skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But pretty much no one wants preapproval of every utterance either, so everyone is also “anti-censorship”.

I've seen people arguing that the concept of free speech is "outdated" and that societies that hold it are "doomed to collapse", just as an example of what I meant in my first comment.

> so pretty much everyone is “pro-censorship” to some degree

Please, don't. You're arguing against an extreme of my comment instead of what I actually meant[1] (which, of course, you're free to do, but I would also be just as free to dismiss it as a bad faith argument), but also you're extending something you might believe onto others. You're of course free to be "pro-censorship", but you don't know what everyone else thinks, and certainly not what I think.

> The use of the term “censorship” is itself a negative signal, as it preempts useful discussion by imposing a false dichotomy.

I completely disagree with this. The example I gave is absolutely an argument in favor of censorship.

> If you see someone talking about “damping positive disinformation feedback loops” or something like that, rather than “censorship”, that’s one signal there’s a substantive discussion taking place.

Excusing it by saying "dampening positive disinformation feedback loops" is excusing censorship. You might refuse to call it such, but I don't have a reason not to.

[1]: For starters, I'm aware that there's unprotected speech for a reason, and I never called condemnation of such speech "censorship".
Doesn't this basically argue that "business" is basically the same thing as schmoozing?
'The right to freedom of opinion is of fundamental importance,' Steffen Seibert, Merkel’s chief spokesman, told reporters in Berlin on Monday."
Why do you assume that there was necessarily coordination? In my opinion it's likely everyone who is dropping Parler came to their verdict independently.
Well in the scenario where you lose access to your email address you would theoretically still have access to your phone with the steam app already installed and authenticated
Making the producers responsible for the disposal might be the best way. I don't exactly know how it would be implemented but I'd like to see it for packaging too.

Local authorities should be able to collect up all Mcdonalds packaging and hand it back to them. Make them responsible for its disposal. Then they will be incentivised to reduce the amount of packaging that they produce.
Well, it's not just a matter of vanity, showing up on a board meeting in your pajamas is still not a thing unfortunately. It's especially harsh on women because of all ridiculous social expectations. Even when others don't really care we're mentally condition to presume that world is expecting us to look in a certain way and that creates a lot of stress - plus it's a total waste of time if you work from home.
This can only be true if Republican efforts at voter suppression continue to be successful while also states don’t choose to forgo the electoral college. Republicans only win because of a tremendously successful campaign to not let people vote. They are very much a minority party by any measure except outsized influence.

They have fewer voters.

Fewer people identify with them.

Fewer people support their policies.

If Democrats can continue to get voters out, like in GA, they will lose seats.
I was thinking about nationalization separately from this. The west has invested a lot into the Chinese economy hoping to translate the corresponding equity into growth. I wonder if the Chinese are really long term interested in honoring the equity.

Meaning - take the money now, grow the businesses and the economy and then at some point say "It's stupid that we're letting foreigners have 20% (or whatever) ownership of our economy" and just deem it illegal / confiscate that equity.

Obviously it will prevent future foreign investment but if China is in a place where they don't care about that, it would be the move.
Open source mtproto server written in Golang with compatible telegram client
> Disagree that hardening the API server is any better. This is the approach common in the US market, and my team has broken everything available there too. Also disagree with insinuations that these banks don't have good, modern stacks. Barclays in particular is great. Way better than any challenger bank.

By "hardening the API server" I mean fixing actual security vulnerabilities and improving the security posture of the API gateway, not going for further obfuscation layers or attempting to prevent third-party clients. Those are a waste of time. My position is that there's no point trying to prevent the user's access to his own data - but there is a point in enforcing e.g. access controls so customers can't access data for accounts they don't own or spend money they don't have.

When you talk about "breaking" banks in the US space, are you referring to gaining access to the API and reversing it (which has always been Teller's MO, no?) - or finding vulnerabilities with the API endpoints with actual financial implications for the institution?

> Also disagree with insinuations that these banks don't have good, modern stacks

I'm aware of your thoughts on this, though I respectfully disagree with the "modern" characterisation you have applied to legacy banks based on the sorts of tech I've seen and how it e.g. coped when faced with such exotic things as non-ASCII characters.

Monzo have at least never wasted time on obfuscating the fuck out of their API comms, nor forcibly preventing me from accessing my transactions on my rooted device or running their app under a debugger.
I think you're assuming that long-term goals can't change. Just because I have a goal to do X in ten years, that doesn't mean I am forcibly committed to reaching X even if I no longer want to.

