skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The implication is that the nationwide (and worldwide) Black Lives Matter protest marches in wake of George Floyd's death should have been prevented and their communications shut down, because the grandparent poster thinks that protesting police brutality and murder is illegitimate, but storming the US Capitol with the stated goal of overthrowing the government and extrajudicially executing the Vice President is just fine.
Free speech doesn't need limits.

Inciting violence, endangering someone with false speech, committing fraud: they're already a crime and they're not covered by free speech.
> 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.

Agreed, but frontend disparities are an entirely different cause than the "police are racist thus more black people are killed by police" argument that conservatives (and others) are pushing back against. Notably, a hypothetical police force that is perfectly unbiased and which never ever uses force inappropriately would still kill more blacks than whites for the simple fact that, provided that blacks commit more crimes (even though the reason blacks commit more crimes is a history of systemic racism).
> but you will never in a million years convict someone of murder when they were returning fire.

If you break into my home with a gun, I shoot at you and miss, and you shoot me and kill me, you would absolutely be convicted of murder or manslaughter.

The defense, in this case, relies on two claims:

1. The intruders were police officers (this doesn't, or shouldn't, give them carte blanche to shoot people)

2. The police announced themselves as police before entering, which is in dispute.

Further, the opportunity to bring manslaughter charges was never provided. The prosecutor declined to present murder or manslaughter to the Grand Jury.
The carrier who provides your physical location service is more comparable to a utility or the postal service than are Apple or Google.
Yes and that's probably why there is no set in the go std lib. You just can use struct{}{} as (empty) value in a map.
I'm curious what services like Shodan deal with the legal aspects of things. For example they obviously scan the Irish governments sites but I would be afraid to do that even though I do legitimate research. Is there any actual guidance out there about how to balance these things?
It is material to any discussion of whether or not AWS, Amazon or Silicon Valley or corporations in general have "Monopolistic Force" abilities in this area.
Not if you need to implement set operations (union, intersect, etc.) on your own each time.

Generic maps as sets are only ok for membership checks.
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I thought that at first, but I realized that I was biased towards the people I personally know who have been fully consumed into the right-wing conspiracyverse (older boomers who never liked computers until the internet was easy).

Ultimately I think you underestimate many of them. They feel persecuted and righteous and have the ability to follow step-by-step directions.
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> COVID doesn't really respond to political leadership. That's one of the few things we can say about it with certainty.

You clearly live in a parallel reality, where east asia does not exist, where there isn't a direct and obvious relation between leaders who made light of COVID (Johnson, Trump, Bolsanaro) and horrible casualty figures, and where the population of british people named 'Dave' has more talent than the entire population of british women.

Honestly, mandating 50 percent of commissioners are women seems very reasonable. 50 percent of the population are women, so it makes sense that they should be proportionally represented. That's called democracy.

For the record, I'm not a big EU fan. But I also live in the real world, and on that planet, the fact that the last two male prime ministers of england (and diverse cabinet members) were in the same school, the same (small) social club, and probably share more than a few second cousins, is an outcome that would be so incredibly unlikely in a fair and competitive system that if it did happen, reasonable people would call foul play.

If you still think it's a fair and competitive system that selects for talent if this kind of ridiculous anomaly happens on a regular basis, then you're a dupe. If, moreover, you think it's a fair and competitive system when nobody even claims it is fair, or competitive, or about talent, then you're a moron of such rare and unique quality that you're basically redefining the word.
It's the knock on effects we're concerned about. The extra strain on the healthcare system:

- endangers the lives of healthcare workers (they're absolutely burnt out at this point)
- makes people not go to the doctor for necessary health issues
- causes other emergencies to not be serviced
It's ridiculous. Soldered CPU, RAM, SSD? All of it just make repairs and spare parts more expensive. I don't think I'll buy any laptop in the future.

An SFF case, desktop components and any old laptop (of which I have plenty) to connect remotely will have to do.
About 655k die every year from heart disease. Covid hasn't reached half that number in the same time.

Covid has been terrible but you shouldn't cherry pick stats to tell a story that isn't true.
I did something similar to this, and ordered a converter from Australia called DialGizmo, that could handle the two types common here, and probably could be configured for a New Zealand phone as well. Was harder to find reasonable PoE powered SIP adapters. :)
Okay, but how does Handshake solve that problem? It seems like the answer is "everyone buys their own TLD", right?

