skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come on, that subreddit was insane. We should attempt to understand and empathise with people we disagree with, but that doesn’t mean we abandon all intellectual standards. And frankly validating a space like that as a legitimate viewpoint for conservatism is an insult to conservatism and a kind of bigotry of low expectations.
This final banning of /r/The_Donald is part of a concerted effort to eliminate any sense of normalcy for being pro-Trump. Even with no content for the past few months (after the mod removal), it stood out as a historical reference point to show thousands of people that supported Trump's 2016 campaign and presumably would continue to support him in 2020.

They had a choice to leave it up and locked, but instead chose to erase it from the Internet and that's no accident.
>>I believe that different communities might have different definitions of "toxicity"

Sure. The problem is that despite the decentralized nature of those communities, they still don't exist in a vacuum. Their various beliefs and behaviors (that the community itself may not consider toxic) inevitably leak out and cause problems for society at large.

The incel community, for example, worships Elliott Rodgers, the guy who went on an insane shooting rampage because sorority girls wouldn't have sex with him. How long until another Rodgers appears? Why should we allow such breeding grounds to exist?
Start shorting eBay a massive part of their business has been based on taking advantage of this
> Users won't allow for (use) decentralized platforms until there is a good way to censor them. Once that happens, what would be the point of switching.

You could imagine a world where there's multiple apps that access the same decentralized platform, where the censoring happens at the application level. So if your favorite community gets banned in one app, if you want, you could switch to a different app. Not a perfect example, but it would be like how if Google Chrome decided to block somerandomcommunityexample.com you could just switch to Firefox.
>One more step
>Please complete the security check to access retrohax.net
No thanks. I'm not doing captchas any more. I just close the tab or, in the case of companies which put this in front of online bill pay, I simply revert back to paper bills.
Was it that different? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-tells-african-american-au...

> Biden tells African-American audience GOP ticket would put them "back in chains"
ChapoTrapHouse has been laughing for months about their incoming ban, though. They knew it was coming and they've been preparing for it by migrating to other subs, moving to Discord, etc... T_D users are probably doing the exact same.
When kids are involved, yes :)
There’s no winning this game. Soon they will be considered liable for anything they didn’t censor, especially from the extreme left, as they are making the appearance of support. I hope they’re paying Michael a massive amount of money to associate himself with this dumpster fire.
Ha! Not purely for fun, anyway.
Who also doesn't want to mess up his face makeup with a mask.
I think they tend to be fashion critics more than anything else.
RIP /r/cumtown
Keeping them in that plane is the biggest hurdle to get over for a lot of people. Try juggling in front of a wall. Or standing over a desk against a wall (no chasing drops). You can even keep juggling bounces off the wall. Also, lots of practice with just two balls doing the exchange.
They're given a very free pass because it's incredibly easy to block a native app from sending data back or even connecting to the internet at all.

You have a lot more control over something that's running locally than something running serverside that simply using the client to harvest data.
Having seen countless female gore/porn artists on social networking I’m not so sure how important of a problem it is... especially the porn part
Well, because native apps are intended to be trusted. They do not have a motivation to invade your privacy: proprietary apps are usually paid upfront and risk their future clients, open source can be inspected.

Instead, the overwhelming web business model is "free to use" (akin to f2p in games). That means ads and other monetization side channels become the priority of the app, not the app itself.

And that is for trusted web apps. Let's not even talk about the fact that you are executing random code every time you visit any webpage. That just does not happen with native apps.
Volcker 2.0 and Venture Capital
I think Elastic (the company behind ElasticSearch).
Many people are being told that COVID is a liberal hoax.
Chrome allows silent enumeration of USB devices (2018)
I think they want to highlight the custom silicon models that they have so far because we are now at the point that probably every product will have its own processor so you need some kind brand of what the goals are of Apple's strategy in the future.

Also, its really good marketing and allows everyone to have the same talking points because if you want to explain the naming scheme of any processor manufacturer it will take longer than the amount of time that anyone has an actually attention span for people not interested in the subject already.
Why the blurring?
This is not true. "In 2010, the population of the states which have shoreline on the East Coast was estimated at 112,642,503 (36% of the country's total population). "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_of_the_United_State...
Good job galvanizing Trump supporters. I'm sure silencing them online will silence them at the voting booth.
Let's give them user driven reddit then. Open the floodgates, remove all filters and moderators and bans and locks. Turn off the firewall. Let them see reality.

They'll be back.
I tried some of the alternatives. I figured if the people I don't like stay in their subgroups, I'm fine. But they don't. They invade every group. I don't want to see extremely racist posts in my "anti-bicyclist" group (for example). They'll take every post and make it about race.
You realize that people will look through 20 years of post history, triangulate every piece of information you've ever mistakenly let loose that you haven't thought about in a decade, and use that information to harass you outside of the internet, right?
The best solution is not to cave to anyone. It's to come out, say what you think is best, then tell anyone who disagrees to either take it or leave the platform.

