skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except the Apple comment I don't think I've been making political comments in threads where the topic wasn't political to start with.

And this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23495773
The OP literally asks for an unpopular opinion... You can't fault me for answering?

But you are right about me being too focused on political comments lately. I wasn't aware I was doing that.

Thanks for your work on HN.
I guess what I’m looking for is some consistency in messaging. Right now it looks like tribe allegiance is the leading factor for opinions on Jan 6th and all of the other protests of 2020.

Tell me your tribe, and I’ll tell you your opinion.
These are terrible ideas IMHO.

Republicans don't like mail-in voting because it makes it a lot easier for the entire population to vote, and they have been spending the last few decades making it a lot harder for people who are not rich white suburbanites to vote.
Interesting. 2/3rds of Dems believe that Russia tampered with vote tallies for Trump [0]- i.e. stole the 2016 election. Who's being held accountable there?

[0] https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
> In some parts of the United States being denied utilities can (and does) lead to death as a result of exposure. I don't believe comparing this to deplatforming from the internet is a good faith argument.

Without getting into the point of the conversation[1], taking the most extreme interpretation of someone else's words and argue against that would be the no good faith argument in this case, IMO. The HN guidelines encourage to steelman the other person's point and argue against that; you seem to have done the opposite.

In other words, the other person didn't argue that removing access to social media was akin to killing you (like it would be for a few people if they didn't have access to electricity), but that it would be a huge inconvenience (like it would be for most people if they lost access to electricity).

[1]: I'm starting to not see the point in discussing the merits of free speech or what constitutes free speech or censorship. I believe free speech is fundamental, and for that reason it's anyone's prerogative to think otherwise. Getting into that discussion at all is also a bit ironic.
I feel this is one of the major problems with most TOSs...

You generally don't have a lawyer around to explain every TOS you come across, so people ignore them and hope for the best.

Hmm - I wonder if there would be a niche for a website that explains specific, common TOSs in easy to understand terms?
That depends entirely where you live, how you live, and how long you live. A million doesn't go that far. It won't even buy a tiny fixer upper from the early half of the last century where I live (Vancouver).

People can live 30 years from retirement. A million doesn't go far like that. There's no safe returns on that money anymore.
Yup. Here's an interesting article listing a bunch of things that assorted groups have used for this [1].

It's not clear that you should bring such a mitigation with you, though, as that might help make the case that what you were doing that got you gassed was premeditated, which can up the seriousness of what you might be charged with and the potential penalties.

[1] https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/tear-gas-guide/
I second that. It's not only that you make yourself completely intertwined with a Cloud by using more than fundamental services.

The costs of lambda or even DDB are IMMENSE. These only pay off for services that have a high return per request. I.e. if you get a lot of value out of lambda calls, sure, use them. But for anything high-frequency that earns you little to nothing on its own, forget about it.

Generally all your critical infrastructure should be Cloud independent. That narrows your choices largely to EC2, SQS, perhaps Kinesis, Rout53, and the like. And even there you should implement all your features with two clouds, i.e. Azure and AWS, just to be sure.

The good news is also the bad news. There are effectively only two options: Azure or AWS. Google Cloud is a joke. They arbitrary change their prices, terminate existing products, offer zero support. It's just like we have come to love Google. They just don't give a shit about customers. Google only cares about "architecture", i.e. how cool do I feel as engineer having built that service. Customer service is something that Google doesn't seem to understand. So think carefully if you want to buy into their "product". Google, literally, only develops products for their own benefit.
I like the spirit of minimizing the chance of going broke instead of shooting for as much money as possible. At some point maybe you will reach a point where it appears the chance of going broke is vanishingly small, and then it will be much easier to change to focusing on charitable contributions if that is important to you.
Here's a little summary of Kristallnacht for anyone who thinks the Capitol protest was comparable:

> Rioters destroyed 267 synagogues throughout Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland. Over 7,000 Jewish businesses were damaged or destroyed, and 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps.

> Estimates of fatalities caused by the attacks have varied. Early reports estimated that 91 Jews had been murdered. Modern analysis of German scholarly sources puts the figure much higher

This is exactly the type of hyperbolic rhetoric that only enflames political tension.

Also, don't forget that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were cheering on the BLM rioters who killed 30 people and caused $2 billion in property damage.
Other explanation:

Republicans have mostly posted online, rallied with Trump etc while BLM and friends has been torching cities, looting etc.

Basically the police weren't expecting anything near this from this crowd and it took them by surprise.

Disgusting anyways.
RT_PREEMPT is very much capable of real-time applications. Outside of control loops faster than a couple kHz, it's even suitable for hard real-time applications.

