skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"free speech" is like the power of pardon. In that until toxic individuals insisted on testing its most extreme boundaries it was allowed to remain, in theory, nearly unlimited.

"Free Speech" is a great thing when it's used with wisdom and solid judgment. It can be a vehicle for insight, innovation, and new ways to think about the world. This reflects the constructive uses of "free speech"

If you look at the other side of the coin you have these eruptions of toxic individualism. The power of "free speech" isn't used for constructive reasons. Instead it's a show of force. I am going to say this and there is nothing you can do to stop me. This has continued even as we see real material setbacks manifest because of this capricious use of "free speech"

Returning for a moment to the power of the pardon. It's likely we will see that power reigned in. It was never scrutinized before because the wielders of that power always used it responsibly and judiciously. I think we're going to have to turn the same scrutiny to speech on the internet. In the end you can point the fingers at the selfish few that ruined a good thing for the rest of us.
The repository mentions [0] the Wassenaar agreement, and that I must consult with the laws of my country on whether I am allowed to import/use software which includes encryption algorithms developed in other countries.

Wat?

In this day and age 99% (OK, this number is exaggerated, but you get my point) of software includes some sort of encryption. For one, think about all the libs/apps which communicate over the Internet and use encryption libs to talk via HTTPs. Is mentioning The Wassenaar Arrangement [1] in terms of software even necessary nowadays?

Linux, Windows, MacOS - all have encryption libs built in (at least on the kernel level). They have been made in various countries, yet they are used all over the world. Do they fall under the terms of The Wassenaar Arrangement?

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[0] https://github.com/jukefoxer/Signal-Android/tree/feature/wa-...

[1] https://www.wassenaar.org
Social Engineering Red Flags
Can you point to the court case (court case that was not subsequently overruled)? The reason I dont believe this is that would be extremely arbitrary. If hate speech is in fact banned it likely has a very narrow and explicit definition in the ruling, most likely circling back to direct threats of harm.
It's funny to hear about "fairness" from EU, when it also tries to weasel out of tariff agreements with so called "anti-dumping measures" [0] and, after that attempt has failed, now it tries to do the same with "carbon tax" [1]. The latter is sold to public as a care about climate change, but as argued by many in reality it's simply a new form of tariff in the ongoing world trade war to offset serious inefficiencies brought by wide adoption of solar and wind energy with simultaneous drastic reduction of nuclear capacity.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trade-wto-eu-russia-idUSK...
[1]: https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news20_e/good_11jun20_e.h...
Thought exercise: what if say, Twitter, wanted to put one of its competitors out of business, and decided to engage in mass creation of accounts/content on that competing platform with the intention of violating their ToS and getting the platform kicked off of their hosting provider. Is this a viable business strategy now? Heck, is this even illegal?
Hi!

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Am looking for a technical rockstar who can benefit from my domain expertise and networks to help build a management software for actors as a starting point, as most actors in India are unrepresented until they become famous. This would track project information, dates, monies, contacts, and so on, and gradually we can add service providers and other members of the industry to create accounts and build workflows, micro tools and tech enabled services to create a sticky ecosystem which makes day-to-day functioning of the industry, which is currently run a bit ad-hoc, more streamlined, organised and systemised.

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That is surely a history, but concise? Nope...
More people can become the kind of people who are useful in wartime if they aren't struggling to survive.
The "but what about these stats" question has been asked a million times. Any population-level stats for crime rate, income, education, etc, are affected by unequal starting positions, and in the US those unequal starting positions were enforced by racism in leadership for decades. And in some places still are.

You can't punch someone constantly until they're covered in bruises and then say "look, they aren't in pain because of anything bad anyone did, they just have more bruises."
This is being worked on

https://www.coindesk.com/gotenna-bitcoin-wallet-mesh-network
My point is I don't find it plausible the mob that attacked the capitol was motivated by liberal college professors or race crime statistics, or various progressive cultural victories. I think it's reasonable to assume a bisexual poly woman would not be concerned with those specific matters to the point where they'd be willing to participate in mob violence to overthrow the government.
Thanks for the links.

Looks like you're right, interest is not considered consumption.

What is included is rent, or for owner-occupied residences, the "owners’ equivalent rent" - the figure which would be charged if the owner rented it out?
Can you imagine the thoughts going on in these people on their death beds. Fully aware there is a vaccine and there's nothing that can help them now, if only someone had thought of THEM, helping THEM. I know this doesn't really help anything. It's just super sad. I do feel it daily.

