skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I'm talking about isn't so narrow as liberals or conservatives; it's about social cohesion and the censorship that's necessary in order to preserve it. We've been living charmed lives up until now because the ability to broadcast to large audiences has only been within the capabilities of a select few media outlets that were vetted and controlled to varying degrees by the government to make sure they didn't sow too much discord. And this is healthy, because a divided nation loses its international competitiveness and in the worst case risks collapse.

We're now in the unprecedented situation where individual people can out-broadcast even nation states with the help of social media companies, most of which have their head offices in the USA, limiting their dependency upon and reachability from other governments of the world. It's a decent situation all around because having such companies headquartered in a repressive regime would have damaging effects worldwide. But we still run into some problems:

1. Their morals are local, but their reach is international. This has caused a lot of friction in the past, and that friction will only increase going forward.

2. They're being pressured to bow to local "truths" or risk being banned in a number of nations. These "truths" generally come to light from local issues, and while they can be easy to decypher in autocratic regimes, they absolutely will NOT be so easy to arbitrate in functioning democracies. We'll eventually reach the point where every social media company will need a team of sociologists and political strategists in order to figure out what's behind every government's complaints over what's being broadcast by their citizens, and how best to respond (making them higher arbiters of truth than even the government). The national self-determination issues alone are staggering.

The endgame of this is increased government regulation and increased pressure for a single national "truth", which must be defended vigorously in order to keep the government functional. The increased conflict between these American companies and local governments will increase to the point where eventually the companies will win and essentially set the policy of truth worldwide, which leaves us in a very centralized and fragile state when it comes to corruption, especially since companies - unlike governments - have only profit as a motive, and do not answer to the people.
Inconsequential event? This is the aftermath of an attempted coup on our democracy. I would like to know what is consequential in your book.
Not sure why your comment was at the bottom of the page; it seems like one of the more thoughtful responses.

I have to admit my gut feeling on governments using facial recognition at scale to round up its citizens feels like something you'd find under an authoritarian regime, reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14643433

I think it's important to try to frame an opinion on tech like this from a well-informed viewpoint, striving to lend appropriate weight to the latest incidents while avoiding the temptation for tunnel vision to fixate on immediate goals to the exclusion of broader, long-term consequences.

I agree acts that crossed too far past the line of civil disobedience ought to be held to account.

I just hope our collective response doesn't erode the willingness of people of good conscience to take a stand when they see their institutions behave in a legitimately unsanctionable manner.
Technically he would have counted deaths, if I recall correctly. I agree w your idea though.
The title line did not do the article any justice.

Personally, I love the contents of the article.

Just wish the editor gave it a better title.
Thanks, looks pretty Good. I still would have hoped there are VPSes with low specs but storage in the low terabytes. Guess I found a niche that is not really in demand.
That is questionable, people from Russia and Saudi Arabia had found way more oil in mid XX
> Social mobility here means that if you are born destitute you have a chance to become part of the middle-income class

I’m inclined to say that it’s pretty much a given. It’s really hard to be unable to live a sort of comfortable life in Europe (you might not have a brand new TV, but you’ll have your own house and Netflix).
> or speech that discriminates against people for immutable characteristics of their person

Often said, yet it somehow very often excludes religion, which is not immutable, and very often includes simple matters such as intelligence, which is immutable.

I find that more often than not, when a man speaks of such “immutable" traits, what he really means is “whatever the culture I grew up in arbitrarily treats much like an ethnicity, a tribe, something to owe fealty to” — religion is that in many cultures, but intelligence is not.

And I stress how cultural it is: it is often noted that in Japan religion is not treated as such a tribe, culturally, and that Japanese persons often find it curious how residents of other cultures can owe a lifelong fealty to a single religion rather than experiencing elements of multiple religions as it be suitable.

One could argue that such things are so associated with immutability merely because they are treated as a fealty in their respective cultures, a lifelong allegiance, and that switching sides is considered such a betrayal, that they are culturally made immutable, even though there is obviously no reason why religion or political affiliation should be.
I think you didn't read the article mentioned by the poster above.
Basically to have a coup you need some kind of force and I don't mean thousands of guys with pitchforks I mean a large part of military with real soldiers that have experience and are trained to use guns.

Just because Trump is not capable of seeing that he lost doesn't mean he tried a coup, like the gp said, it is just a stronger wind, not a hurricane.
There's an entire ecosystem of decentralized money that has been invented and has been growing for the last 13 years to combat precisely this problem. The value of the units of those currencies are exploding right now, in part for this reason.

