skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading a little bit of the way through, to the part about farmers vending in a non-present way, I am thinking, this is the hangover from a culture that is wary of it's peers. Trade is done in such a way that no harm can happen. A way for tribes to trade. Trade between warrior tribes. So perhaps this is a remnant of Samurai culture? This is a big stretch on my part, I welcome any corrections or insight.
> I was told several time (and experienced) that Americans love to say yes, and not follow through, which is a pretty rude thing in France. "Why don't we have lunch one day?" "you should come to my house!" "Let's make something together" Apparently these are non-committal statement in US. In France they are. That's why being able to say no is far more important.

Agree, and this is not unique to the US. Casual proposals to do stuff together in the future without follow-up happens pretty much everywhere - it being something more like a commitment is rather an exception than the rule.
> I'm fifteen years old with good knowledge of mostly high school level math, and may have missed some parts.

Kabir,

Great work on getting this done. I wonder if looking around for and mentioning the similar "You Could Have Invented Monads"[0] would be a good move

[0] http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...
Sure, the human has to physically exist before they can become radicalized. I don’t really follow the point here. It’s still important to figure out where the actual radicalization happens.
Cloudflare is committing itself to do as they are told by the governments, in the spirit of upholding the law [0] on govts' behalf (despite under no obligation to do so), if they deem fit.

Whether this makes them reasonable, time will tell. Full marks to Cloudflare for so eloquently addressing this and covering themselves with as much grace as they could muster. If one reads between the lines, censorship is coming. This isn't different from what jgrahamc said a few months back in the news [1].

Signals a new era for Cloudflare, going from protector to arbitrator [2], for better or for worse.

[0] for instance, it was and still is a crime to be a minority in some countries.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774347

[2] Not an expert, but it'd be nice if they allowed 30 to 90 day time period before termination, rather than doing it overnight?
Reporting on harm is not the same as inciting harm
So you're willing to give unchecked control of online discourse to a private corporation?
I think desktop/laptop computers that are standalone will be a niche again. Chromebooks, iPad Pros and the like will make always online a requirement not a luxury.

Facial/voice recognition along with AI that will constantly try to figure you out is definitely gonna happen.

As for the USA, the telecom, entertainment and tech industries will join forces to become Ma-Bell 2.0 (control over your social media, traditional media and telecommunications). Social security will finally end with everyone having to invest on their own. The middle class will continue to shrink or disappear.

Digital currency will be the new dollar to get paid in.
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>How do you determine what speech is "good" and what speech is "bad"?

Speech becomes bad when it infringes on the rights of another group or individual. Where that specific line is drawn does vary, but the underlying principle is the same and one that seemingly everyone agrees with. The US happens to be near the absolute extreme to where this line is drawn.

Whether you think hate speech infringes on the rights of the targeted group is up for debate. People don't have an inherent right to not be offended (which is why I am against the few western countries that still have blasphemy laws). However, hate speech on sites like 8chan does often lead to speech that incites violence. There can be no debate that people have a right to safety. Speech that incites violence infringes on that right.
Yup, you can definitely see a web developer bias here - those are all popular webfonts because Google offer them free on their CDN, and it is easy to drop them into any website by just pasting in the CSS, but they are probably much less familiar to those outside frontend web development. They're also not necessarily the best fonts to use for the same reason.
Tutorial: https://youtu.be/f_3hHIgnlYY

Unlike Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides doesn't offer a native option to save presentations as videos.

Creator Studio adds new export capabilities to your Google Slides and you'll be able to download your decks as animated GIFs, image sequences and HD video (with audio).
What's happening is that 8chan is indirectly costing Cloudflare money by hurting their brand and their employees' morale.
Rather than refusing sketchy clients, companies should factor these costs in their pricing.
Conversely, universally loved entities (e.g. Greenpeace) should be be offered lower prices.

This would create an incentive for companies to be better.
Revenue is just one example, probably not a great one, the point is to have anything quantifiable. “Optimized web server” has a lot less punch than “reduced home page median response time from 10s to 1s”
Virtually every banking app on Android tries to detect rooted devices as much as possible and many suspend your online banking access if they find one..
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> In this case, it'd be about requiring CloudFlare to _assist_ 8chan in _being_ heard. And there's no such right, or ruling.

The comment I was replying to was about what the constitutional right to free speech entails, not about what CloudFlare is required to do.
"Absolute free speech" is like anarchism. I've yet to meet someone who fully practices them both yet they will preach it and condemn others with their self-righteous hypocrisy. Would you want me to come up to your kid and cuss him out for no reason? Your mom? I wouldn't even have to use foul language to bother them. Any number of reasons I could really annoy you or your loved ones with free speech and in some cases really make them fear for their life, legal or not, especially if I was famous and had an internet army to "play" with them.