If enough companies, groups and individuals do that, this sort of pressure will stop, since people will learn it doesn't work. Most people won't stop using a platform over this stuff anyway.
India Bans Nearly 60 Chinese Apps, Including TikTok
some other bannings

r/Consume Product
r/ClericalFascism
r/Smuggies
r/Debate Alright
r/bruhfunny
r/ShitNeoconsSay
r/soyboys
r/imgoingtohellforthis2
r/AltRightChristian
r/TheHonkPill
r/topnotchshitposting r/TheNewRight
r/DarkHumorAndMemes
r/Gender Critical
r/ChapoTrapHouse
r/rightwingLGBT
r/whitebeauty
r/The3rdPosition
r/CumTown
Wow I just had a look at Fastmail and there's a quote on there directly targetting all of us that feel like this - "there's even a gmail transfer tool" :D

Thanks so much for this, I'm looking into it now!
The Art of AI: An Interview with Kai-Fu Lee
I have a Windows 98 machine I use almost daily, for games and as a "bridge" PC. The UI is just better than what we have now in modern Windows.
Since the 2016 election the left has been consolidating their vast cultural power by exiling opposing views that don't pass their ever-shifting purity tests.

It remains to be seen whether or not this will bury conservative thought or cause an underground resurgence.
Do you think you can ARCore working through Phonk? That would be spectacular even if it ran slow or with stutters.
> the only speech worth hearing is the stuff you don't like hearing

What's an example that supports this? I can only think of examples that indicate the opposite.
To be fair, on default subreddits, conservatives are not just outnumbered, but they’re also heavily censored. An example from a few days ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/hg6d2a/this_i....

/r/worldnews and /r/coronavirus also showed that even on default subreddits, a website that’s likely 99% anti-China can suddenly become 20-50% pro-China within their subreddit thanks to moderators banning users that argue with the wumaos. /r/WatchRedditDie is a great way to follow the rampant censorship.

Reddit deserve to be judged based on the actions of the moderators of the subreddits they choose to promote, and not just the actions of their paid employees.
This isn't about politics it's about advertising. Facebook is catching hell from advertisers right now because ads are "showing up alongside hateful content." In marketing speak what Reddit is doing is creating a "brand safe" environment so that advertisers will spend more with Reddit.

Sorry right-wingers, this isn't about red or blue politics, it's all about green.
I'm in a gated community at the moment. Safety is not a concern whatsoever. Even in the city center, it's pretty quiet here. It's pretty dangerous in Mexico City or some places in the North. The danger is pretty localized, so as long as you know what things/places to avoid, you'll be fine. Having a native friend can be pretty helpful here. If not, there's always Reddit.

As far as dining, there are restaurants and street food everywhere. Many places have servicio a domicilio or use Uber Eats. I think Uber Eats is only available in the bigger cities, though.

Laundry is great! If you don't have a washing machine, you take your clothes to a lavandería. They'll wash, dry, and fold all your clothes for about $3. It's pretty convenient.
Yes - and? If those bad actors are screaming down every meaningful discussion in the forum you moderate (and supposedly care about), all the people you'd want to stick around will leave. If moderators would care little enough about the community that they log out and walk away, the wouldn't be moderators.
How the world missed Covid-19's silent spread
>About the same time, Reddit placed r/The_Donald in "Restricted mode", removing the ability to create new posts from most of its users.

I think this is wrong, IIRC it was the mods who chose to do that, not Reddit admins. The mods wouldn't choose other mods even though the rules made sense, like having a certain karma threshold in t_d etc.
FIDO2 enables resident keys. With resident keys the web site can have a flow where you just go "It's me" (maybe you enter a PIN, or touch a fingerprint sensor, Apple just announced they're doing this with FaceID) and you're signed in. Without a resident key, there's a back and forth where you give a username, then maybe a password, and then your authenticator comes in to provide a second factor.

This is because the FIDO2 device actually has (finite) slots to remember e.g. credentials for funky-jokes.example so when you're at funky-jokes.example a WebAuthn API call can ask for those credentials and sign you in. No username, no password, you've presented all the credentials needed in one step. Whereas when keys are not resident the authenticator is relying on the web site to know (from your username) its ID, without being told the ID it can't do the authentication dance, so you will need to enter a username/ email address.

Resident keys are clearly a great idea in a phone (iPhone, Pixel, whatever) because it's not like gigabytes of flash storage will be exhausted storing credentials for the dozens or even thousands of sites you have credentials for.

It's less obviously a great idea for a Yubikey or cheap USB Security Key that maybe only has space for a dozen credentials. Maybe it makes sense to use it for that one web site you sign into every day, or to replace the main SSH key you use but if a Yubikey has 25 slots it doesn't make much sense for one to be "bush-jokes.example" which you last visited ten years ago...
Please just explain your point, instead of being snarky.

