skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let’s not first talk about what Facebook ought to do, but what Facebook can do.

There is no such thing as absolute freedom. This includes speech, which is already regulated in our society.

And as a society, we have spent ample effort to distinguish harmful speech - promotions of hate, abuse of minors etc...

This framework is clearly outlined in our laws and everything fb has done so far has been lawful.

One of the major proponents of this “let’s allow as much free speech as possible” framework is to establish an competitive marketplace of ideas, so that instead of legislating away bad ideas, as a society, we choose not to adopt them through reason.

This is why I think FB should be allowed to do what it’s doing.

As to if the recommendation and ranking algos are doing their job to help ideas be battled out in an transparent and efficient way, or simply creating an ideological echo chamber, that is another issue altogether.

We, as consumers, need to be vigilant, and choose a platform that we think is good for each one of us and our society.

In this case, have a discussion as a nation and choose between the Twitter and Facebook model.

I truly believe this is the American way.
Funny - people on the right say the exact opposite.
I think another core problem that's hinted at, but not addressed directly in the article is understanding risk. Many people are fine with "this is a risky investment" without really comprehending what the risk is, or even what the ballpark of the risk is. After all, the big advertisement page says "up to N% return" and that's what matters.

Similar to financial advisor disclaimers, it should be mandatory for every investment instrument to come with a clearly visible warning: "N% of retail investors trading this asset lose money".

Risk and reward are correlated, thus it shouldn't be legal to advertise the rewards without highlighting the risk.
Catching all this on camera seems to have spurred a movement, but most real change takes time to play out.

20 years ago most of this wouldn't have been caught on camera, so it seems like a net win.
https://www.reddit.com/r/2020PoliceBrutality/ for another source of documented police violence.
Didn’t know, sorry about that.
Unless your life ends in the next 5 years: you couldn't be more wrong. Not going to go into details, the others comments have laid out the arguments pretty well =)
> Unfortunately, I am not sure that will be the case in a week.

A week? I think it's already not the case. Maybe not across the entire nation but certainly in some places. I can see an argument that Twitter isn't a source of "quality" journalism. But these things are so widespread that I think it's hard to not only discredit it but even ignore it. In the first link [0] you've got National Guard walking in a neighborhood shooting paint at people legally standing on their own property. In the second link [1] you've got protestors taking refuge inside of someone's personal property.

No, it's not a war zone insomuch as there aren't live rounds being used. Except for, you know, when they are being used {[2],[3]} [4]. Okay so the latter three videos videos aren't in neighborhoods. I don't think it matters. It shouldn't matter whether these events are happening to a neighborhood or not. The fact is, they're happening and people are getting permanent injuries and some even dying.

[0] https://twitter.com/tkerssen/status/1266921821653385225

[1] https://twitter.com/allieblablah/status/1267636221406261248

[2] https://twitter.com/BrandiKruse/status/1266889752466227200

[3] https://twitter.com/BrandiKruse/status/1266924674107109377

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdmaXkNcgWw
Ants Death Spiral (2011)
I have a couple of those, but unitrunker only runs in Windows, and I’d hate to run Windows just for that.
Sometimes there has been skepticism about giving people cash as a form of charity because they're worried that the money won't be well spent. (They'll spend it on drugs or alcohol or whatever.) More evidence to settle that question is useful.

If we've moved beyond that to worrying about what happens at scale, that's progress.
I think in Atlanta the instructors came from Israel to the police force.
Swan Upping is a good old English tradition, there's not enough of them (2018)
I found this opinion piece to be worth considering, and relevant to the context of your question:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/coronavirus-race-...
> you to do something with good (though unlikely) consequences

But that's not really honest, is it? It's not "with good consequences" if the expected value is decidedly negative.
How do you think citizens feel? I consider anyone and everyone potentially armed and potentially a threat, yet I'm not blowing people away in the streets. Sounds like police need to change their tactics. Seems like society needs to change their expectations on what police are doing on a day to day basis.

Are criminal penalties too harsh? If you're looking at 25-life for a conviction, aren't you going to resist being apprehended with as much force as possible?

Unfortunately for us, democracy ensures idiots elect idiot politicians who employ idiot, evil police.
iXsystems Starts De-Emphasizing FreeBSD for TrueNAS Scale Out Project
Conservative Americans are traditionally all-in on respect for private property. One doesn't expect to go just walk on someone's lawn and put up a sign without the owner's permission. I honestly don't understand why the same respect doesn't apply to the services provided by private companies like Twitter and Facebook.

These companies spend billions of dollars annually on infrastructure and engineering to host user content. How can Republicans be asking the government to step in and dictate over that multi-billion investment? Doesn't that fly in the face of everything they believe about government's role in the private sector?

