skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> cake companies in the bible belt

s/bible belt/colorado
False.

The bipartisan senate intelligence report clearly lays out connections between Trump's campaign and Russian intelligence, see page 27, 178, 527, among many many others:

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

You are correct in that the justice department's investigation was flawed, it did not force Trump to answer questions under oath. However, we have Trump's own words: "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you find Hillary's emails."

> The Justice Dept spent millions thoroughly investigaing that claim and it turned out to be all lies.

The Mueller investigation paid for itself in civil forfeiture ($42-46m) after convicting Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager of tax fraud, wire fraud and other financial crimes and got convictions of ten defendants. The only reason they did not indict Trump was in deference to a memo that the Justice department cannot indict a sitting president.
Your analogy is poor. Removing your ability to reproduce and have a biological family is taking away a natural "capability" that your body has. The two counter examples you provided are specifically cosmetic in nature and thus not at all the same.

You might as well ask, why is forced sterilization worse than forced removal of your appendix?
Perhaps we should turn to the academic papers on the topic if we are to argue semantics.

https://mises.org/wire/capitol-riot-wasnt-coup-it-wasnt-even...

>"In their article “Global Instances of Coups from 1950 to 2010: A New Dataset,” authors Jonathan M. Powell and Clayton L. Thyne provide a definition:

A coup attempt includes illegal and overt attempts by the military or other elites within the state apparatus to unseat the sitting executive.

There are two key components of this definition. The first is that it is illegal. Powell and Thyne note that this “illegal” qualifier is important to include "because it differentiates coups from political pressure, which is common whenever people have freedom to organize."

In other words, protests, or threats of protest don’t count as coups. Neither do legal efforts such as a vote of no confidence or an impeachment.

But an even more critical aspect of Powell and Thyne’s definition is that it requires the involvement of elites."

http://www.uky.edu/~clthyn2/powell-thyne-JPR-2011.pdf

>"Nonetheless, we should not be surprised that the media has rushed to apply the term to the riot. This phenomenon was examined in a November 2019 article titled “Coup with Adjectives: Conceptual Stretching or Innovation in Comparative Research?,” by Leiv Marsteintredet and Andres Malamud. The authors note that as the incidence of real coups has declined, the word has become more common but with modifiers attached."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032321719888857
You're right. It's not either/or. It is possible to have limits.

But the society should determine those limits. We are completely within our right to do so. If we don't want people stomping around claiming and ethnic group is subhuman and should be exterminated, society has the right to determine that. We choose our representatives, they make a law, and then that speech is no longer protected.

Now, the people who would be subjected to that limit are going to fight tooth and nail to defend it. They will espouse all manner of fallacy, especially the slippery slope that the US will become China or North Korea or Russia. These are intentional tactics to obfuscate the power of the majority for their nefarious schemes.

However, if the majority decides it wants to ban, say, all non-Christian speech, then other rights kick in: such as the right to practice any religion freely.

The Bill of Rights is a fairly astute document not just in its content but its malleability (hello prohibition & slavery & suffrage), because the Constitution was missing a lot of important things. Let's not underestimate it, nor let others do so.
The $4000 Electric Car Dominating China
Can it run Linux? What comes close to beating the $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W?
How long till it makes it to a FAANG interview?
How to Improve Focus and Concentration
Depends. At some point your buffer no longer fits in L1D and there’s nothing software can do about that…
You’d be surprised by how many people lose track of where their time goes. They might think they are focused on a single task, but are they really? One way to find out is to keep track of how you spend your time for a week. You might find out you’ve been wasting time on little things like checking Instagram once an hour.
Whoa are you arguing that armed people DIDN'T storm the capitol? They were indeed armed and yes it was televised. Your inability to see what's in front of you willingly doesn't cause rest of us to be blind.
This is a slippery slope that people somehow either conveniently forget the nature of; are willfully ignorant of; or don't see over the horizon of roses for.

Let's take eugenics as an example (intentionally controversial given you brought up the Nazis); and in this example all we're doing is replacing "voice/free speech" with "eugenics". Everyone agrees someone policing who gets to reproduce or not is a bad idea because such policing is impossible to do objectively/fairly/morally/ethically.

Why is such policing any easier or less important for political views and discussion? It's not. Policing people's opinions and silencing, censoring, or removing content is just as impossible. Is some message a very out of taste troll, sarcasm, some inside joke, intentional smearing, discussion of a controversial topic? Well, any sense of objective discussion there goes out of the window because a _human_ has to police it and until we can quantify with exact precision and accuracy through a machine the meaning behind human communication (we can't yet(?)) this is an impossible (for now) problem to solve.

