skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> with sane content filtering options to make it look as tame as reddit

People are really, really good at circumventing automated filters, while non automated filtering means subjecting people to horrific content for 8 hours a day.

I really want to be on the side of the broadest possible interpretation of free speech, but my experience leads me in a different direction. It's been my experience that corralling the fringe doesn't work because the people in that fringe are intent on spreading their message/content as far and wide as possible. Even against the wishes of the general populace of a given site like Reddit. That behaviour seems to spring from the same attention-seeking place as that of griefers like Goonswarm in EVE, whose stated goal was at one point to ruin as many people's fun in that game as possible.

So there's perhaps two parts to the freedom of speech argument space: One is that there are people who want to create/share/consume content that the general populace doesn't want to see. Then the second is that there are people who aren't acting in good faith, whose goal seems to be to ruin as much as possible.

The first group there will probably keep to themselves, manage their communities and cooperate with governmental authorities to remove illegal content or activities. Of course that doesn't take into account when those groups are acting against those authorities while still having the moral support of most of the population. For instance campaigning for marijuana legalization, which most people would say should be protected speech.

But then there's the second group, who hide within the first often enough, or who falsely act like the first because they want to destroy things because they seem to have no emotional investment in society. (in my opinion)

The second group thrives because no one wants to commit the manpower to track and manage them. I don't know how to fix that problem, I don't even know if it's possible. Heck there will be many who will argue it's not necessary at all.
https://www.amazon.com/Carmen-Hello-Kitty-Steering-Wheel/dp/...
I always see complaints about recaptcha like this, but I've never experienced this struggle, certainly not to such a degree as to be outright frustrating. It's always seemed pretty obvious to me what the right answers are. My personal take to your examples are that that a traffic light's pole is not a traffic light, but any part of the box that contains the lamps/leds is (even if facing away from the camera), and that neither large trucks nor buses are cars, but would include vans, pickups, and SUVs.

Hopefully these rules of thumb will help someone reading this find these captchas less frustrating.
OT, but I love this sentence juxtaposed with the motto for your blog: "brevity is for the weak"
I recently tried sharing an article I wrote for CryptoSlate about general stuff happening around gaming and it was flagged. I have no idea why. It wasn't spam. I wasn't selling anything. Honestly, a post on how to game HackerNews seems way way way more spammy than what I had flagged. I just wanted to share content that I had created. I don't expect I'll ever get 30,000 of you to look at one of my links.
Relavent XKCD
https://xkcd.com/1357/
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15478131
I can format equations in latex in fewer characters than I could express in Lisp, so what you’re saying about 2D vs 1D really doesn’t make any sense.
What is your take on the Julia programming language? (2018)
Great, now US can print more money and get even more stuff out of china for cheap. US will be more prospect and chines would be employed. win win?
Well, for one, if you have a solid idea that the market is going to crash, and that you're going to soon not be able to invest more, and that in fact you're going to have to draw down your investments to survive, then now is a better time to sell than later.

That's a lot of ifs, but that's precisely what we're discussing - how best to behave in different circumstances. "Always hold" isn't the best answer in all circumstances, despite what many in this thread are saying.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/business/china-currency.h...

See the section titled "How would that help China?

> Say you own a Chinese factory making lawn ornaments, and you sell a lot of pink flamingos to an American retailer. You price each at $1 — they may sell for far more in retail outlets in the United States, but shipping and storage account for most of that. When the renminbi is 6 to the dollar, that translates to 6 renminbi in sales.

> But when the currency depreciates to 7 to the dollar, that $1 flamingo is worth 7 renminbi in sales to you. Or you can cut the price — say, from $1 to 85.7 cents — and still make your original 6 renminbi in sales. Your American competitor, who has to buy and sell in dollars, has to grudgingly cut prices to compete.
China is not an export economy. They have a very balanced current account, < 1% of GDP.

https://www.themoneyillusion.com/things-that-smart-people-do...

The justification that the Trump administration gives is that if you look at the subset current account that is trade, then further subset down to goods only (not services) and then futher subset down to bilateral goods trade with the USA then indeed China has a big surplus.
In this case their "truth" is violence. The thing being censored is them advocating violence...
Makes me wonder how many people like GPL and free software. One of the core tenants of free software is the ability to do anything with it (freedom 0). This includes being able to do evil.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

The original JSON license is even deemed not free because it limits the ability to use it for Evil.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#JSON

There is a reason for this decision and it applies to speech as much as it does to software.
Ask HN: Ways to make money on the side as a full time developer?
Context: I'm a European developer in my late twenties. I would like to make more money, as right now I'm barely able to save (just 100/month or so, after cutting expenses). I have zero contacts to get small projects like websites for mom and pop shops, and my family comes from a very non entrepreneurial background so I literally don't know how any way to make money that doesn't involve just getting a salaried job.

