skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Staying in Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp you are an accomplice of:

- the Amazon burning under Bolsonaro

- American Police violence

- Philippines death squads
This is the exact mindset that created the police state: There might be gang members, so rolling up in an armored vehicle makes sense.
bad analogy. trump has far, far greater power than any talk show host and is advocating violence against americans.
Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. HN is for (much) more than tech-related things.

On the question of political topics on HN, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu.... Some good threads to start with might be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902396. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869, if you think HN has gotten more political lately. The principles haven't changed in 10+ years, although we've learned to do a better job of applying them.
Vietnam and the Indian state of Kerala curbed Covid-19 on the cheap
This assumes companies will raise their prices, leave a large margin on top and have nobody try to undercut them.
Nobody seems to have mentioned it, but I would love to see how this grows and whether or not if they'll eventually adopt Cython, which would bring a lot of performance boosts, but also be good for Cython in general.

Cython: https://cython.org/
An article by an electrical engineer, published in a political journal, about climate change... I had low hopes, which were met.

IMO few categories of professions have a harder time understanding cutting-edge science than engineers. That is because they think they know science because they use similar mathematical and technical tools, when in fact the professions do the exact opposite of one another.

Engineers use what is known and understood to construct systems that can be validated. Scientists investigate unknown systems to try to construct knowledge and understanding.

The worst thing, professionally, for an engineer is to not know or understand your work. The worst thing, for a scientist, is to spend too much time on things that are already known and understood.

Engineers love to point out how scientists don't know, and can't prove, whether their climate models are accurate. Scientists know that that is the whole point of building such models. Working without knowing whether you're correct is not epistemological conflict. It's the fundamental condition of being a scientist.

Yes, it would be better if we knew everything and only consulted systems that are provably correct. But we don't. And the only way to expand what we know is to spend a ton of time doing things that we don't know.

We haven't found any other way to do it. Writing hand-wringing articles about the state of science from the sidelines does not advance human knowledge. You can't expand the map by standing inside the border and complaining about how hard it is to see past it.
Obama called rioters in Baltimore "thugs" too. I'm pretty sure he's not alt-right, nor do I suspect he hates black people.
Exim's configuration is very expressive. Being able to do complex things has the tradeoff of being able to get lost in the complex things you've done, that's a given.

But I wouldn't call it complicated, not really. Expansions usually bite, but it had a REPL-like facility for getting them right since forever. The rest is pretty nice and clean DSL in my opinion.
That would be a dream. Switch providers, keep your phone number ^W^W username and social graph.
deleting your social network on their platform helps encourage them to fail.
How exactly did you torture what I wrote to get that out of it?
Gotta use the /s homie.
There absolutely should be as a matter of principle to avoid problems like this.
There can be. There's no legal right to free speech on social media platforms, but a platform can (and I'll argue should) support free speech.

I think if a platform wants to not support free speech, that's a fair choice to make, but as a user I want them to communicate that in abundance. I don't expect the Disney Club to support sex workers describing their autobiographies, but I would expect them to not pretend they are a bastion of free speech or a platform for the world.
As I mentioned in the other comment, the creation of a Debian source package has a lot of barriers, some of them good and for quality purposes, some of them bad and due to historical cruft. Documentation is also not very newbie-friendly. The actual automatic reproduction of a binary from a source package is simple - `dpkg-buildpackage`.

The tradeoff you get with other distributions being quick, is less quality assurance. Also, Debian still has a policy of working on 10 architectures, and this slows things down significantly sometimes. The other distributions you mentioned don't have this constraint.
>the police is desperately trying to set a narrative to justify a history of violence by escalating more violence, but please, someone, restore my faith

Seems fairly accurate. I'm just annoyed that many people can't grasp that awful police behavior and awful behavior from other actors are not mutually exclusive. There is lots of unjustified police violence and provocations against perfectly peaceful protestors. There is also systematic vandalism and arson by people who aren't peaceful protestors. And there is massive amounts of opportunistic vandalism and looting. All three can and do co-exist.

This is not a two-sided conflict. More like three- or four- sided mess.
Did you mean to post this elsewhere? My comment and the one above it were specifically about the targets of takedown notices, not senders.
Separately and for transparency, I emailed dang and the HN moderation team and asked for this public response.

Thank you dang for doing so and bringing transparency to your moderating decisions.
The above proposal said the money was forfeited as soon as a counternotice is filed. Hence, no incentive to file a lawsuit.

Regardless, filing a suit costs more money than they were proposing be put up in escrow. So at best it would be a weak incentive.
Free speech wasn't created by the US government.
That’s exactly what I’m appealing to. Khashoggi got murdered brazenly, and nothing could be done about it. Hong Kong protestors get detained indefinitely, and nothing can be done about it.

