skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is about someone in the CIA who ran secret climate research without public recognition. I suggest a more descriptive title would help HN users, even if it bends the rules a bit:

Climate Research in the CIA: A Spy for Planet Earth
Legal? Probably.

An extremely dangerous precedent? Yes.
This part was a little hidden and hopefully will get better, but it's pretty rough...

> At an 'effort' of 2, it takes a good few seconds to encode. 'Effort' 3 is significantly better, but that can take a couple of minutes. 'Effort' 10 (which I used for images in this article) can take over 10 minutes to encode a single image.
We're nearly at the point where "Feel free to discontinue business with Amazon" makes about as much practical sense as "Feel free to grow your own food." Makes a great quip in social media but is completely unrealistic.

The reason we have government is to solve these kinds of disputes and force businesses to behave. Of course, sadly, nowadays government doesn't act fairly, and will always come down on the side of their political 'tribesmen' rather than faithfully and impartially executing the law.
I found their response underwhelming as well.

I am tentatively willing to accept that these are simply applications of free speech and section 230, provided that the EFF prompt governments to write legal frameworks for what these platforms can and cannot do.

It is not acceptable to have companies this large, and this influential, 100% unaccountable to democracy.
Isn’t that an outcome of the “win and lose” part of the GP’s commentary?

Strong ideologies generate enthusiasm, build momentum, evolve the existing social mores to be compatible with the tenets of the ideology, which ultimately starve the losing ideologies of adherents.
It isn't censorship. No one is telling Parler they're not free to do what they want. AWS is telling Parler they don't want them as a customer. That is not censorship. Whether a business should be able to refuse a customer is an interesting question. People on the political right have historically believed they should (refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay couple is often cited as a case of such freedom).

There is also an argument that AWS is now so big and important that they should be treated like a utility, and then refusing customers is something that they shouldn't necessarily be allowed to do. I'm not sure how I feel about that argument though.
Feel free to use my bash 3d geometry library

https://github.com/nrdvana/CmdlineGL/blob/master/share/lib-b...
By his accent he is from Bogota, it may not be Canada, but the temperature can reach 6C, I wouldnt call that "warm"
Should web hosting providers participate in messages they don’t agree with by literally distributing those messages?
Your local community library is also full of extremism. You will find copies of The Communist Manifesto, Mein Kamph, The Turner Diaries, The Anarchist Cookbook, Platos Republic, In Defense of Selfishness and The Koran.

It has “problematic” works like Huckleberry Finn, Satanic Diaries and To Kill a Mockingbird.

It has works written by known racists such as HP Lovecraft, TS Elliot, Roald Dahl, Dr Seuss and Kingsley Amis.

It has hard copies of dangerous films that have been memoyholed by Prime and Netflix like Gone With The Wind and The Jazz Singer. It may also have DVDs that have been produced, directed and acted in by vile, cancelled individuals like Kevin Spacey, Louise CK, Harvey Weinstein, or Mel Gibson.

Good God, it might even have a copy of the Jenna in blackface episode from the third season of 30 Rock. I am clutching my pearls and getting the vapors just thinking about it.
How did the Elephant get its Trunk?
Yes, 1,167 pagefaults for the read() version and 66,704 pagefaults for the mmap() version. With MAP_POPULATE it's back down to 1,167 faults and it goes a bit faster.

My libc is using rep/mov, same as the kernel, however. So I can't conclude that AVX memcpy is the win.

From the profile of readsyscall version I see this:

42.12% fa [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_user_enhanced_fast_string

14.45% fa [kernel.kallsyms] [k] syscall_exit_to_user_mode

11.00% fa [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_get_entry

6.28% fa [kernel.kallsyms] [k] syscall_return_via_sysret

5.14% fa [kernel.kallsyms] [k] entry_SYSCALL_64

nearly 15% of the time is spent on a single verw instruction. Spectre mitigations.

When I reboot with mitigations=off, sure enough, the difference goes away and read() and mmap() perform identically.

What OP has discovered is that spectre mitigations make syscalls enough slower than pagefaults that what used to be a slower way to do things is now faster.

If you want the mmap version to perform faster when spectre mitigations are off, you need to use MAP_POPULATE.
You cannot have free speech without property rights. It's an extension of it.
The nazis are getting special treatment. If they were brown terrorists planning any kind of attacks they would be hit with drone strikes or held at Guantánamo.
The article doesn’t clarify if “European” refers to geography, residents of EU member states (excl. the UK), or anyone under its EMEA business unit (which is mentioned by name).
Yeah, I'm just using Java as an example because there's a clear goal (almost every 11 year old plays Minecraft, if they can program plugins for it, they will be the most popular kid in class), and because its hard enough so that they're forced to learn good practices.
You can also choose your baker, so find one who thinks like you do.
Ah good stuff - I love Wikipedia more than almost any other non-living thing that has been created in my lifetime. If you had told me the idea as a pitch 20 years ago I would have assumed you were capital I insane for thinking it would work.

