skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Epstein was a thing for them to latch onto. If he were prosecuted, it would be something or someone else. (Soros? Gates? Hillary Clinton? Jeremiah Wright? etc.) Or, alternatively, there's no convincing argument that had Epstein never been born, the Qanon movement would have been noticeably smaller or weaker.

If your claim is that it would have helped to deliver justice in every single case of injustice, promptly and transparently, then yes, that certainly makes for a better society and certainly everyone agrees with that goal but it's also never going to be 100% completed.

And if you remember 2004, there were serious allegations of unaudited changes to the voting system as well as coverups and hiding of important information (like what we knew about Iraq's weapons program or lack thereof), but the movement of people who objected to both of them did not storm anything. So there's something else different here.
A few years ago, the power was cut to the broadcasting studio of Navalny's organization (a Russian opposition guy), while they were live covering the anti-corruption protests. I guess "this is what happens if you build a platform on somebody else's platform", instead of running your own power plant!
What don't you like about using YouTube? (web or app)
I am unsatisfied with Youtube. I think it's pretty much the same for the last 10-15 years. But I want to see if other people's pain points are the same as mines.
I recently bought a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga L13.

Not particularly pleased with it. Gets really hot (i7 chip) and quite noisy, touchpad glitches out and gets 'sticky' randomly, battery seems to often go to a 'plugged in but not charging state' and the battery life is pretty dire.

Machine itself feels nice though and the performance is good.

I think my next purchase will be an ARM Macbook if I dare to cough up the dough.
But there are two problems:

1) Some parts are still single points of failure, e.g. domains, dns servers

2) There are switching costs (particularly on the infra slide) both in time and money (time was the issue here).
The Long Right-Wing Grift Is Blowing Up in the World's Face (2017)
> LTS releases are good for industrial or commercial applications were you need to rock solid stability...

from what I could see corporations just buy LTS contracts to be able to ask for bugfixes if the need arises - I've seen products where Qt 5.12.2/3 was used even when the latest was 5.12.8
I agree with your premise, but please "pay yourself first." [0] Instead of putting "whatever's left" in savings, decide how much you need to save to meet your goals, put that amount aside first, then use the remainder to pay bills. An envelope system [1] works well.

If you don't have enough, reduce your expenses, not your savings.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/payyourselffirst.asp

[1] https://www.daveramsey.com/blog/envelope-system-explained
They even ship machines with it now (The P Series and X1 Carbon, at least. Fedora.)
So you are lumping several groups together who have nothing to do with one another except the fact that you disagree with them.

So the first step in deescalation would be to understand their grievances.
What are the big issues they care about? Why do they care about them? Is there a common ground?

The more you call regular Americans who’s parents and grandparents fought and died fighting Germany, Nazi’s, the more you show that you not only don’t understand them and their views, you show you have no interest in learning about their views.

Remember what happened last time there was taxation without representation?

The more you sum up large swaths of people with simple labels, the more you show your own bigotry and lack of empathy.

First try to understand, then find common ground. These people are here to stay, we can either cooperate with them or fight them. Is the best armed population group on the planet the one you want to corner into armed conflict?
This is the first. There have been several designs previously, each of which was refined based on feedback, culminating in this proposal.
We're setting the precedent that supporting White Supremacist insurrection against the United States will get punished the same way each time.

Russia doesn't have democracy, and Amazon isn't a Russian company, so I hardly understand your analogy.

Why would you compare what Russia does to political prisoners with the military's discipline in the United States?

This may be news to you, but military service members are subject to an independent justice system with different protections, different laws, and different penalties.

You're arguing that US corporations should be restricted from taking action to suppress insurrection on the basis of having your head in the sand. The US should be in a state of emergency now, and it's obvious to me that it's solely because a white supremacist has replaced the civilian leadership of our government with those complicit in this act.

You're free to ignore what has happened, or believe in an alternate reality. Some of us would be guilty of violating our oaths were we to do the same.
Yeah I don’t need to google and stare at dashboards to have some situational awareness. Usually it comes up in texts or conversation “yeah we’re at 1.5 9/11s a day now”. Which sadly is likely to be true for some time and not change :(. It’s depressingly normal.
There's a difference between suppressing a different view, suppressing a lie, suppressing someone yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, and suppressing someone yelling "let's go light the theater on fire".

