skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you build a platform specifically to house/attract people who were banned from typical platforms because they had a tendency towards promoting violence, then I would argue that you are very much enabling (possibly even encouraging) their behavior. I believe that is a pretty logical sequence, and a clear line to draw.

There are very few people who earnestly want an unmoderated place of discourse, because those serve very little functional purpoae. Eventually most people will find something either irrelevant to their interests or personally repugnant presented to them and will go back to a place where there is some degree of moderation in place so that they can consistently find thing that interest and engage them. Why are you on HN and not one of these wholly unmoderated forums? Even curation of topics is a form of moderation, not to mention HN's strict approach to actually thoughtful commentary. The people who earnestly want a wholly unmoderated space are increasingly likely, depending on their desire for it, to be one of those people engaging in something so boorish that it got them removed from moderated spaces.

Furthermore, there is no small amount of irony in you saying you'd rather talk about free speech right after telling someone what they can or cannot claim.
The jurisdiction of the regulation of Engineering in Canada is provincial. Accordingly each province has a law, such as the Professional Engineers Act in Ontario [1], which creates the regulatory association and gives it power to enforce its bylaws under the Act.

The Act is a bit different in each province. The Act for Ontario says

> Offence, use of term “professional engineer”, etc.

>(2) Every person who is not a holder of a licence or a temporary licence and who,
(a.1) uses the title “engineer” or an abbreviation of that title in a manner that will lead to the belief that the person may engage in the practice of professional engineering;

>(b) uses a term, title or description that will lead to the belief that the person may engage in the practice of professional engineering; or

...

>is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable for the first offence to a fine of not more than $10,000 and for each subsequent offence to a fine of not more than $25,000. R.S.O. 1990, c. P.28, s. 40 (2); 2001, c. 9, Sched. B, s. 11 (59).

only if you are using the word engineer in such a way that would lead someone to believe that you are engaging in the practice of professional engineering is it illegal.

The practice of professional engineering also has a definition under the Act:

>“practice of professional engineering” means any act of planning, designing, composing, evaluating, advising, reporting, directing or supervising that requires the application of engineering principles and concerns the safeguarding of life, health, property, economic interests, the public welfare or the environment, or the managing of any such act; (“exercice de la profession d’ingénieur”)

If the activity being performed does not affect safeguarding of life, public welfare, or the environment you are probably off the hook and not leading anyone to believe that you are practicing professional engineering and can use the word engineer in your title and nobody will care.

If the activity being performed could kill someone or damage the environment and you are using the title of Engineer then that is contrary to the act and if something goes wrong and someone wants to file a complaint with the regulatory body against you for representing yourself as an Engineer when in fact you are not then you could be found guilty by the regulatory body's complaints committee.

So it depends what software one is writing does:

Crud app? probably not professional engineering

web site? probably not professional engineering

software that controls a dam spillway? probably professional engineering

software that controls traffic lights? probably probably professional engineering

software that controls a vehicle on a public road? probably professional engineering

software that controls an airplane? probably professional engineering

Thanks for asking the question and prompting me to dig in to this a bit more.

[1]: https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90p28
The BLM protests were explicitly non-violent. The riots that broke out were swiftly condemned and not supported by any organizing group. At no point did any leader express any kind of approval of violence. And most importantly, no one told the rioters that they love them and that they are special.
Violence is not categorically bad, I don't think. Rarely, violence is necessary in self defense. It might be the option of last resort, but sometimes violence can stop worse consequences.

I'm not justifying any particular actions that anyone has taken in specific, just objecting to the categorization that it is always bad. (For example, someone suffering from domestic violence might strike back in an effort to escape.)
It's nice we seem to be on the same page re: mRNA vaccine. However, I don't think you're totally reasonable in how you're dealing with people who are skeptical of it. It seems like you've drawn a line where people who are too skeptical, or skeptical for the wrong reasons, are suddenly -- definitely -- misled by others for some nefarious reason. And no longer rational. That's nice, when there's an overload of information and it's not worth the time to evaluate everything; but blanket statements like the ones you made aren't reasonable.

From what I've seen, most skepticism of that sort has a pretty simple source: they are far less trusting of their government, and of people in power (political or monetary). I notice you won't definitely claim there is no malice, or that the people in power are definitely trustworthy. The less trust you express, the more might not be copacetic. I saw the same thing happen over the last 15 years with Google: the folks who don't trust Gates overlap by a large margin with the ones who didn't trust Google when they had their "Don't be evil" slogan. Pessimists are rarely disappointed.

> Up until this point, you haven't even tried.

