to stop hosting them which I think is more reasonable than just censorship.
What are you using to power them? A proper 5V 2A supply should have no issues at load.
That is a self-inflicted problem. Step away from the ambiguity by dropping cross-compatibility as everyone has been begging for.
The difference is that the internet has discontinuously more scalable network effects, so technology companies often find themselves in a winner-takes-all dynamic. If some publisher, newspaper, or literary magazine refused to publish Walt Whitman, he could always try and find another publisher. But if Twitter bans Titania McGrath, there is no other Twitter for her to join because the next best alternative has 1/10000th the number of users.

This effect is new. These platforms are private entities, but effectively they operate as public commons. So culturally we must treat them similar to public commons where it isn't acceptable to kick out quirky characters because some of us don't like what they have to say.
Beeping is a feature. The user must be made aware that they are typing in vim, lest they start pressing random key combinations, like C-x, C-m etc.

It is well known that users may press these keys by mistake, while falling asleep on their keyboard. Therefore, vim beeps to keep them awake and avoid trouble.
> If these norms continue to getting eroded, god help us all — it may set humanity and the western civilization back by hundreds of years.

Haven’t these norms already been well established? I mean, almost every business which deals in exposure to humans sensory inputs has always seemed to have standards. Concert venues, magazines, record companies, night clubs with stages, publishing outlets etc etc... all of these business owners have always been able to pick and choose what types of output they send to the humans consuming that output. Hasn’t this always been the norm?

I’m just curious why some insinuate this is an enormous step backward when from my perspective it would seem to be SOP for a society which idolizes private property.
‘o’ comes first alphabetically, so I can see how this can still be an issue.
That sounds like a good idea, in general- thank you.
"Object" is even probably too strong a term! The mainstream is mostly indifferent to it, because normal banking is better for virtually every transaction they want to make.

Bitcoin is failing on its own (lack of) merits, not because people are mounting some campaign to destroy it.
Turn off hardware acceleration. That is what fixed my memory suck.
When has this happened in the past? This would be an impressive accomplishment to get all those entities to both agree on what to censor and succeed in the coordination required to apply that censorship, especially without government support.

Even when there is overwhelming international, corporate, and government support, internet censorship has not been effective. Look at the resiliency of the pirate bay and darknet markets.
The wheels drive the propeller.

Place the vehicle on a moving treadmill with the wheels rotating at the speed of the treadmill belt so it is unmoving in the middle of this treadmill. The wheel gearing would drive the propeller. Notionally, the propeller adds thrust to the vehicle more than it adds resistance to the wheels and causes the vehicle to move forward on the treadmill.

But consider, if you put an ideal toy car on a treadmill with a friction less axle etc, it would obviously never exceed the treadmills speed. At best it would stay mid treadmill for ever.

The idea is that some combination of additional gears and propeller would allow that toy car to continuously to speed up, theoretically infinitely. Understandably there is skepticism about this.
I disagree, while C signed/unsigned type conversion is a source of bug and should be explicit, it doesn't mean that all implicit conversion are bad..

I think that implicit conversion from int to float is mostly harmless, as the result is a float and the float to int conversion is explicit, this is unlikely to create bugs.

intX to intY or uintX to uintY if Y>=X are two other conversions which are unlikely to create bugs but save a lot of boilerplate.
NYTimes is ok as long as it is not one of their ubiquitous "Anonymous sources within the intelligence community say..." political articles.
Patreon is as free to deny someone service as their customers are to express themselves. No affront to free speech there.
I'm sorry, but Blender is not click heavy. Keyboard shortcuts are how you use Blender. If you are clicking around in the UI you are not using it to its full potential.
For me, to model quickly in Maya, I have to setup a custom marking menu. Maybe you could speak your specific issues and I can point you in the correct direction. You are always welcome in one of the Blender Discord servers if you need some instant help.
Communities.com, the True History (2000)
I just made an argument about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18765494.

> The difference is that the internet has discontinuously more scalable network effects, so technology companies often find themselves in a winner-takes-all dynamic. If some publisher, newspaper, or literary magazine refused to publish Walt Whitman, he could always try and find another publisher. But if Twitter bans Titania McGrath, there is no other Twitter for her to join because the next best alternative has 1/10000th the number of users.

