skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Propaganda works in so many ways, I find it curious too. Especially when you look at the source material, the author and what agenda they're trying to push.

I am aware, but ignorant of the "rules" that the BBC follows. Some internal script to moderate, guideline and direct what they publish, how they publish, etc.

Then again the same can be said of any government backed, funded news agency. But I do agree alot of Islamic math is given, even to defaults such as "arabic numbers."

But this is above what I know. :) It's something I'd like to narrow down, learn and discover, but it's just quite a bit of info to take.
I was re-reading The Gervais Principle this past week. It really does cover this situation & what you describe as the ambiguity in the rules in Part V, “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose.”

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/10/14/the-gervais-principle-...

> This is a simple and child-like example of the operation of a basic human instinct: the heads-I-win-tails-you-lose or HIWTYL (let’s pronounce that “hightail”) instinct. It is the tendency to grab more than your fair share of the rewards of success, and less than your fair share of the blame for failure.

Now whether one buys into that as literally true or not is one thing, but I think it is definitely a useful way of thinking about situations like these.

In fact, the “Golden Ticket Reconsidered” section at the link sounds somewhat like I imagined incentives within AI ethics research at Google are structured:

1. Cut a deal for performance-linked bonus for successful initiative

2. Set up a committee and charter it to collect, vet & recommend ideas

3. Drop hints & suggestions to create things that leadership favors

4. Create appropriate urgency in the work of the committee to achieve the risk-levels you want in the ideas produced.

The outcome of such a system:

> If it works, you praise everybody generously, hand out a few gift certificates, keep your bonus to yourself, and move on. If it fails, you blame the people in charge of the work for failing to consider an “obvious” (with 20/20 hindsight) issue. The chair of such a committee would likely be Clueless [a term of art in the blog series], his appointment being a false honor — a case of being set up take a fall

Further on, the author brings up the “Hanlon Dodge.” Dean’s characterization of Gebru’s termination (“resignation”) seems quite like that to me.
Slackware: it's still alive. People still use it. ;)

This is a podcast. Most episodes seem to be the host Klaatu going through standard packages included in Slackware. There's some decent general discussion, half general Linux , half Slackware specific, in the couple shows I've gone through. I need to listen to some of the more general show topics. It's a great masthead. "This podcast is founded in the ideals of anarcho-syndacalism, anti-facism, and human rights". I haven't listened to any of the more cereberal shows yet.

I very much look forward to those who DO mix politics and tech. Code becomes law. We can not deny our broader impacts & roles.
Every few years, some auditor would always flip out about IR data transfer. It would always get escalated because none of the frontline IT people had heard of it.

I’d always chuckle thinking of the boogeyman bad actor employee who decided to exfiltrate customer data to a circa 1999 palm pilot at 9600 baud via IR instead of the dozens of easier methods available.
> Is revealing sources really a violation of "freedom of press"?

Well, when a confidential source has their identity revealed it's likely to go pretty badly for them. eg: many corporate and gov whistleblowers being fired + pursued extra-legally, Chelsea Manning thrown in prison, and so on.

So, (most) media organisations seem to resist doing the revealing.

Whether or not that falls strictly under the "freedom of the press" term or not though, is not all that relevant.

The concept of "don't reveal sources" is pretty basic, regardless of the term people use to describe it. ;)
Genuinely asking, how much more does California spends on homelessness per capita than the average state? What services are offered that aren't offered elsewhere? If these services aren't reaching people where is the money going instead?
I'd add Heidegger's Being and Time to that list, and Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra or The Gay Science to that list.

These are are probably the most significant works of Continental philosophy, and should definitely take precedence of Foucault, who's really the only representative of Continental philosophy (with the exception of maybe Hegel) on your list.

It should also be made clear that plato.standford.edu is a highly biased site that mostly depicts philosophy from an Analytic perspective, where Continental thought is barely represented (or misrepresented).

