skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They never said US bad.

I think its totally reasonable to point out that there was a sudden, drastic shift in tone over the last 3-6 months.

TikTok was gaining popularity last summer, and no one, short of a few NYT op-eds, said anything.

China is a geopolitical rival. We should probably aspire to be better than them first rather than copy them with an internet firewall and censorship of our own. One of the challenges of doing that nowadays is we have a president who thinks cultural genocide of Uighur muslims is 'exactly the right thing to do' and that Tienanmen square massacre was also the right thing to do.

edit: gendered language
edit: updated quote for accuracy (absolutely->exactly)
If we're successfully simulating the surface level of it, the underlying mechanism is (imho) totally irrelevant to the user. If general intelligence is happening, does it really matter if the underlying mechanism is neurons, or transistors, or vacuum tubes?
As the public my only encounter with some art is if the local museum has it on display. If the local museum buys fraud I'm defrauded by proxy.
Hushpuppi's lawyer says FBI 'kidnapped' Nigerian Instagrammer from Dubai
There's nothing complicated or unusual about it. It's not ironic either.

China is increasingly an adversary to the US. That context is going to get a lot worse this decade. TikTok is owned by a Chinese company and ultimately must (and will) answer to China. Facebook, Google, et al. are of course American companies.

For a nation, whether Facebook concerns you as much as TikTok depends largely on which side you're on (or if you have a side at all).

The world is going to be aggressively bifurcated, US-USSR style, going forward. There will be the liberal side and the China side. China's direction is fundamentally opposed to the major liberal nations, what they commonly believe in and how their systems operate. That conflict and incompatibility will get worse as China's behavior continues to get worse.
> many FBI statements from the past that are now obviously blatent fabricated lies.

You mean like the entire practice of forensic fiber analysis, which they were forced to cop to after the fact: https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-testimo...
I liked the “could”... i assume it was sarcasm.
The original comment has changed significantly. It was much more terse in its initial posting. I think another important factor to keep in mind here is age of account.
"train vs car" argument - really nice analogy.
Compiled languages can have REPLs as well.

In fact Mesa had one on XDE, which was improved in Mesa/Cedar, because the team wanted to cater their environment to the Lisp and Smalltalk developers at Xerox.

Wirth built on top of this when he designed Oberon, where the OS only supports dynamic linking, and every public exports from a module can be used on Oberon's REPL as a command.

Although many people aren't aware of this, Eclipse always had a crude REPL via Java Worksheets, which allowed to execute Java expressions and saving those sessions on the workspace. This trances back to Smalltalk transcripts and Visual Age for Smalltalk heritage.

Eiffel also offers a REPL like experience in Eiffel Studio via the MELT VM.

.NET had Linqpad for quite some years, until Visual Studio got interactive C# and F# shells, and immediate debug mode goes back to the VB days of yore.

So there are plenty of options with compiled languages, but like with graphical debuggers, teaching is lacking on the availability of such tooling.
"Cancelling" cis married (or intending-to-get-married) men hurts the women they marry, too.
I think under the security law, foreign companies who resist the demands of the government may have their personnel arrested and their equipment seized.

I think it's curtains for cloud presence in HK. AWS would do well to ensure the authorities can't decrypt data on the machines they might take.
I've been thinking about this a lot. The browser is starting to resemble an operating system. I already have an operating system. Instead of building this Russian nesting doll, maybe we need something new.
Brainstorming accomplishes a lot that you can't measure.

Just like casual water cooler conversations result in ideas that wouldn't have seen the light of day otherwise (and this is why office design is important too!).

All this stuff matters. There's different ways to go about it (and different methods can accomplish similar goals), but to blanket declare brainstorming generally as placebo with no effect is just wrong in my view.
This map contains a lot of overlapping and very rounded regions that I think convey that it's rough areas of settlement rather than some internationally-recognized partition of the land.
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During the late 90’s and early 00’s, there was already plenty of weird, extreme porn on the web. I think it might have been more of a step function between offline and online.
> In fact, I was surprised it took over a decade for countries to start pushing back.

It didn't help that many politicians, media, and elites had been slowly bought by China. There were many China skeptics that had raised red flags but were largely ignored.
The Russian and German sign-up page still reflects the old price. Story checks out! (Although I was slightly disappointed that it wasn't a fellow Slav discount.)

