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I find it really sad how politics has slowly invaded HN over the past year. And also how anyone with a dissenting opinion has to post with throwaway accounts that will inevitably turn light grey.

Unfortunately, I only see things getting worse from here. It seems inevitable when observing other internet communities that gradually devolved into being pervaded by partisanship and identity politics.

Hopefully a new site comes along at which point the cycle will start over...
I’d be OK if twitter and Facebook just died out and nothing replaces them. I left FB in 2012 because of its toxicity. Twitter was working great until they started pushing stuff that my connections like. The whole tower needs to come down and we really need to consider what a healthy information network looks like - because this ain’t it.
The attachment is quite wide - here's a photo of mine: https://i.imgur.com/NWAfZUJ.jpg
Mine is similar and that is Terraform
> It's not even clear exactly how our brains work so its hard to imagine that they couldn't be implemented with a sufficiently powerful computer...

Not commenting on what OP said, but I don't think this is correct. Even in principle, how can any computational process produce conscious experiences, which are by nature subjective and unquantifiable?
Do you have the text of said contract? It's not even a worthwhile thought experiment without it. How can one comment on a possible breach of an unknown contract?
So the paper makes a pretty boring argument about computability which looks like every computability argument (reduction to the halting problem). But obviously we don’t live in a world of maximally general problems and such arguments don’t necessarily apply to the specific problems we will care about: “yes it is impossible to prove that a program halts in general but here is my program and here is the proof that it halts.”

I find the premise pretty boring too but maybe that is necessary for grant funding. Or maybe this paper is a bit of fun, or an attempt at a good press release from the university, or an effort to publish something after some research that didn’t produce useful results.

I find the premise boring because I a find the superintelligence that suddenly grows exponentially, gets the ability to magically solve any problem and dominates everything to be a sci-fi fantasy and not a very realistic risk. The argument against it is one of complexity theory: real life is full of NP hard problems and it seems likely that there would be many on the way for this exponentially growing intelligence. An exponential growth in intelligence gives only a linear growth in the ability to solve exponentially hard problems, however an exponential growth is needed for the intelligence to continue growing exponentially.
Sure, watch as Biden berates black leaders. Tells one she can't read. Once you secure power, you don't necessarily like sharing it. Its like splitting the loot between thieves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3G7n21p0kY

Lenin after securing power, quickly killed off or imprisoned people in his own communist party that he deemed might pose him a threat. Sadly this included most of the well meaning people and idealists.

Hitchens narrates a great and chilling example of this:

Iraq's 1979 Fascist Coup, Narrated by Christopher Hitchens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR1X3zV6X5Y
I think you are heading in the right direction here. I think the difference is that today large US tech companies have a complete stranglehold over online speech and large parts of the internet infrastructure(email, web services, consumer electronics). So instead of the CCP saying a site is transmitting harmful lies(and is shut down), its now a close knit group of tech oligarchies deeming what speech is and is not permissible.

If Parler were to try and get a foreign data center expect Goog, FB and the others to try to bully that country (we will remove offices in your country if you do not shut it down) or pressuring internet providers to block that countries traffic.
Oklahoma outperforms California in grade 8 science and tied in grade 8 math: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile?chor...
Why must we provide them a platform to spew their hate of anyone who is not a white conservative?

If they want such a platform, they can go build their own parallel economy and technology infrastructure.

Good luck to them.
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It's a basic home network. I had a simple netgear unmanaged switch and an apple airport extreme in bridged mode. The equipment works and i didn't want to add more trash to the landfill and spend money i didn't need, so I wanted to continue to use them.

There is no way to identify any clients on your network that are either behind the switch or behind the airport (even in bridged mode). I would expect at least some list of clients based on DHCP leases or the ARP table, but they are not accessible through the UI.

I have a robotic vacuum from china, and i want to stop it from calling home. There's isn't even a way to find out the IP or what traffic it's sending through the UDM pro, and no way to set blocking rules from the UI.

I understand if they want to provide wifi mesh support and other special wifi features for unifi devices only, but the supposed "enterprise grade" router and FW functionality should support standard network setups, since all traffic goes through the UDM-Pro, and it is certainly aware of the clients since it gave them DHCP leases, and they are in the ARP table (which is only accesible through the SSH command line) and are on the same subnet. It's unacceptable in my opinion.
Hmm, can't there be a crypto currency deposit for each message that will then be returned after 24h? That or something similar. Then the average user would only need very minimal amount of currency but you can only spam if you have considerable capital.

