skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that we will have to address the privatization of speech at some point. Ultimately I'm not sure where my opinions lie on that spectrum.

However, I find it challenging to have to continuously fight white supremacist ideas on platforms, especially considering the --vast-- amount of violence and brutality inflicted on the oppressed for hundreds of years.

Should we have a debate at some point about whether the privatization of platforms has become a bad thing? Sure. Should we do it -now-, while white supremacists actively use their platforms to incite hate and violence against black and brown people? No. We are losing the forest for the trees. Lives are lost every day because white supremacy continues to be pervasive in America. Allowing white supremacists a platform while not solving that problem is saying that the oppressed's right to live is less important than the white supremacist's right to speech. I simply don't agree with that.
What a well written and forceful argument.
My Jarvis (purchased a bit over a year ago) has a crossbar and is almost unmovable laterally.
The "party switch" is ahistorical, and essentially just propaganda.

Republicans, who for years had been fighting to pass civil rights laws, didn't one day suddenly decide to become the party of Jim Crow, KKK, and slavery. That's democrats, who even today (now that the old stuff is unacceptable in public) have low expectations for some races.

Purging politicians from one party would be great. We can start with the Virginia governor who went to a party in blackface, with his fiance in classic KKK garb. We have pictures, matching pictures of him in the same plaid pants, an awkward admission of guilt, and still he remains in office. This is 2020. He is in office.

Next up would be Biden. There is plenty of video of him saying... that word... to rudely refer to black people. Oh wait, he's the party's presumed 2020 candidate for president!

Nothing deep has changed. It's just being smarter about public relations.
I looked through this. I'm curious as to how you managed to slot in a small reference to Hyperscan (my baby for many years) while writing a thesis about regular expression performance problems.

You cite us twice; once as a source on what "dominated" means in a graph theoretic sense (?) and once to falsely suggest that Hyperscan is somehow "domain specific". To the extent that Hyperscan is focused on scaling up to larger-scale pattern matching (unlike RE2) it is suitable for a domain that other regular expression matchers are not suitable for, but there's no reason that you can't use Hyperscan in a general purpose domain.

The fact of the matter is that large scale regular expression matching, where it occurs in domains that are highly performance-sensitive, is a extremely difficult problem that is largely solved - in a limited way. No-one sensible builds an IPS or a NGFW and expects to be able to do backreferences and the usual menagerie of backtracking-only features (recursive subpatterns!).

The various outages that have happened since - people tripping over performance problems that were widely understood in the industry in at least 2006, if not earlier - are examples of people wilfully using the wrong tools for the job and being surprised when they don't work.

There's a niche for faster backtracking matchers, but most of the usage of regular expressions where anyone cares about performance is already squarely in the "automata" world and is done by either Hyperscan, hand-rolled software at network shops or acceleration hardware like the cards from TitanIC (now Mellanox). The backtracking formulation is not only subject to all the superlinear guff, it's also incredibly poorly suited to matching large numbers of regular expressions at once.
I cope with this confusion by avoiding third-party login whenever possible. Why volunteer additional information about myself to Google or Facebook?
Retailers can offer discounts for cash transactions, per the Durbin Amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill of 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_amendment
I'm ignorant to CC companies' financials. But I would have thought their revenues are driven by transaction fees, which end up ultimately getting passed down to the buyer through higher prices. Would be interested to learn more though about CC economics. It would indeed be sad if CC rewards operated like a regressive tax, as you say.
So, Europe?
It's hard for to believe that Quibi was anything other than a convoluted scam. There's lots of shortcomings and criticisms that could be lobbied Quibi's way but at the end of the day its weakness was that it hit the ground running with a miniscule content library that was a smattering of garbage in all directions. Mobile only was an okay idea even if a lot of folks are still rolling their eyes at it, but you don't get to then charge big kid subscription prices while releasing new content at a snail's pace. Quantity is king and it's baffling that a bunch of Hollywood types couldn't see that.
There was also quite a lot of hijacking of military, corporate, and university bandwidth at the time for Usenet. Dump to floppies and take it home. Often faster than a modem from beginning to end.
> "I really wish there were a way to know whether I already used Facebook, Google, or Apple to log into a site or app before"

You can. On each of the places you mention (Google and Facebook, certainly), somewhere in a settings page/window, you'll find your list of 'authorised apps'.

