skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, unlimited freedom in this sense inevitably means the ethically very worst use cases, because this is the limit of freedom in any society: Material that is illegal and will have the authorities use all reasonable efforts to stop its spread. Whether that's political discussion or CP depends on the society.

If I had asked this question, it would be to gauge how far along the freedom spectrum this service has been designed to operate. There are distribution systems that are capable of even evading the most capable authorities, but their user experience is absolutely horrible.

Any system like this will strike a balance, maybe also designing provisions for removing "material that is really bad". Either out of an ethical obligation, or in order to not risk being shut down wholesale.

A system that was truly free and unlimited, would be the tool of an anarchist. Few people wish the implication of such a technology.
I think it means the group of people that Facebook deems as appropriate to avoid causing too much trouble for itself, which is quite different from the set of people/data covered by GDPR.

If facebook puts you in the American group, then tough luck - though you can and should complain to the regulators/courts.
HN isn’t exclusively about tech.
> It’s one thing to fire the exec team. It’s another to charge them with criminal responsibility

What is their role, their contribution to the company, if not "taking responsibility"?

And if that is not part of their task, how much cheaper can this role be fulfilled with sufficient impact by someone else?
Godot 2020 Year in Review video
Who gets to define “mostly”? Every public Internet forum censors, whether they say they do or not. Even the *chan sites filter out and delete spam, griefing, child porn, etc. They have to or they would be overwhelmed and useless. The spammers have been advocating for maximalist free speech forever.

I think the compelled speech argument is extremely weak, we have very narrowly defined and specific cases in strictly defined circumstances. This would make it the default for vast swathes of common communications and as I pointed out introduce huge problems with noise, spam and griefing.
> But when you look at what people mean when they provide no jurisdiction, it always seems to mean the US.

Indeed this seems to be the case. Being based outside the US, I find that somewhat annoying :)
I agree with CoL being not much different and companies just using that as a reason are misleading. It’s quite unfortunate that, if you’re a SR SWE in a normal company max you can make is 100k and that would translate into ~5500 net. If you have 2 kids and wanna rent big enough house near an outstanding school in zone 2, ok crime rate, with council tax and bills it’s quite possible to spend at 3500 of that just for housing. Not leaving much money for non-essential fun things.

Another reason for crazy salaries in the valley is limited talent pool, which might change soon with companies moving to remote or at least being remote friendly. It’s quite hard to get someone into the US with H1B. As far as I know even Facebook and Google stopped sponsoring.
Awesome. I will put "Independent search engine operated in the UK" then.
People don't doomsday prep because they are currently being impacted, they prep because they are concerned that they might be impacted in the future. Now, you can paint these people as all being conspiracy theorists, but consider that they may be more like people that are concerned that the government is spying on them–which is less "I am a terrorist and this concerns me" and more of a "wait, they can do that? (Granted, they are currently only doing it to terrorists, but this still concerns me…)"
I can't find any facts except the opposite http://reports.weforum.org/social-mobility-report-2020/socia...
‘Against Paywalled Articles’

The revolution will not be televised, but you can get the Saturday evening pay-per-view for $49.95.
What about compelling a company to respect a citizen‘s rights? Do you find that fair? Companies are already compelled to do all sorts of things for the government or customers.

In order to ban me from a platform you have to take (negative) action towards me. My content is already on that network. Compelling to respect my rights means compelling a company to not negatively act against me.
The simple truth is that these knuckle-draggers plotting for Mike Pence to be executed by firing squad would have at every point in the past never been able to reach a "public forum" of any kind. For all the complaints that we need to engage positively with such wonderfully civil discourse, it's only by virtue of the internet that they're being heard at all. Society previously was very good at ignoring these people, and society was healthier for it.
This should just be normal. The idea that you study until a certain age then that's it is outdated. We are not mechanical cogs coming out of an educational factory.

Societal norms are not always right. Do what makes sense.
The moderation team constantly admonished the person making the edits, eventually ruling they had a conflict of interest and were not allowed to edit posts about Harris and some other politicians. They acted slower than fast paced politics, but ultimately seemed to do the right things.
> lot of the suggested instances are filled with stolen content, porn, or just very wtf videos.

The service that competes with youtube but is less convenient will necessarily be full of content banned from youtube.
This looks nice, bookmarked!
Maybe expose some simple quality setting to the user?
As far as I can tell after glancing at the code, the only optimization that's done is re-encoding the image with quality set to 75, so a quality slider would be nice imho.
A few of those arguments don't require evidence, since they were matters of law vs. matters of fact.

One of the arguments made was that laws passed by legislatures weren't followed, for example the deadline for mail-in ballots in PA, which was extended until 5 P.M on November 5 even though the law on the books is explicit that ballots postmarked after election day were invalid. The fact that a court upheld the view in contradiction with fairly plain language of the law caused some controversy.

