skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine doing that on a busy public highway for a wired.com article ...

'we did it in a safe way'

They had no control over the cars behind, anything could have happened.

Their attack could have been demonstrated on a parking lot or private road.

Their information did need urgently sharing, and while I understand the common need for a bit for drama, this was utterly unsafe & for the good of everyone I hope they've pulled their heads out of their asses since making that video!
I observe no directionality pattern among people who rent two spots. Do you have a large sample set that you are extrapolating your assumptions from?

I'm a person who rents multiple spots next to each other. And yes if the garage is willing to rent out multiple spots to me, I'll absolutely park however I like, generally in such a way as to prevent people from boxing me in.

Unfortunately parking in Europe is a fairly scarce commodity and a "full sized parking lot" may be barely enough to tetris in a car like this, but you won't be able to open the door and get out. Certainly not without hitting the car parked next to you.

We can get into the whole theoretical argument of why do people need a Ferrari or why should they be able to get more spots than people who can't buy a Ferrari and it just comes down to market economics. In so far as a person can afford 2 spots in a garage, I'm sure that most garages won't discriminate between clients. Nothing stops _you_ from renting out 2 spots and then you can park however you like. If you think that is fundamentally unfair, you should campaign for a policy that garages can only rent out one spot to one client.

Maybe this particular Ferrari driver is an asshat and is taking up two spots while paying for only one. Those people exist. But you have zero information that it is the case here and are just jumping to conclusions because (and I'm jumping to conclusions here) you've been triggered by bad behavior in the past?
if anyone wants a billion dollar idea that is unfortunately too early for the world, it's the sperm-bank equivalent for fecal transplants, and if you really wanna go luxury / premium go the Cameo route and create a marketplace to get high performers and celebrities' poop on a marketplace for people to buy and use for transplant.
They (and Google, Youtube ...etc) should reprogram their recommendation engine to ignore political content altogether (not just the hateful content).
If a person clicks on video by whatever party they shouldn't be immediately bombarded with propaganda content from that side of the political spectrum.
How are they going to determine what is HD? Some scholars get labeled denialists because they have different estimates for the number of Jews killed in concentration camps. Seems worrying to have FB moderators determining what's acceptable historical debate and what is wrongthink.
That survey question seems psychologically primed to get people to doubt themselves enough to agree with the third option (weren't sure). A better statistic would be just the number of people who believe it to be a hoax.

I hope that number is much lower than 25% but the past four years have showed me there's a much larger threat of bigotry and fascism in America than I could have ever imagined.
I do believe the propaganda should be archived though, for research purposes, fingerprinting, and like you mentioned, evidence. I hope Facebook is handing everything over to the right authorities (internationally).

Of course, there are some people who are given the extremist / terrorist label - e.g. Antifa - where the brand may not be warranted. Antifa is not a real organization though, just a name abused by the anti-antifacists (?) to try and make protesters the boogeyman.
Yes. “The Nazis were bad” is, generally, a pretty easy PR statement.

Here, let’s spin up a really hard one. “Given the historical discrimination against Catholics, Facebook should delete all posts that discriminate against Amy Coney Barrett on account of her religion.” Not such an easy PR win there, eh?
There is no monopoly, but an oligopoly. How comfortably would you avoid all 3 of Apple, Google, and Facebook?

These 3 are very similar in their values, operate under the same legislation. The latter is especially worrying for people not from the US, because foreigners' rights are completely unprotected.
More canonical version of that first link:

https://manpages.debian.org/buster/dpkg-dev/deb-version.7.en...

Or possibly this one: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.ht...
... and Goebbels and Stalin were both part of the government.

Why is so hard to understand that government limitations on free speech are fundamentally different from private ones?

Freedom of the press means being able to print what you want, not being able to compel the printer. Facebook doesn't have to be complicit in publishing speech it finds repugnant, and why should it?
My understanding is that printed lower receivers is an artifact of how the USA regulates ARs, most countries regulate barrels and other components as well. So that method is extremely vulnerable to additional regulation. Anyways, finished 80% aluminum lowers are just as good as the real thing, you can even hard coat anodize (similar process to the barrel rifling of the FCG-9)
I don't think that's what it's arguing for, but rather than Facebook should have a consistent policy.
I would bet that at least an iPhone is much safer than a regular company laptop in 90% of companies. It is quite likely safer than the internal network. Security is often a second rate citizen in most companies.

Also, strict security practices that affect productivity often get worked around - for example, if I want to examine a diagnostics archive I got by mail on my phone, but the IT policy won't let me, I may well forward it to my personal mail, open that though Firefox, and get the archive this way. It's much worse for overall security, but pretty hard to prevent, and less important to me when I get a call about blocked builds at 10 o'clock.
> have too much power in what we see/read.

