skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was gonna say - I already have a language with the expressivity of Scheme, the convenience of Python, and the performance of C - it's called "Chez Scheme". Why isn't it popular? Because A) the performant implementation was proprietary until relatively recently, and B) it's less "batteries included" and more "that drawer in your house full of batteries, most of which are dead". There's a great language in there, but it lacks the tooling and social structures for popularity.
The update mechanism itself is still insecure, as the wordpress instance must have the ability to exchange its own source code - something you'd at least call risky. Web applications should run with the least possible privileges, ie. only with permissions to write to dedicated locations on the filesystem (user uploads), and read permissions for the code.

PHP has composer, a dependency management system. There's an option to build a wordpress project using composer.

Even more, there's even a boilerplate project that you can use to bootstrap your new wordpress setup - see https://roots.io/bedrock/
If you go out looking for it, you will find a LOT more of that stuff on Twitter, Facebook, Patreon (Search for it) and Reddit. Gab is a free speech platform - similar to how phone carriers aren't held liable for what people speak on it, same way for Gab. It's not Gab's responsibility if the users are talking garbage.
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They both aren't really anymore, but they do hang out.
>You can't 'debate' hate speech away.

Surely you can. To believe otherwise is to believe that hate is logically sound. It's just that people's standards for what constitutes "debate" have lowered so much (thanks to Twitter and its ilk) that it no longer holds any persuasive power. Consider that most people in the West were extremely racist just a few decades ago. It didn't take free speech suppression to change this status quo.
USNRL have achieved ~50-60% efficiency using similar technology -- though sourcing from seawater rather than air.
Yes, through long-term building of trust and deep personal relationships.

This is very, very different from an internet comments section, where it is basically impossible.
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I don't know what you expect from a website where people go when they get banned from everywhere else.
I didn't go looking for it. I literally went to the page of the most popular posts, and scrolled down a couple of times.

It absolutely, 100% is Gab's responsibility for not policing their platform. In fact, they invite this kind of behaviour. This is exactly what they want on their site.
One neat thing about live collaboration is that every single edit is stored. This enables some nice things, like seamless replay of the entire document editing history. We've been working for a while on trying to analyze edit histories, to see if we could predict which stage of editing a document is in, which writing strategy users use, how a small team is collaborating etc. (Main purpose is to support teachers using this with student groups). We have some code here that works with Etherpad and ShareDB (https://github.com/chili-epfl/FROG-analytics), and happy to share preprints with anyone interested.
I expect people to maybe not make such a huge effort to protect and defend this utter garbage.
One nitpick: tzdata timezones can never join. They can only split. If a place were to join another place's timezone, it would break the representation of historic timestamps.
https://github.com/psybernetics/synchrony does realtime collaborative WYSIWYG hyperdocument editing.

Imagine if Google Wave had a friends list similar to Telegram and each peer acted as a public cache for dead hypermedia.
too bad so sad
Personally I don’t agree with any of that - but I’ll defend someone else’s right to be wrong.
"You can't argue people out of their beliefs" is an acceptable generalization because it's mostly true. There are exceptions, but, for the most part, when a progressive talks to a fascist, for example, there is likely to be little movement in the beliefs of either. In fact, their views are likely to become more entrenched.

https://phys.org/news/2015-05-political-myths-entrench.html

Long-term conversation can and does work, but not the sort of hit-and-run debates that happen on social networks and forums.
Laws and practices that help you exclude certain opinions.

Like for example in this case the Mozilla Acceptable Use Policy. Change a few words, add some statements, and it can be used against Antifa.

Homophobes were just an example, you can substitute with Nazis or others.
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A compilation of references going back over 50 years, at USNRL, MIT, and Brookhaven NL.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28nqoz/electri...
I gather from your comment that it's been a while since you refreshed your knowledge of the current state of linux.

Graphics card driver issues largely stopped being a problem about 4 years ago, with both major graphics card manufacturers committing to open source drivers.

Packaging for multiple distributions is a problem that I would call "solved" for the past ~2 years, see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19844241
Far left is no better than far right - nobody is even listening to each other anymore.
My idea was more about faster inference by reducing the required number of operations. It might not be worthwhile at all!
Wondering what kind of recoil force this laser gun generates.

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/does-a-laser-have-a-re...
Fair enough.

Do you not see the problem with a monopoly deciding what is and isn't okay to say?

