skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best thing to do, given that most people's largest saving goal in life is retirement, is to put away a little away every month. Sitting on the sidelines will give you absolutely abysmal long-term returns, even if you were omniscient and knew ahead of time when the crash(es) would come:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...

If you know when the peak and the trough will be, then you can jump in an out. The thing is by missing the worst days you tend to miss the best days:

* https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2019/02/08/miss-the-worst-...
The key word is usually immanent

Unless there was someone with an actual firing squad or what have you while he is speaking, it's not directed towards immanent lawless violence. Your own timeline points out that it was made a day later.

Now, that doesn't make it any less repugnant, it just means that this particular speech can't be incitement unless there's some other events that let it fit the standard.

Everyone has gone nuts lately. Even other lawyers like Ken White of Popehat were musing about some events being an "argument for the gallows" on Twitter.
The Stargate is real!?
Trying to stab here since the only clue I have is "from Japan" but maybe the connection is routed in Russia instead of routing via Asia/ME or US/CA/UK (more likely if the connection is from KDDI/au than NTT) and your Hetzner instance is in Finland. There are relatively few links from Japan to Russia (note that they are carrier links so they are unhampered by censoring) so connections are impacted that way. Maybe run a traceroute to check it, and then ask Hetzner and your ISP (be patient on your ISP, but sometimes you tend to be lucky) to fix this issue. Unfortunately short of running a VPN to a different uplink (Scaleway! OVH! The horror!) or switching to a different ISP with different uplink, there's nothing you can do about this.
Yes, I hope so, first I hope that we will be using more DSLs (with easier ways to design them), and with DSLs program synthesis becomes more tractable.
> If the mob had managed to find and destroy the electoral certificates

You have a lot of replies so sorry if someone else said this, but this wouldn't have been much of a big deal. There are 6 copies of the electoral certificates: one sent to the VP, one sent to the SOS, 2 sent to a federal judge from the state, and 2 sent to a US archivist. I don't know which copies they were using on 1/6. Maybe the VP's? But if they destroyed them, we have others.
I agree that the amount of "blatant lies" adhered to by large chunks of American citizens is causing/exacerbating our socio-political issues. But I also agree that changing social media is probably not enough. American politics has become an arms race of increasingly polarizing ideologies none of which are particularly appealing/helpful to normal people.

Shared primary ballots is a good start, but it seems like the most meaningful change to our political system would be implementing a system of ranked voting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting). Among other things, that would help break the two-party nightmare cased by first-past-the-post voting.
Yes, it was a poor attempt of trying to explain the common misconception that the First Amendment applies to private business. You are correct, though, the word censorship is broader than that.
I'm guessing "Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Google, Twitter"
> Human moral attitudes are also very different, in different parts of the world, in the present.

True, but still much less so than they were before the Modern era.

Regarding imperialism, I don’t think your examples are quite apt. While modern nation states have power bases around the world, this is nothing like most historical empires. The American economic “empire” is nothing compared to the Romans, Mongols, etc.
It's not even the #1 electric car in Norway, and Norway buys a greater % of electric cars than anyone else.

I assume it's because everybody is too afraid to short their stock after what happened to the shorters before.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/01/china-documents-uighur-...

There are primary sources available that are the basis of this report.
Exactly! Decentralization is the only viable long term solution here.
Its actually quite amazing, given those numbers, that things actually work in Norway. From what you're describing, somehow 1/2 of the working age population is able to support the other half of the working and a sizeable non working population.
There are some real gems here. Love the plain text format.

Reminds me of the Yarchive.
https://www.yarchive.net
From the article:

> TS It's certainly the case that a lot of CRDTs are really complicated, especially in those instances where they represent some sort of complex interrelated state. A classic example would be the CRDTs used for document editing, string interjection, and that sort of thing. But the vast majority of machine-generated data is of the write-once, delete-never, update-never, append-only variety. That's the type of data yielded by the idempotent transactions that occur when a device measures what something looked like at one particular point in time. It's this element of idempotency in machine-generated data that really lends itself to the use of simplistic CRDTs.

So for this particular use case, the CRDT is simple and they want to favor availability over consistency. I'm not sure if they provide further guarantees, e.g. from the description in the article it seems that temporary holes in the time series would be allowed if updates would arrive out-of-order.

The article also mentions Cassandra, it seems they went for a different design so progress is more quickly visible in the DB (among other reasons I suppose).

