skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh god, please not this parodox of intolerance stuff again.

It is a wholly untested and unproven idea. Stop parroting it as if it is something more than that.

Regardless, it is generally agreed that Popper was not talking about intolerant ideas but intolerant behavior i.e. violence and forced suppression. Popper's actual words were "they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols", that last bit being pretty important.

Denying the Holocaust, detestable though it may be, does not forcibly violate the freedoms of anyone else.
This is a really good point; the cost of excess capacity is effectively just an insurance policy that you buy ahead of time, lump sum, one time payment. I'm not sure you could replicate this with an actual insurance policy to collectivize the risk and reduce costs, at least not with the example of housing in a pandemic in mind.
How much slack capacity is reasonable though? Sure, it's good to have a non-zero amount. But that doesn't mean that the opposite extreme - having 20x the capacity that you actually use - is the right way to go.

If the best place is anywhere in the middle of those two extremes (e.g. to have 5x the capacity), it won't be possible to achieve while everything is based on individual private ownership. We'd have to share, and build the slack capacity into the shared pool of vehicles.
What municipality is that? That is remarkably longer than the training taken by multiple family members of mine.
> Regardless, there is no need, ever, for police to have the automatic weapons, APCs, and "non-lethal" weapons they are buying from the military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout is the catalyst for all of this. Police were heavily outgunned. The FBI would take hours to get there as FBI tactical teams are not in most cities and are not on call like normal SWAT teams are. APCs are purely defensive. Its effectively a Brinks armored money truck, but instead of money it carries people to/from gunfire safely.
If anything our world is overpopulated. It seems to me we'd be remarkably better off with fewer kids. I reject the notion that systems optimizing for raising kids would put society in a superior place. I'm not against anyone having kids, but I reject the notion that it's a benefit for society that we encourage people to bear and raise children. People will bear and raise children regardless and I think reducing incentives there would ultimately have better societal outcomes. This is reflected all over the world with developed countries having fewer kids per family. Correlation != causation, but it's certainly evidence.
AT&T is selling your phone calls and text messages to marketers, how to opt out
Yep, TLS with forward secrecy is not legal to use on ham RF links. Same with SSH.
Seeing as the holocaust was an enormous industrial operation i'm going to image there are many details about it that can be debated. But now that conversation cannot be had because fb will always take the side of the more abhorrent fact. Anything less is denial.
> But anti-trust law is vague, and violations are often in the eye of the beholder. A sports game is also the wrong analogy because sports games have very clearly defined rules, specifically to avoid referees picking winners.

Have you ever watched sports? The referee always has an impact whether they blow the whistle or not. Every rule requires some level of interpretation or fitting to a given situation. Some sports (mainly soccer) don't have rules, they explicitly have "laws of the game" because it's understood that they are to be interpreted.

> That approach is incoherent: the whole point of capitalist competition is that the better firm in some sense harms the weaker firm by taking away its customers. And giving the referee the power to transfer money from the competitors to their own pockets at will, without needing to convince anyone else at all, is clearly an enormous conflict of interest.

...you know regulators don't get to keep any money right? Their job is to set market rules, enforce them, and break up any competitor who gains too much market power. Where exactly is the conflict of interest? Historically, most shareholders wind up making more money off the future value of the broken-up interests than they did with the original conglomerate.

It seems like you are arguing from an EU standpoint, and I don't know anything about their antitrust history, so I'm not going to try and defend or interpret what Europe does.
We didn't use our guest room much last year (although we did still use it for storage), but it sure is nice to have it now that we need two home offices.
Er, you haven't heard about Rust's new feature where it treats all common metasyntactic variable names as interchangeable? :P
I'm personally of the opinion that much of the training is the problem. The vast majority ends up enforcing a "us vs them" mindset. So, outside of legal classes, what they need to do is get out of the freaking cars and talk to people, so they understand that not everyone is out to shoot them.
Yeah. Definitely I need to get on the server side rendering train.

It's a React app because I know React and wanted to get it out the door quickly (read 6 days) which is overkill for the functionality provided.
A hacker team has found 55 vulnerabilities in Apple’s corporate network
> Results: Records were abstracted for 516 officers. In the adjusted models, veteran LEOs who were not deployed were significantly more likely to be involved in a shooting than non-veteran officers. Veterans with a deployment history were 2.9 times more likely to be in a shooting than non-veteran officers.

> Conclusions: Military veteran status, regardless of deployment history, is associated with increased odds of shootings among LEOs. Future studies should identify mechanisms that explain this relationship, and whether officers who experienced firsthand combat exposure experience greater odds of shooting involvement.
Or just driving the Nullarbor or any other number of very large stretches of road, where someone can experience a high performance car, that tend to be remote and have pretty poor signal.

