skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that democracy can't function properly if citizens are stupid. All these talks of censorship are merely a stopgap measure, whether you're for or against it. The proper long-term fix is better public education.

Coincidentally, there are a certain group of people opposed to public education, ahem, I mean, "indoctrination" - they will continue to be a problem, but hopefully smaller and smaller problem if we have better education.
However a user has configured their mouse settings is the right way to do it.

Don't meddle. My mouse, my OS, and my browser know just fine how to accommodate my scrolling.
Funny because I would consider you brainwashed! Any widespread censorship is enough to raise serious concerns for me.
> Sorry, but I don't buy the idea that one congresscritter's comments, in isolation, constitute a credible threat or inducement.

What would be the point in making the threat if it was not expected to have any effect?
The detection of a neutron has wave-like interference properties. There is a subtle difference between that statement and "neutrons are waves" that, again, is glossed over.

The wave-like properties of all fermions can be explained with any variant of the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) that you prefer.

Essentially in MWI each neutron in each universe is a point (actually three because of the quarks), but that point is not in the same place in all universes. The "closer" a parallel universe is, the closer the neutrons are to each other spatially. The universes aren't discrete, they form a continuum that is locally smooth, forming a differentiable manifold.

It's the distribution across the parallel universes that's continuous and wave-like, not the individual neutrons! The wave mechanics of QM is simply a description of the cross-universe distribution of neutrons interacting with the cross-universe distribution of other particles.

This was not the initial mental model developed in the early days of quantum mechanics. The founders of the theory flatly rejected MWI based on largely religious objections. It's absurd if you think about it, but the weird and complex mathematics of QM is simply a product of these people pretending parallel worlds don't exist.

It's a way of pretending functions can have multiple values in one place without actually admitting that this requires additional dimensions, otherwise they're not mathematical functions!

They also like to pretend that scalars have probability distributions... except sometimes when interacting with other probability distributions that magically stop being distributed at the same time.

In computer terms: This is like someone pretending that arrays are passed into a function using a CPU register that can have many values at the same time. It's just absurd.
Why is this such an affront?
> Is the trend of human history on the scale of thousands of years old relevant?

Yeah, because...

> Surely there is some evidence that society and humanity is "stabilizing" to a certain plateau of morality and ethics not driven by religion but driven by humanism?

My point in my previous post is that I don't think we can make that claim yet because we don't have enough data. Surely the ancient Romans and Egyptians would have believed the same, yet here we are.
Obviously, the meaning of the word "philosophy" may have experienced a bit of a drift over more than two thousand years. Physics used to go by the name of "natural philosophy", for instance.

Personally, I do associate the word with a meaning closer to "attitude" under certain circumstances. Stoicism and the contemporary Epicurianism are practical philosophies (attitudes) for living an ordinary life, not grandiose frameworks of thought.
I'm trying to recall, but maybe someone else can answer: do the UniFi cameras stream RTSP directly still, or do you still have to run their controller and re-stream it?
Paying people to play chess can't be a bad thing. I prefer chess.com to lichess specifically because I support chess players by using chess.com. Streamers, tournaments, article writers...
How to get better at product management (or anything)
StopTheSteal is not a slogan of white supremacists. In fact, it has nothing to do with white supremacism. Are you saying that 60 million or so people in the US are white supremacists?
CTRL+L works and I have been using it but I had to google it first to learn about it!

It is not intuitive and bad experiemce. There could be a toolbar button for that or a permanently-visible address box or it could read clipboard and suggest something, be smarter.
I think the government has too much power and the cost of losing the presidency shouldn't be so traumatic.

So much of the executive craziness of the last 4 years is due to the ever growing power of the executive branch and executive orders being de facto law.

All this presidential overreach is about to (hypocritically) be put to use and further expanded.
I wrote one of the first OpenSocial wrappers so that making apps across various social networks was faster. Not all social networks perfectly supported the APIs as spec'd and had quirks:

https://code.google.com/archive/p/opensocial-framework/downl...

I made roughly 3 applications using it so that I could be faster than all the other developers building apps. Lots of people downloaded the framework when it was opened and some even paid for private copies of it early on.
I can't speak for OP, but #guillotines is a perennially popular hashtag among the Chapo-sphere on Twitter. And those Tweets, let alone the user, are almost never removed.
how about all those who looted, burnt cities and rioted. that wasn't a double standard to keep them on the platforms?
You must be a big supporter of BLM then, no better censorship then a cop shooting you in the back while you're unarmed on your own property.
No it isn't, I'm looking at it right now.

Representative top post:

What if it can be proven the storming of the Capitol was a Soros-funded operation of Antifa infiltrators who coordinated with corrupt police and politicians?

