skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they? Or do they just seem like the opponents to every political group? I'm sure liberals would say these media companies are also their opponents.
In France, it's not only about what you say or "like". Over the last decade, several men have been sentenced to 2 years of jail for what they read ("consultation régulière de site terroristes" / regularly visiting terrorist web sites).

This is no surprise to anyone who knows how the French law evolved in recent years. A NGO even wrote that legislation in France was more repressive than in Turkey (the law texts, not the legal application).
Ask HN: Anyone here studying modern philosophy as a hobby?
What books do you find interesting? What is your plan for studying philosophy? Is there useful groups somewhere on the internet that you like?
Which means as ever it's super important to maintain and preferably improve democratic processes to keep the state accountable for that terrible responsibility.

Also, vote!
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Every time a new note app is suggested, I get deja vu here. HN quickly jumps into the alternative apps, pen and paper, longhand and memory retention, image and link insertion, searchability vs marginalia, org-mode, and those who covet the almighty e-ink solution.
https://i.imgur.com/zcfhCEm.jpeg

This is my city. There are many like it but this is mine.
This looks very neat!

Just a thought - one that could involve implementation challenges and/or require too much effort to be worthwhile:

It might be possible to generate iCalendar-format schedules, which could widen compatibility and ease up the access permissions concerns you mention in the readme.

Python has a decent icalendar[1] library - and updates to existing entries be handled by ensuring that the ID for each schedule object is stable when updates are distributed[2].

[1] - https://icalendar.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#exampl...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar#Distributing_updates
For the test or for each API provider?
I can't browse NextDoor on my phone without accidentally Liking a post or comment while scrolling, because of the crappy way they're handling touchDown events. As a result, I've Liked missing dogs, people getting hit by cars, and a bunch of random shit.
Wonder if archive.org and the EFF could get a video site up to compete with youtube, or work to back something like bitchute or otehr alternatives to raise awareness and push back on overreach takedown requests. YouTube/Google just seem to cave, and apparently so does GitHub.
Which is what I'm afraid Google will eventually add to YouTube.
GitHub is most definitely worthy as a node on the network of an open source project, with the caveat that in the event of loss, the project should be able to rapidly spin back up on GitLab or any other git-based project management system (my fork of youtube-dl was nuked as part of the DMCA takedown, but I was able to restore the tarball the Internet Archive had to my personal GitLab instance, for example).

This isn't a call to move from GitHub wholesale (churning between git hosts isn't an effective use of resources imho), but to build more durability and resiliency into distributed version control systems (Keybase-esque identity management, signing every commit, etc). Just as the Internet Archive and others are championing a distributed web [1], technologists must champion distributed development systems. Perhaps a reasonable target is to be able to perform a "git pull" from IPFS? As Gilmore said [2], interpret censorship as damage and route around it.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=distributed+web

[2] http://kirste.userpage.fu-berlin.de/outerspace/internet-arti... (First Nation in Cyberspace, TIME International - Dec. 6, 1993, No.49)
Shameless self-promotion: https://github.com/norswap/autumn
What did you use to build the landing page? Looks nice
I'm the cofounder of a startup[1] working on an app that might scratch your itch.

We built a note-taking system around digital notecards instead of documents, and those cards can be both linked hierarchally with parent/child relationships (and unlike most other platforms a card can have multiple parents) as well as with inline markdown link-style linking that you'll find in many other apps / wikis / tools for thought.

I definitely think the notecard format could be very useful for this use-case, as one card = one argument makes a lot of sense.

[1] https://supernotes.app
It also serves to amplify a lot of fake stories without doing any research to confirm if there is any proof of said stories.
Close but not close enough. Take an ALB, pair it with your SSO solution (AWS SSO, OneLogin, Okta, etc). Add DUO and make sure to validate the devices as well. You need half if not less of the infrastructure outlined in this article.
Why would anyone want this to be illegal?

It does two things - offends people (you have no right to not be offended, and this is a good thing), and, broadcasts a signal that this is not someone you want to be involved with, not someone you want to hire, and someone who authorities can keep an eye on. Letting such people out themselves seems to be more beneficial then letting them lurk in polite society.
Only if you live in Chicago.

Still, these incentives for remote workers seem like a good idea; I'm curious how many more there will be.

non-paywalled archive if you need it: https://archive.is/uu2SW

original source: movetomichigan.com
I, for one, am not particularly troubled by someone being punished for celebrating a fundamentalist murdering a teacher.

We’re going to have to be doing more of this.

Either we have to treat socially undeveloped nations like a star trek, noninterferance and isolation until some bar is passed, or we have to police opinions. You can’t have peace and a considerable population that does not support some of the basic values of your society. If change doesn’t come this sort of thing is going to keep happening until the people fear it enough to start turning it into state sponsored ethnic violence.

