skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can build a society where free speech isn't technically dead because you won't go to prison for saying stuff, but it sort of is dead because your speech is auto-censored by algorithms to make sure you adhere to approved speech. Is this a healthy society?
Well I'm hoping someone more familiar with cultural history might be able to tell me. 138 years ago is a hell of a long time. E.g. maybe murderous jealousy was a more risque concept then? And hence asking your audience to consider it was more provocative?
America’s free speech is taken to the extreme. It cannot be possible in another country.

- Fix the law. Punish the lawyers, officials who violate the law.There should be some fucking fear for misusing the common people.
- Regulate social media and popular sites. For example: prevent actions (post, repost, likes etc) on social and political posts by unverified accounts.
I’m curious what cities have been literally burned to the ground?
> To those who are downvoting: [I'm right, give it up already]

It's not about being right or wrong. Downvotes are for comments that don't contribute to the conversation. One can agree with you and still think the tone does not invite interesting conversation. The guidelines say: "Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting".
Buy Don't Build
You make them pay by abandoning them as a customer. Stop streaming. Stop watching.

Fining businesses who make mistakes is a dangerous path. That means anyone new to the industry who tosses up their first project is open to getting fined if they make a mistake. It also means there is either some organization in charge of being the watchdog for the industry with power to just apply fines to companies as they see fit... or we are doing this via lawsuits which just means cranking up litigation to absurd levels.

No, it is better to pressure businesses via our own choices to only patronize those who treat their customers and subscribers well. We talk about it all the time on here - stop using Facebook, stop using Google, find alternatives that match your ideals.

We need to truly embrace those types of grassroots change if we want to drive behavioral changes.
On average, his writings are definitely more worthy of discussion than the newest JS framework or somebody doing something with old or underpowered hardware. Perhaps most of the once-top posts aren't as exciting as one would believe?
I've no problem with people protesting the gross incompetence of two poorly trained people in a position of relative power, I just think its ludicrous that it got turned into an excuse to loot and vandalise unrelated buildings and structures.

If your gripe is with the police, go and burn down a police station, not the Portland elk statue or a corner shop owned and run by your neighbour.
the problem is that nobody taught him shame. in a small tribe a guy like this would get kicked out and eaten by the wolves day 1.
Aren't democrats trying to swing to the other extreme and allow full term abortions? Even if it only happens rarely, the only difference between a viable fetus abortion and murdering a newborn in a NICU is a layer of skin surrounding one of them.
And for some companies/individuals, if you keep charging then THEY will plunge to a large negative debt. It's not even zero, it's a lot worse than that.
GP didn’t assume bad faith. They just want some evidence for the assertion, or even an objective way to measure this quality.
Biden will never be a legitimate President for at least 70 million Americans. That can’t be good.
You always have to consider what you are purchasing, and Apple parts are not exception either.

During 2000s, I had a Powerbook G4. It's charger was famous for cable fraying, because SJ hated stress relievers. So I went through three original replacement chargers, where each developed the same defect.

The fourth one was third-party pc-like brick, except in white. That one never needed replacement.
Not all bad actors are equally bad.

Hillary wasn't perfect. People didn't like her, and we got Trump.

The Weimar Republic was corrupt and ineffective. The Third Reich was corrupt and extremely effective.

Democracy is the history of choosing the least bad. If you consider all bads to be the same, you are not a responsible voter.
In Santa Clara county, hispanics are about 25% of the population and about 50% of the cases:

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Santa-Clara-County-do...

Split by race, it’s not 80/20. Splitting by occupation or socioeconomic status would certainly reveal a stronger divide than splitting by race.
I use a mix of huginn, n8n, rss-bridge, some custom code that runs via cron job, and I'm using puppeteer more and more.
Scandinavian countries have very high trust societies, based on any survey that looked into this. Why that is is a difficult question and leads us very far. Is it money? Where did the money come from? Oil (but that's not there in all Nordic countries)? Lack of war? Did the lack of war come from their high trust? Or the geographic distance to warring nations and empires of Europe? Is it related to the cold environment, perhaps harder to conquer and less valuable for empires? Do social temperaments have to do with climate? Is it about their genetic homogeneity? Which one is the cause of which? If they go in cycles what influences what in the strongest way? It's a very complicated issue!

It's too reductionist to take only the part "earnest, therefore startup". Sort of implying that if only other nations were also more earnest they'd also have startups and wealth, disregarding all the possibly good reasons that those other nations have not to be trusting/earnest.

But it's also too dismissive to say to this that it's "national stereotyping" therefore it immediately must be false and there can be no connection at all between earnestness/trust and startups in the case of Scandinavia.
Blender does it especially well. The only thing it's missing when compared to command-line utilities is composability with other tools like pipes. Blender has tons of features, and it has to because of its monolithic design.

