skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So "Shrek" as "the Gulag" is real?

> "It was known as the Gulag,” one animator told author Nicole Laporte. “If you failed on ‘Prince of Egypt’ [a DreamWorks movie that later flopped], you were sent to the dungeons to work on ‘Shrek.’ ”

https://nypost.com/2010/05/16/ugly-green-montrous/
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> The bar owners were arrested under a 2006 law that technically classifies WiFi hotspot providing establishments as ISPs, and requires them to store one year’s worth of logs or connection records for anti-terrorism purposes.

I was under the impression that the European Court of Justice held data retention laws to be a violation of fundamental rights, and thus illegal:

https://www.theinfostride.com/data-retention-directive-inval...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention#European_Union
The cat is excellent
I lived a few years in a 180k town that was dense enough that you didn't need a car at all. It was maybe 15km from one end of town to the other. Public transport was mostly busses and a Tram line.
The quality remains relatively high on HN though. I'm pretty sure it's the only website I've used consistently (ie almost every day) for ten years.

I know some political posts (and definitely trash/advertising) get cut and not everything (as defined by "free speech") gets through, but on a personal level for me (and I'm sure many others) I think the moderation works.
> the intolerant using violence to physically make it impossible for the tolerant to exist.

Are the KKK and some extreme white supremacist org not exactly that?
They want a sub group of society to be removed, and have shown to not shun violence.

Being intolerant to these hate groups is VERY NORMAL to me, and sometime we need law help platform them. It get really sad when a president seems to kinda like these groups.
I think a good part of the focus I too experience on flights is the nice vibration/noise profile.

I recently replicated the noise I remember from my last flight (quite a while ago) on mynoise and dubbed it "Airplane vibes":

https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteRainNoiseGenerator.ph...

It manages to drown out people talking outside your headphones while comfortably allowing you to listen to something playing on the inside.
My own view - legal to use to authenticate? Ie callsigns etc. not legal to use if it obscures message
Personally I think it’s nice, though I think they’re basically syntactic sugar for a string and byte array.

Does the format validate that a URL is actually a URL?
I would imagine it is done to avoid having a chapter at the end showing all the patches and why they were needed. A compiler course shouldn't have a bunch of errors if they can be avoided.

I doubt Brian Kernighan or Dennis Ritchie put all the errata at the end of their books on subsequent printings. They fixed the main text.
Considered good censorship by me. If you preach hate to minorities in my house you are also going to be asked to leave.
Good news here - codec2 at 3200 - should be ok voice quality
Shows people can hold grudges for decades, grudges that even death won’t heal. And of course it’s disappointing that two “liberal champions” were always so eager to distance themselves from one of the few true victims of “the system”.
When I was little my family was gifted a 386 that, when it started up, produced a C:\> prompt and nothing more. I taught myself to do small things and I learned that a thing called BASIC existed but I didn't actually have much use for it.

Then one day I heard that a command called "win" existed, so typed it in and suddenly - and I remember the absolute excitement of that moment as if it was today and I am getting giddy just writing it down - the black and white screen exploded into the colors that is the windows for workgroup startup screen. Suddenly the mouse that came with it made sense!

Pretty sure that is the single most important event that steered me onto the path I have taken.

Then later I had PentiumIII running windows2000 and from somewhere aquired an ISDN card, put it in, rebooted, installed drivers, shut down to go to sleep, remembered I wanted to read something, booted up, shut down again, went to sleep, booted again in the morning only to be greeted by a bluescreen, that I wasn't able to fix - I would have to re-install Windows.

But I remembered that I had bought magazine that had something called "NetBSD" on a CD, so I thought I'd give that a go, and since then I have used the odd binarblobdriver, but my operating systems have been thoroughly open source and I've grown up to be a programmer - probably seeded from trying to manually install all dependency of X11 before I learned that pkgsrc is a "package manager".

But that splash of color really impressed me, and I am continued to be impressed how a machine that basically only knows how to turn on or off tiny little lamps in a grid took over the entire world.
How does this address format creep? Why is it going to be better to support all the existing formats and now this one too? Does it really add that much?

The first formats filled a void. This format joins many players already on the field.
Quite right. The US guaranteed the security of allies and their trade in exchange for opposition to the soviets, who no longer exist.

The current post soviet (& fledgling post ME) situation actually is relatively “free” though, there is an absolutely massive amount of inertia in place.
How about religious people who believe gay marriage/abortion should be illegal? Should they be shut down as well?
That's intolerance. Intolerance cannot be tolerated.
That’s cute but the economy is based on spending. Governments want people with some money but not enough where they’ll start to think they can stay at home playing the stock market. If the majority did that, society would collapse.

Also a version of that already exists in most countries, in Europe you pay around 18-25% of VAT in every purchase you make but income taxes tend to apply only if you make X amount of money which effectively means poor people don’t pay income tax.
Now that you mention it, I guess what I really am is a grumbling ex-pat.

