skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "experiment" is not one of free speech but of ever-increasing state power. The benefits of control and the costs of losing it are growing ever-larger, so each side will fight harder to get the power. Politics got us here. Voting got us here. It will not get us out.

Now that the social media companies have played the card of deplatforming the ideological opposition, the power structure of the establishment will expect that behavior going forward. When the pendulum swings, you might find some of the now-loud voices being silenced.

We can't rely on "the right guy" holding that much power, since power corrupts. There will be no "healing" until the power of the central government declines, unless you think we should start building the Gulags / re-education camps to simply silence the wrong-thinkers.

But what should you do?

Keep building tools to empower the individual against the surveillance apparatus of the state and of giant corporations! Build in ways to communicate even if large ISPs start blocking your traffic or are taken offline. Build ways to transfer value between users to circumvent financial censorship. Technology can overcome the dystopia that we face, since politics does not offer any hope of a better tomorrow.
Depends, are you setting the goalpost for "believing in free speech" as far as tolerating the President of the United States using social media for spreading the idea that the elections were stolen from him and that people should fight the results?

Way before that you could see that people became radicalized by consuming conspiracy theories far, far faster than any individual or organization could pull them back to sanity.

There's people making a living out of spreading dangerous lies to millions and millions spend their waking hours consuming them and not researching the opposite, the culmination was an abortive coup on the US Capitol, in between literally hundreds of thousands died in a pandemic where whole geographical regions were convinced that it was a hoax and that attempts to control it were a power grab.

If that's too little for you to accept someone's faith in unhindered free speech to be shaken, well, hard to find an angle to argue from, it's a hard absolute you're presenting.
According to the FAQ[1]:

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.

I can read the article fine, so I presume there's some level of free access before you trigger the paywall.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Stop Talking About Section 230. Start Talking About the Business Model
Which civilization in history was safer? Tell me you criterion of safety and your example, let's see if I need to be corrected.
In my example the speech is not physically prohibited but it is illegal.
I tend to call a failed murder attempted murder. I think the distinction is important due to the difference in outcomes. One someone is dead the other does not result in death.

I think insurrection and coups are similar. One you have a toppled government the other you do not.

Things aren't that bad. I really small number of people did something stupid. The country is divided and has some healing to do but it's not over yet.
Name changes would be meaningless without corresponding behavioral change. You will instead have multiple names associated with the same behavioral profile.
Because, as you move up the management chain, understanding how people work and how groups of people work becomes more important than technical brilliance. The job of a manager is to create a healthy working environment where people work effectively, and are well-aligned to a common goal.

That's hard.

You don't just practice that by living.

That's made easier by having people lower down who are helping and not hurting.
> how easily American society is scared into giving up their freedom ideals.

This has always been the great lie behind the American concept of "freedom". At some point, one group's freedom starts to impinge on on another group's freedon, and you have to decide who gets the freedom and who doesnt. Unrestricted freedom for everybody is a fallacy that sounds good on campaign posters but ends up with somebody's freedom being ignored.

Do you think the freedom to say whatever you want on Twitter is more important? Or is a private companies' freedom to define how their platforms are used more important?
I think we need free speech with intellectual discourse. You can discuss Fascism and its properties, drawbacks and advantages but with intellectual rigor.

Social media is not forcing people to do so with 160 characters and instagram stories. Giving people the power to broadcast is going to be the worst idea ever of any kind in human history.
I agree entirely with your point. I think, however, that there's something of a false equivalence: It is not the case that the tweets which are inciting violence are coming from all political believers in equal share.

We don't get "longstanding liberal principles" by publishing our speech on a private corporate platform. Freedom of speech and due process are merits of the law and not of Twitter's terms of service. Twitter is free to ban all incitements to violence without banning all hyperbolic political speech.
I think it ends up being the pendulum swinging farther to the other side than really correcting whenever we see a switch.
Right. I read the first paragraph and already found multiple grammar issues.
I guess, there will be no more comments!
Came here to say this. Bane of my life - typing in an address, then I go to click the site-provided dropdown and, simultaneously, the browser inserts its own dropdown over the top with the wrong address on it. So I end up having to delete the incorrect address and start over.
It's pretty well known, ignorance is not an excuse really.
wonder what wouldve happened if instead of trying to make money he focused on getting venture funding and growing big as a consumer site? seems like alot of companies these days dont have a monetization stategy.
Yeah there's always a bit of a trade-off there. You naturally learn how things work very well by building them yourself. In terms of the code that Divjoy gives you, I try to keep abstractions to a minimum and include as many helpful code comments as I can.
what you miss in your whole comment, and what the parent should have mentioned is unprecedented interconnectedness. That's the core problem, not freedom of expression.

