skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would totally take it, but I wouldn't be very surprised if I still got a severe disease.

My point is that its important for people to have an accurate picture of what is the probability of it working, to have a good "feel" of what the likelihood of a good outcome is. Unfortunately social media is providing a skewed picture.

I'm not sure what mechanism would ensure that people get an accurate picture.
> I guess you just ignored the fact that the ToS exists in exchange for the stability and ease AWS provided you. But now you can't ignore that and reconcile your beliefs with your past behavior (i.e. using AWS as a platform). So AWS has to go. That's cool. AWS will survive.

This reads like a dramatic breakup prompted by an affair.
How about in 1600s when people in Massachusetts (and in Europe also) were being burned because they were witches ?
That was not possible even with cold war number of missiles in service, let alone now.
1. get banned from platform.

2. move to another platform.

3. spew shit.

4. go to step 1.

If the above happens for a certain amount of time, think about what the extremists are going to use when they finally realise they need to "build their own" stuff?

The next one after Mastodon will probably be Matrix and by then it's already too late.
“Nazi” is literally short for NAtionalsoZIalistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
Yeah, but they weren’t instructed to go there by a politician. And their goal was to disrupt, not kill.

This is a classic “both sides” argument.

Are you arguing that both sides have done bad things? Yes, that’s true. Everyone at some point in their life has done a bad thing, so you will always be able to point out “a bad thing”.

Are you arguing that both sides have done bad things of the same degree? No way. I’d love to hear an example of any other party leader in history using the inflammatory language Trump has used, lying about election results to supporters and begging politicians to overturn an election, resulting in terrorism and multiple deaths. This is unprecedented, inexcusable and unfortunately completely predictable.
Wait you're telling me that platform with *330 Million* monthly active users has more problems moderating low engagement content than the platform with 4 million MAUs?

Say it ain't so!

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And also what are you even trying to say, that the reason why Parler was banned was those images?

Haha, no. It was because of the ratio of that kind of content to all the content.

Turns out if your only differentiator is you allow X that your competitor doesn't allow, you get a ton of X.

Whether it's porn, hate speech, illegal products, you name it.

You're inviting yourself to become a haven for X.

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Also please confirm: You said Twitter only removes Right Wing content"

Do you stand by such a statement? Because further discourse with you from me will rely on speaking within the realm of reality.

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Reply to both comments since now I'm rate limited:

Two comments back to back showing a tendency to read things in the most convenient way...

Those images, literally just those images, are not why Parler was banned. Your argument literally relies on the fact!

Otherwise those images exist for Twitter and they'd be kicked off!

It was those images PLUS context, and you argue the context is they're right leaning, and I argue the context is they refused to censor hate speech and ended up being a haven for it

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I literally gave you the reason right there! You allow X, other place doesn't, you'll be swamped with X.

Call it game theory, call it human nature, call it whatever you want, that's how it's worked on the internet since time immemorial, I don't get why Parler was supposed different
"Currently searches across and advertises on the Bittorrent DHT, centralized DNS servers and Multicast DNS simultaneously."
If we held new elections every time one side didn't like the result, we wouldn't have a democracy. As Mitt Romney (Republican senator) noted, no congressional commission or other action would restore faith in the vote while the president is actively lying to his constituency.
That's my question.

The article actually says a lot the measures work, the results for the most restrictive measures is "mixed". I suspect that is as you say: some places actually follow those rules and they work, other places ignore them and they (unsurprisingly) fail.

Edit, case in point, teachers have had enough of constant U-turns and cancelled and reactivated and re cancelled initiatives:

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-poll-suggests-most-teach...
As cool as it is, I usually find myself using https://archive.is as a browser.

For a time, I used https://brow.sh but its hosted html browser is not up anymore.
After Donald Trump, Twitter Bans Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell
The billable $300 an hour go to your company. So if your company can charge for more time because you spend more time searching, that's actually good for your employer!
The post in question writes "have risen higher", which to me reads as if it's saying that the temperature, as a result of rising, is now higher than ever before, not that the rate of change is higher.
I would expect something along the lines of "have risen faster" if we were describing the slope of the graph of temperature over time.
The problem with your first point is that however true it may be, it doesn’t provide a good mental framework for creating values that are universally applicable. The lessons of fearing an FBI visit for just sharing text files was correct: being free to speak and not fear oppression due to not what you say but what it implies is what freedom of speech is. It’s quite uncontroversial to say that people who explicitly advocate specific violence are breaking the just laws around that and should be suppressed. The controversy is around what speech adjacent to that is not just permissible, but if it’s just to jump to conclusions about a person’s motives or intentions and act on them in the absence of illegal speech.
Looking at the effects per country of the mrNPIs, there's a lot of variation per country. You could probably conclude that more restrictive measures don't work as well in countries with large right wing populist movements whoop don't follow the rules...
This is what makes me roll my eyes at anyone who says getting kicked of Twitter is being “silenced”. Make a web page and you have broader and more direct reach than almost anyone on Earth 20 years ago.
Invoiless – Automatic invoices for your website
Either they've all "gone nuts", or things are actually that serious.