I often find things I want on amazon.com and then change the URL to .de or .co.uk, or I find items that are available for shipping to Germany (for a decent price), I assume because they actually ship from China or are already distributed in Amazon warehouses. I guess in the case of microwaves the power input is different, so the models are different by area, and this part of Europe seems to prefer knobs.

I will say, though, I don't see any there with blister buttons; they all appear to be capactive.
Started with an Atari 520 at 15. Then when I was a student, in 1995, I installed Linux for the free X server (free as in beer as I had not a lot of money), to be able to display softwares running on Unix machines on my PC.

In 2004, I created the Kaella Linux, a live-CD distribution based in Knoppix (a Debian-based distro). I maintained it during 3 years. The goal was 2 folds: learn how a Linux distro worked, especially a live one, and make Linux more popular among people not familiar with English, as the Kaella was basically a French version of the Knoppix (with added bonuses such as automatic scripts for ADSL modems which were a pain in the a*s to use at the time).

I am now working in industrial cybersecurity, I still have Linux at home though ;-)
Thanks, I found this explanation really helpful, and almost obvious in retrospect (as the best explanations often are!).

I had been thinking that all of these extra features that XML have are just a case of massive overengineering that no one would ever need. In fact it's a case of taking something fundamentally meant for text documents with extra markup, as the name implies, and misapplying it to config files and IPC messages which are just not the original domain at all.
Revisiting India's Forgotten Battle of WWII: Kohima-Imphal
>It becomes child abuse once it is a physical act.

Agreed, so being a physical act seems to be necessary for its prohibition. But we're not talking about child abuse, we're talking about the creation and distribution of child abuse videos, i.e. child pornography. These are two separate crimes.

>Speech is a protected class of expression precisely for this reason: it cannot be abusive.

People can absolutely be abused by speech, even in the common meaning of the word. Spousal and child abuse often happens through speech. Teachers may abuse their students through speech. Cyberbullying is widely regarded as a form of abuse through speech. Threats are themselves speech. If speech is so important as to have no real-world consequences, what makes freedom of speech such an important principle?

> if we define speech as "the communication or expression of thoughts in spoken words"

Freedom of speech (or more accurately, expression) law is much wider than this, and applies to, say, artistic works in which not a single word is spoken, and it also applies to burning flags or silently protesting. There is no need for a word to be spoken, or even a concrete thought - speech can be purely emotive, or a command, or a shopping list, too. Child pornography can easily be considered artistic. The fact that it is art, and therefore expression, is irrelevant to illegalizing it.

>I cannot choose to stab people as a form of free expression, nor torch a building.

The same law that protects freedom of expression also protects freedom of speech. Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are two sides of the same coin. You're noticing that not all physical acts count as speech, and this is certainly true for child abuse, stabbing people, or torching buildings. However, in general, it is not true for videos depicting those things, with the exception of child porn.
Exactly. Hence inciting violence/hate is prohibited by law in most developed democracies.
I don't think you can run a (successful and mainstream) free speech reddit clone in the EU, it would be a PR and political nightmare.
> That society already exists in e.g. Nordic countries.

Why IKEA’s profits are mostly tax free https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/why-ikea-s-profits-...

Legal loopholes make Sweden a tax haven https://www.dn.se/nyheter/sverige/legal-loopholes-make-swede...

Siem Offshore Fined NOK 5 Mln in Tax Evasion Case https://www.offshore-energy.biz/siem-offshore-fined-nok-5-ml...

the issue is less how much tax _individuals_ pay. Tax avoidance on behalf of individuals is tiny and absolute "small-fry". The biggest cheaters that can afford it on a massive scale are companies.

one of the biggest problems is that if you want to compete in a global market space you're kind of forced to use legal (but dirty) tricks (tax optimization such as transfer pricing etc). The strategy is always to squeeze the consumer end (e.g. the retail) and supply side (production/manufacture etc) and this is where you're losses are while you scoop the profits from the middle (a tax haven). It's cool to talk about Cayman and Switzerland in silly Hollywood movies but some of the biggest tax havens are actually the US (Nevada, New Mexico, etc), Luxembourg, Netherlands, UK ... as long as we don't clean up this rigged global financial system we shouldn't even consider discussing about whether the average Joe has been taxed enough.

There is a great book that links the emergence of this offshore industry with the dissolving of the empires (e.g. Gabon is laundering the money for the French elite in the same way as BVI, Caymans have been used by Brits) ...: "Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World (2011) " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Islands:_Tax_Havens_a...

Even we clean up all our structures in the West there will be plenty of opportunity to move capital to Bahrain, Dubai or uhm ... Japan https://fsi.taxjustice.net/en/
Superdeterminism.

