skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concern with this is that it gives the "rain skeptics" a platform to spread their views, and presents "rain skeptics" as a legitimate alternative to the "rain scientists". The problem with this is that once people are given a platform and presented as legitimate, then they can convince people not based on the logic of their arguments but on things which have nothing to do with the matter under debate (e.g. "I like the way he speaks, not like that snooty scientist").

I think people I know have been convinced in this manner. I don't think people necessarily reflect on why they were convinced. They just know that they agree with the "rain skeptics".

I'm not convinced that giving "rain skeptics" a platform would be the right thing to do if they only make up a small percentage of the population. If they make up half the population, I have no idea.

EDIT: My experience above is probably not helped by weak moderation in debates. Moderators with a backbone would probably help in cases where "rain skeptics" are given a platform. Sadly that seems to be rare.
It's a WSJ article about Google. I wouldn't hold my breath
Then use the power of the government to regulate and break up the tech monopolies. The answer is simple and obvious.

I don't want GoDaddy to have the authority to remove arbitrary folks from the Internet. I want GoDaddy to not exist at all. I want large datacenter owners to be regulated like utilities.

However, the same political stance which desires all of the violence and hate against our government is also the political stance which insists that our government is useless and bloated, too big and decadent to achieve victories for the people.

Who do you think gave responsibility to Silicon Valley? Who signed up millions of Americans for Facebook, retweeted millions of context-free quips, opened millions of Google email accounts, and bought millions of iPhones? It was the American public, including the 20% of Americans who voted for an open fascist for president.

If you want an end to censorship, then you should also want an end to corporatism and capitalism. That's the cognitive dissonance that is worth examining.
Lol thanks. I only clicked here to see if any discussion around those two words
Presumably this is a PR move for GoDaddy. If you are doing business with anybody you are political and making political decisions. Profit and politics are intimately connected, it’s just a bit more obvious in the ad industry.
Only thing disappoints me about Mikrotik is the wireless performance of their routers, which seems to that is more about the RouterOS then the hardware itself. You can never know if the next update will improve or worsen WiFi perf.
Otherwise they have really good products.
I feel like you read the parent comment too quickly. In short, the argument is that if we tolerate the intolerant and they come into power, our freedoms will be gone as well. This is why Germany bans Nazi symbols and propaganda.
Fascism is quite literally the merger of corporations with government (see corporatism [1]). In non-Nazi Fascist countries, such as proto-fascist pre-Anschluss Austria and Mussolini's Italy, the government was organized such that individuals and 'stakeholders' (i.e., companies, unions, and guilds) were given a say in government. In interviews with NYT journalists, this is the eventual structure that even Adolf Hitler also had in mind after the revolution was through [3].

Yesterday, we saw the American corporate board take actions that used to be the sole purview of a government. They did this at a time while the current administration (the one they harmed) pursues anti-trust lawsuits against them. This is a clear blurring in the distinction between the incoming administration's government and corporations. The incoming administration would do best to criticize the banning of their opposition. Not only would it make them look like they're taking the 'higher road', it would put them in line with other major liberal western powers, such as Germany, France, etc, all of whom have condemned what happened yesterday. However, instead, we have seen the embrace of these corporate actions by the new congress. It is especially concerning when the incoming president took more donations than his opposition from large corporations [2].

This is very concerning, and -- unlike the constant doom-predictions of 'fasciscm' of the last four years, which have been made without any attention paid to the history of fascism -- brings us closer to actual fascism -- that is to say, the merger of corporations, unions, and government -- than any action of the last four years. That is not to say we're Nazi Germany by any means (for that we'd have to start injecting the language of racial superiority into the picture), but I just want to point this out. The number of people cheering uncritically (especially those in government) is incredibly concerning.

References:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#Corporatist_economic_s...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/politics/joe-biden-don...
[3] https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/07/10/119...

Exact quote since it's behind a paywall:

"Asked if, after four years or twenty years of dictator ship, he foresaw the resumption of parliamentary government in Germany, the Chancellor [Hitler] paused: 'Yes,' he said finally, 'but with a Parliament of another and better type, in which representation will be on a technical basis. Such a development is the Italian corporative State.' (this is what I reference above on Wikipedia)
The tech forums have always been pretty good resources, and even in GD there are plenty of people I admire, including most of the old hands. swingset, subnet, DK-Prof, Aimless, Miami JBT, and Zhukov to name a few. But it ain't all sunshine and rainbows, and reading GD in the past 2 months wouldn't give anybody a very good impression of "firearm enthusiasts".

Credit where it's due: unlike, say, TheDonald or even r/conservative, it is a free speech zone. I don't recall them banning anybody for expressing a political opinion. If you were left-leaning you would definitely get dogpiled by commenters calling you an idiot or a shill, so you probably wouldn't hang around very long, but that's just what happens when the community is 95+% right wing, and maybe 50+% what you might call far right wing. You would not be censored just for going against the herd.