> This effect is new. These platforms are private entities, but effectively they operate as public commons. So culturally we must treat them similar to public commons where it isn't acceptable to kick out quirky characters because some of us don't like what they have to say.
In the age of tweets, memes, and captions, it has simply become such criticism to even surface to the top. I usually ignore critiques of long form story telling.
I'm more worried about the future of macOS personally.
Speeding is also an anti-social thing to do. But, like most things, there are degrees, and exceptions of exingency, etc. I would not call it unpatriotic, as it only threatens the social order very indirectly, if at all.
You are very wrong, OTC markets are very liquid right now.

Also $10 million in BTC isn't very much, you can trade this on the public markets without slipping very much if you really want to.
Indeed, Mike Pall has indicated at various points that the name is a pseudonym:

> Heck, I've done the opposite. There's quite a bit of code out there which I haven't published under my real name (for various reasons). Not any Lua stuff, though. Good luck hunting it down. ;-)

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-11/msg00106.html

> I’ve only published AFLG (auto-fast-loader-generator) under my real name in the German “RUN” magazine.

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=656

Of course, like many of the other examples here, unmasking him isn't of much interest to the tabloids since he's not much of a "public figure".
Dfs is not parallel? Why not fork at every recursive call?
I don't know for certain, but what I would guess is that strptime() without a day-of-week indicator is ambiguous.

strptime() produces a datetime object, which consists of year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond, time zone, fold. If you do something like "2008-12" with format "%Y-%m", strptime() will fill in the remaining arguments with day=1 and all time components set to zero, so what you get is datetime(year=2018, month=12, day=1, hour=0, minute=0, second=0, microsecond=0).

That works because it's unambiguous -- there aren't multiple possible numbering schemes for the day of the month in the strptime() formatting options.

But there are multiple possible numbering schemes for the day of the week, which means a year + week with no day-of-week format code is ambiguous. Worse, the two options don't even share a start: one of them begins numbering at 0 (Sunday) and the other at 1 (Monday).

So I'd guess the insistence on a day-of-week format code is to force you to indicate which day-numbering scheme you want, in order to avoid the possible ambiguity.

(and you might think it's reasonable to assume if someone uses ISO year + ISO week number, they'd also want ISO day-of-week number, but we're talking about dates and times here, and "reasonable" left the building a long time ago)
I think you misread my comment. I'm actually a huge fan of the secure enclave and the way that Apple protects customer privacy. What I was commenting on was the distrust a lot of people have, combined with a lack of knowledge about how the hardware works. For example, Amazon's echo devices have a physical circuit that disconnects the microphone when you mute it. They could have done it in software, but wanted to break the physical circuit so that there was no question in customers minds whether the device was still listening or not when it was muted.

I trust Amazon as much as I do Apple to protect customer privacy.
I think that particular sentence out of context is objectively ambiguous, since that particular sentence isn't qualified with some sort of arguendo disclaimer... In context, it seems much less ambiguous.

There are a lot of people in this thread who are reading that comment as unambiguously racist. Maybe some of them are being intellectually dishonest, but I think at least some of them aren't. Generally speaking when multiple people read the same sentence and walk away with wildly different notions about what the speaker's intent was, that's an indication that ambiguous language is present.
Let me know what evidence a 50 center would accept. Everyone else is convinced, so it's only you I would be working to sway.
Great example. The first one was very hard to understand, and this one made it a lot more clear.
So much of C++'s value proposition is based off the fact that it has such strong legacy compatibility. It's a language that is used today by businesses who are risk averse. Deprecating parts of the standard will make C++ a much less attractive language for the people who make up the majority of it's current user base. You also can't deprecate anything required for C interop, like the preprocessor.
IANAL, but as I understand it, the typical qualifiers for being a protected class tend to be immutable (sex, race, age, disability, color, creed, national origin, religion, or genetic information, per Wikipedia[0].) Obviously you can change your sex and religion, though, and disability status in some cases, though.

Maybe a case could be made for political affiliation under "creed," since there appears to be no specific legal definition for that[1], although the consensus seems to be centered around religious belief.

In any case, since one can (and many people do) change their political affiliations often, I would expect such a law to meet with some extreme legal challenges at the very least, because it seems like such an obvious attempt to game the system, particularly since "discrimination against a political group" is pretty much the purpose of other political groups.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group

[1]https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/8686/what-is-a-creed...
Yeah, that is a very likely cause. Make sure to get a quality power supply and a decent MicroSD card (as in, not the cheapest one on Amazon) so it doesn't fail after a few months. I have Raspberry Pis that have had uptimes of years+ with no issues.
How to connect to an EC2 instance using SSH
I can't agree more with this. I am a long time c++ dev, been to c++ committee meetings. The language is too complicated and inconsistent, and that is now I believe unfixable. I believe no one understands it. New features keep arriving, but you still have to learn everything that came before, for older codebases.

