skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you patent a laser, the patent doesn't stop someone from calculating the laser's results. With math, you are prohibited from making certain calculations; very different.
This is a current event that is extremely political:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_States_Capitol_pro...

It cites 462 sources and the parts I read are at least as objective as any news outlet.

I know that Wikipedia editors lean left. I'd be interested to see examples of this bias in Wiki entries though.
You're missing his point. Rust is simpler, so it's easier to use. The language is designed in a way that you don't really think about memory management unless you want to, and if you want to, it'll be pretty straight forward.
The primary reason I'm looking at a performance model S is for the speed, I am a simple man XD
> apocryphal

Apocryphal means that the origin of the story is doubtful.

I think you might mean "the adage is incorrect" here.
https://archive.is/ZJkp6
There are also many things we ban or regulate because people use them to kill.

We don't ban vehicles because they were used as a getaway car in an armed robbery, but we ban automatic weapons that are used in an armed robbery.
This is hyperbolic thinking with no nuance. You can starve fascism and actively maintain that line.
I feel like deplatforming because of a TOS violation is much better than "The world's a better place if we deplatform you"
But the people saying "we should do X" help create the ones "doing X". When the crazy action you're contemplating also gets social acceptance and support from a group of like-minded people, all calling for it to be done, it stops seeming so crazy.
> It’s an overtly political platform and clearly for a particular political ideology.

You could say exactly the same for Twitter (remember the Hunter Biden laptop story? Of no you don't, because it was censored there), or even Google which clearly de-prioritizes search results based on their ideologies.
If you support free speech then quit gaslighting and support freedom of speech. This kind of comment is toxic.
They won't have a unified place to plan for their next attack in a few days? Where do you think they planned their attack for January 6? Deplatforming has proven to work, if anything heavily slow down the spread of misinformation. What's the last time you heard about Milo?
That is definitely not the agreed upon definition of net neutrality today. Comcast is allowed to offer different classes of service (e.g. speeds) to different people. It is allowed to ban you for violations of terms of service (e.g. illegal downloads). It is allowed to impose data caps. None of these are against Obama-era net neutrality rules. It can't do any of these, however, to the websites it serves you.
Glib statements by comedians are not a good foundation for truth seeking. They are however great at maintaining emotional protection over one's viewpoints.
A (small) thread about that post at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24407241
> Last time I checked, creating a static binary (a-la go) was not easy

When was the last time you checked?
I see this as the same argument against encryption.

You don't need it because if you don't do anything wrong you don't really need it.
The problem is having to commit in the 1st place. In many VR games, it’s near impossible not to do any physical activity. I find my males more consistent in working out with VR video games vs a traditional workout. The only downside is that VR workouts are cardio only
I think the challenge is many people have campaigned for improved civil rights and police reforms under the 'BLM' banner without knowing who the core organization actually is.

In the UK you will be banned from football stadiums for performing a 'white power' clenched fist in the crowd, but the BLM Marxist black power clenched fist is performed before each match by kneeling professional players in memory of the death of George Floyd several thousand miles away and many months ago last year.

This confusion about racism and efforts to signal support are IMO very clumsy, comingling Marxist politics with laudable efforts to support unfair and heavy handed policing of some black people.

Similarly the comingling of a minority of 'far right' wingnuts amongst moderate conservatives, greatly amplified and distorted by the corporate media, has gravely misrepresented mainstream common sense concerns.

The various sensationalist media companies have a lot to answer for, they are fanning the flames of division, encouraging bigots and ignoring the mainstream masses
I support net neutrality and think internet should be a utility and treats all websites the same.

But if a website is willingly violating terms of service defined by the provider (hosting child pornography, spreading racism etc), I support the IPS to block access or whatever.

The fact that some users have no alternative is another problem.
I strongly disagree. The parent comment is making a well-reasoned rebuttal against an overly vague/hyperbolic argument ("they'll ban all cell phones next").
>The US can also simply increasingly accept its real context

This could also mean US food production capabilities.

There's an insane amount of agricultural (and other) land being purchased by China controlled interests, both in the US and worldwide. Reliance on domestic food production is obviously something they're very concerned about, especially with the history of agricultural disease outbreaks. I suspect the seizure of Chinese owned/controlled property under US jurisdiction (or areas of influence) would be a significant blow, with respect to that. (As archaic as starving the enemy might be- we're talking about war.)

As much as I hesitate to suggest a new govt database:

We need a system tracking all foreign ownership of US land. Including owned by companies with Chinese stakeholders.

An incredibly difficult task, given the majority of US land records are kept at the county level.

