skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every social network ever in the history of humanity has hosted terrorist content.

Also any opinion ever in the history of humanity could be interpreted as being "terrorist content" by someone.

Are you seriously implying we should be going back to a modern version of book burning?

I just can't get my head around how apparently the majority of people seems to be back at "censorship is good", us good they bad.
This is the “video games cause violence argument”
As much as I dislike your comment, I have to defend your right to say it.

I'd rather live in a world where I can view opposing viewpoints with ease. Imagine you not being able to express what you currently wrote - openly, and being modded out, your message never seeing the light of day because someone somewhere could possibly worry that they will lose advertisers who chose to misinterpret it as a call to violence.
We are currently there.

PS - I believe what you wrote can lead to extreme violence, yet the world has the right to see (and likely not react violently at all but should even the slightest possibility allow censorship?)
I don't believe that this is true.
> If it's a marketplace of ideas, the current situation is equivalent to monopolies stamping on startups to prevent them from ever becoming competitors. An actual marketplace of ideas would work without censorship in the first place, like it used to. Note that most minorities right now who obtained civil rights would never have been able to claim them had they be silenced from the get go.

The fundamental problem is that truth and lies don't operate on the same playing field. If we can make an assumption that the game is being played fairly within the marketplace of ideas (people are being reasonable and accepting rational arguments), then the marketplace works as intended. If certain actors are subverting that system by design, then you cannot have an unmoderated idea-sphere, unfortunately. Studying some Nazi and Communist propaganda techniques should certainly convince you of that (and how effective they are when applied against a gullible populace).

There is no good solution to this, unfortunately. Once a radical movement takes over the idea-sphere moderation and certain censorship is sadly inevitable & needed. Something akin to Denazification in post WWII Germany (which specifically and forcefully suppressed any Nazi ideology from the mainstream)
The Hazards of Asset Allocation in a Late-Stage Major Bubble
Exactly. Everybody that is able to move is going to move and this organization will collapse in a couple of months when the last people that have knowledge will leave. The only people that won't leave are the ones that can't leave and usually those are not the ones that keep the lights on.

Dumbest move ever. If on day #2 you think you know enough about an organization to start hacking away dead wood then you are way out of your league.
I think it's important to note, that not all activities someone could call running are good for the body, and not all are bad for the body.

You can break bricks karate style and be fine, if you build up and take it slow and steady. You can also just tap or lift bricks 1k, 10k times per day and be fine.

However it won't end well if you use bad form, try to go max on day 1 (didn't build up), or try to break 1k bricks/day, every day¹.

Stupid running can be 1k-10k impacts per day with bad form (twisted joints), high stress (stomping on concrete), low regeneration (cartilage needs squishing for nutrients) - use it like this and you will lose it blazing fast.

¹ I kind of guess.
> supreme court ruling that companies are not people

Wait, in the US companies are considered people?
I'd pay 5-10 bucks a month without a second thought. That'd amount to something like 420-840 bucks to DDG since I've roughly started using it (somewhere around Snowden leaks).

It's not a larger amount than they would earn from me if I didn't use an ad-blocker, but it's 100% larger than they've earned from me over the years.
On the other hand, I've pronounced /etc as "etsy" ("slash etsy", usually) for, I dunno, 25 years or more.

NFI where I first heard it pronounced like that, though.
Not "murdered" by a police officer. The officer was defending an area that contained the politicians this mob was looking for.
A Polar Vortex collapse sequence has begun
It’s not really about wealth or political power specifically. It’s about status and power generally. Some of the pseudo-elite may pursue wealth, others social status, others political influence, etc. These are largely fungible though, so the problem is when you overproduce the elite class generally, all of these go into deficit.
There's different levels of "trust". With Wikipedia i know roughly what i am getting. I can make an informed decision as to how much to trust it and how much to do further research depending on the application i need it for. After all, sometimes i just need knowledge with a decent chance of being true, where other times I need to be really sure. Wikipedia provides a relatively consistent experience (varrying somewhat with how obscure a page is). Random geocities sites do not give me that consistency, so I cannot make an informed guess as to how correct the page is.
Why not introduce regulations for social platforms ? laws like "deplatforming is forbidden unless ordered by a proper court". I think it's a judge's job to decide on this kinds of issues
> It is possible for individual portals and hosts to take down links and stop serving that content, for example after accepting copyright infringement requests.