It's been moderated much more strictly in recent days, including moving most political discussion to a separate, paid-members-only board, but it still takes like 10 clicks around GD to find a post where somebody suggests it might've been good if some Democrats in congress died that day. Subtle and not-so-subtle race replacement conspiracy theory rears its ugly head now and then in GD too. If you're GoDaddy, looking at what happened and what type of rhetoric led to it, I can see why you'd want to distance yourself ASAP. It's not the call I would've made if I ran a DNS registrar, but I'm not going to pretend there's nothing there to justify it.
What is the practical value in better VT compatibility?

I'm not familiar with the history, but I guess this is essentially referring to a standard defined by hardware products from the 1970s? Why is that still relevant?
You don’t seem to be making much of an attempt to understand.
Great analogy. Think of it like Amazon Mechanical Turk.
> It should be illegal for the salesperson to put the KitchenAid product behind a mixer from another manufacturer, just because the other manufacturer paid them to.

This seems insane to me. I can't believe how hungry for legislation people are. If I own a store I should be able to stock anything I want and arrange it however I want. Why should the US government get a say in that?
Yeah, what is the trait of the credit card companies,patreon and the hosting companies? Take care of your back, dont bend that much backwards.
Building a successful startup is hard. Even a software startup. You don’t just need a few engineers who know what they’re doing. You need designers, product managers, data analysts, marketeers, PR, some sales people maybe, finance folk, people ops, and maybe even a lawyer or two who understands tech. On top of that, you need people who are capable of bringing it all together and operate different orgs as a real tech company should, ie managers.

If you have any hope of succeeding, you need to eventually fill all those positions with experienced hires. Where are all the experienced tech workers? They’re in the already established tech hubs. How do you get those experienced tech workers to move to your aspiring tech hub? I don’t know, but certainly not with lower salaries and skimpy benefits. I don’t think I would leave SF to work at a startup in Toronto, or, let’s say Houston, where I couldn’t be confident that the company would be able to fill all the other roles it needs to to succeed.
I had the same experience with a local webshop here (bol.com). I needed two types of batteries but these webshops are more like marketplaces. They don't have a feature to search for items from a particular vendor. But I was able to simply browse and order the two types of batteries from a single vendor.

Next day: two packages. From the same vendor.

(Now that I think about it, the original sin was buying a product that is not rechargeable.)
Turn boring bookmarks into embedded audio and video cards
Plenty of countries pass laws stating the the truth is propaganda - the US equivalent would be calling it Fake News, only they'd actually legally prohibit anything the gov says is fake news.
I think you could put any non-Valley country/region name there instead of Canada
I think 4chan is different. It has a unique user base with a lot of internet history. If you take it down it will create a new energy in the free speech movement that will gain incredible momentum. 4chan is definitely functioning as a containment site right now. It hasn't changed in years, so a replacement would likely be more innovative.
It's amazing how many people on HN are falling back on ideology to make sense of what happened.
Red light used to indicate recording, traditionally.

I'd expect the light to be green when I'm safe from spying.
Loaded for first time on my pixel 3. Loaded fine I guess, but too small to glean anything :( I then zoomed in and nothing happened, then I was zoomed way too far in, and the page twitched again to be zoomed in on a different section, and I bounced. But it seems really cool. I'm curious what it would be like with dart and or solidJS
> Like similar "laws" (e.g., Murphy's law), it is intended to be humorous rather than the literal truth.
its false.
It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle. Can you please not do that? It's against the rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and it's the line across which we start banning accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...), regardless of which politics they're battling for. This is because it destroys what HN is supposed to exist for, which is curious conversation on a wide range of topics.
If that is the kind of work published by academics associated with the MIT and La Pontificia Universidad de Madrid, then maybe I should not feel frustrated after all by not being an academic.
>My day job is at a boutique consulting company that explicitly allows side projects in our employment contract.
>It helps a ton if your employer allows it. Seems like it might be hard to come by employers who do this though.

Really? This is normal? I find it extremely bizarre and not to mention shitty that an employer should somehow have any say whatsoever about what you do for economic or personal gain in your free personal time. You're not a piece of property and never should be controlled to this degree no matter the nature of your work.
What’s wrong with their solution / implemention? Why do they have to defend against a tear down?
Banks halt business with Trump after U.S. Capitol riots
thank you xml enthusiast I hope you write xml all day long
Now its moved to “but lockdowns have been going on so long that this is just normal deaths from everything else” and “thats not a covid death!” Not realizing that the flu also has those same counting errors or overlapping causes, leading everyone to begin clarifying “complications related to COVID-19”

“Fortunately” we get to see how much further their mental gymnastics will go as the death count will begin greatly exceeding all other causes over the next 3 months!

