skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are fairly predictable quirks about Wikipedia:

- Articles in areas of math written in impenetrable jargon

- Encyclopedic articles about obscure, trivial subjects

- Stubs about relatively important individuals

- Tug-of-war entries about current events

- Random endless lists

- A lot of procedural fighting about original research, notability, etc.

But, as you say, a way to get pointers to or a quick take on a topic, it's pretty good. Am I going to take anything Wikipedia says to the bank without double-checking? Probably not. And, if you look deeply enough into some topics, you find a lot of circular references to some other single source of information. But overall, it's a good go-to reference.
I asked whether it should be controversial or sexist to use this cropped picture from Playboy as a sample image in computer science. No additional background info or context.

In general the Playboy is not considered "dirty porn" here in Germany which at least in part can be credited to the student movement of the late 60s which among many things addressed sexual self determination. So by some, a woman deciding to be featured in the Playboy or even porn was not seen as degrading but rather the opposite.

What might further surprise people from other parts of this planet is that for example at supermarkets and stores, the section featuring magazines has your typical tech, gaming, glamour magazines right next to ones with boobs on the cover for everyone to see. You see this from childhood on, it is not something bad and horrible and you're not taught that these women are desperate and couldn't find any other way to make money to survive.
Author here. React devs do respond to PRs very fast! It is definitely a pattern among company backed open source projects.
He also likes to retweet, probably likes to doom scroll as well. He won't get the same endorphin rushes from some boring government app.
I had more morality-type issues in mind. Something like The Genealogy of Morality by Nietzsche, in that what we think of as universal human moral attitudes have actually been very different in the past.

A modern example might be imperialism and expansionism. Pretty much universally condemned in 2020, yet was the SOP of basically every civilization since the beginning of time.
I like to think of it in algorithmical terms. Maintaining the code is O(n) on the size of the code
I think it was just a couple of them that got startled and looked suspicious or maybe he was there long enough to spot them whispering. After he called them out, I don't remember if he just checked their sheets and notes and let them return or if he called them to continue the test in another room under stricter supervision. I doubt that the students got wronged or treated unjustly in any way. The assistant might have pointed them out or something but I don't really remember all the details, just the brief anecdote.
> “You still have freedom of speech, but can only talk about subjects I approve of”.

No, it is:

“You still have freedom of speech, but not a free platform”.
The University of Oklahoma Press keeps Clyde Pharr's Homeric Greek in print (https://www.oupress.com/books/10672205/homeric-greek). Now, in tackling it by oneself, it certain helps to have learned some Greek already, or at least to be comfortable with grammatical notions such as case, tense, voice, and mood, whether through Latin or perhaps German.
Well, transferring money worldwide is pretty hard – cryptocurrencies wouldn't have had the same popularity if it wasn't.
Newsletters solve the user problem, in that you don’t need a large mass to make the thing work.
In the US, if your bank, retirement account, or brokerage's Web site or account setup process suggested that you name a beneficiary, that was probably a "beneficiary designation."

Those beneficiaries supercede whatever is in your will (if you have one).

Here's a rough summary that is not legal advice:

Pros of using a beneficiary designation: The account contents don't need to go through probate before being distributed. There may be some tax benefits for the recipients.

Cons: Because named beneficiaries are account-specific and retained by the bank (not centrally like a will), it's easy to forget to update them.

Either way, it's worth considering (a) for a given account, am I using a beneficiary designation or a will/probate, and (b) are the beneficiaries current?
Gab left the fediverse quite a while ago now:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_sti...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_sti...

I don't think they ever really cared about decentralisation/federation. Seems they just wanted a nice codebase to work from.
3000+ comments and I don't think I've seen the relevant XKCD?
https://xkcd.com/1357/
This is a perfect example of the Nirvana fallacy.

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, etc, etc, all struggle with the issues of content moderation. The perfect example is Facebook pulling down a journalist photo of, if memory serves, a naked girl in a warzone as CP when obviously it was not.

Yup, these systems are imperfect.

But I think it's pretty silly to claim they're completely worthless or ineffective and therefore moderation simply cannot be done, and Parler is therefore off the hook.

Heck, HN has commenting rules/guidelines. Are you suggesting those shouldn't exist and any system to enforce them is pointless?
> Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists [PR/press officers] above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie. We’re going to scrutinize, double-check, investigate with the same skepticism we’d approach a Trump tweet. Want to ensure the world’s biggest business media brand approaches you as a potential funnel of disinformation? Then hire away.