Unfortunately too part of the problem is so little actually helpful information is being distributed. What your average Joe hears is

1. death count - useful.

2. Vaccine - useful up to a point - they won't be able to get it for a while.

3. Wear a mask - useful.

I think beyond this we need to make sure people know that:

1. Most cases are because of contact with asymptomatic people (AND Before that one HN person replies with that doesn't exist - it absolutely does - antibody tests are also confirming this)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/20/health/cdc-coronavirus-spread...

2. Vitamin D is NOT your Trump conspiracy cure. It actually works and is backed up by 2 gold standard studies. We don't have more research in this area because no one is funding it. There are many other studies (not randomized/placebo) but ones looking at old people that were already previously taking vitamin D (because of their existing regimen before the pandemic) with massively better outcomes. Someone posted this link that does a nice job summarizing:

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
Please follow the site guidelines when posting here. They include:

"Don't be snarky."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
maybe you already use go-lang, and want generics.
It might not make you a communist, but I'd say definitely a statist at least, of which there are both left and right leaning flavors.

If libertarianism and individualism are "a cancer" and "literal poison" then then they are the most benign and beneficial ones I've ever heard of. Of course any ideology has a spectrum of interpretations and people involved, but the core ideas of "don't hurt people and don't take their stuff" (and maybe also "leave me alone") seem pretty good to me.
Generics aren't magic, and they aren't Turing complete, like C++ templates. They're just a way to avoid copy-pasting code.

Having `Set<Foo>` and `Set<Bar>` is far more readable than `class FooSet` and `class BarSet`, where the code is exactly the same aside from a search-and-replace.

You also run into issues where someone finds a bug in `FooSet`, but doesn't know `BarSet` exists, and forgets to patch both. Now, you have two divergent copy-paste classes.

Generics solve a bunch of real-world problems, in a very simple manner.
I'm curious what's the issue with go routine and what kind of fix ADA bring?
Exactly. And I noticed they were much younger and in much better condition than the people attending live Trump events.
Are they actually being silenced, as in someone is forcing them to not express their thoughts? Can they not congregate together the old fashioned way and have as much free speech as they want?
Denying people homes or loans because of race is vastly different, because one’s race is an inherited physical characteristic.[1] Here, companies are denying service to Parler based on the beliefs (edit: and behavior) of its users.

This situation lies somewhere between “refusing service based on someone’s religion” and “refusing service because I just don’t like them.” Political affiliation is not yet recognized as a religious belief, so they are not a protected class. I don’t know enough about the law to say on what grounds a company stands if they drop/refuse service because they think someone is being a dick.

[1] it’s more nuanced than that of course, but I’m speaking broadly here
That's some sneaky language but this isn't a philosophical hypothetical. Parler hosted people calling for specific acts of violence and did hardly anything to moderate them. Those people were almost entirely right wing and you can see for yourself looking through the data dumps provided recently by a hacker or looking up articles about Parler.

If you have evidence o some other app hosted on AWS where left wing groups calling for violence and applauding it when it materializes, but not being shut down, please show everyone. I won't even go to the extreme of saying it has to be at the same level or quantity of violent speech we saw on Parler.
All very nice. But SciHub doesn't seem to resolve.
IMO what the author call "Apathy" we call "focus in trying to survive" and "accepting the new normal". That's exactly the same feeling and reaction that people living in Syria and Iraq have after living years in a War environment.
Sure. It requires a tiny bit of setup, but I put up a gist[0].

You can customize to your needs/liking, let me know if it works for you...

[0]: https://github.com/luckman212/adobe_kill
> Title 47 U.S. Code § 230 explicitly states that publishers are not liable for the content that their users post, with some minor exceptions related to sex trafficking.

No, it doesn't.

It states that online systems with user generated content (and other users on such systems) aren't treated as publishers of what their users post, with some major exceptions related to civil liability related to sex trafficking and all criminal liability regardless of subject matter. Civil liability not deriving from status as a “publisher” is also not on its face, affected, though some courts have also applied 230, controversially, to immunize against notice-based civil liability that would apply to them as distributors, even if they aren't considered publishers.
I don't really know if all of that is necessarily true. I've had a ThinkPad X in daily use for 6-7 years now, and I've even fallen flat on top of it after slipping on ice going home one winter. It's still chugging along. It's not the thinnest device there is, but there's definitely some kind of an attempt in that direction compared to bulkier devices. (The associated compromises in general are also there.)