Free speech is the equivalent of "utopia". It doesn't exist because even the most ardent endorsers have shown kinks in their armor where they don't want people to use it against them at certain times and certain ways. You argue against the selective suppression of ideas yet you may reply to me and tell me this idea needs suppressed. Most people already see the kinks of hypocrisy in it and have long realized it, like all other freedoms, are best used moderately so as not to infringe on the freedoms of others.
I think you're misreading me. I'm saying an accurate view of reality necessitates gun ownership.

I am a gun (and crossbow) owner. I don't feel like I can trust my government. I lived a few blocks from where Kelly Thomas was killed and watched the police officers who did it beat the system and get off.

As far as I'm concerned, until those folks are brought to justice, and until the architects of the financial collapse are brought to justice, the law in this country is meaningless because some people are not subject to it.
If news subscriptions ever get around to working it has to happen the way things progressed with music: siloed content people mostly don't pay for (check), widespread piracy that allows people to enjoy unfettered access (let's say the Google trick/private browsing trick counts). Next comes the switcheroo phase, when a company comes along and makes heaps of illegal money off the piracy while negotiating with the content owners in a bid for legitimacy.

The economics are too hard otherwise. The New York Times won't cede pricing control willingly and consumers won't pay subscription prices to individual producers. And middleman companies will always have two impossible battles, pricing and content coverage.

Music might just be the sweet spot, though. Spotify works great while Netflix is getting torn apart by the sharks. Video might be too expensive/lucrative to aggregate and news articles might be too cheap/pervasive to bother.
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Your plastic credit card also contains a general purpose computer that will respond similarly to tampering.
The only people that can ban content are the board owners.

Sure I imagine they could go db diving and ban content manually, but they don't want to.
These sub-communities that people want to censor, do they have any redeeming value?

Or are you just making a slippery-slope argument that this might be a precedent for some hypothetical future censorship of something worthwhile?
Can't believe something like this (md5) wasn't flagged during tech diligence by any of their investors (GV, General Atlantic, Battery, DST Global, etc)...
Speech cannot be violent.

To the downvoters: speech cannot be violent, by definition. Using your own private definition of a word—in this case, violence—without making an explicit disclaimer is inherently deceitful.
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How do you know that the operator of the vehicle is the licensee? Do you compare the name on the app to the drivers license?

A taxi, bus, truck driver will instantly lose their CDL privilege under many circumstances, including DUI or suffer sanction operating an unsafe vehicle. Train operators get blacklisted. When a carrier like a bus company allows unlicensed drivers to drive, they get sanctioned as well.
What differentiates the speechy bytes from the punchy bytes?
Historically people in America arrived from all over the world, from different cultures and traditions, so it has probably been safer to interact politely rather than sincerely.
Context: Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. — Jamie Zawinski

See also: https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha...
Yes, but since I trust my own reasoning over a random Internet commenter, there's little value in reading someone else's conclusions.

To put it another way, a well-written argument often calls on evidence that can be interesting and useful even if you disagree with the conclusion. But the conclusion of an anonymous commenter can't be trusted without the supporting evidence.

And yet, many people think that if they state their conclusions louder, or turn them into a clever slogan, others will be compelled to listen to them. This happens especially when these conclusions become "conventional wisdom" in some community.
I’m a bit afraid to mention this, but you can do iopl(3) and then use CLI and STI from user code. I try to keep this from breaking the kernel too badly.
But don't you see how the lines blue very quickly? It's not always as clear where morality lies as when some lunatic posts terroristic threats. Arbitrary value judgements must be made when enforcing censorship so censorship always leads to conflict between groups that disagree on what should be censored.

That's why the best course of action is to not censor at all and allow the system to work itself out.
I think this is stretching the stated intent of the Electoral College to the point of being disingenuous. The framers did want "land" to affect presidential election, but not because they wanted the land itself to be a separate legal entity.

Do you have any evidence to the contrary?
Free speech is a hard requirement for democracy, and a hard requirement of free speech is accepting the freedom of speech you find objectionable. Your nation was founded upon this principle as a cornerstone, and yet you have regressed back to ochlocracy. It wasn't even 100 years ago that any discussions of LGBT welfare were censored the same way by people with the same mindset.

> Would you want me to come up to your kid and cuss him out for no reason? Your mom?