These will be a list the login systems to the third-party sites you've used to log in with.

You should then see a way to 'revoke' their access to your data.
John Wayne's name on California airport faces new scrutiny
I did some very small experiments on such a thing a while ago. One was an example of someone being unjustly detained in violation of their rights [1] and another was an actual example of government censorship [2]. The first one was flagged and killed immediately, the second received zero response.

On HN, all of the 'free speech' stories I see always pertain to the far-right and/or incredibly vitriolic individuals getting removed from platforms. They receive massive amounts of votes and spur on large flamewars. HackerNews unfortunately is just as prone to falling into certain narrative traps as other websites and one of them that seems to come up more and more frequently is free speech and individual rights but only as it pertains to the far-right.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20504332

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19976398
> you just have to view trans women as men

Men who 'identify' as women are still men (i.e. adult males). This is a biological reality that the vast majority of the population understands.

Promoting an ideological dogma such as "trans women are women" only proves you are an ideologue who thinks repeated chants can somehow deny reality. But no, classifying men as men is not a 'view', it is describing biological reality.
Maybe HN is anti-white-nationalism, but there's definitely a lot of ignorance about how the people here are impacting the system. For example look at the comments on this article that talked about paying for the news:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23372570

This kind of ignorance is going to end up making society a worse place. It's not white nationalism, but it's not a lot better either.
CS has been a thing since the 60s
>welching

Did you mean whinging?
"Someone being nationalist for a race"

This makes literally no sense.
There are middle grounds between completely opaque censorship and unfettered yelling.

The junk mail folder in your email mailbox is an example. It offers transparency.
That’s actually kind of neat. It would probably get in the way of manual operation but it’s something I hadn’t considered - thanks!
> It's not okay to allow "the front page of the internet" to exist in stark opposition to the free speech values (a) that it started with and (b) of the country it is incorporated in.

It's totally ok to allow that because it's a private organization. Reddit is free to claim they are from Alpha Centauri too. They can call themselves whatever they want. It up to you and me to decide if we believe them.

> This bullshit, corporate-toady argument of "oh mwaaah it's a private corporation they can do whatever they want" is worse than any "bootlicker" attitude I can think of. Go ahead and give up the freedoms my ancestors fought for so that you can feel just a little bit more comfortable in your echo chamber. Never mind that it runs on infrastructure that is often paid for with public funds, on a network designed by a government that ostensibly believes in free speech.

And what about the contributions of my ancestors? Or is that not relevant?

Reddit is free to amplify whatever speech they want, or not, that's exactly what those freedoms you claim ownership of are promising.

> So you're totally fine with giving private, unregulated companies carte blanche to control people's ability to even register their own site?

Well, domain registrars are regulated. Also, I did not say I am ok with the amount of control registrars have.

Please do note that these banned subreddits immediately were able to register domains. So while I agree this is a weak point in the current model I don't think it is an existential threat in 2020, especially because the Internet works even without domains.

> You'll reap what you sow. At some point whatever you think will also become unacceptable, and there will be nobody to stand for you.

I'm comfortable with my beliefs and my ability to introspect and change. And I am comfortable with the inherent conflict.
25 is already oldschool. Newest aero rims are designed for 30+, running absurdly low pressures with hookless tubeless tires.
It's not though. No one is forcing you or anyone else to sign up for credit cards - it's a choice, unlike taxation.
If you are on Windows and see Sign-In with Apple, Apple asks you to sign into iCloud, on their servers, if you are not already. It's almost the exact same sign-in flow you would see on Windows iTunes or Windows version of iCloud. You use your normal iCloud account information and 2FA verification (authorize the login in one of your Apple devices). Apple's servers look up the generated app-specific email address for you, just like your Apple device would, and passes that on when it passes the authentication token to the requesting application (which would use the same application identifiers it uses on iOS).

