skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, can you be specific: why shouldn't we burn 8chan to the ground? Which other sites do you want to preserve that would get swept up by our censorship run amok?

I'm gathering from your example that you're trying to preserve the rights of a bunch of middle easterners to say things like "kill the jews", and not understanding why you think that's permissible.

I mean, the El Paso shooter genuinely believes that the US is under invasion by mexicans too. Everyone has opinions. The point is that some opinions are just wrong. This is like morality 101. You aren't entitled to kill folks, no matter how much you want to. And you aren't entitled to egg other folks on to kill folks either.
It is ridiculous because it's a consequence of anonymity which is still precious enough to ward off against knee jerk emotionalism. As I said, 9/11 was my lesson on how much more magnificentally messed up a sort of societal "immunological reaction" can be in comparison to the actual illness. The thought of a crackdown is both a more chilling outcome and a potential catalyst for actual organizational terrorism if people can't let off steam*

* - Note that more people, especially younger folks with their hyperbolic tendencies, and anonymity means more raw sociopathy and psychopathy being displayed in relation to those events. It's at least partially a function of the numbers game.
It's hard to say. It's never going to be a win/win for them, and unfairly cutting someone off would be terrible publicity for them. I'd imagine they're totally inconsistent about these things and don't spend hardly any time policing their customers (nor should they). I have a feeling these things tend to be on a case-by-case basis, mostly fueled by investor concerns, but I guess that just doesn't bother me like it does some people. I don't see them as having any responsibility at all to be guardians of free speech or anything, maybe that's the distinction.
Maybe convince presidential candidates to start talking about the pressing issues before distant future measures like UBI
You're assuming these people socialize at all.
I agree with your statement (not with the virtue signaling part, but I will ignore it for now). To me, it reminds me like one of those "I gave $100 to a stranger" youtube videos. That end up making $10k from views.

There is nothing wrong with giving $100 to a person in need, while looking all smug and dressed up, and then... the world congratulates you by giving you a lot more than you gave. Rather than... I don't know, donate the $10k to several people in need to begin with? There is a disgusting fakeness associated with all of these things. A pretense of "Look at me! We are the good guys", while we are filthy narcissistic greedy people under the skin instead. Using somebody else's misery to feed our messiah complex.

Or like those shitty "SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS", will people enjoy being around a hot mom breastfeed in public, but look down on a non-attractive mom breastfeeding in public? Facebook is littered with crap, staged, cheap money-grab, "experiments" like this.

It's like, an action that is acted on seemingly selflessly but contains hidden catches and motives.

It's not bad... just.. icky. I call this the Valentines-day-complex. It pretends to be a celebration of love, but under the hood it's all about chocolates and flowers and spending. It doesn't have to be about spending... but about spending it will be!

Pass.
Clearly you understood what I was trying to say, you're just acting dumb to avoid directly engaging with it.

These arguments can be directly used to argue for the suppression of Islamic religious speech. Using the same "guilt by association" reasoning, you can easily argue that 9/11 is proof that Islam itself is a hateful and dangerous ideology which, when spread, has "consequences".
May be good enough as long as some features are distinguishable (say a person holding a gun).
Thermal imaging isn't exactly the clearest, but it's very useful.
I didn't want to use AIM, either but when they switched from using AIM to slack internally that was surely a death sentence for aim.
From what I understand they haven't devalued anything. They withdrew some support and let the free market do the rest, which is exactly what the US have been demanding.

Of course they did that at a time when they knew the result would suit them...

It looks like a message to the US.
So if science and logic one day makes a good case for you to be intolerant you will then leave the tolerant side and become intolerant? That, if anything, is the nature of ideological possession. What a weird view to hold.

Besides, science and reason can tell you very little about morality as tolerance is a moral concept not a scientific one. In fact, science can make no moral claims as those by nature are value claims which by definition are the antithesis of the scientific method. So I have no idea how you intend on squaring that circle.

And the fact that you are "completely fine" with what the parent said just goes to show how little consideration you have given the topic before making such an ideologically driven comment :/
When you are being encouraged to purchase Bitcoin (for example), it's the currency of the future. When you are trying to use a credit card to purchase Bitcoin (for example), it's not a currency. When you are facing a tax bill, I can't remember whether the claim is that it's a currency or a security.
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Then you could write, "Before their death, the CEO of Gas Inc. will invent nuclear fusion, spread it to every market, and then live a long and happy life."
Sorry to hear about your experience and naming the company - no one should have to go through that. I had no perception of the company you mentioned but now when I hear someone mention it or consider joining, I know what to say.
> We’re actively instigating anxiety, mindless resource exhaustion

Not replying to all you said, but definitely agree - I don't see people as being excited about the limits of our abilities. It's more like people are excited about getting a new Mustang or whichever Ghettoblaster vehicle and annoying others because they are bored and have nothing existential to think about during the day. I don't know how often I just think about humanity or the mind's limits or exploring other times and places growing up - just utter fascination. Now it's just when is the next GTA coming out.
> I can't downvote you enough.