> What we wanted was a topology that looked similar to consistent hashing databases like DynamoDB or Riak or Cassandra, but we also wanted to make some minor adjustments, and we wanted all of the data types to be CRDTs [conflict-free replicated data types]. We ended up building a CRDT-exclusive database. That radically changes what is possible, specifically around how you make progress writing to the database.
The problem with this statement is that there's a literal "ministry of information" involved, in the Orwellian sense of a controlling censor, and it's the Chinese government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Industry_and_Infor...
I got banned there in 2016 when someone said the left was being hypocritical for criticizing Trump’s call to make flag burning illegal but ignoring that Clinton had authored a bill to criminalize flag burning when she was a Senator.

My offense? I looked up the bill, which did indeed criminalize some flag burning and was indeed authored by her, and posted that in a comment there, along with the official bill summary and a link to the full bill.

I got banned from /r/conservative for agreeing with Ronald Reagan and the first President Bush on some issues, favoring a market based approach over regulation. I did not point explicitly mention Reagan or Bush, and the moderators nailed me for these far left opinions!
Only if it falls on Americans, otherwise it’s just raising the average per capita CO2 output.
> Why can’t I just walk away from social strata to begin with, and live my life happily as a “lower class” citizen living in the woods if I want?

That's certainly an idealistic or romantic idea but it's not in any way realistic.

Being poor, depending on where you live, also means having no social safety net. It means you can't educate your children, it means you and your family are vulnerable to all the social ills that afflict those who are in poverty. Being poor gives you the short end of the stick in almost every way that matters.

It's not like everyone (or anyone, really) can live like the family in the film "Captain Fantastic", isolated in the woods, yet somehow thriving, more fit, and better educated. There's a documentary about people that lived for generations in the woods in Siberia for religious reasons. It was fanatic Christian sect called "True Believers" (can't find the documentary, but here's the Vice News story, https://youtu.be/tt2AYafET68). Definitely not an attractive lifestyle!
Ok, so heres the argument in other words: Gay people should be able to live their lives with the same rights and privileges of any straight person. I do not believe in similar protections for a company that exists to host and promote the violent extremist rhetoric shunned elsewhere by polite society.
Ask HN: How much time does Dang spend moderating?
It's a thankless job, so here's a thank you from me, but I'm curious how much work it is to keep this community on track during such unprecedented times.
Doesn’t this still open you up for profiling by WhatsApp/Facebook on the WhatsApp edges of your communication?
Of course this is highly subject, but I think that the view of the general public is generally favorable towards encryption (as it also provides privacy), and governments/law enforcement agencies have again more recently tried to paint it in a bad light. I think the jury is still out whether that is successful, and the public will adapt that opinion too.
Yarchive
That would be morbid, but ISTM I'm not rooting for it so much as observing its near inevitability.

Americans have not worn masks, for ten months during which it was clear wearing masks would save many lives and shorten the economic downturn as well. Now the anti-liberal and anti-vax and anti-thought camps have joined forces (some would say the latter two camps have been at least associated for some time) to decline vaccines. Millions of doses are expiring in their very-cold freezers. Morons like Gov Cuomo are scheming to make it more rather than less difficult to receive vaccines. Also people still aren't wearing masks, which (when pressed) experts will admit are and have been actually more effective at preventing infection than vaccines. High-quality masks are still more difficult to obtain than they should be.

All of that is to say that the "effective reproduction number" (R) still far exceeds one, and will for the foreseeable future. Since that hasn't changed, the salient difference between 2020 and 2021 is that on 2020-1-1 there were very few infected and contagious Americans. On 2021-1-1 there were millions. My prediction is simple arithmetic, though it's not allowed on all-wishful-thinking-all-the-time TV news.

Of course R could be changed dramatically by dramatic action. Other nations such as Taiwan opted for that early last year. I really do hope we do that. We could make masks mandatory for all public interaction. We could pay people enough money ($1000 a week might do it?) to stay home. We could make covid vaccination mandatory in the same way that e.g. measles vaccination is. We could actually make enough high-quality masks (currently, massive government/corporate/whosever failure to do so is hidden behind the fact that lots of easily duped people have been persuaded not to wear masks). We could actually make enough vaccines (ditto).

Surely I don't have to finish the argument? No currently-conceivable USA government, whether controlled by Democrats or Republicans, is going to take one of the eminently reasonable steps I've suggested above, while invalidating my prediction will require several of them.

Also, you're completely wrong about 2009. Allowing firms to die is "capitalism" as it's always inaccurately presented. Allowing humans to die is inhumane.
>>I think when you set out to become ubiquitous, gobble up competitors in your space and advertise yourself in order to gain more followers to cement your network effects.

