skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends. Did they enter the building via the security line and get properly checked in as is normally required of visitors, or did they waltz in through one of the many broken windows and doors? If the later, they likely broke the law [1] and entered a restricted space, so maybe 'rioter' is an appropriate term for them.

Also worth mentioning, if that same person had a social media history filled with "stop the steal" rhetoric, I don't see why sedition charges couldn't be levied [2]. Even if they were relatively well behaved during the riot, their mere presence was disrupting a central function of government. So I think a well behaved rioter with a proclivity for 'revolutionary' social media discourse can probably be classified as an incompetent insurrectionist.

It will be interesting to see how hard the prosecutors go after these folks. On one hand, a large chunk of the protestors probably got a bit swept up in the moment and likely did not intend to break any laws. But on the other hand, nearly the entire presidential line of succession was in that building performing one of the more important functions of our government. A strong case can be made for showing no leniency.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1752
[2] https://time.com/5928270/capitol-domestic-terrorism/
Peaceful status quo is best, I find TW friends generally sensible about cross strait relations. PRC less so. But TW nationalism / independence is good election platform, and status quo is always elections away from being disrupted. Then there's also the 2049 deadline and PRC domestic politics. Xi wants premature reunion to cement his legacy, I doubt he'll be ruling at 105 years old, hopefully he comes to his senses. That said, this was long time coming. 92 consensus facade could only work for so long. It's hard to see what the next viable framework would be.
Regarding tech, I guess it's because it's still a field where (unfortunately) there are more men than women, and since men are attracted to women, advertisement agencies use this fact to capture the attention of the audience. It's these ad people that are sexist or at least using sexual attraction as a leverage. The day a field will have more women than men, they could switch to using semi-naked male imagery (even though there could be different dynamics in play that dictate the rules). The effect is unfortunate of course, because a male dominated field becomes less compelling for women and thus creating a negative spiral.
This is why I love HN. Learnt something new again today :)
Just finished Robert Fagles’ translation of Homer’s Iliad. What an absolute work of art. To think how long ago it was written and how amazing the imagery is is mind bending. I can’t even fathom how good it would be if you could read the original greek. According to Plutarch, Alexander the Great kept a copy annotated by Aristotle himself under his pillow.
"ICL were the preferred supplier for UK local government, and OPDs found their way onto desks of council officers. Due to the cost, they tended to be issued only to the most senior, who were often elderly, had no interest in computers, and had secretaries to handle their administrative work, so many devices were simply used as telephones. "
Voting for Parler is not enough if you don't also vote for an app store that will offer Parler for download and a hosting provider that will allow them to use their infrastructure etc.

To use an analogy closer to the founding of the United States: if you want to publish a radical new newspaper, you need to be prepared to buy your own printing press and build up your own network of stores, because the existing printers and sellers may not want to support you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706993
> > [Haskell] just drains all the joy and productivity out of my programming.

> It's fine that you don't like the language. I mean, not everyone has to enjoy a language. On the other hand, there's a difference between voicing an opinion, which is personal, and making claims like ...

Indeed. Different people find different things fun:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25711790
Sorry for the unrelated question but, do those who doubt men walked on the moon doubt about rovers in Mars too?
I'm honestly asking.
The next decade is going to be wild. We will start to really see the effects of climate change. Real consequences for every day lives in the western world.

Prepare for erratic weather. Storm's coming.
CO2 isn't the only reason to take care of forests. If we replace a naturally grown forests with newly planted one we destroy an existing thriving habitat and replace it, in most cases, with a monoculture. This has tragic impact on biodiversity.

Here's a good article you might want to read. It also says that natural forests are actually better at capturing CO2.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01026-8
The official estimate[0] is 2022. Given the general track record of their development pace, I'd be surprised if it goes fully live before 2023.

[0]: https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/
You can come up with a better reply of course. But can you really beat the "are we aligned in the same direction" from the CEO and the other executives? Especially on the 2nd day.

You can spin it however you want, come up with some great arguments, but if the CEO decided to fire people, I don't think he takes that decision lightly so when he/she presents that decision you can count that it really is the last option he has.

It all comes down to trust. Trust your CEO that he has no other choice, maybe explore alternatives. But if he is a really good CEO, even if you fight it and argue for it, you'll wind up at the same conclusion he did. In fact, 9/10 you'll wind up at the same conclusion he did. Remember, it's his job to convince and lead people so he's probably better than you at that.
Hello fellow Central European :-)

In interwar Czechoslovakia, we had quite a few intellectuals who were openly Stalinist.
This is an umbrellas make it rain reverse causation. If you look outside the US the education level does correlate with the political spectrum. The higher educated the population the entire spectrum shifts left. See Northern Europe, Japan, Australia, Singapore, China, even political ideology (democracy vs socialism) doesn’t change this correlation
For those wondering, if this does occur it would affect Canadians as well. [1] The source states it is not a guaranteed event.