Then again, collaborative (open source) design is the workaround for monolithic software, and it's worked exceptionally well for Linux and Blender.
There was a show on one of the Swedish tv channels where they followed an experiment with mixing an elderly (75+) care home with a kindergarten. I think what they did was one or a couple of days a week the kids (all under 6-7 if I recall) would spend time in the care home with the elderly, doing different activities together (singing, dancing, painting, whatever you do in kindergarten basically) and then measuring the effects on cognitive and physical abilities of the elderly.

It was an interesting show, and they claim the health benefits to the elderly were significant. The interviews with the old people were very poignant, with one saying she was considering suicide before the experiment, because she felt so lonely. The kids also seemed to appreciate it a lot, being at that age where they just like having fun and learning new things.

Sadly the epilogue of the show sad Covid-19 stopped any further expansion of the experiment, but hopefully it will continue once it's safe again. It seems to me like a great idea, combining child care with elderly care.
How to use marketstream.io
I built marketstream to read all the comments that people make about the trades that they are making. And I mean really read, to understand what position they are in.

Apply this to the hundreds of thousands of comments that come through reddit on a weekly basis, and you end up with a pretty high level view of how investors look at some of the most talked about companies.

Belief leads investment, not the other way around, Tesla being one of the best examples I can think of. I built marketstream to find those companies that investors love because I believe that companies that people love will grow.
I hope you are doing ok now.

In case it is helpful, I'll copy over the text from the top of the article.

If you are feeling suicidal, thinking about hurting yourself, or are concerned that someone you know may be in danger of hurting themselves, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255). It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is staffed by certified crisis response professionals.

You can find help in locating a mental health professional by calling the number above, or consulting the National Mental Health Information Center at www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/databases/
I just curl -vvvvv'd it and checked where the 302 redirect went.
Has he gotten better live? I remember his older live shows he could be a real drunken sloppy mess compared to the album recordings. I was fairly disappointed seeing them live.
Well, there is a well known cliché of people in Northern Europe being more cool-headed than in Southern Europe. You can see how it would translate to earnestness being more or less punished in social situations...

(Yet it would also come with being more or less "cool", which is opposite to what pg suggests, so I guess I have no idea ! XD)
It's easy to say that people simply aren't better than this and this will simply continue to happen. I don't completely believe that. I was hoping that writing the above comment might inspire those not already crazed to maintain a more rational tone and perhaps flag and downvote more on the level of "merits the conversation" than "I (dis)agree with this".
he should stop working for such a tyrant
I use DigitalOcean and not GCP/AWS, personally and professionally, for the exact same reason: they provide a way to not give the company a "free for all" access to a bank acccount.

It's too bad that DO only allows pre-payment via PayPal. (I recently lost access to my PayPal account due to them having a wrong phone number - and I can't login to correct it, nor have any contact for support.) I'd love to remove PayPal as a dependency, and pay DO directly from a bank - but not give them permanent permission to withdraw from it.

It's a clear dark pattern that GCP/AWS does not provide a simple way to prevent such unexpectedly huge bills.
Oh no you got me. Police shutting down calls for bombing democratic cities is exactly the same thing.
There’s plenty of incentive if you are at risk of getting ‘scooped’.. especially if your livelihood depends on a publish or perish model.
I think we're still learning. E.g.: deplatforming individuals works pretty well. Milo Y isn't relevant. On the other hand, there's some evidence that deplatforming movements is less effective: right-wing extremism shifting to Telegram, QAnon conspiracy theories moving to smaller forums. Possibly the effects vary depending on how large the population of believers has become?

I am in favor of shutting down misinformation (although I also know the same tools can be used for bad reasons), but I think the field of digital mass communication is young enough so that we're best served by remaining open to new discoveries.

I do wonder if we'd be better off phrasing this as a conversation about discoverability rather than one about censorship.
It's not about typing speed, it's about reducing mental load. When vim (or any editor for that matter) becomes second nature, you stop thinking about how you're editing the text, it just happens, like moving a part of you body. And then you can better concentrate on the problem at hand, which matters even more for solving novel problems/algos/architecture.

Same with touch typing: you don't need the speed, you need to eliminate the distraction of looking for a key.

Even when you're debugging/reading code, you're still making small changes: adding a print here, removing an argument there. I read somewhere that the main insight behind creating vim was that you spend more time moving your cursor and parts of code around than you spend writing new code. So that's what it optimises for.
But what you are describing is just an appeal to authority.

It's quite possible that putting the assertions of the text in the context of this particular authority does give it more credibility, but I've also heard that same authority make some very poor assertions.