For example, {} style initalisers were added to simplify and "unify" things. Except to make a vector of length 3 you still need to use the old style (3) notation. So now there is just one more thing to learn.

It is much easier to add "one more thing" to a language than it is to later take it out.
To those inspired by this achievement to look more into polar expeditions, I can highly recommend Michael Palin’s “Erebus”. It’s a riveting read on the challenges, successes, and tragedies of the British explorer ship Erebus, its commanders, officers, and crews.
Not sure of your experience level with Blender, but it's rigging tools are about on par these days. Drivers are easy to setup and with a few add-ons it can be one click. That's part of the issue with Blender, finding the right addons or programming your own. I've even made my own character animation addon. :P

Blender, Maya, 3ds Max, they all can do the same things in the end.
Industry pushes sugary products, while obfuscating the health hazards
I was mainly responding to the parent's comment:

> Keep in mind that these are stills. Once the motion starts, humans detect the not-quite-realness easily. Even the 2D video creations by AI aren’t stitched correctly, let alone getting all the details of an animated 3D person right.

I agree this isn't end to end video synthesis but the end results are still very impressive and realistic. I can easily imagine this type of technology being a problem, because video evidence will be devalued and mean nothing.

They basically just animate Obama's lips using a RNN and then composite the output onto a target video of Obama to change the appearance of what he is saying. Yes they aren't generating all of Obama's head yet but this result in itself is impressive. Also I can't wait to see where GAN's take us 10-20 years down the road. Don't forget they are still in their infancy relatively speaking.
Patreon has ... a political bias, and that's not good for them

What makes you think that their bias is not good for them as a business? To me, it seems quite possible that were they to take the "principled" stance you advocate, they would soon find themselves facing much larger problems. Either their payment processors would cut them off, or they would face a larger and better organized boycott by those who prefer their current bias. Even if I'd prefer them to take a different stance for the long term benefit society, I don't see it helping them in the short term to do so.
Excellent. These are things designers of other languages should have considered but didn't. Looking at you, C++. I write mostly C++...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
If it were a dollar store, you'd not be able to buy a full gallon of milk there, and it wouldn't cost more than at Walmart or Krogers. In other words, if Dollar General is a "dollar store" then so is Walmart.

Indeed, "Building a Bug Out Bag at Dollar General" is like saying "Building a Bug Out Bag at Walmart"
> e.g. in the post-Roman near east.

Oh, that's the big one in terms of environments underserved by historical fiction. Any chance we can get Stephenson to get obsessed with it?
Lawyer files a collusion complaint with the FTC against Patreon and PayPal [vid]
Wasn’t the crossing of Antartica unsupported already done in http://www.travelexplorations.com/cecilie-skog-and-ryan-wate...? Asking because Colin’s website says it’s a first but I must be missing something.
>I'm really confused, culturally we didn't really have freedom of speech the way is being described here

Well, what's to be confused about?

Culturally we only had "freedom of speech" to the degree that we had it the way it is being described here.

Everything else is the dominant ideas (with power in government, press, etc) throwing some other up-and-coming ideas a bone.
I use Signal every day; I have turned something like 10 family members on to it, including literally my Grandmother.

That said, I do kinda feel like Open Whisper prioritizes a more centralized vision of the future than is reasonable for truly secure communications, and I suspect that it does this in order to maintain control and relationships with donors.

Again, I love Signal (and moxie, if you're reading this, I think you've done a bang-up job).

But I also think that it's important that we start to talk about viable alternatives which fix a lot of what's wrong with Signal, and I think that the first place to look for that is matrix / Riot chat.
In my mind he is similar to anti-vaxxers. He can afford his position, only because actions of a large majority of other people are keeping him safe.
If every grocery store became a sam’s club would you concede that perhaps the regulatory regime would need modification?
"“I think the most likely outcome, if this continues, is that all contentious speech or behavior will put the speaker or actor at risk of serious financial and social sanctions, and strip them of all defense,” Mr. Peterson wrote in an email."

OH, MY GOD! Say it ain't so! We cannot live in a world where "contentious speech or behavior" might lead to "serious sanctions!" Who will think of the victims?!
Sure, we can limit the language growth, as soon as we get all the critical features in!