(It is the latter.)
I used to do the opposite, start from the back where the bigger/harder questions where when I was still fresh, and work backwards(?) to the easier questions with fewer points. Agree that leaving a question half finished with enough space to come back to it and finish it is also a good idea, instead of getting stuck and demoralised.

In any case, I think it's fair to say that reading all of the test, thinking about how you want to approach it, and not just blindly following the ordering provided is going to be better than a naive approach - no matter what ordering is chosen.
I don't know why they don't. They should.
The root of our real problem on the Right is that elites and the base want different things. So elites don’t train the base in how to actually produce change.

Huh.
The UN definition of genocide, note point D:

any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
I don't brush aside Node programs just because they're Node. I brush them aside because they usually drag in a few MB of dependencies, and melt my (mid-level) computer with compilation (often OOM-killing everything else I'm doing on the machine, before dying to the OOM-killer itself) – but for all that, I then need to keep the entire thing on my hard drive because the compilation was mere caching, and hasn't given me an executable; I've still got the runtime overhead of Node, and everything that comes with it.

There are a few Python programs I also brush aside for this reason, though substantially fewer. Virtually every Node project I've seen is a spidery mess of dependencies bringing in dependencies bringing in yet more un-auditable dependencies; the worst Python tends to get is Tensorflow, and it's ready to run immediately (compiling C modules aside – though pip does that at installation time, making that a one-time annoyance for all but obscure C packages).
The network interprets fash as noise and filters it out.

If you are a hardliner about free speech, you are fash. If you are conservative, you are fash-proximate.
Then I encourage you to continue to develop distinctions and nuance, because this cuts many ways.
It's built on the Hypercore Protocol [0](previously known as DAT), so I would assume DHT (Distributed Hash Tables).

[0]https://hypercore-protocol.org/
For example, a fork could make all articles into rabbit holes like:

- really simple and short article
- expanded version of the same article
- even more expanded version
- ...

With an easy (contextual!) navigation up and down the stack.

The benefit would be faster learning.

The initial levels would be clearly marked that they contain simplifications to the point of being half-truths and the version that is 100% "honest" would be also clearly marked. (For the cases when the truth is so complex that it becomes clearly anti-educational. I don't mean controversial/political topics.)
Buy directly from other stores and don't shop from Amazon.com. I'm not supporting Amazon or Apple products for trying to silent my free speech.
Do gcc languages - even low level ones - remain written in c?
Facebook and Twitter are commonly used, but they are not the street corner. These things didn't exist when the first amendment was written, but printing presses did. And they specifically did not write in a requirement that printers should print anything and everything. In fact, just 8 years after the first amendment was ratified they passed a federal law banning printing of "false, scandalous or malicious writing". And that was fine, because people could still yell on their street corner or write their own letters, which you will always have the right to do.
I can't agree, at least not in general.

The optionality of being cloud agnostic comes with a huge cost, both because of all the pieces you have to build+operate and because of the functionality you have to exclude from your systems.

I am sure there are scales where you either have such a large engineering budget that you can ignore these costs or where decreasing your cloud spend is the only way to scale your business. But for the average company, I can't see how spending so much on infrastructure (and future optionality) pays off, especially when you could spend on product or marketing or anything else that has a more direct impact on your success.
Sidechains have different security properties. You probably know xdai (https://www.xdaichain.com/), where you can transact tokens that "wrap" dais from Ethereum mainnet. The sidechain is secured by a proof of authority consensus, where you require a fraction of validators to behave honestly. If a certain number of validators collude, they can do nasty things, such as censoring transactions from a certain address, or keeping the chain from making progress. This is not possible in a rollup, either optimistic or zk, because any single user can always commit a batch or report fraud on L1, so you just need a single honest actor for things to work.
It’s not just about the mass, but how strongly it couples to the things we can directly manipulate (typically, protons, electrons, muons and occasionally their anti-particles, and photons). The top quark, being a third generation quark turns out to be far easier to produce (if you work out the details of the standard model) than the Higgs. Yes, the heavier mass might act as a suppressor but stronger couplings act as an enabler.

