skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can't pursue Truth where there is no objective Truth to be pursued, we have to figure out what a good course of action is right now, without spending centuries to solve a problem that destroys society tomorrow.

I wasn't really talking about free speech in particular, though it applies there as well. Is there a general consensus in philosophy on what The Truth About Free Speech is? Where the limits *need* to be? How to implement it in the context of large social media corporations?

There isn't some grand set of values that everyone has to agree with, btw, unless you're willing to sacrifice everyone else's mental frameworks and perspectives (which might be a sacrifice you're willing to take, but I guess not everyone is so keen on :) )
No single person, group or authority. It is an ongoing determination by many people from a host of backgrounds, biases and intentions who still all agree on what is reasonable and what is not. It is determined by merely asking oneself "do I have doubt that is logical, fair and as unbiased as possible?". Gather enough of these people - from as wide a field as possible - and you have reason.
No, they're not. Holding a static, private archive is not the same thing as hosting a live, public site.
That would definitely not be doable in bavaria.
You should try using the direction changing unicode code points like 0x202E in your name. That will probably break many things.
> Without that, they are not immune from liability for what someone else wrote. That means, they would censor more, because they would be liable full stop.

> Private companies are allowed to censor on their servers by default, section 230 does not allow them to censor more then before.

In the absence of 230, platforms would either vigorously censor everything, or would moderate nothing except for outright illegal content (e.g. child pornography). §230 gave more flexibility to allow some "community standards" without subjecting the platform to liability as a publisher.
These huge Internet companies really should be regulated. Last weeks we've seen these companies, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple act like governing bodies by banning Donald Trump from their platforms and essentially shut down a business (Parlor). This is problematic because these companies have monopolistic power, not only in the US, but also internationally.
Very true, and likely to be news spin without further details.
Via CLI you can, but GUI apps connect to your X server session, and then the fun begins - any application you allow to connect can essentially capture your keyboard, mouse, clipboard and a ton of other fun things,as there is no sandboxing applied between them. It's inherent in the design of the X protocol.

There are solutions that are intended to force the sandboxing by opening a new Xserver for every application, e.g. Firejail [0], but that comes with another set of interoperability problems.

Wayland was supposed to address some of these concerns, but it will only do so for applications that natively talk wayland protocol, not the ones that connect through x-protocol via xwayland

[0] https://firejail.wordpress.com/
Since you seem to be splitting hairs: if I think the Earth is flat and I tell people this, my belief makes no difference to whether it is misinformation or not.

My belief means that it is a falsehood rather than a lie.
The reverse engineering is full-steam-ahead, a post about the GPU:

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-1.html
The topic of misinformation is at the very heart of freedom of speech and comes up all the time including in this article.
It's in Polish - they were heads of Polish banks and financial institutions. The one who said that was Morawiecki, a CEO of BZ WBK (which is a subsidiary Santander) at the time , who has since then became Prime Minister of Poland... There was a period in Polish politics around 5 years ago were important people were being secretly recorded by waiters in expensive restaurants, that's how this conversation got recorded and leaked.
>We had cassettes and vinyl.

Which are both still being manufactured :)

I'm 35, I remember in 7th grade when the industrial tech teacher told us that "one day in the future, you'll have this little cube in your hand mimes an inch or so cube that holds hundreds of CDs worth of music and that is how you'll listen to them" Yeah, sure Mr. Pedigo... fortunately he lived long enough to see the iPod come into existence before leukemia took him way too early.

You can have an obscene amount of music on this tiny little sliver of a micro SD card but we still have artists putting their albums out on cassette and vinyl. It's so strange and wonderful at the same time.
If you do social media, of any kind, you can't really rely to heavily on cloud providers. I know, Snapshot is a massive Google customer, but that means that they need to be rather careful.

Facebook and Twitter couldn't exist on AWS, unless Amazon chooses to enforce their rules very selectively. There is a ton of hate speech on Facebook, which is not censored, moderated and which clearly violate all sort of rule. Much of it is due to the language of the users not necessarily being English, or another major language. However, regardless of the language, the content can still easily be in violation of an AWS terms of service (and often Facebooks own).

If Facebook had been an AWS, Azure or GCP customer, they would have been shutdown long ago... Well they wouldn't, because the rules wouldn't really apply to them. I honestly don't care about Parler, Amazon has every right to shut of their service, they decide what customers they want on their platform. What I do care about, is that terms of service, rules for allowed speech is applied fairly and equally.
Facial recognition can expose political orientation from naturalistic images
> Is saving 10-15 lines worth it if you need an 86.1 Kb vendor dependency?

There's projects like https://umbrellajs.com/ which are very similar to jquery's APIs for DOM manipulation and it's only 2.5kb gzipped.