As for refuting arguments, I'm a big believer in that, but so many people cannot change their minds, regardless of the evidence, partly because people telling lies have told them that the only honest person is the liar.
I can't count the number of times Twitter and Facebook have been used for hatching/plotting terror attacks. No one banned these social media giants for failure to police their own sites. Was Facebook banned after the NZ Mosque shooter live streamed entire shooting spree? Was Twitter banned after it allowed ISIS to operate on its site with impunity for 2 years by posting propaganda and beheading videos? These are just few examples of plenty of examples of violence propagated on these sites. Yet they are given a free pass. Parler on the other hand had to face the consequences.
It's not surprising, and it's disingenuous to accuse people of apathy. In several flu seasons, hospitals have been overwhelmed, tent beds set up, etc, and most people don't care because the flu is 'normal'. COVID is becoming 'normal', which is good, because it's not going away, so we all need to learn to deal with it.

This is like accusing those in the 50s for being apathetic about polio, because they didn't upend their entire life to protect their children from this incredibly deadly and disfiguring disease. When humans are confronted with a problem they simply cannot meaningfully prevent, they tend to ignore it and get on with their lives.
That kind of writing has the assumption that science is a closed book and that we already know everything, but we don't, and we are not even close to knowing. Materiel sciences, medicine, physics... are far from 1+1=2. Scientists are trying to ask questions and try to find answers, that is all. Not knowing what question to ask does not mean that there isn't an issue with something, it tells something else about us.

> thus it is impossible to find it
Entrenching our selves in beliefs just makes us dogmatic, and dogmatic people do not ask questions, they do not doubt in anything, they "know". Same in times of Spanish Inquisition and same today. Just different subjects.
The same attitudes have people who believe that Earth is flat. No evidence can help there. As for every evidence - they will come up with something more delusional to confirm their own belief that Earth is flat. If you say let me take you to this rocket, so you can see the Earth, they would say "you projected picture on my helmet it is not real".

Same goes with harmful things if you like meat you will believe that eating animals is good for them, that they do not suffer, do not have feelings etc.

When we develop applications, we do not say, hey this application is impenetrable, it is the safest application in the world ever, it does not need testing, just ship it (I do not know what is your line of work). But we constantly ask how can we destroy what we just built. Be sure, if you do not do it some hacker out there will do it for you, and it will hurt significantly more. Yes, it is true these analogies are not the same; nature is infinitely more complex, and our knowledge even smaller.

Issue is picking side. Scientist does not picks sides, s/he seeks questions and answers.

I am not saying in any way that "5G is deadly run for your lives"; but I do say, as I said from the beginning of this thread, we do not know, and we need to do long term and short term exposure studies, so we can get more data. As without data you're just another person with an opinion.

What to search? Many things, for every kind of molecule, compound, cell, tissue or body functionality, we should do a study. If that is too much, for a starter if we know that 5G penetrate skin for instance, than do all bits about the skin. Even if we do not find anything, we will probably learn something in the process...

When I asked you the question, I was hopping you will follow scientific method, and say: explore, think, ask questions, find answers, do the research...

In the end, something just 3 years ago. https://phys.org/news/2017-10-effect-electromagnetism-years....

I wish you all the best.
First step is to make ISPs utilities. Zero-th step is to recognize that ISPs are just as oligopolistic with even fewer comparative alternatives.
As much as I've cursed the lack of generics and the limited expressiveness of Go's type system, it's hard for me to reconcile these proposals with what I know of Go. Go was conceived as a small language, a successor to C, and purposely eschewed "new-fangled" features of modern languages. Whether the result is good is a matter of taste, but I feel that retroactively bolting on a modern type system will simultaneously (a) undercut the simplicity of the core language and (b) produce a language that is not as clean as those conceived with generics from the beginning.
It has to start with admitting the systems are imperfect and unchecked misconduct is possible even if it's not actually happening.

The insistence that our systems infallible is not at all helpful because anyone can see that's not true.

Once we get to admitting unchecked misconduct is possible in the current systems, we can make some progress to reducing those possibilities. Right now we're resisting that path, and that's just not sustainable.
> What makes people go from believing the media, science, etc to unwarranted skepticism?

It's the phenomenon of illusory truth. Wiki has some sources [0][1][2]. It seems inherent to discussions on the Internet as it becomes more and more accessible and popular. The only obvious way out seems to be educating people, but not enough entities seem interested in doing so right now. Maybe pessimistically, I don't think people en masse can learn on their own about the dangers of misinformation unless crises occur that directly impact their lives.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160515062305/http://www.psych....

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160514233138/https://www.apa.o...
Is the projector going to stop working soon too, or is it being treated differently from the browser plugin?
Everyone is tired of COVID. I stopped looking at the numbers daily, but still take a look at least once a week.

We have a baby, it is hard to see doctors/dentists as we don't want to take him there. We never go to stores together and someone needs to watch him. Daycare doesn't seem safe yet for us, so we are doing our best.

Majority of parents work, many kids now study from home. This is putting an insane pressure on the parents.

