skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To which professor receives another email about "not letting students contact him about faculty matters."

This is the part of the story where I really did a double take. This sys admin originally emailed you about cpu utilization, right? It's not like you didn't have their email or hadn't been in contact before.
> ...but the moment you ban/deplatform/censor/etc... then they begin to form isolated groups with no counter-balance of rationality.

The first such group that comes to mind is Heaven's Gate, which I think illustrates the opposite:

A brief reading of Wikipedia suggests to me that key members arrived in place via media attention, even though they spent significant other effort trying to recruit members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group...
I find this really useful and plan to use it. Thanks for writing and sharing.

One use case for the chaining/FP style that I find particularly powerful is building out logic on the REPL. The chaining style allows me to incrementally grow my chain like a unix pipeline, see the results, use that to tweak the chain, until I finally have what I want.

This type of instantaneous feedback loop is both highly productive and also extremely fun.
That'd ban everyone. Is there a country that permits fully free speech? Certainly not the US. What about Germany?

So now you are back in the position of making a judgement call about whose laws permit free enough speech. There's no black and white line to draw here.
Absolutely.

Money has to go somewhere. The feds and gov of the world have ensured that no one can be in cash for long. So, money must go into equities, gold or bitcoin
It’s faster than traditional means and they can craft the narrative completely (unlike newspapers, TV news)
I think the confounder is that cast iron is just rather resilient and cooking is dominated by other choices and technologies. Such that much of what folks think were needed just didn't matter.

The page linked in another top comment is worth reading in full.
I did not follow your reasoning about 5 years old debating the merits of segregation, can you elaborate? Many topics are introduced at young age, and can take many years until they become a part of the person's worldview that they person can meaningfully defend. But it better reach that state for key topics before the person is out of school.

> segregation, fascism, etc aren’t “bad” per se. We don’t reject them because there’s some inherent logical fallacy — we do it because they’re morally wrong.

Ouch! Fascism and segregation are morally wrong, but just as important they produce systems and societies that exhibit horrible features and, time and again, crumble and fail. Morality is pliable -- many things considered good two generations ago can now seen as morally wrong and vice versa. When your grandkids ask "grandpa, why did you break/prohibit/deplatform/cancel X?" you may want something better to stand on than "because we had that power and we could". Because that is how your argument reads to me.
There is an element of _how_ as well. You could create simple monoliths or overengineered microservices. Or, complex monoliths with heavy coupling vs cleanly designed microservices with clear separations of concern.
I find that my skillet comes out really nice when I make a batch of cornbread. You grease it real good and get it hot before pouring in the batter, and during cooking the right amount is absorbed by the cornbread. This leaves behind a hard slick surface.
'Platforms' were derisively nicknamed in France in 2007 during a historic Libre Software Meeting as "Minitel(s) 2.0", to insist on them being a regression compared to the normal Internet / Web :

https://www.fdn.fr/actions/confs/internet-libre-ou-minitel-2... (fr)

(Note that this probably predates the generalization of the term 'platform', as neither it, nor the French 'plateforme' is nowhere to be found in the transcript.)
using TOR to open this link I get ...

"Access denied. Your IP address is blacklisted. If you feel this is in error please contact your hosting provider's abuse department."

Archive.org link works: https://web.archive.org/web/20210110154350/https://darknetda...

Internet Archive donate link: https://archive.org/donate/
It's a pretty steep speed bump. Roberts was caught because he was sloppy.

Centralizing the world under one ISP and legal jurisdiction would truly enable tracking anyone through Tor via timing analysis (but even then people would be able to use fancy, time-delayed mixnets). Outlawing/enforcing/banning any suspicious traffic from anyone ever would be a solid solution too. Mounting AI-monitored cameras behind every monitor or on everyone's forehead would be even better. Doing those things are even steeper speed bumps.
Yes. Keep wool clothes and a set of winter coveralls to quickly put on in an emergency
It takes more than that to host a site like Parler. They need load balancing, a CDN for performance (good luck there), and security protections (DDoS, in particular). You know any site they stand up will be a prime hacker target. They need some good network and security engineers to keep this site up.
why would I want yet another chat platform when there's already Matrix/IRC/XMPP/telegram/signal, and oh yes, Whatsapp etc?
This looks promising. Is there a web client, or only a desktop client?
I ruined the finish on a cast iron last year by burning some steak pretty badly. I spent a couple hours total mechanically stripping the char. I read this article. I bought the flax oil.

I kept putting off actually doing it. Why?

It's gonna smoke. I have a small one bedroom apartment.

It's gonna take an hour of baking and two hours of cooling for each coat.

