skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? In humans, we often give life to new individuals. While the parents die and wither, those individuals give life to newer speciments on their own, and so on. So this relationship of the parent dying and making room for the child is nothing new. If an uncontainable superintelligence kills all humans to create paperclips, it's sad but it's our child's doing. You, one of the parents, can of course blame one of the other parents, the programmer of that superintelligence for fucking up the goal routines, but that's not a technical problem but a social one :).
None of these threads have answered the question, nor will they answer the question when it is asked again next week, or the week after that, or the month after that, etc., which it should until it is answered.
I'm with you- I read Mozilla's statement in a well-intentioned light, and believe that they are still as much of a leader of internet freedoms as they've ever been. It's true that there's a complicated situation around censorship and moderation, and the national conversation turning to this area doesn't make the lines any clearer, but Mozilla certainly doesn't deserve the level of criticism I've observed in some forums for this statement. If you feel as sure as I do, and would like to support their cause, it's more effective to donate what you can to the Mozilla Foundation than to further engage with the narratives these threads imply.
Axois seems to do a decent job.

However, if you watch their interviews, for example, you quickly realize the problem isn't maintaining veracity as a fair source of news. The problem is if the reporters remain intrepid (as they currently seem to be), the people they interview-- like Ted Cruz-- end up looking like complete dumbasses. I'm honestly surprised they continue to get interviews with prominent figures.

That, to me, is the bigger problem. There are plenty of partisan pundits who feel comfortable appearing on the "other" cable news to play the wrestling villain. Nearly none of them will ever appear on Democracy Now, for example, because Amy will:

1. not negotiate ground rules for the interview in advance

2. ask occasional follow-up questions

Amy Goodman clearly sits pretty far on the left. But those two simple rules essentially made her as much of a nuisance to Bill Clinton as to George Bush. (And if you haven't heard it, go on youtube and watch her grill Clinton when he was attempting to campaign during Hilary's Senate run on Democracy Now.)

And that's the bigger issue. I don't really care whether some pundit reinforces my worldview or not. I care whether they fold under pressure when an intrepid reporter reveals they don't know what they're talking about. The problem with MSNBC/Fox/CNN is they don't usually (or even consistently) apply that pressure. (And sometimes actively suppress it, e.g., not telling their audience that one of their military analysts who is arguing for an invasion is also a board member of a defense contractor that would benefit from the invasion.)

Edit: clarifications
Jack Dorsey doesn't control Twitter now.
It's not irony. It's pervasive and it's dishonesty plain and simple.
Not Easy, Not Unreasonable, Not Censorship
> I saw somebody on Reddit seriously suggesting that Steam should pull the game like Sony did, and it's like, what?

I'm starting to think that some major players are capitalizing on the situation by bankrolling marketing and negative PR. CDPR stock has fallen dramatically and now they are facing punitive action from governments that on a level I've never heard of for a game studio.

I'm not apologizing for them. They should not have released what they did for the PS4. But I'm seeing a bunch of articles about how the number of players one steam has fallen by X% and lots of others stuff not typically reported about on a game.

I guess we'll see if they get acquired at a deep discount by Ubisoft or something.
The illustrations are by Iyad Rahwan, the last author on the paper:

http://www.mit.edu/~irahwan/cartoons.html
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Is the electric car market share going to increase faster than the growth of all cars?
Not saying it is or will be the same. It isn't and won't be.

This is about a TOOL. You don't have to use a tool the same way every time.
In what sense is a private commercial website public space?
A national security concern would have been easier dealt with by coercing parler directly rather than going to the trouble of coercing each vendor individually. It makes no sense.
I keep hearing this, but is there an actual reliable source that confirms it? If it were that easy, then I could technically restore anyone's GDrive backup from WhatsApp on my Android phone simply if I got access to the same Google account, but I believe this is not possible as you have to also verify the phone number via SMS.
Ah! Academia is the containment mechanism!
OP’s account is 3 months old.
And ... who knows, maybe Putin really won maybe not. After all he systematically crushes any real opposition.

The problem in Russia, the problem in all of these questions is the huge imbalance of power. Russia an Belarus is an autocracy. (Yes, it's again context, but using the word context is uselessly too broad, doesn't have explanatory power.)

So Trump claims they are persecuted, we can look at the balance of power. Oh, he's the sitting president. Well, then it's very-very-very unlikely that he's silenced, and it's more likely that he's trying to overextend his power, and he's simply facing pushback from various other social/democratic/other institutions.