We cannot even ask Siri/Alexa to do complicated tasks.
Not sure what do you mean by Truthers, were there any elected officials or high profile people like Bannon saying that?
They arrested a bunch of people in Michigan over a plot on the governor, no? We moved out of the theory a while ago.
Manson was convicted and sent to prison for the rest of his life even though he wasn't at the Tate-LaBianca murders.
Question: is this algorithm practical to implement?
I think there is certainly a middle ground between "engineers do all the decision making" and "engineers do none of the decision making." I'm not sure the author was advocating the former. Rather, I think the author was saying that the possibility to influence the decision making at a fundamental level is what makes the SV-like companies great.

This follows my experience. Even at a FAANG, product managers aren't going to get every detail and edge cases are going to pop-up, so requirements are going to come from a back-and-forth between product and eng throughout the process. That back-and-forth is the key, not expecting engineers to figure out all the requirements, nor from product managers either.
You're pointing out Snowden in 13 and Trump in 16 and implying there's a causal relationship between the two. This is ludicrous, Trump was elected due to numerous factors, it'd be hard to place Snowden in even the top 10. immigration, trade, feckless GOP, crowded primary field, biased dem primary, weak dem candidate, I could make massive list more important than Snowden. All trump's supporters would say about Snowden is that he's a traitor, they'd understand or care little about what he leaked.

Maybe this is a HN bubble, the vast majority of Americans wouldn't be able to tell you what Snowden even specifically leaked...or rather, the journalists leaked on his and our behalf.

Trump is not the leader of the free world any longer. He's clearly on the way out, and he invited violence while the door was closing. Even the weakened GOP must admit he is a wannabe dictator, and his rhetoric led to 5 deaths, nevermind untold thousands to pandemic.

So no, I think there is not much slippery slope implication to deplatforming insane people like Trump, Alex Jones, KKK members, Nazis, terrorists, etc. Why should these people retain the privilege of posting harmful and murderous content on a company's website? Where in the constitution is tweeting an enshrined right?
You’re talking about the first amendment, a legal structure, not freedom of speech, a philosophical concept.
Elementary is also working on a way to default most apps to a better file picker:

https://www.reddit.com/r/elementaryos/comments/gs86hj/thumbn...

https://medium.com/elementaryos/a-new-native-file-chooser-19...
It is not federated, each mirror uses its own Bitcoin Cash node which contains a complete record of all the actions on the blockchain.
This could be a good way to navigate comments, but I'd recommend turning the graph upside down since that is how comments are ordered on the page.
Only ISPs can ban you from the internet.
It's open source, what's stopping you from contributing?
How IN THE HELL can vaccines expire in a country where thousands of people are dying? Man ... when did the rudder fall off?

Put one responsible, caring person in charge of watching this - too hard.
I just want to say that what you said here and in your other comments in this thread resonated with me in how you approached dissecting issues like ones that have been discussed here. I wish there were more people like you and it's a characteristic I hope I can be more like as well.

I respect that you are willing to admit you don't know the full history and implore others to understand why for example, certain decisions were made. It seems as if many people love to theorize about what these are, making correlations which are usually driven more by their feelings than reality.

I feel like character assassination was a phrase that I feel aptly describes how I've seen a lot of people treat people like Lennart Poettering. I feel as if some people are unable to separate person from their opinions. Not considering that person like they are more likely to do so if they were in person.

I sometimes feel like this attitude is more strongly felt by some people in a community where there is freedom to take a project in another direction if they desired (I know that not everyone has this option).

I do think however that the article of this thread expresses their opinion on an issue in a way that it explains how it effects them without resorting to emotional attacks towards the project and it's something I really liked about reading it.
The government has been shutting down death threats and open sedition since the birth of the United States. There's a difference between free speech and saying "i'm going to go down to the capitol and put _______ head on a spike" . That's not free speech that's a threat. "Let's blow up ____________" is also a threat and not free speech. Also facebook, twitter, etc should not host such things, and they decided not to, thus this really isn't about free speech in the Constitution and no one really has ever had a right to post such things anywhere unless they have a contract that says it, and such a contract would be illegal anyway. The government didn't force AWS to remove Parler.
I didn't mean to imply that anything that isn't a utility is unimportant, but only that (unlike the parent) I think there is a clear difference between social media and actual utilities.

As for your question, probably not. And there is an interesting debate as to whether political candidates should be some sort of protected class. Though I don't think the issue is particularly urgent given that political candidates across the political spectrum (including Donald Trump) still have access to all of those things.

For the most part, payment process, web hosts, and mail providers are interchangeable, so I don't think it is a big deal that Trump can't use Stripe specifically.

Social Media is more complicated. I guess we will see how things develop, but my intuition is that Trump will open a parler account, interested parties will follow him there, uninterested parties won't, and his most noteworthy statements will be widely reported in the media. So, the same situation as when Trump was on Twitter.
Twitter, etc, right now has freedom of association and you'd like to take that away. At least be honest. And it's ludicrous to say that Twitter is the modern AT&T, which had a national monopoly on real-time person-to-person communication.

