skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm envisioning a world where Germany won the war and Facebook finds itself removing fringe content proclaiming the war was a horrific genocide and not the triumph of free society that the mainstream accepts as factual rationality. For Facebook to outright remove this content puts them into the awkward position of policing rationality on a platform built proliferating bullshit. It seems odd they chose to go down the route of outright removing the content opposed to quietly preventing flagged topics from aggregation on its recommendation algorithms. That said it does make sense considering the status quo these days seems to be using ideas and opinions, often to which our commitment is at best lackadaisical, as a basis for esteeming ourselves above others.

People are always going to have ideas which conflict with the mainstream, ideas that incite outrage and seem totally absurd. If history has anything to say about the matter it's that some of these absurd ideas have proven themselves correct despite mainstream acceptance, even outrage, to the contrary. If these ideas were silenced because they clashed with the mainstream then societies would seldom have progressed beyond dogmatic belief. What immediately comes to mind is viral FB content proclaiming masks as a panacea for Coronavirus and the government will abduct your children if you test positive. God forbid Facebook won't be removing that content though, because it doesn't clash with the mainstream zeitgeist that our reaction to the outbreak hasn't caused more long term harm than good at this point.

Good grief, I never thought I'd find myself defending the existence of Holocaust denial content on the internet, but it blows my mind how in the age of the internet we STILL don't understand how to deal with trolls.
Making the car safe and making the car comply with safety regulations are two different things.

It's possible and even likely that we have rules which are unnecessary or not worth the cost for small production runs, but which apply to them anyway, because companies doing small production runs don't have lobbying clout and companies doing large production runs are amortizing the cost over hundreds of thousands of cars and don't want things to be easier for smaller competitors.
It is, Windows NT's adoption of Unicode predates UTF-16 and it's impossible to really make it UTF-16 compliant without breaking obscure corners of compatibility.

Most programs assume it's all UTF-16, and it happens to work most of the time... at least until you encounter those sequences that are invalid.
I do suspect it's confusing to refer to something our constitution calls a "right" and another thing, which is merely a "principle," by the same name.
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This argument ignores tail risks. Sometimes that 5% max capacity usage is something that turns out to be incredibly important and not substitutable short term.

I'll be a lot of people are regretting not building some slack capacity into their housing and transportation right now, when public transit is potentially dangerous and the whole family might be working from home thanks to COVID.
Markets won't fix this. The scale of the problem has no market solution.
In case you missed the joke, it's evoking https://semver.org/.
> METHODS This study measured the survival rates of infectious SARS-CoV-2, suspended in a standard ASTM E2197 matrix, on several common surface types. All experiments were carried out in the dark, to negate any effects of UV light. Inoculated surfaces were incubated at 20 °C, 30 °C and 40 °C and sampled at various time points.

They do this in the dark and then issue warnings about places that are not in the dark...
It seems to me a bug is socially constructed based on whose assumption(s) are defined as valid. It emerges out of an implicit power struggle among the entities whose interaction reveals the "bug".

To know whose bug it was in your example, you have to make a value judgment about whether the changes were minor and justified, not just a technical evaluation.
I judge laureates by their published Nobel lectures.

There’s a footnote in Heckman’s that pretty much renders Duflo’s work invalid.
Please pick another example: these movements were never calling for genocide.
Can you give some specific examples of these well-known people who are on Parler? Ideally ones that have been banned from the major platforms?
I agree -- the whole nicety of CGI is that the web server creates your application server process for you, and then you get a very simple one-request = one response interface. Lambda/Function implementations do this right, and also support multiple requests per process, so the overhead can be more manageable. People who are nostalgic for CGI ought to be running something like OpenWhisk (or using AWS Lambda), not FastCGI.

If you're going to all the trouble of creating a FastCGI service, you might as well also create an HTTP service and route to that.
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Eh. Recreational generally implies some amount of affordability and easy entry level.

Nuclear weapons and lasers are not simple machines, nor are they cheap, and (somewhat unrelated) they generally aren't as instinctively fun or easy to practice at towards any goal.
Comcast started rolling out IPv6 across their network a long time ago. They hit 100% support on their broadband network in 2014. They run a lot of the own stuff on IPv6, such as on-demand video on their set-top boxes. I think any home modem/router that they support that did not support IPv6 hit EOL long ago and was replaced.

There may be some class A owners who are trying to hold back IPv6 so they can make money off their class A, but Comcast isn't one of them.

Apple has long had IPv6 support in their operating systems, so I don't think they have been trying to hold it back either.