It was pretty fresh when I was in college and I remember my professors all being pretty explicit about not using it as a source. Thought I had figured out the world’s biggest life hack when I started using the sources listed on Wikipedia as my sources for papers.
Expertsexchange?
I have to agree. Much like the internet created social media. The blockchain and decentralized web will have its own popular publishing platform
Except here we stand arguing that ISIS deplatforming = Good, Trying to kill the VP of the US deplatforming = Bad. I argue they're not meaningfully different. IF you support one but not the other you're not ideologically consistent.
Could you share an example of a biased article? I haven’t really noticed that (at least for the visible, high profile articles) - the coverage has been as balanced as anywhere.

Where it might get “extreme” is on niche topics that few people care about. For example I remember some articles associated with the whole “audiophile” scene were claiming some silly things without much evidence behind them, but that’s pretty innocuous in my view.
"User friendly". Yes, for you, the author. At the expense of everyone reading your blog. When considering this is a one to infinity relationship (i.e. write once read a million times), focusing on optimizing the "write once" at the expense of the million times it gets read, might just well... cause it to be read only 10 times instead.

I wouldn't even bother reading a PDF and I am on a desktop. I make some exception: Books & Papers, device manuals and legal documents & the like.

I would never read a blog in PDF, unless it's the last blog on earth.
Who said anything about Stripe?
All EFFed Up: Silicon Valley’s astroturf privacy shakedown
Not to disagree, but the mobile web site brought a significantly different user experience (for example https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Ocean vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Ocean), and the mobile readership has been at least as large as the desktop for a long time. [1]

[1] https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/reading/total...
Because that's for the court to do not the platform.
StackOverflow was doing good until the Eternal September began. They also forgot to take into account changing “best practices”
They're not as easy to find since the obvious ones have been booted off a long time ago, but I suspect that they're hiding on Twitter under the disguise of deep-fake accounts.

They now use Telegram instead.
The first article also quotes someone else saying defund. Eliminating sociology, history, anthropology, and language aren't mainstream conservative positions. Minority studies and gender studies maybe.

I picked 2 old articles from different political tribes to show it isn't new or just 1 tribe. Defund the Pentagon is a slogan now. Bernie Sanders[1] and Barbara Lee[2] proposed cutting the military budget by 10% and called it defunding.

I don't see anyone saying defund can't mean abolish. But most people who mean abolish say abolish because defund can mean reduce funding.

It's unreasonable to listen to people on the fringe of a movement and ignore the majority. It's unreasonable to read NYT opinion pieces and ignore NYT news pieces.[3] It's unreasonable to ignore actual legislation. It's unreasonable to ignore all the top search results.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/07/16/defund-the...

[2] https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/defund-pentagon-b...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/08/us/what-does-defund-polic...
Is anyone claiming that censorship of social media platforms is a good idea?

It is mostly people under a false/misunderstood "freedom of speech" pretense saying that Twitter/Facebook/etc should not be able to ban whomever they want.
The fact that a line could be drawn badly is not a great reason to not draw the line well. People who didn’t commit murder can also be convicted of and punished for murder, but that’s not a great slippery slope argument for never punishing murderers.
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>"First they came for the XYZ ...

The author's life story is instructive here as to how misused this particular trope is in this example.

Martin Niemoller voted for Hitler. Twice! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller
> I'm not aware that the demonstrators were toting guns.

The oft-displayed photos show bats, a spear, body armor, helmets, etc. The QAnon enthusiasts arrested in Philadelphia were armed. At least one individual has been arrested for carrying a loaded pistol on Capitol grounds. It is utterly fanciful to suggest none of the rioters were armed.

Have you even forgotten Trump's exhortation that the "second amendment people" might "do something" about Hillary Clinton?

In order to believe that Trump did not incite violence you must overlook the way he's been beating the drum and fanning the flames all along. Writing out his meandering, discursive speech tries to remove from the picture what we all know he means and intends.
What is stopping them from buying a server and hosting their site on thei own server?

Nothing. Except laws against hate speech.
This has nothing to do with corporations being people. This and citizens united have nothing to do with each other.

Businesses do not need to give you a platform just because. They reserve the right to do business, or not do business, with whomever they choose.

Don't conflate that with "being people."
Yes! They could get Peter Thiel back on board. It would be like old times.
Amazon is a private company and can do whatever it wants. It could ban apps that don’t use the oxford comma in written communication just for giggles.

