skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there may also be a more racist reason for this rebirth of interest in Sir Walter Scott, basically the rebirth of the lost cause myth about the South. This was also the time period of the release of Birth of a Nation.

Sir Walter Scott, in the opinion of Mark Twain made the antebellum South.

> Then comes Sir Walter Scott with his enchantments, and by his single might checks this wave of progress, and even turns it back; sets the world in love with dreams and phantoms; with decayed and swinish forms of religion; with decayed and degraded systems of government; with the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham guads, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society. He did measureless harm; more real and lasting harm, perhaps, than any other individual that ever wrote. Most of the world has now outlived good part of these harms, though by no means all of them; but in our South they flourish pretty forcefully still. Not so forcefully as half a generation ago, perhaps, but still forcefully. There, the genuine and wholesome civilization of the nineteenth century is curiously confused and commingled with the Walter Scott Middle-Age sham civilization; and so you have practical, common-sense, progressive ideas, and progressive works, mixed up with the duel, the inflated speech, and the jejune romanticism of an absurd past that is dead, and out of charity ought to be buried. But for the Sir Walter disease, the character of the Southerner--or Southron, according to Sir Walter's starchier way of phrasing it--would be wholly modern, in place of modern and mediaeval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advanced than it is. It was Sir Walter that made every gentleman in the South a Major or a Colonel, or a General or a Judge, before the war; and it was he, also, that made these gentlemen value these bogus decorations. For it was he that created rank and caste down there, and also reverence for rank and caste, and pride and pleasure in them. Enough is laid on slavery, without fathering upon it these creations and contributions of Sir Walter.

>Sir Walter had so large a hand in making Southern character, as it existed before the war, that he is in great measure responsible for the war. It seems a little harsh toward a dead man to say that we never should have had any war but for Sir Walter; and yet something of a plausible argument might, perhaps, be made in support of that wild proposition. The Southerner of the American Revolution owned slaves; so did the Southerner of the Civil War: but the former resembles the latter as an Englishman resembles a Frenchman. The change of character can be traced rather more easily to Sir Walter's influence than to that of any other thing or person.
Ah thahks, I thought surely this was about the ticketing system, and was paywalled.
and 35% of Chinese doesn't mind Taiwan independence. What is your point?
Ah yes, conservative men, known since time immemorial for their scraggly beards and unkempt attire. Like Eisenhower!
I will add to that, I believe that in order for a democracy to properly function we need free speech, truly free speech that is. Democracy is not designed to allow the morally righteous side to win power, it is designed to allow the popular majority to win power regardless of what they believe in and the morality of their beliefs. In the U.S. we have a large majority of the public that believes in one thing and another that believe in something radically different and I don’t think we should silence either of them if we want to keep the U.S. truly democratic. The argument that Parlor incites violence is irrelevant in my opinion since violence in this case is the result of free speech which ultimately serves the greater purpose of having a democracy. We should be prepared for the fact that the majority believe in something different than us, even if that something is radically different from what we believe in, and we must accept that and let their voices be heard as well. If we cannot accept what other people are saying than we cannot say the U.S. is truly a democracy since the foundation of that are free speech without limitations.
This worked against ISIS and I didn't see anyone complaining about free speech then.
I'm not really accustomed to thinking about what others want me to think, but if you're like many who are trying to guess what progressives want you to think; facial recognition bad, clearview extra bad.
There's a difference between prescription and description, and just because you have the prescriptive belief that nobody should murder doesn't mean your worldview works that way. All governments since forever have used violence as a core technique for order, and I doubt the EFF thinks otherwise.
I’m saying that they aren’t mutually exclusive, and that they are both parts of a total quality system and result from high variation and low manufacturing precision.

Put another way, fridges that are well made don’t have wobbly doors. If you don’t care about wobbly doors, it’s still not a good idea to buy a fridge with wobbly doors - Fridges with wobbly doors tend to be more likely to have other issues than just a wobbly door. If you buy a new fridge from a company that is known to have wobbly doors because of low manufacturing precision, don’t be as surprised when your fridges glass shelves spontaneously shatter - you bought something that had high variation and was manufactured with low accuracy and a poor quality system.
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It is not a coincidence that gold mining was chosen as the analogy for new coins.

The emission of new bit coins following the "mining" of new blocks is like the minting of new gold coins following the mining of raw gold.

Because bitcoins are like gold coins.