Also, love the downvotes when you have failed to prove what you set out to. Bell's Inequalities do not rule out a fully determined world.
That's a fantastic story, really. Thank you. Please do write up a long form of this and post it somewhere where it will last, so it can inspire others. If there ever was a 'hustle' story on HN this is it, much better than wanna-be growth-hackers and marketeers who are mostly selling themselves rather than their accomplishments.
Why do you think there is a lack of political will? Is it possible that these kinds of conscious altering plants can change the ideals of politicians to not be solely focused on playing the political game in order to continue to work? I think its more than worth exploring alternatives to allow the people who rule us to have an expanded conscious on how they can impact the lives of the people in their communities. Many people who have taken psychedelics, especially psilocybin have claimed it is a life changing experience for the better.
> The article's author presents a good example: for AI ethics

You don't need ethics for that, this problem is basically verifying that the system works according to the specification and that it didn't have bugs.
I'm glad you wrote about it! I'll add it to my TBR list. Which, coincidentally, includes a collection of stories you're in.
Coursera is now doing entirely online degrees from real universities for a fraction of the cost. Shout out to them.
Hiding $Song of the South* is silencing Black voices and erasing Black culture.

If they cared about racism they'd do a remake that keeps the beautiful art and reframes the context a bit.
The problem is... "Maybe you really are what you eat?" seems to put the blame solely on the bipolar person for not eating properly.

I don't know about other bipolar people but I'm tired of being told it's my fault I'm bipolar.
Interesting. I have a negative bias towards psychiatrists myself. Experiences with psychologists weren't that great either until I went into therapy with an analytical psychologist. None of this mindfulness stuff, which I practiced myself for years already, but a complete focus on actually figuring things out and understanding why I see things the way I do.
I don't think there is a single answer for everyone (not implying that you think so). The psychologist doesn't really stop me from talking about experiences with drugs, but doesn't really see it as something helpful.

I currently see my illness as existing of two components; genetic and environmental triggers. Stress and drugs, together with past trauma interact with my genetic disposition towards psychosis/mania.

Drinking less coffee, sticking to a routine, no drugs (particularly psychedelics), and sorting through my internal web of views with a psychologist, it looks liek that's the solution for me. Medication is part of it, mainly to provide some stabilization while I sort things out. It doesn't really jive well with how psychiatrists go about things though, in my experience, since they seem to think I have to be on it til the end of time. I would love to have contact with a psychiatrist I trust, so I could make some sense out of the medication part of my healing process.
There hasn't been a credible outside threat to European security since the fall of the Soviet Union. Intraeuropean wars between major powers have become a lot less likely because of increased economic integration thanks to the EU.
Yes, as long as the key is available. For instance, we use WPA keys for our HAMnet microwave links, but using a well-known key that's publicly known.

D-Star and PACTOR are proprietary, undocumented algorithms but you're allowed to use them because devices implementing them are commercially available.
The evidence currently suggest that Neurofeedback does not outperform a placebo. There's a nice round up of the research at the bottom of this article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-myths/201302/r....
Cambridge[, UK]'s Dutch-style roundabout
I highly recommend this documentary to anyone interested in the history of internet, the beginnings of reddit and most of all how a system can destroy someone who crosses the wrong people even if for altruistic reasons.

Gut wrenching to watch at times, but very important documentary.
It's not supposed to increase European security. It's supposed to increase senatorial and corporate security.

If some other security also increases, that's a nice bonus.
I've used aww app for years, terrible domain, I always have to google it, but it works great
My dad gave me a screwdriver and an old typewriter for my 3rd birthday. The rest is - as they say - history, I only learned how to put stuff back together again around the age of 15, software was mostly a budget hack (because electronics parts were a continuous drain where as software was re-usable parts to me).
> deforestation is the opposite of fighting climate change.

Yes and no. One of the features of climate change is that some wet areas become deserts while some currently-dry areas become wet. Planting trees in an area becoming desert (like California) will only encourage the inevitable disastrous burn.

Planting trees in an area becoming wetter would do a great deal of good. Those trees are likely to survive to scrub CO2.
In 1999, I was a new staff member at our work and everyone was using Windows. The company however bought an IBM AIX RISC 5000 machine that was sitting idle because nobody knew how to use it. They asked me to play with it. I read the manual and worked my way. That was my first encounter with UNIX. Around that time Linux was picking up. My experience with AIX made it easy for me to mess with Linux a couple years later.
> And you don't need to trip on mushrooms to see the filth all arround us.

For you. A lot of people don't see what's around them on a daily basis, good or bad. Mushrooms can help with that since they remove a lot of the filters we have built up.
I was referring to the health of free speech across the site in general, I wasn't making a defense of thedonald. And 90% of political subs on reddit blatantly ban people from $opposite_side, that's just how reddit is
Coffee has been shown to reduce the length and quality of REM sleep, which is very important for early brain development. Read the relevant section in ‘Why We Sleep’ and you may change your mind.
> The question is if being humble will ultimately negatively impact your performance.

