skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What other examples are there of ostensibly free countries making it illegal to question the state's account of a historical event?
I think the whole reason is why we are having such an issue with the freedom of speech today is that this, just as many other "fundamental" rights, were invented in a time when purely technological reasons created a certain threshold to their use.

In XVIII century, realising one's right to free speech meant say, printing a pamphlet. Which means a certain level of education because it would be a shame to print on paper some piece of utter bullshit, and some money to print and distribute it. Also, there was a certain threshold of audience too because by far not everyone could read - and thus utter bullshit was unlikely to pass. And just shouting in the corner won't agitate too many people.

In 1922, that changed with mass propagation of the radio - and Mussolini reaped all benefits of it - it is entirely unsurprising that totalitarianism was first born in Italy which wasn't such a prepared ground for it as defeated and destroyed Germany or Russia - it happened simply because commercial radio, being invented by Guglielmo Marconi, first became a thing there.

Now, Facebook and Twitter let bullshit make another bold step.

Same thing can be said about right of free movement: when it took a lot of time and money to travel on a sailing boat, it was OK - now it is entirely different thing - so right of free movement no longer exists.

I'll go on to say that probably, all human rights are subject to that rule: they are a benefit for everyone only as long as few are practically able to exercise them.
And Betteridge is wrong.
> I just wonder if we still evolve as a species.

Yes.

There are a lot of not very easy to spot mutations, so it's easy to identify some mutations that have big health effects. For example:

* Mutation to aloud drinking milk while you are an adult: approximately 4000 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance#Causes

* More/Less alcohol tolerance: I can't find the estimated date of the change, and also it's not a single mutation. The article says something like 6000-12000 year, but for me it's not clear that this is a new mutation or just that the "best" version of the gene become more popular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_dehydrogenase

> At what point scientists will say that Homo Sapiens is a thing of a past and will call us something else.

That's a very difficult question, because there is no clear border between two species. In soma cases like whales vs hippopotamus, they are very different, the common ancestor is so old and most of the intermediate steps are extinct so it's easy co identify each of them. (In case you are wondering, yes, hippos and whales are very related.)

In other cases, it's more difficult to separate species. Some animals are different enough to be classified as different species, but there are more animals in between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

It's impossible to know when a future scientist will draw the (arbitrary) line to classify our decedents as a new specie, but we can look at the number of species we divided our ancestors since we split from chimpanzees 4.000.000 year ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_evolution#History_of_stu... It's still a difficult question, the classification is somewhat arbitrary, and change from time to time, and not everyone agree, but let's say between 5 and 10 species.

So let's say as a rough calculation that we need to wait something like 500.000 or 1.000.000 years for a new specie. This is only an approximated number, don't think it is very accurate, but don't expect it to be soon.
Isn't this caught by the compiler? Like: "unreachable code in line x"?
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I like Germany for an example. The top tax bracket (Spitzensteuersatz) is 42% and is reached when you earn a laughable 57k€ a year, something that will never allow you to afford an apartment in a city for a family. The next higher tax rate is 45% for income above 279k€ a year (Rich tax). Source: https://einkommensteuerrechner.com.de/Steuersatz.php

And then the German finance ministry keeps trying to squeeze blood from the turnip even further every year by dreaming up new taxes, while actively discouraging investing (Olaf, the finance minister, claims not to invest in the stock market and keeps his money in a savings account while at the same time pushing negative interest rates) with Transaction taxes and no tax-advantaged savings account. You could consider that maybe conservative Germany encourages investment in real estate. Nope, you get to pay 6% sales tax and 1% notary fees when you buy a home, with no breaks for first-time home buyers, and you can't write the interest off on your taxes either.
The anti-230 sentiment is just a knee-jerk reaction from people that see an unfair situation and just want to punish the perpetrators. It's a guttural response to unfair treatment.

I think that what should be sought is another "Section 231" that makes banning users from platforms must go through the justice system, just like if you wanted to ban someone from the town square.

This gives platforms a scapegoat, "the government won't let me", but still allows the platform to do things like not list "bad" people in the "discover" feed and make better mute/ignore features

Unilateral and permanent banning just creates more problems
That's quite an extreme-end of capitalist way of looking at it.

Companies build a vision or image for how they behave and a lot of that is going to be driven by marketability.

For example Microsoft has taken a very pro-developer stance since Satya Nadella took over. Not just because it's directly profitable to be pro-developer, but because it helps their long term image, culture etc. This goes a long way to explaining a lot of their recent actions like helping Github be available in Iran again and open sourcing large parts of C# / .NET.