You're comparing people who comment on websites to nazis? Did you not get the memo about the media calling everyone they don't like a nazi - including Pewdiepie?

Do you really think these companies have YOUR best interest at heart instead of just siding with the political views of their shareholders?
That is easy to do when you are not threatened by these people.

But they literally kill people. And they will kill many more if they gain more power. Do you think those dead people will thank you for your brave efforts?
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Wasn't was something similar to this in the late 90s - I can't remember the name but I remember it having similar issues.
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"Tell me about a time when technology really pissed you off"

I usually word this is a more "work-safe" way, but I find that this question has the benefit of both relaxing a candidate, and giving them a great opportunity to talk about their experiences without a filter. I usually follow-up with questions about the tech if it's not something I'm familiar with, and some questions around what they did to get around the issue, or what they'd do if they could change the particular bit of software.
Your reply is such a bad generalization. I'm getting really sick of these "these anti-vax folks" statements.

Me and my wife carefully considered every recommended vaccination by reading studies on the vaccines, their side-effects and general success rate. We chose to have our son vaccinated against measels (and others) because it made sense. However other vaccines against other childhood diseases didn't do so great a job. So we decided against them.

Just saying "get (your kid) vaxed with every vax out there" is just as bad advice as not vaccinating at all. You also don't have to believe in this "vaccines create autism" bs. Every medicine has side-effects. The question is just what they are and if you should prefer them to the disease, maybe even if the vaccine just protects only in 30% of the cases.

There are more things to consider:
- Vaccinating a child to early (especially if it is breastfed) will seriously dampen the success of the vaccine.
- Lots of childhood diseases are especially dangerous to adult people. So it makes a lot more sense to vaccinate them (again).
- Mothers that have had childhood diseases as kids will give their offspring a better immunization against those.
Most extreme high power lasers are chemical in nature, but these are probably somewhat similar to the setup in [1] by the laser power mentioned. I would guess using an APU to control conditions but it does not rule out your guess of using the onboard systems.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/SEQ-3_Laser_Weapon_System
I would argue that internet comments section is exactly what's needed actually. Simply banning them away is basically hiding it under the rug. But that's not going to do anything productive. Banning them will now re-enforce their beliefs and now they will just go to another platform which will be an echo chamber of even more similar "hate" views. This brings up 2 problems -

1. Now we don't even know what they are talking about / planning some extreme crime etc
2. Those people are now only exposed to views which agree to their own points and not exposed to opposing views. So there's nothing which would even allow them to change their minds.

Humans aren't born racist / hateful. They learn it from the environment around them. By exposing them to more counter points, you can make them unlearn that hate too.
I believe the view being expressed is that you cannot necessarily reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.

Confronting people who hold a belief for reasons that are not necessarily based on facts or logic can result in them doubling down instead of reconsidering their position.
Anybody who has done any amount of debating knows that the 'winner' of any debate is the person who is more prepared and better at the abstract skill of "debating", not the person that is 'right' in any meaningful way. As someone who did a fair amount of debating in school I'm confident I would have won/lost every debate I partook in in exactly the same way even if I was debating the other side of the argument.
> including Pewdiepie?

I think one Nazi-related mistake might be forgiveable. When it keeps happening, well, you've got to start thinking the tar on the brush is from the same pot.
The far left is not killing people. The far right is, in significant numbers.

Do you see a difference now?
I didn't invest any serious work in this idea, and didn't even research if somebody has come up with such things before.
It might as well be electron since they probably use a chromium/webkit fork to run the storeview and it's an increbile memory hog already. By going electron route atleast maintainance will be easier for them.
Despite what other commentators say, mirrors would work in theory. In fact lasers themselves have mirrors.

High quality mirror material with > 99.8% reflectivity near infrared region would do the job. Multi layer metal substrate, usually copper based or fused silica to withstand thermal expansion and dielectric coating. High macroscopic surface quality is not needed. It's enough that it reflects.

Even the mirrors used in laser erode. Laser weapon uses larger mirror area to focus tighter beam to the target. But unlike laser mirror missile surface don't have to withstand erosion long time and you can rotate the missile to divide the thermal power to larger area.