If this seems to you to be one of the deepest root causes of the problem, that people can't compete due to centralized monetary control systems, and you want to help make the world better by uprooting that critical power, you may consider digging deeper into these projects.
Is it true that you do actually get paid in USD due to UAH being unstable?
Junior CTO shows how to create short term value without realizing the long term consequences of his actions, and proceeds to grandstand to help create his own personal brand so that he can get invited to do the same elsewhere. I give this company another 3 months at best before it implodes.
I understand where you're coming from but I don't think a coordinated ban of the sitting president across platforms is equivalent to a forum ban. And I don't think you think that either.

Look, I'm not trying to argue this "wasn't a special case". I'm saying, it doesn't matter. If you want a president silenced, have congress vote on it, not Vanguard and Goldman Sachs.

You're giving private equity the power to unilaterally decide what they deem "threatening", and I expect them to abuse that power. Like, obviously they'll abuse it, it's private equity. Why on earth wouldn't they?
In South Africa we’re taught from a young age that while everyone has a “right to x”, codified in the Bill of Rights, each right comes with a “responsibility”.

My “right to free speech” should not limit your “right to religion” or your “right to political association”, and in this case “your right to safety”.

While South Africa has a lot of improvement to do, the understanding that rights need to be self-limiting in order to remain sustainable is a very good starting point in a constitutional democracy.
My non-computer-programmer mom once pronounced SQL as "squirrel" which I think is even better.
This was not a protest, and not a fart "in the grand scheme of things". This was a direct assault on democracy. They were explicitly hunting down specific politicians (Pelosi and Pence, for example), and several were armed with weapons, explosives, tie wraps, and by all evidence, it looks like they intended to hurt or abduct people. It was a coup and should be treated as such. Everybody outside the US sees it as such, and the US would see it that way had this happened in another country. The US would see it that way if these rioters had been black. The only reason many people don't see it that way is because they were white and right-wing, act like they own the place, and have always been able to get away with that. The US has a blind spot to right-wing terrorism.

The process you talk about in your first paragraphs: that some people get subtly shut out of the political process, does happen, but it happens mostly to poor people, black people, and university students. Various forms of voting suppression are aimed at preventing them from voting. Several voter ID laws require forms of ID that conservatives are more likely to have. For example, a gun license would be valid, while a student ID card wouldn't.

Also note the difference in DC police response against the BLM protests in the summer versus this more protest.
Except if it's a parts bin maybe. ;)
Most Americans are actively hostile to privacy, not just ambivalent. If you tell them, "Alice doesn't carry a cellphone, because she thinks it shares her real time location with advertisers, hedge funds, private investigators, debt collectors, bounty hunters, and the government," most will conclude that (a) Alice is mentally ill, or (b) Alice is a degenerate criminal. Either way, Alice needs to be investigated. That means the state needs to interview her colleagues and neighbors, and subpoena her bank and medical records.
The larger problem is that the office of president is out of check since 1945.

For the system to work, no one should believe this one position determines the course of the entire government, but since the 1980s you would be a fool not to.

Given the office of president is out of check and it gets to apply discretion to (in this example) how media companies will be treated both in actual law and whether cases are run, it is only a matter of time before a president builds his route to dictator. Members of whichever party puts him in will be happier for a decade at most, then it's soylent green for everyone.
Impressive mental gymnastics there.
> Chromium leverages both already

Why do they need to pay for their own licence then?
Given that there have been BLM protests for months, do we actually have reason to believe that if Trump had won the extreme left would not have been talking about performing similar disruptive actions? How then would these companies have reacted?
I'm pretty sure that one of the main reasons that YouTube 'won' is that it was easy to just share these videos with friends/family, and also straightforward to enable/disable public sharing of them.

I've never even heard of that 'direct share' feature, but have used the private and unreferenced settings on my videos many times over the years.
Some instances have global search (search across instances) activated, but there's also a website written by the devs of peertube to do that global search https://sepiasearch.org/

You can use that to first find the videos you like and decide if you like the instances they are on.

Edit: To be honest, I spend 20 minutes on youtube trying to find the stuff that I want to watch and give up often too. Their content discovery really is terrible and only shows the highest rated and most watched, which doesn't help if you've watched them already.
> They successfully detect 2 of 4 schemes, no better than a coin toss.

Let’s be real here if I developed an indicator that identified murderers and I showed you that out of the last 4 murders happened in US, I identified 2 of them using this identifier, would you say that I did no better than a coin toss?