When Twitter banned the SciHub account because it broke their Counterfeit policy people noted that in this case it was likely Twitter using its power too much to please Elsevier/India.
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try having verified e2ee conversations with XMPP - good luck.
The other side is facebook shouldn't offer a service to a country/people it can't support.
Unless you're a group that the gov't doesn't like?
Well said, posting just so I can crib it more easily.
68% of Americans' productivity impacted by internet speed/stability issues
not that im advocating it per se, but couldnt you deduct the tyope based on what `zagizuga()` does with `sepulka`?

for example

def sepulka(zagizuga)
zagizuga.doSomething()
zagizuga.doSomethingElse()

would infer the type of zagizuga as some object that implements two methods `doSomething()` and `doSomethingElse()`... i think that should be doable (and possibly extremely slow) right?

maybe i missed something...
In a fast-moving globally-connected world, even the choice of facts to present is an editorial decision, and subject to bias.
It's not as hard as quitting oxygen.
I do a lot of my own bike repairs. When I take it to the local shop, they can fix it better than I can. When it's slow my local shop will show me how to do some tips on some of the different repairs. I replaced all the cables and shifters on my bike and I had a hard time getting the derailleur adjustments correct.

I had to replace some spokes, that would have taken me a while to do on my own and some specialized equipment I won't need again for a decade.
My main point is something different. I'm saying that things have gone so far that people express extreme suggestions like that one, and along with that extremism they are less receptive to any discussion or research challenging their narratives. For example, I've seen concerned parents and organizations push back on policies that let children secretly consent to puberty blockers without notice to parents. I've literally seen posts discussing this get deleted from Facebook or Instagram, due to activists mass reporting them. The practice of banning "wrongspeak" that doesn't align with favored groups/causes is very real and it is a big problem.
I kinda doubt it. A lot of those were bought by people who wouldn't have bought any bike this year or any year without the pandemic. So they were definitely not going to upgrade next year or whatever.

Some of those people are probably on bikes that don't fit that great due to availability and they'll be looking for better sizing as they get more into it.

And of course the majority probably won't get super into cycling but again they weren't going to either way so it's not really a "lost" sale.

Plus I mean it's kind of a running joke among bike people that you don't really upgrade like it's a piece of technology. You keep the old ones and just accumulate more as you go.
She re-posted the image in a tweet on 06Jan. Twitter deleted it because it violated their rules.
Only free speech that doesn't violate polish law. Is that what you want?
I'm sure there's a fallacy in the following, but here goes:, Who could have predicted the improvements in computation in the last century? Would someone a century have extrapolated sun-sized machines need to compute a nations taxes based on current SOA? We don't have it and then all of the sudden we will. Its worth recognizing the potential harnesses before the beast is born.
There are some who like to call Nazi death camps 'Polish death camps' because they were located in Nazi occupied Poland. This, of course, is frowned on by Poland. It is seen as a way of blaming Poland for Germany's crimes, while the people who do it play innocent and claim they are merely stating 'true facts' about the locations of the camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"Polish_death_camp"_controvers...
LDN (Linked Data Notifications) and the work that Hypothes.is is doing on annotations/commenting should also not be overlooked.
Ok, I guess I should have clarified I was only referring to the ones that were serious about it.
I never said it didn't. I'm not a Parler user and don't like the platform but don't think it should be systematically deplatformed in coordinated action by ideologues. It's pretty simple.
> The troubling thing here is how the security underpinnings of an entire platform like Parler can be screwed over by third-party SaaS provider.

News flash: Twilio doesn't control who gets in, just instead of returning ack/nack, they simply were unavailable.

The onus of what to do in this case is entirely on Parler who foolishly decided to default to fail-open (presumably because Twilio being down might impact their bottom line or adoption).

If that's a "real issue" then blame the ones who implemented this service for Parler.
Parler had no trouble getting in the App Store and AWS when they were perceived as merely espousing an unpopular opinion.

Parler was blocked only after there was clear evidence that criminal activity was being openly planned on their platform and that planning was acted on.
Wow. I actually didn't see that, even after re-reading it looking specifically for it. I had to ctrl-F to find it. It's in bold under the picture so I probably mistook it for general non-article clutter and ignored it. Reading comprehension problem here too!

It does use that causality avoidance word "after". That's technically honest because the author only knows the sequence of events, not the causality, but it also means we only know that too. In an extreme case, it might not even be the same cars that mistook it for a wall as the ones that came off the road, but it also might not be the autonomy that caused them to come off the road, but the driver's actions in response to the braking.
The original "shoeshine boy" story featured Joe Kennedy (as the speculator), father of JFK.
I'd rather my children live a long happy life, or their children, than be turned into paperclips. For what it's worth, I'd also like a shot at not just not becoming a paperclip, but also living for a very long time once we figure out how to slow or even reverse aging.

Your nihilism is misguided.
What's the calculation you need to make?

Don't provide an unmoderated online platform for neo-nazis preparing for genocide.

I didn't finish my math major but this seems straightforward.
The same argument applies if you wanted to commission a cake celebrating the holocaust.

