skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2017/07/02/issues/no-...

https://resources.realestate.co.jp/living/housing-discrimina...

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/04/17/national/social...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-discrimination-fore...
I think you're still taking as a foregone conclusion that (all of) the statues represent bad men with evil ideas, and that's what I'm disagreeing with.
I completely disagree. Code duplication is one of the worse things for readability, and generics quickly make up for their weight in gold on this front.

Go code is very hard to read and review especially because it has so much repetition where little details can hide. "Is that a regular error check that logs and returns, or did I miss some actual logic there?", "Is that loop just trying to find a value in an array, or is it also doing something else?" etc - boilerplate upon boilerplate, which you learn to glaze over, until it's not really boilerplate and you miss something.
>For Zuckerberg it needs to financially hurt, in order to cause ethical decisions.

Hasn't he lost ~$6B in net worth because of this?
> You can easily make your substantive points without it anyhow.

How would you have phrased it, then? Genuinely curious here.
Can Job Titles be made redundant?
I don't know how anyone can say that video calls and face-to-face time are equivalent with a straight face.

Of course, this is my opinion, but it seems pretty obvious that in-person interaction is what builds relationships.
> You're still having a good time, but you're paying more attention to the production values or the emotional range of one of the actors. You aren't part of the same experience, and you are gonna have a tough time participating in the conversation. Whatever you do, don't tell them you knew what was going to happen all along, Mr Buzzkill.

You need smarter friends... Hanging out for extended periods of time with people below your level does not work well.
Do you somehow labor under the impression that Rust programmers stay up at nights and on weekends to learn to use "clever" tools like iterators, enums, and sum types?

These aren't clever tools. They're dumb tools like chisels and hammers. Yeah, you can just use a screwdriver to chip things away or to whack something in, but there are better tools that are purpose-built and let you do the job faster, more precisely, and with less effort.
Why was it then called the hooked cross?

Hitler appropriated a Hindu/Buddhist symbol that is more than 5000 years old, and as you say it would be erased out of the digital world.

Isn't it time to return the original meanings and intent of these symbols.
That's an argument for banning swastikas, not banning anyone who displays a swastika.

And before you say "come on, swastikas are pretty extreme", remember the moral panic we just went through when 4chan trolls convinced people that the OK hand sign was a "one-sided version ofna White Power" sign and got people fired from their jobs for making the sign.
Yes, let's reinvigorate AOL! Disrupt the internet!
The Nazi flag is inarguably racist propaganda. The Confederate flag, however, has for decades been a symbol of southern pride for many people. I read somewhere recently that over 40% see it as a symbol of heritage more than racism.
I don't think anyone here forgot it. The average user, however, even if informed, likely will not care. I tried to convey all the issues surrounding FB to my SO, which produced generalized shrug.

I think a more drastic message is needed. Maybe some more distributed version of fappening that affects nearly everyone. That could get some attention. Could.
I think it'd be funnier if it was done silently like shadowbanning, so the racist troll didn't know why people kept apparently innocently assuming he was gay. But I wouldn't expect MS to go for humour, especially not dealing with sensitive politics and audiences involving a lot of minors.
Morality isn't objective, it's formed and informed by the culture of the times, and it evolves from generation to generation.
Smaller advertisers risk being viewed as less relatable and ignorant of the damage to Facebook's brand.
Perkeep (Previously Camlistore, Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed Storage)
> I'm missing the part how suffering chronic distress (over financials) is part of a "good" or "okay" QoL.

I’m highlighting that a minimum wage hike is not the answer.

And depending on your constitution chronic stress is quite compatible with a high QoL. Ask any new parents for example.
Why Big Tech Is More Competent Than the US Government
Sure. If I own a website or a newspaper or the patch of ground in front of my house, I get to decide what information goes there.

Are you arguing that there should be some legal provision that says anyone can publish anything on your website, or newspaper, or ground, and you don't get a say in it? That seems unreasonable.
I predict that Facebook will do a huge OOH campaign squeezing the other co's to come back to Facebook
I played similar games when I ran forums, but really you're just shuffling the problem around. Bored trolls/extreme ideologues will be delighted to play cat and mouse with your measures, and will feel particularly proud of themselves when they circumvent them creatively.

In the end, you have to decide what outcome you want - using half effective measures hoping that the racists will keep it down, or kicking them out and making it clear that they aren't welcome? You can't have it both ways.
CPython C API is one the main culprit in making Python hard to implement and optimize.