So, a “dark matter” particle at even few GeV could have gone hitherto undetected, because it hardly talks to anything we can directly manipulate/sense (hence the “dark” moniker).
The most useful part of this for me:

"my definition of success for a bear market call.. It is simply that sooner or later there will come a time when an investor is pleased to have been out of the market.. requiring that you get the timing right is overreach. If the hurdle for calling a bubble is set too high, so that you must call the top precisely, you will never try. And that condemns you to ride over the cliff every cycle, along with the great majority of investors and managers."
20 screen pages to say it's expected to snow in January. /smartass

Actually a decent explanation of what "polar vortex" means and a good illustration of how it causes winter weather. Without even "and this means the end of humanity tomorrow!" hype.
Duck tape programmers also produce code only one or a few persons can patch. The result is technical debt that lead Netscape to do a full rewrite to produce Mozilla/Firefox.

The truth is in the middle with better tooling to make it easier to design good code and get it working faster with fewer bugs even while at the bleeding edge.
I am using postgresql now. That is not a silver bullet for anything though. I switched to postgresql early on (when I first started using matrix I think synapse only supported sqlite?) and I've had less disk space & memory trouble using sqlite than I have postgresql.

Of course I was using sqlite when there weren't nearly as many users as there are today or when I had federation disabled.
The problem is that cigarettes aren't vital to a functioning democracy, information is. When you impose limits on the spreading of information you give tools that can be abused to block valid information. Even if the 'block' is putting a label on everything, it'll still limit the spread of information.
2nded.

I would love to hear about a "first line to last line" tutorial for a simple GTK app in C, python or preferable rust.

To me there seems to be a huge diffuse overhead to GUI programming, which is discouraging for my kind of brain. I thrive building tree houses, but despise puzzles.

Anyone got a link?
It would be interesting to reproduce this analysis for first and second waves within the same countries. I could see a few issues with that type of comparison, like the most at risk already having been infected, but those details could be teased out.
Ask HN: Who needs to have their media consumption pre-filtered?
I've been seeing this discussion going around in circles and I wanted to cut to the heart of it. Lots of people are saying that we need platform moderation to protect us from misinformation and chaos/racism etc.

I'm curious who the target of that moderation is supposed to be. Is it us here on HN? If not us, who? Family, friends, relatives? Who are the people that need to have what they consume pre-sanitized?

And who gets to decide who those people are?
This is not true.

Twitter is not an arbiter of truth and never was. Their policies are clear.
That’s where that reference comes from of course :)
Ca$h is king.
no, they actually didn't
Sure, but then ban their account and all ips. Not just tweets that you don't think line up with US version of the truth.
> glorification of violence (...) not inconsistent with Twitter's policies

Oh, please. Twitter's application of its policies is outrageously inconsistent, even for high-profile U.S. officials. Otherwise, how come the many people who openly defend the extra-judicial killings by the U.S. military (from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump) have yet a twitter account? And I'm not saying anything about tweets supporting the violent overthrow of several governments worldwide; those are tolerated because they align with U.S. interests. Twitter is the ministry of truth of the U.S.A. and its main mouthpiece.
Maybe I'm blind but I given a diagonal read I couldn't find the sample size. Most of the restrictions were being introduced in the spring and at the same time. This probably leads to some issues: little cross-sectional information to identify the effects of all the different types of lockdowns; limited testing means that we do not know how many cases were there and we only knew of the most severe ones.
The work on a spec is already going as fast as it reasonably can be.

A stable ABI is unclear.
Twitter doesn't apply this evenly though. If any call to violence is supposed to be removed. Every tweet calling for the arrest of Trump (or anyone) also needs to be removed.

Edit: not sure if this is allowed but I'm curious why I am being downvoted? Is there some logic I'm missing here? Or I guess people just think state-sanctioned violence should be allowed? If so, wouldn't this tweet by China be fine, since this violence is being done by the Chinese state?
Currently I'm in a big problem with time because of the mix of psychological problems including perfectionism.

What I mean is: I spent almost all my time thinking how to plan my life. When I think about what I should do every day, I always find excuses why it won't work.

So it turns out that everyday is spent by thinking instead of doing.

Also I understand what the author meant when talking about the difficulty of maintaining work-life balance. But this happened for me all the time, not only when there was a lockdown, but really all the time.