Pelosi painted herself into a corner. Down she goes.

¯\(°_o)/¯
I see an IPv6 address on a computer screen. I want to connect to it from another computer. Copy pasting doesn't work between computers. Am I supposed to type it letter after letter? Am I supposed to send somehow? What if I don't have internet access on the first computer? Do I need to go find a USB stick so I can transfer a file with the IPv6 address? Am I supposed to set up a DNS server of some kind?

I'll keep my IPv4 thank you very much.
I use Blue Iris with my Ubiquiti cameras. Works like a champ.
Sounds like you both could use a lesson in interpersonal conduct
Another con is never ending regressions between versions.
Mine simply doesn't work in any way whatsoever, then I found out it was not even necessary to configure my devices (WiFi access points).
Please, spare us the accusations of arrogance. If you think our interpretations are dubious, tell us why!
Beyond Platforms: Private Censorship, Parler, and the Stack
ISPs and other networks could in theory refuse to peer with them.

But from what we’ve seen in the past their behaviour would have to be especially egregious for this to be even contemplated.
Or just display the clock in the tmux status bar.
...and password reset doesn’t work as expected now. Anyone manage to reset?
Shoot. Yes, yes I do.
>that somehow this company's business should be treated differently than any other company's business--which, FWIW, to me is a pretty ridiculous assertion

This is such a ludicrous statement I honestly am having trouble thinking out to respond. Companies in different industries being treated differently is the universal rule throughout the world and human history. Airliners aren't accountants aren't computer hardware manufacturers aren't electrical companies aren't sports operations aren't restaurants aren't railways aren't... etc etc. A physical infrastructure company isn't an internet platform, and shouldn't be. Seriously what!?

>your frame here is kind of irrelevant to the question of whether there's irony to be had from censoring someone over censorship

No, it's not remotely irrelevant precisely because different areas of society have different rules. However much you hate Free Speech saurik, at least in America it is the law, and the humans that make up, own, and direct the entities of Twitter or Facebook have the exact same 1st Amendment rights that the rest of us do. It's not "censorship" for you, me, or any other regular private entity to refuse to actively provide help for others' speech. You aren't entitled to my money or property to spread your message, nor am I to yours, unless we are making use of certain public resources.

And that last bit brings us back to ISPs, or USPS/FedEx/UPS for that matter. A physical infrastructure company using public money and rights of way and escaping liability for providing carriage via Common Carrier does not have those same rights, anymore than a public university has the same rights as a private one.
Your post is probably why we should regulate the algorithms they use. It's bullshit that they can influence what shows up on your feed, and then they blame you for it. "Oh, you must be the toxic one if all you see is toxicity..."
As someone who uses UniFi Protect and refuses to use cloud-login: I disagree somewhat. It works fine, but the mobile apps become non-functional even on the same LAN. I haven't ran into any other problems.
He was going against big people working together with the likes of Epstein and we are supposed to believe that it's suicide. Yeah, right. Just like Epstein, Swartz also committed suicide one day without a note or anything.
This exists. It's ZeroMe on the ZeroNet distributed network. It has optional Tor integration, Bittorrent style distributed file hosting, and block lists maintained by the community.
1. Retail investors buy TSLA calls.

2. Market makers sell these calls, and so buy TSLA shares to cover their position.

3. Due to #2, TSLA shares appreciate, as well as the calls from #1.

4. Retail investors see all the money being made, and FOMO in to buy more calls; go back to #1, repeat.
>And 99% of businesses already act that way. The local office supply store doesn't discriminate based on politics.

That's as may be. However, US Federal law doesn't require them to service anyone except in specific circumstances[0].

There are some state laws that extend to political affiliation, but that's almost always just in employment decisions and not B2B transactions.

If you think the law is wrong (I do not), you can advocate for changing the laws. I won't support your efforts, but I will and do support your right to do so.

Which is what you seem to want taken away from others.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
I had a fitlet2, was super excited about it, and took awhile to find one.

I had to do some work to get it to boot properly, and it worked great for a year or so, but then it just died one day, and I could never figure out what its problem was.

Out of warranty by the dead date, never bought another.

Been using a $100 HP 8300 SFF with an i7 since, it's a bit overkill, but the price was right.

Just purchased a Lenovo M90n iot when it was on sale for $215, will see how it works out once I get it.
So the first issue I have with the paper is that I am not convinced that the results should be relevant to the programming languages I work with. It is a survey of the behaviour of people who aren’t particularly expert programmers, who don’t know the language, and who are trying to do things very quickly rather than thoroughly. That sounds like the opposite of the kind of person I would want my work optimised for. But maybe optimising for these people makes things easier for expert users too. It’s true in other parts of life that eg writing websites for people with poor literacy makes them faster for people with good literacy.

