skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Rolling Stone did in giving a political reporter the freedom to write about the banalities of the system was revolutionary at the time. They also allowed their writer to be a sides-taker and a rooter, which seemed natural and appropriate because biases end up in media anyway. They were just hidden in the traditional dull “objective” format.

I think Taibbi, whom I’m not generally a fan but do believe strives to be intellectually honest, makes a really unfortunate statement here. First, Rolling Stone would have only allowed your opinionated voice as long as it was generally an opinion the editors shared. Second, the idea that you did it the right way but the current breed is nothing but shallow polemics is tremendously arrogant. Third, “taking sides” means you are no longer a reliable reporter, as you unavoidably feel compelled to report things that justify the side you’ve selected.

Really, Matt and others who took off their masks of objectivity during the Bush presidency (Dan Rather, Helen Thomas, Bill O’Reilly to name a few) were the ones that opened the gates to the journalists of today that wear their bias and ignorance on their sleeve. “They literally know nothing”, as Ben Rhodes famously said.

I lament the same things in the article that Taibbi laments. The fear merchants selling wall-to-wall panic porn (from the Russians are coming! to Birtherism to whatever the lie du jour happens to be) have significantly damaged American culture and American politics. And all for clicks and eyeballs! But Taibbi, despite his attempts to distance himself, deserves a measure of blame for leading the way.

I know journalism has always had bias, but there was an incentive to make sure the bias wasn’t overt. Because overt bias would have been considered unethical. I don’t think we are better for it now the pretense of objectivity is gone.
This is known as a "treacherous turn", a phenomenon I'm aware of. But I don't really see how that's relevant, my point is that a lack of physical grounding or pragmatism can lead to spurious conclusions about the superintelligence that humans will very likely build in the not too distant future. It will be smart, but contain no infinities.
Why should people be able to say hateful ideas online? No one can answer this and its why we have to use censorship
Philosophies of Rust and Haskell
Puppy prices soar during coronavirus lockdown
I am optimistic that we won't tumble down the slippery slope. We do need to be careful about it, though, and watch for threats to democracy from all angles. IMO it wouldn't be such a bad thing if this instance weakened the market dominance of SV and gave room in the market for new entrants. Hosting providers outside U.S. jurisdiction, for example, or decentralized social networks.
Interesting, are there lots of people who see it in these terms? It's very favorable to conservatives, and not so much to liberals, which leads me to suspect it is more wishful thinking than an accurate depiction of partisan politics. It looks a lot like what I'd expect someone to write if they weren't arguing in good faith, but were in fact playing this discussion like a team sport.
If NatSec is indeed the motivation, those planning response seem to feel differently.
Roy Austin Joins Facebook as VP of Civil Rights
I don't think it's possible to secure a contract with such favorable terms that you can not get cut off for inciting physical violence on government property. OP would also need to be a fairly large player to able to negotiate favorable terms with someone like AWS to begin with.
> It is nowhere near what you'd expect from a AAA title in terms of quality. Had to stop playing it because it's not worth it to ruin the experience.

Can you clarify a bit whether you were hitting game play bugs or visual issues?

On the PC side there are occasional visual glitches but the game play is relatively stable - I've had trouble with one quest line (the delamain one) and the enemy AI can get stuck sometimes - but it hasn't interrupted game play too badly.
Perhaps not: The authors omit how planet-wide extinction scenarios would play-out for artificial life. For example, a Carrington Event would do a great deal of "containment" to AI.
@Sean_Pedersen, I've been working in the messaging field for years and I share your frustration this hasn't been solved. I'm not a big Twitter user but followed you (@chiefexcitement) on there just now, if you DM me I'd be glad to setup a time to discuss.
Hourly rates are not appropriate.

* experts are paid for applying their knowledge, not their time[1][2]

* A “fair” time based system should also pay for unsuccessful searches e.g. the previous month unsuccessfully searching for a bug in Chrome.

* if person A spends 1 hour finding bug X, and person B spends 1000 hours finding exactly the same bug X, then it is a fallacy that you could pick a fair hourly rate.

Also I’ll mention that you don’t get paid according to how much damage a bug can cause. 1: usually the damages occur to a third party (e.g. users of Microsoft Windows, not Microsoft). 2: imagine you find ten bugs that could wipe out the business Acme - you can’t get paid 10x Acme’s value (not even just 1x Acme’s profits.)

