skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Truth is government issued money is worth less and less over time

Yes, that's the deal with money, which incentivises you to either spend it or invest it in productive (unlike BTC) enterprises. As it happens, inflation has been very low, arguably too low in the last decade+.
Why would a glass repair guy be surprised about broken glass? I know the point here is that it was spontaneous, but if anyone is regularly hearing about spontaneous breakages it would be the people repairing them.
thanks nodematic, appreciate the input
Really? I don't see any difference, except I do see a pixel shift if I switch between uncompressed/AVIF.

This could happen due to DC shifts (one pixel gets quantized, the rest are coded as a difference from it), or a mistake in the post-decoding pipeline (gamma/colorspace correction).
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. OpenAPI schema generation is one of the most challenging elements of developing with CRDs. Anyone who is not an apimachinery SME is likely to struggle at some point to get their schema generated as expected.
Anyone who thinks this is a line too far really needs to start reading these sites before they get deplatformed. There are constant, intense calls for violence (in Minecraft), photoshopped porn of Hunter Biden and just a regular stream of dog whistles and keywords that cannot be interpreted any other way.

There is no loss here. The right has collectively lost its mind and these sites are pure sewer.

On top of this, the sites are ironically so anti-left that you are banned instantly if you even tried to discuss something in good faith. It'd be hilarious if it wasn't so terrible.
Facebook? No.

Reddit? No central moderation beyond court orders. They were a lot better when they let each community decide their own standards pre-2017.
My favorite of these guys was West Virginia state legislator Derrick Evans:

>The video shows a crowd surging through a Capitol door, past security, while an alarm repeatedly blares. As Evans enters an area called National Statuary Hall he celebrates and states his own name: “We’re in! We’re in! Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!”

https://wvmetronews.com/2021/01/09/derrick-evans-resigns-w-v...
I'm actually saying the opposite — bad things are bad when corporations do them, even if for now legal.
Why would the government care? They’re only silencing democrat opposition. They won’t do anything
> it is essential to maintain freedom of association.

Exactly. That's why the government should enforce my freedom to associate with who I want on my phone.
That’s known as the Scottish Shower, perhaps because Scotland is all too often wet and cold, or perhaps as a reminder not to relax in indulgent things as there’ll soon be something along to spoil the fun!

On a more serious note, I take cold or Scottish showers all year except for the coldest part (because Japanese houses have the worst insulation you’ll come across so you’ll go from cold to cold) and it does make me feel better. Even just enduring the pain of the cold seems to bring benefits.
Word2Vec Models
Ok, this works now!

You need g++9, and then you can:

make
make install

and then the script will be like

#!/usr/bin/env KataScript
print("hello ", "world");

Any KataScript script with an extension other than ".ks" is now assumed to be a bash script and the first line will be treated as a shebang.
The Greatest Game (Case for Bitcoin)
Here is a great thread on Twitter that explains how Trump did. https://twitter.com/sethabramson/status/1347908845281095680?...
Note how they call it the "first amendment protest", and not "the assault on the Capitol".
Problem is: what constitutes acceptable moderation?

Much of the “cancelling” going on now is strained deliberate misinterpretation of intentions/statements of opponents, a power play for a political purge.

Problem is: how to specify what moderation is acceptable for Apple et al, without making it abundantly clear how biased/bigoted/unfair the demands are?
What’s the grey here?
I often see the meme that modern technology has made free speech too dangerous.

I wonder how has modern technology made censorship safer?
> Polls estimate between 15 million and 26 million people participated in the United States, making these protests potentially the largest movement in terms of participation in U.S. history.[1]

If 15+ million people were rioting, we wouldn't have a single structure left standing in the country. A fraction of a percent of the protesters were bad actors, and nobody is defending them so I will leave you to abuse that strawman in peace.

100% of the people who invaded the US Capitol were rioters.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_George_Floyd_protests_...
> "Not sure why this was dead"

Looking at their other posts, likely because the user was banned.
Since you can't actually figure out the most obvious point ever made in a comment. The Dominion company used Solarwinds, which could have directly affected our elections after multiple companies were breached from the hack.

In Georgia, a security professional proved that machines were not only attached to the Internet, but were getting updates from servers outside the country and had the ability to be updated in real-time.

This was never investigated.
I agree that this should be decided in a courtroom. If Trump wishes to sue Twitter or the US Government, he is more than free to do so.

However, I think both his case and yours is undermined by the very, very strong circumstantial evidence that after his lawyer, Giuliani, called for "trial by combat" and he said that he would personally lead the crowd in a march on the Capitol on Jan 6th the violent insurrection actually took place is a very strong argument that he incited the uprising.

