skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At what exact point, I wonder, will Hacker News stop complaining about slippery slopes and freedom of speech, and actually consider the possibility that they might lose a whole lot more than the ability to run an app? That they might, reasonably, lose the privilege of living in a functioning democracy?

That maybe there are more pressing concerns than what apps they can run on their phones? More pressing concerns than the ability to act like an asshole online? That maybe it's time to take the threat of the far right seriously?
A wild guess.

Globalized economy benefits the entire tech sector plus some parts of non-tech. It also hurts a number of businesses and a huge number of American workers. Trump is an anti-globalist, hence why he gets pummeled.
If you take the time to study why and how the Nazis became popular and came into power, you’ll realise why suppression of public sentiment is so dangerous.
Yes I have a feeling dog domestication went along these lines. The first were wolf puppies that were raised with the tribe and were imprinted on this "pack" as their own as they grew up. Dogs and humans made an effective combination. The dogs could look after and protect small children, a huge benefit. Dogs might be able to partners in hunting. And finally dogs would be excellent "house alarms" when enemies are nearby.
https://amazondating.co/ :D
1. An Iranian remark about unsafe vaccines was pulled (so not true)

2. If you don't use racial slurs, call for hate or violence, there is no problem for anybody.

3. This is not about censorship in the sense that the government forbids you to speak. This is companies denying 'you' access to a megaphone if you use it to call for violence, hate and use racial slurs.

The idea of 'heavy censorship' is ludicrous to me. Nobody is being censored. You can still say what you want, but nobody has to listen to you.

And if you don't use racial slurs, call for hate and violence, you are totally free to use the platforms.
The one that's really wanted is this guy.[1] This is someone in the Senate chamber with zip-ties. This is not the retired USAF officer who was arrested with zip-ties.[2] The person in [1] is thinner, in good shape, and wearing completely different tactical gear, along with a Punisher logo on an American flag.

[1] https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/protesters-enter-the-se...

[2] https://images.foxtv.com/static.fox5dc.com/www.fox5dc.com/co...
The lives of congress men and women were undoubtedly at risk. I think this directly contributed to Twitter and many other tech companies clamping down on the mediums of communication for radical Trump supporters.

Tech platforms fear revenge from congress for enabling what took place, and it suddenly became a no-brainer business decision to ban Trump from social media.
I think people are upvoting this because they approve of the maximum penalty to anyone caught trespassing (or worse) in the Capitol building. This isn't really relevant to Hacker News though. There is nothing interesting about the FBI investigating the most conspicuous federal crime in the past 5 years.
At the time of its removal Parler already rose to the #1 spot. Will this move by Apple and Google backfire due to the Streisand Effect?
Counterproductive regardless. Peaceful non-destructive protests have achieved a lot more social change in modern history than violent and/or destructive methods.
A simple take assumes that a lower number is bad. But the research on this is far from clear. Lower testosterone may be cardioprotective.
No worries guys, they can just develop their own os! With their own app store! And when hosting companies ban them they can just write a new ip version and host it on their own internet.

Seriously, apple, Google, Twitter, Facebook are monopolies. And they are behaving in an extremely anticompetitive manner. They should be forced to operate like utilities, or get broken up. Utilities should not get to ban paying customers without a court order.
I second this. Something as basic as the simple and sinister program is all you need. Or HIIT-ish calisthenics if you don't have kettlebells.

I know that weights are better than cardio, but cardio has major benefits for me that I can't ignore. Stress melts off, and I feel much more clear minded + focused with regular cardio. It also seems to keep my metabolism really high. I'm in my late 30s and eat like a teenager (in quantity of food) while staying lean with decent muscle mass.
Because building things quickly is important and Rust makes you think a lot about memory management. This is a fine thing for performance critical systems, but for systems where Python’s performance could be described as adequate, the extra performance Rust offers is immaterial. Of course, Rust gives you a bit more type safety than Go as well, but still not enough to justify trading off so much development velocity (or rather, type safety and correctness simply aren’t nearly as important as velocity from an economic perspective).