I think there are ways to get (a bit of) both. It's not simple though.
I love reading foxnews.com and some of my deeply conservative relatives' Facebook feeds, because they give a perspective I'd never see otherwise (even if I generally disagree). I'm on there daily, and I'd say I get just as much news from those sources as from others, like washingtonpost.com. I also sometimes go to some old school conservative blogs like nationalreview.com/corner/, as well as sites like Drudge and Breitbart to see what they think.

But /r/the_donald was just toxic. Even when I was in the mood to see more of that kind of content, I couldn't stand more than about 5 minutes of browsing that subreddit before closing the tab in frustration and disgust.
My first high school crush has been doing this continuously for 20 years^, in case anyone things this is a made-up story. Stalking behaviors are not rational, and they do not care that 20 years have passed. Stalkers do not care that you walked away.

^ They don't seem to realize that after the wave of 28 death threats in an evening 15 years ago (in writing, I still have them for the cops), I'm simply not going to communicate with them ever again, unless it's to their local constabulary to deliver a restraining order. I half expect they'll show up here to reply to my comment with a green account and go on yet another thousand-word crazy monologue rant about how they are entitled to my friendship after 20 years of never-ending harassment. We'll see.
This is the kind of stuff when you get when you don't know anything about historical materialism.

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

Historical materialism is the idea that politics comes from changes in the material conditions of a population. When people need something and aren't getting it, then they meet others in the same situation and compare notes, then you get a political formation.

The United States is refusing to adapt to the needs of the bottom strata of society, and as they learn they can't change the system by voting or protesting, more and more radical steps are taken until the goals of the majority of people will be achieved. The refusal of the government to give even an inch is causing this to happen. Just look at the Bernie Sanders campaign that was talking about state funded medical care for all people, how popular it was and is, and how the DNC merc'd it.

Then we had a pandemic happen that showed definitively how beneficial that policy would be, and the state still refuses to lift a finger to help anyone other than the business community with the exception of a paltry one time $1200 and some unemployment benefits. It took pushing to get Joe Biden to even call for free testing let alone free care!

Edit: To be clear, my objection to this paper is that even though it is authored by physicists, people who should have a clear understanding of materialism (!!) they merely build computer models of ideas, and in that they are merely pontificating on liberal idealism. Their models will be flawed because ideas only "catch" when they find fertile soil. That soil is material reality.
Well that's kind of a different argument. But one I can get well on board with.

We should kill JS, and EVERY WebSpec, except for WASM and WASI. Take the best parts of html and css and implement a virtual dom / immutable data driven document format for WASI.

Focus all our efforts on carving useful capabilities for WASI and end this web nightmare once and for all.

Not realistic, but a man can dream...
Making music in excel
Well yeah after they all migrated away. Bit of a token gesture to all the people who kept yammering at them really.
Wow, thanks for the scoop! Is there anywhere interested readers can read more about Dave and Chamath's tenure at FB, particularly the latter and the issues you pointed out?
Because it is and always has been , from the start. Without this liberation of having a public , anonymous board, we 'd be so much poorer culturally. Reddit banning some stuff is a good thing - new venues will arise because people arent just going to stop talking.
One thing I learned from that operation was how hard it is to honour returns. A return cost many, many times the cost of such cheap product.

I had cases of returns, and angry reviews because people didn't like even single, barely visible scratch on the glass, which I myself somehow overlooked.

Not honouring returns was a 100% sure way to get kicked off ebay, and amazon 10 years ago, and maybe even more today. This is what I learned on forums of people doing small business on ebay that I read prior to starting.

Knowing that, I picked products from samples that survived most abuse, and had hardest, and best looking surface finish.

Even with all of that, you can't do anything about returns made for no other reason than "I simply don't like it"
I think its less to do with iOS vs Andriod, or more to do with giving away your information. I'm sure there's ways to make your Andriod become equally as "secure" with the local data as iOS, but iOS makes it easy
It actually isn't always possible to log out and walk away. Sometimes people find out where you live and go there, or find out where you work and contact your employer.

As they used to say in the 90s internet, "When you die on the internet you die in real life."
Just wanted to say, a couple of your books (Kids Shenanigans and the Explorabook) had a big impact on me as a kid, so, thank you.
This is a good move even if it took a long time to come.
Oh, and the enjoying it part - hell yes. I'd much rather be stuck here in a cheap foreign country than back at home!
San Francisco VC Charged in Wide-Ranging Schemes to Defraud
Dead language? Latin is a hit at this Bronx charter school
It's also benchmarks of a slightly slowed down version of a chip intended for an iPad Pro, assembled to support development of porting to a new processor. As they stated in the keynote (or one of the sessions) it's not indicative of an actual Mac chip performance. So it's interesting, but not all that revealing.
A lesson I learned as an undergraduate: Sometimes changing optimization settings can yield different answers.