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/14/time-art/

[2] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/know-where-man/
What other browser has injected a referrer to a link that has been entered into a browser URL bar and has benefited the company personally? As a engineer that has worked on global products myself, I find it extremely concerning that something like that made it to the public and it seems quite unbelievable that it was a simple mistake, but then again, I wasn't the person who coded it. There has been plenty of 'mistakes' that brave has needed to backtrack on and apologise for. Other browsers that have been around longer than brave have not been found to behave in ways brave has even though I am sure many researchers poke holes in it. If you would like to point out the behaviour of other browsers and compare it to the controversies that Brave has had, feel free to do so and prove many of the doubters wrong. The affiliate link is one of many examples. My other point is that you can also get the privacy protections Brave touts from other browsers as well, but without the shady past that Brave has a history of.
You can say "the wrong side of history" because your ideas happen to be in alignment with the current zeitgeist, but there's no guarantee this will hold true.

In other words, it's a poor argument for anything and only interesting when used ironically.
No, Parler was doing plenty of moderation. They actively suppressed opposing left-wing view points. It was a pure far-right agitation machine.
Oh, is today Whataboutism day?
Then it's a good thing it's being decided in a court.

Which is what provides checks and balances, AWS says "You violated our ToS, we're cutting you off", "Parler sues and says 'No we didn't and here's why'".

If Parler wins and can prove that they were unfairly targeted, then they can sue Amazon for damages. Which is what keeps Amazon from unfairly applying its ToS. And if they can demonstrate irreparable harm, then they can get an injunction forcing AWS to restore their services immediately rather than waiting for the court case to be decided.

But I think the best they could do is present monetary damages, which the court could decide AWS is able to pay.
LOL - That crowd wasn't anywhere near "overthrowing the government." Don't be ridiculous. And armed insurrection or coup looks very, very different than that. More guns and explosives. Fewer selfies.
> but they most certainly were not fabrications or lies.

i'd strongly beg to differ. fake news was at its peak during the first two years of "Russia-gate" with networks reporting on hearsay and drawing wild conclusions irrespective of hard evidence. journalistic integrity was thrown to the wind.

it seemed as if every week a "we got him" story broke only to fizzle as it turned out to be false.

the linked article below offers some examples of these fake news stories about Trump. and I do recognize that the second quote is written by Barr, not Mueller.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/russiagate-is-wmd-times-a-mill...
Yes, I can vouch for this model. I currently use The New Paper, but I will probably try other similar services (like yours) just to see which if I like any of the competition better.
One thing I'd add to what people need in a decentralized social network is the ability to own their own data, and be able to port it from place to place.

So there needs to be some kind of data format that is accepted as the standard format everyone uses. I don't mean a protocol like ActivityPub, I mean something like JSON or XML tag names that describe and hold all social media posts and every other kind of microblog or personal data.

I guess this is commonly called the "Semantic Web" and various parts of it already do exist.
It misses AES-NI though, so missing encryption hardware and would be subpar if running a VPN client for the network...
i haven't got an email yet either
Fitlet2 looks rather nice to me. Outfitted with an Intel J3455 CPU, and 2-4 Intel NICs, it is really power efficient for its performance class (idles at ~6 watts, for those that care). There are also some Chinese companies producing slightly cheaper boxes in this category- Qotom, Kettop, Protectli.

When it comes to software, I'm conflicted. I like pfsense, but Netgate has gone a bit sour with the FLOSS community. I'd also consider OpenWRT, FreeBSD, OpenBSD.
Like it or not private companies currently have a monopoly on the communication infrastructure of our planet. There is no "public option" for AWS. If they have a monopoly (which Apple and Google clearly have on the app store), then it comes with specific obligations to not discriminate and a requirement to provide services to everyone equally. That's the price you pay for banning competition from the market.

If Apple and Google allowed alternative app stores in their ecosystem, then there would be no problem with them kicking off any apps for any reason under the sun.

The argument is more nuanced for AWS as there are viable private competitors. However, it is stunning that they would cancel their contract with a customer by giving them only 24 hours notice. It's making me seriously consider why I would trust AWS as a partner.
What are you talking about? The courts are involved.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/tech/parler-amazon-lawsuit/in...
I'm sorry I misjudged you, that sounds miserable.
for the record, disgusting should be anything anti LGBT, and that's why parler had to be eliminated
The delusion and mania gripping the country is evident by the downvotes to the above post. It is beyond dispute that the standards used by tech companies to silence people go far beyond speech that violates the law. Reading the TOS of any of these tech companies will confirm this. Its rather astounding that otherwise intelligent and presumably literate people are so jarred by this statement of indisputable fact. Unfortunately its impossible to have a thoughtful, reasoned discussion about the free speech issues raised by recent events when so many are living in denial of reality.
All these Xorg/X11 problems people complain about... I honestly don't see them.

I've been using Xorg in one form or another since 2005-2006 and frankly since we all got automatic configuration and said godbye to Xorg.conf it's been a very very pleasant experience.