But with a name like "five nines software" customer expectations should be implicitly tempered ;)
That's uncannily accurate in an entirely different manner. Many Brazilians "dream" they will become millionaires if the marxists get in power again, due to hyperinflation.
Regarding universities, they may be free, but the number of admissions is very, very limited. The competition is very harsh. In reality, most people who are able to get in are those capable of paying for very good schools or preparatory courses, and these courses can be very expensive [0]. Sometimes, people have to try for years before being able to join those universities [1].

When your family is very poor, this situation makes it impossible for the student to keep on trying. Sometimes parents can't keep paying for the preparatory course, or worse, the student may have to forfeit it's dreams of studying in favor of working and helping with household expenses.

As seen in [0], most people studying in free universities are actually in a pretty good financial situation.

Sometimes, people from very poor families manage to study for free, but this is rare and often newsworthy [2].

In my humble opinion, I don't think universities are really free. There are many financial costs associated with studying in a public university.

[0] http://www.brasil-economia-governo.org.br/2016/06/15/como-as...
[1] https://g1.globo.com/pb/paraiba/noticia/2020/01/29/paraibano...
[2] https://diariodonordeste.verdesmares.com.br/metro/estudante-...
Given that we have actually seen hospitals overwhelmed in various places, is hard for me to understand how people can still take this position.
Who has the best package manager?
"so you've been publicly shamed" by jon ronson goes into this, I don't remember if there's specific stories about personal bloggers, but there's stories from normal, everyday people.
> So this isn't universal basic income

It is for a definition of UBI that is broader than yours (whatever that may be). Welfare is a UBI for a segment of the population. If the solutions are always the same, with a varying bar of minimum means, the people of the US have already agreed to it. What's left is to argue about degree. The emergency stimulus checks are concrete proof of that.
It's the opposite. I actually lost a 2FA token, got back into the account, added a new one - but I can't delete the old 2FA. You shouldn't ask for 2FA authentication of the same device that I'm deleting....

It'd be nice if they accepted the 2FA code from my other devices, but then it's questionable security; I just managed to log in with 2FA, are you asking me again to confirm my identity in order to delete old device? Ok I guess... but I can already add a new device, you know. And then use it to delete all the others.... are you really giving extra security?
This is very, very, very easy to test experimentally though, right?
Perhaps Google and Apple's standard for evidence is higher than the US government's.
> If any company expects me to access my work email while mobile, they have to provide a phone.

No they don't.

If you don't like it, switch employers.
Think about how ‘savage’ and masculine one must be to walk from Asia to North America thousands of years ago. And I’m using savage in the modern, positive connotation. Human society was beyond brutal then.

Humans are dangerous and vile and ridiculous and tribal. There’s nothing unique about that in any race or culture (maybe a few exceptions).

We can’t know how the past being different would affect the future. Had “Native America” become a nation, it could had created substantially worse or maybe better systems. We did create an incredibly fair system with modern technology and medicine that’s saved hundreds of millions of lives.

We can’t disregard all the progress and freedom our systems have brought to the individual. America is the best country in the world because it defends natural rights. We have a long way to go but we can only get to a better world with John Locke and classical liberalism.
I think you are missing the point of the wisdom of crowds. Crowds are great at aggregating the influence the various factors that go into a complex problem. The example from the book was (I think) that crowds were great at say, estimating the weight of a cow. Or, in modern terms, the price of a stock.

Crowds are terrible at being creative whether they are lead by a person or not.
Happy to help. For littler kids, definitely check out:

Blossom and Root for a more nature-based/hands-on program
https://blossomandroot.com/

Torchlight. https://www.modulo.app/all-resources/torchlight

Also Khan App Kids of course
https://www.modulo.app/all-resources/khan-app-kids

I think that there are ways to do meaningful social interaction online, but not in the way it's being handled in most places. I think that for this to be successful academics and socialization need to be compartmentalized. We should use zoom for activities like cooking, give kids the opportunity to talk about their day, discuss current events and share feelings, but not for lectures on academic subjects - and these group zooms should be short. There's a big need for innovation in this space, but it's not impossible to create meaningful social interactions online for kids.
Alexis Buckley (who is also our is doing incredible work fostering social interactions online with Early Childhood Matters and the Little School. Definitely check out her classes. http://www.earlychildhoodmatters.org/

As you said, there are so many great tools for learning and little evidence that leaning on academics in the early years is even that important (look at the Finnish education system that doesn't start until age 7).

