skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a wealth of information on the safety and efficacy of vaccines. They literally publish the data, the analysis, the follow-up, for a great many vaccines. There exists no technology to add tracking equipment into a vaccine because of the size, power, and transmission requirements.

5G cannot cause infection by the coronavirus because it is merely a non-ionising radiation. It is a waveform of specific frequency of the electromagnetic spectrum and cannot carry viral nanoparticles through the airwaves, penetrating the skin, and infecting the body.

I won't even bother to debunk flat Earth or Moon landing hoaxes because they're beneath me.

Your argument is in bad faith as you've either read none of the disinformation that is perpetrated or you're pretending that most of the claims are verifiably, irrefutably incorrect.
Isn't the M1 GPU memory shared with everything else? Can the GPU realistically used that much? Won't the OS and base apps use up at least 2-3GB?
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> Same in Germany. E.g. you cannot publicly state that the Holocaust was an invention because that it happened is a fact. So it cannot be an opinion. Although differentiating between the two is not always easy and often left for the courts to decide (like in the above example [1]).

Another example on the flip side that another commenter pointed out, is that Galileo was prosecuted because he didn't accept the 'fact' that the earth was flat. People across all of history have been killed because they said they supported the 'wrong' god.
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> misinformation campaign itself can not be considered "an assault on free speech"

How is it an assault if it doesn't prohibit the opposing opinion.
Usually the buyers don't really get in trouble, either because the amounts are too small or the priorities are different. They are much more interested in the sellers and operators of the platform.
The feature could be a workaround for a bug. That is, one of their internal services didn't handle being blocked well, and instead of fixing that service they just added that feature as a temporary workaround to make sure the new firewall functionality didn't break any important/core features of MacOS

I'm not saying this is what happened, but without actually knowing what happened we can't assume the intention was to exclude everything in this list forever either.
> I do not want to finance health insurance for drug addicts

Rehabilitation of drug addicts is, iirc, cheaper than the policing and economic (inc. opportunity) costs they tend to otherwise cause. The health insurance system can't natively deal with this kind of thing, but a decent healthcare system supporting drug addicts would cost you less.
The French called this the "le principe Donny et Marie," based on some research from the mid 70's for some reason. Oooh la la, those hot pants!
I'm all for it. auto, simple lambda and closures. The syntax also looks sane.
My understanding is that not all of it was public posts.

As an EU citizen, I can request that a company deletes my data. Unless this data dump is being treated as a crime scene or something, then the holders of this data will need some way to comply with these requests.

Also, now AWS (or whatever cloud provider it is) is holding content that contains racist and/or illegal content. Are they not effectively now just another Parler?
> Your right to spread misinformation cannot be justified on the grounds of free speech.

My response has long been that from the media, etc., I want solid
information, up to, say, at least common high school term paper writing standards with complete quotes, with context, with credible references to objective, original sources. Then I want the author to have a long established solid reputation.

In practice, that approach does not work very well. First, nearly nothing in the media meets such standards. Second, even with the high school standards, it is still too easy to manipulate, deceive, or lie to an audience.

My view of deception in politics is that it stands on a foundation of the audience wanting only headlines or very short articles. Then, writing deceptive material is easy.

It would appear, then, that at least for now, stopping the deception in politics would be easy since the deception depends on just no more than short news articles and, thus, should be easy to debunk for the fraction of the audience willing to read some material a little longer and more complete. At this point, until the means of deception react, there may be some potential via such longer materials.
I’m not being pedantic at all. Free speech - both the idea and the law - are about freedom to say what you like without interference from the government. That’s it.

I don’t know the name of the concept which says that companies should be forced by the government to let anyone use their platform to spread their lies, but it’s not “freedom of speech”.
This is just a reworded version of this article: https://abc7chicago.com/localish/thanks-to-this-8-year-old-h...
Authorities freeze accounts of Hong Kong church/pastor in apparent retaliation
> For security reasons, keep uMatrix & uBlock Origin turned ON while visiting reference link!

All it takes to protect oneself against the FSB is turning on uBlock? Really?

Some may remember what a Google team (Project Zero) discovered in China in 2019: the government used several official and private web sites to exploit 0-day vulnerabilities in iphones so that they could track the Uighur people. Apple later confirmed the hacking campaign.

> the Russian government approved a list of Russian programs that must be preinstalled …

Maybe the malicious intent that is heavily suggested here exists, but this list needs some explanation, which I found online.