We don't know how to deal with such a fully connected social network, but we jumped right into it and are dealing with the fallout.

Should we place limits on global megaphones? I think so. But how to do it in the most utilitarian way? I dunno.
It's fine if you install Linux on a Mac and then install macOS as a VM on that Linux installation. It's permitted starting from 10.7 Lion. It's not allowed by the EULA if you do it on a non-Apple computer, but Apple likely won't care enough to take any action.
I’d say that’s whataboutism and irrelevant to the discussion on whether Russia is an adversary to the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Consider this hypothetical: what if Trump had won and Biden supporters stormed the white house, and had organized using a primarily left-leaning social network. Would AWS and others, have responded the same way? My guess is no. That isn't to say that they wouldn't do anything, but I doubt the social network would be completely shut down with so little notice.
> Freedom of speech doesn't mean that we should give everyone an unlimited megaphone to the world

But should we have a huge megaphone manufacturer handing out free megaphones to anybody who shares their political views, while refusing to sell megaphones to people who don't, and actively trying to prevent competitors from making their own megaphones?
People are witnessing a serious threat to their country and calling for a commensurate response. Framing it as "a bunch of talking heads on TV" vs. "giving up their freedom" merely shows your bias.
Programming as Theory Building (Naur, 1985) [pdf]
Thanks for YOUR response! Sorry if mine was too confrontational.

I definately know what you mean. I've spent more time vegitating in front of Brooklyn Nine-nine than watching enriching educational material myself.

May I recommend 2 BBC podcasts for science etc as our ships pass in the night?

The life scientific

40 to 60min interviews with scientists about what they do, how they did it, why they ended up in the field. Very interesting!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015sqc7

More or Less

A statistics program. Only about 20m per episode, they take a statistical question or a lie or similar and research where it came from and what the truth is. There are some really good episodes on Covid stats recently as well as a few that answer (disprove) articles that have cropped up here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads

Both have RSS feeds.
> the undesirable consequences were mostly foreseen by Brexit opponents

Indeed, and they could have been known to some Brexit supporters too. My point was that even if a decision has some undesirable consequences it might still be the right decision.

The balance of pros and cons is what makes a judgement, not that there are cons.
Applying headwinds to progress causes immense compounded harm.
Perhaps you are not in the population of people that would be put in harms way if the people who stormed the capitol were successful?
I use and like protonmail.
I still believe in free speech, but now I think that free speech has to come from someone real who actually believes what they're saying. @Bob12345 isn't really someone from the next town over from you, he's a low-paid worker in a troll farm, and his "opinions" are whatever the hell was handed down to him today.

I'd say that full anonymity/pseudonymity works better, but QAnon has shown it's still entirely possible to flood anonymous boards with posts saying whatever nonsense you want them to say -- and to get the rest of the userbase involved in constructing more elaborate rationalizations for your nonsense.
Sounds like you’re describing the BBC model, where the government funds them to produce high-quality broad-spectrum content without them having to deploy ads and tracking. I approve.
> That averages $100000 per child per year, assuming 300000 kids in care and all $30G spent on them.

Yes, and you'll find nearly all of that money is spent on employees and organisations, mostly for locating abused (and "abused") children, with most services paid per-child (and of course ALL services have to catch a minimum amount of children or cease to exist).

In the best of countries (not the US) in 60% of foster placements something bad enough happens that the foster family requests their immediate removal (this is called a "break-down"). The US is much worse. Foster care does not offer stability, so every kid has to be found a new foster home on average every 8 months.

https://wehavekids.com/adoption-fostering/What-does-being-a-...

$800 per month per kid is very well paid for foster care. All the other money goes to government services. The child receives, at most, $250 per month (in cases where they care for themselves).

