skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My opinion is that freedom of speech is a fine ideal to strive for, but it relies on having a stable society with some minimum level of education (moral and philosophical too, not just the technical kind). It requires people who are able to fully parse the implications of what they are hearing to make sound and rational judgements on the rejection of an idea or the embrace of it. It creates a moral duty for the people who are listening to not only reject, but to actively push back against ideals which are universally understood to be reprehensible.

The concept of freedom of speech falls apart if universally reprehensible speech is allowed to be publicaly espoused without being firmly challenged. Forums like 8chan and 4chan effectively incubate hate speech by providing a safe space for anonymized, like-minded individuals to congregate, espouse their basest thoughts and feelings and receive gratification for it -all without challenge. Moderate people are repulsed by such forums and the quantity of hate-speech they generate, which further compounds the negative feedback loop.

Unchecked extremism compounded by more unchecked extremism inevitably leads to scenarios like the ones we’re witnessing more and more often.
Don't invest exclusively in Japanese stocks.
You're getting ripped off on O2 or Vodafone. Get an Ay Yildiz Prepaid card, 25 Euros for 12GB and there's an option to top up of you run out. It's an EPlus MVNO, speeds are pretty good on 3G (~8Mbps).
Free speech does not require that we give people a platform. Free speech also means that everyone can decide to turn their backs on people saying these sorts of things, and not let them use the things we have built to spread their message.
The other irony is that the holding of Schenk vs. United States was later overturned in Brandenburg vs. Ohio, which set the line for where free speech becomes unprotected at "inciting imminent lawless action":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio
>In the long run it's only dividends that matter.

Stock buybacks are a thing, and are generally better than dividends for the owners of stock since they can choose whether or not to have a taxable event.
It's more like sticking their head into the sand, isn't it (metaphorically)?
Because the yield curve is priced into all assets. That's how you discount future corporate earnings to derive present value of the stock, for example.

An inverted yield curve means that there's a mistake in the market - people thought interest rates would be lower than the are. It means that assets are overpriced if this situation persists.

Also it is an indicator because it works :)

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/07/27/yield-cu...
meanwhile, to us canadians, it's painfully obvious that the problem isn't websites, but guns. curbing free speech is not going to solve this problem for you.
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A Raspberry Pi can be trivially overloaded with a simple DOS attack. (Not even DDOS.) If you've got anything remotely controversial to say, I wouldn't count on that being sufficient to keep your site online. The infrastructure necessary to remain online during a coordinated attack isn't cheap; that's why Cloudflare advertises DDOS protection as one of the many services they offer: https://www.cloudflare.com/ddos/

Whether or not a cloud infrastructure company "owes" content-neutral treatment to their customers is a matter which, I think, is up for debate. Particularly in this day and age where the internet has become such an important venue for political speech.
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Yes if you focus and don't waste time.
Your whole life won't be sufficient if you can't focus and keep wasting your time in unrelated stuff like this shallow article.
Do posters get banned? If it's not accepted on the board then why does it keep getting posted, and posted sufficiently often that many people are claiming 8chan has CP?
My first thought is spaffing huge piles of money up the wall by using expensive stuff like DynamoDB really inappropriately, but I think in general AWS is complicated in a way paying someone to plug in colo servers isn't and thus offers more scope to waste money. For random anecdata purposes, I saved $20k /month turning off unused stuff at my ~$50k /month most recent gig. Now scale that up to $1B /year
If you block 8chan, the only thing that it will result in is people will move to more censorship-resistant technologies. You will push people to TOR, distributed P2P, blockchain forums, etc. Which will make even harder to identify them.

You can't stop the signal. ThePirateBay proved it many many times.

We need to address the sources of the problem, not the symptoms.
I'm not sure how one arrives at that conclusion. I don't think either of these things is what radicalizes people.
And there will always be active traders setting prices, because it is profitable to do so.
I think the point is more that there's nuance in preventing speech (like censorship) and punishing the actions as a result of speech. I get that some would call those the same thing.

In the context of 8chan, I think there's a difference between allowing people to say whatever they want online and punishing the people that use that freedom to incite violence.

The part where it gets blurry to me is the hateful rhetoric that doesn't directly call for violence, but the only logical conclusion of the position is genocidal or otherwise racial violence. Talking about "invaders" or "American cities under foreign occupation" for example.
The crazy thing I think is how expensive internet is, in whatever form, in Germany compared to the rest of Europe while simultaneously being so terrible.
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CloudFlare isn't just going around randomly putting their caching/filtering in front of websites they're choosing to have it there though. The sites are choosing it.