That's powerful stuff; a real "bring-it" attitude from Forbes.
When was "nowadays"? Gajim and Dino are definitely as decent as any native apps available for Matrix.

Sorry you feel that way about Prosody. If you have specific feedback we're always looking to improve the setup experience.

Snikket (briefly mentioned in the post) is an attempt to bundle everything you need for a modern communication server into a single package (e.g. automatic certs and stuff that you need for audio /video) out of the box. Maybe it sounds like it would suit you more.
To what extent could the UK regulate a US company? Especially if they don’t have a UK subsidiary.

Last I checked I publish a blog site and I did not get the necessary permission from Chinese authorities to do so... and I don’t care, I have no link to China.
I got the impression the Linus wasn't given much choice.

Is there an open-source project, US or not, that the Code of Conduct saga hasn't touched?
I think you can still believe in free speech as defined by the 1st amendment and still conclude that these companies acted ethically.
Trump and his troglodytes have other ways to reachbtheir audience. They have not bee prevented by the force of law from saying what they want to say. The 1st amendment doesn't apply to private companies and nor does it guarantee a platform. There were platforms back when it was formulated (newspapers). So, i don't think it is a case of "platforms did not exist so the 1st amendment could not account for them"
It's pretty clear he was being sarcastic!
I think deplatforming is exactly what we need here: neonazi and white supremacists are people who are reliant on easy to use discourse-amplifying platforms.
The more you make it difficult for them to gather virtually, the more you’re breaking the spell that keeps them together.
Before social media, physical neonazi or white supremacy chapter had A LOT of work to do to radicalize people, and were very easy to police and keep under control. With online-based organizational tools, radicalization became easier and harder to patrol.
Do you think a random Arkansas soccer mom would have ever joined anything as crazy as Q-anon conspiracy, if she had to attend Q-anon chapter in person instead of participating in an online forum while doing the laundry?
Companies should be shielded from ... the fair treatment of all people in a society?

What is your comment even saying?

Don't dogwhistle please, write what you really mean.
The China situation is complicated by the unfair nature of commerce with them. They can ban Twitter. Google etc. Rip off IP and so on.

So while not an enemy, they do engage in anticompetitive activities and we should counter them.
This article only slightly dips its toe into the discussion of human capital.

There isn't something inherently different about people in the nordic countries that makes them work well. It is the social systems and contracts we live in/with.

I can be secure in the knowledge that I can not be laid off if I am doing good work, unless my employer can truly justify it (the myth of employers not being able to lay of employees is just that. There has to be a justifiable reason though).
I know my healthcare is taken care of by the state, I get financial support if I want to start a family, get paid leave to be with my new born child, get most of my education for free, have high trust in the capabilities and fairness of the justice system and on and on.

All of this creates a relaxed environment where most of the base needs in Maslow's pyramid are taken care of, and I don't need to worry about them.
Similar to the Harvard study that showed that there was a sweet spot for the ratio of performance to salary increase, having these social norms & contracts in place leaves most of us free to get on with the work with a focus of doing the best we can each time without financial/health/education worries.

And, ofcourse there are plenty of problems in the nordics! Let no one ever sell you a utopian fairytale telling you otherwise.
Yelp tells you which restaurant to go to.

I must've missed that button in the app. Probably a good thing, since the places it recommends are gonna be full of straw men.
Of course people will boycott twitter if the company cannot easily ban content. They will label twitter as a network that promote right wing propaganda and push people to move to other places if they don’t want to be associated with that group.
buh buh tesla has musk aka ironman aka tony stark the most smartestest and handsome man in the whole wide world ... did i mention spacex ... im gonna get pornos on my phone from space now ... did you even consider that?
To me it's not obvious, if you consider the possibility to use a toilet a human right of the first class.
edit: pretty ridiculous that someone down voted my parent comment.
If you randomly clicked the accept button before you realized that is was asking you to agree to TOS, can you get back to the terms? I just realized that 99% of the sites that have TOS do not send me a copy of what I just agreed to or have anyway to get back to that screen. In most other circumstances, both sides of the agreement receive a signed copy for their records.
Owning your own hardware if not enough; if it was that easy it wouldn't be a big deal.

You still need access to the network, meaning people who are willing to peer with you. It'll be a big problem if a major player says "we'll cut you off if you peer with Parlor, directly or indirectly".