It is a much more difficult solution than being blindly tolerant or blindly racist, you have to walk a very fine line of being specifically intolerant of certain ideas, expressions, and actions.
My primary use case has been to download talks and watch them later. I frequently used to work out of cafes (not since Feb of course) where the connection may not be reliable. Youtube-dl was very helpful in those cases.
SO is fine. On discourse (besides asking questions like on SO) there is also space to e.g. discuss why one feels exhausted, defeated and uninspired after working with Julia. This shouldn't be! And there is certainly a way to "fix it" :)
See also: net neutrality
It may well be the watershed moment. Microsoft wants to be seen as committed to the open ecosystem, and now we get to see the implications of what will happen with any conflicts of interest they have. I hope they're internally aware of the impact this scenario has.
Agree. That imagery far from free speech and shouldn’t be encouraged to fester. On the other hand any bad actor can simply operate on private channels and become even less visible or harder to detect
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/polic...

"In most cases, when police want to search your neighborhood, they need a warrant and a reason to believe something’s amiss. Now “reasonable suspicion” is going the way of dial-up. Fifty police departments across the United States are partnering with Amazon to collect footage from people who use Ring, the company’s internet-connected doorbell. Some are offering discounted or free Ring doorbells in exchange for a pledge to register the devices with law enforcement and submit all requested footage."
[3] doesn't claim any numbers on how many surplus deaths 'anti-vaxers' are the cause of.
This is just mean
What Twitter learned from the Recsys 2020 Challenge
Thanks, that was really interesting.
Always hear one side of news, especially when it's a semi-complex subject and I will have a look at reneweconomy.
There is also this October 2019 thread [0] which mentions a coronavirus-like bioweapon, which, like the "High Incident Project" thread [1] (covered by snopes here [2]) is often pointed to by conspiracy theorists as examples of insiders leaking information on 4chan before events of global significance.

In my analysis I find these are examples of fitting events to predictions after the fact; the huge number of 'larp' threads on conspiracy forums allows for cherry-picking examples where some content later rhymed with reality.

[0] https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/230585890/#q230593401

[1]
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/141096258/#141102703

[2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/4chan-user-prediction-las-...
Westboro Baptists are fundamentalists? I’d say they’re hateful, not fundamentalists as they preach that God hates people which is not what the Bible says.
Articles like this: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201026/COVID-19-now-like... make me think that's seriously unlikely. I mean unless, you are talking about one of the historical flu pandemics. Yes, this is less deadly then the 1918 flu was in 1918. Then again, I think the 1918 flu would also be less deadly then it was in 1918 if it occurred for the first time today because of other medical advancements.
The "who" is pretty easy, it's the state. Who they wield it on and to what extent is the open question.
Not only should they resign from the RIAA, they should reinstate the code, and sue the RIAA for reputational damages resulting from the perjurious DMCA notice.

The RIAA knowingly issued a takedown where there was no copyrighted content. That is perjury. It is spelled out in the DMCA. If they wanted to sue under the "no circumvention" clause, they could have. But they chose to misuse the DMCA takedown process again. Just once I'd love to see them put in their place for the rampant abuse of the system.
It sounds like they missed out on a great hire, if anything.
> The valuable version that you're talking about would have to include things like polls or something, saying "20% of people agree with this idea, 5% agree with this other idea, etc."

I disagree that would be "the valuable version." That's just "the more quantified" version. A music critic's list of the 100 best songs of 2020 is not inferior to Billboard's list of the 100 most popular songs of 2020 as determined by quantified data.

Twitter is a cultural phenomenon, and its milieu(s) and output aren't completely unworthy of journalistic attention. That's not to say it's a top shelf subject, but the "news" properly covers all kinds of similar things, and some, like sports for instance, have even less value.
> Most platforms, Twitter included, just wanted to be dumb service providers. They don't want to spend money and carry responsibility moderating content.

Not really. They already spend time and money figuring out what content to promote and demote in order to increase engagement and maximize their ad revenue. They're just finding that the some of the kinds of things that tend to surface because of that are the kinds of things that they need to moderate, otherwise people (both users and advertisers) will get fed up with the platform and leave.
Exactly. I’m 63. I have an autoimmune disease, and am a cancer survivor, but I’m reasonably healthy, am enjoying life, and there is no way I would choose to die at this point. If it happens, it happens, but I’d rather stick around.
I think the problem is that the infrastructure is being being built up. Even if they aren’t using the cameras right now for surveillance, the infrastructure is ready to be used be a bad actor in the future. I think that’s the real risk of building this up.
I am 44, not really juvenile, and while my view of death changed a lot over time I would still choose to live longer if I can.

I fully understand the central role of death in the evolution of life.