It's gonna need at least six coats. Just the time investment seemed insane on a one-pan scale: 18 hours of oven use, plus applying the coats, plus a risk of starting over if something she thinks is obvious wasn't mentioned (this happens to me quite a lot, since "Reality Has a Surprising Amount of Detail"...).

A pre-seasoned replacement cast iron pan is like $50.

I bought a dutch oven cast iron set and donated the old pan to whomever picked it up in the waste room of my building, with a note on it.
You are right. The blueprints exist. I wrote this out of memory based on reading https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/how-nasa-brought-the... a few years ago.

and I also remember reading that they had to reverse-engineer the designed and build their own CAD models because they couldn't re-build the situation (and it looks like a lot of customization was done to each engine). But my overall point still stands, IMO. They couldn't just rebuild it , just because they had the plans.

Fact Check 2: Last I checked I can still download/clone repos anonymously, from public repos;
My point is , this can very quickly reverse. It won't take a lot of time for Github (and others) to add restrictions under any excuses to restrict anonymity.

Just like how it took one Apple and only a couple of years to make an entire industry almost completely eschew 3.5mm jacks for seeming no good reason (One excuse was waterproofing, but my s7 had a 3.5mm jack and was still IP67 rated).

Imagine if ifixit.org was de-platformed, because they were providing repair guides that was "illegal" from Apple/Google's perspective. Sure, as users we would rally behind ifixit because to us, the user's, ifixit's cause is noble. But, can you actually force Apple to reverse their decision, when it doesnt work out for your benefit ? If they don't , do you have an immediate alternative, that works for you, before your or ifixit goes out of business ?
Have you ever encountered on Wikipedia a sentence like this:

"...because a <a>blue</a> <a>whale</a> did..."

rather than

"...because a <a>blue whale</a> did..."

Obviously, the latter version would have been more useful, and I find it difficult to believe that a human being would have made such a mistake. Don't get me wrong - such instances are rare, but they do happen and are an indicator that not all links are generated manually. I don't know what they are using today (if anything), but as someone else pointed out, in the early days they used UseModWiki to ensure a high level of deep interlinking. We can argue that this was done to improve the UX, but the level of ambition that went into it signals that they also saw it as a strategic move (and they would have been right to assume that - 20 years ago, a highly interlinked site was likely the best bang for the buck in SEO when it came to how to prioritize your time and resources).
There’s a CSV export for backups that you can find from the Dashboard.
Agreed, context here is timely for sure. Large groups perhaps trying to secretly coordinate online to stage an '' event''?
Web technologies for this are abundant; and yet so very easily infiltrated.
End to end encryption is redundant if you've no idea who to trust.
I agree, and yes, the line may be a bit excessive. The idea of Arrays is not just to cram a heap of functions to a single line. The readability (at least to me) is improved even with e.g. a single map

arr.map(func)

vs.

list(map(func, arr))
Foreign embassies have no right to abrogate the private property rights of US citizens or businesses.
I have used Python for decades (not so much nowadays, but still) and it is very unreadable for me. It's clear that it is a data pipeline but the input and filters are all in a wrong order, thus backtracking is required for reading. I have the same complaint about str.join.
100% long US equities.
Dollar cost average.
If anyone is fearful of a crash buy downside protection with put options to cover your long. Although why bet against US business in the long term (20+ years)?
The KMT does not want to eventually re-unify the PRC. They merely want to continue pretending to want to eventually re-unify with the PRC to maintain good economic relations. Because the PRC accounts for 28% of Taiwan's exports and 19% of Taiwan's imports (https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/daily_update_e/tr...).

Really hardly anyone in Taiwan wants to re-unify with the PRC, they have seen the genocide the fascist CCP is committing against the Uighur people in Xinjiang, if the CCP repeats this in Taiwan and exterminates or sterilizes millions of Taiwanese it would be devastating. Nobody wants to bear witness to genocide, but even more so, nobody wants to be a victim to genocide, so supporting re-unification would be senseless.
Image uploads are nice, but can be overcome through other channels until the feature is added. The page says that the project is "super young"
I see references to a hardware board but nothing detailing the specifications or where to buy one. Would any computer work as the MITM device, perhaps a Raspberry Pi?
The governments and politicians got more trite and flippant to match.
Dask does the lazy evaluation and query planning thing on numpy arrays and pandas dataframes, and can execute in parallel. It mimics most of their native interfaces which makes it a pretty easy drop-in.

https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/
> i also try to learn docker

Learning docker may be useful later in this job or in a future job. (Don't try it in production, until you get an official approval.)
How long does it take for the vaccines to be effective? The ones I know about want two doses about three weeks apart, so perhaps a month? The vaccine began arriving in Israel on Dec. 9, or a month ago. It seems to make perfect sense to assume most people are unprotected.
> I have made the choice not to use social media, but a large majority of Americans do. Since we live in a democracy, this gives companies like Twitter and Facebook a non-trivial amount of control over elections and legislation.