I have no experience with Apple hardware, but I don't think Airs have a reputation of being super fragile either.

The thinner and lighter form factor also does have its advantages; it's a bit more comfortable to handle when using it to watch video on the couch, for example.

Compromised performance is definitely true, though. (Or compromised thermals, or some kind of a compromise on that axis in any case.) Ditto for more or less compromised upgradability and replaceability, which is unfortunate.

I wouldn't necessarily want the thinness to end, although striving towards it at all costs is something I would also disagree with, and probably wouldn't go for the absolute thinnest stuff there is.
Elon Musk said 'use Signal,' and confused investors sent the wrong stock up 438%
What makes you so sure the government would do a better job at running Boeing?

Are there any examples where a nationalized US organization is doing better than it's private industry counterparts?

737-MAX issues aside, Boeing is doing very well in just about every other aspect of their business, which is quite vast in scope. Everything from rocket ships to commercial airliners that aren't 737-MAX variants...
> - TLDs aren't sold for a set price. There's a vickrey auction which awards the TLD to the highest bidder. This creates a better distribution of names than selling at a set price or to the first buyer

for real money, USD or EUR or such? where does this money go? or do you have to first mine some cryptocoin, or buy it with real money, and it then goes to the entity 'namebase'?

scroll down here to the 'how it works': https://www.namebase.io/

this quite honestly looks really sketchy to me. I'd much rather take my chances with registering a domain name among the myriad of ICANN root nameserver gTLDs and ccTLDs than buy some weird, obscure cryptocoin, which can then be used to buy 'domain names' that only 0.000001% of the client devices presently operating on the planet can successfully resolve into IPs.

https://learn.namebase.io/starting-from-zero/buy-hns

all of this just looks like somebody has grafted 'blockchain' and 'crypto coins' onto the same alternative root DNS ideas that failed twenty years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
Im in a similar low-stress situation and I am grateful for it. I have an e-fund that can handle anything, and was from a lower income family for long enough that my natural inclination towards any impulse purchase or lifestyle creep is 'probably not'.

Aside from some fairly basic goal tracking, boring boglehead investing, and making sure nothing stupid is being transacted, I really don't do a lot and everything seems to be working. Dont @ me about my warhammer addiction though...
Call me naive, but I'm not really worried about the near-term. There will likely be more unrest, mostly at government buildings, but a rabble of extremists can't overthrow the most powerful government in the world on their own. The real danger was when they had lawmakers and the president on their side, but the president is about to be out and many of the lawmakers seem to be souring on this movement (including - crucially - Mitch McConnell, an influential figure in the party).

Now, what I am concerned about is the mid-to-long-term. Deepening economic inequality remains a serious problem for people on both the left and the right - I would argue it's the root cause of the unrest we're witnessing - and it shows no signs of slowing down. And I haven't seen the incoming administration provide any real plan to solve it. Also, the extremist circles won't suddenly disappear just because they stop being placated. They may end up voting en force in the midterms and/or the next presidential election. Trump has talked about starting a "news" network in the meantime which could keep the base stoked. He could then run again in 2024- or, possibly worse, a younger and smarter version of him who could actually capitalize on the seeds that he's planted.

But I think we now have at least a couple years of relative stability ahead. Maybe that time should be used to prepare. I know I'll be renewing my passport.
It’s June
I hit the 200 newsletter subscriber mark, without asking family or friends
Hi,

I decided roughly about 2 months ago to launch a productivity newsletter (The Big 3 Newsletter - https://productivitypro.substack.com/)

The first thought was I want this to be my thing. I didn't want the outside influence from family and friends. Suppose that's maybe the fear of being told it's a rubbish idea. Deep down I knew (prayed) it could work.

Researching and hearing many great stories on Indie Hackers, the Newsletter Crew podcast and around social media confirmed it was very doable. What made it a more lucrative offer was the fact Substack has made it ridiculously easy to launch a newsletter. I had tried Mailchimp for the first couple of editions but found it too clunky and I'm not savvy enough for adding plugins etc.

Anyway, how did I get 200 subscribers without telling anyone I know.

You may be surprised, but Instagram was the biggest traffic driver (a new account, not getting family/friends to follow). It seems Instagram doesn't seem to be the usual choice for chasing newsletter sign ups. The link is bio is tumbleweed, but what did work was simply asking people in the DM's!

