skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit has been compromised with actors who do not have free speech in their best interest. The other day there was an illuminating ask reddit post about transexuals who decided to transition back and their experiences. That post got promptly removed by moderators; even though there was no hateful content within it at all. They effectively silenced the transexual population due to an ever so slight conflict of ideology.

To think that the reddit administrators would go so far as to ban people for even interacting with content that THEY deem problematic.

Reddit is dead and no one I know uses it anymore.

EDIT:
- In case anyone is interested; here is the censored post that I was referring to https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/h9ctho/serious_a...
This seems like a good way to suppress bots that upvote posts that incite violence or severe verbal abuse or gingoist. However, I am afraid if they start doing this for discussion on COVID-19.
> it’s also a cesspool or horrible people sharing horrible ideas.

I tend to follow Voltaire's ‘I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.' I agree with your assessment of the quality of ideas thrown around there, but I'd prefer a world where the internet allowed sites like that to exist, rather than one that's increasingly owned & distributed by giant corporate conglomerates with significant oversight into the discussion of its members, lest you get assigned to "re-education camps" or some BS like that.

And let's not pretend that Reddit doesn't want to be one of those giant conglomerates...
The fact that there are no regulators to weed out the smaller players for the benefit of the Established ones, and then central banks to bail out their cronys when they blow up their economy and offer them Golden parachutes while the rest of the masses deal with worse living conditions and a labour Market only seen (until recently) snc ethe Great Depression for starters?

The fact that front-running isn't an established Raison D'être embedded deeply into its culture and system that diminishes any value purported from its supposedly 'open markets' is another.

I can go on, but if you can't see that then you have a very superficial understanding of either systems and are require far more education than I can avail to you.

I'm not saying this to be snarky, but its clear you're simply not paying enough attention if you have to ask.
I dont that is the case any more. At least we have multiple reports that Apple allows that. ( Likely due to legal requirement )
Still largely made in China. That means more recently than it used to.
There's a difference between actual respect for authority and knowing when to shut up as well. I could not like management but I have nothing to gain from getting into a fight.
> Many people complain about AWS' networking costs, but I also suspect these are generally at-cost.

This seems to be demonstrably false, given that Amazon Lightsail exists. Along with some compute and storage resources:

$3.50 gets you 1TB egress ($0.0035/GB)

$5 gets you 2TB egress ($0.0025/GB)

Now, its certainly possible that Amazon is taking a loss on this product. Its also possible that they have data showing that these types of users don't use more than a few percent of their allocated egress. But I suspect that they are actually more than capable of turning a profit at those rates.
This would have saved a lot of problems if proposed in 2008. Now that FANG has trillions in the back, if it's not a retroactive dividend, Ill-gotten gains get retained and this is not much more than closing the barn door after the cows are gone.
Is this any different than making Shadow Banning visible to the user who has been Shadow Banned?
“Antifa membership card”
Those are books you start reading one page and then you do research on this page until you got it.

The density is to high and there is no use of modern technology at all to link to explanations or guidance for it.
Pushing the boundaries is the best way to advance technology

Car manufacturers need ridiculously expensive race cars to push the technology to get advancements in everyday car technology. Similarly, Top500 is one way to push the technology for not just computationally but also things like better power, heat and network management in processors and computers in general.

With ever doubling server farms, Heat management of these systems will become the major contributor for environmental pollution than all vehicle exhaust. Rather than spending on renewable sources of energy for these farms, it makes sense to optimize energy consumed per processor. Hoping to see advancements in this area

In my opinion, next arm/intel will be the company who does energy efficient processors
And people downvote you as a disagreement button on this site instead of qualifying their opinion in words.

But you’re not wrong in your opinion and allowing downvotes without requiring a response encourages groupthink as well.

But where’s the line? Do we as society mandate freedom of speech on all private platforms? Are downvotes on HN protected speech?

You’re right that it’s a tough problem. We are at an inflection point right now. The boundaries of speech freedoms for the next century are being defined right now.
Maybe the world is starting to believe that "it was profitable" is not always a defensible position? Perhaps an age of consumption is passing towards an age of ethics. Time will show.
The Butterfly Dreams
So it's a hive mind and group think but with terrible people instead?
Perhaps they are pointing out the cultural changes that need to occur to change the patterns of behavior. No amount of police funding can fix a broken home. Not even social workers can make a parent stay if they don't want to, nor stop many types of abuse, nor get a kid to stop looking up to a performer who crows about their criminal history and start looking up to some real role models.

Those are really hard things to tackle, and even talk about. So most people don't.
I say this with all seriousness, and I understand some people don't have this luxury, but if you do, please quit.

These companies will continue to punish their employees if they are allowed to do so. The only way to create change is through leverage.