It's no worse a user experience than Sign in with Facebook or Sign in with Google, and in most ways it is the exact same user experience: click the button, get an Apple sign in prompt on Apple servers, sign in, get automatically redirected back to whatever app needed the sign in.
Banks are a cabal, that they needed VISA/MC was merely a need to 'standardise' a transactional network.

The evidence that they are an oligarchy lies in their power to set prices. Which points right to the definition of what a monopoly is.

If such systems were truly competitive, and we had say, 5 completely different systems that were truly competitive, the price would not be a total of 2.5%. The price would be set by the market, not the providers of the service and it would be much, much lower than 2.5%.
Well, after trying to negotiate cash discounts ~25 years ago on a couple fairly significant purchases for me (furniture) I gave up and joined them... By carrying a discover card, which at the time was just about the only cash back card in existence (the only one I knew about).

So, I still favor the discover (despite now being part of Morgan Stanly?) for most purchases, but when its rejected I fall back on a MC with a cashback program.

That program pays for my computer hardware...
I get the digs at the other clothes, but what exactly is wrong with khaki pants? Which is what I assume you mean by "chinos."
> During the 1980s, China and the United States – together with their allies – backed Pol Pot in exile in order to counter the power of the Soviet Union and Vietnam, providing the Khmers with intelligence, food, weapons, and military training

From the wiki you linked
Yes, but how did this generate revenue for them?
Random thought. Could you compare acceleration going uphill, downhill, and on a level street to estimate mass, somehow keeping the RPM the same on the engine?
I used to work with some folks who believed the Intel compiler was amazing. I think the logic to the myth was, "Who would better know how to optimize for Intel chips?".

However, in my experience icc crashed more than any other compiler I've ever used (internal compiler errors). That kind of a bug in a compiler makes me really wonder what else is wrong under the hood. And of course, being closed source, I can't possibly know...
I just want to present a counterpoint to your claim that in the EU, CCs matter less: there are countries in the EU like Sweden where cash is virtually non-existent. Basically everything is card-based here, I've even seen panhandlers who accept electronic payments in Stockholm.
Sure. But if Hackernews had a hierarchy and a membership system in which lower-ranking members would do criminal acts organized by their ranking superiors, the organization could be sued under civil and criminal RICO, and then dismantled. While not all members would be prosecuted, a very large amount could be, and the subsequent criminal investigation would make it possible to indict a good proportion of the rest. It would also mean that even lower members could have been prosecuted based on their assistance to various criminal acts.

It is indeed a narrow tool, and yet can be applied to organizations such as the KKK.
Agreed. Excess mortality is the real measure.

Note, you seem to be posting studies that did not pair HCQ with zinc, _and_ are not using it prophylactically. Is my understanding correct?

For example: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/three-big-studies-di... links to https://www.recoverytrial.net/files/hcq-recovery-statement-0... which does not mention zinc, and it's patients admitted to the hospital (not prophylactic). Digging further, to the source given in that pdf, not a mention of zinc: https://www.recoverytrial.net/@@search?SearchableText=zinc which is the whole point of using HCQ in the first place.
Ha! That's probably the problem - I don't know what I am doing.

Why oh why did I ever leave silicone...
I've never seen them IRL. I wonder how prevalent the Klan actually is.
I agree that any price is too high if it simply doesn't work.
I don't find the public funding critique particularly compelling because it is exactly what the public signed up for. The we fund private medical research and development because we want the more products brought to market by those firms. The reward is that the product exists at all.