We're talking about an online discussion group that discusses things that some, including myself, find objectionable. We're talking about whether such groups should be allowed to exist, and by extension whether those ideas should be allowed to exist. You're talking about harassment with an example that doesn't even intersect freedom of speech. Terrible strawman.

When I emigrated from the former Soviet Union, freedom of speech was one of the bigger changes in everyday life. It was also something that people were proud of and supported. They understood that it's what allows democracy to function, they understood that by definition it means supporting objectionable speech. Now I'm watching the tide turn and the same people actually supporting censorship in their own nations.

I always thought the censorship and thought-policing started with the oppressive government in the Soviet Union, I didn't believe that people initially welcomed it. But here we are, the cycle is repeating again.
Which states and developed countries are you talking about? The EU28 homicide rate is ~1 per 100,000. NH sometimes hits that; no other US state does. There are about 6 US states <= to 2. The only EU states over 2 are Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Japan and South Korea are both under 1.
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Sounds like the aim of "Monday specials" and "Happy Hour" brought to digital age.
You're thinking assembly line robots. I'm thinking more general purpose machines that are designed to move independently and automatically adjust themselves to the correct position relative to a design and perform the task. Alternatively, at least something that a set of humans can move in to place, bolt on, and have it do the above.
"Actually" gets you most of the way there
<literally-at-bottom-of-post>We anticipate entering the Chinese consumer food retail market...</literally-at-bottom-of-post>

How is this unclear?
Interesting. I'm asking this question myself right now (crappy management+high stress but good pay/stock options). Of course the $ amount to satisfy 'worth it' differs for each person. Can you share your personal experience? How did you go about answering this question of 'is it worth it'?
Who cares? Whether the answer were yes or no, it wouldn't have any bearing on the current discussion.

"This policy would've been bad in the past" not an argument against that policy now, especially ~180 yrs later.

Also, why is an alternate reality without Chicago a nightmare scenario?
Any time reddit says they are removing something due to "hateful content", it's just PR speak for "we got some media/advertiser backlash for this content so we are removing it".

Reddit was notoriously infested with white supremacist subs, jailbait subs, pics of dead people subs, and more, and they were all brought up to the admins many times, and the admins never took any action on this hateful content until CNN et al started writing articles about it.

It's not entirely unlike this situation with Cloudflare, really. These companies talk a big game about their principles and morals, but at the end of the day the only principle they strictly adhere to is the principle of public backlash.
Yes, CPython has poor startup performance due in large part to the number of allocations it makes, and once can achieve at least 60% reductions in startup time by being smarter about those allocations.
Motivation is part of it, but there's also an extensive practical support system that provides advice on technique, target selection, troubleshooting and so on.

That will not, of course, go away even if 8chan were to collapse under LOIC fire later tonight, but it will undermine the infrastructure and hinder recruiting.
If its not immoral to use drugs it shouldn't be immoral to talk about it. "Trashy" is just an label for behavior deemed unwanted or associated with low class. But the parent (presumably) deemed using drugs not trashy by his own admission of using them.
As do most enterprise MFA apps, unless your site admin permits jailbroken devices to enroll.
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I found this fascinating so did a bit of research:

Both the National Review article and this piece (https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2012/04/words-and-deeds/) by Flemming Rose credit Alan Borovoy for having been the original author of that passage (in his 1988 book When Freedoms Collide: The Case for Civil Liberties).

The New Yorker article is based on Bob Mankoff interviewing Flemming Rose and it looks like Flemming Rose may have been slightly misquoted in a way that made the attribution less clear: the bit where it says:

> In the words of a present-day civil-rights campaigner, pre-Hitler Germany had laws very much like the anti-hate laws of today, and they were enforced with some vigor. As history so painfully testifies, this type of legislation proved ineffectual on the one occasion when there was a real argument for it.

Flemming Rose is attributing both sentences - "pre-Hitler Germany had laws very much like the anti-hate laws of today, and they were enforced with some vigor" & "As history so painfully testifies, this type of legislation proved ineffectual on the one occasion when there was a real argument for it." to "a present-day civil-rights campaigner" or Alan Borovoy.
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The problem is, mass shootings generate a lot of revenue for media companies in terms of clicks, so when one major online newspapers posts something about it, the rest of them would follow. (Capitalism can really commoditize anything, right?)
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It was all over Twitter yesterday because it was short enough to render as 4 image files.
What system are you talking about if not the system where people and companies can choose who they wish to associate with?