There are practical reasons why the best practical option is not mirror but material with high thermal resistance. Hypersonic missiles already use those materials and they are protected against current generation of military lasers (50 to few 100s of kilowatts). You need megawatt lasers if you try shooting down HGV.
That's cool, not everybody has to like free speech; defending free speech or not is purely a political opinion, like many other issues.
Even if that were true, it would still be possible to drown it. Flood the extension used by racists with an Eternal September of normal people. This is how we deal with extremist views in the real world - allowing them to sequester themselves together is what leads to the amplification chambers. Banning the extension just means that the people who already care about using it will continue to do so, while new users are pushed away.
I think you can start by avoiding saying things like "I am not a good people person" You can try to understand what your benchmarks are for performance. Maybe you can say "Sometimes i feel shy" instead of "I am shy" . Do you see the difference between the two?
The Venezuelan government can print money too.
I really doubt people who get the the face value money back while the value of the money plummets are going to be fooled.
How many people will like the price of petrol and iphones doubling overnight?
> 1. why extract from the air when you can just put a device on the smokestack of an existing coal or natural gas plant? The higher CO2 density of the effluent will make things more efficient.

That was my big question, too. Asked and got a response here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19844578
Do you have any idea which would be better for a vector based drawing app? The data is mostly strokes (lists of points), and individual strokes generally don't change.
One nice thing about a federated system is that admin work is also distributed. I run a small server that has existed for a long time (and has knowledge of / federates to some extent with most of the fediverse as such), and my co-moderator and me have a very manageable administration workload (mind: you only have to moderate content that actually arrives at your instance, not all content that is posted everywhere ever). The Mastodon software (and most other fediverse software) has multiple tools for this specifically.

On our instance, we do not allow "untagged" (not hidden behind a content warning) pornographic content. If an instance allows this, we "silence" them - meaning that none of their content shows up on any public timeline anymore. People can still follow users from there, but that's their choice, and none of my business - and nobody is getting a facefull of tiddy if they don't specifically want it.

If an instance is generally acting in good faith, but allows images that I definitely do not want cached locally, another tool you have is "media reject" an instance - in that case, no media from that instance will be downloaded. Can still follow, but have to click through for images, and no thumbnails. We try to avoid this, but, you know.

The nuclear option is to just defederate from an instance entirely. We also try to avoid this, but it's a very effectice "ugh god I'm not dealing with this" tool.

edit: That's on a macro level, of course - we can also do the same thing to single users, and that's obviously preferred if it's just one idiot. a user submitting a report can also choose to forward the report the the originating server, which can be helpful to get a problem at the root.
> JSMpeg can decode 720p Video at 30fps on an iPhone 5S, works in any modern browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari & Edge) and comes in at 42kb gzipped.

What is its power use, versus native decoding?
If you think the current crop of neo-nazis has the same clout and power as the WW2 ones, I have several bridges to sell you.
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> As far as I can tell, we wouldn't know if the pack would have caught the author and whether they would have all attacked, leaving him in 8th or 9th place.

Kind of ruins the story but it's true. They were in a game of oxygen-deprived prisoner's dilemma, not in a death-before-dishonor chivalry contest.
They don't stay enabled though I think, you need to turn them back on after every restart.
Reflective mirror surface is good for stealth if the angle is right.
I am calling nazis nazis. Gab has a very large population of actual nazis. It also is the home of people who go shoot up large crowds of people for having the wrong religion. I feel pretty confident in calling these people bad names.
> What evidence do you have?

The business model is the same; big failures are still common (e.g. the recent case of Oi SA); the same Big Three still control the market; "no meaningful reform of the credit-rating agencies has been undertaken" (Paul Volcker).

> And their incentive is the same as an audit company, it is an existential threat.

What existential threat? Which relevant (and this mostly means the Big Three, which "issued 97%–98% of all credit ratings in the United States and roughly 95% worldwide") rating agency has went bankrupt or even faced a major threat to its dominance?
I would disagree. There is a difference between publisher and platform. If Gab was publishing illegal stuff themselves, then it would be different. Gab actively takes down speech which is illegal (action to violence type). But simple hate speech (even if it's offensive and rude) is still free speech and legally covered by the first amendment in the US.

Same way Google isn't held liable for hosting illegal pirated content as long as they take it down. But you can't go sue Google because they show you news about something which you find offensive.
This is a common story throughout the southeast.

Europeans, Japanese--and other countries smart enough not to further pollute their own countries--export it to the southeastern US, where everyone is either so focused on JOBS! MONEY! that they'll roll the dice with cancer, or just so beat-down that they can't put up an adequate defense.