But those issues aren't fixed with Linux, but rather with CPUs design for hard real-time usage.
Wow, this is a powerful, emotional message from Arnold, in which he, among other things, talks about the Nazi regime's impact on his father's life and on his childhood, dealing with the consequences, in Austria.

It's also the first time I've seen a prominent Republican politician explicitly compare the recent storming of the US Capitol to Kristallnacht[a], and the actions of the current president with the actions of the rising regime in Germany in the late 1930's, leading to WWII.

It's only 7+ minutes long. Watch it.

[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht -- Arnold also alludes to but doesn't explicitly mention earlier events in the 1930's, such as the Reichstag fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

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PS. Normally I would flag messages by politicians without a second thought, but I think this one deserves to be on HN given its personal nature, its historical context, and the unprecedented circumstances.
It's a hollow victory if you'll become a fascist to fight fascists.
How is your degree in Googling Stuff working out? :) I'm joking. That situation sounds different.
My understanding of opinion polls referenced here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_unification#Taiwan_(RO...

States {polls consistently found 70% to 80% of all residents in Taiwan opposed to unification through CCP's "One country, two systems"} which means 20-30% are for it?

I definitely don't know enough to know if people are pretending to want reunification or actually do.
I guess I'm not familiar enough with C++'s iterators. In most languages I'm familiar with, an iterator is an abstract concept that only knows how to get the next item and (sometimes) tell whether or not it's finished.
Sure, I recommend opening a regular brokerage account with Vanguard. you can open it in 10 minutes, and it might take a few business days to transfer in the initial batch of funds.

Then once you have one of the vanguard mutual funds (let's say Target 2060), you can literally have it automatically pull from your bank account every 2 weeks and invest it straight into the fund. You'll never even have to log in after that. Bump up your monthly investment whenever you can, and over a couple years (or a decade or so) you'll end up excellent financial security and even possibly real wealth without realizing it.
The iPhone is more like a train than a car. Off-tracking, let alone off-roading, is technically prevented. It’s sort of a buyer-beware situation. I get that you’re unhappy with their chosen business model, design decisions and implementation. The natural remedy in a capitalist system is to choose an alternate product from a different manufacturer. You’re free to petition them of course, but the decision remains theirs. Or maybe you can petition the creation of laws to outlaw their business model. But of your three options, the first seems most expedient and reliable.
It's not written in rust; gcc is written in c. There is no bootstrapping involved.
If the percentage of pages that are considered controversial grows every year... wouldn’t that eventually mean every page will be controversial and thus not attract well-meaning contributors?
https://siastats.info/sia101 is a nice newbie guide to Sia and Skynet but the more technical guides and troubleshooting knowledge exists at https://siasetup.info
I fail to see how can I be any clearer. It's yes to both your questions. I am not saying anything about what should be done. My only question is, do you think govts will tolerate Western corporations having the power to ban any politician? A simple yes or no will suffice.

Here is a real life example of what I was talking about in my original comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25714824
I dunno, the flying saucer / alien stuff is kind of fun to watch people go nuts over and pretty harmless. I think a Goodyear blimp was mistaken recently for aliens too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUjO03loz8M
Second for Backblaze B2. I adopted it slowly but now I'm a massive fan. The pricing is just so reasonable for what you get and the tools/APIs are great.
Thanks for the analysis. Have you checked out Matrix? I'm looking for a p2p network layer and am most attracted to it so far but haven't used any of them yet
Until Gmail stops accepting mail from his domain.

Which happens to normal people all the time.
Strange. I've been calling /etc "etsy" for 25 years.
1 million is a woefully small amount of money to retire with?

HN needs to live in the real world and learn what most people retire with
In some ways we’ve come full circle: SV was enabled by defence types, I bet a lot of the early work in advanced electronics and decentralized communications was carried out by “square” types who used “socialist” as an insult. There are still plenty of traditionalist right-wingers in STEM.
As far as I can tell, this is written in C++ like the rest of GCC, so they don't need a rust compiler to bootstrap.
> The main finding from an admittedly quick look is that drinking artificially sweet soda may encourage people to eat more calories and gain weight. If you're controlling your calorie intake then that's irrelevant.

It's relevant because controlling caloric intake without relying on the bodies natural hunger signals seems to be close to impossible for most people. The alternative is to ignore your gnawing stomach all day and carry a food scale to every meal. Only the most dedicated athletes can sustain a routine like that. Everyone else eats until they are satiated and will gain weight.

There's an obesity epidemic in the US and discounting mounting evidence of a substance modifying our eating habits in a potentially unhealthy way as "unsubstantiated woo" strikes me as counterproductive. We should be taking a very critical look at the American diet as something is wrong.
Gardens Need Walls
We've all been hearing about machine learning algorithms that can parse legalese and pull out the important bits given parameters of interest. So certainly a possibility.

