skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not some crazy tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorist, but it's certainly telling that Wojcicki spoke at Recode (which is owned by Vox) but didn't give Crowder the same courtesy. This just screams conflict of interest (and will only give Crowder more ammunition), but whatever.

Second, it's clear that YouTube, much like Google, et al. are still attempting to keep their classification as a murky "grey area" where they aren't really platforms, but they aren't really publishers, so they can make tons of money, but not seriously answer to the public either. Classic corporatism. And until our representatives in DC really wake up, I can't really fault them for it. Our lawmakers barely understand how adding a friend on Facebook works, and I'm sure Silicon Valley enjoys printing money on the back of this ignorance.

Third, it's incredibly clear that there's an ideologically-liberal slant in tech. I've met both Muslims as well as Christians that were simply afraid of the status quo to speak out even though some of these policies made them uncomfortable. I really wish we could be more honest about this. As a staunch Millian[1], I contend that diversity of thought is a good thing.

Finally, (imo) anyone who seriously thinks Crowder should've been censored/deplatformed is just being unfair. He's pretty offensive, but doesn't really go much further than Colbert, John Oliver, etc.

[1] https://www.utilitarianism.com/ol/one.html
Purchasing items on Costco.com for delivery, at least in the Bay Area, incurs a premium of about 20% on many (all?) items. This is to ensure the Instacart delivery people are paid fairly. On top of that there's the tipping that is always implied for service work. So it's not incredibly cheap in SF. It's cheaper for me to go there and take a Lyft home if I spend more than $100.

Regardless I agree with your hope that retail looks more like Costco than Amazon.
Too bad it only targets Chrome webextensions. No support for people still using the Firefox version of Firefox instead of the modern Chrome style Firefox.
> There is no such language as C/C++.

I was language-lawyering in the comp.lang.c newsgroup in the 1990's and early 2000's.

That bit come up from time to time: "hey you stupid, there is no such language as c/c++!" I participated in that myself, sadly.

Most of the time, it wasn't what the person meant (that there is such a language). Just that they are looking for a solution in either C or C++ or whatever.

(In fact, there is a language that could be plausibly be called "C/C++": useful programs can be written that compile as either C or C++. The easiest way to code that way is to stick to the C90 dialect, and avoid the few C++ incompatibilities that it has. I have considerable experience in this area, that is ongoing.)

In this case, the generator can perhaps be used for C, if C++ features are avoided, so it means C or C++. Just like "if/when" or "he/she".

HN guideline: Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
The problem is that content and the free and easy means of posting it are the whole lifeblood of these social platforms.

They have no business model without it.

I still agree with you though. Maybe for the good of everyone these things need to go.
> Apple only started the whole Metal effort because of Mantle

No.
> It's easy to have a couple of beers or glasses of wine and have 3-4 drinks in the process.

Yes and even drinking that quantity of high ABV beer or large glasses of wine that you describe and you'd still have to do it every day of the week to hit 21 drinks a week.

It is, as suggested upthread, an incredible amount of alcohol to describe with “as little as”.
The evolution of fighting games [video]
Is it different from reinforcement learning?
Andrew Yang 2020 has policies that are inspired by what MLK promoted. The $1000 monthly "freedom dividend" will definitely be a game changer for poor minorities.
What if you need a bit of funding initially to get started?
> Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years

Well if you had asked your typical HN developer a few years ago whether they'd be using a Microsoft code editor ...
But was that reduction in use a result of Prohibition or of the moralistic anti-drinking attitude that was prevalent at the time?

Even if Prohibition itself was responsible for the reduction in drinking, we must consider whether the overall effect on society was worth it. This effect included an enormous increase in organized crime, murders and other types of violence, and widespread corruption. American society as a whole decided that no, it was not worth it, and repealed Prohibition.

The effect of the current war on drugs is arguably much, much worse than Prohibition ever was.
Not the most up to fate, but exists: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari
If I walk into Walmart I'm much less likely to find counterfeits on the shelves vs. buying online from Amazon

Right. Walmart saves money by selling low quality merchandise. It's not counterfeit, it's just garbage. Sometimes they'll start with a quality product (e.g. Vlassic pickles) and just run them into the ground.

Edit: To be clear, WalMart pioneered nearly all the bad behavior that Amazon is exhibiting. Low quality made overseas junk? Squeezing their supply chain mercilessly? Paying unlivable wages? That's WalMart.

WalMart's house brand stuff has been long been regarded as the McDowell's to Target and Trader Joe's McDonald's. And, in fact, WalMart paid plenty of money[1] over selling WalMart (Super Tech) branded motor oil that did not meet the specifications it claimed to meet.