I think this ascribes a lack of self-determinism that I see in a lot of these arguments. We (the people) give Twitter and Facebook that control. If they have violated the norms we (the people) have set in such a way that we want to take that power back, we can. This seems self-evident since you are a non-user.
AWS cuts off Parler, CEO aims to rebuild infrastructure
> My line for free speech seems to lie in speech that incites violence or speech that discriminates against people for immutable characteristics of their person, both of which I know Parler harbors in abundance

Which Amazon, Facebook and Twitter also do "in abundance". I can give a list of links which show direct violations of their violence policy, discriminating religion, people et all and it has been happening for years and yet no action as been taken. But does it matter if I give you such a list? It doesn't matter. Why? Because it is taken for granted that all venomous stuff that you find online is coming from the Right Wing/Alt Right/Trumpists etc. There is nothing that Left can do wrong.

Since this is the notion that I find most left liberals employ there is no way to come to a common ground in such scenarios. Unless you are willing to accept that there is venom on the left wing too there is no way I will agree to your point. If you feel Parler harbors hate in abundance you will be shocked to see the kind of hate I have found on Amazon, Twitter and Facebook spewed by the left. If you want to address the issue you should take a holistic approach of condemning it in all platforms and not single out one platform. Only then I can take your argument seriously. But the question is: Can you do it?
You can absolutely love comfortably and normally in the US without Facebook or Twitter. It's more challenging to avoid Amazon entirely, but you can easily avoid supporting them directly.
Meanwhile, I have a chain cloth that I use when cleaning to make sure no food is left behind. Remarkably hard to actually get the seasoning off.

Granted, if you still use soap that warrants the use of heavy plastic gloves, probably a bit easier.
I don't much like the use of the term "de-platforming". It is too broad, and doesn't capture the nuances of this. The free internet is the only "platform" that you have any chance to control. It's not perfect, but it's the only one we have (there's also amateur radio). If you want a platform, get a co-located web server in a jurisdiction that won't unplug you due to your views.
They are generally pure Lua, but they can load binary libraries. Some existing such libraries can be found in most distro repositories or on luarocks.org. Lua also has a well designed API in case you need to write your own bindings to something.

If you have questions about how to do something specific we're very approachable and happy to share our knowledge :)
If you are going to post that specific email, then you should also post the mail in which Matthew Hodgson from Matrix addresses and clarifies some of the concerns there:

- https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tools-discuss/G4-c-2P9...
Seriously. But I think that's the point: get interest/clicks on an inconclusive prediction.
"Trump incited an attack on congress."

Evidence of Trump telling people to storm the capitol?

"I remain horrified at the right wing community's ability to rationalize violence"

We'll, I'm right of center and I condemn it. Just like I'm sure there is a history of you condemning this entire year of BML and Antifa burning and looting cities across the US.

I remember what Como said on CNN. "who said protests need to be peaceful". Of course CNN is the bastion of right wing extremists... Oh wait....

We have to condemn all political violence.
Those only take a few seconds. We're talking about at minimum a solid five minute blockade—and I would posit it really needs to be a couple of hours or more, given the length of these agreements.

If a TOS is important enough to a company that they're willing to impose a two hour waiting period on customers, I'd say that's their prerogative. It would likely be effective in getting many users to read the agreements.
You don't decide where you can reach your audience, they do.
The UK Cabinet traditionally operates on the principle of collective responsibility. Once a position has been adopted, it is everyone's public position and everyone is responsible for it, even if they disagreed or argued for something else in private. If you're not OK with that, you're expected to resign from the Cabinet, and from time to time people do.

A corollary of this is that when any Cabinet minister speaks publicly, they speak on behalf of the government, and they are expected to be able to respond to general media enquiries on matters outside their specific role. They may choose not to respond substantially or to refer the enquiry to a colleague more familiar with the details, and they very often do. If they don't, it is almost certain that they are expressing an agreed Cabinet position and they just happen to be the minister doing the media rounds that day.
I honestly believe that hiding complexity behind a closed door does not eliminate it. However, a lot of software and service vendors have a vested interest in convincing people otherwise. And, historically, they've had all sorts of great platforms for doing so. Who doesn't enjoy a free day out of the office, with lunch provided?