It might actually be easier to track it based on crop production, commodity trading, exports, or financial transactions, all of which all at least have some extant system for national data collection, but this is way over my head.
Three aphorisms in honor of Wikipedia, greatest encyclopedia in world history, and its 20 years of free knowledge uncorrupted by advertising:

* Wikipedia works in practice, but not in theory.

* Wikipedia is the worst source of information, except for all the others.

* Wikipedia: the Internet’s greatest reason to feel a little bit optimistic about human nature.
> how socialism as an ideology actively and inherently supports violence

Curious how you take away the bourgeoisie's possessions to establish Socialism without firing a few shots.
How is it hard to understand that private companies can set their own terms of use?

I'm having a real hard time understanding how anyone, especially business people can misunderstand this.

Simple: It's not censorship.
I have no idea how to pronounce this as one syllable, it's always been che-mod to me. Chown is one syllable though, I agree there.
> Always works until it doesn't. Madoff's scheme lasted 20 years and collected $50B, including many multi hundred million dollar checks from institutional investors.

Madoff's scheme persisted because nobody knew about it. People have been writing articles claiming Tether is a fraud for many years now. The price even dipped a few times as a result. But then it went right back up. There's a reason for that, of course. And that reason is that arbitrageurs are arbitraging, because they can simply withdraw to USD.

> I'm going to screenshot this comment by the way for r/agedlikemilk :)

I'll be waiting :)
Heh, that was the only one I disagreed with too, but I always spell it out e-t-c
Multiple threads touching the same mapped page at the same time won't give you IO parallelism. You need different threads to be faulting on different pages at the same time in order to get multiple simultaneous IO requests sent to the storage device. But the IO queue depth is still limited by your thread count, and that limit can still be a serious problem even on the latest processors with the highest core counts.
And Parler doesn't take responsibility for user generated content. So how is that any different?
> I may reconsider this position if they ever "come for me"; but frankly, for now, I value stability and longevity for our nation more than its abstract ideals about freedom of speech.

By then it's too late, that's kind of the point of that poem.
Interestingly enough the talk page is quite good to learn about current events and see every view. Though it is obvious that some mods and admins have an agenda; to be honest I didn't even realize it till I saw the war over Kamala's wiki page, super shady stuff.
This isn’t burning books. This is getting banned by the local Starbucks for shouting slurs at the barista. It’s incredibly disingenuous to call this “burning books”.

And that’s before we cover the fact that you are arguing that the government should force private companies to associate with people based on their political affiliations. That sounds authoritarian to me.
That's... two syllables.
Thank you for speaking up.

> high tech terrarium

I'm not familiar with this term, maybe it comes from a phrase that is difficult to translate? I searched Google for "high tech terrarium" but the links were all about gardening and farming.
Well, Westworld via Romeo and Juliet. It's from Friar Laurence's speech to Romeo, just before he marries Juliet, warning him against excess passion.
Check out how they ignore that the suggestion that if they take issue with those statistics they should take issue with the statistics that were currently in the article, notably cricket playing figures from Cricket Australia which, while they might be worth including, should have cautionary notes on them.

They didn't care about that.
Aw, come on.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I can barely believe I'm reading this comment! Wikipedia is my first and almost always only stop whenever I want to learn something related to math.
because they are a platform that tends to host the type of people that actively plot to overthrow our gov't? lol i don't understand where this intellectual both sides type argument comes from. they literally do not pass the sniff test in any measure.

there is no slippery slope here. millions of more "rational" conservatives are absolutely fine and are not being banned. if this purges all the loony bin q-anon and conspiracy theory stuff then i'm for it. you can make that argument if it stays in discussion land, but as we've seen, it actually boiled into violence against the state.
Strictly speaking, pretty much any patentable invention is going to use maths. Video codec related patents aren't just "I patent the discrete fourier transform". It's "here's how you can use frequency domain transforms, texture lookups, entropy coding, and other things in order to build a low-bitrate video codec". There's detailed explanations of what the invention does and what is legally being claimed, which will usually be a quite-small improvement on an existing technology.

Many of the standards-essential ITU/MPEG patents have active litigation surrounding them, and the defendents would have been daft to not try to challenge video codec patents on exactly the sort of basis. The fact that the patents still stand would indicate that they are more than just maths.
> My favourite thing was getting sitebanned from Reddit for advocating the use of face masks

Do you have any evidence of this? There were lots of people advocating masks on r/Coronavirus since January. I've never heard of a site-ban for conduct that doesn't violate Reddit's TOS.
It sounds like you are describing George Floyd protests too - Twitter, etc was used to coordinate. Seems like a big double standard here.
Two planes fly in to the world trade centres. Is Osama bin Laden allowed to tweet "Today we conducted a successful planes operation against the US imperialist international terrorists and sent them scurrying. Today is a good day, we good guys have struck a firm and lasting blow to the bad guys." ?