1: https://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/...
> Russian hackers

This claim is repeated endlessly but I've yet to see any actual evidence of it.
But that is par for the course in this era of disinformation.
What could they do though? I thought courts in the USA ruled that an IP address can't be used to identify a person. It seems like the most they could do is ban the account, which they can do for any reason they want.
Canada has robust, tried and tested hate speech laws. They've also previously said they would start regulating platforms unless they started to "self regulate." It's time.
It's become a pattern across many Google assets. The massive price increase of the Maps API, the order of magnitude limitations placed on the YouTube API, and now the neutering of ad blocking on Chromium. Google built an empire, and now they're cashing in their chips. I can't say I blame them, but they are no longer a platform that enables innovation. So now my only question is what's next? Which Google product will be the next to transform into an anaconda in their attempts to squeeze cash from their customers. Personally, I'm rethinking everything from Gmail to Android.
A research infrastructure that could support improving the variance of results without significantly impacting the mean would be an enormous boon to the world.
Same here. For some people it's like this...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gy8pa9/weed-causes-anxiet...
When I try to buy something like bacon at Whole Foods (now owned by Amazon) and I have to make sure I'm not getting something unexpected like uncured or unsmoked bacon and that's a waste of energy

Isn't pretty much all of the bacon at Trader Joe's uncured?
It's important to note that that power goes both ways, alas.

This quote from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States
is very much on topic: "Fewer than one percent of lynch mob participants were ever convicted by local courts and they were seldom prosecuted or brought to trial. By the late 19th century, trial juries in most of the southern United States were all white because African Americans had been disenfranchised, and only registered voters could serve as jurors. Often juries never let the matter go past the inquest."
This needs a re-submission. Not even one comment for an amazing concept.
These situations do happen in real life, minus the whiteboard.
I've known /met a lot of serious students, some from living next door to Manhattan School of Music, and they all had different advice on practicing. Some had very structured allocations of time, recording all practices and journaling their progress, some said they put their entire being into practicing one tune at a time.

I recommend reading Kenny Werner's Effortless Mastery, which is probably in your public library if you're in a big city, and also the interviews in Wernick/Trischka's Masters of 5 String Banjo, currently going fore absurd asking prices on Amazon and hard to find unless you know a banjo player.
I'm ok with sites working on de-radicalization by making certain content more difficult to find, but I think we need transparency in all of this. I'm weary of a giant corporation like Google deciding what is "correct" discourse.

The analog I like to bring up is the College Board devising an "adversity" score along with your SAT score. I prefer the College Board come up with a transparent methodology instead of each institution, like Harvard, having an opaque one of their own. In the future I want to see a world where your zip code doesn't determine your outcome, but some changes like this happen at a glacial pace. In a similar light I also want to see discourse become more civil over time with the rebuilding of the middle class.
> He's pretty offensive, but doesn't really go much further than Colbert, John Oliver, etc.

I'm sorry, what?

> Last week, Maza called out the abuse in a supercut of comments Crowder has made on his popular YouTube channel in the last two years. They include: “lispy sprite,” “little queer,” “Mr. Gay Vox,” “Mr. Lispy queer from Vox,” “an angry little queer,” “gay Mexican,” and “gay Latino from Vox.”

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/xwn54q/google-says-right...

It's been a while since I watched John Oliver or Colbert, I guess I'm missing some information that would make the comparison even slightly accurate?
At the same time, a board for discussing tech has some responsibility to ensure that big issues facing tech can be discussed. It's a problem if whoever's making the next Youtube lurks here and thinks "huh, content moderation must not be a big issue, nobody in the industry seems to talk about it".
then you failed with your trip. Mao is highly controversial if not hated among all my family and friends. Censorship is laughed at on every level. where did you go?
I was going to upvote this but it turns out outline.com hides it's content behind a computational paywall. You have to execute their code in order for text to display.

Here's a version that is just accessible text: http://superkuh.com/twitchsues.txt
I'm not saying the person you are responding to is right, but your counter seems flawed. Owning slaves was legal and allowed some people to gather wealth, even at the expense of other people. As a result, there were people who got rich doing exactly that.

Why isn't that part of capitalism? Yes, it taints it, but really what it says to me is that unfettered capitalism will lead to "evil", repulsive acts, and that is exactly why, as problematic as it is, government must set legal boundaries around unacceptable behavior when such behaviors are discovered.