I agree that neither gold nor bitcoin are suitable for commerce. But the narrative around and apparent intent behind bitcoin from in the beginning was "It is digital currency. It works like gold".
It was really nice in the nineties when we had dial-up and large jpeg images (>100 Kbyte) were loading a bit slower so you didn't have to wait before getting an impression.
Now it's important in mobile networks, but you can also opt to turn off images. Who needs images anyway while reading, toddlers?
Cyberpunk 2021 but instead of getting leg modifications to jump over buildings, you're stuck in your home wearing a surgical mask and only allowed to watch corporate approved news.
None what happened over the summer violently broke into the second most important building in our country and disrupted one of the most important processes fundamental to our democracy, destroying the US's record for peaceful transfer of power.

If you don't see a qualitative difference between that and the few rioters over the summer, then I don't think there's really room for discussion here.
> Give me an example of a video that was removed for "critcizing lockdowns"

I’m sure you realize how difficult this would be to respond to, if such videos were in fact deleted.

Nonetheless, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-facebook-spli...
Free speech is so invaluable that it is insane to squander for such an inconsequential event. It has the ability to save millions. It could cost us a lot before this would even be a real discussion.
But that’s all fantasy. The country has the national guard for protests in cities which frequently gets deployed and would be used in these scenarios as well. There is no special power grab that can happen legally so he would need a bunch of life long military generals to agree to a coup, in which case the congress protester attack is irrelevant anyway.
It’s easier to ban them selectively, achieving the desired level of censorship.

You don’t need to shut down the entire public email network (although it’s possible to do with DPI). You would only need to ban the servers that are involved in spreading of unwanted information.
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The argument from the other side is that this proponents of right-leaning views wouldn't be violent except because they are being exalted by fascist propaganda from right wing leaders. I myself think it's a good move from Amazon but I don't think it's not polically motivated. The Capitol being stormed is not good for business because of many reasons, it was a line in the sand.
That has been my experience, having ordered a hundred or more items in the last couple of years.
It's easy to block that default VPN (or directory server). I don't think there's an easy way for Apple to get around it. IP protocol is too easy to block. I think that it's possible to develop better protocols where every peer will proxy packets if necessary, so it'll be impossible to block it, but that's probably not something that'll replace Internet.
Every 100ms of latency costs Amazon 1% in sales
How critical is Mobile browser testing and mobile performance:

Every 100ms of latency costs Amazon 1% in sales.
Pinterest optimized their website performance which led to a 15% increase in SEO traffic.
79% of users who experience slow page loading times are less likely to buy from the same site again, while 27% are less likely to buy from the same business’s physical store.
As page load time goes from 1s to 5s, the probability of bounce increases by 90%.

53% of mobile site visits are abandoned if a page takes longer than 3s to load.
> We must decide if that needs to change.

This will require either amending the constitution to strip companies of their 1A rights, OR the supreme court ruling that companies are not people and have no 1A rights. Both are tall orders in my view, with far-reaching direct and 2nd-order effects.
> type safety and correctness simply aren’t nearly as important as velocity from an economic perspective

In my experience type safety is one of the most factors in terms of being able to produce code quickly, at least once a project grows beyond a couple hundred lines.

I agree with your overall point, and I think the advantages of Go are especially relevant in a team setting: Go's categorical aversion to complexity makes it much more difficult to write code that someone else will not understand, where Rust projects can become relatively impenetrable when they wade too far into getting "clever" with the more esoteric aspects of the type system.

Also the learning curve is real: you can take a Javascript developer and get them writing Go code in a couple of weeks. If you hire someone who's not experienced with Rust for a Rust project, you may be paying them for months just to get up to speed.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of Rust and use it for almost all of my personal projects currently. But I think the idea that Rust can become the main programming language in all settings comes from a place of heavy bias. Rust is definitely on one extreme when it comes to complexity, and it's a more relevant trade-off for some use-cases than others.

aside - I know it's a minority opinion, but I actually think that Swift is a sweet-spot language in terms being simple to program in like Python (by aggressively obviating away low-level details), but giving you many of the powerful tools for correctness which Rust has, like algebraic types. It's a shame that it's painful to use in all but a few "blessed" applications.
I feel like this post doesn't address the real risk that comes with suppression. What if we lived in a very different society, where basic ethical views were far outside prevailing norms? Is there a case for choosing discrimination as the newly banned form of speech other than the fact that egalitarianism is a key value in our society today--what is it?

