skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could look at this like private citizens trying to block access to public lands (beaches) in order to make them de facto private.

Federated apps are trying to establish a commons, right? If Google can block access, then there is no commons. If the government can force easements on private land owners, I suspect the EFF could make a case for the same for App stores.

Nobody would be making Google host the Commons, just access. This is a much simpler case IMO than forcing Twitter or Facebook to carry messages they don’t want.
This is the company since the title isn't calling them out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandvine

They also we're used by Comcast to mess with anyone using Peer2Peer networking. I wonder if all the companies like Palentir, ClearView, and these guys all get together on weekends and decide how to strip away any ethics from computing as a discipline
If I'm creating my own map I can kinda draw whatever the fuck I want. I need a web-map (preferably OSM-based) that I can use as a web-map, but with a projection less fucked up than Mercator, of which I can name at least 10 in addition to 2 I already named. Also, web-mercator generally is not a problem on small scales, so there isn't really a problem of alternating between projections depending on scale. (Which is not really necessary too, since other projections are generally more or less ok even on small scale. You can totally use globe view on google maps on city-scale and barely notice any difference at all.)
I guess... 4chan has been around for what, 15 years now? More? And that's with the media Becoming Aware of it many times. Seems pretty robust to me.
Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern
At first, I'm like... but it's just a zipped archive of XML and other content files which can be used with git successfully, but yeah there's a mess in there. It's not really meant to be human readable.
I think we've been in "early cyberpunk" for about 15 years already (if not 20). The renewed interest, imho, is due to a combination of factors, but mostly two: the generation that grew up reading it as kids is now old enough to be in positions of power over artistic output, so they will use those influences in their own work; and some of the societal shifts cyberpunk speculated about, are now recognizable by pretty much everyone.
Apparently it's FreeBSD; the evilest of operating systems
The line of thinking seems to be: "Gab's target demographic is users that have been banned from the mainstream platforms for hate speech and conspiracies. Therefore by targeting those users, it's 'purpose built' for hate speech and conspiracies.". My question is, can't you apply this to basically anything that's "free speech"? The mechanism seems to be that most people are content with the mainstream platforms, and therefore the only people who go for the "free speech" platforms end up being the people who were banned from the mainstream platforms. By that logic, is tor "purpose built" for criminals, since basically only people with stuff to hide use it? How is it different than gab?
I frequently visits 1 Chinese dota2 esports site. That's a small & independent site with 10+ years history. A vibrant community with mostly young gamers on dota2.

Naturally, a lot of these visitors often engage in dynamic discussions on international relationships and domestic issues. Nothing too sensitive from my perspective. And most of the time, people contribute personal experiences that are quite valuable.

The site is frequently shutdown for a few weeks, probably once every 2-3 months. And sometimes it can be a long one, as long as a few months.

The reason is of cuz the site is engaged in "appropriate discussion".

I want this to be a cautionary tale that, despite different motivation, the end results of these powerful entity, exert influence that is almost identify in behaviors.

The good thing is that there is a process in US to correct the behaviors. While as there is none in China. And we have to stand up to protect the freedom.
I got an email from Australia with the appointment for my spousal visa application, I'm also apparently looking for a new BMW in Cape Town and I also have a partner I visit in Paris and we order Chicken McNuggets on Uber Eats.
There is no RFC specifying the interpretation of address formats. Every domain can use whatever scheme they wish. The RFC only declares that senders can't impose additional formatting rules on receivers.
Not being confrontational, as someone that knows very little about ham radio, what is the appeal? My impression was that crusty old guys were into it and they'd speak all kinds of technical stuff and I was just not vibing with that whole scene.
I was in the same boat. I ended up bouncing because it was so bad I couldn't stand it. But to me, that should be the solution- if you don't like it, don't participate in it.

We live in an age where people seem to think in very black and white terms and if your beliefs don't align you shouldn't have them or be able to voice them.

