skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> White supremacists have lost jobs for being caught out attending rallies; it doesn't seem to stop the rallies.

Yesterday, there was a documentary movie on German's private TV station Pro7 about Nazis. An actual Nazi confirmed live on camera: yes, deplatforming Nazis (and that includes them losing jobs, family, friends) works and is a huge source of pain for the movement because many people don't hold up to that pressure and leave.

Just imagine how big the rallies would be if there was no social pressure on not being Nazi would no longer be there... at the moment many attendees either don't give a f..k about how they are perceived, or they relish on that being accepted in their social circles.
I think that was the point my parents were trying to make, since, usually, cheap means bad quality stuff in my native language :)
I rage coded in my early 20's, you're right, it doesn't work :) Made some buddies out of it but more importantly it gave me the absolute feeling of panic and respect that a system CAN and WILL go down in production in front of customers if you don't get the operations side perfect.

That fear drove me to get great at operations. Now I've made a reputation as the person who can enter a dumpster fire project that's always behind and breaking and change it to a project that the whole team can deploy at 5:00pm on a Friday, close their laptops, go home and play with their kids and rarely get paged.

A more concrete example is I did great work at one company for 2.5 years then followed my boss when he quit to another company for a significant raise and title bump. The best part was even though it was a new job, I had 2.5 years worth of trust equity with my boss, so I could push new ideas through to the rest of the org through him without having to spend months building trust with a new boss first.
This is a good site, but it leaves out the fact that the traditional mass media itself has enforced certain opinions, which subsequently leads to a chilling effect.

Culturally, we need to get to a place where words aren't considered a form of violence, and where mere discussion of controversial ideas isn't shot down for "giving the enemy a platform." The concept of a calm debate really needs to make a comeback.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it."

- Aristotle (paraphrased)
I'm sure that'd be an entertaining show to watch, interrupted every 5 seconds for nitpicking corrections of minutae.
Say what you will about IPFS and ProtocolLabs, but I really admire that they made IPFS completely blockchain agnostic.

There is no requirement to buy or receive coins to use IPFS. And multiple different implementations of persistent stores can use the same IPFS network to ensure durability.

This means that FileCoin, other coins, static hosting providers, self-hosting can all coexist and strengthen the same network.

Every other distributed content addressable file store seems to only be interested in supporting their own coin only. For that reason alone, I find IPFS the most interesting.
That's different goods.

I mean identities that span across several networks and include emails, aged cookies, fake fingeprint generator, etc
A commenter below helpfully provided links to pages talking about increases in hate group counts. As you suggest, this could mean either more hate groups, a more effective SPLC (that's better at finding them), or a broader definition. The last one might be written in the original reports somewhere. I have no idea how to distinguish the first two.
The post specifies that the referrer is used for computing their "visit" metric (for which IP would also obviously be needed). It doesn't specify how their service is determining the site you came from. Since they don't say, my assumption is that they're correlating data obtained in some other way because that seems to be par for the course at this point.

Note that referrers are self reported, so there's an incentive for such a service to avoid relying on them. Each web site can set its own desired referrer policy, and users can further configure when, if, and how their browser sends referrers. (For example, Firefox has referer.XOriginPolicy and referer.spoofSource among other preferences.)
I have a suggestion for Tails to help make it even more secure. Whether they listen and implement is another thing.

Encrypted Persistence
Why is there no option to create an encrypted persistence on Tails?

My suggestion is that in the installation option, when you create an instance on another USB, there should be an encrypted persistence option.

I understand that this may not be easy, as creating persistent storage on a USB in linux is not straight forward, but this task can be completely automated by the Tails team and hidden from users.
The government didn't wake-up overnight to freeze NGO's assets.
Many NGOs were NOT filing annual reports that they were supposed to be filing, and their compliance(even pre-2014 norms) were not ensured by the govt.

UPA have used these NGOs to instigate protests in various state governments as Congress lacked strong real regional political activities and lack grass-root touch with people.

It was visible with the strong presence of NGO activists in the unconstitutional body of National Advisory Council.

Even after modification of norms, these NGOs were given sufficient notice and warning to file their reports.

On failure, to which govt took drastic measure.
That's who i bought a Panasonic. They cost more but don't have a shitty track record. In fact, my washing machine was the last Samsung here. It broke and got replaced by a German machine. These days I try to avoid the cheapest offering and try to buy quality instead. Upfront cost is higher but I really value my time too much to bother fighting with nonsense like ads on my tv.
The default setting for such feature is to ask the user.

