skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article was a lot more nuanced than most people who say “PC speech is out of control”. And I think they have a good point. Pulling up tweets from ten years ago to get people fired is horrible.

Ten years ago, I hated gay and trans people because of the way I was raised. I’ve changed significantly in those ten years.

Hell, I had a psychotic break. Should the things that I said then be forever held against me? I clearly wasn’t in my right mind. The people that have held those things against me were all from the “far left”. That’s one data point but it’s something I’ve seen over and over.

I ran a convention where I had to fire a volunteer because they said something “unacceptable” on Facebook. Defending them was not an option if the convention was going to survive. I’ve seen what happened to conventions that tried to defend people who had said similar things. It’s still ugly years later.

I say this as someone who would march in the protests here if I wasn’t at sufficient risk Of dying from COVID. I’ve been in the pride parade here despite my sensitivity to heat and poor physical condition at the time.
I've increasingly heard of places requiring that you put it on your personal phone for working class jobs. BYOD gone horribly wrong. The same app will also be the only way to get your timesheets, clock in, or trade shifts, etc.
What Killed Smalltalk? (2015)
A Wikipedia Signpost article[1] gives a more detailed overview of the goals of the project, but it also made me think of an interesting failure case. From the article:

> Instead of saying "in order to deny her the advantage of the incumbent, the board votes in January 2018 to replace her with Mark Farrell as interim mayor until the special elections", imagine we say something more abstract such as elect(elector: Board of Supervisors, electee: Mark Farrell, position: Mayor of San Francisco, reason: deny(advantage of incumbency, London Breed)) – and even more, all of these would be language-independent identifiers, so that thing would actually look more like Q40231(Q3658756, Q6767574, Q1343202(Q6015536, Q6669880)).

But Q1343202 doesn't mean "denial" as in "preventing someone else from getting something", it means "denial" as in "refusing to accept reality". (See [2].) The two concepts are represented by the same word in English, but they might not be in other languages.

It seems like it'd be kind of tricky to create an interface that ensures other English-speaking editors indicate the right meaning of "denial".

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost...

[2] https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1343202
I also have a strong desire for a community tolerant of nuanced conversation, but any attempts I've seen to do so (bitchute, gab, parler, voat), seem to almost immediately be taken over by precisely the worst parts of any other community. So then the sane people who would otherwise not mind sharing the community with those fringe factions tend to avoid participating in the communities at all.

It's almost like, ironically, the best way forward would be to create a moderated community that slowly gets a user base of a diverse set of people, and then slowly pull back the moderation over time. Allowing something like subreddits with communities to self-select their own moderation levels is also great, imo. Reddit was perfect until the platform itself stopped being neutral.
Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right.

That amendment did not envision state level sized companies taking control of public discourse entirely.

Im weary of claiming the constitution needs a fix but at the same time it does have some fixes so its not infallible.
Oh Man, I totally forgot about Boo. I remember looking at it years ago. This is just the thing I didn't know I was looking for. Thanks
I haven't tried Manjaro.

Last time I checked Ubuntu was becoming a bit of a pig and it had suffered some kind of desktop disaster.

I have not encountered the problems with Debian that you describe but maybe my needs (browsing, coding and light video editing) are just that small.
When your parents buy you a Hot Wheels set for your 18th birthday, and say, "What are you waiting for? Hit the road, [freehunter]!" you'll be fine. It symbolizes transportation.

When your brother aims down the sights at you in Call of Duty and - gulp - pulls the trigger, you'll necessarily have him sent to jail.

That's okay, though - when you're counting on your fingers and get to three, and... hey.. are your thumb and index kinda.. touching? you'll be right there with him.
Probably worth adding the famous John 3:16:

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (emphasis mine)
Reducing water pollution with microbes and wood chips (2016)
That's a great reason to pick an innocuous symbol for this purpose. We don't reasonably expect everybody to stop using the gesture. But when the symbol does attract unjust backlash, that becomes the story; nevermind the many more instances where the gesture has been used as a genuine symbol of white nationalism. It's the perfect dogwhistle.
> technology pioneered by the ETH spin- off incon.ai allows blocks to be positioned