You also need access to domain names, payment providers, maybe advertising networks.
I see. So the fourth option which I omitted is that this a selective action that is inconsistent with their general behavior. I did so because I assume good faith on their part, but it sounds like you may disagree that is the case.
I don't think we can't not use it. But anyone on AWS or GCP needs to have a plan for the case where their business is suddenly deemed unacceptable (for whatever reason) and they may get cancelled.

The entire world cannot now use Parler (disclosure: I've never downloaded or used it) because a hundred or so people broke into a US government building for 2 hours.
Is Knitting Turing Complete? (2013)
Scuttlebutt wasn't built by "Silicon Valley hackers", but people from New Zealand, Sweden etc.

Unrelated to who builds it, decentralized or self-hosted platforms have been the go-to place for lots of extremist groups, even before MAGA, so not sure what this comment is supposed to bring to light?
Yes, it should be. Do you think govts will tolerate Western corporations having the power to ban any politician?
Nice to see he’s got some free time. It’s not like the Pandemic is out of control and should keep him busy... oh wait.
Respect for correcting yourself, that is a rare thing to see.

> the difference is you are still able to go and get information from others sources

True. If you want to stay with the road analogy, the big and fast roads will be closed to you, you have to resort to using the narrow forrest paths where your car can't drive. Those paths aren't easily found, and they are more cumbersome to use. It is qualitatively not the same.

Also, at what point do you become a non-citizen? When Google & Amazon cut you off? Your payment processor stops working? CloudFlare kicks you off their network? Paypal freezes your funds? AWS won't host you anymore? FB & Twitter delete your accounts? Your political enemies pressure your employer to fire you?
> I would think the UK Health Secretary

Minor nit, but he's not UK health secretary. Health is devolved so he only has responsibility for England.
There are a couple of things. The simplest one is that dollars leave the economy as soon as you deposit them in a bank because they get lent internationally versus local currency loans that stay local. The other is that imports are generally preferred in developing economies. It’s also hard for the government to tax transactions made in a foreign currency because they only really see local bank transactions and foreign exchanges.
If the US Government employs someone who could set up a `finger` server; they're a contractor.

I dont think they even have the ability to talk to anyone who could make that into a twitter bot.
I don't understand why people are resorting to apps like signal for privacy, personally. Edit: as in there are better alternatives
I never claimed any assumptions, just listed the set of possible things which could be true. Each of them, if true, have their problems.
Same with encryption, no? Also, you forgot to mention terrorism.
I grew up in Suffolk and probably be a foot mark until school was off, kids today though, in London 1" and it's in stone near on.
But health and safety along with insurance like liability insurance would of been a factor in that shift. Kinda like how many schools don't do rugby due to insurance costs - a factor when I was a child that changed in the early 80's. I'm sure been many more legal and liability factors added into the the overhead of managing and running a school.

Heck, with climate change 1" is probably the equivalent to a foot of snow half a decade ago. I jest, though probably not far of the mark.
We could always go the cigarette route: Put a big sticker (legally required) in front of every twitter & facebook post/page just like cigarette boxes need a "smoking kills" sticker. Something like:

"Warning: This site contains highly speculative & offensive gossip and might cause anxiety, stress, unattainable standards and lowered self-esteem. Information on this site should not be considered credible, and might cause radicalization and extremism."
Maybe because the lack of tolerance you're displaying is The Problem, and down voting is easier than dealing with it.

What if you're actually wrong and the other person is right? I'm sure it has happened before and will again.

How would you want to be treated if the roles were reversed?

Regardless; censoring, which is essentially what you're doing, can only push people further into their corners.
>I think this is more of a problem with our evolved social instincts not being well adapted to modern industrial capitalism than a quirk of American culture.

Perhaps we should work towards a society that offers better incentives in that case? I don't see what the point was of inventing technology if we still have to fight like crabs in an individualistic bucket.
How is this relevant to my point or the article?
Disagreed. Worked in multiple teams that only had senior developers and it was by far the best jobs I had.
> The enitity that tweeted this statement forecibly sterlized women

Do you have the slightest evidence for this? Census data shows that Uighur population doubled in the past 30 years, because this population hasn't been subjected to the "one child policy" among other things.

This is a war of propaganda, from both side. None is particularly more believable than the other. proceed with caution.
“Could we have more diligent in the educating...”