The American imperative is that we must do something about it. Our failure is that we have a threshold that needs to be met, but we do have a threshold. In most of the world there is no threshold. You can do anything, indefinitely, with no change.

That’s why Putin is a multi decade President. That’s why China has a multi decade firewall. There’s no threshold.

We are imperfect, but we acknowledge the boiling points, an actual metric we can work with. A number we can improve upon.
This is really interesting at the moment where I started to laying out PCB and writing controller for my own keyboard.

After spending some time researching various aspects of keyboard design I come to conclusion that any ghosting or other artifacts are just lazy design.

These could have been explained decades ago when chips where expensive, but today you could technically just as easily devote a single pin to every key. On the other hand if you want to put diodes, surface mount diode cost (ie part + assembly) still pales in comparison to the cost of cheapest mechanical switch.
Why another set of the same old?

Let the users (hopefully a new generation with new ideas) create their own paradigms.
Prior to hearing what he had to answer, I'd like to applaud Mark for daring to speak and argue directly about the heated matters.
>> I am the owner of the company, and there's nothing I can do to expel them?

> Not if we're building a metaphor for representative democracy here.

This statement seems incorrect to me. I could provide many examples, but one should do.

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

A recall election (also called a recall referendum, recall petition or representative recall) is a procedure by which, in certain polities, voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before that official's term has ended. Recalls, which are initiated when sufficient voters sign a petition, have a history dating back to the constitution in ancient Athenian democracy[1] and feature in several current constitutions. In indirect or representative democracy, people's representatives are elected and these representatives rule for a specific period of time. However, where the facility to recall exists, should any representative come to be perceived as not properly discharging their responsibilities, then they can be called back with the written request of specific number or proportion of voters.

If you think about it a bit, you may also realize (or at least consider the possibility) that the variety of democratic implementations that currently exist (and have existed over time) were man-made, as opposed to being an artifact of nature. We can do whatever we want, in this domain - we are literally the masters of our own destiny. Or, we could be at least, but there seems to be significant rhetorical resistance to these ideas, from the strangest sources.

> Well, it seems like nobody better is able and desires to endure the grueling, ridiculous, perverse eligibility and interview process the hiring committee demands.

It may seem that way, but is it actually that way?

Both the Republicans and Democrats fielded numerous candidates - are you suggesting that Trump and Biden are the very best candidates from within those two lots (which implies that the processes by which they were chosen are perfect)?

And the "hiring committee" itself - is this literally the only possible approach that could be taken? Not one single improvement could be made there, or at any other stage within the entire electoral system?
We just need to fix the existing laws so they can't be used to stifle interoperability.

As it stands there's nothing technically preventing anyone from reverse-engineering the Facebook client API and making a third-party client. There's going to be a game of cat and mouse (just like with ad blockers) but it is doable.

The problem here is legal. Facebook recently (and wrongly) DMCA'd a GitHub repo of a PHP client for the Instagram API. That was blatant abuse of the DMCA regardless of everything else as all of the code was custom, not infringing on Facebook's copyright. However, even if the DMCA wasn't an issue there's always the risk of a lawsuit like with LinkedIn scraping (that thankfully seems to be going in the scraper's favor) or that App Stores are in bed with the big guys and will not allow a third-party client on the store to begin with.
This is a question of decision-making in the face of uncertainty. We have evidence this helps. It's not conclusive evidence.

The odds of turning round in a circle three times helping are 0.000000001%. The odds of DMB helping are probably less than 50%, but more than 5% at this point. The cost is minimal.

Generally, one does an ROI calculation. To mix units and otherwise have zero rigor:

Return: P(treatment helps) * how much

Investment: P(treatment hurts) * how much + financial cost

My math on most cheap interventions, including vitamin D, are that they're obvious no-brainers, if done competently (e.g. not taking 600,000 IU per day, or sunburning oneself on a crowded beach -- dumb stuff like that always comes up in counterarguments).

Without math: There's evidence (although not proof) that they might help. They can't hurt.

I do a lot of things like that. When COVID19 first showed up, I was super-careful about contact transmission, large droplet, and aerosol, although I had no evidence which of those dominated. Were some of the things I did a waste? Indubitably. Was it a good idea to do that together? Without a doubt.
Nothing says 'white privilege' like being able to quit your high paying cushy job over your 'principles'. Congratulations! It might have been smarter to just donate 90% of your salary, STFU, and go to work to stay out of poverty. That would be a less self-serving action with real impact.
I'm confused. Are you saying that the IA should run the Wayback Machine and library under one entity, or two different entities? In your reply to JumpCrisscross, you seem to argue for one, and that two would have no benefit; but your link contradicts that.