Ideally it would be something that uses my current skillset as a developer and that would let me set up my own schedule so it can be flexible.

Do you guys have any idea for a side gig?
Interesting TCP is recommended with pain old Syslog. I've seen that take out systems due to not being able to dequeue. There are better protocols that you can use for reliable delivery
HR exists to protect the company, full stop. They are only interested in the workers insofar as they reveal potential legal liabilities for the company.

It is almost always better to first talk to outside legal representation to understand the landscape. If there are actual law violations, they will help properly document and possibly start preparing a case, and if not then you know you should prepare to leave the company.

EDIT: surprised at the downvotes here, this is common knowledge for workers in all industries, not just tech, and this has been discussed at length every time a similar issue arises.
I also roam in Germany. I would like to point out that this. situation with speed depends on the city where you are at. Munich has much better coverage than Berlin for some reason. Pricing is the same obviously.
There are a lot of people in this thread that don't seem to understand the difference between the law and the principle.

The first amendment law protects the principle. It doesn't create it. While these hosts might not be in violation of any law, they are absolutely acting contrary to the principle of free speech.
>government they think is allowing them the guns

Technically, the government #2 doesn't "allow" us rights, they are given to us by the constitution of which government #2 is ultimately bound to. The same fight happened against our right to free speech with the Sedition Act, of which our right to criticize the government ultimately survived. Citizens are still fighting to keep our right of privacy, the rights of the press, and of course the right to bear arms, among others.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918

Having said that, the second amendment, as it stands with government #2, is ultimately another check and balance, as is freedom of press, and speech. As with nuclear armaments and M.A.D., arms don't have to be used to be a deterrent. There are many examples in history where armed civilians were effective against much stronger militaries.
The Scrap Value of a Hacked PC, Revisited
It's tough to make the distinction between acceptable and unacceptable speech on a case-by-case basis.

The classic extremist play is to patiently gnaw at the edges of acceptability. Subtle digs at Jews, blacks, Hispanics, muslims or non-muslims (you can insert any group here, really) pave the way for innuendos about their morals, work ethic, intellectual capacity etc.

You can gaslight perfectly normal, upstanding citizens into doubting their strongly held ethical convictions, first enough that they don't argue against e.g. racist loudmouths, then to the point that they don't argue for equal treatment of "out" groups. As this process plays out, it starts to seem dangerous to defend the maligned against violence, and eventually enough citizens will have had their sense of normal behaviour pushed far enough that atrocities become possible.

I don't know how to break that cycle. I do think the root causes need to be addressed, because poverty and social decline provide fertile ground for demagogues pointing fingers.
Hey the morons in /r/The_Donald can say what they want. That is what we have all determined.

However, one of the largest social media sites out there (reddit) does NOT have to allow them to congregate together. Reddit should have banned them years ago. They are actively responsible for providing a place for hate to thrive.

You can be 100% pro free-speech and still agree that no one (except the government is some form, meaning sure they can hold meetings in public places, etc) HAS to give them a platform. Anything private can and should say NO.
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> One of them is that they can serve customers as they like, as long as they are not violating the rights of a protected class. Political ideology or party affiliation is not a protected class, nor should it be. Twitter could ban every Republican on its platform tomorrow and it if the government tried to stop them the Supreme Court would likely side with Twitter.

Where's the line between "political ideology" and "religion"? Is it your assertion that "kill all the jews because we're nazis and our leaders say jews are evil" is something that you should be able to ban while "kill all the jews because islam says jews are evil" is protected?

Since religion is almost always a protected class.
The tech industry has the best horizontal mobility of any other right now. Why do we need the downside of unions when we can just move company and have only the upsides?

Think of it like ageism. The time to do something about it is when you have the leverage. Not when you’re over a barrel.
... until the hosting providers stop hosting voat, for the same reason, and start blocking gab via deep packet inspection... for the same reason.
Sure, and therein lies the difference in incentives between those with lots of CNY denominated assets (owners, aka the rich) and those who's employment and/or income is more tied directly to the demand conditions faced by exporters (workers, aka the poor).

Once the 7 line is crossed, owners are more likely to seek diversification through getting out of CNY and into USD/Gold.