I can't take responsibility for "the left", but what I'd be doing is looking toward alternatives. Which I expect would work just fine for the left, which has always tended toward decentralization.
Telegram's MAU is 400 mill last checked [0]. On the desktop, you just can't register, so you can't create an auth_key, but that doesn't mean you can't use the Telegram API over a TLS transport, and encrypt messages using the auth_key created on a phone.

[0]: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/telegram-statistics/
I couldn't give a shit about CNN and I imagine most on here who don't watch Fox would say the same.
If case you havent noticed once VISA bans you nobody wants to do business with you anymore.
No food for "the enemy". No air travel. No payment processing for their businesses or political causes they support. You can earn your social credit points back by kowtowing to Xi the Great - wait wrong country.
What, you mean the truth about people like Bandar bin Sultan and other connections between the Bush administration and the Saudis?
Deplatforming Is Wrong
While I don't use Parler, it probably serves an important social purpose for 95 percent of its members: being a place where they can be heard and not feel isolated.

Deplatforming isolates people at the worst time ever, during a global pandemic. It shuts up a huge swath of the American population who need to be heard and understood. Big tech is wrong here. They are not our saviours. They are not defenders of democracy and freedom.

Please see this for what it is: groupthink on a grand scale.
Legal rights are distinct from ideals and principles. "Freedom of speech", for example, is primarily an ideal. It has some encoding in law because it is such a valuable ideal, but no one should conflate the two and think that the ideal of "freedom of speech" doesn't apply unless the law says so. The law is not an ideal.

Access to legal representation is similarly an ideal that can't be reduced to its partial encoding in a very flawed legal system.
My answer was not whether Twitter did delete all conservative tweets or not. My answer was to this statement by the original commenter:

> Twitter is already very judicious when it comes to any use of the word 'kill' nowadays=s, or anything that could be violent. Just requires a report.

Which is not true. Even those counterexamples of conservative tweets being violent and Twitter not removing them proves my point itself. That no matter how much you report Twitter won't remove violent posts. It doesn't matter if the tweet is from left or right. Which is the entire premise of Amazon booting Parler from using AWS. That Parler isn't removing such low engagement violent tweets (and cites 98 examples in their email). While Amazon signed a deal with Twitter renewing their cloud contract inspite of Twitter not removing thousands of low engagement violent tweets (be it on the left or the right). This is hypocritical.

However, whenever Twitter has censored it has censored right wing accounts. Name one prominent left wing account that Twitter has banned. Can you name even one? I'll wait.
Incorrect. You're discussing censoring people with a different opinion than you, but using minorities as political cover, which is morally dubious.
It's looking like there might be a trial in the senate so we'll see if the "figurative language" argument holds up. Trump telling the rioters "I love you" after they stormed the capitol doesn't look too good in that regard.

Comparing what you're saying about democrats and Biden to what the president has been saying for years and all of the talk on facebook, twitter, r/thedonald, Parler, and Gab is being willfully ignorant. The results speak for themselves.
That's tentative I feel. Anyone can go to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and join a channel someone posted the name of, "join ##channel_name_here on Freenode". Registering with the nickserv and what not? For some I'd agree but it's not entirely obscure.
Claiming they are not public squares is correct and says very little.

When capitalism revealed its ability to create abusive monopolies, we created new laws to mitigate those harms.

When the whole worlds discourse flows through a few centralized social media companies, as a society we are free to imagine new legal concepts and regulations to deal with the unforeseeable consequences of these new phenomena.
Ah! I thought this was going to be about video and audio codecs. I was especially hoping to hear some advocacy for royalty free AV1!

My only real qualm with video conferencing is the camera placement issue that makes it difficult to have eye contact with the remote side. I consciously try to look up at my camera so that it appears I'm looking directly at the other side, but that's a bit unnatural.
Everyone on Hacker News is not assumed to be graph theory specialists.
Youre both right and wrong. Its much simpler.

These people are pissed off, simply because theyre being told to be pissed off. There is no nuance, culture is what we are told at scale. Its why everyones pissed off. Anger is the easiet engagement to bait and advertising based businesses at scale are powered by engagement.
Scissors Keys has 1.3mm Travel Distance. The new Magic Keyboard is 1mm, the difference with 0.3mm is gigantic.

I still dont understand why they try to shave off 0.3mm. As Battery improves the 16 MBP has plenty of space of a maximum 100Whr size battery.
WhatsApp Private Groups Were Accessible Again to Anyone Searching on Google
Indeed, when I was a kid, I learned that when the parish priest stopped by our home, we always offered him a shot of whiskey.
> So the government should instead step in and decide what companies can and can't do with their own services & infrastructure?