As some commenters said, I don't think Python without access to C/C++ projects would be worth right now giving how sloe CPython is. About 100% of machine learning, data science and general science Python code relies on C/C++ extensions.

Current CPython API and the need to keep compatibility reduces the capabilities of improving CPython.

Look at PEP-620 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0620/) for more info on how python developers are addressing this.
Long commutes are indeed the bane of my existence. One can never feel more helpless and outraged while stuck in heavy traffic.

Ironically, this pandemic has made me much happier as I don't have to drive everywhere. I finally have more time to think and pursue my curiosities instead of burning gas and yelling expletives. It's quite refreshing.
> Don’t keep “Logs” (similar to print) when building for production!

Aren't we supposed to log exceptions in production? How would you know if your software has unknown problems otherwise?
I'm going to try to answer that, even if only for myself.

Partially, because the organization is a lot bigger than 1 man. I'm working close to my home in a company that respects work/life balance. Pay is reasonably good, especially as i don't have a multi-hour commute anymore. I wont be fired from one day to the next. I'm pretty sure the organization is all in all doing good work helping people forward. There are a lot of people with great technical and other expertise. Also good, nice, solid people. My work is appreciated. I have a good amount of freedom. There are enough layers of management that I don't have to deal much with the architects.

And the weird thing is, it is working with him as head architect. He is the kind of person that can sell anything to anyone, even turning around people that were disgusted of him a few months before. I'm pretty sure he makes technological choices by reading Garner slides and doesn't really understand what they are or what the results will be. Even so, he manages to get things moving and agreement built in a very complex organization. He causes change, others give that change a usefull direction, and the net result is, well, usefull results. Strange but true.
Racism exists where genocide has not yet been completed. A "non racist" society is rarely a historical role model.
Good ol' public relations.
The charts do not show why.
Most analytics platforms will report on any straight direct line between spend and incremental revenue. The hard part is measuring the indirect part, as you mentioned, but it is possible.
> But... the reaction here is "they made a mistake, let's pile on like kids in a playground" ignoring the genuinely huger issue of the amount of info and mining that google et al. do.

What about genocide too? Please people, stop with these "but the other bigger unrelated issue should get more visibility".

> Which is why politicians rarely admit mistakes, because it's taken as a sign of weakness, not strength, to admit you were wrong.

Can you point me where DDG admitted they were wrong doing this? They didn't... they just explained why they did it but completely ignore the greater issue because they consider themselves "good". Just like that politician you may talk about, or Google, or whatever.

This is about DDG.
You'd probably be able to cut your ad spend in half and get the same result if the niche is small enough. If only you are buying ad spots for Amish chocolate teapot fans all of the sudden I imagine the price goes down quickly.
It's intentional and has been happening on other platforms for years.

Give it a few weeks and people will start posting articles about how it happens on PC / Mac platforms too.
that's not true at all. this congressional report[1] outlines the capacity of the government to regulate speech.

"However, the fact that a law affects speech protected by the First Amendment does not necessarily mean that it is unconstitutional. As
explained below, the First Amendment allows some regulation of speech and does not prohibit
regulation of conduct.[...]"

If a law does regulate speech, a court would consider the type of speech being regulated to
determine how closely to scrutinize the regulation. For example, a court may ask whether that
speech is commercial and, as such, deserving of less protection under the First Amendment.[...]

Certain categories of speech receive even less protection than commercial speech.
For example, the Supreme Court has said that states may prohibit speech
advocating violence if that “advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action
and is likely to incite or produce such action.”
Thus, certain types of threatening or violent
speech posted on social media may not be entitled to First Amendment protection"

And also concerning internet platforms in particular:

"A court might also look to the particular nature of the medium being regulated, asking whether
there are special characteristics that might justify greater regulation. The Supreme Court has
said that “[e]ach medium of expression . . . must be assessed for First Amendment purposes by
standards suited to it, for each may present its own problems.”"

So there's considerable complexity to the regulation of speech. It's not at all a binary issue.

[1]https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45650.pdf
> I think it's dangerous when platforms function like a public utility and is yet allowed to do whatever it wants because it's _technically_ private property.

It _is_ private property. The companies in question are just exerting their rights. The users agreed to the ToS while signing up, and it's perfectly reasonable for them to cut off your access to their service, as long as it's within the legal bounds of the ToS. I don't think companies should be directly regulated/penalized for banning users. I do think however, that people should be more conscious of what they're signing up for. Consumer protection law should protect consumers, not their convenience.
I am obtusely aware that Germany has banned hate speech and imagery relating to Nazis yet remains a democracy with mostly free speech.