It makes the whole interaction more creepy, moreover, I don't think that a lot of webclient support it (or even Smartphone apps).

It's kind of a dying feature.
Besides leaving effects to the fond, I'm not quite sure. The screen readers must be told to treat one symbol as another and this is not something easy in plain text format. In HTML that you own, you can try to do it with images and alt text attribute, or some shenanigans with aria-hidden and aria-text. Front end is not my specialty, unfortunately.
It has been nearly a decade for me, but I went to a large state school for undergraduate and an even larger state school for graduate. I too have no idea what you're talking about.
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One of the reasons I actually am a bit sad they removed Meteor from this version of Wireflow is that Meteor assumes storage is server-side, instead of using localStorage, which I find a very irritating trait of "modern" web apps, where everything you did is forgotten when you switch devices or browsers, clear your cache, or what-have-you.

My impression of Meteor over involvement with a Meteor-based project for a long time is that Meteor was seen as cool when you sit and play with the demo code, but once you're out in production projects it starts to get pretty hairy. It seems to work pretty well for side projects, but probably isn't super ideal to build your business on.

FWIW, it's been pretty stable though for a number of years, and stability is severely underrated in web dev.
yes, you can deactivate your facebook account and still use messenger,
see https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/1526848634305688
When something isn't just flowing text, it can be a real crap shoot in ebook form. And, even if the formatting is fine, I often find technical or other reference books (e.g. cookbooks) generally work better in physical form.
Many apps you could get and run on iphone 4 like youtube no longer exists or no longer supports iphone 4. It isn't the same thing. If you could open up your iphone 4, go to the appstore and buy the same apps and run them just fine like you could 9 years ago then it would be the same thing.
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That’s an implementation detail.

JavaScript, the language, doesn’t (AFAIK; I don’t keep track of this rapidly moving target) have integers (but does have integer arrays, nowadays. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Type...)

If the type were integer,

let x = 2
let y = x / 8

would have y = 0, but its value will be 0.25.
> and it's in a nice tiled wall so doing maintenance is like keyhole surgery.

That is the main reason why I went with plain old toilet without embedding it in tiles. I've seen too many half-working embedded toilets at my friends' houses to have one too, I prefer to be able to easily repair it myself when required.
First off, I hate ads, and I think hardware shouldn't have ads in it.

But on the other hand, the argument "I paid all this money and I still get ads" is honestly something I've been hearing about cable companies for decades. In the end, if something can make money (as in, people will pay) that's sadly the way it will go.
Sir Terry sums this problem up quite nicely in Men at Arms:

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."
I'm impressed with how well the authors were able to distill a complex concept into a catchy, memorable piece of visual communication. The privacy defenders have always had a messaging problem. It takes real chops to distill it down into something tangible for a layman.

Beyond that, a lot of this reminds me of Jeremy Bentham's philosophical exploration of the panopticon and surveillance and sousveillance architecture. Observability asymmetry is and of itself power.
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What do you mean "without the global warming fear mongering"?
I posted a "good-bye" message so people would know not to expect any more posts, and kept my account because I wanted to still use Groups, Events, and Marketplace.
On my old Samsung TV, if I inadvertently push the "Smart Hub" button in the center of the remote, the bottom 20% of the screen gets overlaid with what looks similar to a MacOS Dock with the default apps from 2012. Worked OK in 2012 when I bought it and used Netflix a few times, but a month later I bough the original Google Chromecast, plugged that into HDMI 1, unplugged the Ethernet cable, and never intentionally pushed the Smart Hub button again.

I didn't push it again because in about 2015 I found that if you push it, it locks up for exactly 30s, which is how long it takes to hit the network timeout and say "Updates are available for your Samsung Smart TV." and then allow you to use the ancient web browser or Netflix or other smart apps. I did try a couple years ago, on a whim, but apparently the update servers have moved and even when plugged into Ethernet it can't actually update.