HN make it so!
Fortunately the US is now a net oil producer and looks to be one for the indefinite future. Hopefully this will help reduce need for the US to militarily maintain access to that resource by force.
Written by Adrian Zenz. I am sorry but if you really want to convince me/someone something isn't propaganda Adrian Zenz isn't the person to link. He is ultra religious and wrote some questional material before he felt "lead by God" against China, and has had quite a few times were we spread fake news.

I find it weird to denounce one as propaganda but not look into who wrote this. A lot of the anti China sources are based on his or US and/or weapon manufacturers funded sources.
is this saying the lockdown rules have no effect, or that people actually locking down has no effect?

ive certainly noticed in austin that while many people are taking more precautions the actual rules are mostly ignored.
No good CEO would offload that responsibility onto a rookie CTO.
Russian president does not use the internet at all. There is nothing to block.
> Twitter sucks at this. It only removes Right Wing content.

https://twitter.com/cecilyy15/status/410145078670536704?s=20

https://twitter.com/cjevans64/status/333093612520865792?s=20

https://twitter.com/dlwest4/status/387428416753917952?s=20

https://twitter.com/_dresslr/status/455476238334033920?s=20

There are literally pages more.

What you mean is Twitter doesn't prioritize your singular reports on low engagement tweets from years ago.

If they had more engagement they could have more reports.

But keep martyring yourself, it results in amusing justifications like thinking there wouldn't be racist people who had clamored for the assassination of the first black president of the United States :)

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Also your bringing up that PM is a great example too!

Twitter has bent over backwards for politically influential individuals. Twitter was under the impression nothing Trump could do would get his account banned while president, they even said as much!

It took 5 deaths at the Capitol during an attempted attack on Congress as a direct result of his actions for them throw in the towel.

I mean the man threatened nuclear war over Twitter and Twitter didn't bat an eyelid. Compared to that a poorly worded comment about genocide seems about par?
Far as I can tell, matrix needs to focus harder on the user experience. It was a pain to get set up on.
Yeah I agree - Rust does have more static checking than is strictly needed for many domains. But I think the reason for that is strictly orthogonal to type safety - rather it's because Rust's approach to memory management is a lot more demanding on the programmer than GC.

Speaking only in terms of type systems, I think Rust's features - like algebraic types and explicit nullability - are strictly better than Go and make it easier to write correct code. It just happens to be that this benefit is eclipsed by all the ceremony required to satisfy the borrow checker.

> Swift ... has some maturing to do before it’s ready for more than Apple GUI apps

I actually think Swift as a language is plenty ready for general purpose programming. The problem is the tooling. It's supposedly being worked on, but last time I checked it's possible but not at all simple to get it running on anything other than Apple platforms and a few blessed linux distros. Also I had the experience that every time I would uprgade the toolchain, it would pretty much break all my larger projects. Even though I like Swift as a language more than Rust in some ways, I've pretty much abandoned it on new projects, because with Rust I can just run `cargo run` on any system and be pretty confident it's going to work, and Swift is very far from this.

Also you always feel like the language is a bit at Apple's whim. Like when SwiftUI was released, they shoe-horned a number of features into the language which seemed pretty half-baked because of iOS's priorities. It makes one hesitant to invest too much in a language which is so heavily influenced by a single stakeholder who may have different interests than you.
So I understand correctly, do you mean to wash it after every (most) uses, and apply a little oil after washing? No need to bake in the oven or anything like that?
Sounds like cherry picked data. Australia managed to eradicate the virus through very very strict lockdown, though there has recently been again an uptick in cases.

And in Austria the number of intensive care beds given over to covid 19 was over 90% in some counties and after the latest lockdowns this dropped significantly.
I've always thought that people believe in conspiracy theories mostly because their lives are unstable or out of control. Financial safety nets would likely solve a lot of the underlying fear.
The anonymous view feature is cool. A comparison with DDG would be nice.
Links to these studies?
I wonder if this (baffling) line of reasoning will become the new "Open Source/FOSS is Communism" of the late '90s early '00s...
If you follow people you don't trust to understand these mechanisms, and wield them accordingly, then maybe. But IF you understand how this works, the client will never prevent you from reading something you would want. And it's hard-if-not-impossible to prevent the client from fetching a specific feed. So in that sense, no, not censorship.

It is good practice on SSB though to make a comment on why you block a feed. There are many reasons, from NSFW content to actual harassment to simply spammyness being an issue when you replicate the entire feed onto a mobile device.