In your example, of course the pro-life CEO can do whatever they want with content on their site, assuming it was uploaded by users within the site's terms of service. If someone were actually paying for hosting of the content, they would have a case to get upset about having it taken down. But that's not the kind of contract that users of social media sites have made with the companies.
All the open source developers/publishers here should get together and pitch in to get one long lasting certificate to sign all of their respective binaries (of course, really important that they vet each other's code, so has to be open source)
Edit: typo.
You two are arguing at odds with each other. You're talking about how things are and they're talking about how they think things should be.
I suggest that you buy on eBay and filter by "New", which is what I did with mine. I verified that it was unused by going to Apple > About This Mac > System Report. Then select "Power" and look for the "Cycle Count" under "Battery information". This will tell you how many times the battery has been recharged. It should be a very low number. I think mine was 0 or 1 when I bought it. eBay is also pretty good about returns if anything is wrong with the laptop. Good luck!
Actually yes, now that I looked at dang's link to the same post discussed previously on HN, that's exactly what they were doing: determining dorm/hall based on IP address and other stuff.

So my comment was dead wrong. I'm sorry for assuming that facebook ever regarded its users as anything other than "dumb fucks" that they could track as they please.
a hidden tax on the direly desperate hope and addictions of people.
Ventoy – A New Bootable USB Solution
Anyone know how exactly this onion site naming scheme works? Will all those drug markets soon have funkt accessible domains?
Why Trump can’t just refuse to leave office if he loses the election
Recoil – Another React State Management Library?
Censoring the president hurts the Ammerican people more than censoring a normal individual. Closing our eyes and ears to the presidents actions and statement doesn't make them go away, or meaningfully disincentivize him.

If the president were to announce a racist policy or glorifies a violent military action, we should know.
I think it'd be more interesting to provide free housing, free local organic food and free bikes, than providing money.

It'll help people move away from unhealthy consumerist habits, and solve environmental problems, double-win
The inflation question is the most common

> https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-...

> basic income is not the idea of printing $3 trillion new dollars every year and dropping it on everyone from helicopters.

> The money for a basic income guarantee would be already existing money circulated through the economic system. It would not be new money, just money shifted from one location to another. This means that the value of each dollar has not changed. The dollar itself has only changed hands.

> Rising rent is a particularly worrisome fear for many when first introduced to the idea of basic income. However, two very important things in particular need to be understood when it comes to housing.

> There are five times more vacant homes than homeless people in the United States today. This represents a large unused supply that need only be made available. The reason many people are not living in these homes is because they were at one time but couldn’t afford to keep them. Basic income rectifies this and puts people back in homes.

> Technology represents a major factor in future housing prices, especially a future where everyone has a basic income. Everyone will receive a monthly check to afford rent, and will want to spend as little of it as possible on rent. Meanwhile, owners will want to compete for this money with other owners.
Programming via graphs is common in big-data machine-learning as well. Apache Beam and Tensorflow are both programmed by creating an execution graph object, and handing that off to the runtime.
Genuine question...

What would it take to align police incentives (compensation, etc) with the outcomes we want? Reforming the unions? Better local politicians?

De-militarizing the police seems like a great step, but it seems like trying to cut off a mindset that is already entrenched.
"pay for" misunderstands how money works. Giving the benefit of the doubt, I'll take this to mean, how do we offset the inflation hypothetically caused by increasing the circulating money supply. I'd argue that a UBI would only mildly affect inflation for many goods and services, save housing, and could be effectively offset with a mild to moderate taxation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
Digging a little into the posts about HOW they setup the communication channel does seem like it could be used to inform a system for that. So Kinda?
ok... you can chose to not take a stance on grey areas and act on clear cut cases.
Or they have "time spent in store" as a KPI because the more people are in the store, the more they'll buy... and slow kiosks will keep you around.
It is paid for by a net positive tax reform. My preferred would be something along the lines of wealth tax (I don’t want to tax productivity, ie income, but I have little sympathy for passive hoarders of wealth; I understand there are major legal and logistic hurdles; my current pet approach would be something along the lines of significant interest rate increase (to make money more valuable) combined with significant quantitative easing (essentially taxing money)).
The President can announce he's going to bomb a country with cruise missles, should Twitter remove those posts? On the surface that's 1000x worse than yelling "fire" in a crowd or inciting violence like he has the past few days.
I've tried that, recording is still broken sadly.
McKinsey: Up to $250B of US health spending could become virtual
I have a hard time believing this. Based on my experience, a part of the EV check was checking of the business entity with the state and sending snail mail to the address of record. Since our registered address was a law firm, I had to go through all kinds of hoops to get that letter as it contained the string needed to proceed to the next step in the EV verification.
Wouldn't that be treated by the courts as an attempt to shield IA's assets?
Automatic golf club replaces a bag of clubs and improves your game
> To do the rough and final layouts of the environment multiple people (director/art director/modelers/set dressers/dp) all went into vr (sometimes together) and used tools in UE to place/scale/rotate objects.