Ford, Softbank, Daimler, and Prudential? It is not immediately obvious to me if they could do anything to hold it back even if they wanted to.
There are well over 100,000 people in the US that could afford to buy a Nuclear bomb if it was for sale at a reasonable multiple of it’s construction cost. Similarly effective chemical weapons that can kill tens of thousands of people when released over a populated area are relatively cheap to construct. If they where on sale you can bet people would buy them as artwork if nothing else.

So sure, people can do plenty of mildly dangerous things, but it’s hard to find something significantly more destructive than intentionally setting off a few hundred fires out west. That’s the kind of thing a homeless person could pull off with a backpack and 30$ worth of supplies.
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I disagree with your premise. Just because a belief can be associated with another belief by a venn diagram of people who believe them, doesn't make the two intrinsically linked.

I am a person of jewish descent, and I find the action of silencing people far more disturbing and closer to that of the reich, than those of the people being silenced.
We should ban hardware stores.
But nobody uses them because Google has market power.
This seems an argument in favor of Facebook removing holocaust-denial content, lest the holocaust-deniers seize upon Facebook's tolerance to cause further harm with their distortion of history leading to direct harm of people by those who believe a distorted history.
Human judgement is how they'll determine it. They're deciding what's "acceptable debate" only within the confines of their own website, there are plenty of other venues friendly to Holocaust skeptics and deniers.
Publishing the private key only allows for spoofing, not decrypting, unless you fail to use ephemeral Diffie-Hellman, which seems to be the default for most clients nowadays.
Why we don't prepare enough for things we want
Some might argue it's the Accord owner that has the money left to raise one (or will maintain enough money left).
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Considering that most of the human population lives in highly walkable areas, I find this "over-fitting" perfectly appropriate.
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That indeed isn't cheap. They sell on local classifieds for around ~250 CAD here. It's not a production model so buying it from Amazon doesn't make sense.
> Facebook is a virality engine. How do you get content that's appealing to the widest variety of people shoved into their faces?

Couldn't someone have said the same thing of the printing press in the year 1440?
> it kind of crosses the line when something denies well documented fact and tries to discredit reality itself

Are you suggesting that news organizations should no longer broadcast false statements made by word leaders, such as Trump, who continuously and repeatedly denies well documented facts? Or are you suggesting that these restrictions on free speech should only apply on regular people, whose lowly opinions should be censored while blatant lies by the rich and famous should be broadcast?
But they also removed all posts that question the number of holocaust victims - which historically changed a lot.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24743188
IMHO the biggest (and the only?) problem is vendor lock-in.
Good point but I don’t think so because those ideas, religion, are not falsifiable.
Most people don't really use version control, they just use version control programs because they've been told they're supposed to. They might as well be using rsync.

Most of them would benefit from learning to actually use it, but this is unfortunately niche.
I think one can make the argument that, in all of those cases, the speech is not the thing being outlawed.

A threat of aggressive violence is a statement of intent to commit a crime. You're punished not for speaking what's on your mind, but for planning to commit a crime. (And I specified aggressive violence because self-defense is not a crime, and I think that stating "I intend to defend myself with violence to the extent permitted by law" isn't a crime either.)

A scam is also a statement of intent to carry out a crime—fraud, specifically.

With spambots, and also with what I'm guessing "abuse" refers to, it's more like harassment or stalking. You want to be able to say "I should be able to walk through this space without being constantly followed by people who are deliberately doing so and ignoring my requests to stop." That depends on exactly what "this space" is—if you own the space, then of course it's up to you, if your harassers own the space, then of course it's up to them, and if it's some "public" space, then it's not totally clear if it's owned by no one or by everyone or by the government, but at least in the latter two cases, it seems reasonable for "everyone" or the government to have rules against harassment and stalking (and I'm saying spam is low-level harassment). Facebook seems to be attempting to act like a "public space" in this regard, though not in all regards.
The domain name, 5kids1condo, basically qualifies the advice on its own!
How, in any way, is censorship in the spirit of free speech. I get that fb is private and can do what they want. But you are saying that removing speech that you disagree with is 'in the spirit' of free speech. That couldn't be further from the the spirit of free speech. The truth is that measure like this can and will be abused. Free speech is all or nothing. It's as simple as that.
Goodness. No need to quote them. They're responding to an article _on that very topic_ and framing it as a matter of opinion.

If it was meant to be some general snark about censorship then so be it, but the execution was poor and you're being quite disingenuous in claiming not see any connection.

Have a good one.
It would be interesting to model open source contributions using something like this. Perhaps it would reveal something about the economic paradox about why people contribute to open source.
The photos look exactly as I'd imagine they should, i.e. if the grid is providing 20% of the color of the original, the result looks 20% as colorful... I'm not sure I get what's "magical" about this?
Then you are not arguing that OP missed the point of the Paradox of Intolerance. You are arguing that Holocaust denialism is not intolerance.