Of course not (imo, but your values may differ).

If north korea fires artillery shells at south korea because of its maritime border dispute should it be allowed to make a similar tweet?

Of course not (imo, but your values may differ).

Can the US president make a tweet like that when he launches a criminal attack on another country?

Of course not (imo, but your values may differ).

Some people hold the view (which you can disagree with, but regardless is a perfectly reasonable view for someone to hold even if you disagree with it) that crimes against humanity are crimes against humanity even when they are carried out by lawfully appointed officials.
“... it's obvious that deplatforming groups will make them feel persecuted....”

It is persecution.

per·se·cu·tion - hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or political or religious beliefs.
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What calls for violence, that weren't moderated?
What organized looting?
What riots that weren't instigated by police brutality?
Did any of these try and overthrow the Democratic process?

Please provide examples or you're just providing false equivalencies and whataboutism.
He is wrong regarding Emacs.
Romney, McCain, Bush, Dole, Bush, Reagan, Ford all got it worse. The dirty secret of politics? This is battle on the Serengeti. There are no sides, no code of conduct.

A tweet can start a riot. What a joke. 0.25% interest rate increase, these hypocritical petty rich fools go on a bread line. Probably lead to 5 week social security checks, hurting the most vulnerable the most, but America is not going to be old forever. Perhaps they can cut back on the heroin.

Normal Americans held back from fighting thieves and arsonists unleashed on them by their leadership. As soon as election was over, they struck back, and mercifully compared to what they themselves went through, most of who are poor and out of the fight.

Soon you will be doing this to each other, if you haven't already. Americans just have to stay out of it. Take the free money, save it while everyone chases the spotlight maiming each other in the process. What's telling is how so many people bought the hype, thinking this time is any different than what everyone has been doing to each other always.

Empathy, the burden of knowledge.
It isn’t. There’s no vowel sound between sh and m. Think schmear.

Onset: shm. Nucleus: o. Coda: d. One syllable.
I say f-stab in my head, but F S tab to others.
search "defcon voting village"
Upvote for this. Sometimes, we have to put away our abstract ideals and concede that, although there may not be a "bright line" at which censorship becomes acceptable, the incitement this week crossed it nonetheless.
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Which part was the mistake? Breaking in, looting, parading the confederate flag, killing a cop, insurrection?
Sorry but this all on you and the left. This is the bed you made. It started from day one of Trump's 2016 campaign, where the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign against Hillary. Then came the completely fake impeachment trial, the fake and absurd allegations that Trump pissed on Russian hookers and all kinds of stupid shit. The years of one-sided MSM attacks against Trump that were almost entirely made up. The months of riots and deaths from Antifa and BLM that were sanctioned by the mayors of the democrat cities. The complete change of election laws so that now half of the country doesn't trust the election because it is just dropping ballots off in a bin on the side of the road. The silicon valley cartel working together to ensure all conservative voices were silenced. Google literally not giving election day notifications to conservatives until they were caught out.

You brought this on yourselves, and now there will be nothing but violence and hell until America probably no longer exists. You elected a guy whose son is paid millions by China. You, the left, wanted to do whatever it took to get Trump out of the whitehouse, and that includes ending the republic itself. Half of the country no longer trusts any of these institutions.

Lie in the bed you made.
Internet Explorer is officially unsupported by Microsoft. Nobody should write anything new with support for IE.
I'd encourage you to read "Talking with strangers".

There's a section in there about the anchoring effect, which basically talks about how if you increase patrols in the worst parts of town and get crime there down, it mostly doesn't just move "elsewhere". These people had good reasons for being drawn to parler and while it won't stop anybody, it's a significant blow I think.
Recently got access to OpenAI.

Thinking of building something in the Education space for Kids.

Any Ideas would be welcome.
Also I sincerely ask you to check out WTF is being posted on Parker, if you haven’t.

For curiosity I registered and took a look, it’s disgusting and I absolutely support it being obliterated.

I also think that the real world isn’t that hypothetical and there are a lot of rights and wrongs. You shouldn’t give these racists the same freedom.
> America is now a nuclear wasteland. And all because some people couldn’t swallow their pride, and realize that Taiwan is not their core interest.

In you opinion, was fighting Nazi Germany irrational too?
Check the sources cited in this particular sentence:

Scholarly analysis of the conspiracy theory has concluded that it has no basis in fact and is not based on any actual intellectual tendency.[5][7]
Literally everyone clutching their pearls over this seems to ignore this. Were people under the impression it was reasonable to plot the assassination of the Vice President of the United States on social media sites?