At the same time, this is incredibly wasteful for a species like us.

Life is usually preserving knowledge with DNA copies over generations, but individual knowledge is lost and in our case it is not negligible.

Most of it is really lost.
We're looking to meet with researchers and clinicians who want to develop other plant and natural medicines through a model that combines mission and the ability to scale.
The memory is freed all over the target, I suppose
follow this story posted on ZH today over the next few days

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/youll-bury-everyone-invo...

It may be incorrect &/or partisan but you are likely to read these sort of revelations on ZH first for better or worse.
Stanford researchers may have found key to better VR headsets in solar panels
Some of the British "deadly weapon" arrests read like a parody to me, crazy how different cultural views on these things can be. I regularly carried worst than most of them when I was 12.
Uhh sure, but you're kind of deflecting. The phrase "parsing with derivatives" (or "Might's 'Parsing with Derivatives'" as I wrote in my initial comment to which you first replied) refers specifically to the technique developed by Might et al that generalizes the Brzozowski derivative to CFGs. And, more to the point, their technique has very poor performance, which is addressed directly in the paper.

If you talk to parsing people about "parsing with derivatives", they will undoubtedly assume that you specifically mean the Might et al work and not some other, more general notion, regardless of whether one could technically call such notion a "parsing with derivatives" technique. I have never heard of anybody calling anything else "parsing with derivatives" and, indeed, the paper you linked never uses this phrase (the closest they come is "matching with derivatives", which is a bit different in semantics).

I appreciate the points you've raised, and I do think the RE-parsing paper you linked previously looks very interesting (I hadn't seen it before), but the crux of the issue is that you misinterpreted what I said and haven't yet acknowledged that misinterpretation. Instead, it feels like you're trying to fight me on other points to win back some ground or something, though I hope I'm just misreading this because I find that kind of a frustrating conversational method.
More than 300000 people a day get tested for coronavirus in the UK according to [1], and the testing capacity is even greater than that. This is enough to cover study participants.

I would imagine that volunteers would also be willing to get tested, though perhaps the worry is that such a requirement might cause more of them to drop out of the study.

[1]: https://interactive.news.sky.com/2020/covid-19-coronavirus/t...
Having 100% company owned equipment allows you to do other common sense things like:

a) full disk encryption with key escrow for recovery by admin team

b) storage of crypto public/private key pair on disk of laptop, for instance an openvpn key file that was created on a company owned PKI server, deployed onto the laptop as part of its provisioning process, and is a unique key for both the human and that particular piece of hardware

c) you can use the same crypto key pair on client device local storage, if not for something like openvpn, for other authentication purposes identifying that particular user and hardware

d) obviously, have the device trust your own internal PKI's root CA for access to purely-intranet resources. getting a company root CA trusted by the browsers in a BYOD device environment is a pain in the ass.
So ironic given the content of the story.
My top items in a senior engineer’s checklist
Without looking into the case, I have to say this seems quite depressing, especially for what most people still think of as a free society. What about a journalist or scholar, who may be monitoring these groups? You can be jailed merely for watching what they are up to, without participating or endorsing them?
And original Stanford announcement: https://news.stanford.edu/2020/10/22/future-vr-employ-new-ul...
They allege that it circumvents a "rolling cipher", which (they say) is sufficiently DRMy that it comes under the law. The DMCA doesn't have much of a definition of what counts as an access control measure, but the "rolling cipher" that scrambles the download URL looks like one if you squint. Exactly what counts as DRM is less of a technical question than a legal one, so (not being a copyright lawyer) it's not obvious to me what the right answer is.

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-2...

There is legitimately some obfuscation happening:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2013/06/youtube-download-counter-co...
I'm very centrist so I respect and support aspects of both sides. I don't think the extreme left realizes it but they're just as fanatical as the right.

I've had your same experiences on hacker news at times. It's a down vote brigade for anything counter to the progressive narrative whether it's Trump or Covid or Global Warming or other progressive ideas.

It's a great site though and I have had some great conversations and learned a lot as long as you steer clear of the progressive agenda.

Reddit is way worse. It makes hacker news look like The Wall Street Journal.

There's a theory called horseshoe theory that claims that the fanatical left and right have more in common with each other than they do centrists.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
Look up Noam Chomskys work and you'll see that he says there is no liberal media, only a corporate for profit one.
A brave new Augmented world – a few thoughts on the near future
...Have you ever walked outsides thinking about all the accessible information on animals, plants, items, or even people? How much information is available on the internet? How many facts have you already forgotten?...