They already do this in many places.

The most common example would be common carrier laws. Those aren't particularly controversial.

Do you believe that common carrier laws are some huge infringement on company rights or something?

Do you believe that common carrier laws are "fascist"?

If not, then you must admit that your previous argument is pretty silly.
From Chapter 3

> Whenever any important business has to be done in the monastery, let the Abbot call together the whole community and state the matter to be acted upon. Then, having heard the brethren’s advice, let him turn the matter over in his own mind and do what he shall judge to be most expedient. The reason we have said that all should be called for counsel is that the Lord often reveals to the younger what is best.

> But if the business to be done in the interests of the monastery be of lesser importance, let him take counsel with the seniors only. It is written, “Do everything with counsel, and you will not repent when you have done it.”

This is certainly an interesting take on "new hires bring fresh new ideas."
I'm still fairly upset that the outrage wasn't louder over that, but recent events have at least pulled that event back in the spotlight.
I'm a student at a much smaller university than Stanford. I can tell you with confidence your statement of students not leaving campus once they move in cannot work. For one, consider the students who live in off-campus apartments. How are they going to get food? At my school, meal plans cost a crapton of money, and it's a lot cheaper to just buy groceries and cook for yourself.

Even if you forbade those students from coming to campus, how would you prevent students from leaving? Barricade them in? Our shortened fall break heavily encouraged students to stay on campus, but so many people left to see their families. It's not realistic.
Hunter Biden is not running for President nor part of the Biden administration.

So what he does in his spare time is frankly irrelevant.
> allowing peaceful, objective, conservative opinions and policy (such as the Lincoln Project

Lol the same lincoln project that said on Twitter they are now building a database of all republicans to chastise them forever? Thats peaceful all right.
Both were published by Annapurna Interactive. Along with Donut County, What Remains Of Edith Finch, and Gorogoa.

The only thing I've played that they've published that I felt let down by was Wattam, and that's probably substantially because my expectations were too high.
It's possible, but it's not likely to come from established players. And it's going to have to sacrifice visual quality or use a ton of bandwidth (or both).

I don't know if video calling tends to multiplex audio and video, or send separate streams; multiplexing audio onto the video could help reduce audio delay though. Standard voip uses a packet rate of 50 pps for audio, which means at least 20 ms between sampling and sending. Reducing that would be nice.
The thing about voter ID is that it isn't inherently a bad idea, as long as you make it really cheap (ideally free) and convenient to get one. If republicans were actually interested in election integrity and civic participation, they wouldn't keep accidentally forgetting that part. But they're not, so in practice it ends up acting as a tool for discrimination and disenfranchisement.
> And you will also find such examples for MacOSX or Windows.

If anyone wonders, here are three from Mac last I used it:

- fn took the place of ctrl on the laptop (but not the full keyboard). Unlike on Dell and Lenovo who also has this problem it could not be remapped neither at boot nor in the OS.

- CMD - tab forced me to think ahead of time if I want to change to the last application or the last window of the same application. I.e. switching between two Safari instances takes a different key combination than switching between Safari and IntelliJ.

- modifier keys worked differently between applications, e.g. selecting to the end of a word was either ctrl-shift, alt-shift or CMD-shift depending on application.
I like monastic life in fiction- A Canticle for Leibowitz, Name of the Rose, Anathem.. there are many:

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/32198.Monasteries_and_Co...
Sure, but is that notable for Steve Bannon?
Good thing, of course. The internet has the power to amplify a small message into a massive one and can trivially be used for evil. There is an argument that forcing people to use private chats prevents this stuff from getting out in the open, but come on, the NSA has a back door in everything. There is more harm done letting those messages out into the public space where there is a chance of radicalizing more people, or at the very least making that sort of abhorrent speech more normalized.
> You're pointing out Snowden in 13 and Trump in 16 and implying there's a causal relationship between the two.

Your are misinterpreting his comment. He says that you can't 100% trust in long term government/administration. There will always be a bad guy somewhere at some moment.
So I attend Vanderbilt, who invited everyone to attend in person in the Fall and now will do the same in Spring.

The university is doing 1), as well as 2) to an extent by cancelling spring break.

Interestingly, they haven't opted to do pre-arrival testing giving the following justification:

> Based on the lessons we learned last fall, we expect students’ highest risk activities prior to returning to campus are likely to be traveling to campus and engaging in social activities before classes begin, so efforts will focus on arrival testing and a shelter in place protocol.

We will however have biweekly covid testing throughout the sem, which should be quite effective I think. For Fall, it was only weekly, which meant someone who got infected right after their test would not know until a week later.
Thanks! I have some ideas on how improve this for later (maybe). The main purpose is still to be able to scan major discussions on a big thread. A big vertical minimap like your suggestion is also great! :).