There is a lot more to this than just going yes/no when presented after the fact with a situation that you feel that you know for sure is a pump-and-dump.
Here's an easy way to see all of them using HN algolia: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1609372800&dateRange=custom&...
It's not a given. Lots of people with low IQ or terrible character traits end up living in poverty by constantly fucking up.
The Nordics have taken a special role in the global economic system: Almost all of the large companies are in some sense high tech. The economies are also quite heterogenous.

Norway is probably the least good example example, due to the relative dominance of the oil & gas sector, but if you look at the stock market index of Denmark or Finland, for example, you'll find that the top companies are in different industries, exporting globally and world leaders in their respective niche. I've included a Nordics fund in my global stock market portfolio, since this small part of the world economy is disproportionately diversified in high tech.

I'm sure this can be duplicated elsewhere, through education and increasing the reliability of institutions. It's the kind of non-zero-sum development that would leave the world better off as a whole.

In fact, I'm a bit frustrated that Norway lags behind the other Nordics in this respect. There's something about our country that slows us down when it comes to building profitable export industries.
I was using Ecosia for a number of weeks and did achieve some 80 planted trees over the course of that period.

However, I eventually was so frustrated over the poor search results that I did move back to DDG.

Ecosia‘s intentions might be noble and worth supporting, but I cannot really follow how one can stay with them when the overall experience is so poor.

I don’t even mind some possible privacy issues as noted above but it all comes down to being at least comparably good to Google and DDG. Which is sadly not the case with Ecosia.
I hope they aren't planting monocultures instead of mixed forests. If they do...they are no better than the Chinese.
The problem there is that "history is written by the victors" and until they decide you're "one man's freedom fighter" you're de facto "another man's terrorist".

Taking steps to stop violence before it begins makes more sense than using hindsight to judge the merits of the violence.

IMO.
Agree. I think the current crisis in US is because of lack of education and the whitewashing or omitting of important events in history.
Just yesterday I saw a comment in here adding that deejays now have control of all three branches of the government(which was obviously false) and that was dangerous. But i guess the poster had no idea about what the three branches of the government.
There's often a business driven narrative for how the GDPR holds back smaller businesses.

I believe this originates from how it's scarcely enforced, and much easier for Google or Facebook to ignore it and create 5 years of delays before a ruling - a smaller rival start-up couldn't generate those kinds of delays, as they don't employ enough people in Ireland to inform the government there of the wisdom of ensuring there isn't a ruling for some time...

Cynicism aside, GDPR (if properly adhered to, which most people don't!) presents a challenge to the business model of freemium services, and we know free/freemium is one of the best ways to create low friction growth. Complying with legislation around data use while trying to build a start-up seems to be people's concern.

Although in saying this, if you genuinely believe in privacy first, it isn't an issue. But relatively few businesses do, and most are still looking for their monetisation route, assuming ongoing eyeballs are deferred future revenue.
Not quite, if you have a mono/duo/tri-poly you give up certain rights, this is how democracy works, unless you want to end up in corpo-cracy.
Long story short. Spectre mitigations make ret_from_syscall much slower. Much slower than taking a page-fault.
I've noticed that, on a personal level, people seem to perceive the value of others' work not in terms of how much was created, but how much they sacrificed in the process.

ie, we seem to care more about our colleagues'/employees' blood, sweat and tears than the achievement of our (joint) goals.

The economy, on the other hand, doesn't give a damn about anything except hard results.

I think this is more of a problem with our evolved social instincts not being well adapted to modern industrial capitalism than a quirk of American culture.
If an Indian or Chinese person wants to migrate to a country with GSMI above 70, going by raw numbers the best bet would be the US. Per-capita rates are good for scoring feel-good points, but the US is a magnet for migrants in absolute terms in a way not many other places manage.
Wow, somebody watched too much CNN?

Failed coup attempt? What?!

That was not a coup attempt and that is not how a coup works. No matter how often CNN repeats that it was.

A coup attempt is when an armed force (the army and/or rebels), preferably with the help of politicians/lawyers/outside money/big business and the media, deliberately and violently organize to throw over and take over a government for the long term.

How can you even? Jeez, the brain washing is mind blowing to be honest. I find the media and the people who eat it up to be about a 1000x scarier than a bunch of dressed up unorganized people taking selfies inside the capitol.
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Imagine a normal classroom where a single kid is constantly disrupting all discussions and lectures by yelling lies or inciting violence, disrupting with "Kill the teacher!" injections.

Of course these kids would be dealt with. They'd be removed, parent called, expelled so that all other kids can have fruitful discussions.