Your link is about substantive consolidation, a process where the bankruptcy court combines multiple related legal entities into one. This can benefit the creditors of Entity A, since it may frustrate the debtor's attempt to shield assets by placing them in a related Entity B. Your link correctly notes that a nonprofit can't be forced into bankruptcy, and thus can't be forced into substantive consolidation. So if the IA used the two-entity strategy, then your link implies it would be quite effective--worst case, the publishers take all the assets of the library entity, and they have no way to touch the Wayback entity.

If both the Wayback Machine and the library are under the same entity, then that single entity still can't be forced into bankruptcy, because it's a nonprofit. But the creditor (i.e., the publishers with their hypothetical judgment) can still just collect against the single nonprofit entity, bankruptcy or no bankruptcy. If the judgment is for more than the entity's assets then the creditor gets everything.

The point of bankruptcy is to consolidate multiple creditors' claims into a single case, to be resolved more fairly, while destroying less value, etc. It seems like you might be thinking that no bankruptcy means no ability for the creditors to collect? But that's exactly backwards--bankruptcy is primarily a set of protections for the debtor (like the "automatic stay", which stops creditors from trying to collect outside the bankruptcy), with a few smaller benefits for the creditor (like that substantive consolidation) thrown in.

ETA: And I see that the IA describes itself as "recognized as a library by the government", but I'm not aware of any specific legal benefit from that. Regardless, if that's somehow important then they could leave the books in the library entity and split out the Wayback, instead of splitting out the library.
I only take minor exception to them shooting at the press with pepper balls and things like that. Should it happen? Generally no, but you have look at it from the other side. These are large and violent riots and it’s very easy for people to pretend to be the press. It’s not practical to stop and validate press credentials under the circumstances. It sucks, but I don’t have a huge problem with it.

In terms of consequences that is why I believe there should be review at the state or federal level. The only way you can do that review at scale is with body cam footage. Most cases will be open and shut, but just the idea of being recorded AND being scrutinized by a higher authority would make a huge difference in behavior.
What? I live in a civilized world and use my words when I disagree or want something.
> I'm under no illusions that my solitary gesture will make much difference in the grand scheme of things

This is also the argument against voting, recycling, and wearing a covid mask. Collective action is hard.
What does new or used have to do with anything?
Don't blame eBay, they are just following the law.
Agreed, I actually think it's both - it's punishing the public and shifting the story.
I don't disagree with you there and have always hated the way the President uses Twitter, but in times of massive civil unrest (this isn't it, btw -- this is but a small bit of noise), there are times when ultimatums must be put down.
so, he waited for the 12 months to finish so he could keep whatever equity & then bailed.

good for him, 4.0, expensive school, facebook pedigree... this guy is going places.
Got a project or want some guidance? I can help out.
'accomplices' to what crime?
Thanks for the video. Sure and that's terrible and there is a lot to improve, no doubt. But how often does this happen, even in a single protest? Can you find a video where the German police shoots rubber bullets into people's faces on purpose on a protest? Without any provocation whatsoever? Hunting and hurting press? Shooting from far distances at them? Kneeling on people's necks? Throwing tear gas explosives and flash bangs? Driving with cars into groups of people? Kicking protesters on the floor in their heads as, individually and as group? Having no accountability (granted, this is needs also a lot of improvement also in Germany)? Dragging people out of their cars without any explanation whatsoever and a pregnant woman inside?

Wikipedia [1] says in the US 28.4 people per 10 million people are killed in the US by the police. In Germany this rate is at 1.3. In Europe all countries except for Malta and Luxembourg (no idea what's going on there) have a rate lower than 6 (or exactly 6 like Sweden). Regardless these killings are of course distressing, especially because if seems to often happen in connection with psychotic episodes of the victims [2]: "Police violence is well-documented in the United States, so well-documented that people, even in Germany, tend to think of the US first when they think of police violence. And also (from [2]):

> But here in Germany, there are people - and not just a few - who are killed in these encounters," Peter said. "It's a German problem, if on a much smaller scale than the US."
>
> Because US officers might kill or injure more people in a week than Germany's do in a year, police here are much more likely to be given the benefit of the doubt. "The cases of death that are reported here are not like in the US, where unarmed minorities are shot," Behr said. "As a rule, there is not an intent to kill," he added.