The distinction must be that anyone (any race, any sexual orientation, etc. etc.) should be able to buy anything "off the shelf" (e.g. a plain cake or wedding cake). But no one should be forced to write/design/create something which they don't want to.

My bakery should be allowed to refuse to bake a cake celebrating the holocaust.
Yes, exactly. It's a very restricted and strictly formatted form of compelled speech on specific products. Like other limitations on free speech, it exists because lawmakers have judged the benefits to be greater than the downsides of limiting manufacturers' free speech.

Now imagine a law that forces anyone with a website who ever had an unmoderated comment section to host and display those comments forever. That's the Polish law. Isn't that on a completely different level of compelled speech?
Ceros (https://ceros.com) | Senior DevOps Engineer | Full time | New York, New York | REMOTE first

Ceros is a 240+ person software product company that develops several products - the flagship being the Ceros Studio which is an enterprise software offering allowing big brands to develop experiential (interactive) content and publish it to the cloud. It's a fully featured interactive design studio built into the browser. We also support Markup (https://markup.io) and Chartblocks (https://www.chartblocks.com/en/). We've been growing in spite of the pandemic and recently received a $100 million investment from Sumeru Equity Partners (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ceros-announces-100m-strategi...)

The engineering team at Ceros has always been remote, but as of last summer, the entire company is remote first. We have a very collaborative culture, so we aim for everyone having overlap roughly between 10 am EST and 4 pm EST, but are generally flexible. We currently have DevOps in the US, Portugal, and Canada. The wider engineering team has people in the UK, Kenya, Nigeria, Japan, and Brazil.

The Devops team follows an agile/scrum process with a strong emphasis on the collective decision making and commitment aspects. We work together to define our sprints, manage our changes for minimal disruption, iterate on our process to prevent repeated mistakes, and conduct blameless post mortems. We plan stories ahead of time so that we can agree on the path forward, have intense code reviews to hold ourselves and each other to high standards, and determine our own roadmap in conversation with the feature developers and executives.

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to add to our current team of six. This is the first of several hires we'll be doing this year. We're just beginning to migrate our codebase from Cloudformation to Terraform. We have a pretty mature Jenkins server and a reasonable CI pipeline set up that we'd like to improve, and we're pushing towards CD. We currently use ECS and a number of other AWS offerings, but are considering a migration to Kubernetes. All of our services are containerized or run on Lambda. We have a long roadmap and a lot of work to do, but we're pushing hard towards a fully automated, self service infrastructure that enables our feature developers to release on demand and that can remain stable in the face of all manner of disruptions.

We're looking for experienced DevOps or SREs who like to collaborate, work well in collective decision making contexts, and are eager to help us push our infrastructure and CI/CD capabilities forward!

Full job description and application information here: http://labs.ceros.com/jobs/?gh_jid=2570090#/job/2570090
For a long time I tried to understand why news organizations said he violated the law and did terrible things. No organization provided facts. It’s no surprise that I couldn’t find actual factual data to back up their statements. The thing in me that hungers for data and not allegations forced me to dig.

I never found anything.

I’ve concluded that people mask their feelings with ambiguity. It’s really just a matter I don’t agree with their policies, but can’t be enough of an adult to say so.

It took a few years before I decided to dig in. Now, I am surprised at the number of people who either lie or have been mislead.

Media manipulation is real.
My goodness. How stupid does everyone involve need to be to put out a statement like this with a "mailchi.mp" URL, WITH PASSWORD RESET BUTTONS?

What the hell is wrong with these people?
Something that I noticed recently is that the latency/input lag feels lower in xterm compared to unicode-rxvt.

I used urxvt from ~2011 until a couple of months ago and I have been really liking the speed and simplicity of xterm since then.
> If you are unwilling to do that, then you need to make sure you diversify your cloud. It's much less likely that two competing cloud vendors would shut you off at exactly the same time.

I actually think that the providers would fall like dominoes. See what Apple and Google did to the app. Once a big company shows you the door because they worry about legal risks and reputational damage, other companies will take note and you'll have a hard time staying on.

You'll have to find a company that does it out of
idealism. Or one that is socially disconnected enough that the threats to reputation and legal risks do not apply.
US is a pretty bad implementation of democracy.

- Non compulsory voting
- first past the post
- superpacs
- the electoral college

All contribute to an oligarchy, not a democracy. The US system seems to be designed to “feel” like a democracy while actually preserving the power of moneyed interests and land owners. It’s crazy to me that the UK has less if an oligarchy despite still having a monarchy.
Great points on managing expectations.

