skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
nope, the russian agenda is for west democracy citizens to stop believing in any source of information. it works spectacularly well.
I really think there’s a lot of potential for high voltage technologies. No one really explores it because it’s absolutely terrifying.
What evidence is there the plea deal was offered? Sounds like PR by the state.
That's fine, but it should say that (and probably does; the journalism is probably the one changing the story).
I think this article might have what you're looking for

https://hackaday.com/2020/11/21/a-computer-in-the-game-of-li...
> The #1 issue in the USA beyond simple conviction and incarceration is rehabilitation.

Don't you think one helps with the other? Honest question.

As in, the less people in the system, the easier it would be to dedicate to each person the resources needed to rehabilitate, rather than just keeping them inside?
Of course, their concerns are valid. But I suspect their fear is more due to the current French anti-vaccination climate than to the careful reading of studies about post-vaccination effects.
And remember they can still get the virus at school and contaminate their family.
> So it isn't just a telephone company that allows you to make phone calls, it's a service that makes an editorial choice about what they show you.

Understood. Perhaps there's a more apt analogy. Let's say there exists a gun manufacturer who's developed a new type of gun that's particularly effective. The problem is the guns are in limited supply. The manufacturer ultimately cares about profit, so it decides to sell the guns to the highest bidder.

Most of the guns sold end up providing value to society in the form of protection. But, in a handful of cases, the highest bidder happens to be a violent regime that uses the guns for ethnic cleansing.

Do we blame the gun manufacturer or the violent regime?

From this perspective, I agree that a small part of the blame falls on the gun manufacturer for not vetting buyers.
AWS will be fine. Anyone not using these hosts to promote terrorism will be fine.
Agreed.

I will admit that it's draining, talking to one user who keeps moving the goal-posts.

And I will then say that I think it's their intention to drain people like me.

So I try to shrug it off and keep refuting arguments with the evidence they pretend they will be convinced by.
> They printed what was at the time a bipartisan consensus which had formed on the basis of lies.

And that is why truth by consensus is not a good way for a reporter to report compared to actually investigating somethng beforehand.
You would trust the state to decide if a sexual predators is safe to teach your children?
I think the test is probably whether White House statements are reasonably available to people. For instance, lots of media don't cover any White House press conferences, never mind carry them live and so on.

The discussion around social media then gets split in two; what is currently legal, and what should be legal.

Trump probably doesn't have any current legal right to force Twitter (or CNN) to carry his message. But maybe there should be some laws about what Twitter can't moderate.
While you could argue with some specific points I'm sure, this was just a laundry list off the top of my head of reasons why btc is not some inert commodity which can't possibly allow malpractice - the bitcoin ecosystem is overflowing with bad actors and shady companies all trying to profit from the goldrush, from mtgox in the past to bitfinex now.

I agree there are bad actors all over finance, which is precisely why finance and banking is so heavily regulated, in a way that btc is not, and that lack of proper auditing and controls is what makes btc incredibly risky as some sort of investment IMO and utterly unlike commodities like oil or corn as an asset.

Bitcoin is neither a useful currency, nor a reliable store of value, nor a good way to share data, nor a foundational layer for an app ecosystem, nor a commodity. It has been sold as all those things and more, but it has succeeded at none of them and I fear in this latest mania a lot of people will lose much of their money.
> Did you read the article? The article is specifically talking about cases where experts are incorrect within their field of expertise and then cited as a source of truth in published papers.

Yes.

But I still think that Linus is a good character to discuss within the scope of the article. Linus is clearly considered an expert, and many people follow his bombastic words (retweeting, or using them to form the basis of their argument around here).

"Because Linus said so" is a common way to end various arguments. Linus's opinion is truly "expert", people copy it without further analysis because... well... Linus kinda deserves it. He is an expert after all.

It doesn't mean Linus is always right.

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The "feedback loop" of the open source world is pretty quick. If you're a bad programmer, people figure it out when they start working with your code.

But the "feedback loop" of "chip ISA opinions" is slow. There's not really any way to prove, or disprove, whether or not AVX512 is a good or bad idea.