1: https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/face-numbingly-cold-w...
If I invent a new type of chair that can be stable with two legs, then the way this operates is essentially just a mathematical formula, no? No one would challenge that this would be patentable, and any patent application would describe the mathematics of it, and the usage of this mathematics would be covered in the patent.

I don't really like patents in general, but I don't really see this sharp distinction to be honest and I've always felt that the case against software patents in particular as a special case was rather weak.
> My understanding is that in Parler, posts are moderated by a jury of five peers. But if that jury is just as extreme as the poster advocating murdering journalists, what then?

We’ve entered new territory. When you look at analogues to this situation, Islamic radicals, mass shooters in America being mostly white men, both of the broader groups (Muslims, white Americans) can easily say those fringe actors are the 0.000001%. Even those that might support the fringe actors in the broader group would still only represent a small percentage.

The rioters in this case, if they are the fringe of the broader Republican base, visually looked significant. This is nothing like ‘oh, yeah that’s just one crazy nut’. In the broader group, the percentage that sympathizes with this fringe is high, with the most official accounting of this number being the actual 75 million Americans that voted for Trump.

We are in no way talking about a fringe imho.
Then those datacentres would be deplatformed from the Internet.

At this point, their only option to survive would be to build their own new internet. And that would need power/spectrum/land or other things that could be taken away from them by determined enough activism.

Maybe they could survive for a while by moving to a decentralised P2P/blockchain system of some kind. But that could potentially be blocked at an ISP level.
> Any portable build system, that already requires EVERY user to have that build system installed, is DoA for being a viable portable build system.

I don't understand the argument, it seems very circular.

Most software packages have a number of build dependencies as prerequisites for building, including a compiler, build tool like make/ninja, libraries and headers, other processors and tools like doxygen, sphinx, static analysis etc.

What makes the "build system generator" so unique in its requirements that this one tool must be embedded in the source package?

Nothing.

It's a convention adopted by the GNU Autotools initially for pragmatic reasons--the requirement that the end user install m4, perl, and a few other tools, and that in the early days the breakage between autoconf and automake minor versions was routine and really annoying. Today you can just run "autoreconf -fvi" for the same effect, and many packages have stopped distributing the generated scripts. Many distributions regenerate them as a matter of course, making the distributed copies redundant. Today, when we have fully-described and automatic installation of build-dependencies on most platforms, the need for embedding no longer exists.

I'm afraid that I don't buy your argument. Don't mistake historical conventions established for a single tool with a hard requirement. The requirement doesn't actually exist.
> Skynet's speeds rival centralized providers and surpass all decentralized offerings. A typical Skynet download starts in under 500 ms and can stream at rates as high as 1 Gbps!

I tried to download the PDF sample on the frontpage and the download never actually started. It kept waiting for the server to begin transmitting the file...
Good point. I think that is a better way to describe what I mean
CS in Vietnam (2013)
For me it comes across as typically nihlistic, which is all too common these days, where by it's making statements that we're nothing more than survival of the fitest.

For me this is just patently false, humanity has tackled with existentialism, art, science and much more. Many of which is to better understand our position in the universe and not just to survive.

But there is a crux to it; not everyone cares. Which again can also be seen through the generations many people are just interested in surviving and have no more desire than to get to the nearest McDonalds or Starbucks, and that's fine.

I feel this is the majority of people and it's only a few exceptional individuals that have the drive and ability to push beyond; some of them are actually often quite troubled and maybe it's their very lack of contentment and happiness that drives them on.

I feel the nihlistic point of view has the greatest of troubles with this state of affairs because if the vast majority are just content to sit back and go to the nearest Yelp recommendation, and there's no real higher purpose, then it's all just rather depressing.
Annotated implementation/tutorial of Feedback Transformer
> They are used in advertisements and as "booth babes"

Hasn't this largely gone away in recent years?

It's still the norm in certain industries (e.g. online casinos), but my impression is that the average tech company doesn't want to be seen as the kind of organisation that hires 'booth babes'.
What do you do when half the people don't?
I think the Indian caste system is a good example on why it's very important to promote social mobility.