Any guesses?

“It was a tough winter for people that already were stressed!”
All cameras should also have this.
Reading his post reminds me of the fund manager who said he sold all his positions back in 2000 when he found his grandma was buying stocks.
>In USSR you were free to write any book or newspaper opinion column.

It's not a book or a newspaper column until it's printer as a book or in a newspaper. You were free to write a manuscript, even then you could get in trouble.

>More subtle creations, where criticizing is expressed via proxy of science fiction or abstract ideas...

could make you unemployable, locked up in an asylum, banned from major cities or imprisoned or even shot as an enemy of the people or a Hungarian spy, depending on the current leader.

>That’s when you would have to go full P2P blockchain with SAMIZDAT...

Which meant a single untrustworthy node in the chain could take you back to the previous paragraph.

>But if your unbaised view on USSR party/leaders/direction/methods was aligned with the party...

There was very little chance an unbiased view aligned with the party on anything important, especially party/leaders/direction/methods.

>Another artifact of the USSR is a mandatory line in your CV and references - that you were never involved in any anti-USSR meetings, protests and movements.

Unauthorized university poetry clubs, however removed from politics, have been classified as above.
They were not, no. My Dad and I spoke on the phone today. They live in a depressed town in rural Ohio. He said, "I can see 9 Trump flags from the front porch." _Those_ people cannot afford to fly to D.C. They are desperate and they do feel abandoned. I have a hard time not saying here that they are justified in that feeling. It really does look like they've been abandoned. This is how we ended up with Trump in the first place...
Sometimes the principle is what matters, not extenuating circumstances.
it's getting downvoted because you said this in the most racist sounding way possible.

"Various polish governments have done XYZ" vs. "polish people lie". It's similar to "Israel does XYZ to Palestinians" vs "Jews want XYZ to happen to Palestinians" (to use a common antisemitic trope trying to justify antisemitism)
How does one have a valid TLS cert on a piece of software that uses a "localhost website"?
After a very lucrative exit I was looking at options chains and saw that I could make six figures every month, selling monthly expiring options that were far OTM enough to make me feel like I wasn't crazy.

However, even then, it's not even close to being my best option because the tail risk, however small, is there — and when things come down to the wire I'm going to get ulcers, win or lose.

Albeit, if you actually do want to sell or buy at market price (and are patient about it), you can use option premiums to get just a little bit more money for something you were already going to do (the goal being to get assigned, on purpose).
Restricting speech that calls for the lynching of the Vice President is “destroying free speech” in the same way that restricting the ownership of nukes is “destroying the right to bear arms”. Prohibiting people from yelling fire in a crowded theater is not “destroying free speech.”

I’d advise you to read about:

- the paradox of tolerance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

- the “imminent lawless action” standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
There's a mind bending TED Talk on this which really opened my mind on this topic: https://youtu.be/xYemnKEKx0c

I highly recommend checking it out. In my opinion it is one of the greatest talks of all time and it gave me goosebumps. But if you are really busy, a summary is that everyone has varying degrees of psychopathy that make a gray area in between extreme labels.
You'd think that he'd be better at interpreting IC markings by now, though....

Part 1 is not "ICFJ", it's "CFJ". The line is the pin 1 marking. This one is the harder of the two; however, if you've been doing this a while, you'd recognize this SOT23-5 as coming from TI, whose online marking code lookup returns "SN74LVC1G14DCK" in just a few seconds. (Incidentally, that means the actual marking is "CF" with a lot/date code marker of "J"; the random-looking lines above and below the text are also a lot or date mark.) No acid needed!

Part 2 isn't marked "COOR", it's "C00" with lot/date code "R". That's decodeable by eye as a TI LVC2G00 dual NAND gate.

The third part, the one marked "JW", is probably an ON Semiconductor dual transistor, but those guys are always harder to track down. The fourth one, the SOT-323 (?) marked "39R"... that one will be hardest of all.
All of the "weird" phenomena are just everyday wave phenomena as far as I can see - e.g. the uncertainty principle applies just as much to plain old classical wave packets as it does to QM objects. And as far as I know there's no "peculiar discontinuity", just a gradual irrelevance - e.g. the uncertainty principle is exactly the same when applied to objects of any size, it's just that for large objects that uncertainty is too small to be relevant.
Not disputing this at all, but I read some stats recently that the average American household income is so offset by the higher earners that the median income is something like 2 or 3 times less than the average. I imagine this cuts both ways. Do you recall if the language used was median or average?
Administrator Password Not Working on Big Sur – Known Issue on T2 Chip Macs
I was wondering how the project relates to the name - i.e. if there's some single holdover remnant or concept about it or if it's a hodgepodge of parts or something. Seems like it might be due to the modular nature of the kernel being spread across several Rust Crates. Clever reference!