It's been ~17 years since then, so I can't recall the options used, but seeing different results emerge when I used a higher optimization option caused an unanticipated puff of smoke from my little brain.

A possible moral of the story -- test every little change.
My wife has a cup that she got as a gift from somebody she cares about. It's not a very good looking cup, it can't be microwaved, and it has to be hand-washed. She never uses it, it just sits in the closet. She has this cup not because she wants it but because she can't come to terms with not wanting it, with getting rid of it. Maybe you can vaguely summarize the situation as her wanting this cup, but that misses a lot of nuance.
The largest lefist subreddit was banned today. The T_D ban was purely symbolic, it was already dead.

This isn't "the left" this is liberalism.
> So you'd be in your other community and one day

I don't think so? So if TD was a mastodon community, many others would blacklist their content, but unless members of TD go and make accounts elsewhere that'd be the extent of it, no?
Just to be clear no economist has ever used the phrase "trickle down economics" to describe an economic policy. It's always been a derisive term used in politics.

> Years ago, this column challenged anybody to quote any economist outside of an insane asylum who had ever advocated this "trickle-down" theory. Some readers said that somebody said that somebody else had advocated a "trickle-down" policy. But they could never name that somebody else and quote them.

https://www.creators.com/read/thomas-sowell/01/14/the-trickl...
I don't really expect people's opinions/beliefs to stay constant when presented with new facts. People are horrible on the internet and there needs to be moderation. It's evidenced time and time again. The consequences of not doing this weren't obvious then (maybe, I wasn't really on reddit then), but they are obvious now.
Yeap, that was my introduction to the concept.

Blindsight is wonderful. A bit difficult to follow at a time due to the 'unique' writing style. In the same novel it tackles uploading consciousness, vampires, artificial intelligence, aliens, psychology (heavily) and a few more things.

I've yet to find a better description of what would be an actual alien lifeform. Even if it is biased a bit on marine biology given the author's qualifications, the oceans are host to the most 'alien' environments we are aware of that still contain life.

I still can't wrap my head on the concept of the Icarus Array though.

Anyway, for the uninitiated: https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
I'll admit, I was hoping for a heroic story of how that person was made aware of their mistake and begged for forgiveness :D
This is quite not correct. What triggered the quarantine was the violent threats against Oregon state police for this:

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/oregon-senate-repu...

And it wasn't just two comments, and they weren't downvoted. Proof here https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/pro-trump-subreddi...
yet Apple also tracks you by default, without asking for consent. It's opt-in by default (which I believe is against the GDPR)

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223
How to Get a Big Break on the Cost of College this Fall: Just Ask
That's not true at all! Free native apps abound. Web apps tied to subscriptions are also plentiful.

Open source is neither here nor there: both web sites and native apps can be open source. In fact, the web is unique in allowing you to actually inspect the source that is running on your machine, you have no way of verifying that the code in an open source repo is what actually runs inside your iOS app.
> It's like they start from a conclusion and work backwards to excuse it.

Without getting into any of the politics, isn't this exactly what you said you did in the preceding sentence?

> I wanted to see their viewpoint on at the time "the hot topic" and confirm my suspicions that I truly don't consider their viewpoint rational or valid.
When that USSR anthrax factory started leaking at least it wasn't contagious.
the donald users are already on a another site (which i won't link because i do not remember the url lol) and have been for a while now.
>Apple's moat has increasingly become incentivised of late by being the privacy-conscious option

As long as you're not in China that is:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...
The internet remains a bastion of free speech. Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, remain privately managed companies with a duty to police their platforms. If /r/The_Donald contributors are upset - they can go almost anywhere else. Vitriol, hate, disinformation, etc... just doesn't need to be on public display.
> Oh my god here, is the same qualification near the top of the article.

>> One of the problems the two friends looked at was a version of a century-old unsolved question in geometry.

Did you read past the first sentence of my comment?

> You edited your comment to add another objection. It is equally insubstantial unless you dug through the paper yourself and demonstrated that the transformation applied could not reasonably be called a rotation.

I disagree. The article strongly implies that the transformation applied could be called a rotation, and I see no particular reason to doubt that. ("The Möbius strip can be rotated by any angle between 0 and 360 degrees, and he proved that one-third of those rotations yield an intersection between the original and the rotated copy.")

But I very much object to the article's idea that I should help myself think about a rotation that only changes point values along a single dimension by visualizing an entirely unrelated transformation. How is that supposed to help?
I spent years on that subreddit and never once saw somebody that identified as a Nazi calling for the deaths of Jewish people. I bet you can't find any such examples. Your viewpoints of the world are based on hearsay and propaganda, not facts and logic.