The above doesn't mean "The election was stolen". It doesn't mean it would have turned out differently. But I think there is some room for debate. Even though Trump is aggrandizing the issue politicians do that all the time and aren't de-platformed for it.
Try P90X. There is one X3 workout called The Warrior specifically designed for tight spaces.

Look up Tony Horton on YouTube for some ideas.
IDEs arguably already do that, at least for the innermost scope the current line is part of, plus breadcrumbs for the surrounding scopes.
Yep. I would say it is even harder (and also the popular opinion here) to not be rich and become rich, in Europe.
Social mobility here means that if you are born destitute you have a chance to become part of the middle-income class, where the middle-income class is significantly poorer than the American middle class.
Cost of physical distance enables niches that can be served by your local pub. If we could teleport (well, and cohabit the exact same space and tune out conversations of others at will so crowdiness is not an issue) they would have a much much harder time selling something unique. Scale aids in bringing people in, because it becomes the default choice.
No it won't matter for this scenario.
The Netherlands is infamous for the Dutch disease, courtesy of our natural gas resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
And the type of education surely matters. If the goal is to break through this 50-year horizon, then presumably an important part is to really get inside the heads of people at least that long ago. Not to just translate our quarrels & concerns backwards, but rather to stay immersed in the issues of (say) 1920 long enough to feel what was important to people of the time.
But Apple is an AOM member and apparently is implementing AV1, so things are looking up.
This doesn't do a proper proxy to bing btw. Bing is loaded in your browser, not on their server. It knows who you are and what you search.

Might as well use Google for better search results than bing. Unless you really wanna help plant trees.

DDG does a proper proxy.
You're right that it is horribly racist, but could you have not seen it? In left-leaning, democrat-favouring american media (which is most of it), it's everywhere.
Yeah it’s MUCH better. Skype even now still basically sucks. Zoom made it simple enough for literally anyone to use (and yeah I know at the expense of some security)
I did not call it fake news. I asked if what you saw was legit or fake news. I was expecting your answer would be “yes I looked into it” or “no I’m not sure”

I’ve just seen so many online lies I don’t trust anything any more. I am not accusing you of anything.
The GDPR applies to anyone handling data of EU residents, regardless of their location. It's not problematic at all.
Nowadays a "street corner" is you facebook page or your twitter.

If company grows so big that its use is so common - like a street corner - such platform should be available for all - and all should be accounted for their speech also.
Platform is a platform, shouldn't policy people around - that is the job of ... police.

Do you wonder why now we have accounts blocked, but when there were people on the streets attacking policy I haven't heard of any account on facebook/twitter being blocked?

It is because platform wasn't free from politics like it should be, companies have preferences and they will block one political view and allow another - this should not be the case if the use of given platform is monopolistic (or duopolistic: twitter-facebook). If you grow you should give up some of your power, the question is at what scale it should happen.
I do recall various other chat apps being painted as being used by "terrorists" in the past. For some, the fact that bad people can communicate at all is something they would not like to have, at the expense of good people having access to those tools in some cases.
Mastodon seems to be built on Ruby, rather than Elixir [0].

[0] https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon
I really forgot about these nutbags.
But while they are a sure frindge extremists they are far from beeing a risk of overthrowing the gouvernment.
It fails at real time communication compared to competitors in that space (every chat client).
> But I also capitalize command names like Ls so I'm probably out on my own here.

Only in written correspondence I assume? Macs are the only system that would let you do that in actual use AFAIK (and if you want to break out of that habit I've got an OS to sell you ;)

How did you get into this habit though? Are you an old Lisper by chance?
https://www.kiwix.org/en/

It's not very big if you leave out all the pictures. I've got it all on my phone.
You imply that a website that does not mention tree planting at all, plants the most trees.
Interesting.

What would you recommend people to put on their website when they genuinely would want to provide a search engine that plants trees?

Do you imply matrix.org being a protocol for closed islands for insecure, centralized silence instead of a protocol for an open network for secure, decentralized communication?

Please start finding actual arguments instead of spreading superficial unfounded commentary.
Right, but then you are limited to the people who know how to do that, not the people who want to hear you.
IMHO these JPEG optimizers need to explain what optimization they actually do.

At the very least, it should mention if the optimization is lossless (by dropping metadata, optimizing Huffman table/progressive scan parameters etc.) or lossy: because they have very different use cases (sometimes you need the image to be pixel-wise identical).

Even better, if lossy, "how lossy" it is.