That works great until the only names that are left are all too long to remember.

And if you buy space from someone else's TLD, well... you've just given someone the power to censor you.

Or am I missing something here?
If I can have a good Ubuntu tablet experience with this, I'm on like donkey kong ..
Unlike the US highway system, Parler was specifically set up to encourage - or at least provide a haven for - insidious planning and hatred. So I don't see how your argument is convincing.

Would you feel the same way if it had been Muslim terrorists in camo storming the Capitol, and they had organised on a Muslim site?

Because no matter how this is being spun, that is literally comparable to what happened last week.
What kind of legal notices are you routinely dealing with? That's a frightening aspect of maintaining an open source side project I hadn't really considered.
Ah see, that's a good start! That's why I keep trying Matrix periodically ;) But it's been 6 months ago again.

But the problem was not really for myself.. I know where to click, even though it annoys me. The problem was with the other family members that have to verify every time when I add a new browser to the mix.

And if they don't I don't see all the chats which makes it unreliable.

Also, I don't like the way it exposes that complexity: Why do the other channel users need to know exactly which devices I log into :) They should just know it's me. This is what most other apps do right but Matrix doesn't.
> If that’s the case, they’re acting as publishers and should be liable for the content.

I'm afraid you're misinformed.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

> > If you said "Once a company like that starts moderating content, it's no longer a platform, but a publisher"

> I regret to inform you that you are wrong. I know that you've likely heard this from someone else -- perhaps even someone respected -- but it's just not true. The law says no such thing. Again, I encourage you to read it. The law does distinguish between "interactive computer services" and "information content providers," but that is not, as some imply, a fancy legalistic ways of saying "platform" or "publisher." There is no "certification" or "decision" that a website needs to make to get 230 protections. It protects all websites and all users of websites when there is content posted on the sites by someone else.

> To be a bit more explicit: at no point in any court case regarding Section 230 is there a need to determine whether or not a particular website is a "platform" or a "publisher." What matters is solely the content in question. If that content is created by someone else, the website hosting it cannot be sued over it.

Edit: BTW, I'd suggest reading that whole article. Section 230 has been misrepresented by politicians and the media fairly regularly, and this piece does a nice job of laying out the current state of the law and its interpretation and application.
HDTV has done a lot of damage to computer screens. You used to be able to get pretty hi-resolution CRT screens, but when "HDTV" became a thing manufacturers actually lowered the resolution to 720p so they could call it "HD".

It took 4K for computer screen resolutions to start going up again.
Telegram crossed 500M active users
"Telegram surpassed 500 million active users.

In the past 72 hours alone, more than 25 million new users from around the world joined Telegram."

lot of new people have came in from India
This will push towards a balkanization of the
Internet at the platform level as people will
want to self-determine the terms of service
for the basis of their communication.

This seems like a good outcome. Rather than arguing about whether or not Facebook and Twitter should allow various kinds of content, folks can choose the sorts of spaces to which they'd rather belong. And it's not like you have to pick one and only one. It just seems like a non-problem.

My feeling is that most people would not like to belong to a space where open racism and other abhorrent views are tolerated and encouraged.

Those that do can have their fringe spaces, but they shouldn't expect mainstream companies to help them do so.
That's what I was wondering as well. I can't imagine it applies to everyone in every region, but after Jan/Feb 2020, I personally didn't need to search Google (or wherever) for this info because it became a prominent feature on the landing page of the NYT and other news outlets I check fairly frequently.

The trend is pronounced enough that there's likely more at play than just "see on website instead of searching" but "I already know it's bad so I don't bother looking it up" and "I already see this data regularly on other outlets without specifically searching for it" surely combine to cause some of this result.
Last I checked, opting out of telemetry doesn't disable the autoupdate checks (another inadvertent form of telemetry), and also sends a telemetry event when opting out, which is a clear violation of user consent.
I don't know guys I give up. It seems like I am trying to shout this from the rooftops and it's just skepticism. I don't know if the people replying are just cynical. I can't seem to reach any doctors. There's just a shit-ton of research in that link and I just don't get why everyone is just so skeptical from all the PhD's listed.

Maybe this will help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha2mLz-Xdpg

or

https://vitamindforall.org/letter.html
It'd be funny if hns.to got taken down for providing a path to Sci-Hub.