I don't know much about Parler - it sounds like the key people there were real assholes and possibly criminals. There are any number of reasons that might apply for getting rid of it. Parler might not be the limiting case that decides our rule.
It depends entirely on what you consider "effective moderation". Many consider "effective moderation" a purge of everyone who doesn't adhere completely to their cultural orthodoxy. Others think that if a platform so chooses it should be allowed to host any and all voices that don't spam or break any laws. Unfortunately the former are authoritarians who believe they have the right to deprive the latter from making that decision (and they currently hold the reigns of power in Silicon Valley and Washington DC).
> we need to get the Senate safe, also we're going to give emergency powers to the president.

There is an actor in your sentence that doesn’t exist in the US government. There is no “we” that would give emergency powers to the president against the will of the congress.
I think you're confusing free speech and capitalism. Amazon can boot you from their platform whenever they want. If however this violates the contract you have with them (e.g. there has been no violation of the ToS) you can sue for damages.
With all due respect though, it’s not YouTube’s job to decide what’s appropriate for your kids, and there’s a big difference between what’s appropriate for children and what’s appropriate for the rest of us consenting adults to watch.
I don't even care about the free speech argument. Ban the racists, great. All I'm saying, is that Cthulhu is not happy Signal is #1 in the app store right now. Big tech/brother/whatever will never be your friend. The zeitgeist wants to eat you. The drone in your window will see you downloading that decentralized OS (I hope that's just poetry).
I hadn't heard of this before! I see that they do have a free plan and the features look pretty cool. I'll add them to my list of things to try out
Banning Youtube is a means to enforce this law. And Russia can ban anything (on their territory).
I tend to pronounce fsck as one syllable, like "fisk" without the 'i'.
For me, two of those would be `shebang` (#!) and `S H` (ess eich). It's nice to coalesce around pronunciations, but we should also accept that people will choose different dialects.
I found there is this "pride in the correct pronunciation" in the opensource community. It seems to be a signal of a group membership and a creed validator.

Who cares though? Why does "correct pronunciation" matter? Linux is nowadays used by many more non-native English speakers who will pronounce it very differently.

This attempt at correcting others seems like gatekeeping and, to me personally, feels like a very anti-inclusive thing to do.

Tangentially, the fact that some of the pronunciation is so non-intuitive (e.g. /etc -> etsy) should be a bug, not a feature and pride point. Can you imagine if you reported that a workflow is non-intuitive in a piece of SW and the devs told you "we know, cool, right?!"
There is such a movement to regulate social giants (and other parts of Internet infrastructure) as common carriers. Apologies if you already knew this and I misunderstood your tone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_as_a_public_utili...
Sorry, not from US, so also not a second amendment fanatic. I like the gun laws of EU better.

I was just pointing out the fact that "arming US fanatics" was a funny statement because they can just go out and buy guns anyway.
Safari already supports playing MP4 in <img> tags [1]. I think that's how "animated GIF" type of animations should be handled in the Web.

It's silly that there are video formats with excellent compression but image formats want to reinvent it (such as animated PNG, animated WebP, animated AVIF...). It just adds extra complexity to image formats.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/delivering_...
"emacs: rhymes with junk"
It’s serious from a murder, terrorism, disruption perspective. It’s not a serious threat to the republic though.
>Nobody predicted a private company would get to that point

Not quite, the East India Company is a counter example.
Neither the convenience of a given format or the ignorance of an audience to format alternatives suggests there is legal or governmental interference. In short, your sadness at Google does not imply improper conduct alone.

The current generation not knowing how to communicate without social media does not imply or suggest that social media is necessary for communication. If a person believes their values and entitlements limited by private entities they find alternatives not facilitated by those private entities, as in alternatives to social media.
It is still a very direct call to violence.
Cardio is more fun for many people. That is big thing imo in regular exercising - whether you find the activity at least somewhat fun.
In the US yes.
Free speech refers to government censorship. There is no requirement of anyone or any company to listen to your free speech, or to host it.
It's when something has subjective experiences.
Err... I mean you can run Linux on both x86 and SPARC machines.
Of course they can enforce it.

They fine them if they not do so, and if they not be willing to pay the fine, then they are blocked.