But somehow here we are discussing that the exact analogue in social media is somehow worthy of protection and being allowed to yell, spread disinformation and incite literal domestic terrorism, sedition and insurrection.

My European perspective on this is that speech should be as free as possible without crossing some strict borders. And for me, these borders clearly are calls for violence or destruction of the state. A democracy cannot exist without compromise.

Republicans and their far-right extremist equals in Europe are not willing or ready to achieve compromise. For decades it has been an "Us vs. them" instead of finding an optimal compromise. Their mode of operation is disrupt, gaslight, object. No matter how objectively true things are (climate change, Corona...)

It's not conservatism itself that is bad but at least since Reagan, the shape of conservatism in the US has become inhuman and disgusting. And the GOP is celebrating itself for it, cumulating in the terrorist MAGA cult.
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The only place where Ecosia uses Facebook tracking, in on Marketing landing pages. If you don't land there from Facebook, i.e. If you go to the website directly, there is no Facebook tracking.
And Twitter of course.

You'd have the best chance of success if someone could have a feed of everything they already read on Twitter, with other sources seamlessly integrated in.

Perhaps even have the browser fetch all the data, without going through a server, using each platform's embed code. You'd miss out on discovery, and need to know which channels to subscribe to, but I see that as a plus.
A product is useless without a platform
Yeah, though as we can see from experience of Gab being the biggest Mastodon instance and Mastodon not having collapsed, it's possible to have an alternative without it necessarily becoming a "witch town".
hmm, they get money although you block the ads?
Really?
yes, because a human child is embodied in the physical world, has sense organs, runs on electrochemical processes, and as far as its mind concerned has (developing) structures that facilitate self-awareness.

It's perfectly reasonable to assume you can make a neural net, or even some other form of 'AI' that lacks most of those structures but outwardly performs the same tasks, just like a calculator does maths without (most people would agree) being conscious about maths.

solving problems and being sentient are not the same thing, is the basic point. Emulating behaviour is effectivelly intelligence, sentience is awareness.
Ecosia also does that
Am I missing something? The article you linked cites:

Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969 ... banned speech to that which would be directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot).

It seems to directly apply
The last point makes the most sense imo. Wallstreet already knows there's a blue team president and a blue team congress coming and what sorts of policies different members of that team favor, not much about that dynamic changes because of the capitol riot except for the possibility of 'law and order' gaining traction as discussion topics again. Law and order are almost never bad bad business.
AFAIK they pay the max amount, so it doesn't matter how many people use their binaries.
You cannot boil down humans to 5-6 attribute points.

What about personalities/coordination/how people actually interact.

Product A might be filled with people who are use to taking charge, and Product B might be filled with people who are more reserved about their opinions.

This is a dreadful way to solve this problem. If it were that easy, his job as CTO wouldn't exist and we could simply plug it into a SaaS AI that spits out optimal hiring strategies.

Nonetheless, I appreciate the insight/sharing publicly.
If you are interested in this ongoing saga, you can start at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_radius_puzzle.
We see research all the time about how poor people are more likely to have bad life outcomes. Not in the circular sense of “continually becoming lower class”, but in terms of things like health.

You could go live in the woods in which case you might not suffer from the same fates. Until civilization starts to encroach on your cabin (I think that’s what happened to the Unabomber).
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Right, but it's always like this. If you're on Windows and you install Boost to C:\random\directory, it seems fair that CMake will require you to specify that directory manually.

The alternative is to have a global database, like the Windows registry or like pkg-config (which I have to admit I don't know much about). Perhaps CMake could have better support for pkg-config, I don't know.
OMG finally! I've been waiting for years.
So would you agree with a statement that "we should just be tolerant of the KKK and win them to our side with virtue", then?

Note that this isn't hyperbole for rhetorical effect, that is literally the kind of intolerance that the paradox of tolerance is based on, and seems to be what you're advocating, by extension.
The same thing could be said about Twitter yet they aren't being pulled of from the app store. This wont end well.
>(how do you know how much trust to put on some geocitirs page)

The same way you learn to "trust" anything, including Wikipedia - by verifying sources.

I love Wikipedia, but I don't blindly assume it to be the ground truth in anything (if such truth even exists), especially in the "long-tail" of subject matter.
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I work with someone that says "wha" for WAR file instead of war (What is it good for!). Drives me nuts.
Tether is interesting, and might be a ponzy scheme. But it’s not a pump-and-dump.
Yeah, this is valid. However, I'm of the opinion that "if preserving your users' privacy is inconvenient to your business, maybe your business shouldn't exist", as you say. Hence https://imgz.org/ vs https://imgur.com/ etc.