At the root, the problem is trying to use the highly centralized legacy DNS system for purposes contrary to the wishes of those who control that system. To be "uncensorable", you need to change clients to use something other than DNS to resolve names.

Anyway, the property you usually want to abandon for global names is "human-meaningful". Just use key hashes as names. "Human-meaningful" strings should be reserved for local nicknames, for the simple reason that the same string will often have different meanings to different humans, for reasons predating your system and entirely outside of its control. You have no way to guarantee that what you list as "Sci-Hub" is actually what the user thinks she's looking for as "Sci-Hub", and you have even less certainty of that for any less famous name.
Wooooosh the point of me saying that was that ANYONE can label your speech as incitement bud. Again, your tone sounds pretty violent to me and I think you need to be removed from this platform. See how stupid and ridiculous this logic is?

Twitter is being prodded by government officials and working in monopolistic collusion your silly claim about it being a private entity is completely moot. If this is the road you want the US to do down you reap what you sow.
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Ok I think I'm beginning to see where you are coming from.

Thanks for the debate!
Idiotic article with horrible conclusions.
I stopped searching for COVID because I don't have to.
Every page I visit, every news site I load, has COVID numbers and news at the top of the page.
It's thrown in our face every where. Even the google home page has a COVID link.
I'm not apathetic at all, idiot. I'm overloaded with COVID info and numbers and death,
I can't escape it.
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If Google has "massive entitlement culture", then HN has massive "boss worship" culture.
Please don't break the site guidelines by flaming other users like this, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. We ban accounts that do that—we have to, because it destroys what HN is supposed to be for: curious, thoughtful conversation.

The GP already stepped in the wrong direction with name-calling rhetoric, but the thing to do in that case is to improve the thread by stepping back in the right direction. You can make your substantive points that way, so there's no loss. They'll be more persuasive actually.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
You seem to have mistaken my comment for one intending to be persuasive.

I wish for people to be informed, not to care. What matters to someone is an individual decision.
Curious. The article states that Mr. Vinod Sahadevan Nair is 60 YO, and graduated with a degree in physics, and then worked as a web designer. Mr. Lee released the web in 1989, and Mr. Nair was in his early 30s. The web wouldn't grab hold for designers for a few more years, so Mr. Nair would be close to 40 if not older. I guess that fits...
>The only real cases I can see is creating new data structures

Half of programming is creating new data structures.

The other half is tranformations (e.g. map, filter, reduce, min, max, etc) which also benefit from being generic.
uhhh, so I'm looking on the website right now, and it wants a scan of my passport or photo ID for the privilege of buying a virtual cryptocoin, that can be used for purchasing domain names almost nobody can currently resolve, which vanishes into thin air after the purchase? am I getting that right?

"Purchasing HNS with USD is currently limited to those with a US passport or ID."
> Society is based on a set of mutually agreed upon rules.

Agreed, and it follows from that that "political affiliation" protection cannot include "wants to destroy the government" -- no matter from what quadrant that sentiment flows (anarchist, socialist, fascist, whatever).

Agreeing to democracy -- and probably republicanism -- (note, both lowercase) is a bright line across which you've really decided to step outside of our mutual rules.
It's just a username. I'm probably every bit as active on this forum as you are. Is there something in this thread that makes you think I'm posting in bad faith?
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It occurs to me to that sometimes "silly" projects can also lead to practical applications. Mainly I think I'm struck by how many techy people have the impulse to pursue these quirky projects, and how there is sort of a poetic spirit to it under the techy exterior. As you say, it's certainly a more interesting and creative use of time than sitting on the couch watching TV.
yes - it was for testing OpenStack setups at home (simulating multiple clusters), and general services. But I'm doing more cloud stuff now, so its mostly turned off. I had way too much gear :-P

1 IBM half rack

8 Dell blades

8 HP blades

3 x 24 port managed switches (2 for rack, 1 for house)

3 x Odroid H2s

3 x windows desktops (games, and ssh to servers)

? x laptops (tons of old laptops )

? x tablets (ipad/android most used is a lenovo yoga tab.)