NOTE: As I tried to make clear in a later post in this thread, I'm not recommending Heidegger or Nietzsche for a beginner. I just think their works belong on the list of the person I replied to more than do a lot of the other people he lists (many of whom, by the way, also aren't good for beginners to start with).
That is a good question for which I don't have a good answer. A good first step would be to stop celebrating the aftermath of these actions. As to the racists part, I haven't personally seen the explosion of racism linked to free speech that keeps ketting implied. I suspect that some of this is hyperbole. This line of thought implies that ultimately anyone who seeks out a free speech platform is a racist or supports racism. I think this is dangerous.
Ask HN: Preventing Spam Online?
I'm writing an anonymous textboard. How do I prevent automated spam?

Rate limits are easy to automate around. CAPTCHA's are apparently terrible UX.

How do I prevent automated spam and abuse?
Or SpaceSniffer:

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/
> The House represents the people. The Senate represents the state.

That was the original thinking, but the 17th amendment turned the Senate into just another House of Representatives, but one where each member has a longer term and a hugely outsized influence compared to the number of people they represent.
During my time at Intel I've only seen once the "badge on the table" and the manager took the badge without hesitation.

I guess it only works if you have a good enough reputation that people actually want to you to stick around.
How much does fascism come up wrt operating systems? It seems a bit out of left field unless it's rhetoric to overthrow project leaders that consider themselves "BDFL"s. Even if that is the case it's incredibly melodramatic melodramatic to conflate LKML with Der Sturmer. I don't think project management strategies necessarily line up with political systems.
That's cool how enlightened hipsters all over the internet are starting to see the wisdom in neocon interventionalist philosophy from two decades ago.
You need a stronger justification to censor people other than that they might say something that causes weak minded people to do harm.
I will have to invest in better hosting!

edit: looks like nothing I do will bring the WordPress instance back to life :) in the meantime: https://datacrayon.com/posts/programming/rust-notebooks/pref...
Seems to be essentially a celebration of GNU software/Linux.

Basically podcasts about Linux software, with a little bit of an anarchy twist.

The title is a play on words, see "New World Order".

NB I just skimmed, so I could be mistaken
I feel very disheartened that whatever good Timnit Gebru is doing in her work seems to be undermined by her constant antagonism and hostility. Based on this article, and additional context from other Google employees, I think she is in the right, but that she herself is such an obnoxious person it's hard for a lot of us here to be able to separate the issue with her personality.

My first introduction to Gebru (and probably a lot of others here) was through her fight with Yann LeCun. Whatever everyone thinks about that debate, one thing was clear: LeCun consistently asked his supporters to not attack Gebru, and tried to engage the discourse, whereas she repeatedly encouraged her supporters to attack LeCun, and avoided his points.

FWIW, I myself am a minority. I am very sympathetic to the investigation of AI ethics and Gebru's general area of work. I also completely understand and support the need for activists to disrupt norms: we wouldn't have civil liberties if activists weren't willing to disrupt middle-class norms.

But I think for exactly that reason activists have a responsibility (a greater responsibility even) to be selective about which norms or civilities they choose to disrupt. They do such enormous harm when their actions can be picked apart and dismissed for completely unrelated issues - in this case because Timnit doesn't seem to engage in good faith discussions with other experts in her field. It sucks, I really hate that this is what ethics in tech is going to be associated with.
Except that it literally happens all the time, mostly by local agencies. But this happens to be news because it's ICE, and everyone hates ICE. It's not that hard to see the click-bait selective reporting.
Reinforced concrete has strength but not resilience.

Check out the Cypress Structure collapse in the 1989 earthquake. There were similar failures of reinforce concrete spans in the later Northridge earthquake.

The manufacture and transport of concrete for buildings also has a much more severe environmental impact.
Absolutely. Great addition.

