skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The discussion of self-reference reminds me of Hofstadter’s strange loops. It’s almost as though people come to see the group as an extension of their own consciousness when a sufficient level of common knowledge is reached, creating the necessary conditions for irrational mob behavior.
Anecdotal evidence: I met someone on the road (massive city, never saw the guy again) who tried to sell me some weed. I didn't want it and he ended up gifting me a small amount.

That said, I think the gateway drug phenomenon is a ridiculous theory.

There are people who are going to try any drug they can and there are people who are going to research the subject and just do drugs they deem to be safe / not addictive.
It used to be possible to do that with Google App Engine at least.
The life-changing magic of tidying up components with Storybook
It's pretty similar over the border in Switzerland too, with the exception of looser gun control laws.

You can buy an amount of weed here (for personal) use that would absolutely get you convicted with "intent to supply" in the UK.

My weed smoking friends were worried they wouldn't be able to pick up when they came to visit. It was not a problem.
Python is the new Lisp.
This is a very thorny issue and my own personal views don't matter, but the views of others are indeed interesting. I was listening to an episode of The Taylor Report[0] and he was saying that no corporate platform should block speech based on its moral compass. He noted that while Twitter flagged Trump's tweets regarding the Capitol Hill protest as inciting violence, Twitter didn't flag Trump's tweets threatening nuclear violence against Iran and North Korea as incitements to violence.

[0] https://ciut.fm/shows/the-taylor-report/
So far I have found the lack of good tutorials my main roadblock towards learning Raku. I am looking forward to spending the weekend working my way through this.
This kind of black and white thinking is very impractical and self-defeating, except maybe for RMS, to remind us what we should strive for.

For most of us, the real world decision is to either work with a company which is actively working on undermining privacy or with one which is trying to improve things.
That was an interesting read, thanks for the link. Only read the first part but will definitely finish it later today.

I found the article while browsing Dr. David R. Wilkins' lecture notes [0], I recommend them if you are looking for some good math notes.

[0] https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/Courses/
I'm no expert but this is my opinion.

1. We are all products of our environment

2. The internet and social media is becoming a higher percentage of our environment every day

3. Large parts of the internet and social media makes money by occupying our attention

4. The best way(that we know of) to occupy our attention for long periods is through hyperbolic/enraging material

^^^ Doing this long enough leads to enraged/hyperbolic population and I don't know of a reasonable way to stop it :(
> No one would like to take a risk unless it's absolutely necessary.

It's mostly a rational calculation. Because of crab mentality and stigma of failure, the downside is worse in Europe. The expected value of risk is lower than in America.
Indeed. Greenwald helped Snowden; he has the chops to see what's going on. To wit, his subsequent tweet:

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald Jan 11

Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler?

Zero.

The planning was largely done on Facebook. This is all a bullshit pretext for silencing competitors on ideological grounds: just the start.
Since you know a lot about this; Does the human body really need 1G of gravity to avoid the bad effects of long term weightlessness? Would it be sufficient with say 0.5G or 0.25G? I assume it would reduce the radius and speed requirement of a rotating space station quite considerably.
With physical things, if I do something stupid, I blame myself. With software, if it allows me to do something stupid, I blame the software. Unfortunately, the same mindset carries for clients, employers, and other various people using software who will report said stupidity to me, my client, or my employer.
The posix programming interface happens to be the C library, so I'd be curious how a book on advanced unix system programming could not heavily depend on libc?
The first thing I do at companies I join is dig through common services and tag all resources in a consistent way(ie. app=web-frontend). Then you can create resource groups and breakdown billing at an ‘application level’ through cost explorer, instead of relying on their default, very general filters. Not perfect, but it gets you 90% of the way towards understanding where your costs are.
Flo gets FTC slap for sharing user data when it promised privacy
How are snaps universal and smoother than Flatpak? For once, they're only really supported by Ubuntu and not its derivatives.
I'm kind of pissed the above is being grayed out.

This. This is how it's done. You go into technical details, not just "fact-checkers proved this was false", but "here's a link to a fact-checker proving this was false".

If reality is one-sided, then you expose the facts of reality. Adding a "Reality is obviously one-sided and anyone who disagrees is a manipulating liar" headline is both superfluous and self-destructive.
More problems for who? Not for the platform. Maybe for the folks who are banned, they lose their free megaphone and have to actually pay to get their opinions heard, which seems like a fine trade off to me.

I’m slowly coming around to the idea that getting rid of section 230 would be a good thing overall. Social media platforms shouldn’t be amplifying ideas they think are odious. Why the heck would anybody do that? For money? Would you be willing to spread propaganda that you thought was terrible for money? I sure wouldn’t.
(Flo is a period tracker)
Personally, I will only consider a mac if there is the option to run Linux.
Been using it now for a year and a half, so thank you for your effort! It is much appreciated :)
The world is bigger, but not that much. The speech and clothing differences between "Paris Ouest" and "Paris Est" are still recognizable. While differences are less stark, arrondissements still have distinct styles.

