skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just have to say I strongly disagree, and I've been on the internet for a while (multiple decades).

The only reason reddit wasn't overrun by asshats even before more subreddits were banned were due to moderation. The same has been true for all forums and BBS:es since the beginning of time.

Truth and sensibility doesn't win out. The loudest voices with the least filtered speech does, because the least amount of filter produces the most amount of output.

With risk of making too broad of a generalization, everything dies without moderation.
What do you think of flutter?
But if they dare to try to start a record label then Yoko Ono will put a quick stop to that.
Silicon Valley should reward zebras, not unicorns
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+1 on Fastmail. Been using it for years, supper happy with them.
Voat.
1) Akai Force (sampler, looper, sequencer). Superb creative tool for making music. I've been recording/looping my djembe and Hang Drum into it. Thinking of picking up a Digitone soon and then I think my setup will be pretty complete for a while.
2) A couple AMD RX GPUs that I picked up second hand.
3) 50mm Nikon Z-series lens.
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You may not be a physicist but you’d make a convincing string theorist!

I say that partly pejoratively, with a Sabine Hossenfelder sort of jocular but judgmental tone.

I’m personally excited to see how astrophysicists will take dark matter out of its darkness and cast it into intuitive lights, like some have with the rising dough analogy for cosmic expansion.
Are you happy now? It's a shame people don't actually read what is written!
A lot more educated people here to disprove those theories and reduce misinformation on other platforms by readers here.
>The point is that discounting Pais’ work rules out the possibility that UAP is a classified human technology, which then the only options we are left with for UAP are it is either aliens or time machines.

No it doesn't. The relationship between these patents and UFO footage is being made by web articles and HN posters who believe in the UFO narrative, it's simply inferred because the stories became viral at about the same time.

Also, ruling out Pais doesn't rule out the entire rest of the American military industrial complex, which is quite capable of developing cutting edge technology on its own. If we assume for the sake of argument that UAPs are explained by advanced classified technology, Pais and his patent still aren't necessary for humans to be responsible.
> It goes beyond kicking someone out of the bar to not allowing someone to open a bar.

You can open your bar just fine. Just don't expect someone else to invite people in there for you.
Make backups.
The Gundam, Amuro, and Char are pretty iconic, other than that it depends on the person
I can[1], it reached the HN frontpage a while ago. As to concrete evidence, I obviously don't have it but it might be hard to acquire:

> The ministry has admitted tampering with paperwork to make it tally with testimony given in parliament, and on Wednesday admitted orders were given to destroy documents for the same reason, according to a document distributed to reporters by opposition lawmaker Osaka.

And it's not as if I would believe the figures anyway, from [3]:

> According to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, there were some 3,700 “unaccompanied deaths” in Japan in 2013. However, other experts estimate the number is nearer 30,000 a year.

Why is there such a disparity between the figures academics are claiming which would embarass the government and those that the government are claiming? How are we supposed to measure the impact of COVID-19 with such low testing and no idea what the expected death tally to have been?

It's not as if things like that are isolated cases of government numbers going awry. I ask myself, would the Japan government go ahead with something even if it endangered large numbers of people but brought money or prestige? The answer appears to be yes[4].

> They based their claim on a 2002 report in which government experts estimated there was a one in five chance of a magnitude-8 earthquake occurring and triggering a powerful tsunami within the next 30 years.

> At the time of the disaster, Japan’s nuclear regulator was severely criticised for its collusive ties with the nuclear industry, resulting in the formation of a new watchdog that has imposed stricter criteria for the restart of nuclear reactors that were shut down in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.

So, in the face of all that (and more) I'm of the opinion that they were doing their best not to scupper the Olympics. I'm willing to be proven wrong but I'm not going to wait for absolute proof to fall in my lap, I'm not sentencing anyone to prison.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22728674

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-23/japan-min...

[3] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/06/kodokushi-in-agi...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/17/japanese-gover...

Edit: missed off a reference number.
At the risk of making a reddit comment... "relevant nickname".
The efficacy of action is directly related to your starting density. That is to say a mild lockdown is effective on a sparse caseload.

But there were places where one in a hundred was a contagious carrier. Stay at home was the only thing that would worked well. They're still not at that point, plans are still to return schools in T4 and as others testify, most shops ignore the rules. It's shambolic.
They don't need it, the pro's aren't worth the cons from my POV.
> are so, in lack of more polite words, mindless

The linked article as well as the criticism here aren't exactly mindful, either.

For a start, the article only ever says "Congress" did this or that. Such unspecific language only furthers cynicism and is damaging for democracy. There certainly are lots of members of congress that are against this, from both parties. But they'll get accused of this as well as any other real or imaginary ill.