Here's a similar case from 2016 in Mississippi: https://theintercept.com/2016/11/25/did-the-epa-prosecute-an...
If you consider communism as far left, then yes the far left has absolutely killed millions. If you do not consider communism far left, I don't know what to tell you.
> I'm not 100% sure it's not leaking somewhere I missed

have you checked the REST endpoint?, namely site.tld/wp-json/wp/v2/users

By default all user names are exposed that way.
> If my machine was stolen I would like it to be totally unusable after a short time - so nobody would bother to steal it.

I would like this as well, does anybody know any good solutions for this?
Why use an inferior kernel like Linux when Microsoft already has an superior kernel like NT?
While something may very well be random chance, that does not mean we shouldn't investigate.

The only way to differentiate whether something is causal or random is to examine it.
This seems tremendously CPU intensive, my fan spun up after two seconds of playing video.
The idea is interesting, but until it does it with GLSL shaders or something to get that sweet hardware acceleration,it's just a proof that it CAN be done, rather than a practical solution.
The whole issue is so grey, that it'll be hard to find a robust solution to it, without some sort of wholesale change.

There is a lot of overall sense in having retailers focus on retailing, and leave the high finance stuff to underwriters, like insurance.

The problems is that the laissez faire market dynamics degenerate at this point, Retailers get too good at retailing, selling people bad deals that could land them in trouble later. Underwriters focus on securitization, which is ultimately a sister to the money-creation process (like "fractional reserve" banking).

Pretty much any solution is clunky. You can try to force "originators" to hold risk, but this limits scale. You can regulate underwriting rules (affordability & doc checking standards, for instance). You can regulate underwriting, but the high finance sector is (a) good at influencing regulators and (b) good at finding ways around regulations.

|regulating for risk is a tricky business. You end up trying to regulate away risk, which is impossible.
Yes, he is wrong and so are you, because those rules do exist even if they are unwritten. They are part of the sport, and they have to be because while placements are awarded to individuals, it is impossible for an individual to perform well with cooperating with others.
Firefox and Chrome can't both be a monopoly.
You say they learn if from the environment around them. This is exactly right, and this is exactly why you ban racists from your open platforms.

There will always be hardcore hateful people who hide deep in the pockets of the internet. The point is to not normalise them, not let them spread their hatred in public, and not to make people think that sort of attitude is ok.

They are exposed to counterpoints constantly, and it is not changing them.
Wow, that MPEG-1 encoded music video just hit me with a wave of nostalgia - not the song itself but the encoding!

I remember downloading similarly-encoded (and much worse) music videos at the time, pausing and resuming over multiple nights on services like KaZaa. Good times.
> But all that is a function of the prisoners and their choices and actions, not the government.

Seeing as the prisoners are in government custody, I don't see how the government can be ruled out as a factor of the aforementioned function.

> The kind of violence that happens in prisons isn’t easier to detect and prevent.

It is easier, though. A prison is a (comparatively tiny) sealed environment with strictly controlled borders, above-average monitoring (CCTV), and an extremely limited population.

The fact that, given these constraints, stabbings can still happen in the blink of an eye, or that rape can still happen, is (I believe) the entire point.
I think this has to do more with teaching people proper debate and communication skills than simply banning a platform because you can't teach their users proper debate.
But Schopenhauer ideas that come from Plato to Kant which also says "mind is everything" Eastern idea is the valid one.

See: the will and representations
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To be fair, aren't soda bottles and plastic usually PET, which should not release nasty stuff? Or am I just misinformed?
The law does not define morals, or ethics.

They invite the worst kind of hatemongers to their site. That makes them as bad in my books. If all you care about is whether they are following the letter of the law or not, that is a very naïve and childish view.
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Jeff Bezos has promised to keep WaPo's journalistic independence. Although it's for you to decide to what extent that's true.
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Yes, I'm saying this only because last 1.5 years I'm doing my kriya practice which includes meditation, breathing technic and few other things and it has been working wonderfully - since I "got it" I never had a single bad day. I am comparing this to having occasional bursts of depression, loneliness, self-doubt for a few years before.

I did not try strong psychedelics but the problem with them as with any kind of drug is the effect wears off inevitably. If you feel great for some time, going back becomes even more terrible than staying there, because now you know there are better states. What sets meditation apart is that it is a process which (at a certain level) lasts through the day and even becomes permanent. This is something you can not get with outside help because you will just become dependent on the source of that help.
On the other hand, wanting to silence those you disagree with is very mature.