Just look at the objective criticism that some of the posts gather. Sometimes, there are really major, easily contradicted flaws in these texts.
"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." Samuel Johnson
One example is the Hola VPN which, in itself, is a VPN that uses other users' connections to act as a VPN to almost all countries, but they also sell access to this network of IPs via https://luminati.io/.
Yeah I've heard (But I don't know the source) that they're investing in tech to assist in takedowns of live content too.

Inb4 streamers start baiting RIAAbots to inflate their view count
>they are usually short and lacking in citation, evidence, or persuasion

He’s not writing research papers. He’s just a thoughtful guy with a lot of experience sharing his ideas as concisely as possible. Part of the reason the posts are so interesting is because of the discussions they prompt - I wouldn’t mistake the level of interest on HN for everybody treating these as gospel.
If this was done to a left-wing politician, there would be blood in the streets. The double standards (media, big tech, judiciary) are enough to lead the country to civil war. Even TX GOP is suggesting succession. “Protecting people from the wrong ideas” is something the communists did. We can emulate that at our own peril.
> The way out of this was for the winning side to get out ahead of it and do everything in their power to legitimize the election for these people.

How does one do that when the people you are trying to convince are inherently unconvincable? They refuse to acknowledge experts, legal authorities, or any application of logic. If one of them steps out of line and goes against the narrative they are torn apart for it.
And then what? People who have a mental model where if, God forbid, things come to that point, they will just come to an underpants-gnome like step that settles the issue seem ignorant of history. What you illustrate will just be a point of further escalation, one of a long chain that will lead to a real shooting war, unless one side turns away from the abyss on their own volition, not because the other side "nuked them" via a legal case.
1. I don't think so. Not in the "free speech" sense. Twitter owns itself and should be permitted to do as it pleases with its property.

2. I don't think it's okay, but I think a proper response to it lies in the social sphere, not at the end of the government gun.

3. I think this is probably an inevitable outcome for humanity's first swing at social media. It's centralized and so will come under the control of some partisan group or another. I think the behavior will push us inevitably towards more decentralized platforms.

4. I'm not convinced they have power - not power that can't be removed from them by society, anyway. If they misbehave or underperform enough, society will move on. See MySpace.
Wayfair and Walmart price history and comparison
Periodic table of the web's APIs
Copy Guard: a browser extension to prevent copy hijacking
It's pretty easy, supposedly, to set up streaming to both platforms. He should do so and make the alternative known to his viewers.
Basically like Tor, some VPNs route someone else's VPN connection through your VPN client. If I want an IP address in Sweden and someone in Sweden wants a US address some VPN companies would just route our traffic through each other's home addresses (potentially leaving you on the hook for what the other user was doing).
How much trust do you really need to lend to them if you're just using it because you want to unblock Netflix or get around your school/work network barriers?
No social media. We survived fine without it.
Challenging elections to ensure they're fair and legal is hardly undermining them, but isn't what Trump is doing. He is grasping at the barest of legal straws, all the while asserting that he is right. For a good review of just how off base these lawsuits are, Legal Eagle has done a good review of them [0,1]. (Warning, long-form content with sponsorship segments.)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha7iWECm_8E
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-nblE8ps2M
It took C++ 10 years to get concepts and modules into the standard, and experience shows 5 more until all bugs are sorted out.

Probably 10 more for static reflection, executors and networking.

Good engineering takes time.
Tiered Subnet Calculator in Terraform
1. No
3. No
4. Yes, because the future is decentralization. They are just helping accelerate it.
For many communities, churches are the community centers/libraries/cultural centers. They preform functions identical to the organizations you mentioned - although they do other things as well.

Regarding demand, your sources indirectly say over 100 million Americans attend church regularly (“43% of Americans”). That’s a big number.

Regardless, the issue isn’t just demand, but supply.

The “market” for churches is extremely local.

If large number of Filipinos arrive in San Francisco, their demand for churches won’t be met by an excess of Southern Baptist churches in Dallas.

I understand that separation of Church and State. But creating schools, immunities centers, etc. is a function NGO civil society groups.

Groups like that have historically helped create Churches, especially for immigrant groups whose demand isn’t met by “native” churches.

Many historically Catholic parishes were created with support from Episcopal parishes.

Not for religious reasons, but because they recognized that the German/Irish immigrants benefited from them.

That dynamic hasn’t gone away, even if only 100 million Americans attend church regularly.
I beg someone out there, please run an experiment that reposts PG’s articles on Medium.com with a different author’s name. All things equal, I wouldn’t doubt that HN would start giving these posts a proper vote count.