This goes for anyone facing this decision. If you have the ability to quit, you should absolutely do it. Take a year off, find another company that doesn't support archaic business practices, start your own business.

You owe it to the people that don't have that option. The people that are forced into commuting. The people that are forced into depression because they have to continue to pay their massive rents in absurdly expensive cities. The people that have incredibly poor mental health because they're pulled into gross office politics that pit employees against each other.

We must force these companies to change their bad behavior.
How did laws exist before the relatively modern institution of the police?
>but it’s also a cesspool or horrible people sharing horrible ideas

This is not coincidental. The same thing happened with Voat, the same thing is happening with Ruqqus.

I'm sure some not-awful stuff will end up as collateral damage here, but Reddit is attempting to target the communities of people that are promoting and engaging in some pretty heinous activities and lines of thought. When those are the people leaving to make a new platform where they won't be censored, that's the content that takes up the mindshare on those websites.
A few UVA alumni likely think that.
A fair number of people probably feel like you do. But I strongly suspect that, at least with many companies, a certain percentage of people never come back into the office except sporadically. So even for those who do return full-time, the atmosphere and work style will be changed for an indefinite period of time.

I know a number of people in the process of permanently moving out of cities--in several cases to rural locations many hours away.

For people with houses, the office space cost is likely less than the commuting cost. But it is indeed an issue for many in tiny city apartments.
> What problem does that solve?

It makes the data use much less profitable for the companies involved, and therefore far less attractive, discouraging business models that rely on it from the start.
Fixing Windbg's Broken Stack Trace Using Fake Symbol Exported from Ida Pro
> during an era of rampant 4chan-troll white supremacism

I find the narrative on this one not merely dubious, but Orwellian. Not only is free speech under extraordinary attack, as we have seen, freedom of association is "in the public health interest" but only for the "right" causes.

"White supremacism" -- just like "Russian trolls" -- is a canard used to justify actions which are themselves fascist.
Rocket engines have a long history of obtaining combustion temperatures far in excess of what their combustion chamber would tolerate under static conditions, but yeah, 25kK vs 2kK seems excessive. Also, chemical rockets have an easier time with this trick because the heat is generated inside the propellant, so you just have to stop it from getting out quickly, and the fuel itself is cryogenic and makes for a very convenient coolant.

Still, the fact that the article makes a big deal out of quartz being transparent in the UV makes me wonder if there isn't a clever trick up someone's sleeve. Ideas?
This post has almost nothing to do with "ethical issues about animal rights".
This is super stupid. If they're so against the content why allow it to exist in the first place?
Students at elite schools do NOT attend "to learn facts." Most such students are smart enough to learn anything they want to learn on their own.

Elite universities like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, etc. are attended mainly (a) to interact socially with and learn in-person from other individuals who are smarter, more talented, more knowledgeable, and/or more connected in diverse ways, (b) to join a kind of 'exclusive networking club' with lifetime membership benefits, (c) to learn the rituals and norms of this club, and (d) to get a credential that also confers lifetime benefits.
Shouldn't there be a market for a tough auditor? Now a healthy company has a hard time convincing investors that there are no hidden problems. With a tough auditor, you could gain more trust and thus cheaper interest rates.
The point is that the users who are upvoting this kind of content will stay on the site if they think their votes matter. Reddit clearly would rather they leave entirely, and this is a good way to encourage racists/misogynists/incels/whoever to find another platform.
I don't think avoiding controversy should be the goal.
Smoothies and sandwiches :)
It's an interesting theory, and researchers probably need to account for that. But although it probably could explain some of the effect, there's one that I don't think it can explain.

One of the diseases that coffee helps with is gout. Gout is more or less a special form of arthritis. In most cases the root cause is genetic deficiency in how well your kidneys remove uric acid from your blood. This leads to a buildup of it, and having no place else to go, more and more of it accumulates in your joints. Then your immune system does its best to deal with a foreign substance, and sometimes this leads to runaway inflammation that causes excruciating pain.

Anyway, I can't see a connection between the kidneys' ability to filter out one specific chemical and coffee drinking behavior. Particularly since gout is usually asymptomatic for years while deposits build up in your body, and then you have episodes (attacks) where inflammation gets out of control for a while before subsiding.
>not reporting, fiercely defending, or even lying to provide cover for the bad ones. And at that point, every person who tolerates the bad behaviors ends up enabling them, and therefore become complicit in them.

Precisely the same mentality is present in many of the most crime ridden neighborhoods in the US.[1]

Are you able to think objectively for a moment, and see how your reaction to police doing that, is similar the police's reaction to criminals doing that?