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I find the dynamic scoping[1] experiment pretty unconvincing. The other way to get their “believes dynamic scoping” result is to assume that their language has JavaScript-like semantics and the variables are global. I think an example program to test this might be:

func f(x):
return g()

func g():
return x + 2

print(f(3))

But I realise that is then not independent from some of the other tests.

I think a separate problem is that usually when I read code, I’m not thinking “well this code might just not work at all” because 1. It’s just not my prior, and 2. It seems a bit rude to start from such an oppositional position to someone else’s code. Instead I’ll try to assume that it works and work out why it works. This is especially true for code written in languages I’m unfamiliar with. I remember enjoying this especially before I learned any haskell when the haskell blogposts were frequent on HN. But this position puts me at odds with the study where for many examples you are supposed to guess Error whereas I want to figure out what assumptions make it not an error, then which is most reasonable, then what results those assumptions would imply. But maybe my expectations of how a programming language behaves wouldn’t be so useful for designing languages as I already have pretty strong expectations for this.

[1] perhaps I just disagree about the definition of dynamic scoping here.
We yet have to wait for the proper sweet spot: a language that allows SQL-like handling without the restrictions of SQL.

As many advantages as SQL has, in many cases it gets into the way. The closer you move to moving data (instead of doing analysis), the more it becomes annoying.

On the other hand, current languages (such as python) lack support when it comes to data transformations. Even Scala, which is one of the better languages for this, has severe drawbacks compared to SQL.

Hopefully better type-systems will help us out in the long term, in particular those with dependent types or similar power to describe data relations.
> I think we see this borne out in the data. The places with the strictest lockdowns are doing better than the places with fewer restrictions. However, the numbers aren't so night and day different as to suggest that those additional lockdowns have been worth the price.

This is complicated by the fact that the places who were willing to be the most strict would have enacted policies much earlier, and thus didn't actually need to be very strict.

I live in South Australia, where we've been extremely proactive in quarantining new arrivals since the start of the pandemic. We've only had two outbreaks ("outbreak" here meaning literally any locally-acquired cases) since March - the first one was ten cases over the course of about three weeks, during which we shut down almost every non-essential business and imposed very harsh maximum occupancy limits on essential ones. The second outbreak was ~30 cases, and we entered an immediate 6 day "stage 4" lockdown (that ended up only being 3 days) almost immediately after we found the first bulk of those cases.

Those measures are far more stringent than almost anywhere else in the world - the lockdown implemented at 18 local cases in November didn't even allow going outside to exercise, something places with thousands or even hundreds of thousands of cases allowed - but it means that we only had to lock down for 3 days in the entirety of 2021, and it means that for the majority of the last year our lives have been completely normal.

My experience has been that the speed at which you react to an outbreak is far more important than how strict you are in reacting to it, as long as you meet some minimum threshold of responsibility. Our initial outbreak in March was completely eradicated just by social distancing, enforcing maximum occupancy requirements, and working from home where possible. It's fine to have relatively loose restrictions as long as you're willing to ramp them up drastically the same day you find more cases than you expected.
Kyle not Ken
People have used their religions to give a pass to discrimination for a long time[1]. Today's scapegoat is trans people, but a few decades ago it was miscegenation. People discriminated against mixed-race couples and said it was a core tenet of their religion[1]:

> Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.

Surely if we could handle situations like the above that were leveled against mixed-race couples half of a century ago, we can handle the same being leveled at trans people today.

When it comes to free speech and freedom of religion, the ACLU[1] has this to say:

> Instances of institutions and individuals claiming a right to discriminate in the name of religion are not new. In the 1960s, we saw objections to laws requiring integration in restaurants because of sincerely held beliefs that God wanted the races to be separate. We saw religiously affiliated universities refuse to admit students who engaged in interracial dating. In those cases, we recognized that requiring integration was not about violating religious liberty; it was about ensuring fairness. It is no different today.

[1] https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=55...

[2] https://www.aclu.org/issues/religious-liberty/using-religion...
> If you just need one AP you can set it up in standalone mode and forget about it

unless you need any feature besides wifi at all. then you need a controller and usg at all times.
> You would only get half the population of China.

The population of the PRC is 1.4 billion people.

The population of NATO countries is 941 million [0]

The population of Japan, South Korean and Australia combined exceeds 200 million.

That's 1.14 billion without including any other "protectorates". Far exceeding half of 1.4

[0] https://www.worlddata.info/alliances/nato-north-atlantic-tre...
I am thinking that social media is inherently bad.