Why? The point of view seemed to be politely presented. You disagree. I tend to disagree with you (for the limited number (call it ~10) of large company HR departments I have seen). What are the downvotes for?

Now - to your second point - companies do train managers to report. Yes. I believe that this is a containment device. I am not marketing this here, so don't call me a shill, but I'm working on a better way for employees to get their individual complaints anonymously surfaced all the way to the board. The upside is: less layers of battle-hardened defence mechanism against employees. The downside is: loss of plausible deniability. We'll see how it works out.
Maybe the reporter got it wrong, but in any case the song should obviously be "I Want My Back Pay," which fits the meter and maintains the original single-syllable word impact of the original Backstreet Boys/Max Martin song refrain and title.

Once you have the refrain, the rest of the song practically writes itself. ;-)
If you think free speech is causing violence, wait to you see what happens when there is no free speech allowed.

Mao killed 70 - 150 million people through famine, war, and other means. Censorship with prejudice.

Stalin killed 30 - 60 million people. Couldn't stand anyone with a different idea.

I could go on, but you get the idea.
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Looking back to the mid-to-late 90s, when this all started...

The government was all in, very early on. There was this giant tax deduction scheme in 1998 where every employed person had this opportunity to buy a computer to get online at like half price, since all the taxes (income tax, employment tax) were waived. I used that scheme to buy an outrageous $5k PC at "half price". (Dual Pentium 333 Mhz, Dual Voodoo2 - those are the specs I remember.)

Telia, the former Swedish monopoly telephony company did a surprisingly good job at bringing ADSL to people, quite early.

In parallel, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bredbandsbolaget was started, with the goal of providing high bandwidth connections to people. Cisco invested very, very heavily into this company, as well as a bunch of american pension funds. When I moved into an apartment in a mid-sized city in 2000, it had a 10 Mbit/s ethernet socket. I heard they invested so heavily, putting $1M routers into the basements of like 20-30 apartment buildings. Maybe that's why we got upgraded without an extra charge to 100 Mbit/s just a few years later. (It's now 250 Mbit/s, and we're still just paying $7/apartment/month in our co-op.)

It pains me a little to do so, but I credit the late 1990s social democratic government for the foresight to create the market by basically flooding the country with tax-free PCs.

And, oh, yeah, there was a lot of proactive fibre-laying going on, very early. Not quite sure how what happened. That backstory is probably quite important...
brainfuck or another esoteric language.
Usually whenever I see people evoke the paradox of tolerance they draw more attention to the authority of Popper compared to the nature of it being a paradox. It defers the question of what is tolerant, which depends on perspective as you rightly point out.
The fact that is not illegal does not make it not censorship. Some censorship is right and justified.
And paying off a mortgage improves your ability to move when you need to or respond to legal/health/family/etc issues. You're now "ahead" on mortgage payments allowing you to miss several without incurring penalties, giving you more flex while not incurring proportional loss from inflation as you would with near-cash holdings.
That is true, made more so when doing phone calls (8kHz, Mono recordings) with a variety of accents. I've scored a live transcription system at 94% accurate over 250 samples of voicemail recordings from UK accents, with various automated services coming in at the following rates:

AWS 0.871603
Temi 0.871063
Google 0.867890
Speechmatics 0.858851
OtterAI 0.855769
Microsoft 0.854067
AssemblyAI 0.795696
IBM 0.777215
Remeeting 0.771764

I'm building a new transcription startup called 3Scribe (shameless self-promotion) that's scoring at just below 91%. Hoping to squeeze out another little bit of accuracy but at the moment struggling with React-Bootstrap, trying to build a beta MVP.
Ah yes, finally, the one weird trick that explains why my pants don't fit anymore. In mice.

Yawn. Wake me up when there's some real proof that improper diet and exercise have no negative health implications. I'm anxiously awaiting with my doughnuts.
Indeed! This is the thing about the Other; the very fact that anybody can claim it should refer to one thing and somebody else can claim it means something slightly different demonstrates beyond peradventure that there is no definitive answer as to what is under analysis.
That report only says that Reddit banned some subreddits and so mitigated some speech, on reddit.com.