(To this day, I feel like maybe one might…not imagine Sisyphus to be happy? But Camus getting there is valuable. And maybe he’s right!)
I was a philosophy major at a good (but not top) department. You are getting a lot of advice from autodidacts here that is well-intentioned but, in my view, unproductive.

First, as a general heuristic, if there's some topic (in philosophy or otherwise) you want to learn, find syllabuses of courses in that subject at good universities and figure out what books they use.

If you do this for philosophy courses, you will find either anthologies of (contemporary) articles, or modern textbooks like Jaegwon Kim's Philosophy of Mind. At a high level, these more or less follow the same format (after perhaps some historical prologue). A reasonable view is presented, then in the next chapter (or essay) an important objection is discussed. This goes on for a while until you understand the strengths and weaknesses of various positions. At the end, you may favor one or another, but rarely is there is a clear winner.

Note that philosophy is distinct from the history of philosophy. If you care about what is true, and not the historical development of ideas, there's not much point in reading things written before, say, 1900, or even 1950. So no Hume or Hegel or whatever. In general these texts are poorly written and unclear compared to modern ones. And of course, they can't treat the developments that have taken place in the intervening years. Consider an analogy: you would not read Newton's original manuscripts to learn calculus.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a good reference work, but it presents mainly literature overviews, not pedagogical essays. Again, you wouldn't read an encyclopedia to learn math; it is similarly unwise here.

You write about developing models that address "the bigger questions of life," and "a personal philosophy." This is not something that contemporary academic philosophy talks much about, at least in the broad sense. But, in this direction, you might enjoy "Six Myths About the Good Life: Thinking About What Has Value" by Joel Kupperman. There's a good review of the book here: https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/six-myths-about-the-good-life-think....
No, I can't, unless you assume that everyone else doing the reading is somehow more gullible or impressionable than yourself.

Did 8chan make you pick up a gun? Did 8chan turn you into a nazi?

Just because seeing something published makes you upset does not mean that publishing those things is inherently dangerous.

You need to trust the other people in your society a bit more than you do, and stop assuming most readers are ten years old.

Your conclusion is based on fear, not the millions of people who read "objectionable" things online and go "ugh" and then close the tab (and sometimes go write long-winded blog posts about how censorship is essential to prevent violence).
Tell them about the eiffel tower
Islam never produced anything of value. Works cited as Arabic are copy paste translations from India.

Question to be asked is if Islam is so progressive then why it insists on blind following of weird and regressive rulers. How can someone develop scientific temper when you can be simply stoned, hanged flogged for merely having an opinion.

Arabia was still a desert with no social,architectural, or technological progress up until oil was discovered. Ottoman ruled for many centuries but I don't recall any "scientific" achievements under there rule. I would love hear if someone has counter view.
Fun fact, the Rothschild and Rockefeller wealth still exists, although it's heavily fragmented. For the Rockefellers, the US government explicitly stepped in and split their golden goose (Standard Oil - > Exxon + Chevron + Texaco). The Rothschild money permeates Europe throughout. The split is because that's what happens when you get a family spanning more than thousands of members. And each of their branches are massively wealthy.

You mention the UAE dipping into its SWF, except it already does that. The SWF accumulates the oil wealth from exports, which is reinvested into various investments around the world. A fraction (about 50B USD) of the annual returns from that wealth is what is used to run the UAE and all of its welfare programmes, its military, etc. Unlike the Saudis, UAE and Qatar both benefit from really small local populations - there are about 300k Qatari citizens and 1M Emirati citizens worldwide.

And Buffett is not lucky. He made a lot of successful bets everywhere year - I recommend reading his investor letters if you can, where he explains his rationale behind every investment decision, including the ones that turned out to be duds.

