skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that the average person can genuinely believe that "take" is a strong word of force and should be banned from twitter. It's definitely not equal to "they'll be met with serious force" in terms of threat. This is the original point: "We'll take your guns" isn't inciting violence anywhere near the level that trump does. The comparison doesn't stand.

If you can make that argument with a straight face, I take my hat off to you.
Yeah, also as a teenager in the 90s I distinctly remember thinking that the internet was going to make everyone smarter. The world's information at our fingertips! It'll unlock a new golden age for the entire globe!

Oh, how naive...
Yup...this reads like a low-fidelity rant than a substantive observation. Historically, proprietary/walled-garden operating systems were the norm. Trying to get, say, an IBM VM/CMS environment to talk to a DEC VAX/VMS system involved the deepest of dark incantations, and usually some expensive third-party software and hardware (show of hands...anyone else try and implement an APPN to DECNet gateway? Not recommended.).

There has never been a time where vendors didn't try and 'innovate' in ways that tried to lock out competitors, or at least made them less convenient. Right or wrong, it's not an insight that it's still a business model.
> triggering the Betteridge reflex

Sorry about that. Won't do it again.
Are you sure? Because when Trump said that the last thing I thought was he was calling for violence. To me he was stating a fact. And as we've seen, people rioted, looted and some ended up using guns. Happened in 92 also. Remember the "roof Koreans"?
It’s unrealistic to project those incentives in to future years
I think it's a mistake to think that binocular or 3D vision is 'enough'. The visual cortex does a LOT of processing.
Its in poor taste, but it's not your place to say that it has no value. That post has a lot of political meaning and promotes strong police response to non peaceful protests. People are just angry about the phrasing. This is far from having no value imo.
> But it's true, a black individual is on average more likely to commit a crime.

What? Wasn't even sure whether to dignify this comment with a response yet here I am.
That is anti-free speech. Not that social networks are bound by the First Amendment, but it's literally preventing me from saying something freely by my own volition if too many people before me already said the exact same thing. Hard pass.

It is my understanding that Telegram and Whatsapp are currently actively doing this kind of thing, to stop the spread of misinformation and disinformation, according to the companies. I still disagree with this practice on principle. The effects of free speech on free people is increased freedom. If those using free speech are not themselves free, less optimal results may occur; freedom is an inherent good; free actions are judged on their merits and their effects.
عکس عاشقانه دونفره بدون متن – عکس پروفایل دونفره غمگین خفن
Usually they primarily go after torrents, but some websites have caught their ire over the years.
Assuming something in the same vein as fizx with the addition that it's probably very similar to what Join Monster tries to solve: https://github.com/join-monster/join-monster
Big cities used to be really dangerous but crime was put under control by methods that are now under attack. Data-driven predictions of where crime will happen allows police to dedicate resources to locations where they will be most effective at preventing crime. Data-driven decision making is what drives every sector in society. It belongs in policing. This ban is a mistake. Unfortunately, the consequences of the ban won't be experienced until those who voted the rule into effect are long gone from office.
Strunk and White's “The Element of Style” Applied to Writing Microcopy
If I might ask a lazy question - do any of these work with basic (e.g easily available on a lightweight container) command line tools on the terminal? I assume not since they must all be Javascript-based.
It's interesting that no advertisers had even a hint of concern when informed about the massive privacy invasions, many of them highly illegal, that Facebook performed for a profit.
Culture of silence comes from the top, or more realistically mid-career people who have bought into the system. Your proverbial E4 (junior enlisted with some clout) is the same as a early but motivated patrolman, and those are the parties that do the locker room harassment. But their direction and latitude to behave that way comes from that former party.

With that in mind...

The police leadership that condones the integrity violations required to stay silent are peers to the E6-8's/O4s-O5s who are in the military for 7-14 years and are vectoring towards a career. While bad apples exist in those parties, and those parties have enough influence to create culture of silence, it's never sustainable.

So, life-long careers exist in both for parties with influence enough to do a wall of silence, both have similar danger to the job, but the military has a fraction of these ethical shortcomings police are experiencing.
The extraordinary pressure he put people under on a daily basis, especially as deadlines approached, his biographies are full of reports of working long weekends, sleeping in the office, having him push push push push to the breaking point.
The only point at which randomness enters is with "measurement" -- interaction with a classical system. But, if you believe in quantum mechanics, there is actually no such thing as a classical system, only large quantum systems.
Bad authors are bad, and good authors are good whatever sex and skin color they have. Individual author qualities are much more relevant than the social context they are immersed; if somebody doesn't understand they society they are talking about, reading them is worthless, it doesn't matter if it has an incredibly different and interesting culture.