Rust is getting better all the time—non-lexical lifetimes and rust-analyzer have provided a surprising improvement in development velocity, but Go is still in another class. Personally I think Go is the best language for developing quickly—even better than Python for non-toy projects (I say that as one with 15 years of Python experience and almost a decade of ago experience).
> Twitter is practically a small indie platform

Just to be clear, Twitter has over 320M users. That's more users than the population of all but 3 nations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

They are the massive multinational corporation controlling media, and a small number of Silicon Valley progressives should not be trusted with that degree of cultural and political influence and power over the world.
It's a trade secret.
> The right has collectively lost its mind and these sites are pure sewer.

Until now, only the most extreme positions were forced into "the sewer". Expelling Trump from Twitter will force him and tens of millions of his followers onto one of these platforms. The sewer is going to overflow.
The title of the study is “supraphysiologic” doses of testosterone. That means more than any man will produce naturally, at any age.

From a quick google it appears to be 6x the replacement dose.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347908845281095680.html
Doesn't Windows bundle an H.264 decoder? If Chrome made use of that, would they have to pay for their own licence?
Actually, you won't find anything of the kind. Only if you wilfully set out to misinterpret history will you find anything like that.

Hitler came into power because he was allowed to spread his message. Because he was given chance after chance to speak. Because he was given a platform.
Any limitation to speech implies that speech was never free, by definition. So, there is no reasonable limitation that preserves the "free" part of "free speech".
Not really contradictory. I trust the Feds and the intelligence community a hell of a lot more with protecting a country from sedition than your average local cop who dropped out of middle school so he can bully people of colour with a baton
Yea the guy who built is biz with other criminals
Prius and F350 are specific models. Android and/or iOS can be on small phones, big phones, tablets, Televisions, etc... So I think the analogy is broader - Ford and Toyota.
One of the many things you’ll learn in Econ 101 is visas cost structure.

Visanet makes 0.1-0.2%. The cardholder makes 1-2% depending on the card and the rewards structure. The remainder goes to the issuing bank and covers the cost of loan origination. It is after all an unsecured loan at a rate of 0% for the first month.

Even this is a social policy issue as Europe has capped debit interchange at 0.2% and credit at 0.3%. Guess what they don’t have? Reward programs.

Ok so what does this fee get you as a merchant? 20% higher average ticket sizes.

Then there’s bitcoins $10 fee or $100 if you factor in the socialized cost of block reward.

So no, it’s not a 3%+, it’s much more nuanced than you’re making it out to be, and it is by no means a clear win.

Every other hypothetical actor you provided has their use case solved by permission limited accounts with your merchant acquirer.

[edit] if you knew you were making a disingenuous statement to make your position sound compelling when it just isn’t. That’s lying. A better system doesn’t have to lie.
They misinterpreted the study. The study is giving subjects 6x the normal replacement dose of testosterone. Way above normal levels.
Did you make this up, or did you read an article that made this up?

Have you even used Parler?
Sorry, I downvoted because t*rr*r is a common tr*gger word for some folks. If a corporation is not morally responsible enough to censor irresponsible comments, then the community must feel empowered to do so.
Um, judging from this Trump Tweet...

> Anarchists, Agitators or Protestors who vandalize or damage our Federal Courthouse in Portland, or any Federal Buildings in any of our Cities or States, will be prosecuted under our recently re-enacted Statues & Monuments Act. MINIMUM TEN YEARS IN PRISON. Don’t do it! @DHSgov

..I doubt that a Presidential Pardon is in the cards. But maybe I'm missing something. I thought those "Qanon" folks were really obsessed with following everything Trump tweets?
We're only pretending. Saving face is critical when negotiating in the East. If we can let the mainland save face and it costs us little of importance, why act otherwise?