Some of that downward pressure on the FX is likely good for demand in China (hence Trump saying they are doing it competitively) but it's also bad for liquidity in China (to the degree people start to price in further devaluations and capital flight kicks up again).

That's the balancing act the PBOC is trying to manage.

Thusfar they've done a pretty good job balancing, though it remains to be seen how the end game looks.
$56 of which is breadboard and hook up wire - I'm sure it's possible to have a custom pcb fabbed for about $20,and if you do small runs to have the pcb cost drop to less than $1.
I think it's really important that the web be free and open and I think Cloudflare and now Voxility have done a tremendous job in exercising their freedom as private entities to shut down voices of hate.

Other service providers can step up to the plate and bear the consequences of providing service to communities that incite violence to the point of having direct ties to mass shootings.
And a few months later ISIS died because the lack of easily-spread propaganda destroyed its ability to recruit susceptible idiots to its cause to replace all the soldiers that were being killed.

IOW, mission accomplished.
The problem is just that your dividends are halved if the yield percentage don't double after the stock has halved.
8chan is basically 4chan, but with a Reddit-esque spin: anyone can create their own sub-board and moderate it as they please so long as the content they allow isn't illegal in the USA.
Exactly.

This means US consumers will now have 50% discount on all Chinese goods, or a 50% tax on exactly the same US goods.

Terrible for US manufacturing.
reCAPTCHA generally only works for me after I do it 3-4 times. Purely because I use a VPN. reCAPTCHA v3, curiously, works just fine when I'm using a VPN (if I allow it to run in the first place).
> If ethno-nationalists are not allowed to make their political case with speech, what alternative would they have but violence?

Plenty of nazi sites on the web where they make all sorts of “political cases”. Don’t confuse inability to make the case with repugnance to that case in general public.
in the aggregate if you devalue a currency so that it’s worth half of what it was, won’t prices in that currency double?
Or even just off color jokes that go over a line. For example, n* jokes
About half of that cost ($40) is the 5 breadboards needed to connect the circuit together. Building it on something more permanent like veroboard would cut that cost down significantly.
> If you have a different position, could you explain why censorship coming from CloudFlare is better than censorchip coming from US government?

I can engage a different CDN provider. I can't (easily) engage a different government.
Sure but is everything a race?
great for consumers, devastating for the whatever hobbled manufacturing base left in the US.
8chan is where the people too extreme and gross for 4chan went.
Am I missing something? The CPU dispatching in this library is done at runtime too... I thought FMV only has a penalty on the first call?
Could you share a link? Would like to see this
> When my cat cuddles up to me on the bed, this natural 'life is a fight' law falls to pieces. Beings are capable of generosity without a gaining idea, and most of us have encountered this as part of our lives.

devil's advocate: your cat does this so that you continue to feed/protect/pay attention to it.

you may not like that negative point of view, but it seems like a reasonable strategy for survival in a really tough world pre-modern era (still is tough for many).
Those guys seem to be working on another lib called edaviz. Also sounds very interesting.
PHP vs. Node?
Or at least they're no more true than claiming Imgur and the like have CP. (Dropbox and Google Drive almost certainly do, thanks to encryption)
Inaccurate but plausible is the advice I've been given for these. My bank insists on a "memorable name" (was formerly "mother's maiden name" - I confirmed it didn't have to be accurate), so I use one that was basically picked out of a hat, which has no connection to me or my family.
I feel like "you should take medical leave" is Google HR's answer to everything. Is that normal?
You don't. You can wait for obvious signs (government interventions), but if you wait for that, it won't be the bottom anymore. Better to just wait until the bleeding stops. Don't try to time the market exactly.
I think there is a different connotation to "slow is smooth, smooth is fast", but agree it isn't really a great analogy for production, because it is about learning.

What they mean is that you can't be fast (on a track) without being smooth, and that typically beginner-to-intermediate drivers/riders are trying to be fast in ways that make them less smooth, and ultimately (and counter-intuitively) makes them slower. So the advice is to forget about being fast and concentrate on being smooth. The speed will come.

I do think this has value as an analogy for software, but it is in concentrating on your tooling and methodology - smoother operating will deliver real value faster than just trying to type fast.
this also means that people in china cant afford products from the US, and China is a major consumer of goods, especially for large sectors of our agribusiness.

Also the fact that their yuan is worth less now is increasing uncertainty in the markets, and stocks dont like uncertainty, hence the sellof.
They do that with cars as well. I was shocked to figure out how bad some of their cars are compare to Asian or other European brands.
Not sure if you're being ironic, or are one who simply doesn't read anything but headlines. Hopefully it's the former.
I wrote neither more nor less than had to be written, to make a complete thesis and illustrate it.