I had to read this 3 times to realize it has nothing to do with Etherium and blockchains
Please, dang, who am I flaming? I'm agreeing with the parent. I'm frustrated. Am I not allowed to present a passionate viewpoint on NH? I mean no disrespect I'm genuinely confused how to respond to your comment. Should I delete mine because I used the word fascist? I absolutely believe the social tendency we're seeing is intolerant and definitionally fascist. It promotes a unified notion of culture and the policies we've seen manifest as a result of it are harmful to freedom of expression. I didn't attack anyone personally and I am presenting an honest, non-trolling, viewpoint with no intention to needlessly provoke anybody.
Any significant research that supports such claim that I can read?
I (jokinglyl selected Sir for a ferry crossing from Portsmouth to St Malo. Months later, forgetting all about it, my family and I are welcomed aboard by the second in command. He looked puzzled. I realized the reason for the welcome a few days later.
thats not even an extreme leftist opinion, that's terrorism.
yeah, uh, maybe flag this one
Calling the hatred, gleeful love of violence, racism, and misogyny that characterises Voat "hard right" is a disservice to the right. And implying there is an equally awful and opposite thing on the left, and that Reddit will become it, is unrealistic. So their content rules are too strict - that's not an abominable evil.
This entirely fictional platform/publisher distinction makes absolutely no sense. Why should someone's attempt to remedy a specific ill they happen to notice (say, delete illegal porn your users posted) create an obligation to assume all liability for all content?

If I help an accident victim once, am I responsible for helping every accident victim? Why?
It truly depends on what the opinion being expressed is. I think this is where our conversation begins to fall apart because there are cases that warrant an angry mob, but usually not.

Personally, I think this is a phase because people will quickly learn that they're just alienating people further. Real, open discussion promotes better understanding for everyone.
There Isn't a Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’
> If you want to post #BLM great. If you don't that's fine too.

Anecdata: in a company all-hands 2 weeks ago, an employee asked the CEO why the company hadn't yet made a public statement about BLM. The CEO looked visibly agitated, almost fearful, and stumbled through some response that equated to "will we do that by the end of the week".

Whether or not the pressure actually exists, people are scared of what will happen if they don't conform. People have been fired over tweets, roasted in the media over not speaking out "when they should", and for things they said 10 years ago. Nobody wants to be on the front page of buzzfeed for being outed "as a racist". There is a collective societal fear that is driving us faster and faster off the PC cliff.
Social media is the Babel fish:

"... the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
This seems like a murky area even for Catholics. My understanding was that it is still contingent on faith and all the rituals.
In theory bananas can be grown anywhere, but I believe biology has other things to say.
There is peer reviewed evidence that caffeine increases your metabolism, so it would make sense that you would gain weight after cessation. I’m in a weight loss phase and have upped my caffeine intake for that reason.
How the Facebook Boycott Could Just Make Facebook Stronger
Seconding the suggestion that you might just be unused to the amount of fiber. I had to go on a high fiber diet for medical reasons a while back. I definitely had some side effects for a while, but I had no choice but to stick with it. Eventually they went away, but the benefits stayed.
That's ridiculous, you can make a C++ class and overload operator() like Eigen to easily make a multi-dimensional array.
Well if the hackers have root password on the cpe nat gateway the macbook probably is at risk to a mitm, those gateways have iptables probably after all. Plus when youve got a gateway you can do things like screw with the network time to invalidate hsts certificates or inject so many rules firefox forgets the old one and you can mitm with a new https certificate!
I don’t think you understand the constitution or bill of rights as well as you think you do.
Does Waze advertising work for ecommerce stores?
I dont think the relationship is that close - all it says is google donated a chunk of money in 2010 and in 2019, it was a large chunk of money(~3% of donations) but not like so much to make a dependency.

> Can the data be licensed as GPL-3 or similar?

Pretty unlikely tbh. I dont know if anything is decided for licensing, but if it is to be a "copyleft" license it would be cc-by-sa (like wikipedia) since this is not a program.

Keep in mind that in the united states, an abstract list of facts cannot be copyrighted afaik (i dont think this qualifies as that, wikidata might though)
One thing that I'd be curious to test: if Scott were given a choice between a very critical article that maintained his weak pseudonymity and a very positive one that didn't, which would he go for? My expectation is that he'd go for the former, and I'd be disappointed if he went for the latter.
That may be the case depending on the opinion you've expressed but that also seems like a conversation between you and your employer at that point.
Cases in New York and Boston aren't spiking. States that rushed to reopen bars are the ones that are.
With a bit of fiddling, bookmarking this wee snippet does the job good enough:

javascript:(function(){document.querySelector('.lg\\:mx-8').remove();document.querySelector('.lg\\:w-3\\/5').setAttribute('class', 'w-full');})()

It removes the right hand panel and the width restriction in the player's containing div. Until of course you change your markup :)
>Diversity at all costs: except diversity of opinion.

Amen! Peter Thiel used to talk a lot on this subject. We’ve built a country upon the illusion of freedom. We are getting towards the War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength stage in society.

The scariest part is that the nation who will take the reigns next has no desire for free speech or diversity of opinion. Just as Rome crumbled from within we are doing the exact same.

I implore you all: when you vote this fall, vote them out. Put some fresh faces in offices. (1)Regardless of party. Send a message that the status quo is unacceptable.