IMO it's a nice balance between having a convenient API without bringing in the world.

If I could write 2-5x less code and it's easy to remember I would make that trade off every time.
Browsers are now separating out caches per origin so that benefit has gone away.
Actually I study WW2 primarily, but I'm familiar with WW1 and to a lesser extent other wars.

You're very un-informed:

- in WW1, there was trench warfare stalemate until the US entered and used combined arms to route the Germans. The British and French did not have the resources towards the end of WW1 to win, and that's one reason they failed to occupy Germany, leading to WW2.

- in WW2, the US built about half the arms for both Britain and Russia. The US even designed and built many factories for Russia, which is not well-known.

- Pakistan does not have a stable government. They were unable to address the rise of the Taliban for fear their own low-level government and military members would defect from the official leadership if they did. Trusting Pakistan with nuclear technology is foolish with a shaky government.

- Iran is a regional industrial power, as capable as N. Korea. They build their own tanks and fighter clones, and have the capability to build nuclear weapons - unlike any other country in the region.

- Mao didn't care about not being acknowledged by the US - he cared about ruling the world from an ideological perspective. He even asked Russia at least twice to jointly declare war on the US, but Russia laughed him off.

China and Russia to this day are not close because of a 7-month war fought in 1969, and the current threats by Xi to reclaim territory from Russia.

There's a weird attitude in the West that China is some big panda, but the CCP has no problem starting wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict

- China has the world's largest navy. That is a sign of global ambitions, not self-defense. Japan did a similar thing pre-WW2. The US has a large nuclear arsenal because most of the Western-aligned nations, including an ungrateful Europe, are under our defense umbrella. (Because of the CCP's ambitions, Japan will likely have to go nuclear shortly.)

You really don't know what you're talking about. Some advice for Europeans: if you want to feel proud, do something to be proud of. Being ingrates to the US and cowering in fear of Germany for the past century is nothing to be proud of, which is historical fact.

You can start by paying for your own self-defense, which means increasing spending from 1.5% of GDP to 2.0 to 3.0%. Until then, stop pretending you're superior in any way to the US - your opinions simply don't count without the means to back them up.

> Other countries do things out of their own self interest, not out of some desire to attack America.

The history of warfare is not about starting wars out of a logical calculus, but primarily a leader with ideological or emotional goals. The US is currently the main target because they're also the most capable (and only superpower) to stop a usurper like the CCP.
Yes that might be the case. In my case I mostly trained big (tens to hundreds of millions of parameters) networks mostly made of 3x3 convolutions, and I think the V100 has dedicated hardware for that. Then as I mentioned you can get a further 2x speedup by using half precision.

If you train smaller models, or RNN, you probably lose most of the gains of dedicated hardware. But I guess that for this same reason the experiments in the article are little more than a provocation, I don't know if you could train a big network in finite time on M1 chips...

That said, of course, if the budget was mine, I wouldn't buy a V100 :-)
Yeah no useful mobile support unfortunately. Plan is to replace the standard virtual keyboards (which don't have the necessary keys anyway) with a custom-rendered keyboard eventually.
Me too! My rM2 has quickly become one of my most-used daily devices, between note-taking, reading/annotating PDFs, reading ebooks and doing sudokus.
Show HN: Keyboard Control for Hacker News
I'd argue that if you have been misled then you have not formed an opinion: you have been tricked into accepting someone else's opinion. I do not think that a delusion is truly an opinion.
Your argument literally defeats itself.

You were born into the tribe, and stayed there your entire life. Also there were no laws on hunting, setting traps, etc.
Thanks, for me, a much better read.
> you are entirely dependent, in a broader sense, on the government's stability

It's the same in the US, take for example Trump that fought the Chinese to bring more work back home. Another president can create the opposite flow of jobs.

How many people lost heir jobs and homes during the Financial crisis of 2007–2008 ?
That's funny.

The RoR folks asked the HAProxy developer to add a feature to only direct one request at a time to RoR servers - because it's that inefficient. :)

Not to be outdone though, microservice operators have influenced HAProxy to help manage short-lived hosts, sometimes in the subsecond lifetime range.
The problem is the growing number of people who do not, or choose not to, and those in power who elect to manipulate them.
That's one of the saddest things about extremism. People get disenfranchised by their existing leaders. Then they are desperate for new political blood because they don't understand the underlying problems. Clueless people who promise exactly what you want to hear start leading parties and fight the wrong battle.

Income inequality is driven by wealth inequality. The wealthiest people don't get compensated in dollars, they get compensated in equity and if that equity is going up, companies can afford to pay more to their executives.

Wealth inequality is driven by domestic economic demand shifting away. It is either concentrating in a few economic hot spots (urbanization), moving to other countries (globalization) and through central bank money that sits around in asset markets. There are probably lots of other factors but they are increasingly less impactful.