Like I noted before, I wasn't trying. I don't like it when people do not acknowledge the mental capacity of those who disagree with them. It's not up to me to prove to you that I or anyone else is rational; it's up to you to have the intellectual honesty to admit that someone who disagrees with you could be rational. As I asked you already: how can you claim, among intellectual equals, to be the one who is uninfluenced by misinformation?

- Because most people think the way you do? Bandwagon Fallacy.

- Because the experts say so? Appeal to Authority.

- Because it's just so strange? Personal Incredulity.
Consider also the zero-sum advantage that powerful or wealthy people have which directly works against poor or upstart individuals.

In the case of the cab medallion, if Uber had been fully held to the law in terms of regulations, then the traditional taxi business would not have taken such a hit. Whether the traditional taxi business sucked or not is beside the point, as it is unfair competition when one competitor doesn't have to play by the rules. Uber got away with it for so long because it had resources which an individual fair player would not have had.

Likewise, as evidenced by people like Trump who have repeatedly failed with businesses and had debts reduced or forgiven (and then were given more loans to go repeat the process), poor regular people just don't have that option. When they take a risk, it is a real risk.

Current financial and business systems are stacked in favor of the already rich or powerful, so to rise up from nothing requires far more than hard work and a good idea.
Nice to see Trump/Russia talking points being copied almost word-for-word on hackernews.
I'm less burnt out because I don't have a three fucking hour commute. Stop trying to get me back into an office that I absolutely do not ever need to step foot into again.
It's a torrent index with search, categories, user management and so on. I don't see how I can't use this for hosting Linux ISOs by just renaming the categories.
The web in a nutshell. Your story reminds me of one of the early, lighthearted episodes of the X-Files.
I think it’s time for us to get past “X is simple” or “X is easy.” It’s a highly subjective thing to say, no matter the topic. It’s never helpful, it just makes other people feel bad.
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I did not downvote you. But you haven't actually argued the point, you just said that you find it irritating. Why? What benefit do you envision revenge would provide you or society?
I mean, even in electronics manufacturing the level of automation and robotics has drastically increased. Pick and place machines for the low end are cheap and ubiquitous these days. Go look up videos of battery factories and look at the level of robotics they have involved. It's incredible!
Your imperfect solution is what we have, minus any moderation. That doesn't sound pleasant.

I might be tempted to go along, though, if your utility is transparent to the legal process---you can sue people for fraud, for example.
You might want to make it more obvious on the landing page that this price includes a live host. I thought this was a free, automated thing at first and was blown away when I saw the cost.
Agreed. Additionally, it's important to recognize that "peaceful" does not mean the same thing as "non-violent". The protests were not necessarily peaceful -- they intended to be disruptive -- but they were explicitly non-violent.
> netplan is the current flavor of the week

... for Ubuntu, and Ubuntu only. It is an invention of Canonical not adopted by the rest of Linux distros (except Ubuntu derivatives), generally speaking.
Might want a NSFW tag on this. Its not totally explicit, but not a great thing to have ones boss to walk in on either.
Which defeats the purpose of containerization because now the container can sniff traffic on the host, hijack TCP connections, etc.
Even loyalty to an artist is overrated. Tidal had exclusivity with some of the biggest names in music with dedicated fanbases and this mostly got people to sign up for the one-month free trial and cancel.

Beyonce and Jay-Z moved back onto Spotify. This is a model that is proven not to work.
I'd argue that this has been creeping for a while. At first it's used to ban blatantly illegal posts and obvious spam. However the power to moderate is easily abused. Big Tech is now effectively punishing wrong-think, and it doesn't even have to happen on the platform in question.
In Australia its illegal to encrypt user data with out the ability to decrypt it.

Do they offer this service in Australia? Yes. Then they have the keys.
Which of these would have the motivation and resources to track down a leak through such a watermark?
People mostly complain about Baofengs because they leak a bunch of RF interference everywhere. Not obvious to the Baofeng user, but obvious to radio operators on other frequencies.
what do you mean by "american-style coffee"? as an american, coffee to me means drip coffee, which is more "diluted" i suppose but is certainly not more processed or "mixed" than espresso. most american coffee is not sweet starbucks drinks.
Much more troubling is that Telegram proactively removed right wing groups from their service, because those 2 companies removed Parler
Maybe unpopular opinion: you don't need to pay for 10 distinct services at the same time. Like, there's a show that I want to watch on Crave, I pay for a month and watch it - along with other stuff that might interest me. Then there's something else on Starz - I do the same.