Let's say I have a vague dream of becoming a sailor. Consider these four scenarios:

- Scenario A: I make it an explicit goal. In year 1, I read some books, take a sailing class, and forgo some luxuries to start saving up for a boat. In year 2, I buy a boat and sail. Dream attained!

- Scenario B: I make no goal. In the absence of a concrete goal, I don't read or save in year 1. In year 2, I still long to sail but am no closer to getting there. Eventually I run out the clock on my life.

- Scenario C: I make it an explicit goal. In year 1, I read some books, take a sailing class, and forgo some luxuries to start saving up for a boat. In year 2, I decide I am no longer interested in sailing. I remove that long-term goal, and spend the money I saved on something else.

- Scenario D: I make no goal. In the absence of a concrete goal, I don't read or save in year 1. In year 2, I lose interest in sailing. Nothing gained, nothing lost.

The two failure modes are B and C. If you fail to pursue a long-term goal that doesn't change (B), you are eternally unfulfilled. If you pursue a dream that changes before you reach it (C), you have some lost opportunity cost for the work you put into that dream that is now not relevant.

For most people, the latter is a much smaller harm than the former. It's more rewarding to strive towards something meaningful even if it ends up not panning out than to abandon your dreams pre-emptively.

Of course, the ideal is A or D, but none of us have a time machine to determine who our future selves will become. So the only choice you can make today is A/C or B/D.
If you have a criminal record bad enough to cause employment problems in the US it's going to be as hard or harder to (legally) start residing in most first world countries, especially if you don't have a party in-country who's basically importing you to do some specific work.
I think the biggest difference between far-left and far-right communities is that far-left communities don't pretend to have free speech. And because they don't care about free speech they are more willing to shut down content that the host platform may object to, like calls to violence. See places like /r/latestagecapitalism.
Default content is difficult to manage, especially if the goal is to avoid cults of personality, or recreating Slashdot/Digg/Reddit on your platform.

I think this is why everyone who started a MySpace account has the founder as a friend. You have one example of how the thing works, and he's too busy doing other stuff to turn it into a soap box.

I think the right solution is exhibited in the way people use Slack servers for niche communities. You don't install Slack because you heard Slack is neat. You install Slack because someone sends you an invite link.
House Democrats Introduce Article of Impeachment Against Trump
People develop algorithms. They aren't some neutral force of nature, like a tornado. These are choices.
Employers Should Use Confidential Salary Surveys
How in the hell do you get "someone more scientific" than Dr. Fauci, "an American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984"[0] . Seriously, do you even pay attention to what you regurgitate?

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci
If you have an old-ish head unit in your car, it may receive an RDS (Radio Data System) feed that could tell you what station it is or what song is playing. However, many stations around here are using it to advertise Club Fitness and Golden Oak lending. If you cast further back into the mists of time, anyone could send you a webcam or chatroom invite ... this was naturally exploited by spammers approximately ten milliseconds after its invention.

I have since formulated the concept that any communications channel, any at all, where it does not cost to transmit per message will eventually be colonized by the advertising fungal organism. Even low-cost messaging can be colonized, but the lower the cost, the faster it comes.

Similarly, like FreeNet, any communications channel that can be used to post Things You Do Not Like will be used to do so. And that once you implement some kind of wide-scale filter against that, absolutely nothing can be done to stop someone from attempting to take over, to add and subtract to that filter, for their own purposes and their own ideology.

I have no solutions for this.
I don't understand what policy you would want in regards to sexual predators. The recidivism rate for pedophiles is e.g. 14% after 5 years, 24% after 15 years.

Does that mean we should just lock them up forever? Or do you really think having someone like that live next to children is a necessary gamble?
In other words, the media really is as liberal as is claimed by some?

How does that change things? The article calls them security researchers. In the title! Isn't that an example of something that HN is tacitly acknowledging to be true by leaving the title alone?
That aside, in particular, was meant in the sense of: The mental illness can be seen as causal or mitigating. Like, a person suffering from a schizophrenic break could reasonably use that as a defense (not to avoid all treatment/punishment, but as a mitigating factor or to have the consequences moved from prison time to a medical facility) for a crime committed during that break (a sincere belief that they're in danger or that someone was the devil leading them to commit an assault or worse). Depression could similarly be used in a defense like that as depression (in severe cases) can similarly cause breaks with reality or reduced capacity for self-control.

But having severe depression or being schizophrenic, on its own, is not a good justification for changing/reducing charges and consequences (sadly, consequences in the US are punishments as there's little focus on rehabilitation). If anything, it could reasonably affect the sentencing to account for the riskier consequences of placing a person with that mental condition into a medium or high security prison or general population, but not the selection of charges by the prosecutor.
> That of course would not mean pressing private firms into public service.