I'm aware it's using mozjpeg [1] which is pretty good (guetzli [2] is another good one for the interested); still, it comes with many settings and routines (both lossless and lossy) that can be configured.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg

[2] https://github.com/google/guetzli
"What I found is that approximately 18 percent of Americans are highly disposed to authoritarianism, according to their answers to four simple survey questions used by social scientists to estimate this disposition. A further 23 percent or so are just one step below them on the authoritarian scale. This roughly 40 percent of Americans tend to favor authority, obedience and uniformity over freedom, independence and diversity."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/23/trump-amer...

That also aligns with around 20% of voters supporting Nixon after Watergate. I think we should do our best to make sure that number stays at around 20% and does not grow; for if it does it imperils the whole democratic system of government that we take for granted.
The Internet is like we've suddenly invented sugar, alcohol or firearms, without any of the societal tools to limit its damage. Laws, norms, defense forces, taboos.

It's really something straight out of singularity-related philosophy. A technology with massive benefits and dangers that's rolled out worldwide in only a couple of decades. If you look at social media as a whole, let's say it was in effect a single decade.

I'm sure we'll get a handle on social media eventually, with some damage along the way. But the underlying driver, fast technological change, won't disappear. This is not the last time we'll get into similar trouble.
Are you talking about BLM?
Very interesting, thank you for the link!

Edit after reading: apparently it's well studied and proven that each subsequent _male_ child has more chance to be homosexual and that "the fraternal birth order effect operates through a biological mechanism during prenatal life, not during childhood or adolescence"
Free speech without limits. Free speech enforced to any platform. In my opinion can be called as dictature of free speech.
They built a noose, went in with zipties and were chanting "hang pence". That it was botched doesn't make it any less of a coup. And there was a clear and present threat from the services that have been closed down.

But sure, ignore all the stuff that contradicts your argument to minimise the impact of an assault on democratic institutions.
Elite overproduction happens in several ways - with tech, new services, new hardware, we all have the capability of an elite from a few decades back.

We’ve lowered the barrier to being an elite, to having that reach.

Also, we’ve made it possible to see that everyone around you might also be an elite.

Not only is elite over production occurring, we’ve lowered the cost to produce elites, and we’ve increased societal visibility of the elites that exist.
Not quite, it still works to an extent. In this case it's quite clear those utilising Parler are doing so to spread their intolerant message.
I'd say applying the Paradox of Tolerance is not hypocritical but more asymptotic, i.e. we will tend toward zero but never reach it.
Oh. I wonder what is "one purpose of internet" that we all can agree upon

A. To be useful
B. To be right
C. Other
Absurd. That will scale in no way whatsoever and you know it.
One side effect is that these technologies very quickly only become used by the people who really need it. Crypto in general has a huge stigma of being used by drug dealers, money launderers, and the like.
Idle hands among those who have far reach will eventually do things that lead to conflict.
I'm safari on a iPhone 11 I'm not seeing a difference between the car images in different tabs at all.
The acquisition of handwriting in the UK (1994)
Of course there is a scenario where any investment goes to 0. If you a smart investor you understand the risks as well, and allocate appropriately. Which is why Bitcoin is just 1% of my overall portfolio.
> One big point that would be useful is to help the fired engineer find another job.

If you actually have a likely other job, sure. Otherwise the old "I know guy at Google who can look at your CV" is just a way to make yourself feel good, and it will be seen that way too.

The problem is veterans will see right through you and discount your efforts, unless you have that amazing job. And juniors will think you're helping until they realize you aren't, and they'll be disappointed in you.
From the numbers, it sounds like you could have saved 10% by firing yourself.
> The problems come from when it is hailed as perfect and arrests are made solely on a facial recognition result[0].

But is facial recognition itself the problem here? It seems to me the problem is the human who makes a decision based on flawed evidence. This is likely to happen based on other investigative methods as well and not just facial recognition (e.g. "the old lady across the street was sure she saw you breaking into that house the other day").

> Facial recognition has also time and time again proven to be racially biased[1][2].

If we know about the bias, we can correct for it. First in training and decision making and then through improving the facial recognition models.

And again, I'm sure there's racial bias in other investigative methods as well.

> Not to mention how easy it is to create a surveillance state with facial recognition[3].

So long as you have the ability to install millions/billions of cameras throughout the state and put them under centralized control. If that's legal in the US, the problem is that the law allows it, not facial recognition. In most European countries, such a thing would be incredibly illegal.
But that doesn't answer the question, that just shifts the immediate problem to "we need to fix our law enforcement".
Downside - millions upon millions would be dead.

With no possibility to socially distance hospitals would have been overwhelmed with infected people in months. That would mean that instead of the 1% death rate we see now, anyone who needed ICU or oxygen to survive would then die, which I think is about 5X more, and it would include many younger people who just needed a little help but got none.