As such, cynicism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: When people literally no longer care about the actual work you do, why bother trying? When they assume you are "corrupt" or "deep-state" or whatever, why shouldn't you start selling your vote to the highest bidder?

At least the "CARES Act" also does no such thing as "criminalising meme-sharing", as far as I can tell. It is a civil law establishing a small claims courts pathway for copyright infringement. Both sides need to opt-in to this process. If one side doesn't, exactly nothing changes.

Because this is about reducing overhead costs of litigation, it doesn't do much to help Disney. Its stated intend is to help smaller or one-off creators who see their works reused without their permission and do not have the means to pursue claims in federal courts. The merits here are debatable, and I believe some sort of collective rights managements system would be better. But imagine taking the single greatest photo of your life and seeing it used everywhere with people not even bothering to give you credit?

The criminalisation targets sites that knowingly and repeatedly stream copyrighted content. Unless you reject copyright altogether, I can't really find fault with that.

> fascism 2.0

Congress gets a lot wrong, but at at least they tend to stay clear of Godwin's law. Diminishing the industrial slaughter of millions of people by comparing it with some minor adjustments to copyright law is certainly not raising the level of debate.
It's one of the problems with what is commonly called democracy. It wouldn't be a problem in "real" democracy (i.e. government by the people).
This is a gross overstatement.

They excluded a very tiny part of the population (my guess is under 0.1%), nowadays you cant find a material that no one is allergic to.
I guess we mostly agree, my phrasing was just clumsy.

> There are no problems to reproduce, if female is autistic, as she has much higher chances to find a partner and produce autistic offsprings

Not only she has to birth children, in the absence of a strong (extra-)familial community she also has to be able to care well for them. Don't you think that autism, especially if in strong form, might make this a problem?
> Hindenburg ultimately agreed to appoint Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933 when the Nazis won a plurality in the November elections.

This is a misrepresentation of what happened too. The democratically-elected Nazis formed a coalition government with the democratically-elected German National People's Party (DNVP); it was this coalition government which was approved by the democratically-elected Hindenberg. The Enabling Act was also first passed by the democratically-elected Reichstag.

So yes, Hindenberg failed to fulfill his role as the "check and balance" against the rise of someone like Hitler; but it's not like what he was doing was strange or unusual.
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> All things considered, as a regular person who is concerned about protection from thieves and not especially concerned about being a target of governments, I am OK with these risks.

As a regular person, you have to consider these possible attacks on your money/data:

1. Attacker is a person in your life – friend/family/acquaintance – targeted you specifically. Attack may not be very sophisticated and maybe easy to defend against if basic hygiene is followed.

2. Attacker is a remote entity – people who you don't know personally – you were not targeted personally – but you became a target because you are part of a cohort they targeted – nothing personal. Attack of this form can be quite sophisticated.

3. Thief is a govt entity (foreign or domestic) – because you were targeted directly or because you are connected to someone who was targeted directly. More than technical mechanism there are legal mechanisms at play here.

#2 is a very big threat. A password manager service company is a very attractive target for them. Imagine the recent SolarWinds Orion supply chain attack being done by an underground cyber criminal group and being chained together to compromise your favorite password manager service stack.
Pfitzer and Moderna vaccines were tested on both males and females.
Are gravitation and the Fine-structure constant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant related? I am absolutely no physicist but if yes:

The Fine-structure constant has been discussed that it is not a constant but slightly varies in the observable universe. Would make no wonder, if gravitation is related to the fine-structure constant, that gravitation varies too.
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>Reddit, in its earlier days, was never dominated by the Voat contingent

It has less to do with fReE sPeEcH and more to do with reddit being a niche platform for nerds in the early days (and as far as 2008).

>They were there, but they were far less extreme there than they were on Voat.

Until reddit became mainstream. Then the front page got taken over by /r/The_Donald crowd. There is a reason that subrredit is no more.

>And then whenever they would post rank inaccuracies, there were clearer-minded people to point out why they were wrong, in the same place where the same people could see it.

And there flowed rivers of milk and honey.... Wait, no, you'd get banned from /r/The_Donald faster than you can blink after you post something that didn't align. And it wasn't even the worst subreddit.

>Meanwhile in the 7% of cases when they actually had a legitimate point to make, they could make it, and the people who benefited from hearing it would actually hear it instead of continuing to be unawares and consequently continuing to be wrong about something.

Cry me a river about losing the educational value neo-nazis provide. You don't eat an apple that's 93% rotten, you throw it into the compost pile. This post shows that the compost pile couldn't even sustain itself.

>But it doesn't work to have one popular platform which allows nearly everyone except for Those Deplorables

To the contrary, the platform that works for these "deplorables" (your words) doesn't work for literally everyone else.

As a proof, we see this very post. Nobody is interested in having these people around.