Even so that wouldn't apply here. Parler lost their private counsel, not their legal counsel.
History is replete with examples
Or, you could (re)schedule first and then generate the key? Assuming that key generation doesn't take an hour, of course. :)
A way to do this would be to create a class of forced manufacturer recalls to disable the broken feature which if not completed would block yearly registration renewal, like the emissions checks some places require.

Indeed recently while going through the California smog check and registration process, the dealership told me I had open recalls which might block my registration. They didn’t, but clearly something like that mechanism exists.

This doesn’t unfairly harm people who already own vehicles.
AFAIK 4chan is also moderated to an extent, which is what lead to 8chan/others.
How does this affect Tesla in Europe?
Check out the T5 models at huggingface for this. Main NLG use cases with T5 are translations, summarization and question generation. Latter is sophisticated + nothing trivial and "NLG", so yeah.
What does proper disposal look like for a fiberglass, epoxy, and plastic construct like a turbine blade? I don’t get the impression that renewable tech is all that recyclable.

It seems like we have the brains to be doing studies on the long term environmental impact of turbines and panels. I confess I haven’t looked too hard for this but I don’t see others posting them and imagine it’s not a very popular topic.
> Does the Mac version of Steam install through the Mac App store

It does not, and I can't see it ever being allowed there. It's quite literally an alternate app store!
They would probably open up their old hardware if they could get carbon credit for it for being recycled to a usable device, but the economics is just too small as an incentives for that to happen.
Switching-Cost in Europe is around low to zero. Especially with discount-banks like ING, who are offering free services.

Bank-hopping is also simple and having accounts with multiple banks was common for certain people some years ago.
RDRAND on AMD Ryzen 9 5900X is flakey
Facebook manipulated user’s emotions for science without user consent.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...
Arrested people are not a protected class so employers are free to discriminate based on that criteria.
The capitol building itself doesn't have that many offices when you get right down to it. Just wandering around and stumbling across Pelosi's office is quite plausible.
Yes, it will resolve, and in fact has been solved.

K-means clustering.

This will scale, is compatible with machine learning, and yields an effect that is good for the users of a service -- but is not useful to owners of a service that maximizes profit and control over user happiness.

If trolls, jackasses, and idiots (by each users independent definition) get automatically segregated into groups where they see only each-others posts, and out-groups just never see their posts: problem solved.

Now, you might say "I don't want a service where neo-Nazis congregate!". I say: why, again, don't you want your police service to be able to infiltrate these groups and observe these people, and arrest them as they see fit?

Hmmm. I wonder.

Once it becomes clear to "evildoers" that the site is not "friendly" to their evil -- toleration doesn't equal agreement -- and that they are not hidden from justice, they will go elsewhere (at least the smart ones), and you can round up the dumb ones at your leisure.
It's against the rules to use this site primarily for ideological battle, and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which ideology they're battling for. We have to, because it's the primary thing that destroys the curious conversation this site exists for.

I've therefore banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

Yes, the rules are just the same for the opposite ideological side.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The ASML lithography machine is just one, very important, machine out of many dozens.
A semiconductor fab process involves 100s-1000s of process steps each with dozens to hundreds of parameters.
For example, something as simple as rinsing a wafer after an etch step:

- How long to rinse

- What to rinse with (DI water, solvent, etc)

- What temperature to rinse at

- Should the temperature change over time?

- Agitated vs. non-agitated

It may sound small, but a bad rinse process will tank yields and make the whole process fail.

In a huge semiconductor company like Intel or TSMC, multiple process engineers specialize on each one of these steps out of hundreds. These are truly massive undertakings.
If a sitting President can be deplatformed from the Internet, then wouldn't a Presidential Candidate be? Would said candidate be able to run a successful campaign without it?
I don't find this argument convincing at all. There are multiple different cloud providers, multiple different payment providers, and you can always use the web as a distribution model instead of apps. You can buy your own servers and run Kubernetes on them if you want a cloud-like platform you have control over. It's never been easier to set up your own infrastructure if you need it.

If your app is so objectionable that you've somehow managed to violate the content policies of ALL of these players, I really don't see anything as wrong. Nobody is entitled to a platform. I mean their app is basically a breeding ground for right-wing terrorists, and we almost had members of Congress murdered because they provided space for those people to coordinate.

Reminds me of the classic quote:

“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.”