So the question becomes: are Apple being pro-privacy because it's a long term stance they want to take and make a basis for their company culture because it's something their customers really want. Or are they taking the stance simply because it doesn't impact their own profitability right now, but would drop it if there was an obvious potential income stream.
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According to the Startup Genome Project’s report (Techli, 2012), an astounding 92% of startups fail. There are tons of articles and studies that analyse and posit why startups fail. Instead of going through these causes, I will focus, in this article, on the journey that startups I believe should follow to being able to not only survive but also to create high impact and, subsequently, attain real innovation. If you are an entrepreneur, forget about paths and routes: every startup should follow its own journey, but not without carrying some useful knowledge and key insights.
"Value created by you" is not necessarily dependent on your skills alone. You might be the best Java programmer in the world, but if you get hired to write some boring CRM system for internal use in a bank, then the value you created is limited by how much money said bank wants to burn on internal development efforts.

On the other hand, if you get hired by FAANG and work on the "next big thing", like, say, new operating system for smartphones, then the amount of money that can be made from it is virtually unlimited.

The difference between the US and Europe is mostly that: cool, product-focused jobs are all in America, Europe only has the boring, low-risk, low-reward ones. Europe needs to innovate more, that's it.
In the UK, median household income is ~£30k.

Average intermediate dev salary is something like £30-45k.

Mortgage cost in the most expensive non-London areas (Cambridge/Oxford/Reading/South east) is maybe £1.5k/m.

If your household is one developer and one person working minimum wage (~£17k) you can comfortable afford to cover all your living costs and probably save a little.
Dropbox locked me out of my account years ago and I'm sure they have locked out thousands of other people too.

I suspect loss of trust helps a company go into decline, especially when the company holds a vital assets.
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>If it was truly meant to enunciate a particular opinion, then that same opinion could be expressed in clearer, more verbal ways.

Any opinion can be expressed in clearer ways - and indeed many opinions in artworks can too.

>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

Some would say that porn is the best method to express their opinions and ideas. For instance, if I may want to express what I find sexy, a picture is worth well more than a thousand words. Sometimes, I may opt for a (pornographic) thousand words. There is immense complexity in at least some pornography, and some feminist philosophers would contend that porn is the best medium (on a variety of metrics) to convey the idea that women should be subordinated. I don't agree with that reading, but there a many points of view.

>So can the kind of murders committed therein.

The idea is that porn also expresses ideas and opinions, not that porn is pure and good by light of doing just that. Murder is also expressive, but it causes harm. Whether porn causes harm is very contentious.
The comment is bogus empty snark (and factually wrong).

The arguments made (and I use the word arguments loosely):

"Too few trainable_params compared to GTP3".

GTP3 is several orders of magnitude higher than what people train, and so it's a useless comparison. It's like we're comparing a bike to an e-bike, and someone says "yeah, but can the e-bike run faster than a rocket?"

Second argument "Sure, it's faster than a machine that costs 3-4 fives more, but you should instead compare it to a machine that costs even more than that".

I can only take it as a troll comment.
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He's not discussing the historical facts. He's discussing the authoritarianism of not being allowed to argue against those historical facts, even if you are clearly wrong, without the risk of losing your freedom. Part of the morality of freedom of speech is that you should be allowed to express opinions even if they are wrong. With that said, I can of course sympathise with German authorities in wanting to subdue anything that could lead to another tragedy.
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Afaik, weed is a small part of the market.

Agree on the legalisation though. In the Netherlands at least, I find it hard to name more than a few individuals in my social group (university students from a range of studies) that aren’t recreational users of XTC/psychedelics. Having visited festivals and clubs in other European countries, I think the situation is not much different there.

It seems a bit pointless to keep spending money on hunting these markets when the market consists of such a large percentage of the population. Most people still get it through dealers aswell, delivery is quicker than ordering pizza.

More concerning are obviously the weapons, credit cards, etc. sold on these markets. Taking away the sales of drugs would probably help in that fight.
Use image pool to train a GAN, publish the GAN images instead of the real ones.
I know this pattern and have used it myself. The problem is though, that generally you should only throw an error when you reach an exception - it's like saying "I don't know what to do next", and you defer that decision up the stack.

Is a request that technically succeeds (the response has come back), but has a status code where the server has indicated something didn't work always an _exception_ in your client code? I'd argue it isn't, and should just be handled in the normal control flow of your client code via conditionals.
There is more to life than facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact%E2%80%93value_distinction

>“The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance” (1978, 53).