I do think that there is a compelling argument for the the government trying to do more drug development and then licensing or open-sourcing the product.
Discord vs. AirSend: Roles and Permissions Explained
Do you mind explaining that statement, as I’m sure you can understand that at face value it sounds pretty extreme. Actions in silence are more impactful than being loud but doing nothing.
I'm so grateful I got to visit the old seminary co-op bookstore at UChicago before it was destroyed. Low ceiling, hot steam-pipes everywhere, long winding narrow maze made of books. Just the right amount of claustrophobia and fire hazard. That place was magic.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/idlethink/2316861882/in/photos...
theFrame – Animation Tool
Very small errors in floating point calculations can be made arbitrarily large.
There are payment standards like UPI in India and mobile number based banking , which offer transactions for very less or no cost ( mostly debit driven )
I'm taking the religious part from the OP.

Also yes, while a lot of religious people are very good, the religious people that also happen to be white nationalists tend to be even worse than the garden variety white nationalist.
Extensible Extraction of Efficient Imperative Programs
Is it just me or do these sites not realize that "We will never sell your email" does nothing for me? It's not that you'll sell it's that you will get hacked or lose a laptop or have an admin email everyone and then I will get spam. How do others at HN deal with this (disposable emails and prefix/suffix are a huge pain)
China forcing birth control on Uighurs
The Sourcegraph Podcast: Charity Majors on founding Honeycomb
These desks are designed to stop if the force increases an unexpected Amount (say, getting caught on something). Also, the moving parts are all hidden - so long as you are far enough away from (say) another desk tou should be okay.
> Of course there are plenty of alternatives to LaTeX. Microsoft Word is just one.

Only to the extent modelling clay is an alternative to CAD/CAM software and CNC tools.

There might be a GUI replacement to LaTeX, but it would have to be a graphical way to manipulate structure, not a WYSIWYG system. And anyway, WYSIWYG is hardly ever WYSIWIG [1], or WYSIWTG [2]. (More like WYGIWYD [3], or YAFIYGI [4].)

[1] What You See Is What I Get

[2] What You See Is What They Get

[3] What You Get Is What You Deserve

[4] You Asked For It, You Got It
That really depends on where you live. It seems pretty confusing because (a) federal law made surcharges for using a card legal under a 2013 settlement with Visa and MC, and (b) there have been a bunch of federal court cases, including a 2017 Supreme Court case, that invalidated some state laws that prohibited surcharges.

Interestingly, even now that many merchants are allowed to offer a discount for using cash, most don't because they've likely figured out (a) if they lose just 1 sale in 30 it's likely a net negative for them, plus (b) people are likely to spend more, especially on impulse purchases, when using a card, and (c) there is just a sense that it can be annoying to customers to have to pay more for using a card, taking away from customer goodwill.
> To reduce criticism of SPLC to "racism" isn't helping the health of discourse here.

"The SPLC is a hate group" is considered healthy, valid criticism to you, coming from an account which then said that "hate speech against white people has been normalized in our society for some time now" and linked to The Bell Curve as proof for the superiority of the white race, but referring to them as "racist-adjacent" is unacceptably reductionist?
My non-technical thoughts on the npm ecosystem:

1. Split package-lock into a human readable file and a machine readable one. Right now it's just pain.

2. TRUSTED PACKAGES. Somebody has to assign trust. Companies or highly involved developers should become curators.

3. LIMITED Packages with reduced security risk: File Access, Network Access, package access, OS access, etc...

4. Transit npm package best-practices into a single module format. Reduce clutter and number of files in node_modules.

5. Better tagging. Allow votes on tags.

6. Add monetization links for package authors to npm (blunt) and to the CLI (subtle, e.g. 'npm pay leftpad' opens the monetarization page on npm.).

Additional ideas:

A: Buyable certificates/insurance for packages.

B: Better clone, modify & re-publish workflow

C: Integrate FAQ/Forum directly in NPM directory website. Simple downvotes/upvotes for visibility. Allow and ask for readme pull requests from npm package page.
Yes, and the criticism was about the field in general.