The 8th arrondissement at lunch time has a uniform, distinct from La Défense's. The 16th's rue de Passy and the 7th's rue Cler have clear differences in clothing and speech style on a Saturday morning. Le Marais and the 11th have different stereotypical accessories.

We'll see what'll be the public opinion about us in 108 years!
If you use the KDE Discover, it's pretty smooth as well. Searched for "Signal", found the app, clicked on install, waited, then clicked on open. Signal App opened. Uses Flatpak in the Background and handles updates too.
Looking at broken suspensions helps, too:

https://insideevs.com/news/447593/tesla-suspension-issues-ow...
Awesome project; was confused for a second about why the alt-h shortcut did not work, be sure to disable Vimium ;)
You aren't a member of government. It's actually illegal to arrest a member of Congress on their way to the congressional floor.

Hypothetically, if they shoot someone dead on the steps, and then disarm themselves so they aren't a threat anymore, then the police must still allow them to go into Congress to finish their debate. Congress itself can self police, but it's immune to being controlled by the executive branch (i.e. the police).

If you could just arrest Congressmen on their way to the chambers, then you would see in a close vote that some Congressmen will never make it to the chambers because the police "found" something on them (or a police dog smelled weed on them).
Not many, but yes, there are examples. Booking.com is one. Or a smaller example, the web admin interfaces and REST API server for Proxmox is Perl.
> Finally, for the scattering of buttons in a traditional vehicle that are used rarely, you still have to visually scan the entire dash to find it and hope their icon is meaningful. This takes your eyes further from the road than a well positioned, responsive screen.

You have to scan the dash roughly in the area you recall the button may be, and identify it visually. After that, you can return your gaze to the road, while your hand finds and manipulates the button. Touchscreens require you to focus your eyes on the button for all the time it takes to find it, press it, and confirm the UI actually registered the press.
> some randomer

They're not a randomer, they're a person interested in data dumps.
That has an e-ink display. This does not.
The commenter claimed being conservative and no other attribute/thing was a sufficient condition to be deplatformed. That is an absurdly large claim and requires absurdly large evidence. You can go on twitter right now and find conservative opinions, including the opinions of those from Fox news, the most watched news channel in America.
One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889
they needed a platform that would not need to scale before the database server becomes a bottleneck
> 2. The class was obscenely boring and in no way relevant to my future life.

This is the attitude that I think is the problem. It comes down to what we think the purpose of education should be, and that's where there's a fundamental disconnect. For what it's worth, I see the point, but I think the purpose of education should be producing a student with basic understanding of a variety of subjects, not just teaching what is relevant to their future life.
The Hero of the Month
He's just about the first Parisian I can understand!
> You're assuming that changing that list is the only thing they needed to do.

No, you're assuming that I'm making that assumption. Why would you assume that?

> Most MacOS users by far probably don't care.

It's frustrating that people keep ignoring the fact that I was directly replying to this comment: "That's why Apple has the Developer and Public Beta releases for iOS/OSX so that external users can provide feedback."

If feedback during the betas does not make Apple take action, then the comment I was replying to was wrong.

Your response seems a bit ironic, though, because public backlash is exactly what caused Apple to backtrack.
Is this the first podcast in our history?
Why are you more worried about the influence of Twitter or Facebook than you are of Disney or Fox News? Or any of the other big media corporations?
Standard Notes Completes Penetration Test and Cryptography Audit
The one thing that is as steady and unavoidable as language change is people complaining about language change.
There's a nice talk by Yann LeCun where he goes on to explain really well why deep learning has such fast progress. [0]

He goes on to explain how theory always comes later.

I thought that information theory came before practice but turns out it also came after. (there was a bunch of heuristics for sending messages with teletypes)

A nice example is Roman technological advances in architecture and materials that predate the use of geometry or mathematics completely. All advancements a result of tinkering and heuristics.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG5NCkMerHU
Is there some particular reason why it's not in the distros repositories or is it just a case of nobody has stepped up to do the work yet?
> Because reality isn’t so stark as your neat examples of antivaxers and Holocaust deniers.

However measures are taken only against those particular, clean-cut issues.

In general I’m not fond of slippery slope arguments because the fact that even getting to arbitrate those basic facts is proof that the system is working.

A few people yelling nonsense is a non issue, half of the country though, is a danger to democracy.

I agree with your solution, however that is a decades long plan. We need to survive until then and also have government that could potentially pass laws to make this possible.
Related: I really enjoyed the movie Inglourious Basterds. It was especially original and interesting, as it relied heavily on languages and accents for the plot.