Everything currently runs through the Roku, the Blu-ray player, or a component-to-HDMI dongle for the Wii, but if I didn't have the Roku I'd have a motivation to update so that Netflix would work without a 30-second delay (and I'd be unsurprised if Netflix wasn't backwards compatible with their 2012 client from a Samsung TV). However, the picture is fine, so it keeps on chugging.
Police say they didnt know it is illegal to lie about evidence on police reports
"A battery will discharge if the outgoing current is less than the incoming current"

"Yeah, but the current controller won't perfectly convert the incoming electricity to a state usable by the battery"

Okay, so? What is the actual argument here?
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As long as it's on my network, I can still block the VPN endpoint, or simply block based on source IP, or put the TV in a non-routable subnet.
How would more personal responsibility and self-awareness help Chinese dissidents, in your opinion?
Social cooling is not global warming. Yes, they are both "subtle and complex," as are all modern issues. The latter poses an existential threat to humankind and has already claimed the lives of many. The other is certainly a problem, but to compare the two is not responsible.
In terms of a social media site, what you are saying sounds exhausting. Having a couple of friends with different opinions is great, having like 100+ people not educated in certain topics, all with their own opinion is where it kind of breaks.

You mentioned Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scolia, they were both well versed in law and justice, so it makes sense even if their opinions are different, they can respect each other.
> The only thing worse than people who are offended by everything is having to be afraid of offending over-sensitive people.

That's a rather simplified world view. Let's make an example: I have a bunch of friends who are deeply interested in medicine - a discussion about cancer, what it is, treatment possibilities etc. are a very appropriate topic. I also have a friend who's just been diagnosed with breast cancer. Having that discussion in front of her would be utterly insensitive.

Likewise, it's kind of insensitive to perma-gloat about your new great relationship in front of somebody who just had a divorce.

What topics we can deal with depends on our lives and what's currently going on. Paying attention to those circumstances in other people's lives is the kind thing to do, and has nothing to do with "being afraid of offending oversensitive people"

Remember that guy who gave you advice? He suggest to seek a broad range of opinions. You were in control when you sought out those opinions. Facebook takes that control away - you will see the opinions it considers appropriate for your stream, when it considers them appropriate.

And sure, be who you are. But that "adult" thing also includes respecting other people's boundaries, and social media makes that almost impossible.
I find it kind of tragic that you're getting downvoted for saying that.

Maybe the people doing the downvoting have never heard of the F-35, or were born after 2008.
Sorry, correlated with the maximum intensity of symptoms over the course of the disease. Your viral load peaks right before you develop symptoms (generally). But viral load at peak tends to predict the severity of later symptoms and so being long-term asymptomatic is correlated with lower peak viral load. Plus, in addition to viral load, some symptoms like coughing increase transmissibility.

EDIT: I'm not saying that a vaccine that conveys protective but not sterilizing immunity means we can stop worrying about true asymptomatic transmission entirely. But I'd assume that it's enough to driver the natural R0 well below 1.0 if everyone gets the vaccine all by itself.
If ads didn't make them more money, wouldn't at least one company jump on the idea to sell premium TVs with a brand promise never to show ads?
Maybe I missed something or forgot how citizenship works here in France (since I learned how it is acquired as a student), but birthright citizenship seems pretty similar to what we have here
One of the known reinfections got it worse the second time, see the thread here: https://twitter.com/virusesimmunity/status/12993422701777264...
This reminds me of Gattaca (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca) where people with good genes rent out their DNA to those who have bad genes so they can get better jobs, insurance, etc...
> lower courts have effectively taken the perspective of the dissent to limit its applicability

The dissent... of the Supreme Court opinion??
> Nobody

I count five or six people, including the author, in your 'nobody'.

If you watch any of the videos on CRDT, live editing (real-time) is every bit as much a corner case as the 'play by mail' scenario that code repositories do.

Asynchronous communications complicate Last Writer Wins algorithms, because the network is partitioned and time stamps don't have the same predictive value. Git is DVCS, where the "D" really means partition-resilience.
The main product is powered by server logs from Cloudflare. You can't block them for any site using Cloudflare as a CDN/reverse proxy.
>Far-right ultra-nationalistic movements are gaining speed in many places in the world.

That may be true, but far-left movements are certainly gaining speed as well. And I'm talking about real actual 'cease the means of production'-communists. Politics is certainly getting more polarised.
> My understanding is that sort of thing would never happen on a college campus today.

This is almost certainly not true. Your idea of what is the norm is being driven by what is actually the exception because that’s what we see on the news (the news almost by definition shows things that are newsworthy and are out of the norm).
Can someone explain the difference between fp16 and fp32 in these benchmarks because the difference is pretty dramatic. I assume it's floating point precision(?) but why would lower precision be slower relatively on the 3090? For training jobs how does the precision impact accuracy of the model?