Around here there is plenty (but trending down) of pushing for authors on the basis that they are local, or non-white, or not male, or poor. There is also a lot (and trending up) of pushing for authors on the basis that they are from some "world-class" place/culture. Both approaches are classist/racist/sexist and plain stupid. Labels like "decolonizing" usually come from the first group, and anybody trying to judge local authors based on their own merits is quickly outed from that group with the argument that judging works done by such class/race/sex is classist/racist/sexist, so people using that label are almost never on the actually unprejudiced group.

Besides, forcefully changing authors based on prejudice has the double effect of teaching locals that they aren't expected to create high quality work and delegating competent locals to a life of obscurity, because if you can't judge their work, you can't discover that it's any good either.

But anyway, that says nothing about the subjects of study. It is always worthy to study the cultures that helped forming one's own.
Your mistake is assuming that taking property through the threat of violence is theft. That’s incorrect. Theft is an illegal taking of property. Taxes are a legal taking of property. But collection of the wealth tax, like all taxes, is premised on the threat of violence. It’s legal violence towards a legal end, and therefore justified, but it’s still violence.
I have no idea, but some people are worried about that kind of behavior.
that actually means a lot, thanks :)
> When the sign says max speed 55mph, that's asking. When the highway patrol pulls you over to give you a ticket - that's fining you. If you don't stop and they need to run you off the road and arrest you - that's the violence stage.

The "asking" implied "we will give you a fine if you don't", and the fine implies "and we will come to your house and get you if you don't pay".

> However, that doesn't mean we bring the visceral threat of violence into every property or civil rights dispute.

Of course we do, we just do it via the state. I sue you with the knowledge that, if the court rules in my favor, the state will make you accept that ruling.

There is no pacifist society, and hiding the violence under a veil will do us no good. It's useful to be aware of reality, to know how the sausage is made, because it's much too easy to decide things if you close your eyes to these facts. Similar to starting a war that will not be fought by your children, deciding on a policy that will "ask" people to do something, adding "it's not like we're going to kick their door in..." is a problem: because that's exactly what is going to happen if they don't "voluntarily" comply. It's "hey, could you do me a favor? Please move your car, or else..."
Oh no worries! but thanks for saying so.
I’d argue that free markets are a requirement of the definition of capitalism, but like the term “communism” the definition has become squishy.

I agree that your definition inevitably leads to income inequality.

Either way, I think we agree on the nature of these problems.
Shipping the network in device ROMs seems like a pretty far-off thing at this point, but I wonder if there could be something in the nearer term around time-shifting bandwidth usage, eg:

- Media appliance under your TV downloads a 5GB updated network during the night so that you can use smaller-encoded streams of arbitrary content in the evening.

- Spotify maintains a network on your phone that is updated while you're at home so that you can stream audio on the road with minimal data usage.

- Your car has a network in it that is periodically updated over wifi and allows you to receive streetview images over a manufacturer-supplied M2M connection.
Non-AMPed link: https://sf.curbed.com/2020/6/2/21277355/san-francisco-rent-p...
A complete reinstall of a modern Ubuntu on a spinning HDD takes less than 30 minutes in my experience (often less than 15).

Windows installs and reinstalls take hours more often than not -- just logging in for the first time on an up-to-date Win10 laptop recently took 10 minutes to "personalize" it for me ... and this was on an SSD. I used to have curiosity about how they made it so bad, but these days I've placed anything windows under a SEP field.
I don't know what to tell you except that tweets are way more information-dense than anything else. The Medium audience demands "modern long-form" style with personal anecdotes and all that. The Twitter audience demands the punchy short stuff. So I know what I'm going to get on Twitter.
Without suburban coyotes, the neighborhood Facebook groups would be stuck talking about fireworks and Taco Bell.
>I’d be curious to know what’s different this time

possibly a more personal interaction with the people who create the content. Same reason twitch or patreon has a lot of appeal. it's a sort of community more than an actual transaction in exchange for content.

Traditional journalists and name-brand writers rarely ever entered into personal relationships with their readers and in many ways it was important to not be swayed by the readership themselves. With the rise of these independent creators it seems more like the opposite. I honestly don't think this is good for publishing necessarily because it's kind of like a mini-cult even.
Here's the wikipedia article for the fallacious argument I used and which you're critiquing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

Here is some statistical evidence for systemic racism: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-systemic-racism-in-charts... (Shockingly this is actually pretty good despite being from Business Insider)

Honestly, I'd just edit the link at this point if I could since it seems to have triggered so many people. My assumption, again, was that anyone who doesn't believe in systemic racism at this point is not going to be swayed by statistical evidence. I am not advocating that any critical thinker be persuaded by majority opinion.

