skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Safari has this trick on the iPad I know of.
I never understood how the Christchurch Shooting would argue in favor of putting tighter controls on 8chan or abolishing it altogether.

The way I understood it, the shooter placed a manifesto there before shooting, that, if anything, could have given the enforcement a way to stop it if they were fast enough — it enhanced their chances of doing so.

8chan allowing anything and everything hardly caused the shooting, and gave enforcement a possible window to stop it.
Well, another one - 'donald trump reddit'.
Sometimes I wonder how some random low quality article gets bumped up so fast, and then I think it's about keywords, but that doesn't explain the upvotes. Are people upvoting articles without reading both the article and the comments? I get the no-article part where you skip to the comments but if the comments shit on the article, why upvote?
>Unlike many people, I actually have faith that people will accept the truth, eventually.

It is ironic that you use the word "faith", which is a word that means "steadfast belief in spite of lack of evidence, or indeed countervailing evidence".

What would it take to convince you of the truth that people do NOT always accept the truth "eventually"? Anything? Or is your faith unshakeable?
IMHO trolling is bad by definition.

But it doesn’t really matter whether you consider it the goodies or baddies, it’s still a form of shutting down speech.
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This same narrative has been touted for many decades now. I have heard it for 20+ years, yet the rate of windows usage in the quantifiable sense remains has varied only slightly.
I applaud an independent, new spider and search engine.

Sadly, the name is pretty horrible.

If you have to spell a domain out letter by letter when telling people in person, it’s not a good name. You also don’t appear to own common misspellings, like mogeek.com or moejeek.com or mojeak.com or at least they don’t redirect to the main website.

Still, I hope it gains market share and usage and I hope in a few years you may have the funding necessary to rebrand it into a more user friendly name.
If it runs instantaneously, it would probably be a pretty cool effect to have the pointing fingers trace your cursor as it moves.
Because the modern web runs on Lynx.
On his interpretation of constructivism, there are no mathematical constructions that are in principle non-computable. The proof that a function satisfying the property of "busy-beaverness" couldn't be computed thus is proof that the property does not determine a total function, so the classical definition is rejected as a non-constructive gesture at infinity.
Yeah, that bothered me too. I mean, even in a free plan I expect the same level of security as the paid plan.
> They're all individually great pieces of software but none of them feel complete and I always reach out for something that is not there.

I'm not convinced that the libs being in std would help you with this issue. Instead you'd probably have the same incompleteness with a whole bunch of the functionality only available in nightly rust because of the stability contract implied by std.

Picking either tokio or async-std (flip a coin if you can't decide) and using their recommended way doing a given async task isn't really all that different from doing the same with a hypothetical std::async.
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In order to avoid repeating myself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25384346

Just because it could be cheap doesn't mean it will be cheap.
> What kind of evidence would you expect to see?

That any person in the long chain of people required for the type of conspiracy suggested would slip up and leave any tangible trace, have a change of heart, leak something, or that hundreds of people noticing their names had been used to vote already when they tried to, or any number of other possible evidence.

> What evidence would you expect to see if YouTube had deleted a good faith video?

I don't expect any Youtube video to provide evidence to begin with, I expect it in court, where over 50 cases have failed to produce a single piece of evidence.

> Wouldn't you want to have some evidence in support of your statement before you make sweeping claims? I'm trying to see how you can reconcile the part where you think these other people are bad because they make statements about reality without evidence, but you're fine with making statements about reality yourself without evidence.

I make statements about the reality that santa and big foot don't exist because there's never been any evidence showing they do. I accept that this is not 100% certainty, but it's absolutely reliable enough to base reality around until further notice.

I'm opposing your suggestion that videos stating something very provable without any kind of evidence is the same thing as what I'm doing, and I've explained that stark difference.
Copy and paste on the iPhone. I would really like to have a physical button at this point for that function. On my devices at least (yours might be ok..) the selection process is hard, the copy process is maddeningly intermittently working at times. Once in while it straight up refuses to copy.
So free speech was good, when it was restricted to the elite (those of means and intellect). Now that the unwashed masses, the plebs, have access to it, it's no longer good?
Now that literally anyone can invent his own conspiracy theory and post it on facebook... people are right to be concerned.

People always had the right and capacity to make conspiracy theories. They deeply believed myths, and could just as easily be manipulated. Look at the Salem witch trials. Look at the conspiracies that sprung up from the moon landing or the assassination of JFK.
Correction: “haters gonna cancel”
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Great comment. I think a big part of the problem, that I feel Cyberpunk actually highlights really well, is the degree to which problems are ultimately defined by and related to the individual. And, unfortunately, constrained.