[1]https://youtu.be/nFhWpTKvD8E
How much of the problem was the lack of power in the platform versus the actual design of WML. I remember it worked ok, but I was using a better platform at the time. Then again, I really didn't go much farther than working through the ORA book.

I suppose, strictly, it did have WMLscript to go with it so might not be suitable for the original author.
Apart from the fact that prices are obscene - the real meat is in what happens if there' a coke and a pepsi side by side, one is $12 for a pack but the other is $13 - which do they buy?

The price difference is $0.02 per can, (which is potentially the difference a sugar tax might make), it would certainly be enough to sway a large number of people to choose the cheaper option.

Not sure about the regularity of these deals, but I remember as a studen often going to a place with a €4 meal deal. One week we went along, and the price of the deal had been increased to €4.50, and even though their competitors had been selling at that price (or higher) for quite a while before that, the people who defaulted to there for lunch stopped going purely based on a tiny price increase.
Rather than calling their palates more 'diverse' I would just observe that many foods we know to be healthy exhibit bitter, astringent, tart, sour, earthy, etc flavors.
>It's exactly that attitude to policing that's the root of all this.

You mean, humanity?

>Yes, we all want our loved ones coming home at the end of the day. But when you go out with the assumption that everybody is trying to kill you

Exactly true - but that's why the crime rate being so high rises the stress levels and enforces these views. Patrolling a Oslo, Norway, which has a murder rate of 0.5 per 100k, is different than patroling Atlanta, Georgia with a murder rate of 17 per 100k. Right?

>Crime has been falling at the same time as police misconduct (not just the actual abuses, but the protection around them) has become more visible.

I think I saw some stats that showed police misconduct has been falling as well - but as you said, visibility has been increased. Maybe this is all being solved, it just takes time.

Having said that, I do think police standards should be high, including admittance, and continual training on de-escalation drills and handling of high-stress situations. That should be simple to implement, and all it costs is taxes (and I think, given the current situation, that cost is worth it)
Yes, and it also depends on your relationship with work. For some it's more important to clearly cut from it at the end of the day than to get into it in the morning :)

Then I see a lot of people doing both.
My long time reddit account (same name as my hn account) was shadowbanned 2 weeks ago. I sent them an appeal and they responded really quick (it was sunday night I believe) saying that my account "got caught by Reddit's spam filter" and unbanned the account. A few days later my account was banned again. I sent an appeal and this time they haven't responded in over a week. Is this possibly related?
[source: PhD in drug design specializing in G-protein coupled receptor pharmacology]

Drugs like LSD form non-covalent bonds with receptors. In a macro-world analogy, think of your hand sticking to a syrup-covered fork vs. a covalent bond being your hand stuck to a super-glue covered fork. Different drugs have different levels of "stickiness" (called affinity) for a particular receptor, and LSD has pretty high affinity for its target receptor, 5-HT2a, but it isn't permanently attached. In fact, affinity is defined by relative association vs. dissociation rates of drug-receptor complex.

On a microscopic level, each molecule of LSD is falling in and out of the receptor binding site stochastically. This leaves open the possibility of another drug binding to the same site (called competitive inhibition) when LSD isn't occupying the site. If another drug has a higher affinity, it will occupy the receptor more of the time. When you zoom out and consider the entire set of receptors and drugs, the sum of these individual stochastic events these effects follow characteristic patterns described by the law of mass action.

https://derangedphysiology.com/main/cicm-primary-exam/requir... is a pretty good description

*I'm simplifying parts of this somewhat.
Reflections on Being a Female Founder
I think you overestimate how much people with disposable income value internet privacy.

I'm sure Google has good numbers on this from YouTube premium.
Step by step instructions for building an Arm-based MPI cluster using Raspberry Pis:
https://epcced.github.io/wee_archlet/
What does that even mean? So it’s ok for corporations to discriminate?

Maybe I missed the /sarcasm?
Two obvious potential problems come to mind.

First, not all types of “damage” and “repair” completely annihilate each other with no lasting effects. Protected areas like national parks are a great example of that. Donating to a charity that plants trees does not just “undo” investments in old-growth logging companies.

Secondly, the economies of scale that your tobacco company investments contribute toward may overwhelm the economies of scale that your charity donations contribute toward.
jedberg is here, I'm sure he's preening to pipe up about this like he usually does.

Or is the shoe on the other foot this time around?
Yes, it's shades of gray.

For example, lets compare a similar service. Twitter is currently censoring some of the President of the US's tweets. They were not doing that a few months ago. So it's not black and white where twitter and acceptability is, and, like with society, it changes over time. Thus, people are concerned that merely interacting with something is enough to be labelled anathema, because of the shades of gray.
I imagine change in user.css would break existing pages. Individual user can make such decision but browser care about those who don't. Have you updated yours? It should start somewhere...
>> That is quite literally a formal proof that "regex+backreferences" is NP-complete, since SAT is the index NP-complete problem.

