skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate generic statements like, "if you use speech to try to hurt people". They tend to be made to let you say something and get many people agreeing with you who would not otherwise if they knew what you really were after. So I would ask you to define what constitutes "hurt" and define what constitutes "people" in your sentence.

I don't think you mean all people... because in the same sentence you advocate harm (or the de facto threat thereof) to some people based on what they might say. So is this hurt feelings? Actual physical harm (or the fear thereof)?

Or are you suggesting that people should be free only to say those things within some pre-approved range of ideas of which people like-minded to yourself are prepared to tolerate?

To be specific, if you're saying that any person that would advocate physical harm, or cause a reasonable person to be fearful of physical harm, should be prevented from speaking... then I'm likely with you. If you really mean more than that, then "hell no!" back at ya.
I think that the biggest issue is frankly bullshit. Bullshit in the sense of complete lack of sensitivity to the truth so long as it leads to the outcome they want. Technology isn't at fault here but bullshit is on so many levels it isn't funny.

The stupid internet rumors and social media manipulation? Bullshit because they want to influence people - they don't care if it is true or not. Company valuations? They don't care if it is productive or useful - they just want it to make money which leads to the new Tulip craze. Security theater and claims that they need to spy on everything? Bullshit to justify their positions and cover their asses. It isn't a technology - it is the social black art old as dirt that keeps being used. It causes problems everywhere because it exists on a nearly fractal level.

We see plenty of people blaming tech companies for their problems and calling for regulations? Do they care if it is true or have any idea for specific regulations in mind? And the few that are trotted out turn out to be trivially unworkable or contrary to the given purpose on so many levels like encryption bans. Because it is all bullshit - what they want is to protect their own vested interests and they don't want the truth in the same building of a skyscrapper, much less the same room because they will lose in a discussion of facts.

I would be very skeptical of anyone who claims that we need regulation on the internet - because so far all of the pushers are shoveling more bullshit.
Given that I grew up in (and still identify with) Appalachia, and just returned from a family visit -- I completely understand how this would take off. So many of my HS classmates are in exactly the same boat.
Maybe bubble implies that the asset or resource has some actual value but the value was being over inflated.

Do cryptos have any real value?
I did this search at Startpage.com:

brazil attitudes toward china poll
Because your HTML generating AI framework would not be able to deal with Mandy from upper management that wants that one button to have a rounded edge in the upper right corner just like the button she saw on Bloomberg, her favorite website, they make a ton of money so there should be no reason Mandy can't have a button with a rounded edge in the upper right corner, except that your framework can't deal with questionable input from humans at which point you will try to override it with CSS and another thing and another thing and before you know it you'll have a colleague come up to your desk complaining about the fact the codebase has 4 years worth of overriding CSS spaghetti and wondering if switching to ThatOneFramework^tm he read about on hackernews the other day will solve the issue of backend/frontend integration.
Having been part of the Ironman community for a while now, I can say endurance folks are definitely different than your average person. Often very humble, they like meaningful, big, challenging goals that redefine “normal.”
Thanks. Trying that.
As an aside - it's interesting that the New York Times uses the descriptor "left-leaning" for Chapo Trap House, a podcast by self-described Marxists who regularly advocate for mass property seizure and anti-social mischief. In the article there is no hesitation to use "right-wing", so why not use "left-wing"?

"Far-right" appears regularly in headlines about a variety of events, but I can't recall the last time "far-left" was used at all in headlines or body text, outside of a quote.
P2P might not be the best method for live streaming. I build a FLOSS live streaming platform that uses HLS, and latency via Cloudflare CDN matches Twitch. That is just a growing uncachable playlist with timestamped cachable segment files. It can simultaneously syndicate out to multiple networks like Twitch, YT, and FB.
Unfortunately, I’m in a place where I can test your argument, so the best evidence I can give you is the personal anecdote that I run Slack in Safari rather than using the Electron app for performance reasons. It’s not quite WKWebView, but I think it’s a relatively decent approximation. With that said, I still think you’re missing the point: it’s completely possible to make a messaging app that uses significantly less memory than Slack does and does basically the same things, even if you ditch native controls (which is not something I prefer people do, for reasons other than performance, but it’s something I am willing to tolerate). Loading an entire browser with its associated baggage rather than using the platform’s native web view will almost always use more resources, because you will have bloat that is not necessary for what you are doing and some features will end up being reimplemented in Electron. Just because Slack might perform poorly in both a web view and Electron (which I still believe is not equally poorly), does not mean that it could not perform well at all. There are multiple issues here.
> To get the huge number of required calories in a compact form they drank olive oil.

