skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For hate speech there is already facebook!

You could have control at each node, deciding with whom you federate. You can also have a crowded moderation, similar to HN.
Yes and no, supply chain restrictions leads to some funny outcomes.

When I parted out my 2012 MacBook Air in 2016, I came close to covering the full cost of my brand new 2016 MB Air.
Paywalled and very click-baity title. Is this a serious newspaper?
That's true, but it's true for gold and a whole lot of other things too.
“The road to hell is paved with trying to improve user experience.”

A thousand engineers just got PTSD from reading that!
A free market needs government intervention. Somebody else mentioned enforcement of rules. I think that's exactly right.

Might sound paradoxical at first, but what would you get without enforcement?
But these days we do expect every cook and taxi driver to be in the market, because dollars in a savings account are getting returns below inflation.
Well, free speech is a good thing, if done responsibly. In practice though, "free speech" as used by Parler means no moderation at all, so the most blatant lies and the craziest conspiracy theories can run unchecked. And since mainstream platforms are cracking down on extremists, your platform will inevitably become a haven (and echo chamber) for them, even if you didn't intend to be one.
I don't think we should assign blanket responsibility to the Democrats here. There is a powerful segment, including the media, cheering this on. But I believe most Democrats just want to move on.

The media doesn't want this to end because they are at an unprecedented level of power right now. They have just become the gatekeepers of thought; a monopoly of like-minded people in control of the truth. As soon as things queit down, dissent will resume (if there is any freedom left), but for now they are on top of the world. They want to keep this going, and will stop at nothing to prevent quiet.
> All this "hold on and let's make sure we're not being too unfair to far-right extremists" while they actively recruit and plan more attacks sounds like an under-reaction from a fear of over-reacting.

I think it is right to be worried about the ascendant tech industry being able to quash certain ideas before they have a chance to influence voters at the ballot box.

Just this past 3 months, we've seen true stories about Joe Biden's son banned from posting on social media, anti-Biden news outlets banned from posting, and now the president banned.

I vote straight democrat pretty much every time, so that is where my leanings lie, but I'm not going to shut my eyes as wealth inequality goes over the moon in the past 20 years and consolidated platforms owned by the hyper-wealthy increasingly control what news people even see.

To me, it is entirely inappropriate to be blasé about this point.
I don't think it's possible to define a standard that people with wildly different perceptions of reality can agree is "objective."

If you believe that there is a massive conspiracy that resulted in widespread election fraud, flipping the election results, and that the massive conspiracy is going to ruin everyone's lives in the future, you'll find it objectively truthful to make sure everyone posts as much information about the election being stolen as possible up to and including taking up arms and fighting for your freedom, and there's no way to reasonably interpret that content as harmful to the greater good.

If you believe there was no conspiracy resulting in widespread election fraud, but there is a massive disinformation campaign stemming from a demagogue that now has enough followers willing to take up arms and attempt to overthrow the government, you will find it objectively truthful that posting information about the election being stolen will contribute to inciting those followers and is a grave threat to our model of democracy.

Content is, by its nature, open to interpretation, and often written with persuasive language. If you're persuaded, your beliefs and actions will tend one way, and if you're not, they'll tend another way. The same content can only be evaluated in a subjective manner.
"[it] doesn't sound like something that a publicly traded company should engage in."

This is probably the easiest answer, perhaps even easier than anti-trust action or trying to define hate speech. Pick the worst offenders in this affair. Force them to clean up their act, or be delisted from any US-based stock exchange.

These aren't private companies. They are publicly-traded US companies, which have an entirely different set of rules and regulations.
I'm just commenting on the decision to evict Parler from AWS, there were several news articles that it was employee driven maybe these reports are wrong, I don't know, the MSM is not exactly a reliable source of facts lately. I also don't see how Parler is responsible for the illegal behaviour of the rioters - surely the poor preparation by the security forces for a well publicised rally is more of a contributing factor than Parler.
Guaranteed upgrade cadence is not enough. I think what would be regulated is that they MUST open source afther that 3-5 years.