Our attention spans are one casualty of today's technology, as I said in the piece (somewhere towards the end).
It is part of M0. It's more "money" than deposits (M1) or savings accounts (M2). In a discussion about money supply it definitely counts as money. And they have it. Yes, they need to keep enough reserves but apart from that it's their money to use as they please (lend, invest, spend, pay dividends...).

The deposit is their liability (obviously they can't spend it). The dollar is their asset. When you deposit the money into a bank that dollar is not yours anymore, the bank is not keeping it in custody for you.
"... if and when we actually write it."
Cloudflare is not acting as a publisher.
Nonsense. The kind of hate and prejudice posted on 8chan /pol/ would be deleted in a heartbeat on T_D. The worst you can say about T_D is that they don't like Islam, and given the violence and regressiveness it promotes, I can't blame them.
Pretty much, although with more revenue for the US government.
It’s devalued in relation to other currencies. In China, 100 yuan still = 100 yuan. So your 1 dollar gets you 50% more than it used to (going by your example).
I don't want to think about the dollar value I've "lost" today. But yeah, 3% here, 1% there. Meh. It's all a wash. /s
> I feel sorry for you.

I'm doing O.K., thank you for the concern.

> As some who's been around the block a few times, I will never, EVER, give away my mental or physical health for someone's business.

> My health is more important than their quarterly targets.

I wholeheartedly agree, however I believe there are some situations where such a choice is not so bad. If you're young, have no obligations, believe in what you do and will end up a lot better after the sprint, I think it's not such a bad thing. The most important thing I believe is being able to take the time off after said sprint to recover and get things back to normal. It shouldn't be a normality in your life and you should be in total control of the situation.

Also such sprints should be seriously spaced.
More like "anything that reflects some light is a mirror". It's now possible to undo diffusion by number-crunching. Not very well, though. See the pictures in the paper.
Well that was a fun rabbit hole to go down
Uber Driver Caught Peeing in Bottle with Shocked Customer in Back Seat
It's mean out here on these streets I'm from. I envy you.
It's not only Google but Intel, HP, Microsoft, Nike and MANY MORE Corps abuse...I mean use contractors. It's an issue the Federal govt needs to make a decision on imho. Look at the grubhub lawsuit in CA. Corp dont want to bring in full time people because they will have to pay them more, and give them all the benefits/perks etc.

Knowing Intel, they have a resolving door with positions. You can be a contractor for years in the same job and never be a full time employee. I.E A clear sign of misclassification. Intel has been getting away with it for years. They would rather bring in an H1B, or someone that fills a diversity quote than bring in someone local and pay them more. I've seen in over and over and over the last 10 years.
The law plainly defines free speech and intent.

From "Justia": "...A conspiracy occurs when two or more people agree to commit an illegal act and take some step toward its completion. Conspiracy is an inchoate crime because it does not require that the illegal act actually has been completed. ..."

Elements of a conspiracy here; https://www.justia.com/criminal/offenses/inchoate-crimes/con...

Conspiracy and encouragement to harm others by seeking agreement online by providing detailed plans, strategies, and the execution therein, as witnessed in some hastily written screeds and manifestos by shooters and terrorists, appears to cross that line.

Is 8Chan guilty as an active contributor to the horror that has occurred? More than plausible, but its liability albeit civil of punishable has seemingly not yet been defined.
It only took a decade for the government to get Backpage shut down...
Moral principles don't need to be justified by the "legitimate public interest" (in the short run), otherwise we would kill all babies that we predict will become criminals, even thought they've done nothing wrong yet.

I think laws should be fair and consistent. Censorship is inconsistent with freedom and justice. Additionally, the interpretation of messages is subjective.

If laws are inconsistent and arbitrary (and consequently, unfair), then you might as well throw moral principles out the window altogether and become a fascist, a white supremacist, etc.

The only way to have a just society, in my opinion, is when freedom of the individual is the base of all laws, and those laws are logical and consistent with each other.
Tesla has started a new anti-fraud department, according to a recent job listing
The regulation applied to electric and telephone companies in the US...

How can people be this ignorant of recent history?
> This isn't censorship, it's someone being shown the door.

Are you a moderator?
"Free speech" protections DO NOT APPLY to a private company deciding whether to provide internet services to something like 8chan.

Period.

I continue to be surprised at the level to which people misunderstand this.
What if you continuously invested over that time?