Jesus Christ man. You think you can educate the population to the point they don’t believe conspiracies and “fake news”?

I mean, how many anti-vaxers are postgraduates?

You’re absolutely nuts if you think you can “fix” the human condition through education.
You can bridge Whatsapp with Matrix and Matrix with many more messaging apps, e.g. Signal, Telegram, etc. using Android VM: https://matrix.org/docs/guides/whatsapp-bridging-mautrix-wha...

You can also use Matterbridge in a similar manner: https://ibcomputing.com/setting-up-whatsapp-telegram-bridge-...
In 2000 AMZN was worth $500 per book sold each year and Enron was worth $.01 megawatt hour traded each year.
He's also a very strange man aside from that. For example, have you seen that video of him standing uncomfortably close to a lady he's being interviewed with, and staring at her? Weird as fuck.
I don't know, sorry.

I mean, you can be completely sure that the website works offline by unplugging the cable/turning off your wifi connection after it's completely loaded. But that's just a functional test, not something you can expect users to do during a normal browsing session
I believe that what I'm suggesting is more like how spreading of information worked in the old days (increasingly bigger groups have to approve of the information). The problem is that today we have social media and false information can spread instantly to an entire population. This needs a new approach, because it creates problems like extreme polarization.
If I have to answer, I’d say $1.25MM vs $9k is more dissimilar than Tesla vs GM. But unless you believe that both Tesla and GM won’t grow sales, comparing market cap to cars sold in the last year(s) has only limited usefulness.

If we assume Tesla will grow units sold while GM will remain about static AND we assume GM is fairly valued (while assuming unit margins are the same for both companies), then it tells us Tesla needs to sell about 140 times as many cars per year in the future to justify its current stock price. Now, if you assume Tesla’s cars will have a margin 4x as large as GM’s and that GM’s business is undervalued by half, then if my math is correct, Tesla needs to sell only 17 times as many cars per year ($1.25MM/4=$312k, $9k*2=$18k, $312k/$18k=17). That 17x increase doesn’t seem totally unreasonable.

Of course, this also assumes that Tesla will make its money off of cars sold and not some other wild Muskian idea: if he develops world-beating self-driving software selling at 90% gross margins or wisely acquires other companies like Henry Singleton did at Teledyne, we could all be saying a $5 trillion market cap is cheap for Tesla in a few years! That said, as an investor, I wouldn’t buy today’s Tesla at even half its current stock price nor would I bet against Elon Musk (especially by shorting!). A lot of things have to go right for Tesla to justify its stock price; I just don’t have any way of predicting what Musk will do next!
In Spain we have the Real Academia Española that more or less serves as an authoritative source of correctness. The ps group was marked as deprecated, so you can pronounce s and be happy. The suggestion to also write sicología or setiembre (instead of psicología and september) didn't catch up though.

For gn we have ñ, so we're not tempted to interpret it a la francesa.
Yes, ask ;- View;-, then verify - aye, there's the rub...
Why'd this guy get downvoted? Are either of these assertions incorrect?
In fact, they're valuable in that most editors won't use them. (That said, they're also sort of a quirk with respect to verifiability in that, as a practical matter, almost no one is actually check the citation of an obscure book or an old offline magazine.)
In 2021, everything's a bubble.

Bonds... 10-year treasury after tax amounts to less than inflation.
Holding cash... The USG keeps giving out money for nothing, meaning more money chasing the same amount of goods, services and investments.
Index funds... Earnings yields are at all time lows, about 3%.
More footage of passing ducks and falling debris that they didn't bother to identify and filed as Unidentified?
If that's true, then is it not better the tweet stays up and is challenged?

In this case the fact the tweet was taken down made headlines, but if censorship like this is becoming the norm, as it looks like it is, then these issues potentially get no exposure or discussion.

That seems more dangerous to me.
Except the point I responded to talked about marketing and a huge user increase. Mastodon hasn't gained marketing or users, Gab did. They use the same code mostly but are separate platforms for all intent and purposes. You can't have your candy and eat it too.
I don’t know what you are considering severe, but I think that both Australia and California might disagree with you after the fires last year.
> However, there's nothing wrong with moving to a more conservative allocation that will do better in crashes, but still perform reasonably well if you hold it that way forever.

Rates of return are not the only reason to hold an particular type of asset, which is why bonds may be worth having even if yields are low:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/08/why-would-anyone-ow...