I'm not suffering from "psychic numbing", by now I know the risks, I am just TIRED physically and mentally. What else can an average citizen do? Distance, wear a mask, suck it up and wait for your turn to get a vaccine. Searching COVID daily does nothing.
"The Montgomery City Lines is sorry if anyone expects us to be exempt from any state or city law ... [w]e are sorry that the colored people blame us for any state or city ordinance which we didn't have passed."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_City_Lines
I understand (and agree) that the majority of knowledge we have is based on authority. I'm not suggesting everyone should do their own climate change research to believe climate change. I'm just suggesting they don't have to believe all the headlines they read, they can read multiple news sources with different political views, etc. Basically, you want people to decentralize their trust in authority. I think that'll quell fake news more than getting Facebook to try to moderate it all a like giant, impossible game of whack-o-mole. It doesn't have to be that complicated. We (try to) teach school children this in history class. I think it's a lot more complicated, and risky, to overly moderate your tech platform for "misleading" news, particularly related to politics.
>Buses are run by governments.

Not the one Rosa Parks was on.

>And Rosa Parks wasn't advocating throwing molotov cocktails

Rosa Parks no, but other Black groups most definitely. Same with Parler, not everyone was advocating violence.

>It'd be great if GMC would refuse selling vehicles to insurrectionist militias, IMHO.

Yup, stop selling them to the Black insurrectionist militias (codeword for any Black political group), would have been great.

>Your analogies aren't doing any good here.

They're pretty great honestly, describes the general idea well.
Until they coordinate to shut you down...
That's because your method for constructing a "reasonably neutral source" results in something which is only reasonably neutral from your point of view. This is why pretensions to neutrality are worthless.
> "My understanding was that the founders were mostly anti-trump libertarians."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parler says "Founder(s): John Matze, Jr., Jared Thomson, Rebekah Mercer" and "conservative political commentator Dan Bongino has said he is an owner."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Mercer#Donald_Trump says she supports Trump. eg, "Mercer aimed her support at GOP candidate Donald Trump in June 2016 after Cruz lost the primary. Mercer directs the Mercer Family Foundation and served on the Executive Committee of the transition team of United States President-elect Donald Trump"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Bongino says "He is a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump"
Parler stated in its lawsuit that it removed all the content that Amazon pointed out...

'On January 8, 2021, AWS brought concerns to Parler about user content that encouraged violence. Parler addressed them, and then AWS said it was “okay” with Parler.'

'The next day, January 9, 2021, AWS brought more “bad” content to Parler and Parler took down all of that content by the evening'

https://www.scribd.com/document/490405156/Parler-sues-Amazon
Oh, yeah. I definitely don't put any stock in their methodology if it's just a fancy opinion poll.
> Facebook for a long time refused to remove holocaust denial. What do you think about that?

I think it's a non-sequitur.
> Right. Never saw a benefit in switching to the most recent version. Still very satisfied with Qt 4.8 and 5.4.

if you have any users with a hidpi screen it makes a huge difference to them
Simple is closing. Here's some alternatives
I think it was annually. I only remember because I paid twice.
Reaching "consensus" with anti-vaxxers is unlikely to result in a valid science-based policy. Seeking peace with people who want, and are willing to say anything to get, to destroy society is a losing strategy.

Picture this: it's the 80s and you're arguing for consensus between the extremes of creationism and science. But no, those scientists keep trotting out those "self-congratulatory stream of "[facts]" and opinion pieces as if they've invented something completely novel.”

(As far as I know, radical postmodernists have never attempted to attack the US Capitol.)
I have observed it from afar and my impression is that this is a close to final step in a long series of careful iteration, discussion and research.
You can fork the signal client and server and setup a competing network. You just won't be allowed on the official Signal network. That's the entire point of FOSS.

Open source vs. open network are fairly orthogonal. AIM and ICQ were never open source, but had several 3rd party clients. Outlook is closed-source, but still federates with other e-mail servers.

I'll use an open-hardware analogy. Let's say there's a open-hardware go kart. The publishers of the original go kart also own a race track. They only allow their original design on the race track. You can take their design, modify it and drive anywhere you want.