By the end of 2019, the Russian government decided to promote the Russian software by pre-installing the most popular of them on every device sold. Russian companies were to submit their candidacy, and the government promised it would select the application with the most users during 2020.
Sure, I was thinking about a photo of human subjects in the foreground, with some distant buildings in the background. But if you photograph the shadow of the Eiffel tower on a clear sunny day you may be down to the precision of a couple of minutes.
The Linksys routers where not really competing in that corporate market though.

Some Small Business may have used Linksys but they would not have been buying cisco kit in most cases.
"has become"? So will you be using Backbone + Marionette, or one of the other MVC frameworks? Which jQuery plugins will you be needing? Will you be using Require.js, or are you just going to have a big list of script tags? What about Bower? What about backwards compatibility and dependency management and other really boring things? If you have a very simple client that "just" uses the DOM APIs or an abstraction over a subset of those (ie jQuery), where have you shifted the complexity to?

Sorry to pick on your post over the million and one other ones that pop every time jQuery gets mentioned in HN (same for the "look at my my blog website that just uses HTML/CSS" posts), but why is it silly? There's no halcyon period where it was simpler and easier, and the tools are in general much better than they were.
Perhaps, but using Germany's ban on holocaust denial is not a good example to prove the point. Ideally you'd find an example of a government of an otherwise free society actually rewriting
history to hide actual real facts.
How? It's about the same if you have one callback maybe, but as soon as you have a callback within a callback - or worse, want to do something involving the results of more than one callback - I just can't see it. What's the advantage of what's often referred to as "callback hell" for you?
They had to do that because they got kicked off of everywhere else.

And sadly Andrew Torba was kicked out of YC because of his politics (however YC tries to spin it).
Both are 'physical access'.

If one does not power down your system, your FDE is unlocked. So they only need your Linux user account password to get access to the data on your disk.

FDE only protects your data when it's locked. Normally this is when your system is shut down.
I suppose you have two kinds of truth when using that word:

* That which can be rationally defended with evidence. The whole definition of a fact being a justified, true belief etc.

* That which is believed to be true on faith.

Regulating on the former with the proviso that encountering new evidence should inform our understanding of the truth seems prudent. For example the "scientific method". So for example not only can we show that anti-vax beliefs are wrong we can also show that disseminating them is actively harmful. So there is certainly a case to be made that regulating the propagation of these harmful beliefs under an evidence based regime is the prudent thing to do.

Regulating on the latter is a terrible idea and that's what you'd get if anti-vax believers were trying to prevent evidence of the efficacy of vaccination from spreading.
> Pornography is very opinionated. By deciding on what acts are shown, what actors are shown, where the camera is placed, what zoom level is chosen, etc. the creators exhibit no less opinion than any other author.

Are you serious?

If it was truly meant to enunciate a particular opinion, then that same opinion could be expressed in clearer, more verbal ways.

The crux is that the opinion itself isn't censored, but that does not mean that one has carte blanche as a choice of medium to express it, such as for instance shouting it with a megaphone in the middle of the night, exceeding the legal sound volume limits.

I could also express an opinion by murdering people and carving my opinion in text in their corpes and say that it should be legal, for I expressed an opinion. In which case, I am not prosecuted for any opinions I expressed, but the means by which I did so.

That having been said, the Netherlands has more liberal pornography laws than the U.S.A..

> Viewed via a historical lens, the kind of pornography being created and consumed in a society can be very indicative of that society's values and morals, and possibly quite influential in its turn.

So can the kind of murders committed therein.
I read the Tech Dirt article [1] and I don't understand how 230 has anything to do with: "permits tech companies to censor constitutionally protected speech". Isn't all about enabling tech companies to actually publish speech without being sued?

1: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
they have alerts that can email you if you are approaching a limit but i don't think you can tie that to some automated shutting down of your stuff (i might be wrong i haven't worked in aws heavily for about 2 years now... believe others with more recent exp if they comment otherwise) tbh i kind of get why it is like this, aws is a business and they are only looking for your money. responsibility for keeping your pants up at aws is on the admins.
> This piece takes as a given that speech is actively limited, and then begins to discuss when and how much.

It begins from the most influential theorist of liberal rights of all time, J.S. Mill, and his very permissive attitude as to what should be restricted - notably, what causes harm. You'd be hard-pressed to find any theorist who argues that we should both have a state, and that no speech (such as threats, child porn, calls to immediate violence, etc.) should be restricted. Once you admit that any restriction on speech (such as the examples I just mentioned) is available, as it is in the U.S. for instance, it becomes a question of where we draw the line.