Parler repeatedly refused to take down TOS violating speech. As far as 99% vs 1%, well persecuting the majority for the actions of a minority is very “patriotic” and an american tradition just ask a muslim ;)
Maybe this is a stupid request, but I'd like <img> (or maybe the newer <picture> tag) to take a video but with autoplay=true, loop=true, muted=true and controls=false when given a video source
>I'm not entirely convinced by the claim that one's religious choice being a choice means that it's not wrong to discriminate against them; what would your stance be on what the Chinese are doing to the Uighurs? (And - dare I ask - what does that then mean about your stance on the Nazi's policies?)

What the Chinese allegedly did to the Uighurs, or what the Nazis did to the Jews, is categorically wrong regardless of how it was justified; nobody has the right to sterilise or kill innocent people. But it's reasonable to argue that when a bunch of people come together to form a "country", they have a right to decide who's allowed to enter that country. Discriminating based on country of origin is not unpredecented: it's already way harder for an Indian or Chinese to get an American visa, for instance.
I did some work [0] at the Stanford Internet Observatory that somewhat supports OP's claim. We found that while Wikipedia is generally very good at maintaining neutrality, some bad edits slip through the cracks.

[0] https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/wikipedia-part-one
Izmaki and I were talking about the <html>, <head>, and <body> tags, not the article.

The smallest valid HTML document is:

<!DOCTYPE html><title>…</title>

If you put that into the validator, you will see that it is valid.
Maybe hosting isn't that hard to do it yourself, but what about SSL and DNS, or maybe even up to the ISP level? Is it feasible for a small group of people to build infrastructure to achieve total independence from deplatforming (within charity budgets)?
Who are terrorists? Foreigners the US government doesn't like? Who are domestic terrorists? Citizens the ruling faction doesn't like? Founding fathers must have been a bunch of terrorists.
I am in favor of these matters being handled and adjudicated via the courts, not by private entities with no due process, arbitrary process and limited oversight.

For all we know there was a limited group of users of that service that caused this action, however we don’t know and likely will never know the facts in this matter.
I have no idea why this is flagged as dupe
In one case it's a message of love. In the other it's a message of hate. You're personally welcome to treat them both the same, but I think you'll find most of society will treat the messages very differently.

If you can't understand why I'd imagine you're going to spend a lot of your life being extremely confused, angry and frustrated.
Yes, I do. That's like saying you want to ban phones because people use them to plot terrorist attacks.
The fediverse needs to find a way to abstract identity and consumption from content hosting before it can properly take off, imo.

As it stands, when joining as a casual user with limited technical knowlesge, you have to guess at which fiefdom is the best for you to join, and hope that your moderators are mature, even-handed and that nobody on your server does anything to get you defederated.

If things on your instance do go south, transferring hosts as I understand it is a pain in the ass, because you have to download your data off the server (assuming your account is still accessible), and then contact everyone you interact with (assuming your instance wasn't blocked by theirs), and tell them where you're moving to. Then you sign up for the new instance, upload your data, set a flag on your account to indicate that it's a transfered identity (optional). Fingers crossed your new host is federated with everyone you want to interact with.
Except that Nazis aren't a protected class.
There is absolutely no way you can be certain of the beliefs of the whole world in response to something. It’s hard enough to even feel confident you truly know the beliefs of a single person.

That alone is true, but this imagery itself is so grotesque that we ought to assume it led to a change in the degree of motive to cause harm. If you don’t believe me, consider a thought exercise where the identity of the person involved is exchanged with someone who did end up assassinated this way. Would it be reasonable to conclude this influenced it?
Its reputation is severely declining, especially on topics relating to current events, figures, or politics.

It, however, remains excellent for technical knowledge.
I think any true libertarian would support a new decentralized free speech platform (as resilient as a cockroach, blockchain or scihub).

btw does anyone know what happened to Diaspora project, is it still alive
Yeah I've seen people throwing that around for the last few years and obviously it's going really well.
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That is giving "kill all men" a metaphorical reading. That is a fair reading, it probably isn't actually a call to violence, they just feel frustrated about something.

The issue is that a fair reading is not being applied evenly. Twitter interprets "To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th" [0] as a call to violence. That isn't even close to a fair metaphorical reading, and it was probably meant literally.

[0] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...
I agree that Parler was deplorable and needed to go, but I keep seeing this "private companies can do whatever they want" argument, and it bothers me.

For the sake of discussion, would you feel the same way if the CEOs of AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast woke up tomorrow and decided they want to unilaterally block all of their customers from accessing any news sites they deem to be against their political leanings (just for the sake of discussion, let's say they block all access to MSNBC, CNN, WaPo, HuffPo, and the like).