To make a modern analogy, it is legal for coal companies to "top" mountains, and to strip mine, and to release gigatons of CO2, and with it biologically significant amounts of mercury, massive amounts of particulates, large waste byproducts of coal ash and more. It is legal and profitable, so there are many companies doing it, despite the clear external costs to environment and the health of the population. Is this not part of capitalism?
>which is a crime in California

I keep seeing people say this, but is it true? Is there a special law in California against recording in a bathroom? To be clear, I don't see that one has an expectation of privacy outside of the stall in a public bathroom.
The best estimates would be rolling out by next year, and enforced in probably 2 years. And they will probably change quite a lot until then.
As of last April, several implementations (including HAProxy) were more "right" than Nginx: https://twitter.com/tunetheweb/status/988196156697169920
On having a love/hate relationship with technology
I absolutely detest the way Extensions in Safari are handled in Mojave. Is there any way to install them without the App Store?
This isn't actually advice from the NY Times. It's an editorial. As such, it represents the views only of the two writers involved.
As in nginx that still doesn't have support for h2 in the backend?
I think you're making it sound less scary than it actually is. The study you linked looked at adolescents who used cannabis once a week, and found that they suffered a permanent decline in IQ.

Once a week is not "binge usage." That term isn't used anywhere in the study. The study doesn't make or support the claim that only binge usage causes mental decline.

What the study supports is that weekly long-term use beginning in adolescence causes permanent mental decline.

Furthermore the NYT links many other studies to support their position, and a recurring theme is that we still don't understand all the long-term effects of marijuana.

I have a feeling that if this article was about tobacco or alcohol the comments would look totally different. I like cannabis, I think it's probably more benign than both of those drugs, but I don't think we should give it a free pass because of its counterculture association or any other reason. By the admission of researchers it is not well understood, so there is a good case to be made that the path of least harm is to legalize carefully and in stages.
At 2-3 weeks a piece... let's just say we'll be eating twinkies for at least 2 years?
> It's been a while since I watched John Oliver or Colbert, I guess I missed them using slurs on air?

Colbert literally called Donald Trump Putin's "c--k holster" on live TV (but was obviously bleeped). Samantha Bee called Ivanka Trump a "feckless c--t." Both of these are easily Google-able.

Again, I'm not a fan of this kind of language on either side, but let's at least be fair.
Simplicity. Neurological development takes place at different rates for different people, but it's an invidious thing to measure, so it's best not to try, at least until neuroscience gets better.
“An alternative model in campaign coverage, the citizens agenda style”
I'm normally one to see both sides in a situation like this, but this one struck me differently.

YouTube appears scared of extremists. They claim to fear a anti-conservative bias. If by policing blatant bigotry and hate makes you anti-conservative, there may be an issue with conservatism, not your policy.

If mainstream conservatives have gotten to the point where they'd defend blatant bigotry, disrespect, and just down right hateful behavior, and we yield to them, we need a reality check. This type of behavior does not make our society any better, promote a discussion, or spread any kind of well-being.

The same behavior would not be tolerated in many of the community spaces we share: schools, churches, theaters, restaurants. Why do we allow such things online? Why do we allow women to be harassed endlessly with death rape threats on Twitter but not in person? I do not understand. To mistake poor cyber behavior as less important and less influential on our culture may be the gravest mistake we keep making.

There's a good faith, honest, and respectful way to have differing opinions and discuss important topics. But this isn't it, and it's not ambiguous. If we want a world where goodness prevails, we have to stop being scared and start making choices.
Interestingly, thought leaders at the time of European ownage of African slaves thought the differences of "races" were similar to the differences between species. I'd wager some people still do.

Laissez-faire[1] capitalism fundamentals require "freedom of the individual", but the definition of "individual" is usually not specific enough to afford it to all human beings or to prevent it from being ascribed to non-human entities. I wonder if we will ever get to a place where we recognize the intelligence of other species / non-human entities (non-terrestrials, AI, incredibly intelligent dogs/dolphins/elephants etc.) deserves these same protections in the economy.

Also worth noting that "negative externalities"[2] can also cause massive harm[3], but laissez-faire capitalism doesn't always afford for any protections against them (depending on how obvious/proximal they are to a human action/intention).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality#Negative

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage
maybe openresty? nginx with embedded lua plenty of library support for external systems like redis, memcached, mysql, etc...
My own Father may end up in court for hate speech against me (Bill C13) for being transgender ('you're a disgrace to God', 'you're a disappointment to myself and the family,' the usual ignorant hate speech about half of trans people get, especially from 'Christians' like my Father who use God to defend their bigotry - I am a Christian myself, by the way...I have nothing wrong with Christians, I have a problem with ignorant bigots like my Father or Westboro Baptists...). Our laws are very fair. I'd love to see him face serious consequences for the psychological damage his awful words have caused me. I'm glad to live here.

So, so very many trans people have no point of recourse for the nights we spend crying ourselves to sleep from the hate we get, especially from those who claim to 'love us'.