However, the in-person social interaction is the tricky part. We're generally recommending that families focus on building healthy social attachments with their own kids. That's the first and most important bond. And if you have a good relationship with your child, a healthy attachment, that will extend to a group setting. This kind of socialization can also be done by buddying with one other family that's rigorously practicing social distancing. Socialization does not have to happen in a huge group to be impactful.

Happy to chat with you more if I can be of any help whatsoever.
They're prominent members of the rationality community, who also happen to be mentioned in the article in connection with the same.
It is evident that Facebook does not QA the way they should. It would be nice if Apple added mechanisms that allow a dependency in an app to crash but allow the host app to continue to run regardless.
Imagine paying a subscription to access my own documents! Paying for privacy to be hoovered up to another corporation.

Sure, I bet they have some good features that I probably wont use.
I'm fine with them fighting for one. However their incentive needs to include ensuring that the pension fund actually has enough money in it to cover the future payouts.
No, the neural net needs to receive a feature vector before each instruction in order to sort the array. So whenever you want to sort things, you need to create that vector over and over.
Not only that, with wsl2 on windows being in the mainline windows, developers have a very good alternative. I don't this is a coincidence... Running actual PHP servers on windows is a rarity, and not worth it to support it officially on Windows. Azure is able to run it all, so they don't really care anymore what platform you're targeting, as long as windows is a viable development platform, and Azure a potential deploy target.
I'm so happy it was helpful. Please let me know if I can be of support in any way.
No? I mean, John Stuart Mills argues that the only tolerance needed is for those things which "tend to his improvement", so long as it isn't just for the sake of punishment. I'll quote his "On Liberty":

"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavourable opinion of any one, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. We are not bound, for example, to seek his society; we have a right to avoid it (though not to parade the avoidance), for we have a right to choose the society most acceptable to us. We have a right, and it may be our duty, to caution others against him, if we think his example or conversation likely to have a pernicious effect on those with whom he associates. We may give others a preference over him in optional good offices, except those which tend to his improvement. In these various modes a person may suffer very severe penalties at the hands of others, for faults which directly concern only himself; but he suffers these penalties only in so far as they are the natural, and, as it were, the spontaneous consequences of the faults themselves, not because they are purposely inflicted on him for the sake of punishment."

It therefore seems like the calls against so-called 'cancel culture' are mostly calls to prevent people from exercising their liberty.

Blacklisting, being fired, castigation, and sanction as a result of unpopular opinions has been a deeply embedded part of American culture since its founding. It seems unreasonable to characterize them as a distinct "cancel culture".

The government has the monopoly on the use of force. Its citizens do not. People have liberty. Government does not. People have the right of free association. Government does not. So there's a few big differences there.

And, what's this about a "mob"?

If I decide to castigate someone whose opinions I find unfavourable, is that not fine? If not, why not?

If many people decide to castigate someone for those same unfavourable opinions, is that also not fine? And if not, why not?

Are those actions somehow a "mob" because there are many?

If so, that's a marvelous escape clause for the powerful. The handful of mine owners, working together to blacklist union organizers, are too small to be a mob, so therefore their blacklist isn't part of cancel culture, yes?
It's not that I can't get back into the account - it's just that I can't delete an old 2FA token that I lost. Because it asks for a code from the token that I'm trying to delete...
An example of Brazilian Mutt Syndrome where any foreign business/power/person/interest/whatever is more valued than the life or rights of a local.
> I don't understand this analogy at all. UI/UX design changes frequently involves changing the appearance and possibly location and even functionality of familiar things.

And that's the fundamental problem because that doesn't take into account people who are familiar with how a particular application works. For example, if you compare a tape recorder, VCR, a DVD player, and a streaming service where you can play, pause, forward or rewind, it's essentially the same interface and that has been the case since the '70s.

It's similar to dialing a phone with a touch-tone system versus dialing a number on a smartphone (other than having to press a call button). The only major change in the UI was when the transition between rotary dial to touch-tone took place. Automobiles are another example (placement of the brake, accelerator, shifter, turn signal stalk, headlamp controls, etc (though things do differ from model to model to some extent).

So why do we keep changing the interface of computer applications every so often such that proficient users have to relearn how to do things? The reason appears to be that we're chasing a goal of making the UI more intuitive so that someone who hasn't used it before can figure it out, but that never seems to happen.

But, if people just learn how to use the existing UI, then they can use the application and other applications like it because of a standard interface.

