skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Censorship is the Government stating that person A must not communicate with person B.

Deplatforming/cancelling is person C _asking_ person A not to communicate with person B, under threat of person C no longer communicating with person A.
It is about time US pledges no first use of nuclear weapons. China already did.
I wish there would be a societal awakening in Europe and people would boycott American services. Countries need to reclaim their digital sovereignty if they hope to preserve their culture. Back in college everyone I knew browsed reddit, 9gag, facebook, etc for hours every day. The european youth is getting raised by America and fed its political ideology one meme/discussion thread at a time. It took me a long while to realize I had been brainwashed.
A lot of people I know tout themselves as citizens of the world, and consider nationalism a useless thing of the past, seemingly oblivious to the adversarial relationship we're in with our western allies wrt culture and trade.
How quiet is it, if we all know about it? Good for her! Brava, in fact, but "quietness" isn't part of this.

I have no doubt that this was a sincere move, from her heart.
But then what would be the fun :D
what critical stuff is not avaliable via web browser but is via app?
Seems like an irrelevant thing to argue about. The submitter clearly set it up to create engagement on the submission. I hate to have to participate and therefore perpetuate it but we're all suckers for having reacted to the bait like this. Maybe knowing we're suckers will stop us from being suckers the next time a submitter pulls this.
In my mind, a nuclear first strike without Congress is definitely illegal because President's cannot declare war--only Congress can.

Presidents for a long time have engaged in limited quasi-wars without Congress by hand-waving over "what is war, anyway," conducting missile strikes and engaging in targeted special operations. Congress looking the other way is a clear abdication of responsibility here, but there has been enough plausible grey area to get away with this over many recent decades of American foreign policy.

But I don't know any serious person who would look at a nuclear first strike and think there's any debate about whether or not that constituted an outright declaration of war.

We definitely need to make this more explicit though, and not rely on out of control President to test it.
Tesla is a mixed bag. The semi and roadster are nowhere to be found and the solar roof was pushed back and back.

The Model 3 was ahead of schedule (at least in terms of release if not production volumes) and so was the Model Y.

My guess is that projects that will make or break the company live under round the clock intense supervision from Musk, and have the company's top talent and full resources assigned.

Projects simmering on the back burner more or less progress as they would at other companies.

So - is the $25k Model 2 in the critical path for Tesla? I would use that as a guide to guessing whether it'll be vaporware or rushed through with superhuman effort.
What can you do on your Apple iPhone without Apple servers? Hint: it's nothing.

The Apple devices I use that are too old to talk to Apple's servers disagree with you.
The title to this post should be "Mackenzie Scott gave over $4B to 384 organizations in 2020" or "384 Ways to Help"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

it's a big hard to grasp, but just because you are for something doesn't mean you can't be against an individual participating in the thing you're for doing bad stuff.
Looks great, starred.
no, it's about mass hysteria in liberal circles, lmao.
> I said "burning and looting for months", that is incidents of burnings and lootings occuring for months.

Weasel words, then. The continuous presence of fire for months was of course not implied.

>Many of those in favor aren't, especially if they live outside of the affected radius.

In favor of what, precisely?
Hi dang and/or moderators, the title of Ms. Scott's article is "384 ways to help" and I think that that is a perfectly good link text. I don't fault the submitter for admiring Mackenzie Scott but editorializing in links is a problematic practice which shouldn't be encouraged.
Make phone calls? Send text messages? Or has Apple removed those features yet?
I appreciate this point and it makes me think more and more about how we try to govern global businesses with national governments and how I wonder if we'll ever get a more powerful global body to balance the power of global organizations.
A bit off topic, but I think one thing this week should have taught us all is that this whole liberal-conservative dichotomy does not encompass the entirety of the US population. There are an enormous number of people out there who don't really subscribe to either view. The assumption that if you're liberal you make up 50% of the population, or that if you're conservative you make up 50% of the population, can lead you to overestimate your strength and take woefully ill considered actions.

Just putting that out there.
> Censorship is the Government stating that person A must not communicate with person B.

Your statement is not true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

"Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient." Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions, and other controlling bodies."
I've seen some clips of his interview on the Joe Rogan podcast. I didn't catch the cold bath part.

I imagine a cold bath means immersing most of your body in water. So another variant.

Theory sounds plausible. Curious if you happen to know any actual research that backs it up?
Not the problem you described in your second paragraph.
thanks - corrected
If she didn't get the money for being Jeff's wife then how did she get the money.
Several years back NASA issued a warning on the slow progress of this mission. Their main objective was to traverse the sedimentary layers up Mt. Sharp. They havent really begun the climb yet. A long, dangerous sand dune caused a couple year delay. Plus lots of investigative stops along the way.