How many people publicly deny the Holocaust but are otherwise tolerant of Jews, homosexuals, etc.? I'm really curious what you think that Venn diagram looks like.
> claiming that algorithm does not matter, especially from people without experience actually using both.

Here's the basis of that claim [1].

That said, I have not tested it empirically myself so I think that is cause for moderating my claim -- I place a high value on empirically-tested knowledge. Take my claim as partially withdrawn.

But to make the argument more precise, an algorithm producing a lower rep load because it uses intervals more efficiently does not imply it produces a significant delta-difference in retention. It merely means the algorithm lets you fit more stuff into a memorization schedule. That seems to be to be quite different from improving retention itself of say a smaller inventory of facts. Just wanted to be sure about the actual claim that is made.

p.s. one of your links is broken.

[1] http://learninglab.psych.purdue.edu/downloads/2011_Karpicke_...
I disagree with your definition of "intrinsically linked."

if the Venn diagram is nearly a circle, the two are intrinsically linked.
I think caryd is wrong. People seem to be having problems with evidence based reasoning. People seem to distrust scientific experiments and data. Part of that may be in reaction to the commercial noise about products, usually in health care, which are "scientifically proven" to do impossible things.
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Any tips for working safely in production?
Particularly for limiting potential damage, whether it's updating rows in a database, creating/deleting loose files, and rolling back damage done.
Analyzing malicious Office docs: Emotet offers good AV avoidance
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The first POSIX subsystem.
I think this is because the police departments that get military gear are in more dangerous areas, with more dangerous situations, leading to more deaths.
Well done! It's minimalist in the best sense: light-weight, focused features, and polished details.

Within a minute of playing around, I understood how practical it is. I appreciate the respect and consideration for users - it's exactly the kind of software built with ethics and principles, I wish there were more tools like this in the world.
It was from an interview in New Yorker magazine, so it probably comes from a comparison of US to non-US labor rates.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm

Median hourly rate in the US ranges about $41/hr for 'Computer Programmers' to $70/hr for 'Computer and IS Managers.' In a state like New York the rates would be even higher, perhaps much higher.
The "For Dummies" brand has been around for decades for self-learning various topics. Linux For Dummies has been around since at least 1997 (first time I saw a copy of it).

It probably wouldn't be my pick as a first resource, but it's no less valid of one. I wouldn't classify a recommendation as a personal attack.
Okay, just take a step back. Do we have to be so principled about all this? Holocaust Deniers are bad. Full stop.

We all keep going back and forth on these principled stances about how freedom of speech is some holy thing that should be protected at all costs no matter how much damage it causes.

That notion is absurd in my experience. This philosophical ideal of true freedom of speech doesn't even exist! 4Chan still has to censor child porn - and thanks God! Child pornography is horrible and no one should ever be able to hide behind the guise of "free speech" to get away with dissemination of it.

You know what else is horrible? A huge population of people were tortured, starved and gassed to death with numbers in the millions. But do you know what happened after that ended?

People tried to pretend it didn't happen at all. And they still are. Now, I'm not Jewish, but just thinking about that makes me sick. The idea that someone is out there gaslighting people into believing the holocaust doesn't exist is despicable.

If you proposed holocaust denial on this website you'd be in violation of its rules and be flagged or banned. The site is better because of these rules.

And finally, I'd like to pose a thought experiment -

If Hitler were alive today, how do you think he would gain power? Misinformation campaigns, appeals to white nationalism and racist dog whistles on one of the major social networks no doubt.

Of course, Facebook, Google, Twitter etc. are dealing with a very similar scenario right now with Donald Trump who has intentionally divided this country to its breaking point all while likely (indirectly) killing thousands of people by sending them confusing and false messaging about the coronavirus and don't let me forget he's literally stated his intent to steal the election if he loses. You know, basically just textbook fascism.

Ban them. All of them. Today.

Edit: Made things sightly less emotionally charged and rage-baiting. Apologies for the harsh (er) words. I understand it's not in the spirit of the discourse we want to encourage here.
> If the relationship goes the other way, though, we still have to deal with violent cops who want to hurt civilians.

If the problem is iterative, then I'd think in terms of adjusting probabilities in a Markov chain, and having the goal be to minimize instances of avoidable police violence over time. Anyway, it's not possible to eliminate violence from the police, unless we find a way to eliminate violence from human nature, so the goals should be about adjusting priorities, duties, and tone to minimize unnecessary violence.
> This is an encroachment on free speech

It's not.

Using a third party service to publish posts is not equivalent to speech. It's more akin to press, but it's not quite like that either: it's equivalent to asking a publisher to put a communication of yours in their printed text.

