skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally speaking, there's two ways to determine a truth, either from experimentation and results, or from first principles.

From the experimentation side of things, you have Canada, Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, India, South Africa, Sweden, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom (I'm probably missing some) where they impose restrictions on free speech while still having mostly free speech rights. You can even include the US as well, since it does have restrictions, they're just more relaxed, and seem to only be enforced if financial damage can be proven from libel.

Now very broadly looking at that list, it seems that countries that take a most speech is free (especially speech that criticizes the government and ruling class), but some speech is restricted (especially hate related speech, speech that imply violence to others, speech that targets minority groups, and diffamation and libel speech) seem to work pretty well in practice. At least, those countries have had stable social and economic environments, and seem to allow for good opportunity to its citizen and give them a good standard of living in general.

So from the experimentation side of "truth seeking", it seems to me I'm not seeing an argument for absolutely all speech should be free always no matter the circumstances or the intent of the speech.

Now, we don't have a good experiment example of "all speech goes" unfortunately. Maybe the US is the closest to it, and that seems to be causing quite a lot of social and economic instability for now at least. But I'd say it's too soon to conclude anything on that front.

The other approach to "truth seeking" would be from first principle. The theory around free speech comes from the liberal progressive thinkers of the enlightenment. So turning to them for first principle makes sense. From my research into it (and I welcome you do your own), there seem to be no winning theory around it. All agree that speech against government should be free, but how far to take other speech in other circumstances is not clear. Also debatable if the government should be free to criticize groups of citizens or not, because that can enable top down propaganda and repression, which free speech is trying to protect against. Most theory seem to recognize the "risks" with unrestricted free speech, but some believe that the benefits of free speech against authoritarianism and majority's rule is worth it, while others think it is possible to draw a line that protects against this and mitigates the risk of unrestricted free speech.

It seems some of the thinkers that are pro unrestricted free speech also assume the system provides people with an education that allows them to identify and rationalize fake and manipulative ideas and thoughts from legitimate ideas and thoughts.

So the first principle outlook also seems inconclusive in my opinion.

That personally leaves me to conclude that mostly free speech is good, and fully free speech might also be good but that's not yet been demonstrated to really know, with keeping in mind that this uncertainty about fully free speech could resolve in it being worse or better than mostly free speech.
It used to be more frequent. When I was in school, there was at least a day per winter when snow would not melt and you woke up to whit(ish) streets in Madrid (city). Nothing that jammed traffic or made us skip school by far, but you got some snow to throw around. Currently that does not happen; and when it happens it seems heavier. Last traffic-disrupting snowfall was 2009 in Madrid.

In Madrid (region), at less than an hour driving, we have a Sierra where we used to have 3 skiing stations. Now we only have 2 (Navacerrada and Valdesquí) because Cotos had to close. And snow melts more quickly. My father always boasts that he once skied in the Madrid Sierra on May 15th, and with current climate that's difficult to believe. But I've seen how the skiing season gets shorter year after year. 15 years ago everybody made plans for going skiing to the Pyrenees on the Inmaculada holiday (early November), and currently all bets are off even for the Constitution holiday (early December).
I think if you went into the Capitol Building even judicious uses of Bayes is probably going to spit out a good guess as to your politics.
If you've recently had covid, it might be the perfect(cheapest) time to do it.
> It is one thing to say "free speech" as a dog whistle and another thing to say "free speech" in the true meaning.

Saying that free speech doesn't count if you're not using it the right away, is literally the exact opposite of the concept. It's the same reason the ACLU has spent so much money defending literal Nazis.
Edit: to all those downvoters, I've seen how socialism/communism simply doesn't work long term, how it ruins society and decent people living in it, first hand, as much as possible. So its a bit more personal than anonymous internet ninja philosophers so popular not only here these days.

What you write doesn't make much sense. The world isn't black and white, and left and right have whole spectrum. The ultra (left or right) never overthink their decision, always feel righteous even if heading straight to hell. If you think moderate left (ie EU from US perspective), it might be a correct assessment from certain point of view (not a big fan of EU here, I like the theory but not many things in practice).

Moderate right/centrists could be described exactly same things as you say about left.

Why right might beat left, at least in theory, is because it gives people more money directly. People like that. tey like to have some control over such an important thing. Instead of massive taxation, that in ideal world isn't stolen in some way (in reality much/most of it is, or at least very badly mismanaged) and spent in social, health, education, infrastructure etc.