2 concurrent streaming service is good enough for most people, I think, specially considering most streaming services add full seasons at once, instead of weekly episodes. And even in that case, you can just wait a couple months until the whole show is available, and spend 10 bucks for a month's subscription.
Wow. 100% Streisand Effect here.
Nonsense. I bought a baofeng years ago and it works perfectly well. It's a basic, cheap radio well suited for beginners.
I could, but why not search for it? As an exciting exercise, look at who reported it and, more interestingly, who didn't. Examine how the event was described, when it was described at all.
Do you honestly believe that Antifa is not real?
Isn't ignoring an authority because they once said something you disagreed with also some other kind of fallacy? Or do you feel so incredibly vindicated about mask-usage (not that mask-wearing is a panacea, it's also complicated) that this gave you the confidence to write a blog post mostly in the imperative mood/without conditions and without any citations? I'm curious.
I think that's plausible, but I just have to question the framing that Parler served no other purpose than organizing violence. As an aside, Reddit is pretty tame in general, a more fair comparison would be against Facebook or Twitter.
//tangent - is 'Does Not Exist' a phrase for ML/AI like 'Considered Harmful' is for (presumed) poor programming practices?
I may be a rare case. I have the opposite observation from the OP.

My productivity is off the charts this past year. Between cutting out all forms of small talk, commuting, unplanned meetings, and constant bite size updates.. I'm now finally for the first time totally in control of how I spend my day.

I have more time for work and more time for play. I've realized just how much time we waste on things that doesn't matter.

People say the small interactions are important to build relationships, but I would like to challenge that.

Relationships aren't built on small talk. It's built on teamwork and common goals.

I actually think I'm now closer to the people I work with because we work together in a more streamlined way, update only on the most important things, and when we achieve fantastic results, everyone ends the day on an up note.
Here I thought it was the right-wing/conservative/republicans that were in favor of private enterprise, free association, no government intereference, etc. Which is exactly what happened here.

Must only be for bakeries and gay wedding cakes.
For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_ham_radio

> At the turn of the 20th century, the terms "ham" and "plug" were used by landline telegraphers to describe an operator "who lacks ability" or who had poor or "ham fisted" skills.
Do you really think that nations intervene like that out of a genuine desire to spread freedom?
Major Error Detected. Soviet resistors are not ubiquitous "Green Cylinders". Greens are %5 and reds are 10%.
Exactly my point, but I was downvoted.
Thank you for the first legitimate critique of the Black Lives Matter organization that I've seen.

I don't think it invalidates all of the points of the platform of BLM, but it does make me question the sanity and legitimacy of the organization's leadership.
I have a hard time understanding the point of the author.

If Amazon is infringing a trademark (which indeed seems to be the case in my non-expert eyes), reparation should/could be obtained before a court regardless of the license of the code.

If the author has a problem with his FOSS software being used by an entity he doesn't like then he is in disagreement with the FOSS ideal at its core, this is a perfectly respectable opinion but don't blame it on Amazon.
Golly it's just so hard to know who to trust. The crowds protesting racial injustice and police brutality? Or the literal, self identifying nazis, white supremacists, and cultish conspiracy theorists trying to kill political leaders.

Alas our moral non cognizance in a post modern perspective.

edit: to the below, really, no. There's no hyperbole. If your group features nazis, and your group is not making every effort to expel associations with said nazis, your group is, at best, nazi adjacent. Nazis are the hyperbolic euphemism of peak historical immorality. It is preposterous that anyone feels they're making a good faith argument throwing whatabout comparisons when the starting point is nazis.
This is what Interana does. You define the states and the transition rules, and what you want to compute (eg how many times was this pattern matched, what was the p50 duration between steps 2 and 5, etc.) It then compiles this into machine code to actually scan the column store using llvm.
> If it was months in the making on Facebook, why did Facebook not do more to stop it?

Two things:

1) If FB is seen to lean too far either left or right, it will create an opportunity for a competitor to emerge on the other side. FB is huge, so they have a lot to lose in that scenario.

2) They literally profit from the circulation of the very stuff that some would have them sensor.

I don't see what is even slightly surprising about they way they've handled this.

Edit: side note - I personally think #1 is likely at some point in the future. People have already gone a fair way towards segregating themselves into various social/political bubbles; why not even more self-segregation? If enough people want that, then either FB will enable it or a competitor will emerge to enable it.
Show HN: Intro to Python and Programming for non-CS majors (revisited)
Hi there,

I am the author of this Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22669084

Back then, I released the materials for my Intro to Python course "to the world". GitHub repo: https://github.com/webartifex/intro-to-python

I incorporated many of the constructive criticism and am currently recording a video lecture series on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-2JV1G3J10kRUPgP7EwLhyeN5lOZW2kH

I guess that a lot of people without a CS background would find these resources valuable and am open for further feedback.

If you have any "non-tech" friends who want to learn to code, please feel free to direct them to my course.