Also anyone who needed the hospital for anything else is out of luck. Got hit by a car? Heart attack? Sorry, it’s full.

With that number of dead and infected a lot of basic services would probably fail too just from lack of people.

In short, it might be over quicker, but it would be A LOT more terrible.
People who are less violent can easily become violent because they don’t understand the cost and destruction of force escalation.
Clicky; https://ritvik19.medium.com/facial-key-points-detection-usin...

The light blue dots in the faces are very difficult to see. They are only visible in the darker images.
I don't think he treats people like robots.
The way he "delivers the message" is humane. And the way he selects who must go is totally an optimization problem.
Indeed, they are staunchly anti-GAFAM † :

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/

And have pretty much became a reference for libre alternatives :

https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/alternatives

† By the way it's a very SV thing to do to think that everything revolves around SV, and therefore excluding Microsoft from the list of the problematic companies. (And including Netflix, which is problematic in its own ways, but at least an order of magnitude less than the "big 5".)
Sadly, some politicians have also been dropping the trailing M, I guess that those big contracts with the military and the healthcare sector have something to do with that…
It's half baked in the sense that I only have a few studios yet. Barely usable for a few groups of people then :P.
Chinese electric car startup Nio doubles deliveries as Tesla competition rises
It is,
A fast, async ORM for Python, that's easy to learn
Thank you :)

My initial plan was to replicate the functionality of tools like tinyjpg, thus just offering users a simple interface with good defaults. But I already had in mind the lossy/lossless re-encoding functionality, as well as the quality slider, which I plan to add sometimes in the future
They're still your friend in 5 years or more, long after that job.

I did a mass termination many years ago, and those guys are still in touch with me. I made sure to telegraph that things weren't going well for the company.

One guy had a pregnant wife at home, he still laughed it off. Wrote to me the other day.
Yes, there is: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_projec...
This is actually demonstrably false - people have successfully been reintegrated into "normal" thinking by removing corrosive media influences.

The key distinction is between people who seek out certain content and people who stumble across it passively (in a morning car commute, say). The latter can actually be de-radicalized and de-programmed much more easily, and it's a worthwhile task to do so. Trumpism is a cult, and so the deprogramming methods have to be similar to recovery from a cult (and not the typical arguments that we see on facebook and such which are completely useless & worse)
Russia already have tried to ban Telegram, but due to help from AWS it turned out that the whole internet needs to be banned, so eventually they gave up. Not saying that Youtube will choose the confrontation the way Telegram did, but it doesn't depend on Russian government alone.
Agreed. Nobody I work with has ever called it Etsy. Etsy is a shop where you buy handcrafted things online.
Political threads attract more controversity and throwaway accounts. This week there have been more politic political threads. Overall I can't see much difference from previous years. I'd say the overlap between users who frequent(ed) Parler and HN is very slim.
The replacement for Twitter is a integration service that connects WhatsApp, telegram, signal, iMessage, Facebook messenger, text messaging and let’s people post to these threads/topics with whatever messaging platform they are on.

You can institute the character limit and be done with it. This would be mostly federated and everyone is more or less registered to the platform. Just a whole lot of integration.

Maybe block chain can be used to maintain the whole forum log in a distributed way. Someone run with this concept, what would make it work?
The mere fact that you use the terms "content" and "content creators" stems from the fact that you're talking about a different category of creator, namely those whose role is to pull in eyes to see the ads which make money for the site owner. The parent poster wants people to see the videos he puts out and is not in it for the money. In the first case the video distribution system is a tool to make money, in the second it is a tool to distribute videos.
Important to know: Ecosia only receives money if you click on ads. It doesn't get any if you merely display them, and even less if you block them.
He goes into it in some detail in the book - the math goes beyond my ability to summarize. He looks at conflicts / murders / etc per year.
The REST API you linked to requires a local node:

curl -A "Sia-Agent" "localhost:9980/skynet/portals"

As I understand, there's also a public proxy https://siasky.net/. But being a single domain, it's not decentralized, is it?

So with Skynet, you can either do "easy" or "decentralized", but not "easy and decentralized", right?
- Dominion voting machines appears to be owned by the CCP. It was bought for $400 million just before the Nov. 3 election.

- fake ballots were printed in China and made their way into US elections. Shredded ballots with invoices in Chinese were found in one of the contested states. The CCP could track where they were printed if they wanted to.

- The wife of McConnell, Elaine Chao, is CCP, and was a US official until recently. She financed his campaigns.

China Observer Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgX9pJ_72EE
Given that the social mobility index used in the report[0] uses access to healthcare and education, along with "social protections" as part of their ranking, it should come as absolutely no surprise that wealthy welfare democracies top the charts here.

[0] http://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobility_Report.p...