The power will last 20 years. The wheels are damaged from being too thin. If funding becomes tight, other missions will have precedence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
To pick from a recent HN thread: A raytracer has probably not been written yet using only printf. Who wants the glory?
Exactly this. If these media have favorites and push a particular agenda that isn’t quite aligned with these corps’s agenda then it would make sense for them, out of their own interest, to pre-emptively ban these orgs who now have proven to not be neutral parties.
She was an employee
> We've got these two sides.

No, we don't have two sides.

We've got, to reduce the complexity quite a bit but identify some factions with very distinct (though overlapping in various combinations) current interests: progressive Democrats and corporate neoliberal Democrats and moderate Republicans and conservative Republicans unequivocally appalled at the MAGA insurrection and those overtly supportive of the MAGA insurrection and mostly-conservative Republicans overtly opposed to the MAGA insurrection but eager to push it off the radar.
I built a web to basically temporarily save information that I found on the Internet and avoid keeping the links open on my cell phone to remember them, and I thought that it could be valuable for others to find that information curated in the form of link lists ... surely there was already something it would help me but I decided to build it to release it as open source and that could be improved by the community.
Repo: https://github.com/zakokor/pegao
My public bookmark: https://pegao.co/@zakokor
You go full China and ban those as well.
That's an interesting comparison. A generic death threat seems very different than one directed at a specific individual.
Taiwan’s Tesla Boom, and Looking for More
The key, in the wiki definition, is:

> controlling bodies

My point still holds. Asking a company to deplatform someone under threat of boycott is not censorship; because no individual user is in control of the platform.
This is the fight we are being led into but there is another way. Compromise and working together. Truth be told it would be the best for both sides, and both sides are equally as guilty in not achieving it.
Hey! I'm 58 and just starting a new contracting position writing software for Software Defined Radios, which I never did before. Started working with Matlib. Need to learn/relearn some math, too. 55 is certainly not too old to learn C++.
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https://twitter.com/humantransit/status/1344334794008629249
This is good. Computers are very simple at their core. One of the first questions I used to ask people in interviews, for highly technical programming and information security roles, was “How do computers work?”. The number of people, even those with years of programming experience, who could convincingly answer that question was low. It was often hand-wavy answers about processors and memory and stuff. When someone could walk me down to logic gates, that was great. The odd electrical engineer or computer engineer who started taking about silicon doping was great, but I would stop them there lol. Never let the computer or it’s components be a mystery to you! Those fundamental skills and understanding will pay off over a long technology career. It’s not like everyone needs to be a systems programmer, but it’s a competitive and enjoyment advantage in my book :)
I don't see how this can be done without anonymization techniques like the onion routing. If you can think of one, please share.
I used to believe this too but I changed my mind eventually. Do you know what changed my mind? I was swimming in the Lac Leman in Geneva. I decided to go underwater and hold my breath for a while, I noticed that I couldn't stay that long while my brother who had his gear could look underwater for a long time and enjoy it way more. That's when it hit me. Constrains don't make you more creative per se. They only force you to create workarounds, but in the end that's all it is, workarounds not really a good breath of fresh air. Hopefully the analogy makes sense to you too.
Agreed, the amount of validation work that goes into these projects must be amazing, and even then the engineers have to essentially cross their fingers that no issues were missed. I think I’m spoiled in my job in that our software can at least be rolled back if we detect an issue after the fact (also much lower stakes).
The quietly is less about communication with the public than it is communication with the non-profits about the gifts. No weeks/months-long crafting of the gift announcement message. No extended negotiation about how the gift is going to be used. Hint, right now every non-profit is hurting for unrestricted genop money.

It's incredibly refreshing.
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> Kinda scary calling citizens terrorists

Historically, most terrorists, most places in the world, are citizens of the countries they're doing the terrorism in.

> especially on a political basis

Terrorism is essentially always politically motivated.

> but calling citizens terrorists is usually something you see in non-democratic regimes

Eh? No it isn't. Here's a list for Germany, for instance; most are domestic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_Germany#List_of_s...
Yes. If you do lots of sequential/local reads you can reduce the number of context switches dramatically if you do something like:

/* to reduce context switch */

int bsize = 16*BUFSIZ;

int fopen_bsize(char * filename) {
int fp = fopen(filename, "r");
setvbuf(fp, NULL, _IOFBF, bsize);
return fp;
}
Yes, it could be that project after project after project using cmake is just "holding it wrong", and that's why it doesn't build on aarch64, openbsd, intel x32, MIPS, with some dependencies in nonstandard locations, etc… etc…

It could. But it's an incredible coincidence that it's always cmake projects.