I think this needs to be solved at the protocol level. What if the portal is hosted in a DGAF jurisdiction, but I'm running my node in a different jurisdiction? What forces the portal to keep my interest in mind?
Hard work on the right thing is key to social mobility. CEOs work hard, and hard to work hard to get there. Long hours are common. In one "work life balance" class we finished the section on personal goals and everyone was ready for the break when the instructor said something like "I can tell you are low level employees, when I give this section to executives they get mad as they realize that their personal goals are to spend more time with family and they are instead preparing for another long international trip" I'd love their pay, but I'm not willing to give up that much family time.

I have worked construction jobs. The body is exhausted at the end of the day, but it is always satisfing at the end of the day to look back on what you have done. However because anyone can do it there isn't as much value in it and so it doesn't pay as well. What hard work you do is more important than how hard you work. However once you have picked the area to work hard work is a second key to getting more.

Of course eventually you need to decide how much is enough. This is a personal question and there is no right answer.

What doesn't work is for zero people in society to work (at least not at out current automation technology level). Someone needs to grow food and make shelter. Someone needs to act in the latest TV shows (even though there are enough reruns to fill a lifetime so this work could be eliminated, and it has always been possible to live without TV).
Well, I can't read through 3000 comments, but I'll say here I'm surprised at the naivete I've read about this incident.

These companies didn't wake up yesterday morning and decide Parler was "bad". There's been a power shift in Washington, and they are trying to signal to the new people in power "We're on your side, we'll listen! No need to regulate us!"

That's the real problem here - there's more to this than a private company deciding who is on their platform, which is their prerogative. There is implicit (and explicit) political pressure to do so. That's what is scary and, in my opinion, wrong. And it isn't a left-right thing. I'm sure the Republicans are looking at this and getting the same message, and would be just as happy to use the same tools.
> Consider this twitter and facebook unilaterally decided to ban the president of the united states...

Note that “ban” here is “from using their respective platforms”.

> what message does that send to the other world leaders?

That private parties operating in the US with the freedom provided by its Constitution may choose not to amplify their speech despite their position of authority?

> Last I checked nobody elected Zuckerberg and Dorsey.

Last I checked, the freedom of speech and the press meant you didn't need to be elected to a position of government authority to have the right to decide what messages you were willing to use your resources to amplify.
Calm yourself as you use one of the most moderated platforms on the internet to spout off.
He should have realized that he lacked the knowledge and experience to tell his boss to fuck off because on day #2 on the job you simply can not make this decision in a way that won't kill the company.
It doesn’t need to. But obviously there are people who want it to be at least fairly well used.

The value of such a thing has a lot to do with how many people use it and how much content there is. You need users to give incentive for people to upload content. And you need content to incentivize new users.
Cycles in history are an ancient and intriguing idea; modern - disputed - forms include Strauss-Howe generation theory.

This "cliodynamics" seems to be an effort to put these sorts of ideas on a more academically respectable footing.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generati...
That would have been just as good or better.
Private companies have always done this. If you keep picking fights in a bar, you will be thrown out and banned. (In most places, anyway.)

If you keep plotting insurrection, violent murder, and the overthrow of democracy, you will also be banned. As you should be. Because if you aren't banned, any form of support - whether it's delivering pizza or web services - has the potential to make you an accessory.

Most TOS are pretty clear about the "no criminal acts" part. The baffling thing isn't why those rules exist, it's why right wing extremists particularly seem to believe the rules shouldn't apply to them.
I don’t take tips about higher moral ground and virtue from anyone who thinks bullshit is a countable noun.
It depends on what you mean by “stops working”.

When social media becomes the primary driver of misinformation and anti-democratic sentiment, then it has arguably “stopped working”. While users might not be sick in the flesh, their minds will surely start to rot.
Scott Galloway's predictions for 2021 and review of 2020 predictions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umUmrzounFI

I thought the content was good, though the constant yelling is a turn off.
Neither had I, until yesterday. Weird timing for this post to pop up.

I have always called it either 'slash eee-tee-cee' or 'slash etcetera' however yesterday I was watching a video of Andreas working on SerenityOS and he was implementing /etc/shadow and referred to it as 'et-see' which made me think I've never heard it pronounced like that before (or if I have I have long forgotten it).

I kinda like it though.
The downvoting shows what a cesspit this shithole is.

PG and dang, YOU are responsible. If you CUNTS are so pro-free speech, stop moderating.
That's how it would work in a democracy.

You're forgetting that authoritarian governments do not have to address these things by eliminating the root cause. They can just silence the opposition with arrests or execution [0]. Uganda is so famous for this to the point that there is an entire movie [1] about Idi Amin.

If you actually cared about youth unemployment you could address it with simple economic measures first and you would seek funding from western investors, not get rid of them.