Luckily we're all critical thinkers here and we crave statistical evidence. I assume that means we also all believe systemic racism is a problem in the US. But in case you're an outlier I hope that link helps.

That said, everything in that link has been true literally forever (for the US.) But opinions are only changing now. Maybe 30% of the United States didn't see those stats before now but I find that hard to believe. I think social proof, despite not being actual proof, is more powerful than you folks would like to believe it is.
Thank you for communicating that here. I spent about a decade working in some niches of flight safety. What you say matches up with my very positive impressions of the sense of integrity and duty that seemed implicit in the people and processes.
'Money-weighted people' implies if you've got a billion people willing and able to buy something which is cheap to make on a semi-regular basis that's probably a very good business. Helps if you've got access to the capital to sink into advertising to them and building out that supply chain of course.

It also implies that millions of Coca Cola's customers have absolutely no impact on the 'demand for new cars' and absolutely no four wheeled vehicles targeted at them because the cost of making cars vastly exceeds their purchasing power, whereas the weight of a few hundred rich people's money creates enough 'demand for business jets' to sustain competing products.
Except for the lightning. And I guess the bears.
Yeah the FCC thinks I have 19 options for broadband. I most assuredly do not.
This endless discussion of UBI or other programs in isolation is like trying to find treatment for an itchy toe, ignoring that the rest of your body is also itching.
I don't know why but I was not expecting such an old book to be so richly illustrated and with such a nice typography. Explanations look very clear too.
I personally find the web without ublock origin to be unbearable. Especially youtube and newspapers make use of ads that really disrupt the user experience.
The % of tests that are coming back positive is increasing, which is a good indication that the growth we're seeing is due to a growth in infections, and not just growth in testing
Good. Facebook is just an echo chamber for hate speech and mis-information. Looking at you high school friends.
In some cases departments have cleaned up their act (a bit) because of no longer being able to afford liability insurance:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/insuran...
In 2016 only 10% of San Francisco voted for Trump. There was not a single neighborhood that had higher than 30% for Trump. So "left leaning" is apt, if you agree that left / right roughly maps to Democrat / Republican.
Not the string conversion or the rounding, it's both of them combined that makes me unsecure my revolver. That's a joke... Seriously, I look back at my PHP years with mostly great joy. Even though the language is terrible I hardly ever noticed it when practising it.
It turns out the ifconfig command does not provide any default subnet mask parameters. That is done inside the kernel. Changing the kernel would break backwards compatibility.

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/0970cb57551e0e8df6688f8a...

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/cb8e59cc87201af93dfbb...
Burger King Is Leveraging Tesla Autopilot's Confusion to Sell Whoppers
I think part of the problem (sociologically) is also sharp reluctance on part of funding agencies, and hiring committees. Graduate students are made to feel, in no uncertain terms, that working on quantum foundations equates to career suicide.

It’s like physicists (collectively) have PTSD from a few decades of trying to understand QM, which then crystallized into the maxim “shut up and calculate”. What we’re seeing is the resulting learned helplessness.
Mac OS X has been my daily driver for almost 1.5 decades and I almost got my parents a Mac since they had an ancient laptop and were sorely in need of an upgrade. Instead, I got them a shiny laptop from the Microsoft Store thinking that would minimize the kinds of problems I’ve encountered with terribly cheap Windows machines over the years (icky stuff installed, bad drivers, bad build quality, etc). In recent months my parents have experienced unsettling behavior which I assume is related to Windows updates: seeing it update and then turn to a black screen forever, without even being able to turn it off and back on (and then returning the next morning and it magically comes back on). Of course I had to buy them a new machine right before the pandemic, so the Microsoft Store is closed and I can’t get someone to see if there’s any other problem with it. I know iOS is defaulting to updating people without them knowing too - I’m not a fan, but maybe I’m not the target demographic. Still, they should make sure it’s more robust if they’re going to force it on people without warning.
What is horseshit? Nothing in your response is contrary to anything the person said that you're responding to
Right, right, and if you don't comply, what happens? This feels like "hey, that's meat, you know where that comes from, right?" - "yeah, from the fridge" - "no, I mean, before that" - "The Supermarket?"
Well they allow you to measure with a measuring cup, or with a scale, whatever you prefer, and easily allow scaling a recipe up or down :)
If curious see also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21426793
The true evil from facebook isn't the posts that incite violence. It's the posts that are flat-out fake, complete lies and/or present something completely out of context. These are the tools that Trump, right-wingers and white supremacists use to fool their supporters and trigger their seratonin generators through fearmongering. What is Facebook doing about THIS problem? What are they doing to combat blatant untruths spread all over their network? Zuckerberg's post does nothing to address this, the worst of problems. He's hitting softballs.
Interesting chart in this article: https://fm-static.cnbc.com/awsmedia/chart/2020/06/26/Top10Ad...
Watch the video: https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/09/13/beto-orourke-....