I've been using both nVidia and intel cards, 1/2/3 monitors (in various arrangement) and network stuff (ssh -X and similar), and a videogame from time to time.

Even xterm, with the right fonts, it's a very nice setup. I almost can't see the difference between a gtk emacs window and an emacs session running in xterm-unicode with proper fonts and antialiasing.

Xorg might not be "optimal", but it works very well for me and I won't be switching to anything else until a wayland or whatever reach feature parity (including but not limited to network transparency).

Whatever,
"Nipah virus is a highly lethal illness that can cause respiratory and neurological symptoms, and which is particularly a threat in India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Singapore."

I'm a conservative who generally dislikes the way the Left approaches the idea of social justice, but I do get the feeling that this nipah virus, which I've never heard of before now, would have gotten more attention if it were ravaging Europe or North America.
Exceptional claims require exceptional proof.

I literally just showed how shockingly easy it is for anyone to invent California voters in a matter of seconds. That’s exceptional in my opinion. I could write a script that would register 10k of those in several minutes. But the more likely scenario is that I can’t be the only one that has realized this...nobody knows how many people are doing this once or a few times.

That is the whole point of this conversation - the possibility of incredibly easy, undetectable fraud renders all votes meaningless because we simply don’t know how much occurred and there is no way to find out because the rules are so loose. Until they are changed, it completely negates any point in voting.
Why suspect HFTs over other potential interfering applications? Could be anything, and unless I missed something, TFA doesn't show any evidence that the usage is HFT-motivated
> I don't see how upvotes or views are relevant.

Of course it's relevant. If your hate message is received by nobody - who is the victim? You're just shouting into the ether. The larger your reach, the more moderation becomes important.

> And that shouldn't be allowed either. What's your point?

Because Twitter isn't been wiped from the internet for breaking the exact same ToS. It's clearly selective enforcement.
> Again, Amazon is NOT a Court.

If you want entitlement to a court on the legality of content before getting cutoff from service, negotiate a contract that specifies that you can carry any legal content, and the other party must assume content is legal absent a determination by a court to the contrary.

OTOH, that’s not part of anyone’s boilerplate, and adds a lot of potential cost, so expect to pay an extremely hefty premium to get a business to agree to those terms.
Buying in-store or via delivery service (as opposed to Amazon) is almost guaranteed to increase the amount of plastic packaging. Many stores have those stupid anti-consumer clamshell packages (mostly to reduce shoplifting, but at high environmental cost).

Let's not forget all the packaging in shipping the item to the destination as well (that you don't see because it's discarded in the shipping room floor).

It's gotten to the point where I simply don't buy unless I absolutely need it anymore.
The Grey Goo scenario is that it starts eating the planet until the only thing left is a sea of nanomachines.

However, thermodynamics says it becomes increasingly more difficult to distribute power (food) to a growing population and it hits a natural limit to growth, just like bacteria.
This is what everyone decided they wanted twenty years ago. Loss of public space was a huge topic of conversation, and the end consensus (IMHO) was that the internet itself was the public space and everyone was free to make something.

From that perspective this looks like a conversation about ease of access rather than free speech. Amazon's the only way to build something on Amazon, but nothing's stopping me from creating something myself.

I don't see being able to buy eyeballs on the cheap as a fundamental right. If you care enough, build it. If others care, they'll come.
> It's very near to what happened, even if it's not the most accurate description.

Does anyone have an obligation to use "the most accurate description", and if so, when?

I'm not antagonistic to your POV, but I'm troubled by the sloppy language and lack of accurate descriptions. I am not sure how to reconcile my desire to avoid "coyness with word games" and my sense that accurate descriptions are really important.
I don't know about you, but I get kind of tired about politics. I feel like we have enough smart people in this country to make things better.
> What you really mean is "supposed the Big Tech companies became far-right instead of centrist neoliberal capitalists".

This is right. I should've said something like "what if they censored progressive reform instead of violence and hatred".

> One could equally easily assume ... the left would instead organize outside corporate communication channels (as it has in the past) for boycotts, demonstrations, and mobilization

Yes, but one could also assume the extremists are going to do the same thing to stage another insurrection. And, under the argument that they still have freedom of speech, there is nothing we could do.

The point is that people are supporting the current, reasonable policy (censoring hate speech and calls for violence) with the wrong justification (private companies that control communication can do whatever they want). This particularly becomes a problem when the companies decide to use their censorship for profit at the expense of indie studios (which has happened), and said studios don't have good alternatives.
Isn't the ability to decide what issue your bring to a space and then deciding which issues you'll "take no position" a privilege?