Linus's expertise in programming doesn't necessarily translate to chip ISA design. And as such, Linus can get details (expected power-characteristics of future chips) dramatically wrong.
> the only way to get 'badged' is to use the mobile app and take a picture of govt ID (driver license, passport, etc).

<puts on tinfoil hat> Maybe the entire site is just an FBI honeypot for right-wing extremists? (It's obviously not an NSA honeypot, because they could afford to self-host.)
You don’t have to ask me, the information can be found on google within seconds.
I agree with you. Both Donald trump and Khamenei should have been kicked off twitter.
> Colorado lost the cake lawsuit. If anything that makes my claim stronger.

But not much (though not doing much to make it stronger is still not making it weaker), because it didn’t lose it on the kinds of grounds people on either side wanted the case decided on for a decisive win, but because based on the details of the proceedings in his case the Court found specific animus against Phillips’ religious views in the handling of the particular case by State officials.
All good questions. I am not going to pretend I know the answers here. I'll share my thoughts though.

> How do I as a consumer know if a product will last or not?

You, yourself, wont know. Not unless you are an expert on the product, which most people are not. The manufacturer may know what they are selling you is terribly engineered and will break, but you will not. So how can we overcome this imbalance of knowledge? I think the automotive industry is a good example of this being addressed. If I want to buy a car, how do I know that it is going to be reliable? I don't. Even if I were an expert, I don't have the luxury to buy the car, inspect its mechanics, and return it if I don't like it. But yet, even when situated with this predicament, I can still make a well informed decision that will give me a great chance of obtaining a reliable car. Why? It's because there is a plethora of institutions I have access to to evaluate what brand I should go with. The IIHS, NHTSA, Kelly Blue Book, J.D. Power, Edmunds, Motor Trend, Consumer Reports, my local car mechanic, and more. As great as these institutions may be, I believe it only part of the solution. The second is there needs to be a *demand* for reliability. The demand for automotives exists because the price of not having it is costly. Failure can mean major surprise repair bills, a ruined vacation, stranded on the side of the road for hours, etc. Such a price doesn't exist for the failure of my little toaster. But perhaps this can be artificially made with a disposal tax as I suggested in my post.
Miss that guy a lot. When I was first starting out, I made a point to go and read his Raw Nerve series and it had a massive impact on my life: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve.

One of those rare, brilliant lights in the world who left way, way, way too soon.
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> Do you really think the best way for a government agency to access government IDs is to secretly run a Twitter clone?

The best method for target acquisition, sure. If someone is so perturbed by their reality being rejected by the mainstream that they're willing to sign up for an alternative to maintain their worldview, then running that alternative would be a fantastic way to identify people at risk of radicalization, domestic terror risks, etc.

And if we're being clear, the USIC has run companies with this explicit mission in the past. In fact, running a company to provide one service at face level while providing a different service to the IC underneath is the mode that yielded some of the biggest intelligence wins in Western history. See Crypto AG.

That said, no reason to run it themselves; they're well aware that someone else will end up running it for them, and with security nowhere near front-of-mind for any startup, they can just pick up the key from underneath the doormat and take the farm.
I actually feel some sympathy for both positions here.

On the one hand, it's such a "no brainer" to take such a light sentence for what is legally such a "serious crime".

On the other hand, though, it feels ridiculous that Aaron would have been put in jail at all for what he did. I think it's fair to say he wasn't in a good place, but it's maybe a little tone deaf to say the grief of the trial and prosecution had no role in his suicide.
We don't have to imagine. The other side is calling them "left extremists": https://mobile.twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348484125825658...
It is currently very possible to host absolutely any political views on big tech platforms with no repercussions. Conservative media, libertarian media, communist media, scientology media are all proliferating like never before. What you can't do is incite violence or direct hatred at groups based on their innate character. At least, not with impunity.

