skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only difference now is that we can't confront fascism with the truth any more.

How effective has "confronting fascism with the truth" ever been? Especially on the web? My impression is that fascist/racist ideas aren't spread in open debates where the truth matters, but indirectly: through deniable memes and dog whistles initially, then slowly, as people's innate defenses are lowered, through many stages of more and more open exposition.

> Ironically, by using the tools of the fascist against them we've implicitly admitted that the fascist is right. When we censor, we're saying that our ideas should be determined by who has the power to enforce censorship, not by compassion and truth.

I think you're conflating censorship with exclusion, which every functioning social group needs to engage in to some degree.

Also, comparisons at very abstract levels aren't very enlightening in this case. You really have to get into the details to make a true comparison.
New Relic lays off several SREs
Hate is just a "word" used to express human emotion to another human. Someone can view "hate" differently because they've not experienced the emotion of another that has defined hate from their own personal unique life events.

In this world I've encountered people that truly hate others so very much. They wish what they hate didn't exist and they honestly believe the world would be better if it happened to become true. I have even felt that feeling in my life but from personal abuse I experienced from anti-lgbtq+ parents. I consider myself permanently disfigured because of being prevented medical treatment when young. So I have constant reminders with all the other abuse I lived from my parents.

In any case gendercritical specifically promoted slang for trans people. Slang that would at the same time be used to invalidate trans people as nothing but the sex they were born at birth and while justifying the belief that everyone should just accept we're all born without choice in this world without having any right to personally fix what we dislike. Countless trans people were harassed by posts created on that subreddit of misfortunate transgender people just dealing with the cards they've been dealt. The posts would have constant comments making fun of how they look so much as their birth sex and derogatory jokes towards the person's misfortunate circumstances.

Anyway I'm happy about the decision of Reddit. I go through life with realizing people don't have free will and we're just in a dysfunctional system that's constantly evolving to hopefully one day make it so people don't behave so cruel to one another.
It doesn't have to be a "forcible shard". In fact I think that's not terribly effective and there's better ways to do it. Weblogs did it fairly well, way back when.

Also, don't forget that you don't belong to one community; it's not like you log in one day and get assigned to your immutable chunk of the internet. You wander around the read versions of various communities, pick a couple of communities you invest it, pick several more to half-follow, get tired of the abuse in one and switch to another, meet someone in real life who encourages you to join another community, and so on.

Basically, the sort of "tribalism" that you'd encounter is whatever "tribalism" you associate with HN, because the structure I describe already half-exists, scrounging around the remnants from reddit and Facebook in tens of thousands of forums and active blogs and other such things. I don't think it produces any more or less "tribalism" than you get from anything else.
> The anti-gun, peace-loving left may not be the most polite online, but they emphatically are not as violent. Not by a long shot.

Hate groups like the ADL will play word games.

Which right wing extremists have been rioting all over the country over the past couple of months?
About time. When will the US ban them? The PRC has banned a lot of US apps anyway.
Folks like to drawn in people with discussions about how some views aren't allowed on reddit and tales of political persecution ... but that there is a good example of a lot of TD's content.

It wasn't a place that was about conservative views, or a political party or politician ... it was mostly just fear, hate, and lies.

And for a place with lots of defenders crying out over censorship, any wiff of a differing opinion in their sub was met with a ban...
That's crypto-currency and crypto-tokens, not cryptography or cryptology.
> if you don't block Gab, there are a lot of instances that don't want to talk to you.

Modern day witch hunts. (I'm not defending gab, or promoting it) However, these guilt by association hunts are irritating.
From Reddit:

https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/acc...

> Marginalized or vulnerable groups include, but are not limited to, groups based on their actual and perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or disability. These include victims of a major violent event and their families.

> While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such attacks of hate.

The majority based on what? An individual state? The US? The west? The world?
Men are the minority in many countries but the majority world wide. White people are the majority in the west but a minority world wide.

Does that mean people can attack white people with impunity, even though they're a global minority? Can I crap on women to my hearts content because they are a majority in the UK? Can people in California shit all over Hispanics because they're the majority in that State?

Will they assess a users state/country/continent of origin before deciding whether or not they're being hateful towards a specific group?

We are watching Reddit die. Aaron Swartz, the cofounder of Reddit warned about this a decade ago.
I don't understand. The same can happen to apps. Apps can remotely change behavior and update OTA. Do you think people verify the code before clicking auto update on their phones?
Sad to see India degenerating into nationalism and populism.
From this point of view I would almost prefer sites to adopt just overall stricter rules, strictly moderating both tone and "off-topic" content tuned to each individual forum.