But Reddit is not the entire internet, and that ban perhaps directly fed into 8chan's rise. People do not disappear because a forum went offline, and tools to communicate are only getting better, faster and more resilient.
A couple of years ago I had a tool built to assess foreign skilled workers for their eligibility to immigrate to Canada. The tool can be accessed with the link. (Heroku may have to wake up, so give it a few moments.)

Due to a dispute with the devs I lost the access to the tool, but now I'm trying to bring it back to life. It seems especially critical in this moment with the H1-B turmoil down south of Canada.

Please let me know what you think of it.

Also, if you want to talk about your chances of moving to Canada, let me know privately what the doughnut chart in the top right corner says after you complete the assessment with your own details.

I'm not looking to charge you anything, I just want to help my peers and also get my tech back up and running to have another shot at my startup.

Thanks so much
Blake, Founder of Emigro Startup Studio
similar, I recall seeing one where you wear a ring, and the ring's proximity allows the firearm to work.
Not to argue against regulations that force revealing of data, but in my experience, whenever places are forced to "document" issues, the culture shifts to only document the egregious while anything else that can be swept under does get swept away as to not inflate the statistics.

I wonder if there is a strategy that encourages openness, yet doesn't have the immediate impact of moving all the conversations behind closed doors in a buddy-buddy system.
The funny thing is people are doing all that with resignation rather than exuberance this time around, at least that’s the zeitgeist I perceive.

I’m guessing the fact that they’re doing it is the significant part, but it does feel different to earlier times.
Congratulations on the apt handle. Your argument is irrational because it ignores the fact that the baker committed the first intolerant act in the chain, not the gay couple.
They have gone from blithering to murdering. ICYMI
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Is it possible that having a way to internally air grievances has, up until recently, made it less likely for people to air their grievances outside the company?
> But then of course the fascists took over.

Keep in mind that it's still mostly ironic.
Excellent and concise explanation. Thank you.
Practical example: we shouldn't accept immigrants into our country (whatever the country is). Even for economical reasons. Even if there are no jobs for them. Even if there's no infrastructure to support them. Ooops, intolerant. Thoughtcrime.

Well actually now that I think of it, any argument can be reshaped as intolerant. Abortionist? Intolerant of life, or of religion. Pro-life? Intolerant of women's rights.

I don't know, I just think "intolerance" is such a stupid concept, and in this day and age it is used to attack the right, but it doesn't mean anything, it's a wildcard.
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That the slave economy was huge in early America is beyond doubt. But the more interesting debate is to what degree this influenced later American wealth. This question doesn't answer itself, we need evidence. And the presence of lots of other slave sugar plantation economies nearby is a treasure-trove. Many were also rich in the 18th C, like Barbados & Saint-Dominque... richer than the weird experiment in theocracy going on around Boston. Their 18th C riches didn't translate to 20th C riches. The "huge role in the early American economy" at early dates actually tells us very little about the effect on the trajectory in later centuries.

My argument re English cotton mills was much more focused than you credit. It was about how rapidly they switched from slave-grown cotton to non-slave cotton, once there was a blockade, not some denial that they consumed slave-grown cotton before this.
Curious about this too. I want a smart lock, but don't want it on someone else's cloud.
I recently passed several qanon billboards along major interstate freeway junctions while traveling in the southern USA.
Schlage Connect. I have the same rule in my house. Everything is Z-Wave.
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Traditionally nations only started respecting foreign intellectual property when they started to generate more IP that they wanted others to respect than they used from outside. For example, in the 19th century, the USA didn't respect British copyright. Charles Dickens was a very popular author in the USA, but he didn't get a cent from the sales of his books there. So he came over to the US a couple of times to give lectures in large auditoriums in major cities -- sort of like a rock star making money from touring rather than from album sales.
It really depends, finance is a big big place. There are banks that are terrible and there are banks that are pretty great. Also finance is the buy-side as well, and the buy-side is pretty lax, especially if you are working at a small prop trading firm or hedge fund.

Maybe not everyone has a passion for finance, but I find it probably the most interesting thing in the world. The movement and character of markets are one of the last and great unsolved problems of humanity. They are also so incredibly old and have an outsized impact on the world compared to really anything else at all that I can think of.

I only got interested in markets in my mid-20s and before then, I wanted to be a compiler writer or something like that. On a whim I took my first job in finance at a portfolio analytics company and I was absolutely hooked, the rabbit hole ran so so deep. Now after working at a bank, a hedge fund, and now currently another bank structuring derivative products in Africa, I can't think of anything else.