Generally on nonstandard installs the others (e.g. scons) won't even run, so portability of the conf is not relevant.
The ars article linked above¹ says that one advantage that optical processors may have is that the majority of the heat generated by the system comes from the laser source, not the processor itself.

Imagine 'turning on' a datacenter by flipping the switch on a 10MW laser :D

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691582
Unfortunately it's hard to convince anyone they should care while they're enjoying seeing their enemies being deplatformed.

The smart choice for Amazon imo is to defer the decision to others, as much as it's obviously not a full solution and has its own issues. No one wants to be the moderator of the Internet and be blamed for all of our world's problems, and the lower level the provider is (e.g. servers/ISPs), the worse it may end up.
“cofounder” lol
If anyone is interesting in more details, I really recommend the recent book "The Button" about how precarious the situation really is:

https://www.amazon.com/Button-Book-Sally-Nicholls/dp/0735267...
If you choose to buy something like that, how is it ‘abuse’?
It's a bit cynical, but you may find Larry David's bit on anonymous giving amusing https://youtu.be/De90ozOOquY
"Why the boom in Taiwan for factory expansions in the electric vehicle supply chain? One reason is that the strengths Taiwan developed when it gained footholds in major automakers’ supply chains have complemented Tesla’s weaknesses, and Taiwan’s biggest weaknesses happen to be in areas where Tesla is strong."
Please never ever break XML compatibility!

Not having valid XML in the first place complicates any further processing quite a lot. Also you're going to run into annoying and / or strange issues with tooling.

Those HTML shortcuts are just not worth it. Their value is "questionable" (to put it kindly) but down the road their cost can become surprisingly high.
> The challenge isn't technical

This problem might have a technical solution though. First, each voter generates a private key and publishes the corresponding public key. Then implement a homomorphic vector addition, everybody submits their vote as an encrypted vector, and then you somehow add the vectors together homomorphically, i.e. the addition can be done without decrypting them first.

You need some kind of way to prove that each vector corresponds to a legal vote (i.e. increases the vote total of at most one candidate by at most one vote.) Then you need some way to decrypt the encrypted vector sum using some amalgamation of everybody's public keys, but without allowing to decrypt subtotals for particular subsets.

You can publish all the encrypted votes received and the decrypting amalgamation, so anyone with the capability to download and process a large data set. Anyone can check that every vote was cryptographically approved by a distinct pre-registered voter and the votes were totaled honestly.

If we assume an upper bound of 1 billion voters, each 1 kb of encrypted vector size adds 1 TB to the raw vote data. Based on existing "clever" cryptosystems that do similar things (e.g. ZK-snarks), it's reasonable to guess we won't need more than 100 kb per encrypted vector. So an entire 1-billion-voter election could be processed by a small storage cluster with 100 TB, you can't verify it on your laptop, but the technically inclined could verify the vote themselves for probably somewhere around $1,000 - $20,000 of hardware and sysadmin time.

I don't know if there's existing crypto math to do this, but I'm pretty sure it at least hasn't been proven impossible.

The kind of crypto primitives needed for this kind of system might be found someday.
> I don’t think they want to dilute their brand with a Subcompact car

The affordable EV for everyone will be the making of Tesla's brand. It will increase Tesla's footprint on earth 100 fold, and realise Musk's ambition to impact society as much as Henry Ford did 100 years earlier.

But your point about branding strategy is a different one.

It used to be the case that brands would try to isolate and hone their identities to specific niches, particularly in the luxury class. In the case of automobiles, Mercedes Benz moved on from there to become a very large car maker, whilst retaining its luxury mark. It had to, because sustaining a lead in an expensive manufacturing and design product category requires scale that is commensurate with the capital requirements of the industry.

In the case of EV, that capital requirement is huge, and Tesla already has it. But to achieve ROI on all of that capital, Tesla needs scale to monetise its technical leadership. If Tesla doesn't produce the mass market affordable EV of the future asap, one of its competitors will leapfrog it one way or another.
I wouldn’t agree that Americans universally trust their military.
> through lies about RSU's

Source?
Yes, it’s super safe. The news is playing a game of reality TV trying to control narrative in a big political struggle.

This has literally no impact on the day-to-day lives of people around the country. Even when the BLM protests were in full force, you had to go to specific downtown areas of large cities to see anything.

The only thing that happened to real people this year is covid, and that does suck. The vaccine should help though.