I didn't know about that. This is amazing.

> I've done a fair bit of modeling which involves a lot of manipulation of points and faces and also involves lots of object tumbling

I've done some hobbist-level CAD. Very often I had to turn the object slightly in a couple of directions to get a better sense of perspective. That comes for 'free' with VR, and you can also move your head, or yourself, without turning.

Mind you, I'm picturing working while sitting down so as not to be too tiring. Fine vertex manipulation may still be tiring, but I'm thinking organic modelling would benefit. Also specially for CAD, when you want to visualize and "explode" your model. Normally it involves lots of camera moving around.
The last line is a direct quote from The Giver.
> Censoring the president hurts the Ammerican people more than censoring a normal individual.

I don't buy that a single bit. Any sort of "censorship" on social media of a sitting US President (heck, even a former President) is going to be a major international news event.
Would love it even more if the game had hilarious consequences for not making the right gestures
> Funny how they later added 'judicial oversight' and things didn't change much. Secret courts are not proper oversight. The FBI should be handling all domestic cases, period (NSLs are another matter).

There should be no FBI. In fact, there didn't used to be. States were previously in charge of enforcing federal laws.

Local law enforcement is the only group you can ever hope to hold accountable, and look how much they get away with.
I have lately used a shell `for` loop that only emits part of the iterated values (not all are eligible for further processing) and then fed the loop directly to the `parallel` tool via the pipe operator.

The results were indeed embarrassingly parallel.

I am a fan of some languages that seem better equipped to utilise our modern many-core machines and I'd still write a longer-living system with better guarantees in those languages -- but many people ignore shell goodness at their own peril.
"Go places a strong emphasis on its applications staying up to date with the language, in contrast to the fragmentation in the .NET and .NET Core ecosystems"

This seems to be bit of an overstatement. C# as a language is stable and .NET and .NET Core aren't that apart from language standpoint. They had different focus through different set of built-in functionality that each framework has provided but with bit of overlap.

There are some libraries that support one but not another (although, for many of libraries, it is non-issue as they are often targeted to .NET Standard which supports both) but to call it "fragmented" sounds a bit too much.
His posts are polarizing though, which means a good half of the population may just accept and agree with it as much as one half shakes their heads.

Actually Trump knows this and is saying and doing what his base wants to hear. Believe it or not prior to politics he was quoted to support gay rights and abortion. He panders to the religious right and is trying to play left and right against each other by dividing, because that cements his right wing base. So such action taken by the left allow his supporters to dig in. It gives him publicity and he doesn’t care that it’s negative in the eyes of the left because he obviously isn’t pandering to the left in any way.
> You wanted to promote yourselves

I have never promoted the article on HN. You may recheck who posted the link here.

> full of perceptions but a bit short when it comes to facts

I will dismiss this utterance with prejudice. In absolute most cases the people who use it actually have no counter arguments or valid criticism.

Edit: actually there's nothing from you in this discussion aside from "it's all wrong".
It doesn't need to be a law passed by Congress. Congress need only pass a law authorizing the USPTO (or FTC, or FCC, or whoever) to promulgate a system that facilitates DMCA compliance while disincentivizing its abuse. Then the USPTO would set the rules and parameters and oversee compliance.

That's how most modern regulations are written.
A reporter at my previous workplace, KPCC, was shot in the neck with a rubber bullet on Saturday.

https://laist.com/2020/05/31/reporters_injured_protests_poli...

It's unfortunate that it's gotten to this point for people to take police brutality at least somewhat seriously.

I'm mistaken for being pro-police and anti-BLM merely because I'm against the looting and rioting. I've always had the stance that the police in their current form are state-sanctioned street gangs.
The (presumably white) little girl probably needs someone to explain to that the police have a duty to the public to protect order, not any given individual
You don't know what they want. If you deploy teargas before any of that has happened then perhaps the behavior you object to was in response to escalatory behavior of yours. You're essentially saying you have the right to deploy force because it's justified by any subsequent retaliation. If people don't retaliate or take any defensive action then you can declare a great victory and say they wanted to but you dominated them.

Your entire chain of reasoning is built on the claim that you have special knowledge of the future. Fine, so do I. If these people are not stopped then they're going to build Skynet and there will be nuclear strikes followed by terminator robots. Prove me wrong.
I’ve been interested in adhoc mesh networking for a while but I don’t really know where to get started software or hardware wise. I have lots of OpenWRT compatible equipment lying around and want to experiment.