I think that a lot of communities had a passion for cultivating a freedom of expression, but actually had a lot of unspoken/unrealized rules in mind.

In my opinion a lot of communities would gain a lot by a flashing banner "We decide what content we want on our platform and we will take arbitrary action to protect our choices". In practice is what social media companies are doing now even if they cannot state it as such (in part for legal reasons and in part for marketing reasons)
In my experience (20ish years of cohousing and cooperative living, and a number of academia related moves) it can take three months to a year to really find a pack when moving to a new place. People generally already have their own packs, and not much time for new people, so it takes some active effort to find a good crew to be a part of.

The big exception is when you're moving as part of a large cohort, as in university or grad school, where everyone is on the same boat, with shared interests and few friends.

Shared housing also helps a lot. If you become best friends with a housemate, you probably get their friends for free.

But all of this is likely much harder under the pandemic...
Masses attract because they are attracted to eachother is not a theory of gravity, it's a restatement of the givens. People are polarized because they polarize is likewise a restatement of the givens. That people don't like being non-polarized is inferred from the observation that they are polarized, the same way that the attractive property of masses is inferred from the observation of masses that have been attracted. Theories explain observations, and predict what ought to be observed beyond the data used in their formulation. There is no explanatory power of how or why people polarize, nor any testable prediction made by the model.
Just Eat Takeaway and Grubhub Deal: Let restaurants deliver their own food
I happen to have both a Jarvis desk I bought 3 years ago, and just recently bought an UpLift v2 with the commercial crossbar package as an additional desk in my office. Both sit next to each other, making comparison easy.

I was content with my Jarvis until I received the Uplift. Stability comparisons are night and day: Uplift (with crossbar) has vastly superior stability at standing heights. The Jarvis has noticeable sway just using a keyboard and mouse, while the Uplift remains stable even when pounding on music gear. Both are stable at sitting heights. I found accessories (such as cable management) to be better with Uplift as well. It is enough of a difference that I am considering replacing the Jarvis with another Uplift desk in the future.

To Jarvis’ defense, I am comparing their 3 year old product to their competitors’ product I bought 1 month ago, and the overall desk experience with Jarvis is still good enough that I’m in no rush to replace it. I will be only buying standing desks with crossbars from now on, though.
The effect has been the opposite - Brexit single-handedly wiped the anti-European elements of most populist parties on the continent, in a similar way as the Greek crisis wiped most anti-Euro objections.

When power imbalances are revealed in such stark contrast, people tend to go with the bigger guy.
I didn't make the argument/correction that you think I made.
I'm not proposing not voting. I'm just sick of hearing it offered as if it's somehow a solution to the increasingly obvious fact that the US government is fundamentally incapable of doing the basic things expected of it by it's citizens, like being trusted to not abuse it's power when doing things like gating access to potentially dangerous software.

Obviously it would be really REALLY nice if there was a trustworthy entity who could do that, but it's pretty absurd to suggest that if we simply vote for the other guy suddenly the US government will be that entity.
I wonder what's stopping them. Initial investments is likely an issue for small, poor countries, but it can't be an issue for a country like India or Saudi Arabia, and the user base can be "convinced" to use the domestic thing by doing what India does: block foreign services.

It seems more sustainable and much easier to work with if you have your own network, and you don't rely on US-services looking away / Twitter tolerating your stuff.
I did the same thing a few weeks ago and it worked well, Fastmail's documentation was also really good.

I'd recommend setting up your own domain for email with Fastmail too since it makes it easy to move later. Fastmail also lets you create aliases for individual accounts, I've used that to group together less trustworthy services.

The biggest time sync was moving all existing accounts from Gmail over to Fastmail. Luckily I use a password manager so they were at least all in one place, but it still took about a day of tedious effort.

What's worse is a lot of sites are just broken. They don't let you change your email or account name, they make you contact support to do it, etc. If you're in California you can at least file a CCPA request to force them to delete your account.
why wouldn't you just use dictation? i've thought about this before and concluded that i certainly don't want my current employing corporation to own my voice data for eternity. specially with the advent of ML and deepfakes for voice, I would prefer to just send text.

at which point, I'd prefer the transcription to be rendered locally or if necessary by a service I trust (such as apple, reluctantly and tentatively).
The point (which I vehemently disagree with) is that prompting for permission is insufficient because illiterate users will just click accept on the dialogs.

So apparently we now have to restrict all interesting functionality in the name of keeping the lowest common denominator from shooting their metaphorical feet. If there's a more charitable way to read their stance, I'd love to hear it.
To illustrate, let's take the following VM code: https://gitlab.com/inko-lang/inko/-/tree/master/vm. This VM consists of 18 262 lines of code, including VM tests.