Eating sticks of butter is common too.
I have read Shackleton's book and also one by a member of Scott's expedition. From that I got the sense that it's a place of wind, danger and misery. It's not a quiet stroll after fresh snowfall.
As a newcomer to Rust and perhaps having been spoiled by Go's very readable specification, I was surprised that Rust doesn't have a definitive language spec. How do the people working on Rust ensure everyone has a common understanding of the language without one?
The problem is if you do set up your own website, a very small number of companies you choose from can each decide to deplatform you, and very soon unless you're unusually technically savvy you will be unable to speak your message.
Again, what Sargon said wasn't racist. It was stupid, offensive, and probably an impulsive attempt to get more eyeballs, but it wasn't racist. If what Sargon said was racist, then so is Steven Pinker's talk on language[1] (specifically the segment on profanity and racial slurs).

> 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).

This argument proves too much. Alternatives always exist; they just vary in how inconvenient they are. By the same logic, it would be OK if every online payment service banned Sargon and every bank refused to let him open an account. After all, an alternative still exists: His patrons could mail him cash every month.

There's no bright line here, and of course I don't think Patreon should be compelled to do business with Sargon, but I tend to worry when popular platforms erode free speech norms by policing content. Patreon is the latest example of this, and they're particularly worrying because they're responsible for people's livelihoods. I'm not alone in this worry. As the article mentions, Sam Harris has cancelled his Patreon account. He's willing to forgo tens of thousands of dollars per month today rather than let his patronage grow and risk losing more in the future. That's quite the condemnation of Patreon's judgement and of similar policies by other companies.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBpetDxIEMU
Fusion power has not yet reached ignition, without that it is not just uneconomic, it is not working period. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor
China: Many embedded programmers. Lots of Windows platform derived language choices. Code is typically discussed and documented in Chinese, but very often with English variable names. There are many companies so there must be agile shops, though I've never seen one. Access to computing and the internet is cheap and ubiquitous, the economy is good, many people learn for fun or interest. Salaries are high.

India: Hundreds of colleges offering basic professional computing education under the promise of acquiring a job. These are inevitably in outsourcing sweatshops or "MNCs" (read: insourcing sweatshops). Access to computing and the internet is very much class-based. The economy is essentially stagnant due to corruption, basic infrastructure such as electricity often fails, and only wealthier classes can afford to spend the time and money learning computing for interest's sake. Salaries are low.
Yes, and this was problem exists to this day in prevailing cable and newspapers. During the time they were prevalent, unpopular events and speech were not spoken on the biggest networks (still not spoken about) and significant silenced perspectives had to make do with smaller platforms, poorer cable times, smaller venues, and self-publishing newspapers assuming they could fund a printing press. There was not a push to force those networks to host these voices.

Yes, it’s an existing problem. I don’t understand why this is a new problem and am confused why this is unacceptable on the level that is new.
Bitcoin seems to be getting real hurt from the lack of hype and bans from big adtech companies (along with all the cryptocurrency stuff as well.)

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin&geo=US
This articulates the situation perfectly. A clear lack of checks and balances.
Yes, the US could be "strong" but the US isn't just defending its own soil.

It would seem natural to think your own soil is the only thing you can ever rightfully defend. USA seems to be doing the defending anywhere but on their own soil.
People complain a lot about PHP but it's not always horrible. Excerpt from the documentation:

o - ISO-8601 week-numbering year. This has the same value as Y, except that if the ISO week number (W) belongs to the previous or next year, that year is used instead. (added in PHP 5.1.0)

(https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.date.php)

We had this problem a long time ago when asp was used. We really needed this Year-week numbering but it didn't work. It was hard-coded to 52 weeks per year and the year was the true year. Someone had to manually fix it every few years when it didn't add up.
In the 1990's we already had a couple of OS vendors shipping C++ compilers on their OS SDKs (Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Be, Symbian).

So far that is only true of Redox.
I’m confused why patreons behavior is newly unacceptable in a way that sparks controversy. I agree that it is likely a problem overall, but I don’t understand what has occurred that has made it new to discuss.
We're increasingly getting to the point where some technologies have no effective competitor. Even sites like Cloud Flare that have decided to kick people off their service have pointed out the dangers of such a practice: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

> Someone on our team asked after I announced we were going to terminate the Daily Stormer: "Is this the day the Internet dies?" He was half joking, but only half. He's no fan of the Daily Stormer or sites like it. But he does realize the risks of a company like Cloudflare getting into content policing.
Ooo, I can link to my blog for relevance:

https://wannabewonk.com/gab-and-free-speech-on-the-internet/

Summary: I agree, largely. Socially, we should be able to debate people with diverse opinions without turning the world into one big safe space. As far as the rights of hosting platforms: There has to be a line somewhere. I draw the line at CAs, ISPs and registrars. They should have to serve ANYONE unless the government mandates otherwise. Maybe Twitter and AWS shouldn't have to support abhorrent speech, but my home ISP can't pick and choose if I reach the larger world.
free? like what?
Careless remarks?