I have lived in both the US and Germany for a long time. In Germany I never feared for my life or to get hurt by the police (even on protests). This might be luck, sure, but I also don't know anyone who did. In the US I had multiple encounters where the police tried to bully me and make me feel uncomfortable (shouting aggressively, following me, pointing a gun at me for getting to them to ask a question, …). And I am regular white dude, who doesn't look scary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
[2] https://www.dw.com/en/police-in-germany-kill-more-than-you-t...
Plenty of videos on Twitter. These are just a few couple out of many:

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1267449066947932163?s...

https://twitter.com/JordonLee/status/1267600319522971649?s=2...
“Virtue signaling” is only a pejorative when it describes an action that has no cost and no benefit. Running into a burning building to save a person isn’t “virtue signaling” even if it does signal virtue.
I mean, the majority of people today keep in touch via IG, Messenger or WhatsApp. All of which are owned by Facebook.

If you've avoided all of those as communication means; more power to you. But the Network Effect is real.
> Could we not apply your same argument to all goods and services? And if so why have prices consistently risen for all of human history?

Um, yes? But for most goods and services, prices have decreased relative to inflation. The only exceptions to this are housing, college education, and healthcare — but those are policy problems. The price of most goods and services have not only decreased relative to inflation, they have also increased in quality.

White bread, cost per pound (inflation adjusted)[1]:

1977: $0.405

2019: $1.333

Incr: 229.1%

Median personal income (inflation adjusted), age 25-34[2]:

1977: $9,336

2017: $35,455

Incr: 279.8%

So rather than being 6x as expensive(!), bread is now ~15% cheaper relative to income.

Let’s do another one. Roundtrip flight on American Airlines Flight #1 (NY to LA)

1969

Cost: $304.50 (including tax)[3]

Avg wage: $3.31/hour

Hours to buy: 92

2020

Flight: $500-600

Avg wage: $23.87/hour

Hours to buy: 21-25 (!)

Another one:

In 1997, it took 1,768 hours of work at the median wage to purchase a Dodge Caravan. In 2018, it took just 1,396 hours of work, and the quality of the Dodge Caravan has also increased in that time!

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/41035/15334_ae...

[2] https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/APU0000702111

[3] https://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/aa/aa67/aa67-02.jpg
> It's important to figure out what people spend it on and how their spending habits change

But why does that matter? That's their own business. People will spend it on whatever makes them happiest--that's the whole point.

It doesn't answer the questions that most people have, such as the question in the post you replied to:

"Namely, why wouldn't prices/cost of living/rent rise to eat all the stipend, and how will we pay for it at massive scale?"
Or just use youtube-dl (mpv for streaming).
Tangentially, Plan9 extends the notion of /dev/tty to something called the draw device. Meaning that a process can just map and use /dev/draw to provide graphics. Those graphics are rendered into the window of the process.
I guess it's semantics but I would argue that writing a LinkedIn post is what would constitute the virtue signaling. But there's nothing wrong with that. It's a signal, but a signal of actual substantive action. It's akin to putting out a press release after passing legislation. The press release is a signal but you still did the actual thing that matters.
I've seen quite a few videos and read a lot of articles about what's going on, and from my perspective Law Enforcement are scared Sh&^less they will lose control and get completely over-run by the protesters.

Realizing how angry the people are and how massively outnumbered they are they've decided to come out hard with violence in an attempt to squash the protests, which makes sense.

I don't think it would take much for the people to overcome the Law Enforcement with their overwhelming numbers. Once the news gets around that it's happened in one place, that will embolden others to do the same. I just hope it doesn't get wickedly violent if it happens.
>make HN indistinguishable from any other social website right now

This is incredibly uncharitable to HN. Yes, the discussion on average is far from ultra-rationalistic, but it's also far, far, far from "any other social website right now".
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The argument does work in that context. It's the same across all topics as far as I know.

The moderation question is always: what serves intellectual curiosity? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Once a topic becomes repeated enough, there's a power-law-style dropoff in how interesting it is (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), except to people who have a strong identification with one side of an argument, and that sort of interest isn't intellectual curiosity, it's loyalty to a cause. That may be an admirable quality in many ways, but it's not a good fit for this site.

Nationalistic flamewar, which is the theme you're referring to, definitely falls in this category. That doesn't mean that "anti ccp" stories don't get attention here—they certainly do. Just not enough to satisfy the warriors, and rightly so, since warriors want every story that serves their cause to be on HN's front page.

See also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... for how we handle major ongoing topics.

Edit: it looks like we've had a similar conversation before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22870427, which makes me think that your "for some reason" is an insinuation of the sort the site guidelines specifically ask people not to post: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Please don't do that here.