I feel like internet blackouts are not a distant idea or all that improbable and I want to have some knowledge in my back pocket just in case.
> Also, does OpenGL work?

There's no reason why it can't; OpenGL doesn't require X11 (or Wayland), and EGL (a library/interface that binds the OGL implementation to a windowing/display system) could certainly be implemented for linuxfb (if it hasn't been already).

Either way, I'd expect the current state of snakeware's graphical environment is that it won't work without some (possibly large) modifications.
I mean, it has not micronutrients: minerals and vitamins.
Wasn't UNIX originally used to format patent applications at Bell Labs/AT&T? That was purportedly the selling point of UNIX to the business people.

When someone suggests using something other than "text" (usually it's some binary format, I consider S-Expressions to be text), I always wonder, why is this person writing their suggestion using text?

Then we have the suggestions that "everything is a file" is also a "mistake". That's great but if a "file" is not a good enough abstraction then what is?
> equipment issue isn't going to solve anything

This sounds like perfect being the enemy of the good.

Militarising police lets them to project force like, well, militaries. It attracts people who want to play with military toys without military training.

Removing military equipment doesn't solve the problem. But it makes it less deadly. And it removes one, among many, incentives for bad behavior.

> civilian oversight boards that are veto proof against the police they monitor

Simplier: let them initiate investigations, and give them the funding required to do so.

> holding elected and appointed officials of the localities, city, county, or state, accountable for the harm caused by their police forces

This is lip service. They're already elected. They continue to be re-elected. Police violence is, in large part, a majoritarian failure.
When four St Louis cops beat up an undercover cop at a protest, the ensuing federal suit (that's right, takes a cop to charge a cop) revealed some of the text messages of those involved:

https://twitter.com/alexiszotos/status/1068260482807676931

The more the merrier! Its gonna get IGNORANT tonight! But it's gonna be a lot of fun beating the hell out of those shitheads once the sun goes down and nobody can tell us apart!
>> Why do cops get to lose their temper when their job is to keep the peace and enforce the law. Learn to control yourself and do your job or find another profession.

TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242
DEPRIVATION OF RIGHTS UNDER COLOR OF LAW

Acts under “color of any law” include acts not only done by federal, state, or local officials within the bounds or limits of their lawful authority, but also acts done without and beyond the bounds of their lawful authority; provided that, in order for unlawful acts of any official to be done under “color of any law,” the unlawful acts must be done while such official is purporting or pretending to act in the performance of his/her official duties. This definition includes, in addition to law enforcement officials, individuals such as Mayors, Council persons, Judges, Nursing Home Proprietors, Security Guards, etc., persons who are bound by laws, statutes ordinances, or customs.

This means Chauvin could say he was acting under the "color of law" when he attempted to restrain George Floyd and during his restraint is when Floyd died. Because Chauvin was acting as a police officer and not a legal citizen, it was within his official duty as a police officer to apprehend someone who is breaking the law.

However, in the initial part of the statue, it clearly states:

This law further prohibits a person acting under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom to willfully subject or cause to be subjected any person to different punishments, pains, or penalties, than those prescribed for punishment of citizens on account of such person being an alien or by reason of his/her color or race.

This also means the prosecution can simply say that Chauvin was a known racist and violent around black people and his restraint was not an approved technique for restraining or arresting someone, therefore, based on those facts, the prosecution can make a compelling case that Chauvin attempted to use "color of law" to cover his willful infliction and in doing so, deprived George Floyd of his civil rights while doing so.

The shorter answer is yes, they can lose their temper because it might be required in the application of their duties as a police officer and officer of the government for which they serve. No, in that they cannot abuse that power and use "color of law" to deprive someone of their civil rights under the constitution.
Facebook, Twitter and Trump: The terrifying war on truth
I'd go in the opposite direction, no money, but free services (local organic food, bikes, and housing (water+electricity+internet), possibly a laptop too)
Covid had definitely exposed flaws in pure free market capitalism. We are modern human beings who can control Darwinism for the sake of greater good if need be.
> you won't be punished unless you act particularly egregiously like the one officer in Louisville reassigned to desk duty (big whoop)

Isn't this honestly largely due to the police union rules and contacts, which (unions) are a key part of leftist labor relations?
It may not be satisfactory in terms of performance though. Decentralization comes with its own baggage.
Personally I've found that Windows, and even many Linux distros handle multi-monitor far better than Mac OS does.
Cool. Another question since you are around: How many of your sea-of-nodes-level optimizations do you think can be applied instead as AST-level optimizations?