You choose to type h t t p facebook dot com into your browser.
They have absolutely not power in what you see or read, you go there voluntarily. Just stop going there.
Note that the 1033 program has a "use it or lose it" provision. Police must use equipment they receive via this program or it's taken away. So they find reasons to use their toys.
This point seems like a "well, duh..." - they are basically putting low-risk people in a crime bootcamp - surrounding them with people more experienced in crime, and nothing to do but talk to them.

Psych studies show that people trend toward the average of the 5 personalities with whom they surround themselves. <sarc> So, let's take low-risk people who have made a mistake and surround them with people who make a habit of making mistakes. Brilliant! /<sarc>

"Another study conducted in Kentucky found that detaining low- and moderate-risk defendants is strongly correlated with higher rates of new criminal activity both during the retrial period and years after case disposition. The same study found that as the length of pretrial detention increases up to 30 days, recidivism rates for low- and moderate-risk defendants also increases significantly. When held 2–3 days, for instance, low-risk defendants are almost 40 percent more likely to commit new crimes before trial than equivalent defendants held no more than 24 hours. When held 8–14 days, low-risk defendants are 51 percent more likely to commit another crime within two years after completion of their cases than equivalent defendants held no more than 24 hours."
Great.

What should we do with content that glorifies or lies about the genocide of indigenous people in the Americas (e.g. anything that glorifies Columbus and the history implied by Thanks Giving Day)

Same goes for content that aligns with current day denial that racism is a huge problem in this country and across the globe?

In the end, it's the same net result: people die of hate crimes because of lack of awareness and the perpetuation of content that implicitly upholds white supremacist thinking.
LOL that would be like AOL in the 90s when people would log on and not log off...because it was so busy and because there was unlimited use pricing.
My point is, this is only an issue because FB wants you to continue to cede the power over your feed ( your attention) to them.

No one on my feed, of any group or any friends, are holocaust deniers.

So I would never see any such content, if my feed was fully under my control, correct?
Oh, oh my... Why do I love and hate that so much.
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> This heavy-handedness isn't an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact, one where the tolerant voices aren't drained out by the relentlessness and irrationality of the intolerant.

Where is the evidence that this is true? Sounds like wishful thinking to me.

In many European countries, Holocaust denial is literally a crime, yet de-facto Neonazi parties are more popular than in the US, where no law stops you from brandishing a swastika flag.
Most of the time I don’t. Since many shops are closed to anything but appointments in the music world I’ve relied on hearing some shared equipment demos and experiences which the recommendation algorithm promptly sees fit to take as suggestion that I love just watching product videos and unboxings so they regularly show up next in my queue and begin to play before I can get to preventing it.

I’m also of a curious persuasion so I’ll stick it out for a while wondering what people find so fascinating—maybe that I was missing something. But I wasn’t, not so far as I’ve been able to tell yet.

If a majority of what children take in from something as powerful as the immense capacity for information sharing as the internet is watching someone open a material item they covet over and over again I don’t think that it can possibly be healthy for them in the long term—especially with a lack of other contextual framing.
> (hell there's a even a podcast named after the people that did it)

This isn't exactly accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks

Unless you're also condemning Rod Stewart as being pro Armenian genocide or something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEW5XLnQRx8
Are you really defending the police grenading a baby.
It kind of is a legal requirement in Germany already, so there is this.
Citation needed? Which scholars, what are their claims / papers, and who reviewed their work?

I mean I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers used now are not entirely correct, but if there's unscientific work being done to downplay it, they're in their right to brand it as holocaust denial.
Drug dealers are not rich or even middle class. That’s more Hollywood nonsense.
Increased Complexity of C++20 Range Algorithms Declarations – Is It Worth?
Show HN: SW Developers can glance for JSON formatter tool at (tool-kit.dev)
> a healthy level of intolerance towards groups and ideologies that are beyond reason and recall

How can you tell if they are beyond reason if you are not allowed to read their arguments?
> "..isn't an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society..."

a necessary impediment? no reasonable person denies the holocaust, but it's also not reasonable to try to suppress denial, no matter the desire, because that has its own paradoxical consequences.

it's the same overbearing fear-driven irrationality that gets us into lockdowns that destroy lives and livelihoods rather than accepting that heightened risks are not going away no matter what we do, providing accurate (not politicized) information widely, and then trusting people to act appropriately (and diversely).

the drive to the same application of force and authoritarianism you're trying to deny is astonishing.
I echo this sentiment. Competition is good, and Windows vs Linux is competition. We don´t want to remove variety even if the Free software is the one that "wins"

This reminds me of DirectX vs OpenGL in the late 1990s and through the 2000s. DirectX under Microsoft rule did not have to answer to any committee, thus the progress and groundbreaking technology that it enabled was really good. Meanwhile, The OpenGL consortium had to argue to get just one feature into the standard. It was very slow.