Just as we have with pharma patents, after a protection period it should be free game, and they should open-source if they don't intend to continue pushing updates, say evety 6 months or so.
'personal observations' lol k
Reflections: Tech, Trump, and Parler
And then Twitter removed it. Could have been faster definitely, but Parler would have never taken it down at all.
My current working hypothesis is that all efforts to "fix" social media are doomed to failure, because the thing that causes social media to become toxic isn't the "medium" part, it's the "social" part. Altering the medium will just add some color to the particulars of how it becomes toxic.
In my opinion, manufacturers who cannot be bothered to provide updates to their software should not be allowed to claim intellectual property rights on the hardware. When support ends, drivers and documentation should be made open source, enforceable by law if need be.
I don't want to force companies to do business with entities they do not wish to do business with, but I do want companies that engage in ideological censorship to lose their immunity to be held liable for damages caused by the entities they do continue to do business with - unless they stop engaging in moral editorializing.
The problem here isn't just lobbying but that the people in the government that we entrust to make these decisions are complete idiots. The lobbyists' arguments are so flawed that anyone with half a brain or a bit of common sense should be able to say "hold on, this is bullshit!" and yet these people are swallowing it whole.

I'd have more respect for them if they outright turned around and said "yeah we know we're screwing you over but the lobbyists' money is too good to pass up" but in this case they appear to be getting played without even realizing it themselves.
Whataboutisms aren't an argumentative position.
'maintenance' requires maintainable/replaceable parts.
here's nearly 1% of (4mm estimated active) upvoting something similar though: /r/ParlerWatch/comments/ktwmje/this_is_the_type_of_free_speech_parler_accepts/
But it is, as is WW I. The latter ended 102 years ago and set in motion many of the technological developments which define our current world, WW II refined these to a level which is recognisable and often still useable today. Electronic warfare, programmable computers, jet-powered aircraft, nuclear weapons - all of these were used in WW II. Modern computers are faster, modern jets are more reliable and more fuel efficient, modern nuclear weapons are more compact and modern electronic warfare has kept up with the development of computers and electronics but as wars go WW I and WW II were the first - and possibly last [1] - "modern" large wars.

[1] - modern weaponry makes large-scale land war difficult to survive, e.g. the average survival time of a main battlefield tank is counted in minutes.
I probably could have bought BTC at either $25 or $250 because I had a colleague who was really into it, but I shrugged because nobody can predict the future and it seemed dodgy as fuck. Eh, hindsight. In hindsight I should've bought google, apple, tesla etc as well.
Fair point, they are calling it 'temporary' for now. But that's not going to make the diseases they are battling go away in a few years.
I am. I working on creating an "API-first" social network that doesn't specify implementation, only interface. This way everyone/anyone can run their own server that exposes their own content through the API. They can run this on their own domain and using whatever technology and implementation they want. Other users can choose to follow you and receive notifications directly from you. You can also use whatever security, moderation, throttling, and architecture you want.

This may sound like it places a lot of burden on the individual but I plan on having reference implementations from super simple all the way up to clustered nodes ready to run in Docker containers. And hopefully with it all be open source and API-specified only, people can contribute other implementations.

The API is extremely simple. It is REST based and easy to comprehend. Anyone could write a simple server and reader who can program PHP, Node Express, or anything else.

The driving idea is to put individuals in complete control of their data and experience, and maximize interoperability. Much like an HTML img tag only has a src attribute, but the browser know how to retrieve the image from a server (which knows how to serve it) and then display it in the browser. Conceptually pretty simple.

If anyone is interested in knowing more, please ping me. I would like to release an API specification soon for discussion and refinement. Email in bio.
I can personally guarantee you that the developer who built this is completely confident that nobody does or should think and act like he does.
But what we are seeing here is deplatforming of organizations and people that represent the leadership of a much more mainstream movement that includes a huge fraction of the U.S. - half the country voted for trump! So this is one of those things where a difference of degree becomes a difference of kind. I don't think this is going to end well.

[edit] - as an nuclear engineer - that study you cited reminds me of perturbation theory. You make a small tweak to the system and develop a model to fit how such small changes affect the larger system. But perturbation theory conclusions don't scale accurately up to "large" perturbations. If you pull the control rods a tiny bit in a subcritical reactor - you get higher neutron-multiplication factor for your existing/present neutron sources. So you might think that if you pull the rods 10 times as far, you get 10 times the multiplication - but you'd be wrong. If you pull them 10 times as far you go super critical and then you get like 1,000,000,000 times as much multiplication.
The is a Lens app you can install to get an icon. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.ar....

Note: I work at Google but not on Android/Lens
Lots of vertical USB ports (sides of monitors, motherboards on desktops).

Lots of ports facing up or facing down (on the bottom side of a monitor).

Lots of cables have logos on both sides (JBL is an example at hand).

Lots of cables have NO logo (Fitbit).
> But even within a single school district there are "good schools" and "bad schools" and not terribly surprisingly, rents and home prices are more expensive in the neighborhoods with the higher rated schools.

Yes, that’s true, but it's not a product of funding by neighborhood, because that's not how the schools in that case are funded.