Once folks see real money, they have at least some control/choice over it. Even if kindergardens cost a fortune (there are other options in some cases), and paid maternity leave is shorter (you can stay longer but unpaid). And health care might cost something (but apart from US its not a bad idea generally, works great in Switzerland for example).

Oh and don't forget the lean state aparate, very attractive unless you are actually some semi-useless otherwise unemployable state bureaucrat. And so on.
PBS lawyer fired after championing ‘reeducation camps’
I quite like suckless software, unfortunately it is very X-centric.

Not sure what their view on Wayland is?
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This is what that bug report says:

> HPLIP requires PolicyKit, PolicyKit requires libpam-systemd. And it does not switch init systems, it just installs the systemd package.
The average engineer isn't an infosec expert and love automation so they found the weakest link in the chain: CI/CD
Wish I had time to refute your comment.
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Ummm...yes

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/facebook-inc/summary?all=20...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/microsoft-corp/summary?id=D...

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/amazon-com/summary?all=2020...
Australia only allows citizens and residents back in. AND they have to quarantine in designated facilities for two weeks.

This is seriously failed leadership in the US. I haven't heard from anyone on either side calling for such measures.
Conditioned on the fact that these "Parler Users" were trespassing on the premises of the Capitol Building, you can build a pretty strong case that you're dealing with an insurrectionist.
> The tech giants this week seem to have demonstrated that they do in fact hold monopoly power in the market, and are willing to use it to crush a potential competitor. This seems to me to be an unprecedented situation, a likely anti-trust violation, and potentially to the extent that it was a coordinated action by these companies,

Coordinated? Competitor? Where do you find evidence of coordination? Why do you think parler is a competitor?

> it’s more accurate to say that Parler was a site that carried some hateful messages

Not accurate at all. Why do you think people used parler instead of twitter.

> Nuking the entire platform from orbit is not an appropriate remedy

When the entire platform resists and refuses to moderate, nuking from orbit is a fine remedy. Parler was too stupid to build alternatives into their risk profile. I think they believed their own hype.
I’m saying it’s a disservice to compare them, since I felt like thy were in different intelectual leagues.

But I’d say it’s a bit unfair to compare musk to most people
In response to Capitol rioting, Musk weighs in on Big Tech censorship
This is a good quotation.

One thing is just speaking, another, speaking and voting in a parliament.

OTOH I like the idea that every new Parliament member should bring an idea which is currently illegal, and work on integrating it into the legal framework. Thus is how all change (to the bad and to the good the same) occurs in a peaceful way.

It's interesting to note how many now-mainstream ideas were fringe 30 years ago, and outright scandalous 100-150 years ago: universal suffrage, social security, gay marriage, legal marijuana, etc.
Frankly, facebook, twitter et al. really didn't have much choice. They've been as tolerant as they can be.

It was parler that screwed things up. It was meant to be a right wing equivalent to the left wing social media companies (who, coincidentally, are incredibly anti-union, anti-corporate tax, and anti-workers right, or as was previously known incredibly right wing). Instead they produced a platform that was rampant with death threats, resulting in the only (overtly) right wing platform collapsing.
I wasn't aware the two were mutually exclusive. Why wouldn't you cut the power AND the signal?

That MEMS microphone is producing analog output, is it not? I did a cursory search for the printed part numbers but came up empty handed.
They solved the ethics problem by offering trial participants PrEP for free for the duration of the trials.

Some people who start the trial not taking PrEP will also continue the trial without taking the PrEP they're offered and educated about for free.
I recall that the science deniers were the ones in favor of border restrictions. Besides, I don’t envy anybody whose position is so weak they must resort to finger pointing. A scientist would let the data speak.
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When people incited violence/genocide on <radio> in Myanmar, some people held <radio> partially responsible. Now, there are people are inciting violence on <radio> in the US, and it's still an open question whether <radio> should be held liable.

There are important differences, but the parallels between the Rwandan genocide and the growth of talk radio in the US in the 90's have always struck me as interesting.

That being said, I think that the new public square argument is strong, and if we're going to have internet monopolies, then they probably need to be regulated similarly to the utilities.

Alternatively, they can be broken up. I don't think the current state is sustainable over the longer term.
> iptables don't let you know when a particular program tries to access an outside host and choose whether you want to allow that.

How does this model work for commonly used programs like curl? Do you block it and can't use it at all in your shell scripts, or do you whitelist it and hope that nefarious programs don't use it to exfiltrate data?
We don't want to import any more new more infectious strains if we can help it
https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
The USA was doing 500k tests/day back in May, and over 1m tests/day by July. Probably couldn't have happened earlier than that, but it would definitely have been feasible mid last year.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/full-list-covid-19-tests-...
They are unrelated but the grandparent made two points. They said it wasn't FOSS, but it is; that only depends on the license.