Take the hippie movement. It's often associated with 'the left' but I'd argue that the navel-gazing focus on individual enlightenment caused immense damage to the ability of those without power to collectively have enough of it to see some changes.

Cyberpunk, intentionally or not, highlights this. The typical Cyberpunk scene is a person alone, getting by. Any kind of 'collective' behavior is nipped in the bud by surveillance and whatnot. Any solutions involve that lone person forming valuable relationships with other lone persons (or robits, I guess).

The dystopia, I feel, is usually not experientially the marketing, the massive corporate powers, and so on. It's the stifling isolation, and the only solution that's remotely viable is finding another single soul to share it with.

What I've found interesting about a show/book series like The Expanse, is that it dips into the Cyberpunk themes with the detective dude (I don't think it's a coincidence that Cyberpunk and film noir often overlap, the latter just an earlier iteration of the former). But eventually that guy, in the expanse of multiple planets, has options to find something bigger, more collective, to be part of.
We kind of have this setup for those who want Linux as their desktop OS, it's provided by our IT and it's great.

If you want a Linux workstation, IT will provision you a Windows VM. It has email, Office, and our payroll app. With most stuff on Teams you can ignore it most of the time and get on with your work. IT's happy, we're happy.
There seems to be a ban on "conspicuous religious symbols in schools" - that's hardly most public places?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_law_on_secularity_and_c...
Did you know there are folks out here arguing for an even stronger version of this position? The 'social model of disability' is the name for the wider notion that includes the neurodiversity argument/paradigm to which you refer, and applies to all other disabilities. On this view, all the problems you mention are only problems because society doesn't give affected people enough support (ETA; to clarify (or rather, to give my best interpretation of the position I don't actually hold): material support. Not just lack of 'societal preconception and bigotry').

It's an ethical/political (and maybe economic?) position.

Edit: noticed SM is mentioned in the article.
Very succinct description of twitter. I use it mainly for work and I mostly see work related stuff that is trending.

Facebook likes mashing your whole life together, so one post is from a group, another from your high school weirdo that sells MLM products and another one from your racist uncle.

Honestly, Google+ "circle" concept was ahead of its time and I will die on this hill.
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> hives of

scum and villainy.
The wonders of small sample experiments. Alcohol makes you smarter, wow.
My friends father had a ton of jazz records. He lamented in the mid 80s that he couldn’t replace most of them with cds as they weren’t being re-issued, and some were very good. Getting stuff recorded was harder back then so there was less content coming out.

I can’t imagine most of those are on streaming..lost to the ages. A lot of it won’t be missed but there are probably some hidden gems too
If you would know well Russian (at least to read it, which for any language is much easier than writing/speaking), passing the text through Google translate and then correcting the mistakes that would probably exist in each sentence would not take long, maybe 15 minutes or so.

Otherwise, a good translation by hand would take much longer.
I think that the issue is misinformation and propaganda not hate speech.

Perhaps a start would be forbidding PACs, lobbyists, and politicians from posting things that are factually untrue. That wouldn't fix everything since the majority of misinformation is twisting facts rather than outright falsehoods, but it could at least help.
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How would an x64 emulator help with running Android applications on a Windows computer?

Are you maybe mixing this up with Microsoft's recent Android on Windows efforts? These would require an ARM emulator for x86, not the other way around.
> The burden of proof rests on the claimant.

Indeed. Which is why I'm so interested in the evidence behind these claims that I keep hearing that there was no vote fraud, or at least not enough to change the election. Sadly, when asked for proof, these people who believe there was no vote fraud always walk it back: "I haven't seen any evidence." Well great, then maybe you're not in a position to make positive claims on the basis of a lack of evidence.

> There’s a reason US courts of law keep throwing out these claims of widespread fraud: because the claimants consistently fail to provide the widespread evidence to back their claims up.

Are you so sure you can read the mind of a judge? This whole discussion is about motivated reasoning and cognitive biases. When did we start assuming that judges were immune to political bias?

> What there is widespread evidence of, however, is bad-faith actors that are both highly active and plentiful.

I agree with that. Where is your evidence that none of them are judges or Google/YouTube employees?