Stay healthy everybody!
The implication of what you're saying is that fighting for net neutrality isn't enough, we need to ensure ample platform to everyone. But is it true? Isn't free speech more about not suffering legal persecution?
Is the implication that one instance of objectionable content is enough to warrant deplatforming of the site? That seems like a really easy way for one competitor to take out another.
I 100% agree. I moved from Mountain View CA to Jersey City, NJ. When I moved, I intentionally made sure I found a place with an extra bedroom. That being said, trust me, I know not everyone can afford it.

I grew up sleeping on the floor for 15 years because I couldn't afford a bed. I get it.
Long live the RSS!
Why are you pissing on this person's fire that's keeping them alive?
I brought up the academic example specifically to rebut DWakefield's argument that the main reason the reader would want abstracts/summaries is because they cannot delay gratification; I wasn't arguing that blogs should have it because academics use it.

Clearly, this is my axe to grind
That's why we need Github alternatives like https://gitee.com/.
To be honest I thought the same thing. Pricing was also a little hidden.

I have been looking for something like this - as patio11 would say, you should always charge more than you think but I’ll be honest, my workplace could not really justify this price for an hour.
from my point of view, the jedi are evil
Haskell has https://hoogle.haskell.org/ which lets you search functions named by symbols, function signatures, etc.
I agree that this happens all the time in academic writing and it's terrible.
Did they forcibly enter into the White House, or like outside on public property? Protests with injuries aren't uncommon, but I really doubt they forcibly entered a government building and threatened people inside. Police & military are always well prepared ahead of time, well researched, in mass for leftist agitators.
https://opensource.org/osd

See in particular items 5, 6 and 9.
Lol, Do they have the money to afford Tesla, leave that; Do they have the capacity to repay Installments, leave that; Do they have the Credit Score to get a loan, Leave that their Banks have Money?, Ok last; Do their Country have Money? Yeah their Step Father have lot of Money; 'China'
indeed, see my other reply above, linking to an article explaining exactly how that works
the beauty of written content, you can skim the whole text in a few seconds, see if it interests you, jump to the conclusion, go back and read it all... in a world that's turning completely to video content, I'd say we can forgo the supposedly not so good style.

OTOH, he doesn't seem to really answer the real question: why they still used TTL when much more highly integrated CMOS technology was already available in consumer market? I guess it's something very specific to aerospace strict standards, and as far as I can tell he didn't say much about it.
Two of my favourite authors draft by hand, which I still do (we're all in our fifties). What I want is not yet another (sigh) editor for writers but OCR tools that can be trained for cursive and don't soil the bed on encountering a crossed out word or insertion.
Because you end up not enjoying it anymore. You lose a passion, a hobby and you are unhappy
A combination of meme and nightmare fuel
Looks like it, there's a whole list of them here: https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/
It definitely adds some friction though. At least for me, I would probably just ignore, say, new Disney+ content rather than try and go through a whole setup and cancellation process. It might be annoying. I might forget. There is a reason why "see what subscriptions you're actually using" is a frequent first step in programs to rein in your personal finance.
What's interesting to note is that the Arab Spring was largely organized on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. US media outlets were thrilled about this, and wrote article after article talking about how these platforms gave the common man the opportunity to vent about police brutality, corruption, election fraud, and unemployment in a way that simply wasn't possible previously. The general attitude at the time was that social media platforms, and the free speech they enabled, would be a force for good in the world, despite the Arab Spring involving a fair amount of violence and ultimately leading the upheaval of several countries.

Fast forward a decade later, and now the attitude is the complete opposite.
Thanks for the feedback. We made some changes that will hopefully make this more obvious.
"Real" and "worth pissing your pants over" aren't quite the same.
I have read your post and i don't find compelling evidence that your anecdotes are anything more than anecdotes. I don't know what company you keep but in my experience most right or left wingers are decent people. The most extreme 5% on both sides are nuts.

American cities burned, people were killed and beaten, property destroyed for the last 7 months now. How is that decades ago. I can't even understand why would you even try to whitewash any kind of such primitive violence.
> they're actually on the FBI website and contradict everything you're saying

You are actually on CIA website marked as terrorist. \s

When you make a claim put some effort into it, instead of hearsay. And made up statements to support your point of view
What an amazing amount of work to give the world for free. Thank you.
It’s a hard problem for sure and there will be regional variance.

The overall point is that both companies have to some extent enveloped every US population center and have figured out how to use their real estate in a competitive way.

I called out Target because they seem to have gone from 0-60 quickly in my region. Walmart seems to roll out features slower, but is more comprehensive in what they offer.
While locking out most of that content for people outside the UK..
There was no silence around it. The images were shown very readily and commented on openly. "Silence" apparently is a very squishy term, the media showed images of violence and unrest during the summer just as much as they did with the capitol siege.
please stop with the anti-hellenism