Furthermore, the fact that even as these Trump supporters were occupying the Capitol he said that he "loves them", that also undermines any argument that he did not incite sedition.
Kakao Taxi can operate because it's app hails cabs that are not owned by kakao, they are independently owned cabs. Tata was shut down because it owned the cabs and the app. Uber has faced extreme regulatory issues in Seoul and SK generally yet operated under the Kakao T model.
I think the web is already the corporate-agnostic way to do apps in. If they lack some device features I think this is a technical limitation and a different topic. Things have got so much better in that regard already in just the last 5-10 years.
>Perhaps you have a polite and actually specific refutation?

No I don't. And, you have not provided a specific allegation to refute. You have expressed vague concern that is dire. You are a concern troll. Bye.
Greenwald rang the alarm on this just yesterday.

Violence in the Capitol, Dangers in the Aftermath

From the Cold War to the War on Terror: the harms from authoritarian "solutions" are often greater than the threats they are ostensibly designed to combat.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/violence-in-the-capitol-dan...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686567
I respond below why invasion is not necessary, reunification through whatever means is preferable, but ultimately Chinese goals is for Taiwan not to be a strategic liability, and for that they can glass Taiwan into Yemen indefinitely without landing a single boot on the ground if US/Taiwan relation ever threatens Chinese security. US goal is to contain China, that's extremely difficult medium/long term without war, even if it means sacrificing Taiwan in the first place. This move is engineered to sacrifice Taiwan for an eventual confrontation that benefits US short/medium term force balance. Pompeo is fishing for war. Taiwan is the bait.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25707318
This is hardly something you recommend to anybody. If it works for you great, but for most people it could even be dangerous:

1. Marijuana promotes appetite (munchees is the name). Canabinoid receptor antagonist promotes anorexy. This might depend greatly on the marijuana strain (CBD vs THC vs ...)

2. Your state of the mind is different, you might even got hit by the car.

If you talk about doing it after exercise, then its a different thing.
.... That over overturned decades ago.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
Fortnite was banned after I bought my new iPhone.

I didn't know it would happen, never thought it could happen, and I would have reconsidered my purchase if I knew.
Scala Accord
That is the strategy, but the problem is that it produces an exhaust of increasingly angry people with fewer and fewer ties to society, with each distillation cycle.

Even though you're filtering out the less-radical and committed members of a population, you're also priming everyone left behind to be more sympathetic to the excesses of the people who stuck around.

These were tolerable outcomes for already fringe communities.

But as the technique is scaled up to impact increasingly broad segments of the population, I believe it creates something increasingly large, and increasingly dangerous dangerous.
I don't think that's what they're down voting.
And it's not even as tricky and nuanced as the rules about "this" in JavaScript!

https://john-dugan.com/this-in-javascript/
I spent an afternoon downloading stuff from right wing sites before it could be deleted and uploading it to the FBI. I hope it helps. Amusing that being so anti-mask makes it so easy for the FBI to identify the bad actors.

If you want to downvote rather than discuss I'm happy to burn karma for this.
funny how all the #resistance and #defundthepolice folks are actively working with the feds and law enforcement and cheering them on
Trump has been calling openly to overturn the election every day from Nov 3rd until Jan 6th, including when he was caught on tape attempting to convince the Secretary of State of Georgia to illegally overturn the election there.
In WW2 the attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise ending to the dominance of the battleship, marking the first time that a power attempted to attack Battleship's by air. While this had been theorized for a few decades, all of the great powers continued to invest in battleships.

No power has attempted to sink a carrier since 1945, there is ultimately limited data on how effective any anti-carrier weapon developed in the last 80 years would be in practice.
"ALL censorship is bad, free speech is good. Counter bad arguments with good arguments" has long been the consensus, but when applied it has fundamentally failed. You don't have reasoned debates with people that have been brainwashed into cults, and who cannot tell the difference between truth and fiction. There are demonstrated dangers, recently and throughout history, of allowing certain people (particularly violent and powerful people) to have unlimited, unrestrained free speech.

Saying that Twitter should not be allowed to ban Trump is taking away Twitter's free speech rights to decide who they want to have in their community and on their private, non governmental platform. If you disagree with that, you are proposing to regulate Twitter as a public utility that will be able to censor Twitter's right to do that. But even without that, inciting riots and threatening people was never considered protected speech anyways, and that's exactly what he was doing with his account.

What's happened on Twitter instead, is that instead of banning him long ago for violating their policies multiple times over, they've in fact protected him unduly as he does things that would have gotten other people removed from the platform and probably sued or arrested a long time ago. He has in fact gotten more free speech rights than other people have.

This shouldn't surprise anyone that has studied American history. Free speech laws disproportionately empower people of means of using them, and much less people like their victims. The flavor of free speech in this country I'm told to unconditionally believe in was conceived by landholders and plantation owners. How much freedom of speech did Thomas Jefferson's slaves have? Unconditional "free speech", which thanks to Citizens United now includes money, still principally serves the Masters: the rich and powerful, the owners, far more than it will ever serve their victims. We don't do free speech or it's victims any favors by whitewashing the history of free speech, who disproportionately benefits from it, and who are the victims of it.