Shutting down Trump is not at all an unprecedented move. Social media shuts out evil world leaders all the time.
I have been working with small data few years. We built an internal library to move data in/out of systems and the schedule this into jobs. We mostly leverage S3 and Spectrum. The major complexities we found were in scheduling, proxies and fetching raw data from legacy applications.
From wikipedia:

> On September 12, 2012, federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment adding nine more felony counts, which increased Swartz's maximum criminal exposure to 50 years of imprisonment and $1 million in fines. During plea negotiations with Swartz's attorneys, the prosecutors offered to recommend a sentence of six months in a low-security prison, if Swartz would plead guilty to 13 federal crimes. Swartz and his lead attorney rejected that deal, opting instead for a trial in which prosecutors would have been forced to justify their pursuit of Swartz

Let's be clear, this isn't "here's a slap on the wrist and we'll let it slide", this is "we're throwing the book at you on trumped up charges", and require him to plead guilty to 9 felonies to avoid a potential 50 year sentence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#United_States_v._...
More than 10 years ago, I've asked Aaron about the best way to tell him "thanks for your job". He said what he has a big wishlist on Amazon, so I've chosen a couple of books and bought them to him. Since then, once a year I have an event in my calendar: "check out what's new on Aaron's wishlist".
Don't know why I decide to write it today but this is a link for this wishlist, just for inspiration. I think it will help you to understand more about Aaron and his personality

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2A6HM9B19FOPW/
Is the Twitter Ban Securities Fraud?
Mods removing those comments sort of proves that HN isn't a safe haven for the calls for violence.
What do you think should be the government's role in protecting the gullible and easily seduced?

Most of these drug laws are about this in essence: We are fast approaching a world where low level labor becomes more and more superflous. This is going to mean that there will be a growing portion of humanity on welfare in essence. How do you see that working out for humanity in a world with fully legal free access drugs?
I'm curious if Skynet or something similar could be used for that? I don't pretend to understand any of the modern blockchain frameworks, but a peer-to-peer distributed and encrypted system seems to fit the bill (possibly non-blockchain related, I'm not sure). It was trending yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25710151
There was/is extremely heavy moderation on Parler.
i think it's pretty clear that you can get really far with RoR too, if I'm not mistaken Github is still mostly RoR.
Well, if they knew so much else about him, maybe they should have been aware of his illness and appropriately (ie Justly) addressed the situation rather than making an example of him.
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AVX seems to me to be a band-aid to the instruction length problem inherent in x86 CISC systems vs. RISC chips like M1.

Then again, maybe the fact that the memory and GPU are all integrated into M1 also helps propel it over the top.

How well would an AMD / Intel SoC perform if you threw a 5950X / 10900K, 16 - 128GB of LPDDR4X-4133, and a GTX 3090 into a blender and baked up an enormous die with a huge watercooled solution?

I dunno. I want to believe its the architecture that's succeeding, not the SoC by virtue of being an SoC, but I don't have the knowledge or ability to judge that.
99.9% of people were not him.

> law enforcement did not drive him to suicide

People can keep repeating this, and it will still be false. LEO and Prosecutor action was the proximate cause of his actions.

You can make moral arguments that, say, the prosecutor was Just Doing His Job, and I may even agree with you. But you and everyone else are simply wrong about cause and effect, and attempting to blur that tells me more about your priors and biases than anything about the situation.
I'm not sure what you mean by auto-login not working. I've had my Steam account for 11 years and I can remember a time where that was the case, but it works so reliably nowadays I didn't even remember it was an issue until reading your comment.
Was the institution reformed and executive board reprogrammed after it was caught?
That just raises further questions.
> It turns out that when multiple global corporations collude to halt the communications of people who think they are being persecuted by a colluding body of global corporations, it makes their movement stronger. Who would have thought?

A great point. I have yet to hear any response at all to this problem from the pro-censorship camp, much less a convincing one.

Every attempt to solve the problem creates more problems.
My evidence was attempting to show that "claims Instagram thinks are true" is an explicitly political category. By moderating away political claims that diverge from that category, IG is advancing a political agenda.

You're asking me to prove the much harder claim that IG has never taken moderation action against political beliefs on the other side of the political spectrum.