Another example was .NET vs Java. Even though Java was "driven" by Sun (and then Oracle) a lot of the new features were done via consortium and thus its development was slow. .NET instead got LINQ and other really nice improvements during that time. Now, I haven't programmed in .NET since around 2005 (I don´t do Windows), but I appreciate that they are pushing software technology.
That's not really true, there are a very large number of recognized genocides. There's only one we accidentally stopped though.
Almost always add swap space
Or turn it into a one-line immediately executed function, and you can add it as a bookmark and run it on pages that are not yours:

javascript:(function b(){function randInt() {return Math.round (Math.random() * 20 - 10)};for (const img of document.getElementsByTagName('img')) {img.src = `https://placekitten.com/g/${randInt() + img.width}/${randInt() + img.height}`}})();

Create a bookmark with that as the URL, go to some page, click the bookmark, kittens everywhere, profit!
Kubernetes won't run 50k Jobs
As far as I can tell it is a historical event that actually happened (just like the Holocaust), so I'm not sure why you're trying to marginalize it by associating it with neo-Nazis (and conservatives, who I notice you're trying to smear by association).
It tells us that the people who are designing these things are not considering some of the most basic issues.
> The idea that “the left” doesn’t exist in the US is nonsense. We just had a democratic nomination cycle where every candidate except the eventual winner (but who at that time seemed down and our) promised to support this: https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hres109/BILLS-116hres109i.... Doesn’t that seem quite left?

Seem quite left by the optics of the US, but:

Tracker:
This bill has the status Introduced
Status of Legislation:
Introduced Agreed to in House

When it passes we can talk about leftist ideas being put in practice in the US, until then it's all talk and no show and we are tired of watching America's talk show... Agrandising a bill yet to be even introduced for voting is a show, I prefer political systems to be pragmatical.

> You’re correct that Sweden, etc., are market economies with welfare states tacked on. Sweden is cutting corporate taxes and investment taxes, partially privatizing its social security, etc. That was the model on the American left from Clinton through Obama.

This wasn't an effect localised in Sweden, the whole Third Way [0] on social democracies trying to embrace some neoliberal policies (be it for some kind of compromise or for true belief that this was the way forward). It happened across whole Europe, from the UK with Blair, to France and the US, its effects are still ongoing.

In my opinion this was a failed experiment which the repercussions are still showing up. We can't have "ifs" in history but we can analyse the effects of these policies and the picture doesn't look pretty, both economically when viewed with the eyes of social democrats of the 70s (which I don't say would fare well in a contemporary society, those policies had its time and place and need updates) as politically when you see how much power the centre-left social democrats across Europe have lost. They tried to embrace where the pendulum swung and ultimately lost that race and also lost their own base.

Political candidates on the left don't talk about markets anymore because neoliberal policies took over a lot on the previous 3 decades, from welfare to education, to healthcare. I only talk about these policies' negatives but I don't necessarily hold the opinion that it didn't have positive impacts in society, just believe its time is due. It's too ideological to be practical in the face of empirical evidence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Way
The labeling of "slippery slope" as a "logical fallacy" versus a "consequentialist logical device" is becoming quite the political statement. Check out the history and the talk page of the wikipedia article for slippery slope.

For the record, I disagree that it is a logical fallacy in all cases.
Here's one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Hoffmann

Edit: Note that he doesn't deny the holocaust at all, and his estimate is around 4 million. Which is still quite large. I'm not arguing that he is correct, but it seems absurd to call someone saying 4 million Jews were killed a "denialist".
They got confused by a mundane object?
The G4 iMac was a lovely device, but from an engineering POV, I'd have to go with either a G4 tower or a G4 cube.

My X had a cube and it was stunning - something you could leave on 24/7 in your bedroom and not hear it. Also a tonne of interesting engineering went into it.

The G4 tower was (in my mind) the last of the machines that was actually a pleasure to work on the hardware. The motherboard being on the hinged door meant it opened out giving you access to install cards or upgrade the CPU. It's actually a pleasure to pop the side just for the sake of having a look. I've got an old G3 tower here that I can't bring myself to throw away. Very cute, rounded, colourful outsides but serious engineering on the inside.

Everything since seems to have gone out of its way to make it difficult, unpleasant and in cases down right impossible to get into, upgrade or repair.

G4 Tower: https://www.macstories.net/mac/the-power-mac-g4-line/
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This whacks one mole, but there are many others.