Aside from inciting violence, your beliefs are yours. If they aren't breaking the law, you do you. I don't have to agree with them or support them, essentially 'don't tread on me'.

But people need to remember when you deplatform these racist, ugly thoughts and words, you push those people together, galvanizing them and their beliefs. As others in this thread have stated, I believe that's why voat got so bad so quickly.

As they say, sunlight is the best disinfectant.

I don't know what the end all solution is here, but I know I deal with racism on an almost daily basis in real life, and I'm Hispanic, so I can't imagine how bad it must be for some others. Pretending it doesn't exist won't fix it. Pushing it to the furthest corners of the internet won't make it go away in real life.
Yeah, not so much.

The difference is in the legal definition of protected class. It is illegal to discriminate against someone based on their membership of a protected class -- ethnicity or disability for instance.

Removing an opinion or banning a user based on violation of an agreed upon term of service is not the same thing. Having an opinion does not make you a member of a protected class, and a private corporation is free to allow you or disallow you from use of their services to broadcast that opinion. Newspapers have been doing this since the dawn of print. Google could not, for example, ban someone for being Jewish.

You can argue about whether sexual orientation deserves status as a protected class, but it is disingenuous to claim that the two are the same thing under the law. It is a false equivalency.
If someone emails you without a dot and you reply from your dotted address, it will look strange in the receiver's email client.
HN downvotes the weirdest things.
Church of the Subgenius? Kibology? alt.pave.the.earth? The epic KFC hoax?
>Such harms can be reliably detected, with stringent enough criteria.

Mental harms, in many cases, can also be detected by competent professionals; besides that, it is entirely possible for physical harms to heal and for supporting evidence of their infliction be used to convict. Further, many physical harms depend at least partially on the victim's characteristics or situation; a concert pianist is arguably harmed more by someone cutting off his finger than a schoolteacher would be, for instance. Many physical harms that are rightfully legislated against often require the testimony of the victim for the case to succeed. For a wide class of 'mental harms' it is accurate to say that they are indeed physiological responses - from PTSD to lethargy and insomnia. This is in contrast to the caricature that mental harms are necessarily merely 'hurt feelings'.

I also have concerns that the difficulty or the fact of sometimes being nebulous features of mental harms should necessarily rule out such lawmaking. At best, the minimum for proving such harm should at least be set out by the legislators or judiciary, if the standard of evidence is the roadblock to legislation.

It's also worth remembering that we're talking about harms here, not mere hurts. Harms are much harder to fabricate than hurts are.
I built a similar tool in Python years back:

https://github.com/WorldMaker/musdex
https://pythonhosted.org/musdex/

Because I built it to be extensible/support plugins I've used it for all sorts of interesting file types beyond DOCX too. (CELTX, a screenwriting format from years back; prettier diffs for Inform 7 source text; experimented with an SQLite deconstructor; ...)

Looks like I take a slightly different approach too, in that I store a bunch more metadata about the deconstructed contents (not just relying on directory listings), so I end up trusting my reconstruction tool a bit more and I mostly don't store the binary blobs in git, as I assume I can reconstruct them quickly enough.
Trying to understand this.

Using latencies from Zen 1 instruction table (see https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf):

mov dword [rsi], eax ; MOV m,r latency is 4
add dword [rsi], 5 ; ADD m,i latency is 6
mov ebx, dword [rsi] ; MOV r,m latency is 4

Total = 14

Each instruction depends on the result of the previous, so we need to sum all the latency figures to get the total cycle count. Is this right? How does Agner make it add up to 15?

Then for Zen 2:

mov dword [rsi], eax ; MOV m,r latency is 0 (rather than 4,
; because it is mirrored)
add dword [rsi], 5 ; ADD m,i cannot find an entry for this.
; Looks like there's a typo in the doc.
; I guess the latency is 1.
mov ebx, dword [rsi] ; MOV r,m latency is 0

Total = 1

Again, how does Agner make it add up to 2?