No fundamental right has been violated.
Any unmoderated instant messager can be used to spread rumors at rapid scale.
It’s believed (by some) that emotion is a necessary prerequisite for intelligence.

Something needs to be a driver for action, and emotions fit the bill nicely.
Is there a place where people interested in this kind of tech gather and discuss possibilities/code? I'd love to participate in something like this.
Show HN: McPiper 1.3 – track Gitlab CI/CD pipelines from macOS status bar
> There is no reason to trust that a person who spent time in prison is more safe after than they were before. In many cases, it's common for people to become more dangerous because of stay in prison.

We can't effectively rehabilitate when we have so many people in prison.

Our rates of re-offense are also messy because we literally don't give people another option other than returning to crime.
I've read that Twitter and Facebook were used more than Parler to orchestarate the capital takeover. But, being founding members of the high tech corporate cartel, they will never get banned.

Your right though -- you often can't see the rise of authoritarianism until its too late. Sometimes it comes from the place you least expect.
On the other hand, here's a hilarious response how Ioannidis is wrong in his claim from one of the most well-known replication crisis blogs: https://replicationindex.com/2020/12/24/ioannidis-is-wrong-m...
And on the producer side, what they market as is distinct from what they make, what they try to make is distinct from what gets shipped, etc.

A major point of markets is to try and figure this out iteratively. You can usefully think of it as an optimization algorithm that in practics prone to local minima but has some mechanisms to try and get out of them, which sometimes work.
I think the CCP is mostly at fault. They wanted to control and limit discussion and even news on alibaba so of course people are going to speculate in the absence of information.
Are there opensource projects can be used to build such system?
Placebo controlled trials show that Prozac increases suicidal thoughts.

https://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i65

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353604/

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/Antidepres...

Eli Lilly notoriously buried the evidence of this from their own trials.
Isn't that overton window closing though?

Twitter, Facebook and Apple is doing the same thing at the same time with the US president means that US control is getting more centralized over time, which makes sense with the FED's money printing going on.

The real question is why this wouldn't be able to happen in the US in 10 years.
Wonder the same thing or just an active discord for these topics...
Unlikely, but I'm certainly not one to say.

Perhaps another question to ask would be, "How fair is it that others are pigeonholed to platforms like this and undoubtedly get the "wrong kind of association"?

Are we reducing certain thoughts, beliefs and, dare I say, questions indiscriminately down to "crimethink"?
> how you use haskell is up to you -- don't use those underlying packages that disgust you if you don't like them

These kinds of arguments are particularly lazy. Of course, Haskell's ecosystem is not so large that it's trivial to find a well-maintained, high-quality version of a library that meets one's other criteria. Programmers of a particular language are at the mercy of that language's ecosystem.

This line of reasoning reminds me of how C++ programmers would deflect criticisms of problematic features by arguing that one could use only the features that one wanted (thereby effectually creating or curating their own sub-language) and only choosing dependencies that were equally written in that sub-language. So easy!
It's not clear how that addresses DoJ's highly unethical choice to stack 52 years of federal prison time.
Did you actually read that link? He wrote the alleged “suicide note” in a moment where he was suffering from extreme physical pain as that was his way of expressing it to give himself some mental release. On top of all of that he was dealing with getting fired which itself can be a mindfuck.

To me the proximate cause 100% was the legal case against him - it inflamed any underlying issues and they just kept pressing. I could be wrong of course but I don’t think anyone will ever truly know what was happening in his head.
If you report them they don’t get removed on Twitter?

Without a Twitter account you claim that Twitter has the same vile content?
Vast majority? OK..... So what about the stuff that was from private posts? You're really going to justify this?
Should we shut down radio too, since radio is frequently used in guerilla warfare?

The technology isn’t the problem - the people feeling violent is. How very American is it that we want to immediately stamp out dissenting voices rather than actually solving the problem that these people disagree with (whatever it may be).
> Picture instead private businesses who all refuse to do business with Jews.

This is a false equivalency.

Race, religion, etc. are protected classes. It's impossible for people to change their race, and our society has agreed that we shouldn't force people to change their religion.

Political beliefs are not protected classes. When your political beliefs include inciting violence by spreading unfounded conspiracy theories, then private companies have a right to kick you off.

> Certainly all the tech companies banding together to silence politics they don't like plays exactly into the narrative the far right is pushing.

In my opinion, the far right is already too far gone — they are already conspiracy theorists. Any contradictory information will be used as evidence to show that the conspiracy is much wider and bigger than one could have imagined — adding to the weight of the theory. There is no reasoning with them unless someone they truly believe (read: Trump) dismisses the theory convincingly.