> I'd love for you to elaborate a bit more on this.

I'm not the original poster, but I'll have a go.

SAT is NP-Hard. In other words, any literally any NP problem can be efficiently[0] converted to SAT, and any solution can then be efficiently[0] converted back to a solution to the original.

Example: Think of the problem of factoring integers. Someone gives you an integer to factor, with a little work you can create a SAT instance, solve that, and then read off the factorisation of the original integer. SAT is, in some real sense, at least has hard as INT.

So there is a proof that SAT is at least as hard as every NP problem. That's what we call "NP-Hard".

Now someone has shown that they can solve SAT problems by using regex_backtrack. That means that every NP problem can be converted to SAT, then converted to regex+backtrack, solved, and the solution to the original read out from the result.

Thus regex+backtrack is at least as hard as every NP problem.

Now in the case of SAT, it itself is NP. So the combination of being NP and being NP-Hard is called "NP-Complete", or NPC. So SAT is an example of a problem that's NPC.

What has not been shown (I think) is that regex+backtrack is in NP. Showing that a solution to regex+backtrack implies a solution to SAT shows that regex+backtrack is NP-Hard.

If the linked article also shows that regex+backtrack is NP, then it is therefore NPC. But we can see that regex+backtrack is in NP, because verifying an alleged match is a polynomial time operation.

So regex-backtrack is NPC.

+--------------------+
| |
NP-Hard -> | |
| ,------------. |
\ / \ /
X NP-Complete X
/ \ / \
/ `------------' \
NP -> | |
| |
. +------------+ ,
\ | Polynomial | /
`--+------------+--'

[0] For a technical definition of "efficient"
If the shared state is via shared memory IPC, you can only protect the Rust side, and have zero guarantees about its current state.

It requires the use of unsafe on the Rust side, and you better code it very carefully.
For a more in depth dive :

"Report on the Fujitsu Fugaku (富岳) System", Jack Dongarra, Jun 22, 2020

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aqntdb43p6so0z5/fugaku-report.pdf?...
People will pay higher prices for cigarettes up to a point - and somebody has had to calculate what that level is, because the current government here in Denmark was talking about trying to prevent young people from smoking, but didn't want to increase the prices too much, as that would overall cost tax money.

I think unlike heroin, smoking is probably easier to quit, and (because you know the size of the dosage for certain) easier to decrease your consumption.

I don't know the answer, maybe accept that some people are going to be unhealthy and, when you create public health systems some of those who have healthy habits are going to pay for those who have unhealthy habits and, while not fair, that is the price to pay.

Otherwise the question quickly becomes where do you draw the line? Mandatory weight control and mandatory calorie restrictions if found overweight?
Yeah, it's a bit early for this to hit HN.
The best thing that college did for me is get me out from under my parents roof and their influence. College gave me a chance to develop my own beliefs and ideas by being surrounded by people from many different places.

College changed me, by forcing me to be surrounded by different thoughts and feelings of people that I normally wouldn't have come into contact with in my home town.

In the few short years I was in college I went from a religious staunch conservative to an atheist liberal. This would have never happened to me had I stayed in my home.
> It's not what they signed up for, and many feel shortchanged by their universities continuing to charge them tuition fees for a subpar learning experience post-COVID.

As soon as they convince employers that a digital education is a reasonable substitute for in person classes, the traditional university will be over.

Why would you put yourself into $100k worth of debt for a piece of paper when you can get the same piece of paper from a pure online university for a fraction of the cost.
What's Coming in TypeScript 4?
There may be more than one person using GitHub from the same residence.

I dont't, but I know people who make a new one for each company they work for.
If it were a great time to buy outdoor apparel ads, and Patagonia were only concerned with their bottom line, then I expect they would not stop buying outdoor apparel ads. You really can’t have this both ways.
If you let a bad community be bad in their dark corner, they won't spread as easily to the rest of the site. You can easily see that the accounts are toxic by seeing that they participate in garbage communities. And it's a great honeypot for authorities, be it for political astroturfing and nationstate stuff, or for borderline-illegal content.
Everything is the white man's fault.
Is spyware technology helping governments hack phones?
Google Brain’s SimCLRv2 Achieves New SOTA in Semi-Supervised Learning
Because competitors exist
Facebook has 2.6 billion monthly active users [1]. If they pay each user $5/yr, that is $13 billion/year in extra costs. That might push Facebook to bias towards collecting less data about its users by default.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
I think they mean: discriminating against corporations is entirely different than discriminating against people.