> Therefore I would suggest the few good-faith actors who find themselves unfairly suppressed first take it up with those dirty lying bastards for sullying ALL their reputations

That would be like telling BLM activists to go tell the black criminals in their community to stop doing crimes that piss off the police. You're implying value judgments that aren't in evidence and lumping people together on the basis of your perceptions when those people may not even really have anything in common except being seen as enemies by the same group of people. People want to be heard. Its wrong to shut them down because some other people said some other ridiculous stuff that you think is basically the same thing because you're done listening.

> secondly ask themselves what they must do to fully disassociate themselves from the scum and rebuild their negative credibility to a level where people are willing to listen again.

People are willing to listen, that's why its so important not to give them a platform. Surely you don't think that YouTube is suppressing videos because they don't like them when those videos aren't going to be watched by anyone?

> Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent. They can fix it or they can whine. And which they choose speaks volumes too.

Part of fixing the alleged election fraud would be to present evidence to the public, including videos of that alleged fraud. And if those videos are being suppressed then part of fixing that would be to debate the propriety of suppressing viewpoints that you don't like.
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>industrial-scale disinformation campaigns manipulating public opinion and discrediting every single thing you can imagine

This is just a fancy way of saying "people saying things I don't like".

>grinding the free exchange of ideas to a halt at every turn.

How so? Like GP said, you can just not use facebook and freely exchange ideas with your peers through other channels. Sure, some of your peers might have a different opinion than you, and (gasp!) you might even be unable to change their mind, but that's just how it is.
Fully automatic military assault weapons? I don't think so.
This one is similar but for me a bit nicer, the eye in the left upper corner follows your pointer. https://www.ftm.nl/
This is so werid, and strange.
You are confusing signed boot security with the activation of the T2 chip.

The T2/M1 still needs activation data before it will do anything (like let you use the touchbar or touchid or secure enclave or even talk to the SSD) after a disk wipe.

This [online activation] is done after the recovery kernel has already booted from
the USB install media. Signed boot and T2/M1 activation are different things entirely.
Isn't that arguably true for all modern x86 CPUs, including Intel's?
There exist totally a solution. It is also user hostile enough so it might get's adopted.
$cloud_vendor just has to (and probably will) constantly nudge people to loosen the limit.
Have a red banner that says, "you spend 3% of your monthly budget already think about increasing it".
Also routinely send out emails to remind people. " Black Friday comes up think about increasing your quota " when your service has nothing to do with E-Commerce.
This is the kind of comment dictators love. Crushed spirits. It's a cold, emotionless, frank extrapolation to a future without hope. You've already given up. Maybe you can drag a few more down with you.
A specific compact form-factor and multiple rounds in a magazine that allow for more rapid fire than a bolt action rifle?

I know people claim "hunting" with these rifles, but I think there's a shiny toy thing at play more than utility.
Ah, yeah, forgot to mention Out of Order Execution.

> Academics may have felt that RISC was better than CISC for a long time but I don’t think they were predicting the world of today so much as they were incorrectly predicting the near past.

Plus you know, academics have been known to be wrong. That's why there's even a saying for it: science advances, one funeral at a time. People are emotional and get attached to their pet theories. There are many examples of this.

It's going to be interesting to see how CPU/GPU tech advances the next few years.
But why does it become more difficult when it's centralised by numerous tech companies and not by numerous media organisations or the government itself? I don't see why FB is any different except it's easier for anyone to share stuff, and I don't see why that stuff should be a risk to democracy.
DDG does have its own crawler in addition to Bing results: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/du...
Because if you employ bot farms and troll hordes, you crossed the line. You left free speech (your voice should not be censored and you should be able to say your mind) in favor of amplification and agenda pushing.

At least in my personal view.

Take this forum here for example: There is a community driven mechanism that enforces some rules. Your comment can end up dead. One can decide to view dead comments, but given enough negative feedback you can be silenced here.

The community enforces values. These might change over time, but they are there, because the community does value collective freedom (freedom from trolls and such things) in a form that allows individual freedom of speech to be restricted.

On a deeper level: There are always different forms of freedom at play and valuing one above the other restricts the other necessarily.

Freedom of speech without restriction enables said actors and bot farms together with content personalisation to hinder the freedom of individuals. Because they aren't allowed to see content that amplified voices drown out or that is being hidden from their view by the algorithms.

So actually Google, Facebook and the likes are already restricting the freedom of people. And doing so under the thin guise of "fighting for freedom of speech".
> He complains it's too heavy, but then puts down other, lighter products made out of plastic.