Am I wrong?

If no, how have they accomplished this?
Unfortunately, this model invites a lot of the "fly-by-night" type of companies offering products that may or may not have been thoroughly tested, but they know their target market may be easily manipulated through professional looking ads (eg young/naive people or people who don't know the wealth of data they give to FB to allow precision targeting).

Just one example: Molekule
HellaBlack, a Black-owned online marketplace launches August 2020
There's more than one election. There's also the entire house, a third of the senators and perhaps local elections as well.
They're banning a hateful symbol. That's totally fair game for censorship.

I don't know where you come from, but in my home state where we JUST THIS WEEK removed the Confederate emblem from our state flag, only people with real hatred towards non-white people use that symbol.
I don't exactly consider dropping two atomic bombs on top of hundreds of thousands of civilians an act of kindness. Americans also don't exactly apologize for their acts, still glorify their brutal heroes (and even people who fought against their own country). There's probably a whole laundry list of war crimes (and things that really should be war crimes) that the US has committed. And there are a lot of anti-American feelings across the globe.
I applaud them for using open source software, and contributing back their findings, but my first thought reading this was "isn't it a little odd a security appliance vendor who actively markets a "Remote Secure Access" system doesn't rely on there own systems?" Their website has a whitepaper link on every page on how your business should use them for remote access.
Immutability is much more difficult to reason about except for some very mathy problems.

It is extremely natural to think in terms of state, so much so that almost all algorithms you'll find in computer science are commonly expressed in imperative terms.
Would also like to know which countries are treating COViD patients for free. Most traveller insurance is basically suspended/useless these days.

Ontario Canada has said they’ll treat anyone for COViD free of charge (documented or not), as they’d rather you get treated than hang around infecting others.
That is an ingenious interpretation.

Probably too ingenious though, especially across all the companies involved.
The list of "bad" ideas blows this way and that with the wind. It's not about what it was used for in the past or how much bad was done. It's about whatever mobs with pitchforks demand. They can always come up some reason like "used for hate" or "causes offense" or "safe environment" but they don't really mean it. Those are just rationalizations for organizations making decisions out of fear.
Hm guess I subconsciously chose an clickbaity title...

Well in my case, I use Debian as my main operating system on my Desktop. Debian is great, but as a classical desktop OS it does not have those cool security things like app sandboxing, permissions management (camera acces etc) and stuff like that. Which makes sense, since mobile Operating Systems were designed from the ground up way later and also seem to move at a faster pace. The fact alone that almostt all ANdroid Apps run in the JVM and are written in memory safe languages is a huge plus that the GNU/Linux family does not have. (Solely speaking about security, I wouldnt want my /bin/sh to be in java)

In my particular case, it suprised me to find out that my android is the most secure device I own. Thus the title (and the intention to wrote this post).

So yeah, misleading title. Kinda. My Bad. Updated the title
> But... the reaction here is "they made a mistake, let's pile on like kids in a playground" ignoring the genuinely huger issue of the amount of info and mining that google et al. do.

What about genocide too? Please people, stop with these "but the other bigger unrelated issue should get more visibility".

> Which is why politicians rarely admit mistakes, because it's taken as a sign of weakness, not strength, to admit you were wrong.

Can you point me where DDG admitted they were wrong doing this in their first response? They didn't... they just explained why they did it but completely ignore the greater issue because they consider themselves "good". Just like that politician you may talk about, or Google, or whatever. They are part of that bigger issue you mentions.

This is about DDG.

Luckily that pile of kids in a playground made them realize that mistake, they would have ignored otherwise (like they did on their first respond).
You could theme your phpBB forum, install mods, add lots of fun flourishing touches (like custom ranks), etc. Some forums displayed avatars and post counts, others didn't . All that made every single phpBB forum feel like its own distinct community. I don't see that with Instagram.
I agree, training a dense model with the same number of parameters would be much a bigger feat.

Otherwise, as I mentioned elsewhere on this page, we routinely describe the size of the human brain in terms of numbers of synapses (connections), even though they are sparsely activated. Only a small subset of your brain 'lights up' for a given input. Number of parameters (connections) is a perfectly sensible way to measure model size.

Anyway, I expect we will see both much larger sparsely and densely activated models going forward. We live in interesting times :-)
I think many adolescent men don't get that though.
>I think it's dangerous when platforms function like a public utility and is yet allowed to do whatever it wants because it's technically private property. If platforms want to censor,

For some topics such as the Confederate flag, you don't even have to complicate the discussion with "private company vs public utility".