I should clarify, I'm not advocating complete freedom in this regard. We don't want a society where it's hard to be a gay person because lots of companies deny service to homosexuals. However, we also can't claim that every company should always have to serve everyone. There is certainly some nuance and ambiguity here, but not hosting services for groups which support far-right terror seems to be fairly reasonable.
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> named after Storm troopers.

Actually it's named after this publication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Stürmer
Great example of the slippery-slope fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
OK, so 8chan (edit: sorry, should have written "Cloudflare") could have handled this better according to your personal sense of justice or aesthetics or whatever. And... 20 people are dead in El Paso.

It's like we're not even talking about the same thing here. I just don't get your thought process, sorry. You agree that this incitement and radicalization shouldn't have had a forum, I think.

You just... would rather talk about the mechanism by which the forum access was removed than the incitement and radicalization? That's really the hill you're taking your stand on?
I hear "yeah, nah" more used in this sarcastic way than any other in Western Australia.
I think these two posts just about sum up the state of things and our disagreements at this time in history as succinctly as I could imagine.
Some bank apps used to work on rooted phones, but thanks to Google SafetyNet (proprietary spyware which reports metrics about your phone to Google so they can determine whether it is "safe" for apps to run) a lot of apps that never did rooted checks have started using it.

It might be possible to use XPosed to trick apps into think that the SafetyNet checks passed, but I bet they've worked hard to make that as hard as humanly possible.
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"Brazil’s Murder Rate Finally Fell—and by a Lot.

Bolsonaro will claim credit for the good news, but his policies may erase the country’s hard-won gains."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/22/brazils-murder-rate-fin...

15 seconds of Google and you can see how your first statement has little support.

"Brazil govt to cut 2019 GDP growth forecast, eyes budget freezes"

https://www.reuters.com/article/brazil-economy-forecasts/upd...

Now your second statement.. economy is growing again? Sure, less than expected, and aiming for budget cuts to meet forecasts? Privatizations to covert deficit?

I could go on and on about the stuff you said, but I can clearly see by your "points" that you are deep into the whole "bolsonarismo" thing, so I'm not sure it's worth a big discussion.

I suggest you to read more factual information and less propaganda to get informed. It will do a lot of good to you and everyone around you.
> No. Because they are a public utility and that would be a violation of the first amendment.

> Yes. Because they are a private institution and not obligated to do business with you.

That's some pretty strong dissonance there. Here in Indiana, the utilities AND banks are all private entities. And there's no actual state or federal law that would prevent a utility from cutting utilities for "being and speaking of white nationalism". I chose my examples carefully - all are much more regulated than some Walmart or Target or Amazon.

My larger discussion was that over very corporate autonomy. Who made them arbiters of what language was acceptable? Why should infrastructure companies be decision makers of what is said online? Years ago, we restricted the phone companies from doing that very thing - and they wanted dearly to forbid classes of speech. Yet somehow when it's "on the interwebz" we throw those ideas and rules out, all so that someone can make a bigger pile of dollars.

Don't forget, cloudflare is a US company. There's absolutely 0 reason why they can't be considered an infrastructure company and subject to common carrier rules as well. Or the counter-offer is they can be responsible for speech over their network. I doubt they'd like that either. After all, they're still hosting piles of stressers and ddos merchants.
> These sub-communities that people want to censor, do they have any redeeming value?

The usual example would be cartoon child pornography. Some want to see it wiped off the face of earth, others argue it provides an outlet for pedophiles.

> Or are you just making a slippery-slope argument that this might be a precedent for some hypothetical future censorship of something worthwhile?

Maybe that too, but it's more about that they are not illegal, which means the judicial system has not found that they shouldn't exist and no attempt has been made to bring about such a decision. If its not the judicial system, who should be the arbiter of communities that are allowed to exist? Do we want facebook, google and cloudflare to be community-shepherds?
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I hear you, the problem is the Catholic Church had intuitions about whether the earth revolves around the sun was positive or negative, too. Dangerous ideas come in all shapes and sizes; but on the whole are less dangerous than someone deciding which is which.
> I'm actually not too hopeful about Starlink and LEO satellite internet for rural areas without some kind of government subsidies

Why? SpaceX and competitors think they can compete on price with traditional providers in rural areas. You think they're overly optimistic?
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Yes, but 8ch users have been expecting this since Christchurch, and in any case chan culture has a long history of people on one site raiding an other and causing it to collapse with DDOS or contraband or whatever. It's not hard for people who regularly monitor it to figure out where people will move to.
I’ll take analytical thinking that hasn’t found the right information yet over folksy intuition any day.