And for Intel Skylake:

mov dword [rsi], eax ; MOV m,r latency is 2
add dword [rsi], 5 ; ADD m,i - latency is 5
mov ebx, dword [rsi] ; MOV r,m latency is 2

Total = 9
Facebook tests linking your FB account to your news subscriptions
The internet in general has become critical infrastructure for a while now. Yet it is not treated that way that is the root of the problem.
I believe all platforms do moderation of some sort. It sounds like what you are proposing is that nobody be allowed to do any moderation. How do you think that would work?
Make sure to dry it completely, and the insides too. My friend spilled coffee on a macbook air and it was fine for a month and then died. All the internals were rusted. Coffee is different from soda, but still, take care.
You were on a roll in the first half, but you didn't stick the landing.

Sure, plenty of hale and healthy 80 year olds. Also, a majority of 80 year old Covid patients survive. Are they likely to be the same cohort? That's what I would bet on.

QALY stands for Quality-Adjusted Life Years. That includes long-term impairment of life function, in the definition.

And you're spot-on, we don't even have preliminary data on that, yet. If it were a really big and obvious effect, like 20% of all patients suffer a 20% downward adjustment that will never get better, I wager we'd have a preprint to that effect.

It's a terrible thing for those affected, of course it is. But how many? How badly? We just don't know yet.
Some problems don’t have easy simple solutions. Any answer will have some outside cases.

If a schizophrenic parent has in the past harmed someone, should a court ignore this when determining custody. It is unfair. If you err on being too lenient some people will be harmed. If you err on being stringent some people will be harmed.

Complex problem cannot be solved with ideology and maxims. All solutions will fail some people sometimes.
From my perspective we still need other information, do they also ban other apps that are purpose-built for hate speech? Was it just this app because of the controversy over banned Twitter users going to it?

I'm not taking a side either way but am curious.
The tech industry is a place where people generally prefer to talk things out rather than yelling and shaming. I think that's worth protecting, even if we see short term gains that might be available from defection. After all, once Google realizes the norms have changed, won't they be able to leverage their resources to find people who yell louder and shame more frequently than you?
Everyone is constantly complaining about private censorship being a slippery slope...

And yet today, despite decades of "censorship" by Facebook and Google, you can see whatever porn you want, snuff films, terrorist propaganda, hate speech, libel/slander spread by instigators like Glenn Beck and Alex Jones. Just not on Google or Facebook.

Different private entities and people have different levels of tolerance. If you want filth, use Gab or 4chan/8chan. If you want forums that are partially moderated, use Facebook/Google/Reddit. If you want forums that are fully moderated, join a private or niche board like HN.
It's almost like union employees under fair management do a better job or something /s
I think we're maybe a year away from that.

Most of these results are being produced from open source models that are difficult to set up and run.

I joined a few Discord servers that were started this year for deep fake video and voice, and they're now huge. We're also just now seeing subreddits explode with content [1]. My website, vo.codes, is starting to take off on Twitter. My phone is blowing up with retweets, mentions, and followers. Youtube is overflowing with the stuff [2]

Give it a year and these results will be everywhere. The kids love it. Memes are going to normalize it.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/mediasynthesis

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRlo8_13Zyw
Author here. Happy to discuss things or answer any questions!
Yeah we've encountered that. We've heard of at least 3 friends of friends named Aarav.
It’s removing resilience for perception of efficiency.

There’s value in normalizing around shared needs, food and infra.

But beyond that the normalizing always happens in a direction of the haves.

It’s a biological truism of our society we’ll avoid confrontation with each other. Which enables exactly the issue we have socially: everyone is too scared to say no, enabling that does not align with an ideology of freedom for the public.