The math is so interesting and the programming even more so. There's no right answer anywhere you look, just fields and fields of unsolved problem everywhere you look. I eventually realized that the reason why I find finance so interesting is the same reason why I find computer science interesting: because no one really knows what they're talking about. I relish the idea that I could be the first one to come up with some brilliant hedging mechanism or some product that solves a lot of people's problems.

Also I think that managing risk and making the world money is a noble endeavor. Client's call me on the phone I tell me, "Without you guys, I would have lost a shit ton of money", or "Without you, I wouldn't have been able to make a deal in Africa", etc etc. I'm not unique, and my firm isn't unique, so maybe this isn't true. But I do my absolute darnedest to help my clients, and by helping my clients, my firm.
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There are options these days like the inReach that I would recommend for hikers that will be out in the wilderness for an extended period of time and/or might be away from easy access to help. Of course standard protocol still applies like telling someone what path you will take, when they should expect you back etc. but I would feel much safer with an inReach with me just in case.

https://explore.garmin.com/en-US/inreach/
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I don’t understand how inciting violence is acceptable free speech.

Isn’t that what 8chan did?
I second this notion. I've been using sharks as an example: Sharks aren't dangerous when swimming, because we don't swim in deep water, because sharks are dangerous. Shark attacks in deep water beaches are fatal at roughly the same rate as riding a bike without a helmet. [1]

The risk of sharks is tempered by our experience with them. Few people swim in deep water beaches (because they have signs saying "Danger! Sharks!") And those that do typically take appropriate precautions and maintain awareness.

Sharks don't want to eat you and do quickly let go of swimmers they attack, but that's irrelevant because the damage has already been done. When I was young, a large amount of education was put into stating that shark attacks were rare, and it's true both in absolute numbers and by comparison with how feared they are. Jaws and knockoffs spread irrational fear in the 70s/80s, and my early 90s childhood came with the counterpressue there, but that counterpressue caused many in my peer group to misunderstand the risks. Shark attacks drop off hard to zero if you're swimming in shallow water. Even at 10 meters, which is not uncommon for surfers, they are a real risk. But surfers spend little time at 10 meters out. All of this forms a balance.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3941575/
I've downloaded

OK

and distributed ISIS propaganda videos

Do elaborate on your motives for and style of distribution.
> Surely you'd have an issue if the government showed up at a businesses office with guns and forced the owner (at gunpoint!) to allow a nazi hate site to continue to exist on their platform.

Not the point, but even still what people are arguing against is mobs of internet users pressuring companies into political decisions.

Literally (as in figuratively) the people asking for banning the site are the one holding the owner at gunpoint asking for the termination of a business relationship.
It is certainly not censorship at all. Calling it censorship muddies the waters and plays right into the hands of the people who want to push hate speech.
You're mixing hindsight with foresight. It's never obvious at the time what will bring about the next recession. It also doesn't have to be a single factor that causes a recession. The previous two could be majorly tied to a single cause but the 1990 recession cannot. It was triggered by the savings and loans crisis but was also tied to ballooning deficits and an inflated real estate market. (sound familiar?) The hairline cracks of the next recession could already be happening but those that see them will remain quiet as it is in everyone's best interest to project confidence in the market until the point where it all falls down. I was flipping houses before the housing bubble burst and things didn't quite feel right but everyone just kept chugging right along like it was going to be that way for ever. I started feeling uneasy when, at one point, there were 9 large subdivisions being built at the same time. "Where are all these people coming from?" Nowhere, that's where they were coming from. But I remained confident up until the day when I got stuck with 11 adjustable rate mortgages that almost doubled overnight. My gut feeling is we're heading into a recession but I'm probably more overly cautious than I used to be.
This is why we have mass shootings, just saying. People taking things away from other people. I have a feeling this will lead to more shootings.
Because they are posting pricing, I'm curious about the details. What happens if the rocket fails and loses the payload? Is there insurance included/available? Does the customer get a refund?
Agreed. In the event that the land cannot be restored then you should be required to purchase a similarly sized piece of land and donate it to a preservation society. The destroyed land should also be donated.

An eye for an eye doesn't work when one person values their eyes less. The perpetrator must see punishment greater than that experienced by the victim.
Unless the original author doesn't want to endure going to court over this for a settlement check but still wants to try to invoke change by telling the world (or at least all Google employees) her story.
There's a limit of a few days, if I remember correctly, on how long you can control people for before they die.
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They also have a "Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure" as if expertise in one domain would easily transfer to the other. The only commonality seems to be that things are being transported from A to B via some network, but it pretty much ends there.