My question was what prevents a third party from connecting to Signal's servers.
I would argue that code using generics is often easier to read than code without it.

The fact that something is a type variable makes it clear the that type of that thing doesn't matter.
Don't ignore Mike Pence. When the chips were down, he counted the votes as the states approved them. If he had gone along with Trump's fiction, this could have gotten really crazy. I think Pence was at least as crucial as McConnell.
Double standards are bad. Principles should matter more than your biases.
Measles has 6, where are you getting this number from?
Now even associating with a toxic entity is enough to have your businesses effectively shut down. Where will it end? Will stores have their Visa/MasterCard terminals deactivated if they sell bread and milk to families and friends of a Proud Boys member?

Will local suppliers have their executive board members houses picketed for the crime of supplying them water and electricity?
Thanks for your anecdote. When SF was doing better and the possibility of big outdoor events with testing on the door were something that was being discussed, I looked at rapid tests together with some friends and the accuracy is really appalling. People relying on this to "safety socialize" may be one of the issues making cases rise in California, the math adds up. Many people reached to the government saying they should stop sponsoring and advertising rapid test sites because the false sense of security may be really doing more harm than good.

One of the rapid tests that we considered has, as advertised by its own manufacturer, a 10% false positive rate on basically all the population, and a 50% false negative rate even on symptomatic individuals with high viral load. Do the math, but using that type of test in something like for example a 100 person event or a restaurant will result in people being turned out of the door daily even if they were not symptomatic, and at least one or two people with high viral load being admitted into your place. I can't find the link of the test now, but there's better data about how harmful rapid tests are when not used together with PCR testing, for example here: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4941 and here: https://asm.org/Articles/2020/November/SARS-CoV-2-Testing-Se...

That's why most countries that really thought this through require a recent PCR test result for admittance.

It's really not clear what benefits rapid tests have if you don't have a model for population behavior. I think at lest the SF government is only doing them to save face now that the cat is out of the bag.
The sheer volume of information that Chat holds makes it hard to search. The noise to signal ratio is higher than on channels with lower throughout (e.g. documentation products). Chat doesn't let you send one message and craft it over time, like a mission statement, proposal, or architecture guide. It has a fundamentally different character.
I have a suggestion to keep these conversations from spiraling into pedantry: let's stop using the phrase "free speech" when referring to these companies (I'm going to use it a few more times here though, for illustration), and instead be descriptive and refer to "a group of people having their ideas and voices silenced at scale." Whether we agree with the people being silenced or not, that's what this is really about, right?

We don't need names to know what something is. A young scientist might think an elderly aboriginal person foolish because the elder has never heard of a "star", but that doesn't mean the elder hasn't seen the sun rise every day of their life.

My point is that we should not be discounting opinions because someone used the wrong word. We're smart enough to read between the lines and see the crux of what is bothering someone. Free speech, as an ideal, doesn't have to refer to any law, but to avoid spiraling into pedantry, I would suggest that we all be more descriptive during the course of these conversations.
Poorly, you mean, because Popper asserts (as I quoted before):

...as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise...

It's only when the other side has abandoned discourse and is interested in meeting you with force that tolerance is to be abandoned.
Was it really monopolistic?

server hosting isn’t a monopoly, everyone has access to the web on their phone even when app stores drop apps

they may have had problems getting managed services on the big providers but there are many many other options
Warning:
I am not comfortable to share any non mass media outlets. so
Please be careful about Project Veritas link.

[Dangerous link] [Fake News Media Site] [De-platformed]
https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/13491030069906923...
OCaml has generics (and global inference!) and compiles very fast.
He can make his own website, surely? It just needs to be a forum site, much like any old hobby might have. If he wants an app he can offer an APK for Android. Not sure the bulk of Trump supporters can figure out TestFlight, but someone could put up detailed instructions. In any case you don't really need the app, you can have a browser link.
> So how do we guard against this type of attack?

Don’t give people running windows machines access to your source code/production
> flu numbers are much lower if not vanishingly small, suggesting people are in fact largely complying with mitigation efforts

The flu viruses are a different class of virus (rhinovirus) from SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) and could be expected to be affected differently by mitigation efforts. I don't know that the much lower flu numbers tell us that people are wearing masks properly; they could be due simply to social distancing and people staying home. Also, AFAIK there is not significant evidence of transmission of flu by asymptomatic people, whereas there is for COVID-19, so it is easier for people to avoid transmitting flu by self-isolating if they have symptoms.
What is the proper libertarian response to current events? Asking in good faith, honestly curious.