Freedom from having our consciousness filled with the narrative all the choices society has made to this point were reasonable regardless of the alternatives offered at the time (they’re usually many, and arguably many would have been better benefit to humanity, like the Navy getting Congress to pivot away from a decade of thorium reactor funding and research to Uranium reactors so the Navy has weapons grade materials available. True story, learned about researching energy policy and infra).

Anyway, the point is, normalizing around the basics, food, shelter, medicine. That makes sense.

Normalizing around social frameworks outside that above just leads to gate keeping.

Gotta get through HR, interviews, don’t even bother with FAANG you aren’t that smart.

They’ve smoothed off interviewing for a what feels like efficiency. Are they even hiring smart people or good role players? You can’t get scientific with HR that’s law so the bar has to drop at some point. Lots of capital to leverage on lots of output isn’t evidence of especially clever engineers.

How easily we discard variables to get to a task we can accomplish in a day. I have a hard time believing these giant tent pole ideas humans try to build are ever anything more than a whole lot of emotional indirection to glorious past (which by any real measure was usually awful for the masses) and a whole lot of “same old shit different generation.”
The Word compare feature is often a pain to use. This is a decent alternative.
Same, but my concern is that some day one of these people will convince Google support that they own my account and then I will really be hosed.
It generally fails at that in my experience.
Yeah, there is this vague idea that the First Amendment doesn’t apply to certain categories of speech (yelling “Fire” in a crowded theater is the classic example) that get stretched to fit this sort of thing.
What is this? Reddit? Let's keep the comments constructive.
For many reasons, not the least of which is that obesity makes prognosis for basically any infectious disease worse.
Note that RFC5233 doesn't actually standardize the delimiter. It uses "+" "#" and "--" in examples.

All RFC5233 does is specify how sieve (a protocol for specifying server-side email filters) can describe filtering on subaddresses. It does not confer any actual interpretation on email addresses, especially since many email providers don't actually use sieve for their email filters.
To be fair, Ultralight supports the console platforms, which it cannot do with open source code (not allowed by the developer agreements.) As such, it would already have to have a way to deal with non-public binaries or sources in the tree. In addition, a GPU renderer that plays nice as an embedded library, and is performant and can properly render html is not a small feat of engineering. I cannot entirely blame the author(s) for keeping that part proprietary. I just question the wisdom of it in the face of free competition like WebKit, CEF, Sciter or Qt.
The official name of the complaint kind of made me laugh:

> United States of America v. 280 virtual currency accounts
That's the problem of the all-private internet. There is no virtual street corner at which to protest. There is no internet post office to handle your mail. There is no internet water utility who isn't allowed to shut off your service no matter how many people complain about you.

There is only profit. The moment you become unprofitable for whatever reason you will lose everything. If tomorrow 51% of the world decided they hated left-handed people they would all find their accounts disabled, their website registrations suspended, their entire online presence forced into secrecy.

So far that's only happened, to my knowledge, to terrorists and white supremacists, but there is absolutely no legal reason why it can't happen to anyone else.
Forward and back is just the tip of the iceberg. I also have gestures for switching between tabs (sending Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to applications), closing and un-closing tabs, opening a new tab, middle clicking, refreshing a page, scrolling to the top or bottom of the page, maximizing a window. And that's on top of the gestures provided natively by macOS.
You can prove physical harm beyond a reasonable doubt. Mental harm is frequently concocted as a bullying tactic, e.g. the recent NY Times editorial controversy where employees said running an editorial they disagreed with made them "feel unsafe." https://www.npr.org/2020/06/08/871817721/head-of-new-york-ti...
Cyberpunk qua the earliest novels has been increasingly a rather nerdy fantasy future since sometime in the early 2000s.

Looking at the "cyberpunk" today, it's a fashion trend in a lot of ways.