It's also much easier to hide complexity than it is to remove it. One can be accomplished with (relative) turnkey solutions, generally without ever having to leave the comfort of your computer. Whereas the other generally requires long hours standing in front of a chalkboard and scratching your head.
it was in response to the comment about decentralized apps built by idealistic silicon valley types being used by MAGA types. The point being that it might be funny to him but authoritarians do have a track record of exploiting technology.
Once the vaccine gets out to the masses, the economy is going to surge like no tomorrow. There is so much idle cash lying around.
This article is about a plug-in that recognizes TOS agreements and summarizes them for you. I've often wondered if it's feasible to create a plug-in that recognizes TOS agreements and clicks the Accept button for you.

It should also make a record showing that you never saw the agreement and did not click the button. Maybe it could aggregate these records to show that for a given website there are thousands of users who have never seen the TOS.

Given that most people seem to think these click-through agreements are already pretty weak from a legal standpoint, I wonder how much more it would take to make them completely worthless.
Have you been discussing this online with people that fervently believe the election was fraudulent? It is eerily similar to talking with someone in a cult. Any 'evidence' you present to them will be taken and 'debunked' by their fellow cult members.

There is already no counter balance.

Breaking up their platforms into smaller pieces is actually helpful and will keep them from readily finding new members on the internet.
Because even 10 years ago there were hand held jet drones that could do everything and more than any grainy UFO footage. All UFO footage is merely tech that the authorities at the time hadn't been able to label at the time.
"... if the vast majority are just content to sit back and go to the nearest Yelp recommendation, and there's no real higher purpose, then it's all just rather depressing."

I think we're there. Many I people I know, or know of, don't care about higher purpose and don't care to understand the concepts or mechanisms underlying the technology that does stuff for them. They just want life to be easy and fun (as we all do), but they don't care about exploring meaning in life or even going in-depth into their own beliefs
There's no long-term plan.

Even the immigrant plan sucks, because there are very few countries worldwide which aren't on a trajectory to reach replacement TFR within a decade.
yes, this is already possible, and a good application is teaching assistants that give tips on how to solve such problems.
It would have to be a special "software engineer" edition of family fortunes otherwise 99% of contestants wouldn't have a clue who he is.
It's the inevitable consequence of policing Trump's tweets. Either you police everything, or you're a hypocrite.

This is not intended to judge how true the original article by the way, for future downvoters.
Cool. You're a rounding error of a rounding error of a rounding error for AWS. Amazon's stock price is doing really good and is only going to improve.

It's important to note that AWS didn't change any policies. It just found the backbone to enforce them. AWS never allowed free speech; there have always been terms of service. 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.

I would suggest you show ideological consistency and take AWS skills off your resume. It weakens your stance considerably if you're using AWS's clout to market yourself to employers. Take a stand. Refuse to use AWS in a professional capacity.

Free speech doesn't require access to AWS. If there is a large market for violent far-right LARPing, the market will adjust and some AWS competitor rise to host white supremacist and white-supremacist-adjacent LARPers. And you can give them your money because you support their stance on allowing Parler and its ilk to use its platform.
a while back I got into fractal noise, simd instructions, and unity and made a bunch of planets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqNXpU9d2_I
I've done well with rolling short term call options to catch upswings and long term puts to catch crashes. Essentially: straddles/strangles with a long-term put leg.

But consider that maybe the markets aren't the best place for value creation right now. The big economic question is M2 inflation. It's possible that the markets just flatline for twenty years to soak up all the money.

I'm long-term bullish BTC, but concerned about its mid-term (causal?) correlation with Tether.

I'm buying capital assets that inflate along with M2 and building productive assets that generate economic value, regardless of how that value is denominated.
Much higher commodity prices would eat into the margins of any company using those resources, thereby decreasing their value
for x, y in zip(a,b):
area = to_area(x, y)
if area > 10:
print(f"Area {area}")

>in python where you don't often use a namespace to store these intermediary variables

Hm? Most python code is within a function, in my experience.
Perhaps like the IPFS browser plugin?
Looks great! The domain blocklist is something I have longed for (goodbye Pinterest and w3schools).

I would love a dark mode.

Does this use Bing like DuckDuckGo?
There will never be a market crash, unless people stop putting in their work hours (the only things to cause this would be a major global war, natural disaster, or a black death -scale pandemic)

As long as work continues, there is still massive economical growth potential remaining as like half of the global population still barely participates.

I'm talking about a long-term crash(5+ years) btw. Minor dips don't matter in macro scale
I humbly don't agree with the statement that technology is politics - it does not make me a better software developer if somebody or somebody else will be a president.

Even though there is an overlap (i.e. taxation, regulations and policies) and we could talk about this since these are the things that impact revenue. But discussion about politics outside of those things that affect us directly is leading to flame wars and unnecessary arguments that bring us nowhere.

Personally I feel even talking about taxes/regulations brings us nowhere as we have no way to influence them.