Implementing tariffs in an industry that you are never going to be a world leader in is just plain stupid. Ugandan app developers can just develop for the Google and Apple store and get access to a bigger audience instead of restricting themselves to Uganda only.

It only works out in China because their internal market is bigger than EU+USA combined. It could work out for India (unlikely unless they address corruption). Uganda only has 44 million people it just doesn't make sense.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455590/
Even though i agree with you and, in this particular case I have a hard time sympathising with Parler. After recent events and posts calling for more violence and the response of the enforcement agency last time despite having known that MAGA goons would try to disrupt the vote, I cannot think of another solution than what the tech companies are doing. Just to provide context, this is coming from a person who strongly believes these tech companies must be broken down. The events at the capitol have made me angry and the fact that 70 million people support this is just disappointing.
Isn't the Chrome team pushing to drop 3rd party cookies altogether as discussed a couple of days back, with many HN participants voicing fears that it will cripple the ad industry outside Google?
The writing here is atrocious.
Precisely. On day 2 you are still taking stock and figuring out the lay of the land, and you're in absolutely no position to start making decisions with far reaching consequences. The first thing you will want to figure out is what happened with the previous CTO and why that person left.
I hear you, we have different experiences for sure, which is why the issue is not black or white. I also have around 10 years of experience and would guess neither of my projects nor the projects I work on would be successful unless we had a free tier.
That's the crazy thing about Skynet. You can do both "easy and decentralized".

For example, let's say you go to https://skyfeed.hns.siasky.net/ and you make an account (SkyFeed is a decentralized alternative to Twitter built on Skynet). You make some posts, follow some people, then siasky goes down.

So now you go to https://skyfeed.hns.skyportal.xyz/ - skyportal is another Skynet portal run by an independent party. When you log into Skyfeed, all of your previous activity is still visible. Your account and all of its information is hosted on the Sia network, which means siasky is nothing more than an access point, and you don't get any penalties as a user for switching access points.
Hmm, I only meant what I said, not what you implied.

This is exciting news for hundreds of millions of people in Europe. It is problematic because there are millions of people who check the "EU" box depending on how it is defined. Is it:

1. EU phone number
2. EU IP address
3. EU citizen
4. EU resident

That's what I meant.
> The examples you provided are obviously not incitements to violence.

They are more obviously incitements to violence than a post saying they won't be attending the inauguration.

At this point it becomes mostly about what your model of the person speaking is. If you think they are evil you will interpret their intent and communication as evil and if you think they are good you will interpret it as good.

There is no possible methodology that can be used that will end up declaring Trump's comments incitement while declaring AOC's not to be that won't end up becoming become simple partisanship.
If I'm understanding correctly, you're postulating that there is a general preference in the dystopian-category reading material selected by schools, towards "bleak" novels in which resistance proves futile. Moreover, this is on some level a conscious decision by the education establishment to encourage children to play by the rules at school. Is that fair?

This isn't a hypothesis I've come across before. On reflection I firmly disagree with it, but it's an interesting claim and worth discussing.

The main problem I have is that there is a much simpler explanation for why schools choose the bleak dystopian novels: simply because all the most established, popular, and excellent dystopian novels are the bleak ones. 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451, Handmaid's Tale etc... . The reason these books are taught in school is actually that bleak novels capture the human condition more successfully, and thus stand the test of time and become classics. The only dystopian novels I can think of with a successful protagonist, which are cuturally established and excellent at a literary level, are Philip K Dick's books; there are many other reasons schools would not choose to offer these, not least the prevalent casual attitudes towards drugs.

The other issue I have is that the commonly accepted moral thrust of the above listed books is not that one should simply play by the rules and keep one's head down. It is instead that we should be collectively aware of the threat of society going in that direction, and take steps to prevent it before it gets as bad as that. Whilst all those novels are bleak depictions, they contain a message of hope: that we still have time to stop this from happening. If you look at the life of George Orwell and the views he expressed publicly, it's clear that he would not advocate keeping your head down and working hard to get more "rations" than your neighbour. He fought in Spain with the anarchists against the fascists, and spent a lot of his life going hungry rather than give up his vocation of being an authentic writer.

Lastly, is there any evidence/data to suggest that books like 1984 are more common in more authoritarian schools? I would actually expect the opposite, that schools with a more liberal leaning are more likely to teach it for the reasons I state in the paragraph above.
Who is the people in charge of keeping unauthorized people out of the capitol building. The police, or the army?

Let say we have the worst case scenario where a bunch of criminals successfully enter the capital building and occupy it. Is the best response to send the army, or as many police units as needed to apprehend the criminals and put them in jail?