In my experience the new voice repeater is quite busy on 437.800 output. While you won't be talking to astronauts, you'll be hearing it and often can see it move across the sky while listening. My kids get a huge kick out of it.
I have a TP-Link Mesh network in my house. I have high speed WiFi even in my garden. 50+ devices connected. Took me 30min to install everything. Didn’t have a single issue in 3 years yet. Saved lots of money in comparison to Ubiquiti. But what do I know, I only use internet for normal activities like smart home stuff, streaming, working and so on...
> the fertility rates had already started plummeting for the 15 years prior to it being announced

Another article supporting this statement, on Chinese demography [1][2]. You may find it interesting.

[1]: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/chinese-demography

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25558016
Putin was elected then used his power to remove term limits. President Xi did the same thing, and look at what Trump just tried.

It's important to have external checks to political power. It's pretty amazing that private companies (Twitter, FB, Stripe) were able to stand up to and effectively limit the power of the commander of the largest military on earth. That has almost never happened without bloodshed.

The US constitution is has worked pretty well, but it's just a document. History has not been kind to those nations that have centralized power by nationalizing companies. Doesn't that get us closer to fascism?
The Supreme Court is not a tribunal on moral philosophy. It's tasked with interpreting the law, no more and no less.

And in fact, it was up for a vote. Except the vote was of 9 people with lifetime tenure.
As someone hiding behind a throwaway account in an effort to avoid doxing and harassment, and getting my more legitimate online presence removed due to hysterics:

I welcome the idea of this change. Though I think it is wrong the way it is implemented. I do not speak Polish, and maybe perhaps the Polish law is more nuanced than the article describes.

There should be a law that says you cannot produce a unilateral terms of service (you know, the shit everyone skips over when they sign up for a website to get their data harvested) that says your account can be terminated at any time for whatever reason. It should be a bilateral agreement:

-I agree to follow the rules of your service

-You agree to not arbitrarily remove me from your service

There are dozens of examples and minutia to digest that have lead us to where we are today. Voices are being silenced because feelings are too easily hurt. Misinformation too easily spread, and egos too easily bruised. People are specifically being targeted for hearsay, and because they lack a megaphone in the Court of Public Opinion, they lose catastrophically with real world consequences.

Hiding behind monopolistic corporations with snide remarks about "private platforms can do what they want" is genuine cowardice. For right now you are nothing more than a jester, and one bad joke away from your head rolling off, gleefully oblivious of your own downfall.
What Peter Thiel got wrong about Donald Trump
What you say makes sense,
In any case, I am glad WhatsApp founder put some money into Signal, he's done an amazing job and deserves all the money.

I am from another side of messagers, as Viber concured Easter Europe - Telegram seemed like an obvious choice after VK got stolen from Durov. Signal was not that popular, that's why I did not start migration earlier
Would love feedback on my first AndroidGame(CityBuilder, Puzzle Challenge)
I heard that this is an awesome place to find and ask people to take a good look at app-development with the ability to give good (technical) feedback.

This is my first fully developed game for android done with Unity(2018).

Since this is new to me I might have forgotten certain things or features. I do get feedback from friends, what is nice, but feedback that's a lot more more in depth/ technical with knowledge from the perspective of other developers would be very helpful.

My main questions would be:
- any weird stuff going on that I might not realised (technical/ graphical)
- Are the tutorial/ early levels good to understand (and thereby the game rules it self)
- Is the amount of ad's alright for a 100% free game
- any unclear in game options/ texts
- is the amount of puzzles good like this? (total, per "world" and extra puzzle sets)

Please keep it all positive, I know not everything is perfect and the game might not be for you. But I do approach it seriously. I'm not looking to do big chances, mostly fine-tuning and polish. But still(!) bigger tips/ feedback will be very valuable for the next projects.

Thank you so much!
Marc (form The Netherlands)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.AlmostABoa...

as a extra thank you, I can add your name/ company/ website/ ... whatever to the credit-list. And feel free ask feedback in return (I have a fine-art degree, currently work as a photographer and have a history in film and art as well).
> but turned out to be true, such as China forcibly taking control of Hong Kong

Pick a random guy from the street of Shanghai Beijing Guangzhou, any college educated person, they'll prefix the same.

> the CCP lying/withholding information on the transmission and the origins of the virus;

This was largely accepted as a fact of any government handling an emergency. CCP of course is worst at this.

> billionaires being kidnapped/murdered after conflict with the CCP

Think about it, if this is true, how Mr. Guo still milking money from his cult followers. It's either that he is producing nonsense that CCP doesn't care, or he is protected by “deep state” or Trump? You probably want to accept the fact that Mr. Guo is producing junks, otherwise you are leaving with a worse alternative...
Except that even if you use Steam Mobile you can't turn off email-based "self-service account recovery" in Steam. Your email account is always going to be the final key to control of your account.
How to build a gym in your garden
> Almost no one is going to set up a dedicated local server for all of his conversations

85000 Prosody servers disagree to some level :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713679
Can we really trust polling data from the 60s?
I don't think sysvinit made use of hashtables, and if they did they would probably hit the same snag.