I created a friendly copy and paste note that goes something like;

’Thanks for following and supporting my page, I’ve got a productivity newsletter you may be interested in. I’d appreciate your feedback, please don’t be shy and let me know. Subscribe link in bio…’

This gets me about 3/4 subscribers per day. Not sure if this is good but I was pretty happy with the results for such a newbie newsletter.

A few have trickled in from Twitter. It’s a strange place! There’re pages on there that have 100k’s of followers and get 3 likes on a post. Try and work that one out!

Hope this helped anyone looking for an additional way of adding to their subscriber list!

P.S.
I post an easy to digest weekly newsletter, sharing productivity tips and light hearted actionable ideas. Your feedback is very welcom.

https://productivitypro.substack.com/

Thanks,
Keith
Rust is a reasonably complex language, but—having programmed professionally in both—I don't think it's nearly as complex as C++. Rust features for the most part are orthogonal to each other, whereas C++ features tend to have weird interactions with each other that are really hard to track and understand. (The one place where Rust starts to get messier in terms of feature interactions is async Rust, but luckily you can program Rust just fine while ignoring the async features.)

Consider initialization: C++ has dozens of different ways of initializing objects that in turn interact in complicated ways with move semantics and references and so forth. Rust's initialization story by contrast is straightforward: you just make the thing you want to make using struct or enum literals and maybe wrap those initializers in functions if you want.
> Suppressing their views doesn't change their beliefs either. It only increases their feeling of being oppressed.

Consider why every dictator strives to have complete control over the media, and you'll see that suppressing views does actually work on the majority of the populace unfortunately (not on the politically active, of course, but most people aren't)
> When the government calculates inflation, they look at prices of common goods, but not housing. Housing is based on monthly payment. That's why inflation is artificially low.

Please read how the shelter part of CPI is actually calculated, rather than using your imagination. The rental component of shelter is based on surveying renters how much rent they actually pay. Owner equivalent rents (OER) components is based on surveying owners how much rent they think their house would rent for. It's simply answering the question "If someone were to rent your home today, how much do you think it would rent for monthly?". There are no house prices, no interests rates, no house payments in there at all; they only affect CPI as far as it unfluences house owner estimates of rents.

The OER component of CPI would be "artificially low" if you believe owners systematically understate how much their own house would rent for (or if you believe the BLS folks are lying). Your $500k house would be equivalent to the $210k 1990 house in the CPI calculation if its owner believes it would rent for the same amount today as in 1990.
> That is because three Silicon Valley monopolies — Amazon, Google and Apple — abruptly united to remove Parler from the internet, exactly at the moment when it became the most-downloaded app in the country.

I think I heard this point before about it trending to most popular for a fleeting moment. Does anyone have specific dates when that occurred and how long that trend lasted? Where exactly is this information conveyed, in the app stores themselves? Is there some archived location I can go look up to verify the veracity of the claim?
> I genuinely believe that free speech should have limits in order to maintain the cohesion of our societies and protect people from mob

Imagine saying this in June 2020
At this point it’s history: Go and Rust both got started around the same time - one by Mozilla and the other by Google. They’ve both reached critical-mass over the past ~10 years - so expecting one of them to disappear is like expecting Autodesk to choose between 3ds and Maya...
There are research on the topic of how to deescalate conflict among groups, along lines of race, religion and nationality.

Minimize the displaying of symbols, especially those that symbolize difference in values.

Treat people equally. Same laws, same rules, same methods of handling people.

When there is an absolute need for borders, make the border distinct and obvious.

Symbolic actions of understanding can often be more important than practical actions.
Agreed. I gradually morph that to-do list into pseudocode and that into code, sometimes in a comment block.

When in the code and need to jump around different thoughts all in progress, I also tend to put "%%" and/or "%%$%" as a marker for "come back to this". (It helps that it doesn't compile, and works across platforms or different editors, so I don't have to change the habit over time.)
>The whole article is a bad-faith farce, and should be treated as such. Ignore it.
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>There are real points to be made about how the behavior of these companies might impact discourse, whether they have too much power, and more. However, this bad faith argument is a distraction from meaningful discourse.

I disagree that the article distracts from meaningful discourse. To the contrary, the article has elicited a great deal of meaningful discourse (in these HN threads) that helps us examine the role of social media in modern society.