It is decidedly not easy to widen the extent of those restrictions in the U.S. It takes a lot of agreement to change the constitution.
Maybe it'll have a backlight like the Kindle Paperwhites

The Kindle e-readers use a front-light.
For a more modern (but still old) machine, Browservice might be of help:

- https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23595430
Well, at least one anecdote to illustrate things are always more complex:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/03/you-and-almo...
Also worth mentioning that due to low infection rates beforehand, the Irish population is more primed to be hit with bigger spike.

Infection has more chance to spread as only few people are immune. Other EU countries that already had large numbers of their people immune after recovering from covid.

And yeah, it was a perfect storm of badluck. Covid fatigue, xmas break, people from UK returning (with no oversight, spreading new strain) and of course Christmas dinner with uncles and aunts from each county :D
Worse than this, and to the point of this post - you can’t offer comms service in China unless it has a way to be snooped by government. So some comm services like Skype have to offer a separate app, just for China, which affects all messages sent and received by users of this version of the app, even if it comes from a regular app.

I was telling my friends who moved from China and kept their iPhones, to just buy a new one... just in case...
> Does that take 6 months?

You're assuming that changing that list is the only thing they needed to do. Have you thought about why they felt they needed that list to begin with? Maybe because they wanted to quality control that all their core services could graceful handle being blocked by a firewall first? That is, the job wasn't changing the list. The job was probably quality control of everything potentially blocked by that list.

Or they just didn't think it was such an important issue. Most MacOS users by far probably don't care.
Your assertion falls apart when I ask you if there is a Right™ answer to "Is the Earth flat?".

There are irrefutable answers to some questions. Others are backed up by a mountain of reproducaeble data, collected and re-checked over years, decades, by many people who go out of their way to disprove their own hypothesis and wriggle out of their own data. When they cannot reasonably do so, we are left with a fact.

Most of them are not perfect, immutable or immortal, but even if not, no rational person can accuse them of being wrong.
In Germany it’s illegal to come to the “wrong” conclusion publicly on this topic, and thus it’s not quite right to claim that the German government protects people’s rights to express their understanding of the truth.

I’ve heard this joked about like this: “it’s a fact so true you’re put in prison for denying it”
Just because you wear a uniform doesn't mean you hold the same incentives as the grunts you're sending to die in some far off place.
I don't think they were easy to ignore. News was far more valuable before mass communication, and authority was also far more respected. We can see this with how they used paper (and its equivalents) to distribute information, which is arguably far more expensive than distributing it over a wire or through radio waves. And indeed it was also more expensive the further back you go, because of how difficult it is to produce. For instance, there was a time when letters were so expensive that every millimetre of it was used to write on before sending it away.

Yes, paper is of course still used today, but only for more valuable information, such as those connected with formalities or ads that the sender hopes will result in profit. Industrialization has of course made paper cheap enough to use it a lot more frivolously than before, but the mere difficulty and “slowness” of it prevents most people from using it more in daily life.

Before the internet, or indeed before radio, it was really hard to find evidence to the contrary of any received information, so the default was to trust authority. Today you can find a scientific study (or perhaps a “scientific” study...) that opposes nearly whatever view you distrust at a click of a button. And thus groups and blocks form, and it's not easy to tell which one believes in the truth and which one does not. Indeed at some point most people just retire and trust the authorities that they like, which is how most political divides are created anyway.

On a slightly different tangent; without condoning hate speech, today there is a great debate raging as to what should be defined as hate speech, and by whom, and I think the growing consensus is that big tech is a poor censor.
A discussion I saw in another thread on HN yesterday was how we have far more knowledge of what life was like in the 2nd millennium BC as opposed to the 1st millennium BC as there was a change from clay tablets to papyrus.

The article mentions microfilm which makes me wonder if a Carrington event ever blows us the fuck out what we will have left. There is such a stupendous amount of history and knowledge stored in FAANG servers alone I wonder what use all their data is even if 100% of it is in an EMP hardened environment and the tools to push it around the globe are outside of it.

I don't think it is fully appreciated that earths magnetic field was weakening at 5% per century and is now weakening at 5% per decade! since 1990 [0] and not only that but magnetic excursions are linked to global extinction events [1] and we are currently experiencing a magnetic excursion in the north and south pole! [2] with all signs pointing to an extremely fast polar flip (can occur in under 100 years [3]) what are we doing to protect our planetary cultural, intellectual, spiritual (and whatever other kind) heritage when the full might of the sun is no longer being glanced off by our magnetic field?

[0] https://www.livescience.com/46694-magnetic-field-weakens.htm...

[1] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...