It's been fairly strongly argued that that's actually because the schools themselves make almost no difference at all on average, and school outcomes are pretty much determined by socioeconomic background and other personal traits of the student with ransome variation, and the “good schools” are just the ones attended by the students with the traits that would produce, on average, good outcomes independent of what school they attend.
Military “massive response” mobilization in Washington, DC
Free speech is more than a vote.
Since Trump puts self over country/other people, in this case his foil would be country and other people over self, or at least trend that way. So IMHO it depends if PG is spending his time and money to oppose Trump, IMHO. At a moment like this genuine foils would be in active opposition to one another.
Tell that to those who don't have $1000.
And many smart Germans (engineers) left when they figured out what was going on.
At some point this becomes about what is right for society versus what you can legally get away with and what you feel like doing because you can.

Is this, legally, a free speech issue on its own? No, and I support Amazon’s right to “nope” out of anything they want.

But in the current context of the rush to also prevent open Trump support in other areas like payment processing, and the way the media is hellbent on trying to inextricably link Trump support with terrorism, it should be apparent that there’s a larger effort in play here, that feels highly politically motivated.

What bothers me at this point isn’t whether Amazon has the legal right to do this (they do).

What bothers me somewhat is that there is a clear chilling effect that is intended across the board for a huge portion of the country.

What bothers me even more, is that so many intelligent, well intentioned people are practically giddy about it.

We don’t all have to agree politically in any capacity, but I would at least hope we would have enough empathy to judge this in the context in which any reasonable person would see this on the other side, and be willing to advocate, at the very least, that we do this carefully and with respect for our fellow neighbors. Instead, I see absolute celebration about what can very fairly be seen (whether rightly or wrongly) as an attempt to ostracize millions of Americans.
This wasn't leaked, it was archived from public sources.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25727025
Imagine another teacher somewhere that does not believe in vaccination is asking how they can convince their students to not get vaccinated. Would that be ok too? Maybe stick with your employer's policy and curriculum guidance and not try to go off script and impose your views, even if correct, on students.
There was a UK retail bank that tried a strategy like this.

I maintained (and still do maintain) it was security through obscurity and a waste of engineering effort that should've been spent on actually hardening the banking API server and migrating it to a modern stack.

I thought it inevitable and indeed - it got cracked twice anyway (despite the use of Arxan, extensive anti-debugging functionality and rewriting the crypto on at least one occasion).
same situation. my commuter bike has been hanging on the wall since March. moving more into weekend, MTB rides with my family. i find it very hard to get motivated to just ride a loop for exercise. the utility of commuting into work really motivated me for some reason.
How well can GPT-3 distinguish between human generated and GPT-3 generated?
Elon Musk's Starlink internet satellite service has been approved in the UK
>what would you get without enforcement?

You would get the societies depicted in Snowcrash and Cyberpunk 2077. People would hire private security to perform the security tasks they need, just like multinationals do in third world countries. If you don't want that to happen, one has no choice but to restrict the freedom of at least one market. (The market for mercenaries.) Some countries go further and restrict other markets, for example the markets for weapons. It does not make any sense to call gun control a free-market mechanism, that's just not the right use of the term.
Real-time image registration on GPU with VkFFT library
What's the heating situation like in Spain? All electric?

I was about to say something to the effect of: does it really matter if electricity prices spike greatly in response to the supply of renewables? Why shouldn't we discourage people from using electricity at these times? I suppose this doesn't apply to vital things like heating though.
>"If you only value that which has a number, you'll lose sight of what truly matters in life because of the Streetlight Effect[1]"

I don't think that's the intent. The intent is to look back and see if you accomplished your goal or not. If you don't have a measurement, then you don't know if you've meet your goal. Something such as 'I want to be a good parent to my kid' Isn't specific, nor is it attainable. Setting a goal of 'I want to spend an hour of time a day with my child' is both specific and measurable.

>" Sometimes, they are so far off in the future that you don't think about them until it is too late because you thought you could do them."

Seems like the contradicts the 'Relevant' part of SMART.

I see this as a framework to help you focus in on your goal instead of making wishes at the start of ever new year. 'I'm going to lose weight this year' Okay, how are you going to do that? Are you going to exercise and eat less? Okay, how much or both and how will you know if you met those micro goals? Given what we know about weight loss at the moment, what's a reasonable goal weight for March, June, August?
This is hilariously out of touch. If the telegram team is based out of UAE, then the UAE government can easily force them to hand over data even if it’s stored on foreign servers.
Not yet - it's currently on stock software, but I've run custom ROMs before and I'm planning to switch back to one soon. I was basically waiting to see if I could successfully replace the battery before putting much effort into the software side.
Funny how you mention all the things the 'left' is doing while omitting an actual coup d'état where more than a few people died. "Bringing the country together" is only possible when the extremist no longer have the loudest voice.