Of course, that practice is not enforced by technical means. But it is still quite common. And in that case you actually get a notification.
Beware evolution's pruning. It optimises for survival (and as a consequence, reproduction and ruthlessness), which is often at odds with what people value.
The problem is that "free speech" is too often conflated with "being able to say whatever the hell I want, however horrific it is".

In my humble opinion, a democracy is one in which free speech is championed, but ultimately this freedom is trumped (genuinely no pun intended...) by the ability of the individual or group to actually rationally talk, accept difference and rationalise their point of view.

My liberty to say "the earth is flat" or "Covid19 doesn't exist" is not "free speech" but lunacy. I have zero rational evidence to support these positions, and I'd be unable in the face of serious scrutiny to even try to support these.

Science is a great example of a method which actually works. The whole, entire point of the scientific method is that it is based around being right until it is proved wrong. Every single serious academic ever knows this: they publish a paper with a theory, and they pretty much literally ask their community to shoot it down. Sometimes the theories remain for decades, sometimes they're found to be wrong immediately, and then a new paper and theory is published which sets out the latest position, there again until it is proved wrong.

The interesting thing in almost all the examples being pored over right now - Twitter and Trump, Parler, Voat - is that the individuals concerned are actually all involved in an echo chamber which self-supports. They are completely unable to rationalise, and if you ever tried jumping onto any of these streams or platforms and providing an alternative point of view then you'll see exactly what I mean by this - you're almost immediately flamed out of the room. The irony here - that these "free speech" platforms are the least able to support any kind of dissenting opinion - is intense.

Ultimately, the person claiming the primacy of "free speech" needs to accept that this freedom has a price: they need to be able to defend their position, and accept that others have alternative positions, and accept that even if their position is "true" now, it may not be "true" when further evidence emerges. This is rarely, I would suggest never, the case in the examples provided here.

In terms of this specific thread: I don't see Parler as a "platform of free speech". I see it as "a self-supporting echo chamber of individuals who are completely against free speech".
Yes they do!

https://twitter.com/en/tos

>By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed (for clarity, these rights include, for example, curating, transforming, and translating).
Yes that certainly does happen. Which is why I don't use Gmail :)
2020 Trends: Say Covid Again
Covid deaths: 2020 is deadliest year in US history with 3M dead
Mansion & caviar is an exaggeration, but you can probably live the rest of your days being looked after on a perpetual cruise ship for $40k if that’s your sort of thing.

And if you can perpetually have the type of holiday most people only dream of, I would say you are doing ok!
There are actual humans placing such links to the point that there is an explicit rule against doing that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:SEAOFBLUE
I can't speak for Theo's number (it does seem high) but in my own experience working on similar data models, the typical machine-generated data model size roughly doubles every 6 months on average and has been growing at this rate for two decades.

This implies that average data models today are a million times larger than data models a decade ago. Exabyte scale working data models have been something I've needed to consider in designs for at least a few years. We are surprisingly close to overflowing 64-bit integers in real systems.
This is exactly how the brown shirts got started so it isn't much of a stretch. Captain orange is going to keep this game up for the next few years until the dementia takes him out. He can still do more damage.
I see, so it’s written in C++. Would it remain that way, though? AFAIK the LLVM Rust is, itself, written in Rust, right? I imagine that it would be a goal to do the same for gcc.
Neutrality in context really means covering all the significant points of view that are supported by reliable sources. The tricky concepts are the notions of undue weight (you really can't document everything anyone has ever said about Aristotle, for instance), and where to draw the line on what sources are regarded as reliable.
I think XMPP got attacked not because of the fragmented ecosystem of clients, but because the standard itself (in the sense of the complete set of XEPs in existence) got fragmented. As far as I know, multiple competing/overlapping XEPs were not an uncommon situation.

Compared to this, the Matrix standard(s) have thus far been able to maintain a certain kind of coherence (IMO), allowing for at least a vision of what a complete implementation of a server or client should look like. The standard is versioned so that you can aim for support of a particular version instead of a pick-and-choose subset of functionality. Also, part of the Matrix's coherence story probably lies in the fact that there is an "official" set of clients in the form of the Element clients.

Ultimately, you cannot prevent others from writing incomplete servers or clients. But you can show what the goal looks like and have other implementations approach it asymptotically.
Yeah, I tried SepiaSearch, but I couldn't find anything. As an example, I searched for "Golf". The first two videos are Twitch clips of people playing video game mini-golf and "golf bowling". Then there's a video about the Trump administration and coronavirus, and then a bunch of videos on topics that have low edit distance, like "wolf" and "gold".

Maybe that's just a bad topic and no one is uploading golf content to PeerTube.
> and apparently is implementing AV1

Where is that happening?