This sentence as it stands has no limiting principle and is pretty much the justification that was given for almost every genocide.

Heck this is the exact reasoning that China is using for the ongoing Uyghur genocide [1][2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

[2]: https://neveragainrightnow.com/
He was not arrested merely for citing statistics. The final straw was his “Less Moroccans!” chant which was interpreted as possibly made with the intent to inspire violence — it is not legal in the Netherlands to tell a man to kill another and the argument was whether his statements could be construed as such.

It was on the line, as you see in the article the public prosecutor originally did not want to bring charges but did so regardless, and he was acquitted.

The way you phrase it, suggesting that he was merely tried for citing statistics is obviously a big misrepræsentation of some of the comments he made, and the primary legal quæstion was whether they constituted a call to commit crimes, and the court found that they did not, though that he skirted awfully close to the line.

You would have a far stronger argument with the situation with MARTIJN, a pro pædophile activist group that was first forbidden, then that ruling was reversed on appeal, and a further appeal forbade them again, with the legal quæstion indeed being whether they issued a call to break the law — I personally do not believe they did and I find that the supreme court was searching for a reason and that the intermediate court's ruling was the correct one and that they remained within their legal right to advocate the law be changed, all the while not calling it be broken while it was still in effect as it was.
> But the buyer has to be exposed 100% of the time.

In Germany, apartments have mailboxes accessible without entering the building. Mailboxes have last names on them, we don't send mail to apartment numbers.

If you need a secure dropbox you go to a random building with some vacancies, look for an unused mailbox, change the lock (many have them on the outside as well) and put a random name on it.
The war on drugs is expensive, though, and most drugs don't make you wind up in the hospital. We can educate folks to try to lessen hospitalization, like ensuring purity and strength. We already do this with alcohol.
> I drive pretty often

How many miles does the car have?

The screen isn't a mechanical part. That's the equivalent of someone trying to justify their radio failing because they drive a lot.
The officer can't break a window?
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> High salaries and other perks are for high performers.

Or for loud mouths with increased tolerance to risk.

We like to think that the world is much more meritocratic than it is ("just world hypothesis").

And I say this from the camp I'm describing above.
These rotating stations don’t necessarily recreate gravity perfectly right? You’ll note strange behavior if you drop objects or jump.
Hard to tell, but from my(developer) point of view I see it as a big benefit to be able to see the code. Plus it gives me the option, in case I like the service and it is discontinued for any reason, to just host it by myself. Also it adds another layer of trust and I have the feeling I can influence the product.

>Do you see model like Ghost could be a strategy to grow Open Source SaaS products?

Definitely, I think Ghost is a very good and successful example of Open Source SaaS.
I got https://www.packtpub.com/product/deep-reinforcement-learning...
Have you ever been to r/Datahoarder or r/Homelab?

10TB fits on one desktop drive, it's completely pedestrian
My Onyx Boox Max Lumi certainly has excellent battery for my purposes.

Also owner of a ReMarkable 2, will be reviewing both of them soon as I think they are an interesting niche tech, and are big investments for people.
Mail is not traceable. There is no record of sender, and a parcel being addressed to you is not proof you ordered it.

I suppose this might differ worldwide, but I’m guessing most countries have post boxes?

Wapo did an article on it some time ago:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/16/postal-se...
I have a book of the same name. I, reluctantly, recommend it.

Why recommend?: lots of great content surrounding networking and file access, most of which will improve your programs a lot, if you code the things I do.

Why reluctantly?: it is heavily dependent on libc. It may ruin you for other languages than C.

Most of the libc shims suck.
Claiming that a lack of security is a feature, actually, is not a great strategy.
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Perpetually. These companies are always in competition, always under pressure, and always advancing their products. Not every tech company is IBM or Research In Motion. Intel and Apple are juggernauts.

If you have $233 billion (a LOT of money) and you want to own a world-class chipmaker, would you rather start from scratch or just buy Intel for cash?
XWayland is essentially a translation layer consisting of Xserver and Wayland client [0]. Therefore it has all the same problems a normal Xserver has, which they do acknowledge:

> A Wayland compositor usually spawns only one Xwayland instance. This is because many X11 applications assume they can communicate with other X11 applications through the X server, and this requires a shared X server instance. This also means that Xwayland does not protect nor isolate X11 clients from each other, unless the Wayland compositor specifically chooses to break the X11 client intercommunications by spawning application specific Xwayland instances. X11 clients are naturally isolated from Wayland clients.

I use QubesOS, but it comes with its own set of problems as well.