And before you say that's insane... You'll find plenty of video evidence on Youtube and places like it that this happens. In fact, McLaren sent a car themselves.

And yes, the Nullarbor can be very dangerous if you break down, and there are vast swathes of it with no phone signal, because maintaining anything out there is a losing battle.
However, if you got a cluster of them working together as a phased array - then you not only overcome the limitations, but surpass alternative offerings. But is the tech ready for that, maybe not and who knows - inter Cubesat communication may end up being a case of using lasers for that short few meter formation cluster. Certainly some interesting challenges and yet such things are within reach.
How is a lie "free speech" though ? Water is wet. If someone says they don't believe Water is wet, isn't that outright false and has nothing to do with "opinion or free speech" ? Holocaust is a fact so the deniers are just lying correct ?
Etsy: A Handmade Giant in the Passion Economy
None of these people have been banned from the major platforms though, and as far as I can tell all of them are still active on the majors. Parler is thus only one of many social networks that they use, and likely not the one with the most reach. So deplatforming them from the majors would have an effect.
I completely agree that the goal is a good one. Downlink bandwidth is one of the most restricting bottlenecks limiting what we can achieve with satellites. It's absolutely worthwhile to revisit this idea from time to time. Someone should make a website 'are we async in orbit yet'.
I finally watched Hamilton the other day and the contrasting narratives of Hamilton and Burr offer a good comparison of how Facebook sets policy. Facebook has the choice to take either take their shot and speak their mind or to talk less and smile more (i.e. leave people guessing as to what their position is).

What this position essentially shows us about Facebook is that they are more interested in policy only after watching which way the wind is blowing. White supremacy and hate groups have always been around on their platform, yet only now they decide to ban it? I think it’s really important to think about the timing of this: less than a month from Election Day, and after 4 years of divisiveness, controversy, and conflict invading their platform. I can’t imagine it took 4 years of analysis to make this decision, but now they themselves can/will claim some moral high ground for a new political atmosphere.
> Institutions focused on Holocaust research and remembrance, such as Yad Vashem, have noted that Holocaust education is also a key component in combatting anti-Semitism.

This is a good, important point. But I also think it is important to understand how this generalizes. The Holocaust is a vivid example of how authoritarianism inevitably leads to human rights abuses, both of a nation's "own" people and often some Other selected by the authority as an enemy to get people to rally around. Learning about the Holocaust is not just a reminder that the Nazis were bad, but that every fascist or authoritarian government has that same potential which is why we must be vigilent against them.
Ask HN: Consumer WiFi router options in 2020
It's time to replace my Apple AirPort gear, and I'm having a hard time finding a wifi router that meets what I thought was a fairly low standard: I don't want cloud management, I don't want to create an account to use it, I want something simple (no DIY, no OpenWRT), I want my privacy, and no PoE.

With Apple no longer in this space, I looked at Ubiquiti and its offerings are too enterprisey for my use. Its HD line is five years old. Its Alien isn't available on Amazon, even from UI's own "Buy at Amazon" link, which makes me wonder about it. I read nothing but bad news on HN about Linksys, Netgear, and Cisco, but am keeping an open mind. I can find almost no objective information about TP-Link.

Are there brands or models I'm overlooking?
Looks very polished. Nice one!

It might be useful to make some sample PDF outputs available. I wanted to see how finished products might look. Mockups don't really scratch this itch. And when I'm at your landing page, I don't care enough yet to invest the nontrivial effort needed to produce them myself.
Sounds like Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and every other religion

If people want to believe something in their bubble, they should be allowed to.

Most, if not all of those belief systems have fringes which advocate harm.

By your argument, there would be no atheists, yet you see some people who were extremely religious becoming atheists.

It's factually incorrect and dishonest to push with certainty this idea that you cannot reason with people who have passionately held views. They are our neighbours, friends, family members, countrymen and fellow humans. To throw them out of our shared spaces is weak and pathetic. We are better than this.

A superior solution is to make these posts opt-in, hidden by default and mostly everyone on the platform will never see them or be disturbed by them, or become accidentally brainwashed by them.

Those who remain there can be engaged with by the rest of us, who have the patience and superior mental discipline to convince them otherwise.
> This heavy-handedness isn't an encroachment on free speech

No, that's exactly what it is. Free speech means nothing at all if it doesn't mean freedom of unpopular speech.
HFT market maker here (my views are my own), there are some consequences that immediately fall out from periodic batch auctions like this.

1. There will still be a race to update your entry in the auction as close as possible to when it runs, because equity markets do not operate in a vacuum. Correlated futures markets don't operate this way (and the regulatory lift to make them do so is separate, and just as hard as doing this for equities), so there is still a race to incorporate the most up to date information ahead of a periodic auction.