Advertising is related here because recaptcha's use of tracking, primarily used for advertising, as a factor in determining their score for users and also because blocking ads/tracking is part of the cause behind people's issues with recaptcha.
I make a factual claim you can investigate on your own. Perhaps your findings will surprise you. As an aside, I recommend engaging with people you disagree with politically to understand their motivations and opinions. Much of political discourse is superficially ridiculous, but almost everything can be made sense of and appreciated once you get a view of the whole picture. Good luck.
>The truth is that information does not radicalize people

I'd be fascinated by an attempt to elaborate on this frankly incredible statement.
It’s quite generous to say that Australian capitals have very good rail systems. They exist, sure. Patronage (especially in sydney) has been growing at a huge level (partially due to the traffic nightmare, a side effect of the geography). But it’s a long way from good or optimal.

But yes, if we built high speed rail linking Melbourne - Canberra - sydney - Brisbane we would have one hell of an east coast system
No, you're not including dividends. It had positive returns way before 1954. But yeah the 30's was called a depression for a reason.
Perhaps, but I do wonder if it actually mattered all that much whether 8chan encouraged this. There's evidence of contagion in mass shootings, that shooters seem to see the headlines about a shooting and become inspired to imitate it. Maybe there'd always be mass shootings tied to 8chan so long as there were news headlines tying the previous mass shootings to the site and leading future shooters towards it. Those certainly have a much broader reach than anything on the site itself.
Just wondering but does this explain why the images always seem to be driving related like traffic lights, crosswalks, bridges, etc.
If you are late like me:

https://i.redd.it/u2oulql87me31.png

https://old.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/cm9q8o/disappearing_s...
Having recently visited the Yellowstone National Park, the situation you describe for the North Sea side of Germany applies but worse, the cell phone data connection being non-existent, and with the added issue that only one hotel offered wifi, and it was out of service for the entire duration of our visit.
Dismissal and Confirmed mean the company continues to exist, and add up to a majority.

Sure, any company, including those that successfully emerged from Chapter 11, may file for Chapter 7 later. But generally once it's confirmed it's considered a success.
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I am in Yoga city of India and this hilly region, I am getting 50mbps up and down.

So yea, it's finally getting better in India?

Food delivered in middle of nowhere in 20 minutes.

Everything is soo good here except the heat but now with monsoon it's more bearable.

I wonder what Germany will do. Maybe Germany wants everyone to work for big automobile companies because when I worked at Audi, we had 1gbps internet.
I've said this before but:

> When 80% of traffic from an IP is malicious and the other 20% is regular traffic, but both sources look like the same traffic (impersonating browser headers, sometimes running headless chromium), what else can you do? Cookies and stateful cookie-like objects, such as privacy pass.
Bernie!
When I was much younger, I remember being filled with wonder when I learned about the Skokie case[1], where the ACLU went to court to protect the rights of Nazis to hold a rally in a mostly-Jewish town.

"Wait, they faced down criticism from every direction, and took a massive loss in donations, to stand up for the fundamental rights of people they despise? Is this what liberals do? I want to be a liberal!"

Sadly, if that happened today they'd probably say something about not tolerating intolerance and side with the government to shut them down.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp...
It depends on your goals. Are you retiring in the next 5 years? If not, you mostly don't care. Odds are you aren't going to time the market perfectly and you might as well stay the course.
No, but if they don't have an easily accessible platform their message can't spread.
Tradewars are easy to win! ....NOT
Yup, trade bonds for stocks. Never go 100% on stocks. As Buffett says: "I will never be caught short on cash".
From the sounds of it, Monzo was/is using customer (card) PINs as a security passcode within their app itself. Hence on 2 operations in the app (cancelling a standing order, and getting a reminder of your card number), it was being logged due to a misconfiguration.

I was of the understanding that it was accepted best practice for a bank to never use the user's card PIN anywhere except card authentication, for this very reason (and even then, to handle it particularly carefully).

It seems that treating the PIN as a general authentication factor within the app might well be convenient for users (only 1 PIN to remember), but then this exposes their card PIN as seen here (which is used to prove you authorized a transaction yourself). The notion the PIN itself was stored in a secure part of the system to "control which staff members could access them" is at odds with how banks used to handle PINs - which is that no staff can see them, and they're held in hardware security modules, which validate encrypted incoming PINs and say "yes" or "no".

Some "old banks" have some pretty elegant (albeit clunky) web login systems, all so they can do low entropy challenge-response authentication backed by a HSM, so user secrets are not stored in the plain, or transmitted in a way they could be recovered without access to the HSM (think HSM issuing a session-based challenge and mixing in the response to that challenge via hashing, then sending the hashed response back for yes/no checking by the HSM).