Edit: clarified that I am referring to slower relative performance
Yeah there is a raw r#ident identifier syntax, but no raw keyword k#kwd syntax.
If your network admin is blocking services and ip addresses, then your attempting to subvert the blocks will likely get noticed.
My hope is that our culture self corrects, but I am not sure how long that will take. My teachers back in school were beating the drum of attending college very early on, and that constant messaging to children has caused them to take college attendance as a foregone conclusion or as a first goal they need to meet in life, even if there are economic signals telling them otherwise. It's hard to deprogram a belief taught to you at a young age.

I suspect that for the culture of study and work to change in America, we can't expect the current workers/students to change their views. It may only happen when a new generation no longer receives a constant push to attend college. If that's the case, then we'd see a change in college attendance and employer attitudes and employee attitudes 20 years in the future.
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I have a Panasonic TV too. Back like 8 years ago, it had an unremoveable ad/app square in it's app menu. Of course, they let me reorganize the apps, and I put it way back on a screen I'd never see, and I haven't noticed it since.

Also, as a side note, Vudu is like the one app from that era that still works.
Ontario used to have a fifth year of secondary education (grade 13) which was phased out in 2003[1]. The expectation of secondary school students in Ontario prior to the abolition of the OAC year was that there were additional periods to use for electives.

I look back fondly on those years and absolutely loved free periods, in addition to the many electives I took that were not purely science or math.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Academic_Credit
I worked in a store in the early 90s with the registers set up that way. It is so much more efficient to pick directly from a cart so you can plan the best sequence of items for bagging. The IBM scanners of the era were much faster and more reliable than today's garbage. You could blast through, pulling items out with the right hand, tossing into the left, and blind scanning while reaching for the next item.
> and clicked around before navigating away

You can't get that part without using either the IP or a fingerprinting method. (For what it's worth, I don't mind IP based analysis so long as the data isn't shared with third parties. I also don't consider IP analysis to be "fingerprinting" since it seems analogous to a name to me. I was just calling out what seemed to be an obvious error in the post.)
I always bristle whenever I see Sagan’s quote “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. That is unscientific. Extraordinary claims require proportional evidence, as does any other claim. There’s no magic transition between ordinary and extraordinary claims.
Are you on Twitter? It's a more common platform for political stuff. Facebook is for friends, and unless you want to discuss politics with all of your friends at once, why not just keep it to personal stuff?
They are linking to other articles to make their point, what else do you need?

Okay, then you tell me an unbaised media outlet.
A virus needs only a handful of genes/proteins to work, one of them is a "virulence" factor that binds to a receptor on the cell which starts the cell entry and infection process.

CoVID-19 is a much more dangerous disease than other coronaviruses because it has a spike protein that binds to the ACE-2 receptor on your kidney, heart, blood vessel, and yes lung cells. Other coronaviruses have different spike proteins that bind to different receptors and don't seem to kill people effectively as the CoVID-19 spike protein.

CoVID neutralizing antibodies target the unique spike protein so the fact that other coronaviruses don't present a durable target isn't relevant.
Look, there has never been a part of history when you could be an unrestricted asshole and say whatever you want without consequences. Never. People have always been snowflakes. How about when people used to duel to the death over an insult? Your only solace is that before the internet and TV and mass communication, you could only be an asshole to your local community members.

Now, you have the power of being an unrestricted asshole to a larger audience than ever before. This, unsurprisingly, has even more consequences. In addition, this audience is more diverse than ever, with different opinions, backgrounds, upbringings, preferences, etc. Yes, just as always, there are people who are offended.

And just as always, you have to know your audience. Just like in the past, you wouldn't go to the local aristocrat and talk shit to them, you should know better than to go on Twitter and talk shit. Find your friend group, and say what you want with them. Like you always could. If you can't, find different friends.

People really underestimate how much power is given to them to have a near infinite audience on social media. But that power goes both ways.
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The whole point of UBI is that production has become so easy that the average person can't find work.

Think about it: the whole point of technology is to do less with more, and technology works and it get better over time.

It's "works as intended" for machines to do the work that machines can do. And the realm of "work that machines can do" is continually growing.

Eventually you have infinite supply of everything and everyone is unemployed and unemployable, so they have no money so there is no demand.

Infinite supply and no demand.

One solution is just to print money and give it to people. It's basically a quota on the output of the magic replicator machine from Star Trek.

I don't know if it will work, but it sounds better to me than just letting people live in tents downtown like they're doing now. (I'm in SF and it's gotten pretty gnarly here. There are "for rent" signs and people living in tents all over the place. Think about how nuts that is...)