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z99LXZai078
> "Nobody has been cancelled for expressing leftwing-or extreme leftwing- ideas"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Scare and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism seem like the obvious counterexamples.
I don't get the argument here. Is the Twitter mobs not entitled to their free speech? To me this seems like she just doesn't like that a majority of people's opinions are changing and is trying to silence them.
So leaning right = racist.
A certain candidate won a majority of white women and men voters and while it might be fun to write them all off as “outright” racists there is that little problem of the Electoral College.

So might not be prudent to moderate with blow torches, at least until the new order is electorally established.
Then to me, this is the real issue. Businesses aren’t providing the right tools to help employees separate their personal lives with the business.

BYOD has indeed been a curse.
Barbra and Stanley: A Modern Romance (2017) [video]
What's Polygon's reputation? I posted this because I was looking for an update on what was happening with Dau, and this was the best article I could find with a 2020 dateline. I don't know anything about their site otherwise.
While this is about free speech, its more specifically about whether you can class social media as a platform or a publisher.

Publishers are liable. Platforms are not.

I simply want social media to get off the fence.

Because right now they sre misleading the public, telling them they can post whatever they want, and then flipping on them when it suits.

Nobody will turn away from social media until this is clear and understood.

If you defined facebook as a publisher, you will see a replacement valuing openness rise up within days.

Which would win is hard to say. Maybe people like being sheep. But at least this way they know what they are.
The end gives it away:

> I’ll end with some quality, free-thinking people and resources who aren’t afraid to post their views. I have found it immensely helpful to diversify my feeds with different opinions and people.

Which is, of course, why it's almost 100% right-leaning libertarians, mixed with a token handful of reliably leftward-shooting people like Taibbi and Tracey. There's not a legitimate progressive voice in that whole list that I can see. Not one.

This author, and this article's intended readership, isn't interested in legitimate online discussion. She just wants a different echo chamber than the ones she's being presented.
> we JUST THIS WEEK removed the Confederate emblem from our state flag

That was long overdue, but it has little to do with the point that I'm trying to make. What I'm saying that we should be more careful about what we wish for, especially for something as dangerous as censorship, because things never work out the way we want it to. If the system worked as intended, there wouldn't be a problem of systemic racism now.
They sell actual chicken stock, too. E.g.: https://smile.amazon.com/365-Everyday-Value-Organic-Chicken/...

Not as good as home made by a long shot but it is a LOT better than those bouillon cubes (what you refer to as "pills")! Please don't use those ever again, lol
The problem is that people don’t consider Stonehenge to be part of Western civilization. The latter is usually traced back to the beginning of Mycenaean Greek civilization
To me, this is an unforced error by Steph Korey. She seemed to have outlived the media cycle about her previous unacceptable behavior. But then she decided to relight the embers in an attempt to deflect blame even further. I hope her departure (for real this time) will fortify the push to have reasonable work hours and communication at Away.
Extremely high barrier to entry. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
Usually there is some sort of VC funding and usually there is a valuation and ergo a price per share. I find that startups are usually at part with public companies or slightly worse with the promise that there's tons of growth right over the horizon.
They install it even if you uninstalled the previous Edge (there's no uninstall for this one now), they pop up a full screen modal with no X or cancel then they add Edge to your desktop and system tray. Then when you use your normal browser, they ask if you're sure you want that as the default.

They did this just after making it impossible to manually skip updates ("to prevent confusion"), and also shipped it to Windows 7, which is supposed to be EOL'd.
"Thanks to the leadership of President Trump and the courage and compassion of the American people, our public health system is far stronger than it was four months ago, and we are winning the fight against the invisible enemy."

I mean, if you don't look at any stats and/or you are living in a different parallel universe, sure.
They satirise that too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_Getting_Old
I'm thinking I may read it to my kids as their bedtime story tomorrow night. I'll have to include some editorial explanations since the idea of marrying one's daughter off as a prize seems a bit odd now, although when I first read this at age seven or so, I don't think it occurred to me that it was odd.
Out of curiosity, could you expand on how it doesn't make sense for SaaS use cases?
I finally gave up - I deleted my existing LinkedIn account and replaced it with one that says “I do not use LinkedIn and will not accept your invites or read any message you send to me. If you’d like to learn more about me or get in touch, please see my personal website at (me).com” I’ve been off social media for years, but for some reason I still maintained a LinkedIn site which never actually delivered any value.
Have you done this? Where did you go?
No hate against a specific group. The cross has been used as a symbol in the slaughter millions over the centuries. But it is not generally used as a symbol to threaten any one specific group.
I’m going to stop referring to these apps as copying the clipboard, and use the proper and accurate terminology: ‘keylogger’
I've done it for 10+ years with no issues, it's more about who you're working for IMO.
Thanks for sharing your project, I've signed up for the sample chapters and I'm eager to see the finished book. Are

Are you finding your own strategies helpful in getting this book finished?
> Culture cancels abhorrent ideas, same as it ever was.