[2] https://maps.ngdc.noaa.gov/viewers/historical_declination/ - (please click 'modeled historical track of poles' to see just how quickly things are escalating - and if you need a better visualisation choose between mercator/arctic/antartic on the far right side)

[3] https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/10/14/earths-magnetic-field-c...
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Finland and Sweden aren't exactly sober places. Finland also has one of the highest suicides in Europe and alcohol abuse sure plays into this. Sweden isn't a role-model either by criminalizing abuse and making alcohol expensive. It does nothing but make it a "prestige object".

Nordic countries: https://www.statista.com/statistics/693505/per-capita-consum...
The great experiment aka prohibition in the USA shows how that worked out.
Rat park comes to mind. The issues are not the drugs, but our well being in society.
That would be 35-40€ (cheapest brands) in Finland. This is why booze runs to Estonia (much lower taxes) are so common.
Ten “keys to reality” from Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek
No, because he did not accept the fact of geocentricism.

It is a common, and unfortunate myth that learned scholarship in Europe ever believed The Earth to be flat.
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Railways could double as a tool for probing Earth’s shallow crust
If you associate with Nazis, court their votes, and called them "very fine people" then you cannot be surprised people think you're a nazi, and by extension a fascist...
This is a recording from an interview of a Parisian craftsman that took place in 1912. The purpose was to study the different accents that were found in Paris at the time. They mention that it's easy to tell apart someone from Paris 14th arrondissement (south-ish) and someone from Montmarte (north). When the interviewee listens to the recording, he's astonished to hear why people have sometimes been mentioning slowness in his speech.
Furthermore, on some of the most important aspects of our lives, which is how we ought to live (i.e. matters pertaining to values and not facts), we do not have any way to determine the "truth", objectively.

In my view "truth" is not even a well defined concept for anything not pertaining to fact. And politics, by it's very nature, is not restricted to the realm of facts. If it was it would be science and not politics.

Politics is about applying values to facts.

EDIT: This concept is fairly well explained by Karl Popper in his book, The Open Society and Its enemies. In Chapter 5, Nature and Convention [1] which is worth a read if this is hard to grasp.

quoted>

It is important for the understanding of this attitude to realize that
these decisions can never be derived from facts (or from statements of
facts), although they pertain to facts. The decision, for instance, to
oppose slavery does not depend upon the fact that all men are born free
and equal, and that no man is born in chains. For even if all were born
free, some men might perhaps try to put others in chains, and they may
even believe that they ought to put them in chains. And conversely, even
if men were born in chains, many of us might demand the removal of these
chains. Or to put this matter more precisely, if we consider a fact as
alterable—such as the fact that many people are suffering from
diseases—then we can always adopt a number of different attitudes
towards this fact: more especially, we can decide to make an attempt to
alter it; or we can decide to resist any such attempt; or we can decide
not to take action at all.

All moral decisions pertain in this way to some fact or other,
especially to some fact of social life, and all (alterable) facts of
social life can give rise to many different decisions. Which shows that
the decisions can never be derivable from these facts, or from a
description of these facts.

[1]: https://pastebin.com/xHDkUypF
And in Turkey you cannot publicly state that the Armenian genocide was a fact, because "it was an invention" and differentiating between invention and fact is left for the government to decide. Even though the Armenian genocide was the most direct inspiration for the Holocaust and even Hitler said as much.
A vegan parler calling for the execution of meat eaters would be banned just as well, don't you think?
Do you have link to that recording?
I miss jQuery. It's funny that an argument against jQuery is "oh, but you have to load that big thing to access your site", but then we'll create Single Page Apps that then proceed to spend loading json for 10 seconds before we start interacting with them. :)
After switching to a Onyx Boox Note Air from an iPad I am so happy with this technology. Writing is truly paper-like and reading is so incredible. Latency is great, pens work nicely and are much finer and (can) have more friction than the Apple Pencil, contrast and resolution is great. And it is MUCH more versatile than a remarkable. Due to Android apps, more storage and great stock apps.

I know it is a bridge-technology at best but for me it beats any LCD/OLED screen by a mile. So I am more closely following this tech again now.
>“The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance” (1978, 53).

...

>But those who exhibit cruelty, malice, envy, insincerity, resentment and crass egoism are open to the greater sanction of disapprobation as a form of punishment, because these faults are wicked and other-regarding.

Many things spoken today have nothing to do with truth. They are just expression of hate and anger and make insincere argument. Even worse, they want to wear out others in discussion.
A vendor dependency that's almost certainly locally cached already if you use one of the common CDNs for serving jQuery - ajax.googleapis.com, cod.jquery.com, cdnjs.cloudflare.com or cdn.jsdelivr.net.
A Docker image with cross-compilation toolchain?