2. This _will_ widen the bid-ask spread and reduce liquidity, for the following reasons. There are right now 16 distinct exchanges, excluding dark pools. As a market maker, I want to show my quote to buy/sell to as many participants as possible, and so I quote across a decent subset of these exchanges at any given time. I _don't_ want to get simultaneously filled on all these orders, and am relying on the fact that most of the time if I get filled once, I can cancel from all the other exchanges and then re-evaluate what I think the fair value of the stock is, and put out new orders reflecting that view. The more confidence I have that I can do this, the tighter a spread I can offer, and on the flip side the more risk of overfill there is, the wider I need to quote to account for that risk. In a simultaneous periodic batch auction world anyone can take all available liquidity market-wide trivially, so I have to either reduce liquidity across the market to a lower level to cap my risk, or substantially widen my quote to make that risk economically viable. Both are ultimately bad for counterparties.

3. This would likely serve to entrench existing wholesalers unless they were forced to stop crossing orders internally, or otherwise play by a stricter set of rules (and good luck with that). The vast, vast majority of retail activity never sees a public marketplace, but is executed by a wholesaler - so if you're leaving them out of this picture you're not really changing much.

My personal $0.02 on this is that the latency race is just a turf war between liquidity providers, but has no real impact outside of that arena. There are other areas of needed reform: market fragmentation to the degree it exists today is a net negative IMO. Similarly the market-wide best execution requirement is just extra complexity and creates opportunities for regulatory arbitrage. The proliferation of exotic order types and "differentiating" exchange behavior adds complexity and creates opportunities to game the system. Exchanges charge exorbitant fees for access that create barriers to entry for smaller participants. To name a few.
Remember, the total spending on police budgets annually is around $115B a year. The total value of all former military equipment held by police departments is less than $2B (https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/05/29/how-mu...). The total amount of equipment transferred since 1990 is $6B but the majority of that gear is in non-military-specific items like office furniture, generators, and so on (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2020/06/1...). The breakdown of the military bits can be seen at https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/05/29/how-mu....
turning on the monitor before the PC would cause the GPU to not realize there is a monitor attached

I have a similar issue with a Dell display attached to an AMD card. After suspending the PC, the monitor does not detect the PC at the other end of the DP cable, except for Amazon Basic cables which work for some reason. Digital standards are weird.
> Most of the people interested in this already live in Thailand (but got stuck abroad unable to return) on tourist or other visas and would rent apartments, and not stay in hotel rooms.

Am in a similar predicament with my “base” in Hong Kong. It is very frustrating.
One issue I find is often the people who promote this sort of content don’t sit in their private groups and discuss it among themselves, but go out and actively court confrontations by posting to forums of Jews and others directly victimized by the actions of the Germany in World War II. I see it all the time on Twitter —- and on Hacker News.
I really need ECC ram for my NAS.
I think this is an under-analyzed factor. It seems some jurisdictions are culturally more violent, and increasingly so (the U.S. in particular).
As a high school teacher, I firmly believe that the person/org that can bridge the gulf between standardized testing [high trust/high cost/rare] and classroom assessment [low trust/sunk cost/extremely extensive] will command an extremely important and lucrative position.

The work of assessment is already being done millions of times each day by classroom instructors. We simply can’t trust the results.
>book burning is a real issue only when its state sponsored.

Strong disagree from me. These corporations are becoming an increasingly large part of how people communicate. Imagine if phone companies started deplatforming people the way social media sites do- it would become incredibly hard (perhaps impossible) to live a normal life in 21st century america.
Do you have proof for that?
No, the "free-speech proponents" do not adhere to your specific definition of what should be considered free speech. The kind of speech which is often labelled "harassment" by its opponents is often labelled as "free speech" by its proponents.
Elaborate please?
We've already arrived at that station. The rules are already enforced such as to legitimize the abuses of a small number of horses in each vertical. If we let them fight it out, they will only further entrench and consolidate, which is the worst thing that can happen. We don't need to act like battered housewives afraid that it could always get worse - the laws are already on the books to fix the issue, we just need to insist on their vigorous enforcement.
It's not just the 5% of the time you need it, it's also the immediate and guaranteed availability.

I rarely use my car, I'm the exact kind of person this is aimed at. I haven't used it in *monthts. But when I need it, it's there. There's car rental place about 500 meters walking distance from my home, but they aren't open 24/7. There is also a ride share car parked at about 1km from my home, but it's only one car and if someone else took it I can't use it.