I'm not working on hourly basis, but I'm working on my side-product. And the thoughts in my head are "Okay, we can spend a few evenings coding and we'll have that feature. Probably it'd be enough to breakthrough and we will become millionaires!" :D I'm exaggerating but still.

Then, after I spent all the time thinkings, I accuse myself that I haven't been working.

This is a vicious circle.

And after that, the "trigger" in the behaviour formula is something I'm waiting for all my life: the secret sign to start planning.
Couple this also with the Gell-Mann amnesia affect and it makes it that much more difficult to filter information as every source will need to be deeply investigated unto it's root.

The only option seems to be copious and wide reading of data yourself, and then applying that to your own life, while ensuring you provide a veneer that passes muster to those physically around you, unwilling to do the same, and at odds with your personal conclusion.

Easier said than done, when a large portion of your time is spent taking care of mundane work/family matters.

This breakage in trust of the 'common good' by 'experts' in their field - leaders, law enforcement, health, merchants, ensures that the path of least resistance is the "blind belief" in local leadership and their chosen 'expert' supporters.
Of course I do, simply not by the argument that forced sterilization is genocide, an argument which necessitate that one can “kill” a not yet existing man by stopping his future existence.

The argument of genocide of course does not imply that the man who is sterilized is killed so long as he be allowed to live after the sterilization, but rather that his future, hypothetical offspring is, because it would now never come to be.

The comparison I made was with forced foreskin removal and forced dental correction, something that can also not be undone.
They have ads.
honest question, are you a 12 year old?
Yes. Look at Australia and New Zealand, who implemented incredibly strict lockdowns and enforced then actively.

Those countries got to party together for new year's because they were both at zero cases.
I don’t think that is true. I read it as the maximum, not the slope. The confusion is from the use of higher instead of faster. Faster would be the rate of change while higher is absolute value.

> We know for sure that the average temperatures have risen higher in the last 40 years than they have ever before.

This could be a year over year increase in maximum, with a very small slope too
The newspapers and TV news stations also won't publish the most offensive statements from foreign leaders (or even local ones) either.

You could possibly argue that things like email or telephones won't censor people, but if foreign governments tried regularly calling us to send propaganda, they'd get blocked.
Agreed.

I find the dishonesty the most annoying. My current right wing popularise government lacks the bravery to be honest and say "fuck it". So they're pretending to do things. Then immediately breaking the rules themselves very publically.

People get the message: "this is serious, wink wink, nudge nudge"
> And also what are you even trying to say, that the reason why Parler was banned was those images?

Yes I am saying these are the images for which Parler was banned. Maybe you should do your research before you happen to accuse me of saying things I never said. These images were provided by Amazon to Parler as a justification to remove Parler from AWS. These images were not taken by me or provided by me.

The article which covers these images:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...

> Haha, no. It was because of the ratio of that kind of content to all the content.

No evidence to back up your claim here. Again, this is the sort of stupid left wing bubble that makes up most left wingers. Unless you can say exactly how much of the content was violent on Parler your guess is as good as mine. I just showed the GP evidence on how Twitter doesn't remove hate speech on its platform much the same as Parler. That is about it. I can dig thousands of tweets for you which show hate speech. I am not going to waste my time doing it. If Amazon can use the above images as justification to remove Parler then Twitter being online is hypocritical.
I wonder who tells the story that cloud computing has something to do with reducing complexity. In my world, cloud computing is a bout scalability and making things as complex as they need to be to be scalable. This rarely means that complexity is being reduced.
It's a primary knowledge source for me, but occasionally a destination as well!
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A caveat: I stopped using StartPage after it sold to an advertisement firm and switched to https://lite.duckduckgo.com/ instead. The sale doesn't necessarily mean StartPage is any less private (because you can sell to an ethical advertising firm, why not) but something to keep in mind.

Ref: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/di5rn3/startpage_i...
> The key word is usually immanent

I don't know that word. ;)

"imminent lawless action" and "likely" are the important words here.

Imminent lawless action here usually means there's a specified timeframe (as clarified in Hess v. Indiana). Given that many people are explicitly talking about January 18th and January 19th violent action, it's hard for me to see how this standard isn't met. Daydreaming the overthrow of the government and murder of specific elected officials a week from now is not protected speech, especially when made credible by violent action a few days ago.
general consensus on reddit (and my personal experience) seems to be that seasoning on carbon steel is a bit more delicate than on cast iron, possibly because carbon steel skillets tend to have a much smoother surface.

chemically, carbon steel is very similar to cast iron, so all the info regarding cleaning is still applicable. you should probably expect to do a little more work to maintain the seasoning on a carbon steel pan though.