Maybe the deposit could also suffer a bit of value loss. Just enough to make spamming not worth it. I wonder what would be just enough here. It ought to be less than what would make it undesirable for almost all users?

Edit: I feel like the main problem with social media innovation is that there's very little possibilities to experiment. You need a good amount of users to test something out and users will only go to established services.
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The previous government action was unconstitutional, but it was hardly a crisis. We had all the tools needed to handle such case and those tools got used as they should. Only after later actions of the current government those tools became inadequate to handle the situation, causing the crisis.

We don't call every unconstitutional bill "a crisis" and I'm pretty sure of that as there were quite a lot of them already.

Also, I'm by no means a supporter of the previous government, so you can stop building your strawmans.

BTW:

> 'stacking the court' to 14 out of 15 appointments in their favour

Most of them were appointed with votes from both previous and current ruling parties. Just sayin'.
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You're not comparing like with like - you're comparing a repeat function (or keyword) with the implementation of a repeat function. The imperative equivalent would be something like "make an int called i, then repeatedly add one to i, checking whether i is less than five, and each time you do that do the special task", which is by no means clearer. And if anything writing a "repeat" function is easier in the functional world than the imperative one, since traditional imperative languages don't have first-class functions.
Honest question: What is your probability estimate that the government of the United States collapses or is overthrown? Keep in mind that the S&P 500 is near record highs, which would be a tad irrational if we're on the verge anarchy implosion.

If you honestly believe there's even the slightest risk of that, why aren't you buying deep out-of-the-money put options like mad.
These are surreal times, to put it mildly. These headlines of banning/deplatforming would be ordinary if you substitute "CCP" for "Facebook", "Twitter", and "Amazon".

Facebook has even blocked Ron Paul?!? (https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1348704640486014982)

FAANG is the bakery, and Trump and everything associated with him is the same-sex wedding cake.
And after the tribunals are setup and operational and people are getting executed - would it be enough then? Or not quite yet still? What's your "this is enough, guys" point? Do you have one?

We got mighty close this time, didn't we? Do we need to get "closer"? Should Nancy Pelosi have had to be captured by some "patriot" with zip-ties and an AR-15?
capital deteriorates and becomes obsolete so executives are constantly maintaining and optimizing their businesses as they respond to market conditions. These trades are how the market chooses who is better and worse at this constant maintenance/optimization. unfortunately capital isn't something you can set up and allow to run indefinitely.
The rioters didn't listen to Donald Trump or Alex Jones. Have you read what's come out recently?

Jones specifically told people not to riot and condemned violence. The people who broke in where already at the capitol steps while he was speaking. They literally couldn't have been incited by what Trump said.
I'm thinking chronologically. I didn't mention that the chronological list of events is drawn from a database filtered by time, location, person ect. (but yes, what is in the database? And if there is too much in the database, how do you filter it so it can be digested.)

Data goes into database by trusted people of some sort with something to lose if the data is misleading or inaccurate. Employees for a start, them something larger once the system is working. (Wikipedia / Wikidata is not perfect, but it mostly works. )

There are other challenges like identifying interesting events of the day, and promoting them to be headlines.

I don't think there is a perfect solution, but I'm interested in exploring possible solutions.
How would you make that headline even more centerist? "Conservative" media sources did stoke baseless claims about fraud, which motivated the rioters (I wouldve gone for terrorist here).
What you say sounds very dramatic, but the truth is that CGNAT is good enough for 99.9% of users.
It's only called a fallacy if it's a fallacy. Slippery slope arguments, despite your ignorance, are not inherently facetious.
> But on a pragmatic basis, not a very smart idea to bring a gun to a protest. Most citizens are going to assume you are there to provoke violence or partake in it. If you end up in front of a jury, a reasonable citizen not going to give you the benefit of the doubt.

Also, it's kinda bad optics. The kind of people who'd bring a gun to a protest are the kind of people who usually oppose gun control....but having a bunch of yahoos with guns getting worked up with overheated rhetoric is going to push more people over to the gun control side.

Though, the kind of people who are coming to these protests seem to be the kind of people who (incorrectly) think the bill of rights means they get to be irresponsible assholes without experiencing any consequences, political or otherwise.
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Short YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUTjLulnwQM

Longer YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xPKE4gby5Q
Parler was already infested with links to malware, now they're even trying to turn that into a political movement.

Infect your machine for freedom!
What's with all the loonies in here?

A private company censoring content on its platform is well within its rights, especially when that content conflicts with the company's policies.

This has literally nothing to do with freedom of speech.
It seems like disagreement in any degree can be interpreted as an incitement to violence if you have supporters who are prone to violence. While I support the right of private companies to do as they please, I think that Net Neutrality has a role to play here.