"Before your stupid social justice feminine bullshit, [mass murders] didn't happen on this scale, it's crazy. This is a disease of the modern age. YOU are responsible for perpetuating it, by disenfranchising these poor fucking guys who don't have any options left. When someone takes the option of absolute insanely last resort, you have to wonder, what kind of system is producing them? And I'll tell you what, Laci, it is a fucking feminist system that is doing this."

Quirky ideas?

"I wouldn't even rape you, @jessphillips. #AntiRapeThreats #FeminismIsCancer"

Do you really think Carl Benjamin is quirky and careless? Are you really defending him as having done something harmless, funny, or simply unthinkingly? Are you as laissez-faire about, say, the anti-vaccine crowd or the creationists---they're just disagreeing "with the overall bent of the arc of history?"

In a more serious mode, have you any evidence that we are "talking about people who may have made a careless remark, or have quirky ideas, or disagree with the overall bent of the arc of history?" I would think everyone would be up in arms if such were the case. All of the examples I have run across are individuals who are repeatedly, deliberately and provocatively making loathsome statements, and, due to "tolerance", being applauded for it.
This article is literally an advertisement for a book.

From the fine article:

"This piece was adapted from James Geary’s new book, Wit’s End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It."

Seen under that light, the article works perfectly. It contains a headline with seemingly simple question, meanders along with some anecdotes, and then at the end -- if you're still reading -- it tells you that you can go buy the book if you want to know the answer.
Do you hold that people earning (say) 30k actually spend more dollars on clothing than people earning 50k, per annum? (In similar job types, similar area, etc.) This is the claim of the boot story, and I don't buy it.

Although it would be nice to have data. I guess the technical term is something like "inferior good", and I thought such things were rare beasts, not such broad categories as clothing. (Perhaps things like fake-leather belts would qualify).

Do they spend a larger proportion of their income on clothing? This could go either way, I think, rent hurts. But that's a different question to the boot one: If they spend more only in proportion, not in dollars, then they spend the same or less!
Your understanding of what brute force means is incorrect. It is an exhaustive algorithm. Any non-exhaustive algorithm is no longer brute force. An algorithm (like AlphaZero) that can locally generalize, even to small degrees, is also not brute force. Your argument is that a brute force algorithm is simply being compressed by a neural network but that isn't how AlphaZero works at all. You can't prune a brute force algorithm's branching and still call it brute force. In fact, if it was, then games like Go wouldn't be approachable by the same algorithm.
That was a sarcastic comment
How long do we wait for "market forces" to magically correct under the information asymmetry of rich corporations vs the common person which inhibit the public from understanding the danger introduced in order to make more money?
Most people, for their entire career, should literally never write out a date/time-format string. Even once. If you want ISO8601, use that constant, don't write it out.

Use pre-defined formats, like 8601, 3339, Long, Short, etc. Or datetime skeletons if your system supports it and you MUST do something non-standard, and even then do a day or three of research before typing the first letter. Basically nothing else is even remotely acceptable for internationalization (and whatever the "intercalendarization" equivalent would be) and stands a good chance to get even the extreme basics like "yyyy" wrong.
Verbally abusive music actually gets people killed in Chicago [re: drill music]. Teenagers even get killed over Twitter comments. It's not a joke.
I would love for us tech folk to dip our toes in idea history, hermeneutics and rhetoric.

We need to think about the way we think and talk about the way we talk. I mean reflect on the state of things, instead of blindly increasing shareholder value. We glorify engagement, but we’re arguably glorifying how addictive our creations are.

What if apps maximized for less time spent, like help users just do their work and get on with living life?

When I work on web sites that deliver services I often picture users being in a hurry. People just want to get on with life, not live their lives within my server side rendered single page web app. :)
I think it's largely marketing bullshit used by VCs, specifically GGV.
Open street cam looks pretty cool. I wonder how they're combining all of those images. Just looked it at, they're just a sequence of images of a drive. Don't expect a google street view like experience.
Fun fact: Slack has native iOS and Android apps, with all their platform-independent logic abstracted away in a C++ library. I see no “complexity” in making a native macOS app with this.
Ah, yes. The "free speech zone" approach.
This article is poorly researched and misses the key points of the dispute.

Patreon previously said that they only care about content on their platform. Sargon's comments weren't on Patreon. They weren't on his Youtube channel, which is presumably what Patreon money is supporting. They were made during an interview with an altogether different channel.