Perhaps. Maybe. Eventually. But when those ideas are still accepted, have fun being against them.

Eugenics was socially accepted from the late 1800s into the first half of the 20th century (with compulsory sterilization continuing even to 1980). If you were Catholic during that time period (when the encyclical Casti connubii was published), you'd be lambasted for being old fashioned. In Buck v. Bell (1927) the USSC ruled 8-1 that it was A-OK for the state to sterilize people:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_v._Bell

The sole vote against was coïncidentally the sole Catholic on the bench.

As a somewhat controversial figure pointed a while ago:

> Free speech is not a value, like mercy or justice: it's the fundamental problem-solving mechanism of humanity.

* https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/80190649601547059...

What idea(s) do we accept now that will eventually be thought completely wrong in a generation? The whole point of allowing dissenting voices so to allow people to think of new ways of viewing the world, and filtering out the ones that are good and the ones that are bad: but if we don't allow people to speak, how can new ideas come to light?
I suppose I can still see a need for a 757 aircraft. My thinking was that our economy now requires so much travel that a 787 could be mostly filled. There are so many variants of the A320/321 that I can't even keep track.
Show HN: Crunch – a fast buffer manipulation library in Go
First, the situation is not the "same as it ever". Clearly, we are seeing a cultural trend towards more censorship.

Secondly, I invite you to consider this: Being gay was seen as a completely "abhorrent" idea a few decades ego [1]. So, did that fact somehow made it good and justifiable to "cancel" someone for being gay?

[1] Some people find it "abhorrent" even today, some countries even have laws against homosexuality.
> People have been claiming they have been framed since forever.

Yes they have, but they have been doing so in the face of circumstantial evidence: DNA, fingerprints, blood, whatever. Or eyewitness evidence: someone saw you go in the building at such and such time (perhaps there is a surveillence video).

If someone has nothing of the sort on you and their entire claim is that you wrote some digital message, I'd think the onus would be on them to prove their extraordinary claim somehow.
Agreed. Several economists and think tank representatives commented on this, but there was little content about decision makers actually considering the issue. Maybe a poor subtitle choice, but it is an opinion article after all.
So is Windows & anything from Google. The only OS out there today that doesn't actively work against the user is Linux, and even that is not 100% on distros like Ubuntu.
Kapernick made a political statement as his place of work. He made a calculated risk to his career for the sake of his convictions. Choosing to take a stand strikes me as different than being pressured and judged for not taking one. As a non-fan of football, I read the distate for Kapernick's statement as foisting another political binary on fans (mostly by the media, not so much by kapernick). Should you kneel or not kneel? Now you have to have an opinion.

I think the progression is:

1. Make a political statement against an injustice (hashtags, kneeling, etc)

2. Making a lack of support a form of complicity with injustice.

3. Narrowly define what support looks like.

Exact quote from #ShutDownStem website:
>> Unless you engage directly with eliminating racism, you are perpetuating it. [0]

https://www.shutdownstem.com/
Not sure how you can argue that the purpose of master-slave or blacklist-whitelist terminology is to identify with a movement based on hate. Unlike the confederate flag, it was never a good bet that people using those words are racist.
that a no for me. my phone is my phone. i am
betting this is grounds for a class-action lawsuit if you indeed have no other option than to install crapware on you PERSONAL phone
The leveraging of mob mentality via digital platforms is what makes me nervous.

We've always had local forms of cancel culture. But we've never had the digital weaponized mob mentality like we do with twitter/facebook/instagram/etc.

Now we have the ability to point to one incident which was recorded forever and can't be removed. Some things really should die out over time. The comments "most" people make should just, fade away after a while only being recalled in memory and allowing people to grow and get better over time.

Instead we have quotes from a 16 year old derailing their efforts to be a better human being as an adult.

We even get a similar kind of force here on HN, when a website gets blasted by being featured here. Website owners talk about being able to see that traffic.

Humans love seeing Karma in action and this seems to be evolution of that.
lobste.rs?
>Conservatives get bashed on hacker news

I don't see any more "bashing" of conservatives than liberals on HN. You may perceive prevalent opinions as more liberal than conservative, and you may perceive prevalent criticism of things that are more conservative than liberal, but that's not the same as "bashing", and usually the topic is not even explicitly liberal or conservative (except by association). You should consider that this may be a victim mentality you're falling into.
Honestly, it doesn't make sense to question if that is bigotry, especially when transgender and LGBTQ rights are predicated on sexual freedom and liberation. Asking sincerely if that is bigotry shows that the questioner is willing to contradict their own strongly held views, in order to call somebody else a bigot.