I'm not opposed to "free speech", but the tech crowd needs to get a lot better about understanding that there are nuances and complexities to it, and stop treating it like a religious edict that has to be worshiped unconditionally. They need to understand that applying it in a pure form can lead to outcomes that are dangerous to our safety and our society. If 2020 hasn't made this crystal clear, I really don't know what else I can do to convince people of this. I can't even eat at restaurants anymore.
I just modified my comment to make it more clear what I meant.

But you're right, probably just error due to compression/quantization etc. in DC shift or in colorspace conversion. It seems to happen in low quality JPEG too after I did some quick tests myself.
Okay fine, but guess what a Democratic house is going to do with objections when there aren't wild irregularities, they are going to reject the objections. If the chambers are split, it becomes ceremonial.

You'd almost think the law they wrote was intended to make it ceremonial, while reserving the capability to do something in the face of a real problem.
Already exists https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
> (which also isn't even a legislative concept)

What do "legislative" concepts have to do with the judiciary? You're just throwing around random jargon you don't understand.

> but not all claims were on the face of it crazy.

All the fraud claims were crazy. Every single one of them.

> allowing interrogation of serious claims in court

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think a single plaintiff with standing (i.e. Trump or another candidate who allegedly lost a race due to fraud) ever litigated a voter fraud claim in court. Do you know why? Because no serious government lawyer is willing to destroy their reputation by litigating obviously frivolous claims. All the fraud claims were litigated by 3rd party cranks with no standing, hence their dismissal on "procedural grounds". The only lawsuits initiated by Trump or other candidates directly were procedural ones (e.g. complaining about whether or not certain deadlines were changed legally), NOT fraud related. If no one with standing wants to put their reputation on the line to litigate nonsense fraud claims then it is not the fault of the courts that the fraud claims cannot be properly evaluated.

> Nothing was stopping the Supreme Court from hearing the (e.g.) Texas v. Pennsylvania lawsuit; it's up to the court itself to decide standing

Yes there was, it's called federalism. Texas doesn't get a say in how Pennsylvania holds its elections. Texas v. Pennsylvania also had absolutely nothing to do with fraud. Texas was just complaining about changes PA made to PA state election laws. And again, the SCOTUS response was, correctly, "fuck off, state's rights".

> If they are groundless, great; many people will recognize that and you will increase confidence in the results.

This is extraordinarily naive. There is no evidence of fraud and every single non-brainwashed person is already aware of that. The ONLY reason why so many people believe fraud happened is because Donald Trump says so, and a large fraction of the population treat him as an infallible cult leader. It doesn't matter how many cases the courts rule on and how thoroughly everything crank theory is investigated. The Trump cult will just claim the courts are controlled by the deep state pedophiles.
This is why social media platforms are anti competitive and in risk of anti trust lawsuits. You don’t get to twist trumps words and then ban the @POTUS account just because he threatens to create a competing platform.

No reasonable person could take that as incitement. So the only logical answer is anti competitive behaviour, or political manipulation/interference.
The government, who will soon be lead by someone of the exact opposite political leaning to the crowd on Parler?
Inciting violence is free speech, by definition.
Don't get me wrong, crypto is incredibly bubbly. It is physically stressful to keep up with at times.

The bubbles are observable, though, and we have over a decade of time elapsed in order to show that in addition to bubbles (and full corrections!) on that basis of hype, there is an overall growth trend that results from the mathematical scarcity which .com shares lack.

As far as comparison to a dotcom, they had to make payroll, nurture a profitable market, predict changes, outpace rivals etc. Many ways to suffer catastrophic death in that equation. whereas a bitcoin has no such requirement. All it has to do is not inflate too bad.
Seriously.

Could there possibly be anything more against the spirit of the Apple 1984 commercial than them kicking off a messaging system that lets people say whatever they want?

What's next, email? Are they going to ban text messages because people say no-no words on there?
This should be decided in a courtroom, not by oligarch tech CEOs
It's hard to read any of these arguments in good-faith.

A single person has enough power to incite a mob that threatens the life of our government officials. That seems like "too much power" to me. A mob consisting of .001% of the US population threatening our cabinet seems like "too much power" to me.