Studies point out that if you take outcomes, it would literally be better (children helped vs children harmed) if these services just outright did not exist. But I guess the problem would be much more visible.

https://sci-hub.se/10.1257/aer.97.5.1583
Apple doesn't like things like that for some odd reasons ...
I led cloud transformations at a Fortune 500 and we did make sure to look over contracts and have business agreements in place. YMMV though as we had some weight behind our needs as a government contract would. If you just sign up with a credit card I’m sure it’s different as mentioned however, a lot has changed since 2010.

They were warned repeatedly and ignored it.
> they mostly fear paternalism.

This doesn't entirely ring true either. Lots of people are all for it as long as it is restricting behavior they themselves don't like, or enforcing ones' they do.
Thank you!

Some sites will show you "other users also saw..." information. This is a very raw form of similarity, but a good similarity score can be computed from that data. There is no metadata involved at all right now.
You have freedom of speech in the US.

You do not have freedom of speech on hacker news. Dang will boot you from this site in a heartbeat if you act a fool.

You do not have freedom of speech without consequences at work. The company will send you packing before the end of the day if you try.

You don't the the right to access anyones private platform. They can remove you for nearly any reason they want.
Can you articulate a plausible (does not rely on significant speculation or hypotheticals) series of events at the Capitol incident that could have resulted in democracy being legitimately lost in America? I am unable to come up with one.
So, like in Black Mirror?
I'm still not sure whether or not you agree that website operators should have no discretion to moderate the content of their sites.
Start with AWS Container Technologies (Part 1)
Sorry to be grumpy, but i did not read or understood the article at all like you did.
This is really cool, I've passively followed tailwind.build since it's launch here.

Really happy to see that you're doing well with this and expanding.

Maybe one piece of feedback: $24 is a lot of buyin for me.

I would happily give you $5 for 7 day trial for instance, but personally $24 is too much for something I'm fully sure of.

Probably on the poorer end of HN browsers, so not sure my opinion matters haha, but just my $0.02
I don't recall Spolsky's article (even though the term rings a bell), but as someone having worked in modelling and simulation the better part of my career, I tend to think of it more along the lines of Asimov's "Relativity of Wrong": every "thing" is a model, and no model is perfect, but some models are better than others. If you're waiting for the perfect model, you'll never do anything, which brings to mind another adage, adapted: strong models, weakly held. That is to say, do the best with what you've got and don't be afraid to change once you find a better model, but always remember that they are models with limits.

The fine article linked here about fungi I applaud as improving our models.
Really quality write up here. That being said, I’m not convinced that interpretation offers any real value in industry ML - are there any examples of these techniques actually being used by companies and for what purpose?
It can true that some finance companies are leaving, and some are doubling down.

It's not clear from either statement whether Brexit was net positive for the finance industry, or the UK as a whole.

It'll take more time and analysis than plucking random statements to determine the net effect of Brexit.
I think they're scared because people like the ones who stormed the capitol, would happily kill any of them without a second thought. The attackers were completely under the influence of their propaganda.

The depressing thing is that while you may share some beliefs with that side of the political spectrum, these are not the kind of people who will be reasonable when they come for 'nonbelievers' in the night. That shifts the terrain considerably as far as the security situation is concerned. Even if I agree with some of the tenets of their politics.

Frankly that goes for the extremists on the other side of the political spectrum as well. These extremists have just shown tendencies that are way too dangerous.
A bunch of rednecks who broke into a building after a protest event ended, stayed between the red velvet ropes once inside, and left hours after being told to do so with no shots fired at security. Id hardly call that much of an insurrection attempt. "but they had zip ties" there has never been a gov overthrow fought by some guy who brought zip ties.
From what I have heard from people involved, the things social service workers will look for is access to food, sanitarian home environment, clothes, and health. Kids who look malnourished, whose teeth is falling out because they never get brushed, school is noticing that the kid is always smelling and hair is dirty, and a general lack of basic clothes. If they then go on a surprise visit and find that there is no food in the house, several week old dishes laying around, then they will add up all the red flags. History of violence and drug addiction naturally adds to the story, and a history of failing to support previous kids.