However, what killed my suspension of disbelief (as a native French speaker) was the fact that the French actress spoke with an unmistakable early 21st century accent, definitely out of place in a second world war movie.

This was a big letdown, considering how much attention had been given to accents in the rest of the movie.
I would assume most simulations would be more academic/business related, like how we have tools that simulate a wind tunnel, rather than for entertainment purposes
That's an interesting take home from the article.

What I got from it was "We can create distributed social networks that are censorship resistant (this is a problem with technical solutions), but that isn't necessarily a good idea. Some form of decentralised moderation process is also needed (which is both a social and technical problem)."
I've used AppImageLauncher to do just that. When an AppImage is opened with AIL, it moves it to a configurable ~/app directory and creates a "start menu" entry for it.

I've never though about it but I guess it also makes them executable, since I've never had to do that myself.

It doesn't handle removing the AppImage, but you can always just delete the file from ~/apps.
2021 ... still using jquery
But not in PHP 8
I'm no Trump fan, but how do we fix the decentralization everyone brings up? For example, Lbry/Odysee and ilk are often touted as alternatives. I watched a video from someone pretty big on that platform where they had shifted to say maybe Linux Gaming isn't doing too well long term. He's being "cancelled" right now over there because of the current audience of these platforms. He was already dealing with tons of "why are you still posting on youtube as well" comments. I find a lot of people seem to use these alternatives not so much for their superiority, but because they hate big tech.

I guess ultimately his videos are still there, and that's the real point of decentralization. But perhaps the main issue isn't so much about using Youtube/Twitter, but exclusively using them. I can understand "going where the people are" to bring a message, but don't only post there.
> wars do end up with mostly the fittest (not just in terms of physical ability, but also intelligence, cunning, etc.) surviving.

1.) There is massive random factor.

2.) The fittest are often selected for unit that have large mortality. That was the case of SS in Germany - supposed to be the fittest selection. And as result going to hardest fights dying the most.

In Russia, it was year of birth that made difference. The guys who were 18 by the start of the war died almost all. You was better off if you was 17 or 22.

3.) The fact is, the fit male goes to combat and is more likely to die. The weaker one who wont be selected for that, survives.
The court still needs good proof that you intended to receive the package. If they don't have proof, there isn't much for a conviction to stand on and the next instance should slap it back hard.
Promises made by AI caused more spent pennies during the last 60 years. And people continue to be inspired by such promises.
According to that list, K-pop maximizes engagement so Twitter should pivot to being MTV online.
Yes - the TV series is fun,but the beautiful building he has for his 1950's Cotswolds Roman Catholic church looks as if Henry VIII never existed!
The author is a researcher on distributed systems. I found this video from him to be an excellent first education on CRDTs, how they work, what they're good for and what they aren't (yet) good for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7drE24geUw
Jupyter – final week to take survey.
> It was and is illegal to stop an elected Congress person from entering chambers

I can't find any such law?

> I also am unaware of any clear and present danger from the representatives, did I miss something

Yeah you've been missing something all right
It's not even about hoping people will use them responsibly, it's about giving people personal responsibility.

What we need to decouple are costs on society for people that decide to endanger themselves by shifting socialised health care to a voluntary basis.
I also will chime in that I would like to see a comparison.
replies are only similar to downvotes in the absence of likes, that’s why it’s “ratiod” and not “replied”
A Black Marxist Scholar Wanted to Talk About Race. It Ignited a Fury
The no-nonsense guide to IaC and Terraform
Nah, it literally grew from managers bragging very often about how much efficient they are, even though the facts were showing the very opposite of that.

I'm surprised "British scientists" meme has a good Wikipedia article in English[0].

P.S. Runet's memepedia Lurkmore redirects from "Efficient manager" to Stalin page.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_scientists_(meme)
England/the UK is also a bit of a special case with its strong class system. Your accent is important socially in that regard.

This is still the case today but was even more so and educated upper classes people were taught to speak 'properly'. That very posh accent you hear in old British films and old BBC footage is called "traditional received pronunciation(RP)" [1].

That being said, accent is a social marker almost everywhere. It certainly is one in France, including because the country is very centralised on Paris and regional accents are usually deemed 'inferior' (it's similar to England, tbh).
These days in France the accent and way of speaking you want to avoid at all cost is "l'accent des cités", i.e. the accent of people, often of foreign descent, from the bad suburban areas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation
There are very few if not zero modern computers with completely open source firmware and boot loader. Including computers with open source as their primary selling point.
DC voted 93-5% for Biden. Not gonna be many native Parler users there.
It's never just 10-15 lines, and I'll always take 86Kb of a properly tested, production environment validated, properly documented, community supported, cross-browser library over the one-off functions I frequently squash in code reviews.
Great response - I very much agree that from the employee's point of view you are always trading off a number of factors and they are by far not all about money.