2 3d printers

1 gpu miner (Now doing folding@home covid stuff)

I think I might have a hoarding problem :-P

edit: fix formating
> I'm not at all too big on TS (which is sacrelige apparently)

All of JS with an :any appended to it ;)
I don't know a solution but lately I've been struggling with the concept of freedom of speech. With absolute free speech, taken to the extreme, you get the mess the US has right now. Without, also taken to the extreme, you get state-controlled media like what's in China.

Recently I read a comment that free speech only works if the speech is honest, and that resonated with me. So whatever the solution is, possibly start from there?
Its because people are not getting enough vit. D. I take 2000iu daily, drink a glass of milk almost daily(along with a protein mix, for workouts). Eat Chicken|Beef|Fish daily and run almost 5 days a week in the middle of the day to get maximum sunlight in Southern California. I had a blood test a few weeks ago thinking I was over-doing it on vit. D and guess what, my levels were slightly lower than average(though not deficient).

People are not getting enough in general, I would strongly suggest to request a blood test from your Dr. and up your levels via supplements or proper foods/sunlight exposure. I think in general humans are meant to be outside alot and being forced indoors has not been a good thing for us as a species.
I use the Caldigit thunderbolt hub and it works great.

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> "hate speech" is a term that was coined in recent years to silence people.

Americans have been struggling with hate speech and censorship for well over a century. The most obvious example is the censoring of the film The Birth of a Nation back in the late 1910s, but there are examples even further back in US history.

Our interpretation of "freedom of speech" (both philosophically and as protected by the First Amendment) isn't immutable and has changed since the Bill of Rights was adopted. Prior to the 1950s, the supreme court upheld the censorship of books and film for reasons that we now interpret as unconstitutional, and censorship remained the law in many states for decades after.

I would argue that our current expectation for "free speech" and this idea that it is "nearly absolute" is far more liberal than what we've seen through most of American history.
Just finished a checkup with my Doctor who told me I'm likely to have a FIT at 45 rather than colonoscopy at 50. They've wanted to lower the screening age for a while, but the resources just aren't there to do colonoscopies on everyone 45+.
If others people code uses it, then those other people deemed it useful.

So the argument for not having them now becames either:

(a) they rather not have it available, because you personally don't find it useful

(b) those using generic don't know what they're doing, and only people not using generic are smart, so it's better to not have them to prevent the clueless from being able to use them
That might be true, but that's also an extreme scenario. If I'm stuck on the 10th floor because the stuff outside is dangerous, I'm reaching for a weapon before I'm texting friends to ask about grocery stores.
> safer for kids to run around.

https://youtu.be/ul_xzyCDT98
If there were a US highway that was used primarily or disproportionately for crime, then the government would take some actions.

Examples of this in practice are the checkpoint around El Paso in West Texas that checks for all sorts of contraband. And the agriculture checkpoint on Highway 80 between California and Nevada.

In this analogy, Parler seems more like a single road used for lots of crime, while social media overall is the highway network that is more free.
Define custom elements with functional elegance
I thought the idomatic approach was to represent sets with map[key]bool
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire found that a law forbidding abusive speech in public was Constitutional because the words in question "by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace."
So what is your proposal? A blanket ban on all social media as a public health hazard? I'm on board with that. Maybe just add them to the Schedule 2 drug list?
Discussed a couple days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25704433

with an informative top comment from a Ugandan HNer.
> As one of the people WFH with simply reduced expenses, all I ever hear on the news are about the people who have been adversely affected, other than obvious winners like Zoom. Of course, "average savings rate is up" may not even be newsworthy, but I had no idea until recently this was the case.

One thing I'd like to make it clear is that although I am one of the lucky ones to hold a job in this pandemic economy and work from home, I'm actually spending more now than before on monthly expenses (for food, for example).

Where major savings come from are from lack of travel expenses but I wouldn't consider not being able to spend money on travel as being a net positive, it's a tradeoff between unique life experience and some extra money, not really a great tradeoff for many people I imagine (and a tradeoff that would have been possible even before the pandemic, the pandemic just removed the choice now which is not great). And it's not like most people that can save some travel money now will invest it well, I would imagine most simply end up spending on stuff they wouldn't have bought otherwise (see the super high demand for latest PC hardware, high Amazon sales, etc).
New York. It's a mixed bag in terms of what "neighbors" means. It's not a culture where people knock on the doors across the hall and chat about the weather or borrow sugar.
It would feel bad, but that's not really something for legal action.

The important question is whether you have legal recourse or other mechanism for redress.