Just as you say that SWFs won't exist in 50 years, there are banks in Switzerland that have existed for hundreds of years. Oxford and Cambridge are just as prestigious today as they were 800 years ago. Once a culture is established and buttressed, it will be hard to shake it off.
Mysterious illness targeting US diplomats likely from microwave energy
This site is difficult to navigate and understand. The main page isn't organized chronologically. And while the archive lists seasons, Seasons 3-8 all have the same modification date in 2019, whereas Seasons 9-11 all have the same modification date in 2018. Consequently, I have no idea when these audio shows were recorded. Moreover, there are no descriptions of the contents to tell the listener which topics are discussed, so that they can choose to listen to one that piques their interest.
No sure about bleeding edge, because for the most part their products work but at different times they have defined:

- Phones, (Original iPhone way ahead of competitors)

- MP3 players (Original iPods)

- Tablets, (Pretty much the only serious tablet as far as I can see)

- Smart Watches, (Apple Watch still defines the category)

- Ultra Books, (First MacBook Air)

- All in One Desktop (iMac)

- Mobile CPUs (Apple silicon has been way ahead for years)

- Laptop CPUs (M1)

This doesn't just all happen by making existing things more "User Friendly". This takes real innovation to pull off.
Yes, but also with new updated installation media images.

Historical context: It wasn’t always like this; Debian 3.1 was a major release after Debian 3.0, and Debian 6.0 had minor releases up to 6.0.10. This did not change until Debian 7 (which was called 7, not 7.0, and had a minor release numbered 7.1). Therefore, many people might still assume that an increase of the first minor version number is a major release, even though it is not true anymore.
The sentiment was meant to be: "Make `command help` as good as a man page. More people will read that." We didn't mean to suggest to use web pages instead.

We also didn't mean not to use man pages at all. We just find more people use the built-in help and web pages, so if you have limited time/resources, it's better spent on those things.

In retrospect, perhaps it was worded a bit strongly. I am enjoying the debate, though. The meta point, and part of the reason for this document to exist, is that perhaps it's a good idea to question our 30-year-old traditions and see if we can come up with better ways of doing things. This seems to have got people talking again. :)
"Once upon a time in Hollywood" is the best movie of all time because it is completely about the career of Clint Eastwood and his uncredited stuntmen. For example the flamethrower is about Clint Eastwoods nazi role in Where Eagles Dare[0] where he is on camera with a flamethrower he holds as a gun. Cinephiles completely missed the meaning of this master piece. Watch Once upon a time in Hollywood again with Clint in mind

[0] https://youtu.be/pRHqtbt3ORc
ICYDK, Nadella wrote a book on this and more: "Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone". Really good read.
Ask HN: Recommend books that give you insight into other professions
I want to read books that give me insights into other professions preferably something unrelated to and far from working in technology. For example, what is it like to work on a container ship or the life of a forest ranger. Memoirs with a bit of adventure are a bonus.
Thanks!
This is standard operating procedure and happens all the time, especially at the local level. 99.9% the subpoenas fall through, but it's a low-risk, high-reward legal strategy.
If it's important to you, you should help with the work that's needed.
"If people have the freedom to share bad ideas, surely that is a slippery slope to having the freedom to kill people with nuclear bombs" is a fantasy.
"Maybe we shouldn't want" is a strange statement. It simultaneously appears to acknowledge widespread desire for something, along with an apparent minority view that wanting that thing is bad. In the context of a democracy, the argument ends before it begins.

Maybe we shouldn't want to write "maybe we shouldn't want"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction gives the exact time as 21 December 2020, 13:22:00 UTC, or 5:22 AM PST. In SF, the planets will set around 7:10 PM, the sun sets about 5pm. So if my best observation time will be around 5:30 or 6pm, seems like they will be at least as close if not better on the 20th as the 21st, right? And then even more so for HI, two hours later.
I recommend the Philosophise This podcast[0]. It has a lot of episodes on the classic philosophers but it also delves into some of the contemporary philosophers that I find very interesting. I lot of other philosophical discussions seem to act like philsophy stopped around Russell and Wittgenstein.