The packets I send and whom I send them to should be protected by law in the same way that the letters I send are. It is a crime to open someone else's mail without a warrant, even if that mail contains hate speech or incitement to violence. Private companies who carry mail are not excempt from this restriction, they are content-agnostic. I beleive ISPs fall firmly into this category, and that a strong case may be made for cloud hosting providers as well.

With regards to accountability, individuals are accountable for their actions. It was those people who trespassed and committed violence who should be, and it seems will be, held accountable. Those who directly (as in "go here and do this") incited them, or directly planned their actions, committed crimes as well. Those who simply failed to condone them, or who expressed sympathy with their ideals and causes, or who delivered their mail, are not responsible for the actions of those people.
It's not fear mongering, but it's probably a bit hysterical.

One has to take a contrarian view of one's own anxieties: this is all good for the republic, because it snaps people out of their complacency.

Complacency is what gave us Trump in the first place. The "it'll never happen" attitude pretty much guarantees that at some point someone will purposely or accidentally benefit from it. Now that the cat is out of the bag people are very focused on the issue at hand, which is good.

To believe America will "fall" you have to believe that there is, or there soon could be, a majority of people who believe in dismantling democracy and abandoning the constitution. If that is the case then America has already fallen.
You know its bad when the most inescrupulous domain registrar doesn’t want your business
Where's the lie.
I don't follow your reasoning. Should we treat every billion dollar company as a country or just websites?
I was never on Parler even to check so I don't know as much as you about the situation, but isn't ID requirement normally a way to combat bots? Maybe it just backfired in this case?
Regardless, it proves that if something is not proven, they CAN. Why wouldn’t a company argue for this? Your platform is carrying lies, Remove now!
You think a $40 billion stock moved 6% in a day based on non-public internal discussions among executives and lawyers? If so, that would constitute one of the most blatant cases of insider trading in modern history.
There exist many utilities that themselves are built on top of other utilities.

The reason something should be an utility has to do with competition and how much power customers. The primary argument in favor of having Internet providers be an utility is that creating an competing Internet is not really an realistic concept, and the power customers of ISP has in their customer-provider relation is close to nothing. Utility laws exist to solve this specific situation in the market, and making every single company an utility would not be very efficient way to make use of those laws.
There's always a risk of bad laws and bad regulations. And certainly we need to be vigilant and correct and improve them when they occur (and they most certainly do). Laws and regulation are not necessarily censorship. It's important to have transparency into how laws and regulations are developed and applied, but that's a separate issue.
Not only a good article, but an interesting looking column that I have added to my daily checklist.
Yet we never opened mail to protect society from loonies trying to organize a coup. We never censored phone calls. Social media is the modern mode of communication, and just because we can censor speech online doesn't mean we should. Free speech has always meant tolerating repelent speech.
I work on my side project https://hanami.run which is just completely unrelated to my work.

Basically when you look around you will immediately see things that can be improved. Every times I have to setup emails, I feel a pain, and anyone I talked to (my co-worker) share that pain. And at that point, to me, it validated my idea.

But shipping your side project while having a day job is hard, especially if you had kids(I do).

Here are a few tips to make it works:

1. Work on your side project first. I woke up at 3:30AM and work till 8AM. Not every day of course but at first month it was like that

2. Don't focus on weekend. You should rest on weekend. Why? You asked? Because it give you a wrong illusion that you will have a lot of time on weekend which isn't. On weekend, you will have to take you kids out, help family, cleaning up houses etc. The gap between weekends are 7days, you easily lost momentum, and if you skipped one week, it easily to go down the rabbit hole and skip doing the whole thing.

3. Have a weekly sync with someone you can show and tell about your product and your progress. Make sure you demo what you worked on. It forces you to ship daily.

4. Pick an ideas that requires minimun front-end work or on-boarding work.

5. Ship frequently. Have a real domain and a site even if no one looks at it. Deploy to it often. Post it to social media even though no one gonna read it :-).

All the tricks is to force you into a mode where you can see progress and trick yourself into thinking you are shipping a real product until it become a real product.