> If we changed the lettering in a phonebook, or even merely on the cover, to be, say, klingon font, we shouldn't expect the typical user to reach for that phonebook, yet essentially what the GP is suggesting is that it's sufficient for a user to understand the "phonebook concept" and users can learn the implementation details trivially based on that.

A more accurate analogy would be to change the order of the listings in the phonebook to start from most common names and end in least common ones instead of being in alphabetical order because of the belief it would help new users find the information they're looking for faster compared to the traditional interface.
Adding another anecdote, when I said I did not want to let work control my mobile phone, my boss told me I could figure out whether I wanted to keep the job or not
US would destroy anything not originating from its soil. Pathetic.
The input is always needed, the neural net is an iterative algorithm that views the "local information" gathered from the array on every time step. It's asking continuously whether e.g. `A[i] > A[i+1]`.
The territory of the Hesquiaht is interesting. They seem to have been a largely maritime tribe...
> ... the security benefit is precisely that nobody can access your account without 2FA.

Except they can access it with any of the multiple 2FA registrations that grandposter can't delete.

I don't think it would weaken any security posture to allow any 2FA to manipulate all of them.
> But it is also important to remember that flagging is a form of speech too.

Is a bullet a form of speech as well? Because flagging will essentially kill your account if done often enough, that's the same on every platform, that's why there's coordinated flagging. First you will get limited ("can only post once an hour"), then you'll get timed out ("can't post for a week"), then you get (shadow) banned: your posts are flagged by default, but you can't tell as long as you're logged in. All of this is pretty straight unless you have a hand protecting you in the form of moderators rejecting flags, but you don't want to rely on that, because political opinions of both you and the moderators might change - a modern state based on law is much more reliable than staying on the good side of the local war lord.

"But others can theoretically still read it if they set showdead=true, so you're not rally deplatformed" isn't a valid argument against it. You can theoretically generate your own electricity and get your water delivered by truck etc if the local utility companies decide that they don't want to do business with you because of arbitrary reasons. But we've pretty much all decided to ignore those "well, technically you can [but practically you can't]" and just force the utility companies to not discriminate.
and he is comparing the two. Why ask for password before changing a password? Why not ask for 2FA before changing your 2FA?
That framing is the exact point. I'm in the same boat. If my employer mandated that I not be able to use a personal device the way i want, a device I bought with wages i earned from working with my employer, the employer really SHOULD provide a cost free alternative.

It falls under the category of providing your own resources to do your job, and that territory enters socioeconomic discrimination territory real quick.
India, TikTok, and the U.S. – Ben Thompson & James Allworth [audio]
The FAQ also contains this, and more nuanced discussion about what the map means.

Why are we recognizing more than one Nation on this territory?

Indigenous history stretches back thousands and thousands of years. Some Indigenous nations were nomadic, while many had permanent communities and seasonal communities. Often, boundaries between territories overlap because the Indigenous Nations were continuously sharing the land and negotiating agreements through their own diplomatic and legal systems.

But heaven forbid we try to understand something before immediately assigning it to a particular side in the culture war du jour.
>So I am not sure I will ever trust an ML algorithm trained on inputs/outputs only (which is what I think "neural program induction" means).

Pfffft, just wait until they get it writing code with its own proofs of correctness in dependent type theory. It'll be correct and twice as unreadable as incorrect human-written code!
My windows laptop runs the LTSC edition (likely in violation of the licensing terms) which is meant for super strict environments like ATM and POS machines. It does not get user experience updates and comes extremely barebones - but to me it Works exceptionally.
Well, with proper REPL integration, you never really type/copy/paste into the REPL.

You write your code in a source file like normal, highlight what you want evaluated, and have the REPL evaluate it.

Clojure has a great REPL because you are effectively working inside your own codebase, as it runs. Its a strange idea to wrap your head around, but very cool.

You can get something similar to this approach in JavaScript using Quokka[0]. It's not as complete as a Clojure REPL, but its still quite nice.

[0] https://quokkajs.com/
Life in general and your brain in particular may very well be more than "just chemistry". We really don't know.

What we do know at this point is that no amount of "just chemistry" has ever managed to create even the most rudimentary form of "life" from inert chemicals.

And the only working models we have for "intelligence" at this point are inextricably bound to life.
There you go, a truck driver didn't even write anything: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...

Also think about this: people who were not in the limelight and were "cancelled" would never appear on your radar simply because they were not in the limelight.