[0]https://www.philosophizethis.org/
Just take classes part time at your nearest CC/Uni.
The one thing I have struggled with is to figure out if dgraph is strictly a triple/rdf graphdb or can it act as a labeled propery graph? For my usecase, I think I would prefer being able to add properties to Vertices and Edges, instead of those properties becoming new vertices and edges. IS that possible in Dgraph?
It's the ability to publish criticism and facts about the government without facing harm from doing so.

Revealing sources violates the trust those sources depend on to ensure the truth gets reported, and risks harm to those sources.
In that sense, personally, everyone cares. But when people have to operate in big org environments priorities change. Think about it, no one wakes up in the morning and thinks I'm going to make something terrifyingly hard to use today. No one invests or gives grants for something that "is going to be terrifyingly hard to use", right? And yet dominating majority of big org software is terrifyingly hard to use. The answer to why? I think is the point you are missing. Your suggestion is commendable, interesting but no number of references or examples are going to help make your next project better as well as that why.

As far as UI/UX world goes it has a problem of becoming fashionable, popular and somewhat profitable. This always attracts certain kinds of people and hot air. I'm sure you have plenty of your own examples in academia.
The link mentions both approaches. The lens constricting drugs are listed first.
Is there something wrong with pointing out its positive aspects? Personally I appreciate the counter balance to the last two decades of racist tropes.
Binary concepts exist in the universe as do spectrums. Temperature is an example of a spectrum. Something and Nothing are two examples of a binary concept. Binary thinking is not flawed... it is only flawed if you think everything is binary just as it is flawed if you think everything is a spectrum. Both concepts exist at a conceptual level.

Just because one person views a topic as binary and another person views the same topic as a spectrum doesn't automatically make the person who views it as a spectrum more right.

So what triggered you here? The OOP thing? Perhaps you can share with us the logical scaffold you constructed around yourself to justify all your years of using Object Oriented programming. I would bet that the scaffold you constructed is just as complicated as the scaffold I created that is against the concept of OOP altogether.

Either way I triggered you, your brain reacted in a biased and emotional way. That is in itself the "flaw" that I am talking about in my post. I used bait to deliberately help illustrate my point, to show that these flaws are not just things you observe in other people, but that they are things within you yourself.
I really understand why Ubuntu migrated Chromium to snaps only. Splitting all the code it embedded back to the original libraries is certainly a nightmare.
Oh, we can fulfill them. We'll resort to TLS inspection and force you to trust our CA on your device if you want to continue accessing our corporate network. And now we get to see (almost) everything again, like in the "good old days," not just your DNS queries.

Clear text DNS is the ultimate compromise, a gentleman's agreement if you want, that benefits everyone. We can see just enough to filter what we are required to by law on a best-effort basis, but we never see what you are actually doing thanks to the prevalence of TLS. DoH just broke that agreement.

It's a sad example of how a privacy solution like DoH will eventually result in less privacy, at least in some environments. And I'm not even considering how DoH will be the excuse for totalitarian regimes to up their surveillance antics.
you only need to ask one question. tell me about the conjoined triangles of success.
It would be a CS breakthrough if it could... You're asking a lot...
We've been building a platform called Skynet which makes this possible. It has a user-oriented data model: all of the application code is run client-side, and all of the data is stored under the user's control.

That means that someone can create a new application at any time which has access to all of the data - because all of the data is accessed client-side and owned by clients in the first place.

This doesn't solve the standards problem, but on the other hand I think what would likely happen is the first project to become successful would also become more or less the standard, with other people building extensions to that data standard over time.
They did it with the sexual assault accusations against Biden as well.
The House has shown the ability to pass it, which means that if the Dems can flip the Senate (using the GA election), then the House can pass it again next session and have it go to a more favorable Senate. This was less about getting it through Mitch McConnell's Senate, and more about signaling voters: this is what we can do if it's no longer Mitch McConnell's Senate.