Facebook is not preventing someone from physically going to any street corner or other real public place and talking about holocaust denial. Facebook or anyone else would have every right to prevent this on their property if they wish.
Without fans in the crowds and the special competitiveness that comes with home/away rivalries, of course people are going to stop watching.

I’m a huge basketball fan and just wrote off this year because digital faces in the crowd is dumb af.
The platform operator's, of course.

Let's take an extreme example of someone almost everyone agrees was a hateful extremist -- Osama bin Laden. Prior to his death, should he have been allowed to post on Twitter encouraging the murders of more people? Would Twitter have been a "hateful extremist" for banning him and other Al Qaeda accounts? Or -- and here me out here -- would it have been acceptable to ban him? If so, then there is a line somewhere. And if there is a line, then why shouldn't modern day Neo-Nazis calling for the deaths of Jews be on the other side of the line as well?
You moved the goal posts.
My argument was that _regulation_ doesn't stop these things. Your argument is still not a refutation of that.

Regulation is not the reason that people don't use the technology.
It turns out that most people aren't assholes.

And notice how all of the access to said technology is still there.
Most people do live in cities but not all areas of all cities are highly walkable.

In many suburbs for example it's common to need the car to do basically anything.
Like I said in another comment - this just seems like a standard auto alarm trigger, most alarms will disable the car until they are reset. The only thing that makes it stand out here is that normally thanks to the mobile link Ferrari can reset it remotely. If it didn't have that the car would be equally "bricked" and it wouldn't be a story at all.
Jaron's point-of-view is, as always, fresh and on-point. Recommended.
This seems like a prudent decision on the part of the ARDC, and potentially a good boost to lots of interesting radio-adjacent projects.

Hopefully they can maintain their organisational culture. Large amounts of money can be very damaging to organisations which aren't set up to handle it.
There is still a market for horses.
As if any of those things are actually scary. I'm more scared of not becoming north Korea.
Why? The holodomor has a comparable amount of deaths resulting from it
Just because the car has external connectivity doesn't mean the car has abusable vulnerabilities. Of course, some vendors are going to be better than others when it comes to hardening, pen-testing, and good operational security.
So don't buy one
I don't know of any developed country where the police can reasonably expect to face better equipped adversaries than they can in the US. This is interesting for two reasons: You may have a point that it is necessary in the US for the police to have automatic weapons, but the US is also the only western country that has put itself in such a situation. Take from that what you will...
You've missed the point. Free-speech is widely understood to exclude threats and harassment, but even if it were only a niche definition used by free-speech proponents the pro-cancel-culture argument would still be nonsense because it claims that the pro-free-speech argument is inconsistent and self-refuting based on a definition of 'free-speech' that includes threats and harassment. Anyone who makes this argument plainly doesn't understand the free-speech argument.
It's censorship for sure.
As usual, Rust has a crate for that: https://crates.io/crates/float-cmp
Yeah. To his condo point, fine. But if you choose to live downtown in an expensive city, who expects you to necessarily have a guest bedroom? (And if you own a house, you may well have a spare room that can be used as a guest bedroom but you also use for other things.)

As for vehicles, I have a mid-sized or so SUV and sometimes I transport people but I often transport stuff from the home improvement store, etc. I have no interest in owning a small vehicle and then have to rent on a semi-regular basis.

And, yes, I own tons of stuff that doesn't get used much. But most of that stuff can't be easily rented or borrowed for the times I need it. Should I rent an electric drill or a weed whacker every time I need one? There have been whole business models based on this idea but they ignore the transaction costs.
> The solution here was probably simple: bring the car outside, and let Ferrari do it's thing. Or trailer it to a certified dealership to have it reset there.

This sounds like it invokes the "right to repair" issue though. Is this "Right to repair, but only if the car's online"?
OP doesn't even say it was the case, and that "I highly doubt that’s what actually happened" - but that this was the impression he got from the movie. Hence it's neither aspersion nor "god of the gaps" - unless theists commonly argue that they also highly doubt god exists?

So, Can I downvote you for assuming the worst about OP? Or for casting aspersion about HN and its "-ism"s?
To be clear, I am absolutely not arguing that malware authors should get impunity - we have other laws such as the CFAA that should be used to punish this activity.

I am also not saying that software developers should automatically be liable for bugs or security vulnerabilities in their products.

My concern is that such a precedent would then allow software developers to sue on brand damage grounds even in non-malicious cases such as merely documenting an exploit or publishing a proof of concept (designed to test the vulnerability on your own infrastructure), in which case even "mens rea" would not apply since technically documentation/PoC code is intended to let others know about the vulnerability (so they can protect themselves, but that does technically damage the brand, although rightfully in this case).