Futurist rooted in the way technology is today, projected forward 20-40 years, would look very different than cyberpunk.
I tried but local store really is much more expensive, like double or at least 50% - that is if they can even get it. I dont ever want to go there and browse, just buy some books. For me Amazon is sooo much easier and much cheaper as well, I wonder what the point of supporting local is for.
America only, so not really an option for the majority of the world. Mind you, given most Irish bookstores (in Dublin area at least) don't even bother offering online ordering, I'm not sure a clearing house helps anyway.
Devs can spend a lot of time getting Macs and Window computers to behave like Linux.. especially given the idiosyncrasies that pop up with docker on them.

It does seem reasonable to develop on Linux.. for Linux.

I've heard of a few recent experiences specifically using Ubuntu 19/20 on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon/T4xx of some type resulting in a really nice experience, including optimized battery life.

While Ubuntu might not be my desktop of choice, it does seem to have done the most that I can find to work well on laptops from a battery life/driver support/sleep perspective.

I have it loaded on a desktop and it's working flawlessly, and I continue to try and find an issue with it. As a development environment, it may be something to consider seriously.

Part of me is wondering if an Ubuntu/Linux laptop could open up a way to use an iPad as a secondary computing device that where I could continue to enjoy the things that I wanted there.
Please outlaw paper. People have written many terrible things on it.
1) It's (likely) better for their eyes and motor development (turning pages is quite the skill to learn to do properly).

2) They outgrow them quickly, and you can move them down to their little cousin or a friend or whoever.

3) No distractions of being on a tablet or having access to apps or the web.

4) Way way cheaper, especially used.

That said, I pretty strictly restrict screen time, way more than even I was restricted as a kid, for a variety of reasons. Physical books are something they can look to for entertainment outside of that. Remote learning has made this worse, now that their schooling is online.
YMMV, I guess. We have a lot of wood paneling, plus the furnace is in between me and the router, so it would be understandable if the issue was universal.

My HP Spectre x360 has not had a problem with the reception once, but I can barely attend video calls or load Jira with the macbook. Likewise, my wife's chromebook and my previous surface book 2 were all perfectly happy.

That said, the Dell XPS 13 was pretty close to equally bad as the macbook, though I haven't had it in a long enough time that I've since re-arranged my sitting area- whether it actually was worse or not I'm not sure.
You just have to set the speed higher. I work on 3 screens with it. For precision, the ergo has a small button near the ball which makes slow.
> What I am saying if Elon or Jeff makes a telescope work harder or impossible they should pay for fixing the issue not the public and it should be fixed today not in 50 years.

SpaceX is doing what it can to "fix it". There's not much more that can be done beyond just not launching satellites. At this point, you have to choose whether you want clean skies or humanity spacefaring; you can't have both. I'm strongly in the "humanity spacefaring" camp, especially that once some sort of permanent industrial presence is established in the cislunar space, we will be able to build large telescopes in orbit or on the Moon.

> IMO you did not convince me that the reason we don't have tons of space telescopes is the launch price.

I'm trying my best :). Consider also economies of scale: expensive launches means your payload is pretty much unique, which makes it expensive. Cheap launches means you can make more, which drives architecture & hardware standardization, which lets manufacturing scale up, reducing its costs significantly.
Over half the ones I'm friends with have built a radio, but I have no idea if my friends are representative of the community as a whole. Also, it depends on what you mean: I bet a very strong majority have built their own antennas, but building radios is certainly not as common.
My point is there is you’re providing very little of substance to show that IBS and IBD are related diseases. Just because we know little about either doesn’t mean much. IBS is unfortunately by its nature typically a diagnosis of exclusion while IBD of all forms is diagnosed strongly by both clinical history and laboratory/histopathological data.
You should relax. It seems like you were doing it because disaster porn is funny. At least you are cognizant enough to realize this. A lot of SJWism is similar, except they don't do it for fun (though, they get enjoyment of some form from it)
> Gilbert Gottfried

How much would you charge to not make it easier to release more of that nails-on-chalkboard voice into the world?
I noticed that the old Awesomium domains now redirect to the UL page. Is UL an evolution of Awesomium, or did you sort of start anew?