But then again, some people are more equal than others. shrug
He really should, so to speak, spread his risk; there's multiple streaming and video platforms, and unless he got paid a ton of money to become exclusive to Twitch he is under no obligation to be exclusive to Twitch. I mean I know he'll get the biggest audience via Twitch but it's a big risk to bet everything on one proverbial horse.
Unfortunately, the problem with seeing white supremacy is that in doing so, we create white supremacy.
I'm with you here buddy. seems like he was doing something shady the way he expressed it. probably lonely and providing alcohol/drugs for minors in order to have company.
How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb?

Two. One to change the bulb, and one not to.
Is this just an art project? Would have liked to see the mechanism inside.
There's on in Santa Monica, California, as well[0]. Tourists walk by it all the time and probably just think it's a café with a funky name.

[0]https://www.santamonica.gov/arts/camera-obscura-art-lab
FWIW, I believe seriously in the potential for drugs like MDMA and psilocybin to help those with closed minds — on left and right — to approach tired political divides from novel perspectives. And that this is necessary moving forward.

I am an extreme pessimist. I think our perspective is so warped, and our cognitive biases so deeply baked that meaningful collective healing and growth will take place if and only if it’s partially energized by psychological healing & opening on the individual level through psychedelic therapy.

I am routinely laughed out of serious discussion for this view.
The child in me would just try to make an extra large cookie at the end.
In my view, there is a uniquely American fiction that there exists for everyone some pursuit that both (a) will satisfy their passion and (b) be highly remunerative. Your job is to find that pursuit. And if you fail, I guess it's because you weren't earnest enough.

I don't doubt that successful founders are highly motivated by the challenges of their work. But the suggestion that the point isn't to build a business and make money is, I'm sorry to say, typical of the self-serving retconning we are starting to see from those at the top. And that we have always seen from Silicon Valley: "Don't Be Evil," "We're Changing the World," "Facebook's mission is to make the world more open and connected."

*Thanks to my mom, barber, third grade teacher, roommate, dog and barista for reading drafts of this comment.
No human has the right to threaten or use violence against another human for communicating data. American free speech isn't extreme, it's simply ethical.
Election challenges are fine! If Trump concedes on Monday after the Electoral College vote, I'll happily admit that I was wrong about this issue and I let my paranoia get the better of me.

I think he's made it clear that he will not do that, and election fraud challenges are just the easiest strategy currently available to pursue his objective of staying in power.
From an ethical viewpoint, this is incredibly wrong, as vaccines given to healthy people which cause problems later are very very dangerous.
It's a link from the word "bogus."

I'm going to expand on this a bit, possibly against my better judgment. I believe Paul Graham has a point here, and it's a good one. In intellectual pursuits, there's a spectrum from dealing purely with nature and facts, to dealing with human perceptions. To pick what I hope is a reasonably neutral example, doing the science to get containment of a fusion reaction is on one end of the spectrum. Planning and engineering a project to do it is in the middle. And making the case that carbon-based energy production poses an existential threat to humanity and that we should be investing hundreds of billions into fusion energy is on the other. All these inform each other, and I (personally) don't make a value judgment on which is most virtuous or most important.

The salient thing is that Paul Graham did not choose a somewhat neutral example. Rather, he chose one that is perhaps at the very center of the culture wars, and has done so using a highly emotionally loaded word. Because he is someone who knows how to use words, I can fairly confidently conclude that he is effectively declaring his position on the issue.
Making analogies requires that the two ideas come from the same class of ideas. In what way is traffic and speech in the same class?

The reason this becomes an absolute is, unlike with traffic, the decision about which speech is abusive is objective and itself easy to abuse. When there's no way to talk about the abuse (a situation the abuser would create) then it will continue until the abuser's ability to censor speech is removed. In the real world this ability is often removed as the result of some serious violence and so most people don't like to create conditions that could lead to such a situation.

People sometimes say that speech in a democracy is a nicer alternative to violence.
You're categorizing literally tens of millions of people (in the last poll) as all having the same belief structure. In reality, you have a wide spectrum of people having varying degrees of suspicion about the current election. The goal isn't to convince all of them, but for enough of them to have reasonable confidence in the election to be willing to accept it and reject the positions of those who want to escalate things with the belief it was fraudulent. Polling implies there is a wide gulf to bridge, with moderates having extreme doubt in the result. This is unsustainable.

I would imagine to actually get to that point there are really only a few simple steps needed: full forensic audits of the disputed states, as well as a day in court in SCOTUS. I believe so far those have been largely denied or blocked (the merits of doing so are irrelevant) - if those were acquiesced by the winning side and accelerated at the outset it seems highly likely to me we would be nowhere near the precipice it seems we are now.