Also, Taiwan itself is not unified. Around a third want to unify with the CCP.
> Personally, I've done terrible at stocks and wonderful at crypto, so i disagree due to experiential knowledge.

That basically means that you were early to the party for crypto, and made some bad decisions with stocks (which have yielded some 5% pa in real terms for many decades).
Apple advertises as premium. This is distinctly different from being a premium/high end product.
We are not talking about trump. We are talking about Apple, who is forcing other companies to censor their user’s speech and acting as judge and jury on what is acceptable.
If they had burned the Capitol to the ground with everyone in it, Greenwald would be concerned about the authoritarian harms of the response.
The current ROC (i.e. Taiwan) government's position is that they don't need to declare independence from the PRC given they've never been part of it (this is factually true by the way).
Speaking as the author of the post, I completely agree! I got burned so many times by random shit that made no sense. Stringly typed languages are the absolute worst.
5x5 was, and still is, the most important exercise plan I've ever done.

Both of them (SS & 5x5) are simple, clear and effective.

https://outlift.com/starting-strength-vs-stronglifts-5x5/
It's also a problem if you produce too many of them.
Some people mean that, others mean literal abolition:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colin-kaepernick-abolish-police...
Kamala Harris literally paid for their defense.

Entire books were written in their defense, one infamous title being "In defense of looting".

MSM talking heads were besides themselves defending the rioters. For months!

> 100% of the people who invaded the US Capitol were rioters.

This is so blatantly twisted that I am forced to believe you're being intentionally deceptive. Everyone knows a tiny fraction of the protesters went into the capitol building.
They don't seem to think what they did was wrong - but they also didn't seem to understand it was serious.

There is a youtube video of a young woman expressing her utter shock and dismay at being maced as she literally tried to storm congress and disrupt the national democratic process. It is amazing to watch, just for how weirdly naive and entitled she is while right up saying they were trying for a revolution. What the hell did you think was going to happen?
> It is, if one of your highest use cases is “Parler we an app on my phone”

That is not my highest use case at all. I have an Apple Watch. An Android phone works very poorly/not at all with it. I have an iPad. An Android phone does not easily sync between them. I have a Mac laptop. An Android phone does not sync well between them.

I think the UI on the iPhone is much more intuitive. I can't get that on Android. There are a bunch of apps that are only available on iPhone. The iPhone has better apps for my kids.

I could keep going on, but my point is, there is a lot my iPhone can do that an Android can't, for me.

> If you are choosing the former it strongly suggests you don’t care as much about the latter.

It doesn't in any way suggest that.

> Being on a system that allows sideloading is a serious step down in security especially for the non technical majority.

I agree. So make it hard to do. Put it behind a set of options. Make me have to install a text file on a BSD machine and then sync my phone to enable it. Just make it possible and let me assume the risk.
I went to buy a fruit fly spray at my local nursery and the sales rep said it’s not stocked because it kills bees. He claimed that was why there were so few bees around. I replied that it was more likely because the local council banned amateur bee keeper’s backyard hives. I’ve tried a replacement which is about 80% as effective but has to be sprayed after every rain shower or every fortnight whichever comes first.
The o’reilly GNU make book was released under the GNU free doc license.
Looks surprisingly good for vector images, but I'm not sure if the size comparison is fair: you'd gzip this content and it will probably work well with text/SVG, and probably won't work at all with AVIF. Not to mention in the first case it's truly lossless, and in the second case it's... well, not bad.

For F1 image, if you compare 20KB JPEG vs 18KB AVIF, there's no doubt AVIF is better. But if this picture is the content of page, not some useless decorations, I'd rather be served with 70KB JPEG in this example, it isn't really a close competition. So I wonder if 40-50-60 KB AVIF would look as good or better than 70 KB JPEG. Then it would be impressive. Otherwise, it isn't really a drop-in replacement and I wonder what the correct use-case strategy should be.
Iphone offers no common services that Android cannot provide. This is why they are saying it.