Until we have a better way to figure out what causes that sort of conspiracy-theory mania, deplatforming is a million times better than insurrection.
Letting me run what I want on my iPhone won't make your iPhone any less secure.
Everything we're witnessing is a result of the slavers prepping for the collapse of the world reserve fiat global enslavement system, and their attempts to maintain dominion throughout. The permissionless, decentralized, alternatives, aren't part of the same freefall as all the perpetually inflated fiat currencies, and are problem for them. https://fiatmarketcap.com/

They must convince us to accept the violations of speech, press, privacy, property, and arms, in order to deal with cryptocurrencies. If we're able to communicate, we're able to use cryptocurrencies. This is why we're being inundated with endless pretenses.. so that we'll be cowards willing to exchange essential liberties for the illusion of security.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706993
The Hindsight Depression
I was very proud of this pun :(
Apple Removes Parler from App Store
US dollar lost 7% of its value in 2020
The implications of this event keeps growing.

New video shows Capitol riot was way worse than we thought

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-99178053752
"terror attack"
these corporations may as well be the government
Also covered by MacRumors:

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/09/apple-suspends-parler-f...
You don't think limiting free speech to speech that does not incite illegal violence is not a reasonable limitation?
Dо̄zo – keep an eye on your students
2021 would be better, they said. things can only look up after 2020, they said...

it's starting to feel like someone is tightening the screws on the tech companies. that is, if one wants to provide a charitable explanation for their decisions this past year. it's pretty surreal to see tech sector's lockstep march.
China’s New Rules Could Hit U.S. Firms and Send a Message to Biden
As an apple user who enjoys the security and perf guarantees Apple gives via its walled-garden - I give a hearty “go build your own phone” to you :)
You can find that sort of trash on Parler, Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere - from people of many political stripes.
They already edited the pistol emoji to a squirt gun to further a political agenda.

It's not the same, but it's the same ballpark.
Thats a neat fact which i wasn't aware of. I had read most of his essays (the edition by Everyman's Library contains the most in a single volume) but not all of his novels. So i think i need to revisit Orwell again.

I recently noticed that "Oxford World's Classics" has started publishing Orwell's works in their series. The books in this series are generally very good with a great introduction giving the background/setting the tone for the work and great authorship/translators.
It's crazy to me that you think the media should make that decision for us instead of just presenting the facts.
For the longest time, Tether claimed a 1:1 backing. They referenced audits that didn't exist, and so forth.

Finally, their own lawyer admitted in a court briefing that they had less than 74%.

No-one has heard from their CEO or CFO in over a year.

Next significant court date is next Friday, 1/15.
This is really “narc-y”.
I’m glad that private businesses have the ability and confidence to restrict government speech on their platforms.

What I find concerning, however, is a large group of companies which are direct competitors of each other are acting unilaterally to the ban same users on platforms completely unrelated.
That’s another reason to allow alternate app stores.
But if all the data is stored in a central database, wouldn't that essentially make it centralized?
What is the probability that this happened to my friends mom as well? We noticed because there was some stuff in the back that didn't belong to them.

What is the probability that yours was the same type of car as theirs? Unfortunately I don't remember for sure. But it was a small car. Sorry I can't be more specific. It's been like 30 years :)
MethodScript[0] is a programming language I’ve been working on for a decade or so. It’s can be run on the command line, but it started as and is mostly useful as a programming language for Minecraft server admins, through a bukkit plugin named CommandHelper.

It has a lot to desire as a general purpose programming language, and it’s clearly a work in progress, with bugs aplenty I’m sure, but I’m proud of what’s there so far, and it’s got a niche but devoted following in the domain it’s currently in.

Would love for more devs to join as contributors!

[0] https://methodscript.com
Urbit looks gimicky. Maybe something you can buy an SD card for a Raspberry Pi for or something simple enough would be far more likely to become popular, especially if you sell a ready to run setup. Imagine more people running their own Fediverse instances.
Sure, there are a few bad apples in every bunch, but they're not gonna fucking bomb an American city. I'm not arguing with you, just trying to anchor you to reality.
> My honest opinion is that Trump wanted a BIG rally to demonstrate that he had a lot of support to make the idea that he lost to Biden seem absurd.

He wasn't trying to win a rhetorical debate, he was serious as a heart attack about overturning an election that had been thoroughly litigated and decided by the states.
Windows 10S exists now and to a significant extent, is exactly that.
Is downvoting to censor comments something that should be against the guidelines or not?
As opposed to massive multinational corporations controlling traditional media?

I'd be willing to bet almost anything that the latter have been far more demonstrably toxic than all but the darkest corners of the Internet. Because they have a huge captive audience and have been operating as toxic bad faith actors lying and pandering to the prejudices of low information audiences for decades now.

We don't just need a conversation about Twitter, or even about Google. Or Apple.

We also need a conversation about Fox and the rest, and the fact that a tiny handful of corporations control TV content, movies, music, book publishing, print of other kinds, and so on.

In the bigger picture, Twitter is practically a small indie platform.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/13/target-swiftly-bans-boo...

but I should add they later reversed the decision
Why is that surprising when so many of these videos show cops not doing their job in a very critical moment. Tons of evidence here against the police.