Listen to Beto’s tone and the crowd’s reaction. “Hell yes, we’ll [accept your AR-15 in a buy-back]” would not have had the same rhetorical impact because that’s not what he meant. The crowd cheered because they knew what he meant.
I understand the general point, but that surely can justify any practice cloaked in pseudo-legal parlance.It is exactly the same thing that led us to the derivatives disaster.
I agree with all of your points except for anonymity. Some of the most toxic internet battles I’ve seen were on Facebook, where everyone was using their real name, picture, etc. On the other hand, some of the most insightful discussions I’ve participated in were right here on Hacker News.

So I think there’s another explanatory variable in this case. What’s the big difference between HN and Facebook? HN is a self-selected community of people which has established a culture based on strong values of discussion, charity, mutual respect, and highly engaged moderation. Facebook, on the other hand, has only outsourced moderation in order to keep out illegal material. It doesn’t have any interest whatsoever in promoting healthy, engaging discussions.
I’ve always felt the opposite. Having children is a privilege. That’s not to say that just to get on a high horse about it, it’s something my SO and I have talked at length about (we have two, and because of medical complications cannot have more) and we’ve both come to the conclusion that children are a gift from God. Obviously our religion has a lot to do with the perspective that having them are a privilege.

It’s only within the last few years that the having children is considered a problem. I think there’s probably a direct causation there with the decline of the Judeo-Christian religions overall.
As someone who has never worked in the restaurant industry, I don't understand, at all, what you mean by this. Could you elaborate?
Probably because they all participate along with Facebook in the same anti-privacy racket.
Let's be fair...if they've truly come up with a better, or at least equivalent but different, way of maintaining food hygiene that's more efficient that isn't being accepted because of regulatory ossification, then yeah, that needs to be addressed.

But I'd bet you're exactly right, and it's just "we're betting there's not going to be a major food poisoning incident before we find an exit and make it someone else's problem".
> The algorithm may not be racist, but it is guaranteed to perpetuate our objectively racist policing of the past.

Depends on how the algorithm is formulated. If it's based on number of crimes found, by policeman, by hour, then this would eliminate that concern (vs just number of crimes per hour).
> Everyone does something criminal from time to time.

Everyone? Maybe this would be true if you'd include non-criminal offenses (those you'd get a ticket for). Most people in their lives will probably jay-walk, or speed, or get a parking ticket, or something else in this category.

But you're saying that everyone (I'll read this as "most people") will do something that would get them arrested if caught from time to time? That's an outlandish statement.
I live in the lightning capitol of North America. As an electrician, people ask me how to protect their personal property against lightning. After the usual spiel about lightning arrestors, and surge suppressors, I tell them clearly, there is no real protection against lightning. It goes wherever, unpredictably, and nothing can guarantee you or your possessions. The equipment I've described can lower your risk; that's all anything can do. I should make a recording of that speech.
Because this would negatively affect their revenue?
I am not hearing this -- I'm hearing 1 to 2 seconds of silence as one song ends and the next song starts.

In my spotify preferences I have "Crossfade" disabled, but there is now a new setting that I haven't seen before: "Automix -- Allow smooth transitions between songs in a playlist". This is enabled.

I wonder if "crossfade" also needs to be enabled
So far experiments are one-sided with outside money being used. Nobody is testing how a self-sustained society works in UBI. I'd be more interested in seeing a full-fledged test rather than bigger and bigger cherry picked tests.
This is one of those ideas that sound good in theory but then immediately causes bad effects.

The problem with cutting and pasting isn't bots, it's people. Uncle Joe posting 5 links a day from <bad news source> is completely allowed under your system, and yet if there are a million Uncle Joes on your network (and there definitely is a large portion of the population like that), then you'd just be back to square one.
what are you arguing for? no analysis? or do you wish to change the analysis? Or why do you claim that analysis is premature to remain on topic?

saying "inherent bias" is very vague and has more value as a political dog whistle than anything else... unless you'd like to suggest what the biases are and point out how you have this special knowledge and other crime experts don't.

for example, what is the bias in incoming 911 calls?
Which parents that never worked? If unemployment doesn't go up, but remains constant or goes down, and more children complete high school, what kids are you worried about? Right now we have a bunch of kids that don't finish high school and are born in unemployed families, how about we worry about them? We know the effect our current system is causing on them, a cycle of poverty that never goes away. Clearly our current approach is not working.