Russia will certainly be a large enough market that they will consider it a financial loss large enough that they might implement this for Russia's version.
> For a huge segment of people the root cause is the hollowing out of the middle class over the last 50 years.

I keep hearing this, but the data shows a different story. Trump supporters (and Republicans) in general are wealthier than Democrats, and the country as a whole.

See https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-mythology-of-trumps...
I'm okay suppressing vile points of view such as racism, misogyny, and nationalism, as I said. I, for one, welcome a world where those ideas aren't welcome.
That line of thinking has no historical basis in the US. In past times mass publishers, large newspapers, had every bit as much influence.
This article is so inspiring. I will keep learning new knowledge.
One interesting thing with interesting implications regarding the (Wikimedia Foundation and its) Wikipedias is that getting to know them/it and how it functions is very involved.

This is what I'm getting at: I tried to present some criticism of Wikipedia in this discussion. However, a lot of my comments are kind of vague because I failed to give specific examples. Consider why this is so:

Discussing a specific example would require both some (sometimes rare) knowledge of the subject at hand and knowledge of the arcane processes through which a Wikipedia is governed and through which the disputes are resolved.

This means that I would need to invest a lot of time explaining everything for someone to be able to understand the example, but, on the other hand, almost nobody (if not perhaps already a Wikipedian and familiar with the subject matter) would be willing to invest enough time to really understand the example and all the connected issues anyway.

Thus substantial criticism of Wikipedia and its processes never gets to the public at large. I think that even most of Wikipedia's contributors hold little understanding of how Wikipedia actually works (socially) because the majority are very casual. And don't get me started on the incompetent contributors who meddle with articles and topics that they don't know enough about.

Another issue is that Wikipedians probably won't want to associate their Wikipedia identity with their HN identity (and similar).
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> political affiliation (and politically motivated acts of violence) are still thought to be choices that can be freely made or changed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038932/#:~:tex....
Framasoft who is behind this is famous in french opensource community for almost two decade. I guess it's unknown outside France?
Parler: Amazon to remove site from web hosting service
Verified by independent fact checkers, based on the same tweet from an official government account. Which claims that those were spoiled ballots. My comment and assertion still stands.

Just because you see “don’t look, trust me” doesn’t mean you should stop thinking there.
You aren't prohibited from doing the calculations per se. You are prohibited from doing them for a particular purpose, specifically video playback, in this case. If you just want to sit down with a pencil and paper and calculate H264 by yourself, there's nothing illegal about that. It only becomes illegal when you embed it into a video player.
I honestly don't understand what your satire is trying to say, and would agree with zozbot234's pretty straight forward reply: the US is probably lean right among Western countries, but compared to all the countries in the world, it's not. Most of Asian and African countries lean much more "right" compared to the US, as a starter.
... according to a new investigation unveiled Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

Democrats have called everyone from sitting US presidents to Tulsi Gabbard a "Russian Asset". This is more than likely another false alarm.

What are all these Russian assets meant to be doing anyway? Promoting an excessively calm world peace with strong ties between Russians and Americans? Russia hasn't been a credible threat to the US for 30 years. Nobody is accusing all these assets of actually doing anything. There isn't a path for how Russia is going to take advantage of the US. Anything Russia can do, China can do 3 times over.

The time that they were an appropriate punching bag is long since past.
Turchin's two main ideas are intriguing.

a) 50 years is enough for "institutional memory" to go out of the window. This may change with longevity breakthroughs, but 50 years is currently enough for a complete generation exchange, so the new leaders have no memory of the previous upheaval and will make the same mistakes again. Or at least the same kind of mistakes, details are always different.

b) elite overproduction is a "dangerous" topic when even treading on this ground invites charges of anti-intellectualism, but I cannot help looking at the 25+ crowd with fresh degrees, tons of debt and not-precisely-excellent earning opportunities and see that universities have a great racket out of this, while their graduates not so much. If you apply the old "Cui prodest?" question (Romans used to ask "Who profits?"), the answer would be that tertiary education complex is at least as influential as the military industrial complex, and most of the value captured does not even accrue to professors.
This is incorrect. You don't need to run a Sia node to develop and deploy apps on Skynet. https://sia.tech/docs/#skynet
The government does determine what is and isn't allowed speech. Libel is not allowed speech. You can't yell "fire" in a crowded theatre when there is no fire. You can get in trouble inducing others to commit crimes. Etc.
We're using them without running our own node :P
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