As long as Facebook continues to recommend and target user-generated content based on engagement metrics, it will reward the sort of engagement generated by vicious deceptions such as holocaust denial. It is engineered to handle any post, including expressions of hate, by finding the most receptive audience possible for that post.

Rather than targeting a narrow swathe of Definitely Terrible content to censor, Facebook should target a wide swathe and rather than removing it, exempt it from the algorithmic feed, group recommendation input, etc. If my friend posts something hateful and I see it, I can respond and push back; if they post something hateful and only their friends who agree see it, and they also get a dozen different similarly hateful echo chambers in their group recommendations, that's far more destructive.
Pylint is a great tool, but it could definitely be faster. One school of thought says: of course it's too slow, it's written in Python, if you want it faster you should rewrite it in C. But I don't think such a drastic and destabilizing change is necessary. There are critical sites in the code where a slightly wrong move is made and it gets magnified into something larger. This post points out one such site. The 80/20 rule says that fixing those errors will give most of the benefit of a full rewrite with way less effort.

A few years ago I got fed up with how slow Pylint was, so I made some changes to improve its performance. The main issue was that the tree traversal code was written generically. It was nice and elegant in terms of readability, but it meant that there was a lot of unnecessary runtime type-checking. It also meant that a lot of work was getting done for no reason. For example, if you are trying to apply lint rules for assign statements, you only want to check places where assign statement can legally occur. But Pylint was checking every single node for assign statements, including places where they cannot occur, such as inside function calls. Breaking up that generic logic into specialized instances had an enormous impact on performance.

Here are the PRs that implemented these changes:

https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/pull/497
https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/pull/519
https://github.com/PyCQA/astroid/pull/552
They can joyride around inside the parking garage as long as they like.
Oh man I really loved Laos, I'd be interested in knowing about some other beautiful there. I went to Vang Vieng, did the tubing, left the food area half a hour before the cops rolled ~80 euros for $200usd. I could go on, that was a very strange first 24hrs. Best bit was riding out to some hill, having lunch and looking at a cave.
I met some sketchy characters there though and I can't blame them for shutting it down, free local booze+ cheap booze+ river+ high rope jumps definitely led to some injuries.
Perhaps it is a function of groupthink. Regulation of the Internet is a relatively new phenomenon.

The suggestion that consumers of petroleum (rather than regulators) are responsible for negative outcomes is nearly a heresy in comparison.
I draw the line at hate. If one side wants to destroy me do I have to listen to their arguments?
That's fair enough. If FB was purely what it originally was - showing updates from your own connections exclusively - then of course a measure like this would be nonsensical. Only people who were directly connected to people posting it would ever see it (and many such people would be beyond hope anyway) and there would be no need to stop any kind of content "propagating" since no content ever would.
FWIW, it was confirmed that this was a bad parking job and was making things annoying for the employees.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/j9ji...
David Irving to give one example.
Why such high tech?
CNCs have been around for ages and can do the job just as well.
Almost any kind of censorship could be justified with the argument that some voices are "drained out" by others, so to protect the former, the latter most be censored, which is not actually "an encroachment on free speech but a necessary impediment to keep the spirit of free speech and free society intact". WTF does this mean? The internet is not a room where some people have to be silent so that you can hear the others. You can simply ignore people you don't like, or you deem "intolerant", etc.
If Facebook becomes a publisher and not merely a conduit of speech, it must simultaneously be legally liable for what it publishes.
Comparing the Holocaust to any other state-sponsored atrocities is arguably downplaying or in Facebook's words "distorting" the Holocaust.
I did a similar exercise on a Python program a few years ago now.

In the end I ended up adding __slots__ to two classes and the memory usage shrunk by 2/3 (there were a lot of those two objects).

I also managed to double the speed by re-writing (re-wording really) a bit of string handling which just happened to be the bottleneck. Can't remember the details now but it was a trivial code change.

Profiling for the win!
Thanks for your response. I pooped on your effort pretty directly, and you responded with grace.

Maybe I'll check back in a few weeks after all!
True, but that's for people who are awake; in this case, we're not actually dealing with (sane, rational, critically thinking) individuals, but with statistics. Nobody cares about individuals denying the holocaust or whatever, but when it becomes a movement, or a feeling, or a suspicion in enough people, it becomes a statistically significant trend that can influence politics, elections, votes, etc.

I mean there's tons of anti-intellectualism going on now wrt anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, corona-deniers, obama-is-a-kenyan-lizard-man, trump-is-immune-to-the-rona, etc. These are rational individuals, they may not be on Facebook or they may, it doesn't really matter because in the end it's a numbers game.
Nah, nobody promised that for today or tomorrow. Just wait for a few decades ;)
Linux also allows invalid utf-8.