My main contention really was with the assertion that you don't see why you should get rich - as if it were about what is deserved whereas of course it is a market where the correct price is the one people are willing to pay.

I myself trade off a number of factors in my career which don't equate necessarily to salary.
> Why not (partly) you?

The short answer is that he is replaceable, while the owners are not.
Well I think it's mac specific software.

I learned about it from wikileaks. Eg https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/space_2359301.html
> used his position to...do absolutely nothing

Literally inciting an insurrection and siege of the Capitol is absolutely nothing?
Just a quick belief of myself (might change tomorrow): ML winter will not come until we hit the flattening of the specialized hardware s-curve. I know people believe that ML can still scale in funding (for even bigger models than GPT-3 with current hardware) but that shouldn’t be our hope. I also can not imagine that the exponential efficiency increase in architectures with optimized structure can continue for a couple more years (happy to be proven wrong here). Also the scaling in dataset sizes will ultimately halt (or might be already) for supervised learning which might give a bump for reinforcement learning where there is usually unlimited data (due to simulation)
>1. It doesn't begin from there, it begins with the sentence I pointed out.

This is because freedom of speech is fundamentally a discussion of rights and their justification. It's a "freedom", situated in a concept of society. The actual article discusses the matter from this point of view. I'm not sure where you expect an article on what is an idea originating in liberal philosophy to start.

>Like I said - the _power_ to disallow speech is problematic, not just what gets permitted.

This seems like you have a problem with the state itself - or the idea that the state should have powers to compel, anyway. But once you admit some state power over actions (which you may not do, that's fine) then speech easily falls within this remit too. If you think no power over individuals is permissible - whether to speak or kill - a discussion of liberal rights and freedoms is irrelevant.
Anyone who tells you when Bitcoin will moon or crash is either bullshitting / exit scamming or basing their predictions on dodgy home-made crystal balls.

Post your positions and your exact predictions or this 'article' is speculative nonsense.

The saying goes: 'If you're so clever, why aren't you rich?' The fact that this soothsayer isn't putting their money on their own predictions makes me doubt her prediction confidence and makes me wonder that the blind are once again leading the blind.

> So what do the stars have in store for the world’s favourite cryptocurrency?

Nothing but speculation. No one can accurately predict the crypto-markets 100% of the time.
Rust’s compiler does way more work than Go’s - it is not priorities..
And the article's suggested solution is:

> These companies should therefore increase their efforts to flag and remove disinformation, along with all cyber troop accounts which are used to spread harmful content online.

So the suggested solution is to have different lots-of-money companies stop the lots-of-money manipulation. Of course, if you are doing the right kind of manipulation (ads), that's allowed.

Seems a bit hypocritical to me.
I am advocate of dual licensing, GPL + commercial.

So who doesn't want to pay can use GPL, who wants to make money can use the commercial license.

This clearly doesn't work for companies that like Apple, are now sponsoring POSIX clones for IoT deployments to play safe.
Myth Busted: Wall Street Is Not Investing in Bitcoin
That's unlikely. There are many machine learning applications that have been shown to be good enough for commercial use and they aren't going anywhere. The worst case for the field is that progress slows down, people realise that their expectations were unrealistic and the hype inevitably dies down. Which has to happen eventually. So even if ML isn't the hottest thing or a massively growing field, it will still be used for a long time.
Lots-of-money-backed manipulation is how things have been traditionally. "Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel". It tends to be a stabilizing force for society, despite the malevolence (eg Iraq war). Meanwhile state-backed (or alternatively, lots-of-foreign-money-backed) seems to be a destabilizing force. We've presently got two large political movements, both essentially protesting against out of control government, but yet they've ended up being each other's enemy.
Sure, many Canadians do it everyday ;)

Beside it, there are 300 million French speakers worldwide today, up almost 10% since 2014, and a recent survey showed that 44% of them live in sub-Saharan Africa.

By 2050, a full 85% of French speakers could live on the continent, according to an estimate by an organisation that monitors statistics on who speaks the language.
The only reason this was ever an issue is that Donald Trump chose to use his personal Twitter account as his primary means of communication, to the point that it had to be recognized as a de facto official channel. And that's mostly because he believed the press and every other avenue was controlled by leftists. This is far more a "Donald Trump is a paranoiac" problem than a social media problem per se. Nothing wrong with a politican doing an AMA on Reddit or a Facebook Q&A or having a Twitter account, which they all do at this point.

Politicians using social media as a convenient way to communicate with people directly can be a net benefit for society, although probably more so the more local government becomes. But using social media exclusive of other, official channels is obviously a problem.