Urbanization is not necessarily a bad thing if there is enough housing and people can move to the new location, except not enough housing is built and existing residents hate the new arrivals.

Globalization is not necessarily a bad thing if it also drives foreign demand. Turns out, the Chinese really love buying foreign real estate but nobody is building the luxury apartments they want. So they have to buy less luxurious housing and drive up prices in the middle and affordable segment of the housing market.

Central bank money is not necessarily a bad thing if the money is used effectively. The government can help the economy by providing cheaper funding to companies during bad years when there is lots of work to be done. But what if the economy isn't in a bad year and merely refusing to grow? It means that there is already enough funding but not enough demand for services and workers. In that case you also have to apply the government stimulus on the demand side as well. But that's not what central banks do. They can't do it by definition because that's not their responsibility. The central banks are separated from the rest of government because the government can just abuse it's money printing powers to fund endless debt and cause hyperinflation. However, when it's the central bank that is doing the endless printing people don't seem to care, somehow most economists care even less and will assert that even moderate demand side stimulus will eventually lead to the slippery slope of hyperinflation.

Ultimately history will just repeat. A war is a quick and easy way to get rid of excess workers. It is also a quick and easy way to provide demand side stimulus in a political environment where more sensible options are considered impossible. It's like political capital is like money. Once you have run out you are going to be extremely desperate and are willing to do anything no matter how stupid. Running out of political capital is the reason why Keynesian gold digging is even a thing in the first place. All good options have been exhausted, anything that follows is batshit insane but it is also the only thing that can be done.
I experienced the Thunderbird bug mentioned in the article first-hand and freaked out for a moment. "Where does that damn turtle come from?" And had to search quite a bit until I recognized that it was part of the subject. Unfortunately, I no longer have a screenshot of it.
If you search HN for aws bill https://hn.algolia.com/?query=aws+bill

there are a lot of interesting things that can go wrong.
I want a fulfilling job perhaps more than I want to make more money, which is why I don't switch from a fulfilling one!

Switching every two years to make more money would invariably mean that you switch from fulfilling jobs to less fulfilling ones (Assuming no fulfilment comes from the switch itself)!
"Apart from their addictive designs" is the key phrase here.

Purdue only created OxyContin for legitimate pain management but they knew full well the level of abuse because of their profits

I'd rather live in a society where the creators of these things take some responsibility for effects of whatever they've created, whether intentional or not
Haxplore is a little web app I created because I didn't like to click around the HN interface to read submission and discussions. I also wanted to experiment with different ways of implementing keyboard control in web apps and HN seemed like the perfect test subject. So maybe it's useful for some of you too.
The most important features are:

- Link detection in comments (Use your number keys to open them directly)

- Better readbility and formatting of comments (Like highlighted quotes)

- Hotkeys to perform common actions

- Ability to open comments in a separate overlay for reading long texts
Less criminalisation inevitably means less drug harm. Any other stance can only be made in bad faith. Just look at relative harm numbers, the stats (especially at something like the EU level) are available publicly.
When I lived in the US I was amazed how many systems couldn't handle my (English) surname, which has a dash in it.
I have seen countless comments from vegans that said meat eaters should be butchered instead of animals. The comments didn't get deleted. An no, I did't want to complain about them, venting is healthy and without victims on the internet.
big fan of your writing!
Even better: youmightnotneedjavascript.com

(and no, I don't mean WebAssembly - bring back static websites!)
Signup is 404'ing for me
The folks from Beeminder (a goal-motivation SaaS) created a pile of Perl scripts nearly a decade ago called TagTime (http://tagti.me), which shows pop-ups periodically (but randomly) asking what you're doing right now, and feeds that into a time tracker. That tackles one huge issue with time tracking: you have to either diligently switch up your tracker every time you context-switch, or retrospectively guess at what you actually did, and how long you think you spent on it all. Random stochastic sampling gives a solid great long-term approximation of your activities and cumulative time spent, without guesswork or discipline.

I love the idea, but I need this to work on my computer, and my phone, and my other computer, and..., so I'm heeding their call to build a cloud-based version of TagTime. It pings the user via various channels (SMS, Web Push, Slack, etc.) and feeds their responses into Beeminder, Toggl, and IFTTT.

I'd love to add TimeTagger to the list of supported integrations, since the demo app looks really compelling for the way I think about tracking time.
a tropical island wull give results very different to like a siberean forest.

Also from what i gather most meat was aquired from trapping, rather than hunting
For a statement such as

Putin is a thief.

my standard approach is to follow the old, standard

"The burden of proof is on the proposer."