Also, an introduction course to CS should mention algorithms.
If you have poor credit, you get a crappy credit card: low limit, high interest rates, no rewards.

If you've got great credit, you get a high limit, slightly-less-astronomical rates, and all the rewards.

The cost of the rewards is (as I understand it) mainly carried by the transaction fees, spread out over all purchases everywhere. So you have pointless price increases for people who /don't/ use credit cards (like me) or have poor credit, and the benefits of that 'tax' going to users with good credit (ie, rich people). So, yeah, it's a wealth transfer to people with better credit.
https://penetrum.com/tiktok/Penetrum_TikTok_Security_Analysi...
> Web apps by default talk to an outside server, native apps by default do not.

Huh? There is no permission prompt for native apps to be able to access the internet. By default they can (and definitely do!) talk to outside servers for analytics etc. It’s just that you can’t see them they way you do on the web.
> Nation state vs. private corporation is different on paper,

A nation state and a company are different in substance as well. I am sympathetic to the idea that companies (in America) can do more to curtail your freedoms. But, this is only true because of our system of government. In principle, a government can do much more than a company to curtail your freedoms. In practice, this is often less true. (although if you bump into eminent domain, or similar laws, then the government is much more threatening to you.)

We don't have to look far for this theoretical: the Chinese government rounds up people and puts them in camps, and disappears people for having the wrong opinions.
In promoting racial discrimination against white people, you’re also displaying a bigoted and reductive view of Africa. The African peoples are more than the slave trade, more than colonialism. Africa is a remarkably diverse and populous continent with a history that exist beyond the impact of whiteness. It saddens me that your reducing to victimhood the whole of African identity is what passes for anti racism.
I mean, if there's an MSDS, verified structural information, etc, then anyone can know what it is.
I wanted to add the word 'technically', but recalled that in Abkhasia they have elected a candidate not supported by Moscow.

Which countries do you think the US has 'annexed'?
Very true. My sentiments exactly as Spilo/Patroni users. One benefit to k8s is you can use it as the DCS for Patroni
No, it's that the wrong "they" is used.

Interchange goes to issuing banks, not Visa/Mastercard, and that's a big part of why the system is so stable as any competing scheme with a lower interchange will not be offered to customers because it won't be as profitable for the issuers. And, if needed, they can use the whole interchange amount for marketing and cashbacks to make any new scheme uncompetitive, because if it has lower interchange, then it can't match that without losing money.
The Catholic church was in bed with Nazis, the only Nazi officer excommunicated from the Catholic Church during the holocaust (Joseph Geobbels) was kicked out for marrying a Protestant.

- Says I'm posting too fast, so here is the response to your reply:

You sidestepped my main point to focus on irrelevant nonsense.

Was Geobells the only Nazi officer excommunicated? Yes.

Were 95% of Germans Christians during the Nazi years? Yes.

Was the Nazi party started in majority Catholic Munich? Yes.

Did these Catholics enthusiastically embrace Nazism after centuries of Anti-Jewish teachings blaming Jews for the death of Jesus? Yes, especially after 1933.

Not only is this historical fact, I vividly remember Hitchens making this same case, with many references, during a debate with Dinesh Disouza at a major Catholic Church before he died...

I'm delivering this Hitchslap for him in his absence.
«Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/videos.»

Also, the video is unavailable on youtube.
It's not optional, though.

I still have to pay the higher transaction costs even without a credit card, because the credit card companies require that vendors have the same prices for card or cash, resulting in higher prices for everyone.
That doesn't solve the problem. You would have to go to every method to figure out which one it might be listed under. It needs to be in the browser/password manager to tell you which service was used.
The whole point is that non-sexual content (Eg: references to being gay) got banned as sexual.
My ass hurts just reading that. I bike toured about 7000 miles on 622x28ish tires, and I can't even imagine riding 19mm tires on anything other than completely immaculate pavement (or maybe a velodrome? What do they run?).