Do not throw away your future plans based on this drama.
It’s a guess, and it’s certainly not split R/D in the US.
Your [3] and [4] aren’t about most pro-democracy legislators being mass arrested under the National Security Law, and are irrelevant to the current discussion.

Your [2] and [5] are similar to the current post, and are both 3 days old. So the mass arrest of pro-democracy legislators using the National Security Law IS a new phenomenon: only 3 days old!

When political posts like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25661474 are allowed on Hacker News (by virtue of a “new phenomenon”), I guess this post can live on, too.
Any numbers to support the "lot more shares for right wing media" claim ?
Thanks for this. Put it better than I could!
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Cash is fungible, it doesn’t matter where you put it. You’re also forgoing 1.5% cash back by not using a credit card and paying it off in full every month.
What is the benefit the governance structure derives from general misinformation on most topics? Governance is harder when people don't know things.
That's likely true for some. But many people do belive there was fraud. I think there were some very suspect things about the election. But I read Article II, and the 12th amendment. The congress is directed to count the Electoral votes submitted by the states. It's basically ceremonial, unless there is no majority in the Electoral vote. There is a process defined for that situation. There is not a word about challenging the votes as submitted. Mike Pence was absolutely right.

There may or may not have been fraud in any of the states. But once they certify their Electors, that's it as far as I can see. I honestly don't know if there is a remedy even for clear fraud if the state goes ahead and certifies the results. In theory a state doesn't even need to hold a public vote. The legislature could just appoint the Electors. The founding fathers clearly wrote the constition to give the power of electing the president to the states. Allowing any level of the federal government to override that seems to be a conflict of interest.
Strong comment. Humor me by explaining this coordinated attack in the context of what is guaranteed by the first amendment, perhaps I am missing something?:

- YouTube says it will no longer allow users to upload videos claiming that President Trump lost the 2020 presidential election due to fraud.

- A video message from president Donald Trump calling for peace and to go home, was deleted by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on Wednesday as a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol.

- Many conservative twitter users are reporting significant drops in followers, likely because many small accounts are being purged too.

- Reddit banned /r/DonaldTrump, the largest pro-Trump forum on the site, and Discord banned the server “The Donald” while acknowledging there was no evidence the chat played any role in inciting violence at all.

- Michael Flynn was kicked off Twitter permanently

- Steve Bannon’s YouTube channel was permanently suspended.

- Parler was taken off Google’s Google Play store, and Apple has threatened to follow suit.

- Twitch, a streaming service owned by Amazon, and Snapchat, both suspended Trump’s accounts.

- Shopify took down two online stores affiliated with Trump, one belonging to his campaign and the other to the Trump Organization.

- Finally — Trump’s Twitter and Facebook is indefinitely suspended until “at least” the inauguration.

I am not even mentioning the hypocrisy that has occurred... No effort by these companies, or anyone really, to stop violence by leftist causes. No such drastic measures taken. If you know something I don’t, again— make me informed.

I’m sure I haven’t covered all of it. But please, out of respect and the sharing of ideas: I ask for 15 minutes of your time (don’t know why i care so much lol) but seriously! Give these a watch, he does a much better job than I can covering why this is relevant to free speech and censorship, in a succinct manner:

https://youtu.be/8SicsQervb4

https://youtu.be/xH9XWNz0GW4
"Shoulder dislocates with an aikido jo. Any rigid stick works, like a broom handle."

Can you elaborate ? I believe you are saying you intentionally dislocate your shoulder but I am skeptical that that is actually a thing ... I think maybe you mean you are adjusting, or popping, your shoulder ?

Genuinely curious ...
No idea why you got downvoted. Thanks for taking the time to elaborate your thoughts.

Edit: and now I’m getting downvoted. C’mon HN, be more diverse than this.
I see that the best case is actually a negative, unbounded number of bytes?
Wow, that sounds extremely useful! I haven't contributed to any FOSS projects in a meaningful way (yet), but I imagine that lots of potential contributors spend an inordinate amount of time trying to familiarize themselves with structure, conventions, and how everything fits together. Having all of that information in one, well-documented place could definitely help with getting up to speed/creating a mental model for the project faster.

On a semi-related front, I'm also interested in lowering the threshold for participation in FOSS projects, but I approached things from the lens of helping potential contributors better grok/intuit the social/organizational structure of a project. To that end, I made small badges that projects can add to their READMEs to indicate, to a rough approximation, what "type" of project they are[0]. The project types are described in a really interesting book called Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software[1] by Nadia Eghbal.

[0]: https://project-types.github.io/
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578675862/