Of course, that is

a. an extremely hard claim to prove on an internet forum like this, because I'd have to have an index of all of IGs enforcement actions to prove that none of them met this criteria you've set up.

b. not even close to proven in the case of Parler by the original poster
Just like P2P bitcoin, can any big tech shut down bitcoin globally? Can someone develop some chat services based on HTTP/3, WebAssembly and P2P like bitcoin? Also Zero Knowledge Technology needs to be utilized.
To clarify slightly: Some supreme court cases have settled that speech can be a form of engaging in "insurrection or rebellion"

based (presumably, but I'm not a constitutional scholar) on the 14th amendment's section 3:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
I am far more concerned by AWS's removal of Parler than any of the social media stuff that's been going on.
You're the one claiming they're not the same group in the slightest. How do you quantify that?

Surely if they're voting for the same people, some of them must share the same beliefs. Unless you're saying all Parler users are completely distinct from all non-Parler conservatives?
> Allow them to speak their mind and you lower their need for violent action

That may be true, or that may not be true. Has there been any research on this?
Telegram has moderators and has complied with Apple’s demands in the past.
Yes, that is true. Although as you hinted at, the Supreme Court didn't really want to rule on the issue that people were interested in (how to balance freedom of association with protected classes). They've punted on other similarly contentious issues as well (e.g. when NYC mooted a 2nd amendment case by changing its laws went the case when to the Supreme Court).
The Internet Own Boy on Peertube :

https://sepiasearch.org/search?search=the%20internet%20own%2...
It makes so much sense when you think of Parler as a propaganda network and recruitment tool and not a "free speech" social network which is exactly how I described my experience with it in the mega thread yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712762
Had never seen that quote from TBL. It's nice, but it falls real flat coming from the man that used his fame to push for DRM in browsers.
> AVX seems to me to be a band-aid to the instruction length problem inherent in x86 CISC systems vs. RISC chips like M1.

AVX is neither CISC nor RISC. Its SIMD.

We're talking about 1970s Cray-systems or 1980s Connection Machine (CM-2 or CM-5). Its a completely different paradigm of compute. An entire history of computing that runs parallel to the CISC vs RISC wars.

> Then again, maybe the fact that the memory and GPU are all integrated into M1 also helps propel it over the top.

M1 has an awesomely wide 128-bit x4 pipeline SIMD execution backend. Apple is making sure its SIMD unit (for NEON ARM instructions) doesn't fall dramatically behind.

M1 can perform 4x 128-bit Multiply-and-Accumulate instructions per clock tick. Its no slouch.

AVX512 is better than ARM Neon on M1, but even Apple sees the importance of SIMD compute.

The ARM world is talking about 512-bit SVE instructions. SIMD compute is obscure and niche: but its a parallel niche computation style with decades of history. Its the proper solution to a huge host of computational problems.
but do they know who they vote for? (same question to the democratic voters)

i'm not from US - we've got a multiparty system that seems to kind of work - but I've done one of those political alignment tests for parties, got a result, and then proceeded to do a political alignment test for politicians. None of the folks I was supposedly aligned with were members of the party I was aligned with best. make of that what you will.
>succumbed to depression

Well, yeah, but he had perfectly valid external reasons to be extremely stressed and sad. He succumbed to the FBI ruining his life because they're mostly corrupt authoritarian assholes with their own agenda that has nothing to do with "justice" or even what the "wronged" in this case wanted.
The republicans are being banned from: Amazon, Apple store, Discord, facebook, google play, instagram, pinterest, reddit, shopify, snapchat, tiktok, twitch, twitter, and youtube.

Many of these weren't places trump or republicans really were. They are just banning trump supporters.

As republicans left those platforms, big tech also removed the new place Parler in a coordinated method. With shortage on servers, they aren't going to be getting back up and running anytime soon.

At the end of the day this isn't about censorship. Trump for all it matters could post to his own website. He's not stopped from getting out his message.

The more important reality here is that big tech clearly played their cards. What used to be a political divide that was entirely democrats is now both.

If you thought the political divide in the USA was bad before the election. It's now worse than ever. This is about silencing political opposition.

Oh and in the next 2 years you can expect the NRA will be disbanding. Right to bear arms will be getting shut down.

What do you think the republicans are going to do? I don't know. Will it be civil war? I dont think so.

How about the election in 2 years? Anyone think there will be a free and fair election?