Why is it privilege to avoid discussing politics in a gardening group? I'll grant that "take no position" can be a privileged position in some contexts, but a gardening group discussion seems pretty clearly not one of those contexts.
> copyright violators are rarely seeking to violate copyright on the same scale and with the same outspoken ideological justification as Swartz

I disagree. I'd say that Swartz's actions to try and make research freely available online (especially when said research is often funded by taxpayers and not by the copyright holders of the resulting paper) is more noble than for example pirates who publish entertainment material such as movies, music, etc.
I'd imagine some Scheme environments are good as well, like Dr Racket.

Unfortunately the same amount of effort that has been applied to static type checking has not been applied to dynamic language environments.

It would have been very interesting to see what could be possible with the more advancement.
> The fact that HFTs are so willing to invest in speed even to achieve a tiny advantage over other HFTs kind of gives the game away.

Re-pricing s&p500 futures offers in Chicago based on faster stock offer information from nyc is fine. It’s improving a market making strategy or taking offers that look like they will now be profitable.

> And when people quite rightly observe that having a speed advantage over other traders obviously allows extractive behavior like frontrunning

HFTs do not front run for fucks sake. It’s illegal and this meme needs to die. Front running is literally putting your order in front of a client’s order.

Being the fastest to realize the bottom is falling out of the s&p500 and selling the futures contracts on open bids is not front running.
"just a maze of ASICs, FPGA blobs, etc."

Right, I know. That's another serious issue much too big to discuss here except to mention two well-known examples that highlight the problems:

1. There's are problem with having compiled, thus obfuscated, code in embedded devices such as you mention. The high profile case being the Volkswagen emissions affair. Given the potential for vehicles (normal or EV) to kill people, there's a strong case that all such embedded code in mission-critical applications ought to be open whether the manufacturer likes it or not.

2. Backdoors such as Intel's Active Management Technology/AMT/IME should not be allowed by law unless all aspects of their APIs are published openly.

It's not only high profile stuff such as I've mentioned either. Several weeks ago I bought a NETGEAR LB2120 4G/LTE modem. I know nothing about the information it sends back to NETGEAR other than it actually does so by virtue of the fact that it advised me of an update (no other information about the update was supplied). It seems to me that, as user, I not only have the right to know what information is sent back but also that I should have the option to block it—and that this right should be enshrined in law.
NY state bar association to begin disbarment proceedings against Rudy Giuliani
Watch "The Century of the self" by Adam Curtis.
Sure, ignore half of my comment and put words in my mouth (I said nothing about any form of punishment). I'm not defending or excusing Trump's actions, I'm pointing out that there are actually worse people out there and to say otherwise just makes you look like a hyperbolic fool.
No, illegitimi non carborundum.
No. Your attempted correction is factually inaccurate. In most states, the governor appoints a replacement when there's an unexpected Senate vacancy, and in only six of those states is the governor required fill the vacancy with someone of the same political party as the prior senator. In the other states, governors can and do appoint someone from their own party, so a Democratic senator from most states with a Republican governor would be replaced by a Republican. That's the case in Georgia, Ohio, New Hampshire, etc.

It's a real concern; given the current atmosphere and the 50-50 Senate split, it would not surprise me at all to see someone murder a senator in order to tip the balance of control.
Do you mean that graphene has been over-hyped? Or that it hasn't lived up to its initial promise?
In my opinion, all the talks about the potential danger of advanced AI is highly speculative and revolves around a very simple thing: fear of the unknown, that's all.

We simply don't know.

And some people are also afraid of creation by accident, because intelligence is seen as an emergent property of complex networks, but again, this is because we don't understand much about it.

Tldr; Nothing to see here, move along.
Not NPR. Not even close.

We need dispassionate reporting of apparent facts, emphasis on equal time for both side of every issue/report, and zero editorializing by commission or omission.

This is a pipedream sadly.
See wallawe’s link above. That was on Nov 4 and is still live.
A nuance: AWS de-platformed Parler for its insufficient moderation on violence-inciting discussion, not for existence of such discussion. Not that I agree with or disagree with AWS decision, but it's worth having a nuanced discussion. A larger problem I see in the US is that many, if not all, nuanced discussions are considered evil by the left or by the right.
SSL pinning and other MITM obfuscations are frequently not very useful from a security perspective.
disgusting is anything anti-lgbt, anti progressive, anything that is a bi-erasure or trans smear. Disgusting is that which marginalizes or unfairly imputes the character of a minority community whether black, jewish, or hispanic, since these voices are not adequately represented
Since you’re a math teacher maybe it’s a good opportunity for a statistics lesson.

What are the chances of them having a negative outcome from covid compared to having a negative outcome from the vaccine.

Then they can make an informed choice for themselves.
It was not easy to find the live demo: https://languagetool.org/