Let's say I subscribe to RSS feeds. Maybe I subscribe to a few dozen sites. With multiple writers, I might exposed to the stupidity of maybe a few hundred people.

With social media, I am in a sense subscribed to the stupidest, or most outrageous posts of tens or millions of people. Stupidity sells. Outrage sells.
Is it possible it's because a lot of people actually like it?
They claimed the error was on their side.

https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1348779447768412160

Seems to be back up now.
Because they're dishonest.
If you're so tired by the incitement of violence, what do you think about what BLM did last year?
No, lots of entities (including many at levels far above individuals) have superior authorities that decide how wide the subordinate entities writ runs.
Humanism is one world view. One that you can build a moral framework around. Much the same way religious people build a world view based on their religious beliefs.

It's hard to make an argument that one world view is better than another. Because to do so you have to agree how to measure the outcomes of world views. Often this is impossible as the world views conflict.

The makes most assessments of societies progress subjective.
Fighting Turkey's Twitter Ban with DNS Graffiti
A lot of people = a lot of people who worked on the design of the website in question, perhaps
Looks like Aruba has the most recent firmware available for download here: https://h10145.www1.hpe.com/Downloads/SoftwareReleases.aspx?...

Most recent version is a couple years old, but it was EOLed 3 years ago.

Ruckus firmware seems to be downloadable from their main product page for the R610, updated a month ago.

Re power consumption, it looks like the Aruba pulls around 50W idle, and the Ubiquiti pulls 29W idle. Of course, if I can get rid of the second switch I've been running because the Ubiquiti keeps blocking the Google WiFi ports, that brings it even closer. :-)
Bitcoin plunges more than 20% in three days. It's now in a bear market
Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. I have the hope the frame itself may be used as antenna.

Contrary to what the other commenter said, this is not attractive for carbon frame owners as I wasn't thinking GPS tracking, but low power, snitching networks (like Apple's stuff, where the stolen iPhone only needs to be seen by another iPhone; or like corona tracking). How often do you see a carbon bikes in the wild? A frame like that may also have other components worth destroying the frame over.
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-great-coup-of-2021

>Once power loses its mask, once censoring dissent because it makes a mockery of the government is not just what power is doing, but actually what power says it’s doing, we enter a new stage of history—because serving this power is openly humiliating to the servant. Or at least, to any servant of intelligence, wisdom, conscience and character.

>At this stage, therefore, power is actively recruiting its own counter-elite. There is only one way to produce a regime change that sticks: a circulation of the elites. Therefore, we have taken a genuine step toward history. The gigantic gear has moved one click.
> I will and do support your right to do so. Which is what you seem to want taken away from others.

I certainly don't want anyone's right to political activity to be taken away. I just don't want the weight of their opinion to be related to how much they own.
That would've been plausible until before last Wednesday. But, considering the only rational explanation for those events seems a plan to apply the provisions of the Insurrection Act to prevent the act of formal election, waiting until after the failure of such plan seems opportunistic and not supportive of your interpretation.
> i am really sad that hate speech is allowed in the US. i think it is shameful and dangerous.

Fortunately our founders realized how necessary speech is, especially speech we don't like. I'm waiting to see Noam Chomsky get canceled for saying, “Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”

> I have no comment on you telling that other guy to be very fucking careful

He should be thankful, because I'm trying to save him from getting seriously injured - perhaps even killed one day. People who have a lot of experience fighting, especially having either seen or participated in fights outside of a controlled environment, will tell you just how incredibly dangerous it is to fight someone for whom you have no idea of their capabilities. You might have just picked a fight with someone with advanced combat training who will hand you your ass... even worse, you might have come upon someone with enough training you to seriously harm you, but not enough training to know how to exercise restraint.

You are far better served to try to de-escalate a situation than to actively jump in like your John Wick... because you're not. John Wicks of the world are only fighting when they have no other option.
Sure but AWS isn’t run by robots (yet!). It’s run by people who understand context and intent. I also very seriously doubt that Parler was turned off without any notice. If a company was getting abused like that, I think AWS would try to help them.
^ same here.. that place is shit hole full of Qanon garbage, hopefully it gets deplatformed next
Yes, but nowhere near the performance of GbE, PCI-E, or even USB 3.0 for an iPhone.
It is interesting that the github does not mention that this FPGA chip is optimized for ML inference. Or is sold as such at least:

https://www.latticesemi.com/en/Products/FPGAandCPLD/iCE40Ult...

I am not versed enough in FPGA to know if this is just a marketing rebranding of common features (apparently a focus on LUTs and add-and-multiply operations) or if it is an actual edge.

Though, if that thing can do pattern recognition in images and draws 10 mA max, that's an interesting package for $24