By that logic, MS Windows licenses should be free and Wal-mart should be forced to stay in every location it killed off all the competitors. Maybe home depot and ikea too?

But MS windows isn't free, and box stores close locations. TBH, I find these 'mostly monopolies' a lot more disturbing then social media companies.
Alright:

> It’s like denying someone electricity.

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.

> It may not be exactly indispensable now, but they want to become such.

So they're not now, but they want to be, so we need to treat them like they are? That's like saying we should apply monopoly laws to every company in a market because they're trying to grow. When Twitter has a monopoly on the distribution of speech, I'll agree with you. In the meantime, even without social media, there are more ways to deliver a message than there ever have been in the history of mankind.

As has been mentioned over and over the last few days, freedom of speech means you have the right to say it, not the right to broadcast it.

> In that light I think in ten years when they are your bank and whatever else

I say this semi-sarcastically, but when I can't spend my money because I've been deplatformed from twitter, I screwed up more than them.
Good point and it makes sense now why the project managers work for Blue Origin rather than SpaceX
>Under current rules, couples in China are allowed to have up to two children, with couples in some rural areas allowed up to three.

Aren't recognized "ethnic minorites" (or however they phrase the term) exempt from this law? Uighurs, Tibetans, etc.

At a minimum, I thought the limit was higher (than the historic limits for not-minority families).

Can anyone confirm or point to authoritative info in english?
Twitter is not an arm of the US government. It's like saying I don't have the right to choose what is published in my newsletter [0].

[0] I don't actually have a newsletter.
They’re still out there plotting.

Have they truly been suppressed?

They can still engage in a fulfilling life for themselves or continue to demand of others.

Let’s see what they choose.
It also called Vector before.
Given that UFO means unidentified flying object, wouldn't that tend to look something like "X reported seeing XYZ, we don't know what it was"?
The terminology is unfortunate at best, deliberately racist at worst. Authoritarian nationalists' obsession with them being "clean" and others being "unclean" has a very sordid history. Even if they're misnomers, "secure" or "safe" would have been better, or any number of completely value-neutral names.
> I am astonished by how many people claim that China has forcibly steralised women. It might very well be, but I have not seen any evidence yet.

While yes, it's true it's very difficult to get solid data out of remote and tightly-locked-down regions of totalitarian states...

Let's be honest: if you wanted to Tweet something that convinced the world you were sterilizing Uighurs, this is what you would Tweet. "Pay no attention to that marked change in birth rate, that's just because our women are so happy now!" Yikes.
Let’s actually switch examples to the Civil Rights Movement. That shows up on the curriculum in kindergarten. Would you have five year olds debating the merits of segregation?

Consider that people were having debates about whether things like democracy and slavery and caste systems were good for centuries before people got on board. And plenty of people still aren’t! What should the teacher do if the kids on Debate Team Jim Crow actually win the debate? Step in and say “actually, equality is better, let me show you why”? Or do we now have a bunch of kids who go through life thinking that we actually should make Black people drinking from different water fountains?

I also suspect that plenty of teachers themselves are not quite as bought in on racial equality as we’d hope.

Because problem is that segregation, fascism, etc aren’t “bad” per se. We don’t reject them because there’s some inherent logical fallacy — we do it because they’re morally wrong. It took us hundreds of years to get here, and if we’re going to get further it will be because we drew a line in the sand and said “hey, treating people in this particular way is just better than doing it this other way”.
Hill climbing works in some cases, but not very well. eventually it still goes towards full direct search.
One of the interesting approaches, is hierarchical search, where first some smaller subrotines are found, and then they are included as building blocks for more high level complex programs.
>they have a 1000-mile head start on their competition

This is just more abstract phrasing.

They make good, albeit expensive, cars that their fan-base seems happy with. They lead in a few things(tech, batteries) and are behind in others (maybe self-driving, definitely quality). Where is the 1000-mile lead?
Here's a graph showing how long it would take to read the ToS of some prominent companies:
https://i.redd.it/j6cd57dbrga61.png
I'm glad y'all found a Republican that can condemn the Reichtag Fire strongly and unequivocally in the original Austrian.
Overreact... according to whom? The side that doesn't want a reaction?
Hill climbing works in some cases, but not very well. eventually it still goes towards full direct search.
One of the interesting approaches, is hierarchical search, where first some smaller subroutines are found, and then they are included as building blocks for more high level complex programs.
I see your point, and this raises the question of internet being a basic universal right. I think it is and I think the ISPs should be treated as such and thus unable to pick and choose what content we are served so if Parler buys their own servers and connects then they should be fine.