Reddit wasn't a popular platform when it started out. It gained a huge amount of users because Digg messed up. If kicking the Voat contingent out were a mistake, Voat would bethe new reddit (it has the same features platform-wise, after all).

>Because witch hunts are bad...

Straw man argument. These people were kicked out for their hostile and toxic behavior, not for their ideas.

Kicking out people who poop in public places is not a "witch hunt", because it's not based on identity, but on bad behavior.

There are plenty of alt-right and neo-nazis on reddit still. They are just behaving a little better.

And again, I'm sorry, but I have little interest in attending venues where throwing poop around is OK. This post is an indication that I am in the majority.
For whatever reason, they are blocking all requests from most Asian countries with Cloudflare.

I tried my own home internet, couple of different VPN services in different Asian countries and it only worked on US and UK IPs.
Nope. The same magic from the early days is still alive and well.

A big part of that is that at times when my work or some aspect of my life starts to interfere with that, I figure out what I need to do keep it alive, and prioritize that over any short-term incentives.
It's jokingly called Fleming's cryptanalysis: if there's a secret key, you just send James Bond to steal it.
Donna Harraway's A Cyborg Manifesto is/was a widly read text in media studies. it could be one way many crative types are sure to have heard of Ghost in shell.
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Discuss HN: The Last 10 Years
From my observation, I feel like the last 10 years of progress in internet companies have mostly had a net negative impact on societies/relationships/mental health.

This is unlike the decade of 2000's where it was a mostly positive thing for the good. Perhaps the rise of "smart phone" has contributed to such a thing, including OS's that are very limited to prevent anti-harm technologies from taking off.

Here are areas of improvement I can foresee in mobile tech:

1. Modern devices have insufficient parental controls. Parents cannot observe what their young child does, and correct them if they're making a mistake. They require you to trust the company to decide what is best for your child. Eg: YouTube etc where kids spend a lot of their time.

2. Modern technologies enable a sort of prisoners dilemma in relationships. Yes you should trust your partner, but there's the phrase "trust but verify". I could foresee a company marketing a phone for couples, where you see where both of you are, and what you're doing on your devices 24/7. Instead of buying rings, to signify your love, you decide to share everything with each other, no secrets.

I was lucky that my parent's allowed me to access to all the technology that I wanted from a very young age, however I feel like it had a net negative impact on me. And I wouldn't let my kids have access to the same thing. Due to odd circumstance, including having the leisure to introspect myself which most people will not have the luxury of doing to themselves. (busy, work etc)

All in all, I feel like internet companies leaves a lot to be desired.
Ripple (old-school Ripple, not XRP) doesn't need any clearing house or federation. It's just you, me, and the hops along the way interacting long enough to facilitate the transaction.
I think the term "peppering" is mostly used for server side manipulation of the password, which the user is unaware of.

It would be very confusing to reuse this term for what is described in this article, so a new term like "Horcruxing" can be relevant. I like it.
>Can we discuss if overweight people should pay more for sits in a plane? Can we discuss if a trans male who identifies herself to be a woman should be allowed to take part in female sport competition (box, running)?

Those discussions routinely take place on reddit.

Google is your friend, buddy.
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If you could do anything what would you be doing?
All altcoins have similar use cases. For the SEC, it's not the use case, it's about whether coins were sold in ICO-like deals. Stellar didn't promote any ICOs. Coins like Ethereum are way more at risk to be the target of SEC investigations.
Looking at the second link just makes me nostalgic for the heyday of reddit drama. So many shitty subreddits on there I forgot all about.
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Wikipedia page on Chekism is an interesting read. A quote I found there. According to Ion Mihai Pacepa (former general in the Communist Romania),

> In the Soviet Union, the KGB was a state within a state. Now former KGB officers are running the state. They have custody of the country’s 6,000 nuclear weapons, entrusted to the KGB in the 1950s, and they now also manage the strategic oil industry renationalized by Putin. The KGB successor, rechristened FSB, still has the right to electronically monitor the population, control political groups, search homes and businesses, infiltrate the federal government, create its own front enterprises, investigate cases, and run its own prison system. The Soviet Union had one KGB officer for every 428 citizens. Putin’s Russia has one FSB-ist for every 297 citizens.
I don’t understand your position. There are many types of “freedom”. Is it freedom for Facebook to invade our privacy that you care about? Or do you care about allowing people to be free from privacy invasion?

Both freedoms cannot exist simultaneously. So are you saying that Apple should not be allowed to decide which freedom to prioritise? Despite the fact that every other comparable company is effectively on the side of Facebook?

Or is there some other kind of freedom you care about? You seem to say that “our freedom” is more important than our privacy, but privacy is a most fundamental type of freedom - literally, the freedom to think our own thoughts.