I hope to spark an interesting conversation in the comment section.
"The process for a subpoena takes forever"

No, it doesn't. And that "forever" are human rights that are established and should require a subpoena to contest.
Actually applying the golden rule would probably be the death of social media's business model
I'm sure you have sincere intentions, but I think you might benefit from being introduced to the concept of Motte and Bailey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

The point here is precisely to equivocate between two terms to manipulate others. You get your target to accept one claim using a relatively acceptable defintion, and the force them to concede rather more extreme claims by implicitly switching to a more self-serving definition.
> That's not counting the survivors who suffer permanent organ damage.

That's extremely rare, if it happens at all.

> The goal of vaccinating younger people is to protect those whom they might infect.

You want to subject children to a medical procedure that they won't even benefit from?
I hadn't thought about the accessibility improvements in the new design. When I was forced to switch I went directly into Grumpy Old Man mode and spent the next couple of days moaning about it. Then I got over myself/it and went back to admiring other people's pet photographs and trying to start fights with poets.

Change hurts, but life still goes on. I'm glad the FB changes has been beneficial to others in ways I was too self-centred to notice at the time.
SVG file creator for go boards, suitable for a laser printer
> and they are usually intimidated by reminding them of that

Would I be wrong to assume you say that from a position of middle class white privilege? (A position I also hold, but from which I have significant empathy with those who do not.)

I'm guessing intimidating police by reminding them of the laws they're supposed to uphold works a lot less well for young black kids.
I am not in law enforcement myself, but do some online investigations, and like many others in my field we use YouTube-dl to save a copy of video evidence relevant to a case we are working on. It can be instrumental for archiving the evidence if it is ever removed or taken down, can also be used to grab extra info (CC text log is one example) and then manually searched for specific strings. This tool has made ma y investigations pay off in ways they never could have otherwise.
What if somebody says: "I like that the teacher was murdered." Should they be jailed until they don't like it?
What an insane point of view. Both are terrible things that we should find solutions to.
Not ideal, as you're recording a lossy format and re-encoding it through a lossy codec and you're also stuck with recording in realtime.
Aside: I love the design of Japanese websites. They're high-density, extremely legible and clear and perhaps the only bad part is that a lot of headers are actually images, not sure why.

If this was done in silicon valley, it would be a horrendously wasteful page with scroll jacking, large amounts of negative space, huge padding, magenta/purple gradients, unnecessary animations, massive fonts, and would take 50% CPU usage, 836 MB of ram to load after 20 seconds. If you're running Firefox on Linux machine, it would crash it.
While I'm generally in favor of native apps, this article reads like a puff piece from Apple trying to show off how much they value developers, particularly in light of the ongoing skirmishes with Epic, Spotify and the Coalition for App Fairness.
DNA is overrated. I think we have already transcended out biological roots. Some information we generate as a civilization is already long lived.

I am not sure if it’s wasteful. In the current context maybe.
Twitter isn't obligated to allow anyone to use their platform, but as a user, I don't want Twitter to curate what ideas and speakers I'm exposed to, in the same way that I don't want my local library to ban certain books or Google to delist websites that it decides are bad. Twitter is within its right to do whatever it wants, but I don't want it curating my feed anymore than I want my phone to decide who I can and can't text message. And while I'm resigned to the fact that there will be some moderation on Twitter, to remove a longstanding newspaper for publishing a dubious story is an absurd overreach. They can do it, but it's a silly, foolish way to run a social network.
My first two weeks in SF I took the bus twice, the first time a group of kids started slapping random people, I was prepared to fight and protect my SO but they didn't get to me; the second time some guy just ran and took a girl's phone, she grabbed to it for what seemed like a full minute, screaming and shit, then finally let go... I was paralyzed, especially after the event of the previous week, after that I vouched not to ever take the bus again in SF.

After that some homeless people screamed at me, some tried to punch me slowly (easy to avoid), I got used to it with time but it's still not a nice feeling to take walks. I wouldn't let my SO walk alone at 3AM through the streets for example (while I would have no problems with that in London or Beijing).
I appreciate the replies. I've noticed at least a couple handful over the last year, some more unfortunate than others, but I'm not keeping close score so I don't have them on hand. I don't actually even follow flaggings really, I assume there are many I miss.

Is there a place to see flagged-but-highly-upvoted articles? That would be another helpful area to let users check and report false negatives.

When I notice more, I'll just shoot you an email.

I am agreeing on the complaint meme, by the way. As I see it, the meme used to be that it's a bunch of assholes and closed-minded-pedants/contrarianistas (and to be honest, it kind of was for a while, and I think mods have fixed it a bit), and now the meme is that it's getting a bit groupthinky and quick on the flag button (and I suspect that meme is true as well, and can be fixed).
I thought that the specific primitives needed to make NTVDM work were removed from AMD64, specifically that you cant go to Virtual 8086 mode, directly from long mode, without another reset inducing mode change someplace else? I read an article about this like 5 years ago.