These things only work when you know well in advance you're going to use it and even then, they might not be available at peak times. There's only so many ride share cars available, and if everyone wants to visit their parents on Christmas, there's not enough of them. Car rental companies aren't going to buy enough cars to cover their 5% peak use either.
well considering those types of weapons didn't exist and weren't even a possibility for another like 70 years, your argument is pointless and irrelevant. The landscape the founding fathers were in was so different it's stupid to take everything they said literally.

I consider nuclear weapons to be arms, I should be able to have my own nuclear weapon for hunting. The second amendment makes no mention of it, thus I should get one.
Anything other than the party line is verboten thoughtcrime.
I look forward to the day we have orbital embedded ML. Comms take 3-6 magnitudes more energy than the rest of an embedded system so less comms use leads to a positive feedback loop of more energy and compute available for sensor reads, inferencing, and analysis.
Sure, at least that’s what the dealers and mechanics would want you to think ;)

I’m sure in principle there are many forms of periodic maintenance that need to be done for a car. You’re also supposed to drain your hot water tank every 6-12 months. But getting the oil changed (and the air filters and whatnot) seems to be the important bit.
I've been waiting for this story to bubble up with a reasonable amount of traction before commenting so I'm glad it did. I found this quote somewhat Funny, somewhat Sad.

.. “They are running normally and their ransomware operations are pretty much back in full swing,” Holden said. “The are not slowing down because they still have a great deal of stolen data.”

Holden added that since news of the disruption first broke a week ago, the Russian-speaking cybercriminals behind Trickbot have been discussing how to recoup their losses, and have been toying with the idea of massively increasing the amount of money demanded from future ransomware victims.

“There is a conversation happening in the back channels,” Holden said. “Normally, they will ask for [a ransom amount] that is something like 10 percent of the victim company’s annual revenues. Now, some of the guys involved are talking about increasing that to 100 percent or 150 percent.”

[Edit to Ammend Source Link based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24756681. Please refer to https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/10/report-u-s-cyber-command...]

[Original Link]
Report: U.S. Cyber Command Behind Trickbot Tricks https://nmap.online/news/2020/report-us-cyber-command-behind...
When I first read this I thought is was going to be a study that concluded that more policed were killed in departments where police have military gear.

That would have been interesting.

At the same time, I wonder if the units that are more likely to ask for military equipment are the ones that need it - meaning there are in a situation where life or death confrontations, given current gun laws in the US, are more common.

I have in the back of my head the idea that less access to firearms for citizens equals less deaths for citizens at the hands of police.

If every encounter a police offer has is blanketed with the idea that, at any moment, a gun could be drawn, they have a seriously different mentality than if worst case is a knife.

That’s why studies like this bother me a bit... I’m biased for sure, but it feels like, if people can have firearms, police need firearms and equipment that severely outclass citizen firearms.

I don’t like that conclusion, which is why gun control laws seems to be a better target for consideration...
No worries, I don't take it personally.

Like I said in another comment, Portabella is my main side project. I whipped this up quick because I thought it was a cool idea.

I'll be launching Portabella on Product Hunt and Hacker News next week, this was kind of a trial run for that.

Any questions or issues shoot me at alex@portabella.io
Here in Australia, I could deduct any costs associated with a side project from my income, things like cloud hosting, subscriptions etc.

Australia has a very accomodating approach towards personal income tax deductions. I can deduct any work or business related expenses. If the expense was also for personal purposes, I can still claim the portion used for work. For example, if I buy a Macbook and use it for working 40 hours a week, and then 10 hours of personal use, I can deduct 80% of the cost from my income.

As I'm working from home, all my office furniture is tax deductible, as well as my power and internet bills.

Then because I'm a software developer, any software or hardware that I use while I'm working is also deductible; keyboards, monitors, cables, etc. I can even deduct the cost of a new backpack if I use it to carry my laptop!
I don't think the person you're replying to is being dishonest. You've simply listed reasons as to why this content isn't acceptable. Of course there are often reasons why content and beliefs might be rejected by mainstream thought -- "it's a pack of lies" is chief among them.

There's a definition problem here. We could use "no one is talking about removing the content" as a rubric to determine whether content is truly outside of mainstream thought for example.

Pointing out that there's diversity among mainstream thought is not at all the same as tolerating dissent.
Whatever I tell you, you will have an excuse.

For instance, if I say I do something requiring an application for which there is no good OSS equivalent you'll tell me it isn't Linux's fault companies don't port their software to an OS with ludicrous levels of fragmentation that break compatibility nearly every release.

I have been in this argument many, many times over the past 2 decades. It is always the same. Deny there are problems, suggest insufficient alternatives, even recommend just changing their use case entirely. Anything to avoid saying "yeah, Linux actually isn't good for that".
It's like "antifascists" assaulting people because of who they vote for.