I'm not on board with all the virtue signaling coming from tech and the left, but you lost me at 4 years of continuous lies and storming the capital.
I think these elevated users should be law enforcement in the respective jurisdictions.

In the US, hate speech is protected speech. In the UK, hate speech is defined differently than in China. Illegal pornography may include bestiality or drawings in some jurisdictions, not in others. Protection of copyright is enforced differently. There's also the distinction between reading, publishing and hosting potentially illegal material.

This is how the internet works already. It is federated. Established protocols exist for websites and email, but not for social media. Arguably, it's time to change that.
That is a brilliant suggestion.
Or it'll be end of the line for BTC as the institutions crack down on it.

A Twitter thread the other day (probably linked to from HN) showed a strong correlation between the BTC price and Tether's money printer going brrrt, warning that once they get sued (and they will), they'll go down and take the artificial price increase of BTC and all other crypto along with it.
How to Build a Single-Page Web App in XAML and C# with WASM Using Uno Platform
In your statement you assert that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But is this a logical assertion? Isn't this like condemning a robbed man because his possession of money precipitated the evil act of robbery? Isn't this like condemning Socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? Isn't this like condemning Jesus because his unique God consciousness and never ceasing devotion to God's will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion?

We must come to see that, as the federal courts have consistently affirmed, it is wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence. Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber.

MLK Jr., 1963

"don't refuse to do business with them because they're violent thugs! that'll make them act like violent thugs!" is a very stupid line of argument.
>There simply is no accountability

I agree, but also think this is part of the design. Both government orgs like NASA and the contractors who support them spread their jobs/money across enough Congressional districts to reduce the risk of reduction in funding. Haven’t you ever wondered why NASA designed a naturally inefficient system by spreading the country? Programs in Marshall also stretch their tentacles into Johnson, Glenn, etc. I wonder if part of the blowback is that it makes it less palatable to prioritize big, bold projects (also factoring in how bad estimating these projects is and the fact they will have inevitable overruns). It’s not actually an inability to hold people accountable, it’s that they don’t want that accountability because it puts their districts at risk. Listening to a few talks by the NASA administrator led me to believe political risk is at the forefront of their mind
> a legitimate 9/11 scale crisis

So what made 9/11 have large scale was the (thwarted) plot to crash into the Capitol and the successful attack on the Pentagon? Not the 2600 killed in the WTC?

This seems like a very twisted reading to compare two not-actually-that-similar events.
> Parler, a social network used to plan the storming of the

> U.S. Capitol last week [..]

I thought "huh, never heard that before" - checked the source [1] and it's essentially some people working at DRFLab speculating that it _may_ have been the case. So not off to a great start.

The links appear down to me, but if I remember correctly these were a series of links to Parler - which the website is now down due to AWS. So the "leaks" can no longer be downloaded. I also believe that the links were essentially all just public material from what I could find...

[1] https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/fastthinking/...
I see a number of people here describing Parler as "unmoderated", but it turns out they do have extensive moderation [1] that they use to ensure ideological conformity in their posts. Then the most active users were paid for their content too [2]. This really makes it more of a propaganda weapon than a free speech platform.

[1] https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1347939939120533506
[2] https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1346565749977051136
I moved to Diaspora after Google Plus was killed. It's mostly good, if small, but with one really big problem: you can block trolls, but trolls can always create new accounts and come back.

It's probably impossible to create a decentralised social network where don't constantly have to reblock the same trolls but also don't get locked into a tiny closed community. I want to be able to talk and share with the whole world, but I don't want to have to block the same assholes over and over again because they keep making new accounts. And I assure you that trolls can get pretty bad on any open, decentralised system. They certainly do on Diaspora.

Maybe something where your network only expands through trusted nodes in your network: if a friend follows a lot of trolls, maybe keep him as a friend, but don't allow your network to expand that way. But someone else might follow a lot of interesting people, so open up your network a bit more in that direction.
Well both can be true, though I would be surprised of the fact that there is an actual usb cable factory in germany.
Key sentence:

> If Moynihan were open 24/7 as Penn Station is, if Moynihan had seats out in the open, if Moynihan were truly a public space, homeless New Yorkers would not leave, as many do not leave Penn Station, the Port Authority Bus Terminal or even parts of Laguardia Airport. Instead of solving for this specific problem, whether through better housing programs or homeless outreach or humane enforcement of public space, the city and state have opted to turn public spaces into museums.