A competing race track is closed hardware, with copyrights and patents on their karts. If you base a kart off of their design, they will sue you. If they deign to let you take your home-built kart designed by someone else on their track, they aren't open hardware. If they publish the exact specifications required for karts to run on their track and encourage home-built karts to run on their tracks, they still aren't open hardware.
Looks like this and the recent actions are simply a big middle finger aimed at the new administration. Try to revert them and you will be labeled as a weak leader who values foreign interests more than domestic ones (i.e. you will anger and radicalize the MAGA crowd even further), leave them in place and your relationships with affected foreign countries will continue to be sour.
We've been using Vantage for a few months now and it's a really great layer on top of the AWS console. I particularly like the correlation of the metrics right in the dashboard - makes light-weight DevOps real easy.
Correct, I think only the Mustang, the Ranger and Edge are imported from the US, nice vehicles (especially the Mustang the Ranger) but which don't sell that much in absolute numbers. The rest of their line-up is I think produced in Europe.
that’s a reductio ad absurdum via tautology, but the effects are wide-ranging and can include freezing/overheating to death (for instance) from not having adequate heating/cooling. that’s inhumane and abhorrent, especially in the richest nations of the world.
> the New Yorker replaced their human editors with AI ones, then the outcome is the same and they are still publishers.

Okay, but being a publisher doesn't MEAN anything. Not socially, not legally. And MY point was that the New Yorker makes it explicit that what they post is approved and endorsed by them. It's IMPLIED.

On Facebook, where is the IMPLIED ownership of your comments on Facebook? Where is the delay between your status and some form of review to endorse or support the status? That never happens, and I don't think anyone on Facebook believes that personal status updates are reflective of Facebooks ethos.

Thats the chasm between a news outlet and a service built around user generated content.

The New Yorker gets submissions or requests the use of different stories or whatever. They are EXPLICITLY seeking this information out to display on their site. Facebook does not.

> And on your Gmail point, Google is not a publisher, it acts like a phone service. You send your email, the recipient receives it, unconditionally, without modification.

Not always true. Headers can be modified, you might not have the proper records in place for people to get your emails, or if they don't like or trust your attachment. Google creates a barrier that must be overcome and can limit your direct person to person communication.

> Facebook actively shadow-bans, time-delays and puts fact-check warnings on posts. Since that show they disapprove of some posts, it kind of implies that they approve of all the others.

Okay, so your point is ANYONE that moderates content is now a publisher? So every BBS or forum is a publisher? Is Weebly a publisher? Is Github a publisher? I mean, I just want to understand where this line is drawn.
Correct, but observing a neutron makes it look quantized (to observe a neutron, you must interact with it, so it is no longer "free").
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I hope at some point they manage to add it.

I, however, discovered Rust in the meanwhile. It has generics.
And it is not too complex either and has quite a few other bonuses.
Here's the actual proposal:

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/des...
No the internet is the highway infrastructure in this metaphor and no one is proposing to ban the internet.

We are debating whether the hateful series of billboards and bulletin boards along the side of the road can be removed by monopolies or not.
Another comment mentions this is the third (serious) attempt at adding generics to Go.

Is there any concise history of these attempts (including this one)? I'd like to understand the gist of these proposals and what ultimately derailed them.

By themselves these proposals are pretty inscurtable.
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fyi, your extension's description is missing spaces after all the commas, which would make it seem very suspicious if I was considering installing it.
By this logic you're saying that advocating and inciting genocide is just an "unpopular opinion" that deserves to be protected. You know, because it's not against a specific, named person.

I'm not even going converse this with nonsense.
Airbus Americas, Inc. headquarters is located in Herndon, Virginia. The parts are 100% sold.
I'm the author of a previous paper about the AI containment problem. This new paper, Alfonseca et al, is kind of crap.

This paper defines the term "containment problem" in a nonstandard way. This is different from how I use it in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.00545.pdf (which is largely about preventing side-channels and security vulnerabilities in realistic simulator environments) or how Bostrom's uses it.

In this paper, the containment problem is defined as executing a Turing machine for unbounded steps, iff it does not cause harm, given a function which defines whether an output counts as harm. They use a Godelian argument to show that this is incomputable, because a program could simulate the simulator, and condition its behavior in a way that creates a contradiction.

This is a toy problem which sort of vaguely rhymes with AI containment and AI safety, but contributes nothing to either of them. A real-world simulation environment wouldn't have infinite computation; there would be a finite bound, and "the AI reached the end of the simulation period without making up its mind about what it would do" is just an expected result which means the AI hasn't been proven safe.
I only found out recently that you need to go through a lengthy process back in the church where you were baptised in order to renounce yourself from the Catholic church here in Poland. Just being an atheist, not attending church, not believing, not supporting the organisation is enough. You need to go to your place of baptism, have multiple talks with the priest there, then fill out some forms, wait some time, etc.

I wonder if people actually know this, and how many actually go through the pain of "de-registering" themselves from this organisation.

I also wonder how this affects things like "official statistics" of Catholics in the country.

Regarding Witcher 3 there is a very simple reason for nearly all the people being white. It's because the region is in turmoil and there's a war going on. So all the people (of different skin colour, different race) that can leave have already done so.