Or, it is not up to me to try to debunk such a claim. And I'm not obligated either to debunk the claim or accept it.

So I want to discard essentially all claims that don't come with solid information, the "proof".

Right, such proof can be good stuff in pure math and in parts of mathematical physics but less good elsewhere.

If there is a claim such as

The tap water is toxic.

as long as we have sources of safe water, we might make a decision to avoid the tap water and go with the safe water until we have more evidence about the tap water.

And that is where it seems we are stuck on practical decision methodology and procedures.
But they have been doing that since forever and nobody was complaining. Here's a link to when twitter deleted 125,000 ISIS accounts [1] (and they had been monitoring for islam extremist content for much longer already). So I ask why this uproar now that they are deplatforming fascists?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/05/twitter-d...
Dialectics is a good method for two people who want to uncover the truth of a situation, but judging when two people are engaging in dialectics is subjective so it isn't a suitable tool for politics in the way free speech is.

It is much easier to tell if someone is free to say what they think than it is to tell if they are properly employing dialectic techniques.
> Your assertion falls apart when I ask you if there is a Right™ answer to "Is the Earth flat?".

No it doesn't, I didn't claim there are no issues or questions where we know the answer. The empirical kind, like the one you present, are a good example for that. But policy isn't about whether the Earth is flat or whether climate change is real, but about how to tackle them in the best way possible, which depends on what you value.

> There are irrefutable answers to some questions.

I didn't claim that wasn't the case, though you can continue with your strawman if you'd like.

> Most of them are not perfect, immutable or immortal, but even if not, no rational person can accuse them of being wrong.

So what happens if we have multiple theories that no one can accuse of being wrong because we simply don't have enough insight into some very complicated matters? Which one do we put in practice? Or do we wait years before we gather the data for it, by which time it might be irrelevant anyway
And if found to have published misinformation, if one does not publish a retraction that is at least as prominent as the falsehood, one should suffer punitive consequences and be prohibited from being employed or contracted in any media organisation.
Thank you for the correction, I must have been on autopilot. That would be far more appropriate.
Your CV or Apple credentials are not relevant. If one considers privacy important, as you seem to, then they should engage with companies which at least try to behave in a privacy-friendly way instead of typing backdoor in all caps several times and painting those companies in a bad light while not recognizing any of their contributions to improving the privacy of their customers.

And here are those contributions spelled out for you: Apple is the only company preventing Google from having the private information of all smartphone users on the planet on their servers.
> omg science

You know, this infallible social institution which never pushed society towards cringeworthy ideas, which never revised previous theories (wiki has a whole article on superseded theories). And who said reproducibility crisis? It doesn't exist, science is perfect, ergo we know.

Like when Swedes practised eugenics and sterilised innocent people, that was just a bad science, yeap. Hopefully today we have perfect science so this couldn't happen.

Not to mention that science is not applicable to everything, most questionable questions are not scientific, hence I don't know who is arguing "in bad faith" by cherry-picking grotesque examples.

> Your argument is in bad faith as you've either read none of the disinformation

No, your arguments are completely orthogonal to what I said.

You are saying that some people tell lies.

I'm saying that there is no objective decision procedure which tells truth from lies.

If you don't see the difference, it means you are too dumb for me to continue this argument "in bad faith".
Didn't see your reply until much later, but in case you're still wondering, this blog post about sums it up:

https://jonlennartaasenden.wordpress.com/2019/02/15/hyperion...
Thank you for that recommendation. Might make me pick up Erlang with web development again in the future!
Yes, but you have to live with the consequences of your life choices.

If you just "work to live", then you'll be just an average employee, with average salary. High salaries and other perks are for high performers.
Companies are made up of and run by people and the decisions made by those people are not necessarily solely profit-driven.

That doesn't mean that making money is not important to these people; of course it is. But it's not the only factor.
Companies and individuals have always been free to censor constitutionally protested speech (unless they are common carrier or there is some other special exception).

Section 230 protects companies from liability in the case they censor and fail to censor unprotected speech.
You can just block users that bother you, can't you?
This is easy in examples such as anti-vax, flat-earth etc, but harder is more nuanced situations.

That's because he who counts the votes, controls the election; and He who decides what counts as evidence (or its weight) controls the empirical truth. all scientific conclusions are at least some degree theory-laden.

Then we get to the fact that scientific truth is not a priori for individuals, it must be communicated from a specific community which, if not at least self-motivated itself (as are most human groups) will be filtered through various political layers; The more privileged that community is (wrt exclusively wielding the power of truth), the more 3rd parties will interfere to acquire it.

This is why political principles exist as well as impossibly ideal empirical ones; The issue is less about the complex issue of objective truth, and more about the autonomy of individuals to choose their own actions, whatever beliefs may motivate it.