An incremental release build where nothing has changed (I just ran `touch src/lib.rs`) takes 25 seconds. Compiling the VM from scratch including all dependencies takes 1 minute and 28 seconds.

That's not too bad, but it could (and in my opinion should be) much better. Debug builds are usually faster to compile, but tend to run too slowly to be useful for anything but debugging some VM bug.
There is no such thing as ABSOLUTELY right. We don't even know what's actually going on at higher levels in the government. Why isn't Alibaba & AliExpress banned?
The way you debate won't make you friends. When you attack the way you do, the other side just discounts what you have to say. There's a better way to do this.

> This is where you're objectively showing where you're getting it wrong. [...]

The text I elided in that quote says nothing about how GP is wrong. Saying "objectively" doesn't make it so. You have to back up your arguments.

In a way you're quite right: links don't have to be URIs, hypermedia doesn't have to be HTML, and links don't even have to appear in the media when you can construct them algorithmically (in the last case you can argue that even though they are absent in the media, they are notionally still there). However, GP is right that only an intelligent agent will be able to use useful things with links of types they don't already have baked in logic for doing things with, and this is really the key problem with HATEOAS: it's too human-centered, and implicitly so.

Anyways, be kind.
NO.

Fake news is what the MSM does and it's supported by big tech. That's why I blew the whistle on Google and exposed their censorship regime to the whole world to see:

https://www.zachvorhies.com
You made the same point before but again, how did tiktok, facebook and all the other crap gets past it? What about all the other chinese spyware?
To be fair to Rust, this is certainly true of other languages. C++ builds can also be compile time hogs.

What did you wind up doing to cache your builds? I've tried a few different hacks but none have stuck.
It's still expansionism, and strange to say it's not.
Yeah I feel you. The problem is that the majority of white people agree with you, and do not believe its okay to use hate against them. However, there is a minority of white people who think they can speak for their whole race and will attack anybody who doesn't fall in line.

Maybe its because I don't live in a city like Portland or LA, but I have never talked to a white person in real life one on one who agreed with the typical narrative on places like reddit of, "you can't be racist against white people". The more time I spend on reddit, the more I realize is that the people who comment are getting less and less human. Back 5 years ago, reddit actually felt human. Now it feels like it is just filled with either bots or seriously mentally ill people. I think its about time for me to stop going on that site entirely.
Have you ever been to any of Reddit subs?
I don't think it's lame. If you get along with your family then it's amazing you have that opportunity. You can pay them rent and save and it benefits your whole family.
I just signed a lease with my roommate down the street from my current place, similar amenities in downtown Chicago.

Old: 915 sqft, 2 bd, 1.5 ba, $3000/month, $300 / mo parking.
New: 1400 sqft, 2 bd, 2ba, $2800/month, free parking.

Our current place made us an offer at $2650 a month due to decreased demand.
This news must be seen along with what happened early this year.

https://www.medianama.com/2020/01/223-the-great-indian-firew...

A Great Indian Firewall is shaping up. Now that the sentiment is all "anti-China!", people would celebrate instead of protesting the great firewall.

"Masterstroke!"* - Indian public.

*Basically, anything the current leader does, his PR team and his party spokespersons end up terming "unprecedented" / "masterstroke" / "genius move". Everything seems headed towards hardcore Soviet scheme of things.
Its more to do with the border skirmish.
>[not all] International Partnerships are not based on values or Democracy/*cracy

FTFY.

Think about the "special relationship" among the UK/US that is (definitely was) primarily based on values.

The Saudis are a pragmatic ally, not a values-based one. Both exist.
Launched Engagebound
We launched Engagebound (https://www.engagebound.com/) this month. Gathered 500+ organic website visits (349+) are unique visitors and converted 2% visitors into customers.

What are you working on?
I know the books.

I mentioned readers of the first book, not multi-year fans. Obviously those are already invested, you are biasing the sample. And you are changing the question.
> I imagine the prior art is extensive, but a notable innovative responsive compiler is the Roselyn .NET compiler; and the concept of responsive compilers has recently been advanced significantly with the adoption of the Language Server Protocol. Both are Microsoft projects.

Some examples of prior art in the context of strongly typed compiled languages with compilers designed for interactive development from the get go.

Mesa/Cedar environment at Xerox PARC, and how Oberon and its descendants used to be integrated with the OS (Native Oberon and others)

Energize C++ and Visual Age for C++ version 4, although quite resource intensive for their time.