Well, yeah? That makes perfect sense, doesn't it? Metal ones are going to feel more solid and reliable than plastic, but will be heavier.
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And why the platforms silo people? Because people want it: "the implication of the Internet is that ideas are in abundance, and people will seek out what they already agree with, as opposed to accepting what is delivered to them." https://stratechery.com/2020/the-idea-adoption-curve/

Free Speech is not a supply problem it is a demand problem.
I am hoping that given how open some ARM archs are that now it will be within hobbyist reach to create even their own motherboard, send to one of the fabs and assemble then run full-fledged Windows on it. This looks like a dream come true!
You could definitely do that now and run Linux, but given that some software doesn't exist on Linux, this is very exciting.
I think you forgot the main reason: journos are on twitter all day every day.
Amazing, this nice guy ends saying that we should thank Red Hat.
Just as it is with bank accounts.
Once you run out of money you hit a hard floor.
Like, the core problem that algorithmic feeds were invented to solve is still there. The issue is that a minority of your connections produce a majority of the content, and it would suck to just see that one friend over and over again in your feed/timeline/whatever.

You are essentially arguing for a social internet without filtering and search engines. Lots of people claim to want this, but the fact that no platform lets you do this leads me to believe that the revealed preferences of people are different.
Smart phone OSes have the most pathological crap.

Things like this are why I tolerate all the bugs on the pinephone.
Developer mistakes happen. I was once rescued by Edwin from Stripe due to a silly mistake I made.

But this part caught my attention:

> Google sent an automated email informing him that his free Firebase plan had been "upgraded due to activity in Google Cloud," and that this "initiated billing" for the project.
Facebook does not allow free exchange of ideas, you have to pay to make sure your followers actually see everything you post, unlike the open web.
Is this because of pandemic where economy are not as good and crime rate are higher? Or is that a norm?

I have always thought Stockholm as somewhat safer than ( Greater) London in my book.
I really appreciate this post. I'm reevaulating what it means to be disabled. I still don't know how to answer, as I have learned to manage them very well, but I do still change my life based on it, and more improtantly, I think my life would have been very different without them.

Now that I've added a lower back injury to the list, I think it's tipping toward yes. Does anyone know if you say no on this form and then ask for an accomidation for something, like, say, a chair - is that okay?
The PDF this is (seemingly) generated from is public and mostly unredacted. What they decided to redact is strange to be honest, you can find it here.

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/THE%20KIDNAPING...
I dislike the name too, but people had trouble spelling google as wel in the early days. I’m from The Netherlands where it’s not immediately obvious how to spell google. But Google had a very high market share here, almost instantly, while it took them a lot longer to beat Yahoo in the US.
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"The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest." - Bernays. This quote makes me think how it should not be a surprise that journalists working for big media companies are some of the main voices behind the calls for censorship.
The subscribe button at the end doesn't seem to work either.
Could be worse, you could remember Google Buzz.
"No thanks" to the partisan hijack. My original post applies no matter who the artist is or what they aspire to say.
I think this is a insightful way to think about. Thanks.
Why is that? Any pointers for further reading?
Hyves pioneered that.
> “While we took into account whether this was just due to what well-off people eat and drink, randomized clinical trials are needed to determine if making easy changes in our diet could help our brains in significant ways.”

So they are aware of the possibility of this effect, yet didn’t bother with it. Sounds like replication crisis to me.
This time a CAN understand them because of that:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...
You seem amusingly unaware of how various organisations of questionable intent have farmed microtargeting to influence elections and referendums.

If this was "people saying things I don't like" it would be absolutely fine. People say things I don't like on HN all the time, and I either ignore them or debate with them - which is how it should be.

But that's not what this is about. This is about political PR machines with unusual wealth lying to Facebook users on an industrial scale to control what they believe and how they act.

But perhaps you think lying to people on an industrial scale is ok?
Cheese is by far the most protective factor to prevent Alzheimer’s later in life?

How can a dietary study predict what helps later in life? Aren’t there too many external factors to really give these results any weight?
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Ask participants about 24 things and you are bound to find correlations that have no actual basis in fact for that sample size. They might have well have asked about their favorite colors and music while they were at it. This is an obviously bad study funded by industries that are not impartial, and really has no business being posted here.
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This is a good explanation. I just have one quibble: the school of constructivism that Andrej follows is not the only one; there is a Russian school that accepts Markov's principle, which is essentially the logical counterpart of the idea that there is a fact of the matter whether a deterministic Turing computation terminates. I don't know if constructivists from the Russian school allow BB to be definable, but the argument for it to be undefined is trickier on this account.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%27s_principle