From the "High Level Overview" doc (not the readme) :

> The Theseus kernel is composed of many small entities, each contained within a single Rust crate, and built all together as a cargo virtual workspace.
> Mortgage debt isn't a bad thing

Isn't this only true with the caveat that home prices remain relatively stable?
About XMPP, it's a protocol. So it's possible for there to be a client with e2e by default right? And the problem is there is no reasonable client like that right now, right?
I'm not a doctor (obviously) but, as I understand, the solution to OCD is not to give in to your compulsions. Suffer through your discomfort and anxiety without performing any actions to control your discomfort and anxiety. Treat your compulsions as your enemy rather than your unpleasant internal states.
But there’s still a security flaw in this method. If somebody from Amazon will decide to record you, they just send a reboot command to Echo. After reboot mic’s state will be changed back to normal I.e. powered.
oh wow, just great!.. was it because i dared to criticized YC? hope I'll not get a visit!
Hmhrhmm. Reminds me a little bit of the "Glassholes" from about a decade ago? The always recording anything people? First with selfmade equipment, then via google glasses?
This is done by bank login page during the 2000s and still being done by my bank and other bank login page.
On the other hand it could lead to a shift in thinking. In a recession people tend to save more because of a fall in confidence. I'm sure many people will have had their confidence in their economic future shattered. It could change their outlook permanently.
They've moved to Amazon and are back up. They also have a backup at "ar15-backup.com". It's all ads, anyway. Mostly for rifle bling.
But doesn't what you're describing reinforce the author's point? Tech firms in Canada aren't paying high enough wages to keep talent in their pool in order satisfy profit milestones rather than pursuing growth. That's the exact difference in mindset the author points out.
That's looking at it backwards---this is a non parametric approach. The author didn't assume a priori that a point with a z score greater than N was anamolous, for some fixed N.

Instead, they determined N by looking at the past data.

(Contrast with the parametric approach of assuming normality and concluding that any point lying >3 sd from the mean is an anamoly due to properties of the gaussian distribution.)
People seem to have a very misinformed view of our justice system. There are massive case loads, not enough qualified subject matter experts, or specialized investigators, and are generally understaffed in every way.

This holds for prosecution and defense, and the wealthy and the powerful, have the ability to sink massive resources into a court case, the best legal minds, possibly multiple of them, they generally have the ability to vastly manipulate the evidence, and generally have legal advice on what not to say, and avoid self incrimination.

On top of that, they will hammer the prosecutors office, to cross every t, and dot every i, and nail them in court if they don't. Not to mention the ability to file endless motions, continuances, etc...

So when it boils down to it, does the prosecutors office spend a massive percentage of their budget and man power on a single case, at the expense of tons of other cases that are seemingly straight forward? or do they cut them a deal.

A big case against the wealthy, has a high probability the prosecutors will fail to gain a conviction, it will have press, and losing will hurt the DA's chances for re-election.

When you break it down, the wealthy, will always have a massive advantage, they doesn't have to be any corruption, friends influencing the courts, etc... (though many have that too)

Its a battle of financial and time attrition, and the prosecutors have far less of it to dedicate to any single case, that a millionaire.
Before the internet was so centralized, it was difficult to deplatform people. For example, you can't really ban anyone from IRC, or from Usenet, where I spent a large amount of my forum time until the early 2000s. We dealt with trolls and hateful people like we always did, we just ignored them. And that worked fine. I suppose the difference nowadays is the sheer volume of noise that can be generated just due to the number of people online, which makes shifting through the noise difficult enough that the noise can start to seem like consensus.
Epik is an interesting company. Their previous CTO (from an acquisition, BitMitigate, which is/was a sad excuse of a nginx reverse proxy on Voxility), is a script kiddie that DDoSed Trump and the Trump campaign site with some message similar to (paraphrased) "you should buy ddos protection from me" open in a notepad instance.
Womb Cannibals: great death metal band name
I dunno, if your definition of "non-neutral" news ropes in the national weather service saying what temperature it is outside, I think it might be too wide of a net...
But the "connections per user" limit is per-webserver. You'd have to have thousands of users simultaneously loading maps off the same google server just to run out of ports on one IP.

I bet you could put 10k people behind each IP and never even get close to an issue of this type.
Absolutely right. I can't believe people are unable to see this. I guess their hatred for Trump is to such an extent that they are willing to live in a fascist state where every part of their life is controlled by decisions of Government in collusion with Big Tech. It is so obvious yet it evades most people I discussed with over here. Everyone is cheering the advent of censorship. It is surreal!
That is how I pronounce it.
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