So the rules were changed retroactively without warning.

Next, the scary part involves another company called Subscribe Star.

After the ban was announced, a number of creators decided they didn't want to put all their eggs in one basket and opened up accounts on Subscribe Star.

Several hours later PayPal cut service to Subscribe Star without explanation.

Jaqueline Hart, who made the decision to ban Sargon, used to work at PayPal.

It certainly looks like she called in a favour to kill a competing service.

A tech lawyer who runs a channel called YoutuberLaw is trying to file an FTC complaint about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ySC7edHO0
Do they get a kick out of overcoming suffering,.doing something really difficult or what drives them? In the end they don't achieve anything useful. I can relate to it somehow. When I did kickboxing I sometimes wondered why I let myself get beat up for no money, fame or any other reward. Never really understood my motivation other than that I had it.
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In my experience, if someone mentions propaganda then one can expect something like the parent comment with the exact same arguments to appear.

> This seems as if its pointed at me.

It's not; it's not pointed at anyone, as I stated, and I had no idea of your existence until now. Please don't put words in my mouth.

> I do encourage you though to try to understand

You have no idea what I understand or don't understand, where I'm from, or anything else about me; keep your unfounded accusations to yourself. We're here to talk about ideas, not each other, and you don't know anything about me regardless.

> we suspect everyone who has a nonconformist opinion of being a bot/robot/astroturfer.

Looking at this discussion, your opinion seems to agree with the majority, so this well-worn complaint doesn't apply at all.
History has proven that system programming language winners come with an OS/platform to cimment their advantage over others.

So I don't agree that the age of "The age of multi-vendored languages like C or C++ for systems programming might be coming to an end.", unless you mean we will managed to get rid of all OSes written in them, specially UNIX flavours or GPGPU libraries.

It would be nice, but it won't happen until the next big hardware revolution like Quantic computers being developed in Q# for example.
Moving money around without an authority to stop you does have value. The question is whether that value is very high at all - in current society, probably not, and in a futuristic society I’d hope we’d develop trust mechanisms that don’t require the expense of total global order to move money/tokens/whatever around.
Interestingly, many (if not most) of people on that conference were Jews, which were often treated as second-class citizens even before Hitler.

Also, an additional testament how Marie Curie was exceptional was that she was an immigrant from Poland (which didn't even exist when she was born; her initial studies were in secret), and that she is still the only person ever to win two Nobel prizes for two separate fields (physics and chemistry).
True, but the US soil really doesn't need much defending. There are large oceans to the East and West. To the North is an allied country, and to the South is a country with close economic and cultural ties. There are no countries that could feasibly carry out a transoceanic invasion of the US, even were they to exert the entirety of their military might.

Countries like Poland and South Korea are within the reach of geopolitical rivals, though. So places like those are where the US is garrisoning much of its combat ready troops. Which makes perfect sense.

I'm also not so sure what you meant by "It would seem natural to think your own soil is the only thing you can ever rightfully defend." Why wouldn't it be rightful to defend the territorial integrity of other countries? In fact, the US is obligated to defend it as per international treaties like NATO.
my biggest problem with modern c++ is indeed readability.

c++11 remains to be the most popular language in algorithm competitions(e.g. usaco), 51% usage there, along with 33% java and 12% python, which surprised me
That RFC was accepted and merged quite a while ago!

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2504
Hoaxed (Mike Cernovich)
To be fair though 1990's C++ written in the recommended way is almost a completely different language to 2018 C++.

The change isn't as marked as say perl5 and perl6 but it is still huge.

I've no dog in either fight though, I moved to managed languages a long time ago (Object Pascal was the last compiled language I used in anger).
I think maybe they don’t let us read it because we aren’t paying customers? I would assume they save their best material for people who pay their bills.
We're going to see a lot of bullshit regulation on the internet and a lot of opportunists taking advantage of the current chaos to push their own agenda. Unfortunately we handed them the weapons they need to push these arguments by building toxic (or at least very naive) platforms like Facebook and Bitcoin. It's a shame really but the tech community has itself to blame for a lot of this.

The power struggles that have gone on in human societies for our entire existence are now starting to play out online. We should have seen this coming.
I didn't intend to give the impression that I think that minority groups ought to tackle this problem alone. I certainly don't believe that they should, or that this is their fight and theirs alone. At the same time, I believe that sunshine is the best disinfectant.
Async/await isn't stable yet, that seems to be making many commenters here wait to adopt, so at least that should make it in before they lock it down. I'd like the platform independent SIMD but that I can admit is niche and could live in nightly for a long time without harming adoption. They have polls to get a feel for the difference between those two categories and which features fall into them.