Eiffel, with its MELT VM on Eiffel Studio for development and AOT compilation system C and C++ compilers for deployment.

C++ Builder and Delphi environments, although still batch, provide a similar workflow.
I mean, it’s not hard to see why feminists think that: just read any thread on Hacker News about gender.
There is no Chinese aggression on the Indian border, they are not interning anyone, China is not a police state. It's all in people's dreams.
From the perspective of someone from Europe this is a very valid question, cause Biden is right of the center, so not really what somehow who describes themselves as "leftist" usually votes for. Even Bernie Sanders, often seen as the start of socialism in America, is only a bit left of the center in typical political quadrants.

The problem is that US politics are very skewed to the right, so many there think clear right wing positions are on the left.

(https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020)
What is university age and what is most areas?
Old news. Submarine-powered cruise missiles have been for decades Russia's biggest defense weapons against USA' offensive threats. You cannot just defend them. Like the Granit (which most likely was shot at the Pentagon)
Those two nuclear powered missiles are not much different, just they can be theoretically be shot off days ahead. The submarine must not hide for weeks near the US coast.

ICBM's are unneeded since the 80ies. That's why they don't have them.
Which extended attributes does iCloud preserve, and which get stripped
They are, but there's a lot of lead time that goes in to shooting the pilot, and then even more in planning the rest of the season if it gets picked back up. They end up released at the same time, but that doesn't mean that a year hasn't passed since they started pre production on the pilot.

It's simply infeasible to adjust a show to fan feedback on a weekly basis I think. You'd need either a really small show, or one where most of the elements (sets, lighting, wardrobe, etc.) stay pretty consistent between episodes, then the work would just be a matter of tweaking the story, rather than figuring out how to get the whole crew out to all the locations required to make a traditional tv show.
It's cool that KDE are using the Community Edition if Gitlab
Venezuela, Iran and Syria do censor US media and it's far more extensive than any censorship of foreign media within the US.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Venezuela
Its interesting that coldest place en Suisse isn't some 4500m peak, but a valley in relatively low-lying hills far from anything very high.

And you are right, its actually impressive he survived for so long there.
> This might be a shock to most people in the western world, but if you go on almost ANY news website in china, the headline news is dedicated to government propaganda.

Those people would be even more shocked by the extent to which this is true in the western world as well.
I’m only partway through the audiobook and haven’t fact-checked it, both both are covered fairly extensively in [1]. Jump straight to chapter 10 (Growth!) for the start of Chamath.

I’m really enjoying the book so far, and it seems to present a pretty unbiased view considering it was made with access to (and, by extension, some amount of blessing by) Facebook.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/52032133-facebook
How would one make a political discussion group be politically neutral?
> This news must be seen along with what happened early this year.

And why shouldn't we see it in the context of Chinese aggression and TikTok's reported spying?
if their customers are breaking the law, then WHY NOT!

you're aiding and abetting at that point
> Take Apple: their entire business model is reliant upon the government never waking up to enforcing open standards and protocols

If the government mandates protocol X, then protocol X is no longer open.

The body directing the development of protocol X becomes an extended part of the government (or simply a direct part), and is subject to an entirely different level of political influence.

> People are just too dumb to see it...

I honestly don't believe you can share, understand, or speak for the interests of people you hold in contempt. The thing is, they aren't dumb, no more so than you, I or anyone else. You may not understand their perspective, but they have one whether you can see it or not.
Compared to web pages, video storage and bandwidth is a meaningful portion of video CPM or video subscription, so 720p (or, say, 360p for iOS 14 PIP mode) yields significantly different cost basis.

The only on mobile thing may have been necessary for the business model.
No it does not matter, and I struggle to understand why anyone would think it does. There's no other context where every criticism of a private company gets countered with the argument that that private company isn't violating the constitution.
Putin has more protests than ever.

We'll see how that pans out, but I hope that they come back and the world trade table.

As an adult this time :)
Just a note that the SoC in that mini is the same as the now two, going on three year old iPad Pro.
I concur, you wife not-not wanting the cup is not a satisfying explanation for why she keeps the cup. Likewise not-not wanting to be polarized is not a satisfying explanation for why people are polarized.
Is that because the libraries you link to are gigantic? Even so, the compiler shouldn’t be compiling those parts of the libraries that aren’t being used, right?
Every Haskell programmer I know lives with his parents.
There are better alternatives. And far fewer bookstores willing to stock inventory.

Amazon really wants you to buy a download for Kindle, which costs them little, rather than ship a physical book, which they have to buy and warehouse.