What other freedom could be more important than that?
Oh, come on! This is ridiculous.

Any silovik worth his salt would refuse to discuss such a hot topic over an open line. Also, some people noticed their talk is not even close to how two professionals both working in the kontora would speak. And how come 'the spy' didn't recognize his target's voice and manner of speaking? How come he didn't cross check 'the assistant' with his boss?

Not to mention that Navalny having such information about FSB agents means he's got some suspicious connections. Wouldn't he go to jail for this when he's back to Russia?
The FBI is going to be mining NSA intercepts to catch people streaming Michael Radford's production of "1984" without a permit. The security state is a jobs program, and Congress delivers the bacon.

Will they have probable cause for a wiretap if I talk about watching a movie, but my credit card data (which they have) shows no evidence of purchasing that movie?

Now we see why they tried so hard to ruin at Aaron Swartz. Had he survived his encounter with the Justice Department, Aaron would probably be a member of Congress leading the charge against this monstrosity. They are shutting down the Open Technology Fund as well, an important early supporter of both signal and tor.
I'm enjoying it, but the lack of documentation is frustrating.
I think a lot of this pain is caused by people who think that correlation == causation.

Reddit's app users are more active than its mobile users, sure.

But that doesn't mean that the mobile users will become more active when you force them to be app users.

Eventually, all "light" users will abandon reddit while the "hardcore" users are forced to use the app.

The metrics of user engagement will look reeeaally good, but the breadth and depth of reddit will be gone.

And as a result, reddit will go the way of digg.
INSEE is the official French statistics agency, not some conspiracy quack.

Sorry this is in French:

> En outre, l’épidémie de grippe hivernale amorcée fin 2016 a entraîné un pic de décès exceptionnel en janvier 2017 : 67 000 décès en France métropolitaine ce mois-ci.

Source: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3629105

It basically says there was an exceptional peak of 67k deaths due to the flu for the month of January 2017.
Thank you for pointing out the lag, it should be gone now.
GP's is not claiming that overweight or transgender people are inhuman. That statement is exactly the type of extremist stance that is causing this debate in the first place.

Hell, they aren't even claiming that they are in favor of the points mentioned. Just that it's a bad idea for democratic society to shut down such discussion.
4chan is heavily moderated.

The moderation is just that the barrier is in a different place, and it's hidden for the most part. But there is moderation.

It's like the pub you don't want to drink in because it's full of the thugs and drug dealers who have the scariest bouncers at the door. Any trouble makers get taken out back, but they do have methods to control what they consider to be trouble makers.
Thank you for pointing out! Should be gone now.
Every business offense I mentioned is orchestrated through government. As a tool of exploitation and enforcement, they're utterly inseparable.
Concentrating the gain + spreading the cost requires both.

Capital and governance (CG) have been the internal organs of the body politic forever.

Hacker news, facebook, an elementary school, every institution is CG.

The theoretical framework of free markets requires the fiction that they are somehow separate and independent!

It's imaginary rubbish.

Corporations were started by the crown and modern political empires grew because of their corporate needs.

They expanded together. Every. Single. Time. Always.

The free marketeers think they can ignore all history and merely, through zero evidence intellectual exercise, derive absolute truth that needs no confirmation, measurement or testing because by logical deduction alone they know The Truth.

They use rubbish homo economicus behavioral models, rubbish ideas of clean governance and capital separation, and the rubbish assumption that companies win by playing by the rules instead of the reality where they find a new exploit.

That's why it's a scam. It's based on a classic scapegoating shell game and then uses classic cult systems to ignore evidence or question a priori assumptions.

It's the same internal logic as astrology and horoscopes. Complicated models, no reality check, cherry picked evidence, projected interpretations, same thing.

Total nonsense. It belongs in the spirituality section
???

My post was intended to point people to the authentic sources of Tantra/Hatha/Laya Yoga. If you have a different opinion, that is fine.

Leaving aside the fact that the language of The Serpent power is NOT difficult, two of the three people i have mentioned are Britishers while one is an American. Thus all of their writings are comprehensible to a westerner though the subject matter is complex and takes some time to comprehend.
Copy paste from the other comment:

INSEE is the official French statistics agency.

Sorry this is in French:

> En outre, l’épidémie de grippe hivernale amorcée fin 2016 a entraîné un pic de décès exceptionnel en janvier 2017 : 67 000 décès en France métropolitaine ce mois-ci.

Source: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3629105

It basically says there was an exceptional peak of 67k deaths due to the flu for the month of January 2017.
> Google's public image is slightly better than that of Facebook

Well, it depends who you ask.
You can stop using FB, but not using Google products, even passively. is practically impossible.
“Teutonic Vaccine Syndrome”