[X] Phone

[X] Text

[X] Compute Applications

[X] NFC or other near items

I guarantee the vast majority of consumers aren't using more than an extremely limited feature set that both phones happily share with their customers.

Are they produced by the same designer? Nah. But that really doesn't matter for functionality purposes.
It would still be a concern!
They both share the blame. One enabled it and the other one did it.

It was probably Kissinger with rosy “divide and conquer” thinking given Moscow & Beijing had a fall out.
I'm tempted to argue the value of SEO when to me it has come to mean catering to Google and trying to game its algorithms, but no. You're not wrong.
Jury is out on that. Diet coke doesn’t have calories but it may affect satiety. Studies on its weight loss effect seem inconclusive.
Maybe he should fax some people while he's at it.

Possibly send some good ol' newsletters to people's mail.

Folks, this is "get on the back of the bus" behavior. People in a free society should be able to use modern, first-class services if other people can.
What overhead is that? Raymarching does rely on raw GPU throughput, but the common methods of doing it work by issuing extremely few API calls, and leaving the GPU alone to do the work.

API overhead caused by WebGL is absolutely minuscule.
Political affiliation needs to become a protected class.

If your business is open to the public, you can’t deny people service for being gay or black (which is a great thing) - you also shouldn’t be able to deny them service based on their politics.
Twitter rumors. Here’s an article from a google news.

Edit it’s now official:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-p...
Out of curiosity, how is the 14th amendment related?

EDIT: Thank you! I didn't mean to spawn a big subthread, but I'm happy to have learned that today. I somehow missed that there were multiple sections.
"Anarchists, Agitators or Protestors." Doesn't say Patriots. See? We've got the green light!
Don’t confuse deflationary with the lack of fungibility.

No physical currency can be divided into 10 million pieces, no one has a crystal ball.
I can't wait for ISPs to start censoring the type of content that you would find on Parler, not because I think they should or that it is a good thing but because of the schadenfreude. Republicans fought hard to kill network neutrality and having their faces eaten by its removal in such a short time would be worth it.
What is "hate"? That is such a vague and expansive term that can mean whatever those in power want it to mean. There are activists today that would say I am being "hateful" if I am concerned about the rising trend of gender dysphoria among young teenage women or if I think puberty blockers should not be used. Far-left radicals might call that hate, but everyone else would call it common sense. And that's exactly why we shouldn't have platforms that are large and influential picking what's allowed and disallowed.

I also find this line disingenuous:

> You can still say what you want, but nobody has to listen to you.

OK, if that's the case, why can't people say what they want on Twitter or Parler, and you can just not view the content you disagree with?
Seems like it just means that there aren't really restrictions on which government officials can go to Taiwan anymore. Of course they would still need at actively choose to do so. So if Biden just ignored this it would be mostly symbolic (which isn't nothing, but isn't necessarily a hell of a lot either). We'll just have to see what Biden does.
> The model being rendered also is hard-coded in the ray tracer.

This is true - but there's no reason why it couldn't be modified to read in a scene description. It's more a proof of concept than anything else.
Rust complexity is not encapsulated in libraries that parses JSON or YAML, or others.

Rust complexity is embedded in the following: in order to get something to work, you effectively need to solve a puzzle.

Solving the puzzle is fun and feels very good once completed, and the prize is definitely worth it when performance and safety are critical.

I highly doubt that "solving the puzzle" makes sense in the context of ad-hoc automation or boring sysadmin/devops stuff. Last time I checked, creating a static binary (a-la go) was not easy. It may sound stupid... but at the end of the day go is the king of pragmatism.