Even if you (or some other person) enjoy living a simple life, there are probably others out there that want to enjoy a different life. Would suck if that's next to impossible, because those in the superior classes are bent on keeping status quo, and suppressing those below.
Get your father a step counter and start by taking a short walk every day. Once he gets used to moving, he will ideally be in the right frame of mind for adding something more.

My father is 77 and two years ago started exercising after a life of enjoying food a lot, being relatively inactive, and years with a troublesome achilles tendon.

He started with gentle walks, aiming for 5k steps a day. After several months, he added weekly circuit training with a group (he now does that three mornings a week). Then during Covid lockdown, gym with a boxing bag in his garage and long walks in the hills. And more recently fast rounds of golf, carrying his clubs, at 6am when the greens are empty.

He's now in the best shape he's ever been. Stronger and with more endurance than when he was in his 20s.

Just before Christmas, his step counter said in the previous 4 months, he had walked 1.4m steps, 1000 km.

Good luck with your dad!
Wouldn't that be easier to tell the student to leave their phone on the teacher's desk while they use the restroom?
You skipped the most popular video serving platforms - pr0n companies. Also no problems there, everything works smoothly.
Such a shallow text. Writer doesn't even understand what a platform is.
I agree with the first sentence, but I don't think that ,,most people understand that "hard work" doesn't just mean physical exertion, but also good decision-making, sensible investing, scaling your impact, etc.''

I made a great investment 8 years ago that made me retire quite early. I'm still just sitting on the investment although many people told me to sell it, and also some people want me to ,,work again''.

For me not selling it is the ,,hard work'', as doing anything, like buying houses from the money, or ,,investing it to something sensible'', or ,,diversifying'' would be damaging to my impact. I don't see that people are understanding it.
Linus pronouncing Linux: https://youtu.be/5IfHm6R5le0
Free speech is a lot harder to defend when you disagree with what's said. It's relinquished by moralistic rationalizations and righteous condemnations... Be careful what you wish for.
The average Portuguese has a much lower income than the average black American. The EU income inequality is much higher if you you don't look within countries but across countries. This actually makes the EU more unstable than the US. Poor countries keep threatening they will leave and rich countries feel that poor countries are dragging them down. You don't have this dynamic in the States.
That is a very good catch

Don't answer questions you're not prepared to justify
I don't support "absolutely" free speech either. A line has to be drawn. I think it should be drawn as narrow as possible.

If someone promotes a campaign to hunt down an individual and murder him/her; certainly I wouldn't blame anyone for taking that content down. I think we already have a good tool for where the line goes and that is the law. E.g. you can't recruit and plan for terrorism and you can't spread child pornography among other horrible things.

This is something else. This is a situation where three major companies use vague paragraphs in their terms and conditions to target a specific platform.

What's next? If Parler self-hosts, will demands come to ISPs to shut them down? Where does it end.
>That's not at all the case in the Nordic countries, where you're expected to work hard and produce.

After working in both Germany and The Netherlands I found this to be false as it depends more by company size rather than the country.

In SMEs or family owned businesses people were busting their asses, often longer than 40h/week. In giant megacorps I saw plenty of incompetent clockwatchers, mostly in management positions, where the business could function the same without them but they were inexplicably kept around, at least as long as the business was booming. Often times they would just have their teams switch offices so they would have something to put in their annual performance review ("I optimized personell location, fostering a culture of synergy and creativity leading to future improvements in productivity and innovation").
And solving it by blocking Twitter is just so... human.

The platforms aren't the problem, people are the problem. Education is piss poor, if that's not fixed/improved, we can go back to pre-industrial times and people would still vote for a moron who promises big things, never delivers and just grabs power for themselves.

Financial/civic/political education in schools? Public-sponsored articles and videos debunking conspiracies? Nah, just ban Twitter, that'll solve it.

People on either side of the fence believe they're right. Keep ignoring and belittling each other and it will lead to an even worse situation down the road.
> Keep the ISS of course, as a relatively less expensive way of studying the effects of low-G on the human body

The ISS is actually very expensive.

> If NASA had an unlimited budget, then by all means do it all.

NASA is not free to decide these things by themselves.

It is true that the robotic side has been more successful, but that is simply because human spaceflight has been totally mismanaged for the last 50 years. It is not inherently the case.

The new Mars rover was about as expensive as the complete development of Orbital human flight at SpaceX. And for that SpaceX was also able to finish the most advanced reusable rocket and make it human rated.

Actually getting humans onto Mars together with robots to work locally will actually produce a much bigger bang for the buck. Having local labs, local control of robots, human scientists directly on sight. It would also advanced the technology for transportation, agriculture, medicine and so on.