If that happened, it would effectively cut off most Americans from being able to access news unless it agreed with those CEOs' political agenda. Would we all still be saying "well it's totally fine because AT&T et al are private companies"?

It seems obvious to me that sometimes companies become so large and have so much influence that they should not be allowed to just ban/block whoever they want, even if they are private. I'm not sure if AWS in particular is at that point, but the App Store and Google Play Store certainly feel close.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but I don't think this "they're private so they have no obligations to serve you" is valid at the scale of the companies in question.
But that’s sort of how the whole thing tends to work. If a topic is niche and one sided, you’ll get your small filter bubble which doesn’t really hurt anyone. If it’s controversial, the writing will tend towards the careful middle. It’s not perfect but works as well as anything its size could.
I replicated the tests and discovered kernel/libc are both using rep/mov for the copy so copy-speed isn't the cause of the difference.

The cause of the difference is spectre mitigations which now make system call overhead much higher than it should be. So much so that the cost of the additional pagefaults incurred by the inefficient mmap version get dwarfed.

With mitigations=off they both perform roughly identically.

You could smell a rat anyway because AVX copies may be faster, but not that much faster.
Surely the EFF will say that Amazon shouldn't be forced by the state to provide their services to a company they don't want to.
No, I mean AWS can choose to not host Parler, so why can't a baker choose to not make a gay wedding cake?
I also think Starting Strength is overrated, and I always push friends who are new to barbell training towards Greyskull LP (it's like SS but incorporates AMRAP sets, endurance, and conditioning).

Having said that: Starting Strength the book is invaluable to people who need instruction on the major compound movements and don't have access to a trainer / friend.
This is a rant, so stop reading now if you don't want to be offended.

I'm tired of this election fraud nonsense. 243 years of peaceful transitions ended the other day, and some of us take that personally. Here's the entire issue with this liberal-conservative dichotomy. No matter which one of you nuggetheads won, you would say the election was stolen by the other. Do you people seriously expect the rest of us to sit idly by and watch while you attempt to interrupt the implementation of the Constitutional order because you're butthurt? Many of us took oathes to uphold that Constitution with our lives if necessary. Not those pretend oathes you weekend warriors take before you go out to your range and practice shooting unarmed black kids or whatever. I'm talking about oathes that we fully intend to go to the grave with. You want to interrupt the Constitutional order at the Captiol? Fine. But next time, I'm telling you right now, you'd better be packing something a lot more powerful than some cockamamie story about election fraud.

That goes for the liberals too when your turn comes to relinquish power.

I can't believe that there are people out there who still can't see that this crosses a line. I'm done coddling these political people.
That depends on your definition of immoral however. Depending on your stances to things like the wars in Iraq and the Military Industrial Complex, politicians like McCain and Romney can seem like pure devils, while Trump seems rather tame.

And to be fair, it does seem like that tribalism feedback loop is ending, as the Democrats have gone for a relatively tame candidate, meanwhile moderate Republicans have already moved away from Trump. So, it seems like this whole populism thing will (hopefully) be a 4-year experiment.
Your comment is unhelpful, abstracct, and too hyperbolic for the purposes of this discussion.

Stick with reality. I dare you to defend Parlor. Or, if you don't like Parlor, we have a myriad of other deplatformings (Gamergate/4Chan, Church of Scientology/Wikipedia, and Daily Stormer / Cloudflare) you can discuss instead.

IMO, you want to run away to an imaginary world where the events of last Wednesday do not matter. Some pretend argument where people are taking away all cell phones (or something similarly unrealistic...). I'm not going to let you. At a bare minimum, you need to choose a realistic example from reality before I can take you seriously.

Lets be real, lets stay real. Lets use actual, reality-based arguments and discussions.
If real threats are being posted against lawmakers, there should be a legal process to resolve the situation.
Agenda-pushing is quite common on Wiki, especially around controversial areas. You can read all about it on the Talk page for each article. The hope is that it all balances out in the end, but this does become harder to guarantee as high-quality, reliable sources for some points of view are getting increasingly thin and hard to find, both online and offline. (I'm aware that Larry Sanger among others has complained about this development, but it is a genuinely hard problem to solve as we can't just get rid of all sourcing standards in the service of less-represented viewpoints.)
As I stated, the horseshoe is going to come full circle. Commence the sequence where burning books is a virtue.
It's fear mongering to bring up this "first they came for" stuff.
It reads like a slippery slop fallacy, these are also unusual circumstances.
It's safe to assume it means anyone protected by the GDPR, which includes the UK.
Interesting choice of words "imagined terrors and existential threats".

This is what Glen Greenwald was arguing that the left has been doing.