Interesting. When I'm humble, this means I don't think of myself as a rockstar ninja developer. I'm fallible just like the next guy. Right?

But my own aspirations to do great work are still there! So because I'm not that great, I work hard to get better.

Reflecting on the above, it seems right now I'm not humble enough, I'm too satisfied with myself. Thank you for giving me the chance to reflect and improve.
UK's first and so-far-only so-called ‘Dutch-style’ roundabout ... gives priority to pedestrians and cyclists
That seems like a pretty sensible approach - eliminates the "Norway problem" altogether. I'd guess you have to use the "%YAML 1.2" directive in all documents in order to get it though...
Spanish /ˈspanɪʃ/

adjective

relating to Spain, its people, or its language.

noun

1. the people of Spain.
2. a Romance language spoken in Spain and in much of Central and South America.
Yes, I do, actually.

We have a number of tiny fringe groups like this in the US, such as the Westboro Baptist Church, which would surely be illegal in most of Europe. I will defend their full right to speech so I can have my full right to speech.

In Europe, free speech laws shut down leftist activists, not just "white supremacists, racists, fascists, extreme wahabists/salafits". I think this is a strawman and an idealistic vision of being able to control speech fairly. One of the biggest active groups is the IHRA, a Zionist organization. The IHRA consists of 31 member nations including the United States, Canada, Australia, France, England, Germany, and twenty-six other European countries.

They are essentially criminalizing Palestinian activism. See https://socialism.com/statement/defend-free-speech-stop-the-....

This has become a big problem in Germany for Palestinian/Muslim activists who are critical of Israel. Curtailing free speech is a slippery slope.

Now, perhaps the AfD will be banned in Germany, as it has been placed under so-called "Verfassungsschütz beobachtung", an agency that protects the German constitution. Should it be criminal to identify as a communist or nationalist in Germany? What comes after that — perhaps it should be criminal to be a Jew or Muslim or Christian, given the hateful teachings of the Torah, Quran, and Bible?

This is a bad line of argument.
Interesting. So having a official terrorist recruitment offices in your town should be legal? (basically this is what the KKK is to me)

I dont think so.

> A manga that depicts serious child abuse that turned the author into a porn star. It's written by herself.

I dont know if the piece was inciting violence against children. I think it does not, and if it would it'd be censored. Rightfully, imho.
It's France, don't worry about it.
Sorry, in general that is not true. You need a very good network connection, both with bandwidth and latency, to make remote devlopment workable. Still, it never equals local development. If you follow the discussions here on hacker news, which terminal software has the smalles latency, remote development never can compete with that.
Doesn’t need to be a free speech clone, it merely needs to match the EU’s belief system in ways that Reddit doesn’t.
Very little actually gets removed from HN.
don't even need to read the article. the answer has been, is and will be always the same - welfare aka communism.
Oh I agree, and it's what the paradox of tolerance is about.
There are exceptions that allow for use of encryption to authenticate remote control of satellites and such. But generally speaking, it violates the rules to obscure the content of a message.
I have no idea. Perhaps you could research this and report back your findings?
You're correct that this does not bring up the current path. Unfortunately it's too late for me to edit.

Cmd+Opt+C on the other hand does not copy the current path into my clipboard.
If any extremists act on their ideas using violence, then of course they would count. Otherwise, tolerance of negative ideas is a part of the ‘free society’ package. Merely having unpopular or wrong opinions is not equivalent to preventing the tolerant from existing.
Incitement of violence and abuse is already illegal. I am not sure what your point is then. Your first comment paints a broad stroke. Please be more concise when talking about censoring heavy handed topics because otherwise you may be causing a chilling effect.

And your example is not speech.
Should be a requirement to add whether you’re a white guy or not to these stories.
Ah, that was not my intention at all. I know people with bipolar and would never suggest that it was their fault. It's a poorly understood and vastly complex disease and any clue as its possible origin and possible therapeutic targets would be good.
The problem is that such an open-ended prediction has absolutely no value whatsoever...

I'm sure Reddit will die someday, but people have been saying this for at least 10 years or more. When non-technical users started using it, when violentacrez et al were banned, with every layout change big or small, staff changes...

People said the same thing about Facebook when it opened to non-edu users or when it launched the timeline. Or when Apple is antagonistic towards developers.

Reddit, Facebook, Apple and other companies are able to do well by antagonizing niche users because niche users can be replaced by regular folk. And sometimes it's almost necessary to antagonize those early users, since they can be a barrier to growth.

Reddit wants to dissociate themselves from 4chan, t_d, Boston Bomber and all this stuff. And they're doing it via cat pictures and the sort.