I think exactly the opposite though about systems languages: Rust should take over C and C++.
Haven't the police been ordered to stand down in these situations?
Look for open source phones. There are several to start with, and they support Linux and even Firefox's attempt with an OS. Perhaps even a chromium type of Android. Have fun!
Siri, how do I radicalize people who already think the cabal is out to get them further?
I hope it helps. A woman I worked with a decade ago impressed upon me the importance of accessibility and sometimes I try to pay it forward.
> It must feel pretty surreal to be someone that is constantly moving to different communication apps and instantly finding them pulled by anyone and everyone.

It will feel exhilarating. It will enhance their victimhood, increase emotional attachment to their cause and serves to prove, to them, that "the man" is trying to unjustly suppress them and that they must group together, somehow, and rise up.

And will make them, even more, vulnerable to manipulation by those who want a mob. And there are many.

I support the suspension, since it incites violence. And I'm worried where society now heads.

When a large number convince themselves they are unjustly oppressed they will justify all kinds of horrors in the name of defence from the whatever bete noire is chosen for them.
> All it has to do is not inflate too bad.

So, question: All the other coins, which are also strictly limited mathematically, they are also good long term investments, since they won't inflate too bad? They do all have "an overall growth trend that results from the mathematical scarcity", do they?
Yep mistype
5 points by codingprograms 5 hours ago | parent [–] | on: The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surve...

Election rules were changed in unorthodox ways due to a global pandemic. You have to admit that the election was unlike any other on recent memory.
The losing side, given this unorthodox election, wanted some validation of results, as well as to legally challenge the way they were done (PA's changes).
The response was one of derision and essentially shutting out the right from discourse. No effort was made a conciliation. This had the predictable effect of galvanizing people that there was indeed fraud.
If you think that these people had no reason to be angry, you aren't paying attention. If you can understand the frustrations and lead up to the BLM movement, but don't even want to pay lip service to this, you are either a horrible person or stupid. Take your pick: evil, ignorant, or both?
Let's consider some implications of what you're saying.

- Slander and libel are restrictions on free speech.

- Restrictions on any type of public insult, racial slur, hate speech or other derogatory speech are restrictions on free speech.

- Any restriction on the advertising of explicit pornography or illegal activities would also be a restriction on free speech.

If your argument is that absolute, then no, I don't support absolute free speech without qualification. I can't prove it, but I would assume that the majority of the population would rightfully take the same position that free speech should not utterly absolute with no restriction at all.
Video codecs, like any other software, ultimately do have to compete on merits other than cost. In this case, it might not be "hard" to make a video codec, but it is hard to make a codec that is competitive with anything of the leading codecs from the MPEG LA. Bear in mind that your new codec needs to likely be the best or leading in most of several hundred metrics: power efficiency of encode/decode, compressed size in transmission, video/audio quality measures of many sorts, flexibility of storage in various encapsulating containers, etc. etc. It's a rather long list, and all the while you have to dodge the efforts of many many patent trolls waiting to sue you over infringing their patent.

After having gone through that effort, the costs of it better ultimately justify the outcome, and the MPEG LA licensing rates are very carefully to get you to avoid just this outcome.
I saw your comment and that made me want to take a look. This is my first impression.

I clicked on it and got dropped into a screen with a blank text field and a double ended slider.

I have no idea what I'm supposed to do at this point. So I left.

I have no idea if it is interesting, good, or bad, but I'm not going to waste any time with it unless I get a strong feeling that it will be worth it for me.

To me this feels like I stumbled onto someone's prototype of something (I think), but there's no description or instructions or anything to give the user context or tell them what they can or can't do with it or why they might want to.
You're cherry picking. Try addressing something more substantive: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/matt_braynards_...
https://www.ajc.com/politics/5-georgia-election-fraud-claims...

There was no evidence to present in court in the first place. If there was compelling evidence the Trump admin would have clung to it like a drowning man clinging to their savior.

There ARE tons of things good enough to meme out of context but none that stands up the the kind of scrutiny required in a court of law.

On twitter you can claim thousands of dead people voted. In court you have to actually prove it.
Apple Removes Parler from the App Store