[0] https://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch05.html
How do you know this? I'm sure some misinformation is created intentionally, but I think most comes from people who think they've found some truth.
> This is not a political issue.

It is a political issue. There are political factions that explicitly want complete negligence by government and/or want the government shut down. Small, but nevertheless valid, political actors.

Now the situations are very different, but that doesn't change the fact that bringing charges against politicians for negligence is crossing dangerous and uncivil lines. One persons negligence is literally another person's vote winner.

Furthermore, politicians can reasonably be incompetent in the face of crisis and should not be held accountable for that - they are at the end of the day just ordinary people. They don't know any more than we do what is going to happen in their term. It isn't fair to punish them for negligence if there isn't some formal standard of competence in appointing them (which is a totally silly idea and would be abused like mad in any political arena). "I don't understand water and chemistry and these experts looked untrustworthy" is a totally acceptable political defence, no matter how stupid that sounds or how damaging the outcomes. It is simply a matter of fact that politicians make decisions about things they don't understand and regularly make bad (read: horrible, horrific) decisions.
I have not. I have one 4TB HD in my machine and I've never come close to filling it!
Average for modern cars is 20+ years, hence the 2021 change in odometer reporting regulations. It used to be 10 years before that based on older studies.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/odometer-disclosure-req...
How did Uber waste so much ad money?
That requires ending the filibuster, which multiple Dem senators have already announced opposition to.
It handles PDFs well, even large ones (~300MiB) but I do not zoom. It has a nice auto cropping features which allows me to read everything (including various conference paper formats) well.
Reminds me of the first time my DnD group tried out roll20.net. The chat box allows players to type things like "/roll 1d6" or "/roll 2d12" to simulate rolling dice (in these cases 1 6-sided die and 2 12-sided dice). I quickly tried "/roll 1dNaN", crashed the chat, and we went back to physical dice for the rest of the session.
Less than you think. A lot of misinformation is spread by people who pretend to believe it, but do know on some level it is bullshit.
Actually blackberry keyboards were awesome, I use swype on Android which is pretty good, but the blackberry was less fatiguing.

I still miss my blackberry for sending emails. There were keyboard shortcuts for everything too, like press F to forward or R to reply, q to expand display names to email addresses.

You could also assign tasks for when you held down a key at the home screen.

Most models also had a dedicated hardware mute button with distinct tones for mute/unmute.

If you were a heavy user they were much quicker than touch screens.

They just sucked at anything unrelated to email, and weren't great for most users who never bother to learn their tools and become efficient.
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Thing is, the big social media platforms are deciding what speech their products consume. The algorithms seem to be designed to feed into division and biases. It's absolutely no business what conversations others are having and yet this precise metric is being leveraged to abuse people into generating income. You and I can ignore social media but it seems to have caught an alarming majority in its wake. Add in misinformation and encouraging division and it's a troubling state of affairs, especially when it is proving to be so very profitable.

I definitely agree that a morality police can only make things worse, but a fact police may help :-)
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> Less criminalisation inevitably means less drug harm. Any other stance can only be made in bad faith.

That is in itself an extremely bad faith statement.

> Just look at relative harm numbers, the stats (especially at something like the EU level) are available publicly.

Yes, look at them. They do not support your statement because you are asserting that the corellation is basically linear, but I was talking about an (entirely hypothetical) scenario that is completely outside the data, namely full legalization.

No EU state has legalized heroin or cocaine. The poster boy for decriminalization is Portugal, but they haven't even legalized use, let alone production or distribution. They have merely turned use into an administrative offense rather than a criminal one and are providing a lot of harm-reduction services.

There is a huge difference between that and full legalization where big business spends billions on advertising to market addictive substances - which is the situation we have with alcohol that leads to a lot of harm.
As a queer person myself, I think your trust in the "gay experience" of rich guys is dangerous.

We just had this Szajer scandal, where a powerful outspoken homophobe was caught in an gay orgy.

The gay experience (shame, rejection and discrimination) also comes with increased chance of "co-morbid" personality defects, which may be more pronounced worh exceptional wealth and status.

Queer solidarity by gay men is not a given anymore.
> People aren’t training models 24/7

... uh, you sure about that? Let me go check on the 3 models I have concurrently training for my organization on 3 separate GPU servers (all 2 year old hardware to boot) that have been running continuously for the past 36 hours. It pretty much works out to 24/7 training for the past several months.

And BTW, this is massively cheaper for us than training in the cloud.
Camera pipeline replacement for Android using computational photography