E.g., tax-payer government funded public schools also banned kids from wearing the Confederate flag on shirts because they were "disruptive". In some cases, the free speech advocates fought the rule and yet the ban was upheld by courts even on appeal:

https://www.google.com/search?q=confederate+shirt+banned+pub...

In other words, even if the government nationalized Microsoft into a state-owned enterprise, we'd still be having this debate about free speech being censored.
The original iPhone SE is about to start it's sixth year of OS and Security updates.

That's less than $70 per supported year.
Did :(
> That's an argument for banning swastikas, not banning anyone who displays a swastika.

This seems semantic. For example, cheating is banned in many games, and if you cheat, you get banned. Banning cheating and cheaters is effectively the same thing.
There is this very good article of Ben Thompson [1] predicting that Zuckerberg won't budge:

1/ large advertisers represent a small portion of FB's ad revenue

2/ if large advertisers leave and price of ads fall, other "social media ad-dependent businesses" will pick up the slack because they can measure very well their advertising return on investment thus driving the price of ads back up.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-and-facebook/
I actually find it interesting to think, in 50 years, how the average person will view "history" visually.

Because for me, history was always linked to visual artifacts -- styles of painting, black and white, jerky films, then styles of film grain and saturation, and so on.

The kind of vivid, "real"-looking photography that comes with cell phones is a very recent thing that it's still all "recent memory" rather than "history".

How would I view events like WWI, or the Civil War, if we could watch them in 1080p? Would they feel "closer"? Will it have the effect of collapsing time? Would we "learn more" from history because we can identify more?

Or will the ubiquity of content make it irrelevant? Will it seem less like history and just more of an extended present that we bother to learn even less from because it just seems the same?

(Sure you could argue that we'll have 360° 30K video with megagamut, and that current photo/video will seem equally quaint, but I don't think that's true. Footage today seems qualitatively real in way that black and white from the 1940's wasn't. I believe there's a threshold of quality we passed that probably started first with digital camcorders, and finished with the advent of 1080p videocameras in cell phones.)
So he is worth $82B now? Do you think he really loses sleep over that? He knows this is temporary and the stock will most likely bounce back.
Not many, and realistically most were heading down the road to phase-out. None, as far as I'm aware, were putting the idea that _slavery must always exist_ in their constitutions. The CSA was bizarrely, uniquely, absolutist about the importance of slavery.
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Govt to Ban End-to-End Encryption [video]
That's just automation losses though. But the point is, the economy is already shifting and adapting. The adaptations take time, but it will come.
You can only hurt him if the outrage mob is large enough. Probably, it isn't, it's just a vocal minority, the rest of the world is going to continue using facebook.
Do we have to treat every one of these issues with the same gravitas? We are talking about people putting a traitorous and many would argue a racist flag on their virtual car in a video game. This isn't a sign of growth of authoritarianism world wide. I think your argument would be better served if it was saved for an issue with more pervasive ramifications than a video game.
LTE is plenty fast for most business tasks. I have an LTE modem in my laptop and can pull it out in a busy airport and get work done even online. At LTE speeds you probably don't even need Wifi except as a way to get on the local network.
I remember someone did this before and went searching and found them:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2011/04/11/start-ups...

Ran across this one as well while searching:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/yc-rejects
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And yet there are whole industries devoted to making us unhappy in the hope that we will then consume more of their product. The beauty industry wants to make us unhappy with our appearance. The self-help industry, wants to make us unhappy with our lives in general. Social media wants us to be outraged and thus more engaged. Advertising in general is built around keeping us from being happy so we will buy more stuff.

We should be aware of that and be very careful about the media we consume.
Climate problems won’t be addressed with this attitude. Everyone needs to do their part, both at the ballot box, and in their personal lives.
Advertisers certainly will be back, because their public support for the cause du jour is simply a rational decision to make money/avoid losing money. When established corporations support your cause, you should be worried, because what you think you're getting isn't what you're going to get, the status quo.
This is only "easy" if you are a sysadmin by profession or hobby. That excludes the vast majority of people, 99% perhaps.
In a microservice architecture you'd probably have more than one instance running at any given time though, and do a rolling restart so there's always at least one instance available.
Protecting your family for a foreign invading army,
Sure some rich folks have slave, but what do i have to do with it? Shouldn't i protect my home from invaders?