IMHO, companies don't care and don't want to steal your work but obviously they don't want you to develop the same thing that the company do or work on your own idea to achieve same thing. So don't worry too much about conflict as long as you work on something else.
you have to earn it by accumulating a certain karma though contributions that are upvoted by the community. I can downvote but I can't downvote replies to me, and for some poorly understood reason, sometimes I just can't downvote even though I have not yet participated in the thread.
There's already a law that says advertising messages have to be labelled as such (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003). Shouldn't be too challenging. Is anyone really going to violate the law on a government website?
so no?
Waiting for the tor browser to announce the takedowns of sites at this point
Sounds like you just reinvented the internet :).
Is there more to this story? Was this a shift in GoDaddy policy or did AR15.com post content calling for violence or otherwise inflaming the situation?

My gut instinct as an owner of firearms is that they had some kind of "revolution" promotion or something equally stupid, but I admit the possibility it is GoDaddy jumping on a bandwagon.
I'm not sure that's actually true. Having worked in the industry, games do not always get better with more work and time. Some systems are just too complicated to fix fast than bugs get introduced.
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Is that it? From the perspective of 1950, giving black people civil rights is "radical leftism."
You're definitely losing.

Inflation of things you actually want and need is 10-15% per year and if you're not keeping pace with that, you're losing. TIPS can't help you with real world inflation.

Look at housing, medical care, higher education, quality food—these items are increasing in cost every year by more than the fictitious 2% CPI the government aims for.

Being a store of value doesn't mean the value of something never changes or that there's no volatility; just that over the medium to long term, it will at least keep pace with inflation, so that you don't losing buying power.

Gold has traditionally been a reliable store of value, but now it's becoming bitcoin.

Bitcoin has never had a negative 5-year period, but the return on TIPS can be negative during a deflationary period, not to mention federal taxes that occur while you hold them [1].

Bitcoin is only taxable when you sell, which, if you're smart, you never actually have to do, since you can borrow dollars using bitcoin as collateral [2].

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/how-do-tips-work-417128

[2] https://news.bitcoin.com/10-loan-providers-taking-crypto-as-...
Riversflow, the reference to the replenishment of the "tree of liberty" is unhelpful. It's cliche and generates far more heat than light.

The real reason it can be dangerous to ban speech connected with "terrorism" is the quoted term is so poorly defined as to potentially be almost anything abrasive and unpopular. I haven't seen any cohesive explanation of how the occupation of the Capitol January 6 was terroristic in nature, and yet the event broadly is being criticized as such, exemplifying why high-stakes laws against ill-defined things could have a chilling effect far broader than just those things we all agree should not occur. Is the line when protesters are unlawfully in a location? Like the middle of a street? When they advocate for things that are not currently lawful, e.g., changes in law? When they are agitated, animated and frighten their neighbors?
> The USA has never seen such restrictions on free speech in its history

Guess you've never heard of slavery or Japanese internment or any number of other massive efforts to silence minorities in this country. Y'all are losing your minds over nothing. If anything this whole thing has just reinforced how incredibly fragile and weak-willed the right has become in this country. You've been catered to for so long you've lost all sense of direction and think anyone asking for seatbelts on this rollercoaster is trying to ruin your life.
> But this might inform people that its not only conservatives who's speech is threatened

Agree that it's all over the place, but it's depressing to see left's attitude that they have the numbers now to attack the same free speech which helped so many efforts in the last twenty years.
Oh, wow. I didn't think about how it is now also a spectator sport like esports.
“Control communication” is intentional - Content is scanned to understand intent, promoted/demoted based on an invisible algorithm, and your communication can be labelled or shut down if you have a dissenting opinion. In-between your conversation political adverts are inserted, specifically tailored to your demographic data and personality profile (and rather than encouraging you to vote for the party, they are actually designed to disenfranchise you and make you not vote for anyone).

This isn’t a future dystopia - this all already happens on Facebook. And that’s why this involves a level of control over being a neutral communication channel.

> Another way to frame that is just to be thankful that those companies are there to enable that communication.

Yes be thankful to mega corp. mega corp good. Mega corp has our interests at its heart.
Yes, that's the "particles in a box" model, such as the famous black-body experiment that involved light bouncing around inside a container with a tiny hole in the side for taking measurements of the glow inside.

Similarly, atoms can be thought of as a "spherical box", the boundary in this case is a full revolution around the potential well.

The thing is: Not everything is a box, hence the abstract model that uses photons as a shorthand for the behaviour of the EM field in a box isn't fully general, and simply doesn't apply outside of those scenarios.

That doesn't stop the vast majority of people talking about photons (and bosonic particles in general) as if they're individually countable things zipping around in free space.

Neutrons can be counted like this. Photons can't.
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Both. People just believe what they want. When presented with new information they will adjust the new information or explain it away rather than change their belief system (and admit they were wrong). It takes courage to admit your were wrong, and most people don't have it. Politicians, especially.
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