By sending the army what we are saying is that there existed a creditable scenario that the people attacking could have taken control of the US government and ruled over the nation.
And yet we hire based on people's achievements and previous success. And the world keeps on turning.

It's very hard to build the perfect team from the get-go. However, you can probably build a pretty good team over time. In my opinion, it's better to make an average decision than no decision at all; you can improve from average to something better as you go along.
Yeah, there are three large ones in US: AWS, Azure and GCP.

And considering that Google banned the app GCP is also out of the question.

BTW. You know that the largest cloud provides in the world are also the ones I mentioned above?
There is only Alibaba Cloud that is outside US and all the rest are just small businesses (that might just resell what the big three is providing).

And what would be next? Let's block the "new Parler" on the DNS or routing level - build yourself a new internet?

I hate far right wing and also hate far left wing, but I will protect both right to speak.
This is a nice guide which walks through building the small editor, kilo, by antirez of redis fame.

The original editor was introduced here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065217

I put together a fork of that editor, in C++, with support for buffers, scripting with Lua, and similar things. Nothing amazing, but still quite useful. That was posted here to some small interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12137698
Yes, I'm aware of that. There was plenty of nonsense and propaganda printed, but I don't think it's possible to deny that twitter gives more people a bigger platform than pamphlets ever did. Otherwise why are people even using twitter instead of printing pamphlets?
America has a really high income inequality, they are 66th, they are literally up there with African countries.
Yup put me down for "fusck" as well. I am probably inventing memories here but I think it is because whenever I saw a system announce it needed to fsck I would say "oh fuck" in my head (sometimes out loud).
I couldn't agree more! However, I don't think the answer is just unsubscribing. I think the answer is strong strong privacy laws for people.
Politics is not the problem. People discussing it are literally participating in democracy.

The problem is that these discussions go nowhere. Everyone may come to an agreement, and yet no one will do anything about it. Politicians themselves don't participate, which is sort of ironic.

Plus, these discussions often devolve into shit slinging over some general issues like racism, minority rights, wealth, power. It only takes a few people to start it, and often, all the rational people just leave at that point.

All of this blocking will just limit everyone's freedom and access to information. The core issue, education, is what needs to be solved.
It is pretty interesting how this conversation goes.

CTO: I can't do that on my 2nd day.

CEO: I thought your interests align with the company. It is your job to align everyone under you to our direction.

CTO: Yes, of course. Right away.
Interesting read. Just a pity the accompanying illustrations are:

1. Not actually part of the document. but linked to

2. Illegibly small GIFs with overly reduced colour palette
Does sharding help a fully verifying node to reduce the bandwidth needed for an Initial Block Download (IBD) ?

Wouldn't it need to very each individual shard?
As a user you have the ability to control what apps you use, what feeds you use, who you follow, etc. Decentralization doesn't mean it's completely free of moderation, it means users have the ability to pick their moderators and the ability to decide what is allowed on their feed and what is not.
Sometimes I wonder what my boss is doing all day long... now I know.
a lot of factors
- future potential
- features/technology behind it
- feelings
- financial situation
- alternatives
- need for a search engine

I don't even know if I'd pay anything at all.
I agree a single naked image of a woman is not sexist, but why is it that almost every semi-naked image or person I see in tech is female? They are used in advertisements and as "booth babes". If the image wasn't sexist, then there should have been a 50/50 chance of the standard image we use for images being a clipping of a naked man -- but I believe that would never have become a standard image used in CS. I can't prove that, but I strongly believe it.
> In my experience, Anglo-Saxons can seldom pronounce “GNU” in one syllable

It’s just pronounced ‘new’ isn’t it? How many syllabus can you fit in that?
Does it really need to be pointed out that the notion of an "average" economic producer, while tenuous in any sizeable population, is especially meaningless in a country like China, where you're averaging "very hard working" tech workers in Shanghai with "also-very-hard-working" subsistence farmers and unskilled labourers?

I accept the notion that simplistic glorification of "hard work" is unhelpful and often counterproductive, but most people understand that "hard work" doesn't just mean physical exertion, but also good decision-making, sensible investing, scaling your impact, etc.

Any concept is easy to write a disparaging essay about if you just focus on the most reductive interpretation.

A far more useful essay on the topic would focus on what ability an "ordinary" person (particularly one without substantial inherited wealth) has to influence their life outcomes, and what kinds of things can be done at the individual and societal levels to improve the present situation.
The first time I used MySQL the person showing me referred to it as "my squall" so that is always what I think when I see it read. I generally pronounce it 'my ess-que-ell' myself though.