Parler spends most of its moderation effort removing accounts of leftists who argue or make fun of right-wingers on that site. Someone who never even posted anything got their account banned over a screenshot. Yet they refuse to remove calls of violence against elected officials?

I don't even like Mike Pence. But I don't think he should die! He should just retire!
I prefer tech companies to stay away from this. All actions should be made only after court decision.
Yep! It was originally supposed to be the full logo but that got vetoed
> The western liberal value of free speech has never extended to incitement of violence.

I have 3 questions:

1. If people can't revolt than why American constitution have second amendment?

2. If people can't raise against the government, then what was BLM and ANTIFA rioters doing for months? Don't you think this bunch was much more disciplined than BLM/ANTIFA?

3. These tech companies keep sucking up to China,Iran, and even Malaysia why?

I am not an American so just curious why this one sided censure feel ok?

Edit: added last sentence.
Back around the debates when the Proud Boys were in the news, I watched a Vice segment about them.

Apparently their current leader is of Cuban descent as was most of the people in the segment. Out of the eight members in the video, six of them previously voted for Obama.

I don't know too much about them except from what I saw on Vice. Is it really a group of white supremacists?

edit:
Reference:
The Right-Wing Latinos of Miami: Proud Boys and Refugees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Qa1f29diE
I think the argument holds for religion too.

I can decide to not say offensive things in a store so as to not be kicked out. But I can't decide to change my faith to be allowed entry to the store, because faith doesn't work like that. You can't force religious belief. At most, I could pretend to change my professed religion. But my faith remains unchanged and unchangeable.
> Isn’t that an outcome of the “win and lose” part of the GP’s commentary?

If it's a marketplace of ideas, the current situation is equivalent to monopolies stamping on startups to prevent them from ever becoming competitors. An actual marketplace of ideas would work without censorship in the first place, like it used to. Note that most minorities right now who obtained civil rights would never have been able to claim them had they be silenced from the get go.
Do you have court decision?
This also raises another question. Facebook has much more problematic content in an absolute sense than Parler does, even if they have better moderation. After all, they have a far larger userbase. Parler may have a higher amount of problematic content as a percentage of all its content, but Facebook still has a large total impact. So why is their app still available?

The article that is linked here in the NY Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/technology/apple-google-p...) states examples of Parler deleting content encouraging violence. So it's not as if Parler is doing zero moderation. But it is clear that Facebook and Twitter are not perfect (or even consistent) in their moderation. So where's the threshold for when the unmoderated posts cause you to get deplatformed? That line seems arbitrary to me. It also seems like an unfair line since Parler has only 30 employees. If the response to censorship is "go build your own social network", then surely there needs to be allowance for small social networks that face a sudden influx of new users and traffic. Most users of Parler, and most content, is not problematic.

The same question should be asked when it comes to Twitter banning Trump's account. Twitter's own blog post (https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...) does not make a great case for proving Trump was inciting violence - certainly none of the quoted info (like Trump choosing to skip the inauguration) would pass the bar necessary for a court to prove incitement. But a more basic issue here is that the vast majority of those who turned up in DC to support Trump and see him speak did not participate in the riot. Per various sources (example https://www.localdvm.com/news/washington-dc/three-demonstrat...) there were tens of thousands of attendees to the recent DC marches, across several fully-legal fully-permitted events. Out of all that, a few hundred raided the capitol. So if a small percentage of your followers engage in criminal activity, is that cause for a ban? And if that is the case, why wouldn't the same apply to other politicians or activists or social media figures? Why do BLM-affiliated events get a pass, with the criminal elements written off as a small fringe?
Family and friends I haven’t talked to in 10+ years are calling and texting me.
Giving me current addresses. Making sure everyone has paper maps in case things get worse.
These are people that don’t normally follow politics at all.

A lot of of people are freaking out.

Never seen anything like this here. Feels like Arab Springs.
>That is definitely not the agreed upon definition of net neutrality today. Comcast is allowed to offer different classes of service (e.g. speeds) to different people. It is allowed to ban you for violations of terms of service (e.g. illegal downloads).

That's because net neutrality does not exist today. Like I mentioned in my first comment, there are no NN laws in the US.

NN has long stood for the principle of dumb pipes, regardless of you being the sender or receiver.

You edited one of your earlier comments to mention the 2019 NN law that passed in the House; I encourage you to go read that law, as it specifically strengthens consumer protections in regards to ISPs and makes it so that Comcast could not refuse to serve you based on whatever arbitrary restrictions they want. If you are downloading torrents illegally, they could ban you. But under NN, they could not ban you because you were, for example, sharing legal content that Comcast employees have political disagreements with.
It has always been F S tab.
Yes, metafilter. Something Awful.