A push for good user experience (less secrets to remember) gone too far? Or a lack of focus on the layered security approach taken by banks?
It is both the right and responsibility of every member of a civil society to make ethical judgments about what kind of society they want to create. Free speech is a means to achieve those ends, and not an end in itself.
Yeah, somewhere around 2 weeks after a post they completely seal the comments on HN.
This is based on the incorrect impression I was working on when making that argument, corrected elsewhere in this thread--Hoover the president and Hoover the first head of the FBI were different men.
Even I don't believe that having pedophilia makes someone a bad person, irredeemable. It's not a moral failing; it's a dangerous paraphilia. And so I don't think you are wrong in saying that reducing barriers to treatment is worthwhile, and that a carefully titrated degree of destigmatization is likely to serve that end.

The person with whom I've been arguing in this thread has shown no sign yet that his thesis is like your own. His argument hasn't been about treatment. It has instead been that no more doubt, concern, or askance should by default attach to someone with pedophilia than to, for example, someone who is gay. That's not mere destigmatization. That's outright normalization, and I won't apologize for my reaction to it any more than I would apologize for demanding the same justification from someone who came begging similar consideration at par for those "cursed" with the urge to rape grown adults.
In that case, wouldn't it be more that it isn't allowed to yell fire in a crowded theater with the express purpose to cause injury during a stampede? Would doing so "just as a prank bro" still be protected under American precedent?
> I've certainly never hit the "Mutually referencing type parameters" issue before.

I don't think I have either, but according to that document supporting this use case was considered a minimum requirement for generics. I don't know that much about generics but maybe it comes up more often than we realize.

> I guess using concrete types and avoiding vtable lookups is an advantage that matters to Go?

It avoids the vtable lookups and also, in cases like the mutually referencing type parameters, provides compile-type type-checking, which you don't get with the interface-only solution.

I'm also not sure how your proposed solution extends to parameterized types. Certainly a central motivation of generics is make something like LinkedList<T> possible.
I hear social Darwinism ideas fairly frequently in everyday conversations with people, like casual lunch conversations.

Really? I guess I can believe this. I wish I didn't, but I have overheard plenty of bullshit over the years myself.

Hell, there was a thread on HN awhile back with posters essentially advocating for eugenics and the mods here didn't blink an eye.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20542738

ITT: "Eugenics were crushed with violence, they weren't actually disproved."

A ton of thinly veiled arguments for Social Darwinism and selective breeding in that thread. Disgusting. Yet the mods let it go.
The site does not seem to say who made it, but it sure reminds me of Shane Parrish (Farnam Street blog) who wrote a book about about mental models, among other tings.
> The already radicalised don't go away, but de-platforming does help.

It helps prevent the on-boarding of people who can be potentially radicalized.

There is also plenty of astroturfing also going on in this message boards by entities that want to cause chaos.
That was probably a smart move on the contractors part. They would have never been able to get permits for that stuff and it would have taken years. Filling in wetlands is almost always the right thing to do economically
Congrats on making it to YC 19!

Love the idea, in fact I started something similar[1] in March 2018 when I was switching job. I also heard too many stories of friends accepting early stage companies offers with little to no equity and I was hurting for them.

I hope we (employees) will finally get our leverage back and fight for better equity but ALSO better liquidity!

If founders get liquidity, employees should too, it's only fair.

[1] https://reffo.us/
750 points sounded much scarier when the DOW was below 10000. Now it's just 3%.
A comment on Hacker News is not the right place to get into a conversation about the evolution of thought regarding the effectiveness of monetary policy, versus fiscal policy, but our current understanding did not exist before 1980 and Presidents did engage in stimulus spending, which they often assumed could at least party overcome the actions of the central bank.

Also, as piker said, some of your examples confuse monetary and fiscal stimulus.

But about fiscal stimulus:

There was widespread fear of a recession in the early 1960s, which was part of Kennedy's motivation for more spending on Nasa and the military. Also, there were 2 tax cuts. The expansion from 1961 to 1969 became the longest in USA history, up till that time.

Reagan ran absolutely massive budget deficits, which lead a very long expansion, from 1982 to 1990.
Wow... thank you for that! That's the best explanation I had so far!
Just like 8chan isn't getting rid of them either. They're just pushing them to a different platform where its going to be harder to keep tabs on these people.

I just wonder with all the technology we have at our disposal, how is it these people continue to slip through the system undeterred to escalate this type of violence?
Coverage is pretty bad on anything that isn't D1 or Vodafone. O2 has okay coverage in cities, but anywhere else it's mediocre to bad.
I'm relatively young, so I wasn't responsible for expenses when the last crash happened. I had the great fortune of having only 1-2 months of savings early in my career when the startup I was working for went under. I was a software engineer with less than 6 months of experience, and had a hard time finding a job (essentially a first job with that experience level), and learned really early on that I want zero debts and a year of savings.