To be fair, I'm curious about what the response would be to BLM riots+politician involvement, MAGA riots+president involvement, and big tech censorship in response.
Out of curiosity, is there anything in particular that makes C++ preferable for simulations? I’ve been trying to get into the topic lately - for now I’ve stuck to python and Julia for the visualizations that are more familiar to me.
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I hope you get well soon!
Thank you so much for offering such great insights. I love the general flair of keeping the process light. I do have a couple more questions:

a) When does your google doc go "stale"? (The next 1:1? At the end of the year? When you stop having 1:1s with that person?)

b) In your approach, are there things you don't want to share but want to make note of (performance related notes, future ideas etc)? What do you do in these cases to stay organized?

c) If you are managing a team of several people over large time periods, that's a lot of google documents. Do you have the need to stay organized over time? How do you do it?
Straw men. This site was a principle fundraiser for these hateful groups. Not a grocery store.
I've been wondering how much of all this is an (over?)reaction to the threat of the repeal of section 230. How many of the people making these decisions have reciently had meetings with legal where they learn what changes they would need to make to not risk lawsuits. Allowing governmental oversight, with legal protection, would sound pretty good in comparison.
I don't think the two are related. At least, I haven't heard anyone mention it as the cause.
This. No one I know uses the E2EE chats in Telegram. They go with the default and they heard Telegram is "secure". To add to the inconvenience the secure chats do not sync between devices.
C++ programmers are used to think in terms of object lifetimes, were they should be allocated, and how to signal ownership and object consumption over the API.

That's why is better to learn Rust coming from a C++ background.

(And in my experience this mental model can also be of value even in languages were memory management is handled by the language runtime)
Ban the least layers needed to achieve the goal. The layers closer to the violent speech get the most responsibility.

If the next layer refuses to ban the previous layer, then yes: keep going after the next layer in the stack.
PBS response to Project Veritas: "This employee no longer works for PBS. As a mid-level staff attorney, he did not speak on behalf of our organization, nor did he make any editorial decisions…” (1/3)

https://twitter.com/PBSPressRoom/status/1349059070901313539
An insurrection is only a crime if you lose. Otherwise, it's a thing to be proud of for generations.

Now, there doesn't seem to have been any path to victory for them, and that casts doubt on the rest of their judgment. But at least in the moment, they believed they were heroes.
As long as, they have branches outside of the US, I think you will be fine. Also as a U.S. citizen, you will find out that not many non-American bank will do business with you.
Seems zoomeye (.org) is a hosted service similar to shodan. I don’t think cloudflare is leaking your ip but rather your server is. Assuming they just crawl ips and make educated guesses, I’d say deny all traffic that doesn’t come from cloudflare for starters. Does your http server being accessed by its ip show anything about your domain?
I see the argument the commission is making, but when it comes to the question of inciting violence on privately owned systems, is it really the right idea to move it to some sort of public committee when the target is "too big to censor?"
For the HIV vaccine trials, all participants are educated about and are offered free PrEP. There will be participants who choose not to take the PrEP anyway, and there will be people who are not compliant with PrEP's dosing schedule, which will reduce its efficacy against HIV acquisition.
Perhaps the C course is supposed to fill this role, but I'd vote for including a course in assembler/assembly. Not because many students would use it, but because it teaches how a CPU actually functions without abstraction. I've used it only once, and even for that, I was mainly transcribing from a textbook. But understanding assembly was key for me to solve many computing problems over my career.

In other programming activities, understanding computing at the assembly level enabled me to realize that the bug I was chasing was actually in a library or, god forbid, the compiler.
This is great news, we have been using CloudLinux and Kernel Care at my web hosting company for many years and they are great products. These guys know what they are doing and I trust this distro will be well supported.
Slack isn't a bunch of chat rooms, it's a database disguised as a bunch of chat rooms. I've never had a problem pulling up some random conversation from three years ago as long as I remember the general topic.

In that regard it's no different than using email, everything is indexed and you're just searching a different database.
I let my tests serve as an outline of what I need to do. That way I can recall from the previous day what I was working on and where I need to pickup.
If I link you to examples of people with blue checkmarks calling for violence then what? Would you support twitter becoming deplatformed? Is principled based reasoning something you're capable of or even interested in?
> A scientist would let the data speak.

Yet many schools in the US are still closed.
There are still plenty of posts by these people on those platforms.