I'm against the highest level of the stack so to speak having to be available to everyone such as Twitter, that would be us saying these companies are too critical to our way of life and forcing a private entity to do business with those it doesn't want to, which is not only dangerous but I believe simply not true if we foster the building of others and should be summarily changed or investigated as a new type of monopoly if we find (are finding?) that they are becoming too critical, centralizing is bad.

I am also against people not being able to connect their services at the lower level of the stack to then build out their offering on the higher level of the stack though and that's where I think we need to regulate.
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It will be used to justify the expansion of surveillance because Apple/Google/Facebook/Twitter are forcing the connoisseurs of the conspiracy theories into other platforms that don't have as high of protection from foreign intelligence service influence. Essentially, keeping debate in the open and public is the best option for everyone, even if you [rightfully] disagree with it or it's woefully misguided.

Apple/Google/Facebook/Twitter's actions are making things far worse for everyone by forcing conversations underground to alt platforms.

Freedom of speech and expression is really _really_ important on private forums for that reason.
I agree. I think one thing I’ve realized is that a few thousand years isn’t really that long of a timespan. And people writing around the time of Rome and even earlier weren’t stupid like I’ve tended to think of them. I think that’s why things like philosophy have persisted through time. It’s not like humans were unable to reason about their existence in the time of Rome. If I read and think about those folks and their experience of the human condition, I am able to relate to someone who lived many generations before me, which I think is pretty incredible to be honest.
Interesting project. How does it compare to Briar https://briarproject.org/ ?
Google banned Parler the day before Apple and Amazon. Apple's ban was announced the day Google banned Parler but they gave Parler 24 hours notice to comply, which they didn't.
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That's a damn strong Pareto distribution. Makes sense though. Those are an interesting and passionate few.
Usenet Archives collected by Norman Yarvin

In which the host has filtered the signal from the noise until the S:N approaches unity.

Wide range of practical information.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linus-linux.ogg
Agreed. With each movement and gyration I feel a metaphorical boa-constrictor wrapping tighter and tighter around our freedoms. I can put myself on both sides of most arguments, while my emotional attachment is to a democratic socialist leaning. The implications for tech determining how, where, what and why to every aspect of our daily lives is deeply concerning. Freedom of speech has always had limits and those limits are essential to democracy. Those limits were deeply debated among legal scholars for decades before decisions were made.

Now I feel we are making quick brash moves in a moment of excitement and drunkin power, with no judicial oversight. In our collective hangovers we will begin to realize the true ramifications of tech companies deciding what is fair speech and fair thought at its inception, way before a movement, momentum or Legal judicial oversight is even possible.
And other people, in particular brown people in far away places like the Middle East or Africa are just numbers, so we should definitely try to reduce those.

Or you can remember that you and your family also are population, and your environmental impact per capita is an order of magnitude higher than most people’s in Africa, so you could really help with the reduction yourself.
Is there some kind of search phrase where you would say, that your search engine returns better results than the competition?
Most discussions of temperature extremes I’ve seen focus on their change in frequency. That’s not a distortion at all, that’s a changing average (and corresponding increase in volatility).
> I will say it's been surprising and disappointing to see people who have been railing against tech company centralized power for years, it turns out their big issue is more when that power is not directed in a direction they like.

What else can you do?

Saying that tech co is wrong today is as much career suicide as saying that the US deserved 9/11 was in 2002. I even had one guy tell me he is going full accelerationist on his main twitter because the http based internet is a dead end and the more unusable it becomes the sooner we will get something better.
I'm running ejabberd now, it's been fine for me. Years ago I found it much easier to get all the XEPs conversations wanted working with it. Everything I needed was built into ejabbered and not all the prosody modules I needed were packaged for debian.

What is the landscape like now? I want to be convinced to switch, what does prosody do better?
An option is a zero sum game. The payoff on a long option position is the same as on the short position but with the opposite sign. This means the profit on one side of the deal always comes from a loss on the other side, and the other way around. That's the definition of a zero-sum game.
Wait — do you think that abolitionists were not deplatformed?
You shouldn't trust the headline. The article itself is much more ambivalent.
He's not evil, he just can't see past making money.
https://jamestown.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Zenz-Intern...
Well I decided yesterday to convert my own social media platform (quanta.wiki) to fully decentralized where each user runs the full system, like a blockchains. Then people can communicate as long as the internet is kept running.

People like you aren't going to admit there's a problem until your own phone, power, or banking account is cut off. People on the left are happily giving up their rights and freedoms because they think the government won't come after them too some day, but if you understand history, human nature, and power, you should realize that's quite an ignorant stance.