Right now I am down to only ~$150/month in 2% interest school loans (down from $450/month a couple years ago), $500 rent (when I initially lost my job this was up to $1,700!), and I'm about to lose my parents insurance. In all, I pay out roughly $1,000/month, and I make sure to have at least $10,000 on hand at any time. Everyone I know tells me this is probably too much emergency fund and I could get away with 3-6 months expenses and get more earning potential from that extra half a year, but I refuse to ever be caught off guard. The immense stress of trying to figure out how you will pay for rent this month is unlike anything I've experienced.

Even if a depression never comes again, I'll always aim to have nearly a year of runway in case I lose my source of income. But I say all of this to say that having a savings is more than just potential future security. I feel confident voicing my opinion at work, I am willing to stand by my principles and leave if I want to, and I'm willing to walk away from an environment that makes me unhappy. In my opinion, having this type of savings gives you a similar feeling as financial independence will feel---I'm working right now because I want to, not because I have no other options. That makes life a lot more pleasant.
Looks like an good way to do analytics on the GPU. The Python API is clean and simple.

The premise is that GPUs will accelerate columnar data analytics. And, with "Dask" [1], you can run those worldloads on a cluster.

I wonder if careful indexing on initial write would outperform this system. This system looks like it's best when you have totally raw, unindexed data. Perhaps a future thing to do is to generate a side index during initial column scans to speed up future queries?

Also, GPU memory is pretty expensive. How does the total-cost-of-ownership compare to just running on RAM with powerful multi-core CPUs? There's like 512-bit vector operations these days.

[1]: https://rapids.ai/dask.html
I interviewed for a software role in Amazon Business, had spent several years with a quite high engineering rank in Apple, and was warned by the hiring manager that the roles to be filled considered the people as, and i quote, "fungible" assets.

Pretty much the most damning confession the hiring committee could have admitted to, and I imagined a good-hearted warning. I semi balked at that, and feedback from the recruiter was that I'd been brilliant, but might not like the culture. The recruiter sounded truly annoyed. I found that experience "interesting".
> At the same time, if someone points a finger at you and shouts "I'm going to kill you", then we're getting outside of speech and into actions, and certainly actions can be prohibited.

At least in my state, this is not actionable as described.

For it to be actionable, the person saying "I'm going to kill you" needs to reasonably be in a position to do so - i.e. brandishing a weapon, etc.

Idle threats and banter do not actions make.

Thought crime isn't what we want, is it?
>> It reminds me a lot of Charlottesville, where people showed up to try to shout over the white nationalists and it just ended up with a bunch of people getting run over by a car. As if something like that happening wasn't entirely predictable.

People showed up to exercise their own first amendment rights, which is how the whole free speech thing works.

Those with opposing points of view also showed up to demonstrate that ordinary people wouldn't be intimidated by white nationalists marching and carrying intimidating symbols from the past.

Are you suggesting that the best response to these regressive viewpoints is for ordinary decent folk to let them alone and do their own thing in peace? Cowardice.

That would only serve to embolden them, and an emboldened hate group is even more likely to engage in violent activity against the targets of their hate.
No gulag. No stormtroopers. Your message criticizing the military just won't be seen anyone, because the platform you're posting on will censor it.

That's suppression of free speech; regardless of whether it's a government or a corporation that's doing it.
> honeypots

Assuming this is true, plenty of people still slip through the cracks
Not if you can deduct the mortgage interest. At a 32% marginal rate your 3.5% mortgage only costs you 2.4%. At that point you'd be better off putting the money in a high yield CD or savings than in mortgage principal.
I think it's pretty clear what it's asking for and you are misinterpreting the request.
There are quite a few protections for the civil service rank and file.

https://www.vox.com/2018/8/27/17786324/trump-fires-governmen...

> The reason he can’t is simple: Unlike his employees at the Trump Organization, about a third of federal workers belong to unions. And those unions have negotiated certain job protections for workers, which includes a process that gives workers a chance to improve their job performance before they are terminated.
The government sure got Backpage down quick and thoroughly.
"Accounts" aren't banned (because there aren't accounts required to post), but IP bans are very common.
Good point to keep in mind
I'm afraid that part is largely accurate. While 8ch administrators and global moderators did respond to reports of CP hosted on their site, they handled these reports on a largely reactive basis -- the anonymous-imageboard model used by the site made it impossible to block individual posters in any effective fashion, and I don't believe the site had any way to block specific files from being reposted.
Not sadly, but hopefully!

Free speech absolutism is a maladaptive local optima. Free speech isn’t an end in itself, it’s a means, a tool, that every society must use to create just and ethical outcomes.
However, most southern states still have anti-masking laws on the books specifically to discourage KKK meetings and actions.
This next few years of bitcoin bull run is going to be incredible.