Specially with SpaceX already development the technology need to build a base on Mars, not taking advantage of it and only sending rovers out there, is in my opinion a bad policy. Its both bad from a scientific and from a political view.

Endlessly doing low-G research and getting more details on Marsian stones, is simply not on the same level as human permanently occupying Mars. And a Mars base is in my opinion not outside of the current budget if it were spent in a smarter way.
The article is about government censorship.

However, if you read the comments people are interpreting the title as if Google and Apple did something wrong.

They make up random theories about the economic benefits of internet firewalls, the "evil" desire of western corporations to influence Ugandan politics and just the general idea of sharing culture among Uganda and the rest of the world being a net negative for Uganda.

People who know about Ugandan history are acutely aware of how deep in a pit they started off and how much of it was purely internal. It was similar to China suppressing their Muslim population except it was against political enemies and the Ugandan government wasn't afraid to kill someone (100s of thousands) on a whim.

Comparing this type of suffering with Google's and Apple's worst crimes is just laughable.
Students can have multiple phones -one to give and one to use later-, or hide one in the bathroom Godfather style.
Chinese Red Flag Linux 11.0
http://my-handicapped-pet.io/
Intended to be _no less_ the free and simple Data Analysis platform for all. But because I'm lazy ass, it's like a high school lab project.
Then you could just as well say "your right to religion should not limit my right to free speech"?
Oh, you used the R word. That's a big no no. Nobody likes Responsibility, and you're to blame heh.
Afaik, Gab doesn't use Mastodon anymore. They did start as a Mastodon instance, but after being blocked from most instances and even at the software level by most Mastodon apps, they stopped using Mastodon and I believe wrote their own new backend that does not federate.
> consensus

Yeah it's shocking people wouldn't blame themselves.
Salt Wars: Life Expectancy Higher with Greater Sodium Intake
You probably dont want to buy a Samsung phone eother because Samsung is just as bad as apple. Google pixel phones are actually the best mainstream phones because they have unlocked bootloaders. That means you can install whatever OS on it or root them of you want.
AWS, Only the Good Parts
it's not dead yet as other sources say
DC-X was not an orbital reentry booster. The problems are quite different.
How Hominins adapted to a changing world 2M years ago
I don’t think anybody ever _needs_ to gain weight. It’s only an indirect indicator of things that matter (strength, endurance), and even those are only indicators what really matters: health.

And yes, I think that applies to anorexics, too, although there, of course, the only way to gain strength or endurance and thus get healthier is to eat more and gain weight.

I also am aware that some people train in order to look strong rather than be strong, but I think that should be discouraged. I don’t know you, but given what you say about your brother, it probably is genetics, so accept you won’t ever look as strong as some others.

Certainly, if you’re as strong as somebody who weighs more, you’ll likely beat them in exercises where you need to move your body (swimming, running, cycling, mountain climbing, cross country skiing, rowing, etc)
The same system taught them that cheating is usually rewarded.

Seems like un unnecessary harsh and vigilante way to try to correct the system single handedly.

I would prefer a professor or school who transparently communicates anti-cheating efforts (like online games do) and - most importantly - actually follows through with them systematically.
how do people reply?
Yeah, should they look up "parlour website" on Google? Using Google Chrome?

Or should they ask Siri and look it up on safari?

Regardless, the same could be said for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, Gmail, and countless other apps.

But nobody would be cause that's just being facetious.
Jupyter 2021 – final week to take the survey
You could say people have a... responsibility.

Maybe there should be a class on just that throughout all school years.
And here we have arrived at the crux of the problem. Should we just throw up our hands and say "Then just don't use American tech"? I think this move by Uganda (and your comment) illustrate the same frustration that we in America feel at the power these monopolies are exerting over public discourse (for some various definitions of "public discourse").
I don't think it's right that a few unelected old men have the right to tell me what I can and cannot say on the internet. I want to live in a democracy, not a corporate oligarchy.

When a platform is as ubiquitous as Facebook (for example), it's not just their platform that's effected by their decisions. We're all directly effected by how they act or fail to act.
NY City Law related to the sale of automated employment decision tools
And through it all I bet you wonder if:

1) It'd all be better or at least the same without any external interference from you

2) The positive outcomes to the business are more a result of external factors like market expansion, word of mouth, a new fad, rather than your own contribution
Also the reason I have 80+ contacts in Signal, but 1 (one) in Matrix. Federation just doesn't work for the average person in practice. Email being the large exception because it's been around for so long.