EDIT: Downvotes? Really? If you're downvoting this, consider yourself priviliged enough to not have to go through this. Guessing it's mostly fathers who would be horrified to see their kid take them to court?
On page 32 of the PDF it says self supervision is:

> - A form of unsupervised learning where the data provides the supervision

> – In general, withhold some information about the data, and task the network with predicting it

> – The task defines a proxy loss, and the network is forced to learn what we really care about,
e.g. a semantic representation, in order to solve it
I think investors will want to see that you have a proven track record before they trust you with money upfront. For example if you want to boil the ocean and you need money to build a prototype burner, you won't get very far, but Elon Musk would.
So how can any new social media platforms or startups ever be able to support all that additional staff/infrastructure?

I hold the complete opposite view. The individual that uploaded the content should be held solely responsible for the publishing of that content. Should the platform receives a request for removal then by all means the onus would fall to them to make that decision. If the content is illegal then the platform should aid law enforcement with whatever information they have on the uploader. I don't believe it makes any sense to pre-filter content unless you're deliberately trying to create an opinionated platform (which btw is fine if that's what you want to do, but it shouldn't be a legal requirement).
New Experiment Shows the Uncertainty Principle Isn't as Uncertain as We Thought
Yes, suicide showers... Cuba has those too.
> This [power supply and hard drive being loud] is the experience a computer user would have had every time she booted up her Macintosh SE, a popular all-in-one computer sold by Apple from 1987 to 1990.

A lot of that is from the hardware being 30 years old. Fans and drives get louder.
Hate speech is paradox. In the end its boil down to whoever strong enough to force other to comply.
Thanks so much for building this & making it available. I haven't been this excited about a website since the internet was brand new!
A certain twitch category I frequent has had streams advertising phishing websites (phishing game credentials) on it 24/7 for a few years and twitch has never done anything about it. I guess if it doesn't cause public outrage then it's fine.
So, two late night hosts (one of which isn't John Oliver) have used obscenities directed at a person once each. And that's comparable to Crowder's output? He's very obviously been targeting that guy repeatedly, for a long time.
The potency stuff is such garbage. So before people smoked an entire joint to get as stoned as they now get off a few hits. So what? People titrate their intake. Whenever i see this line i just stop reading because i feel the author is not interested on honest argumentation.
Can you explain why you think what you said was exculpatory for God's inaction?

Even if you somehow just accept that because slavery ended in the US after generations of horrifying cruelty, how do you reconcile your response with the fact that human slavery is still practiced to this very day in many places?
I know Canada's hate speech laws are pretty broad, but I'm not sure they make it a crime to call people nasty names.
That's not true. See below for the under age surcharge for Budget in Tennessee and Enterprise everywhere:

https://www.budget.com/budgetWeb/html/en/common/agePopUp.htm...
https://www.enterprise.com/en/help/faqs/car-rental-under-25....
I don't agree on that being the immediate issue.

The bottom with disruptions to their income are detrimental to society’s health. Public sector monetary solutions are untolerated and private sector solutions of employment are often inaccessible or inadequate. We can address their productivity.
RPCS3 – Progress April 2019
The Great Subscription Shift: Is This the End of Ownership?
If they can’t exercise effective editorial control, they shouldn’t be in that business. Same as a newspaper that publishes harmful or libellous content. Will it kill off Facebook and Twitter in their current forms? Probably...but that’s a feature, not a bug.
A little know fact about IE8 is that it came with a built in content blocking mechanism appropriately called Tracking Protection way back in 2009. IIRC it was the first browser to come with ad blocking built in, although not turn on by default. Opera came with content blocking a bit later.

IE9 improved on it with what I think is one of the most impressive feature to this day. It had a heuristic tracking protection that block trackers once it's detected at a certain re-occurrence counts that you can config. So in theory it doesn't need to subscribed to an ad list like all browsers do today.

IE took a lot of crap deservedly so, but that overshadowed a lot of pioneer works that later browsers adopted.
this. I have a new social media startup project based on user-submitted content and I can tell you that there will be no way to compete if regulation is enacted that treats social media companies as publishers. It's hard enough just to build something that people may want to use in a market dominated by titans, but by adding the additional burden of moderation and liability for content, we'd be ensuring that the incumbents never have to worry about competition again.
When Naziism comes again, it will come online. You cannot hide from that.
By programmable you mean configurable via a REST api?
Isn't Texas only a red state because of gerrymandering?
If we can't discuss it civilly, should it be discussed at all?

I think if we want this kind of discussion on the board, the topic should be clearly marked as potentially hostile and either have comment voting disabled entirely or change the policy so that rule violations in flagged topics come with strict and lengthy timeout periods.

And I say that as someone who has caught dang's ire a few times, as I'm sure he can confirm. :)
So there'll be one or two people taking care of those human decisions when necessary... when there used to be ten people taking care of the whole process.

So it doesn't automate all the jobs out of existence; it just automates most of them out of existence
I gave you two examples (the ones most cited by conservative media), and I'm sure you can dig more up. But if that's your line of reasoning, you're headed towards the sorites paradox, and that's not a good place to be.