If I had to guess what the most common flag is it would be a lack of food and clean clothes.
Drivers for really old ones are baked into macOS apparently. PCI pass through then delivers native graphics performance.

Edit: All Kepler GPUs are supported.
We're going to experiment with pricing, that's for sure :)
My wife (teacher) got covid from small kids. Brought it home as a gift for the whole family.
School closed again after maybe 5-10% had already been diagnosed.
Prefer pythonic style

std::tie(b, a) = std::make_tuple(a, b);
You can just use GDPR and CCPA to demand the data they have on you if you want to find out.
Nothing is gonna change, if you have the same Facebook friends sharing your photos. Worse, Facebook will demand a government document to prove your new name.
Fair, it's not explicit. I misrecalled the control strategy. But the point still stands for the example in that article: over longer timespans SPY tends to return 7 - 10% or so. It has a beta of 1 (basically by definition). Levering up SPY will give you a better return, but at the cost of exposing you more to market volatility. In comparison the given risk parity strategy has a beta of about 0.5, and a natural return of about 10% (i.e. before leverage). You can safely lever the risk parity strategy to a higher total return than the historical market return without getting your beta beyond 1.
A Canonical employee releasing a wrapper to download and run unlicensed MacOS, and shipping it via Ubuntu's explicitly for-profit app store? There is noooo way this was approved

"Sofireme" seems way more appropriate, or maybe "Sosumyemployer"

edit: double eek: https://github.com/popey/sosumi-snap/blob/master/snap/local/...
Aside from Deepl that has already been mentioned, I've stumbled upon https://nicetranslator.com/. I haven't used it extensively so can't vouch for longer texts.

I've also used https://www.linguee.com/ in the past. I like that translations are taken from actual translations of existing documents, but it has the weakness of its strength: translations have a high chance of being if quality, but only if they do exist. In practice it's better to use it for idioms
For people who have done this, what naming scheme do you use? firstlast@firstlast.com and first@last.com both feel awkward to me. I've seen me/hi/hey@firstlast.com which would be good for a public business email but feels pretentious for personal.
Thanks! I was missing exactly that part of the process.
Aren't a lot of copay's percentage based?
Glaciers on Mars
The vans were real. I remember one sitting outside my apt in England with the twirling antennae looking for felons who had a TV without paying a license fee.
Rest and vest.
> Now, Amazon had given notice to Parler that they want some moderation that is automated... What are the specs for that? What would satisfy Amazon? Can it be delivered within that timeframe setting aside whatever else is going on?

What makes you think Parler is interested in complying with the terms of the contract at all?

The only benefit of Parler over Twitter or Facebook is the fact that you can say things which will get you banned on the bigger platforms. If Parler implements moderation which will comply with Amazon's terms of service, why would anyone use Parler at all?

> These are real concerns for a company going forward. I guess many do not state because of the political ramifications of this particular case, but it will be discussed in board rooms.

Why? If you are a startup for a recipe making app, are you going to be worried about a company who got booted from a service for allowing users to discuss kidnapping, rape, and murder openly?

If I'm a business, it's a simple question. Can we operate on AWS/ Azure/ Apple's App Store/ etc and meet their terms of service. There is a huge world of business ideas that don't need to violate the fairly broad terms in Amazon's TOS.
The CCPA applies to more small businesses than you might expect
> perfectly working internal monologue; almost all of my conscious thinking involves me "hearing" sentences in my head (I don't experience actual auditory stimulus, but I can "hear" the words, the cadence, and sometimes even tone

Do you feel like it's always "you" who is actively saying the monologue, or is it being "dictated" from the outside, you are listening but not saying it internally? Perhaps by an imaginary friend, Jesus, aliens, gods, buddhas, whatever?
Don't be flippant - both sides of the political spectrum work together under the facade of opposing sides. Now Trump just pulled a pied piper and led these people into the capital with which both sides will now try to use this manufactured situation to consolidate power.

How is it that everyone here is all about game theory except when it matters ? And yes, America is in distress.
I think (and this is probably why this is part of the general tech conversation now) that we're on the verge of a massive legal shift with data ownership.

A child born since Facebook's inception will be approaching 18 soon, and might have had parents who posted the child's entire life on Facebook from the ultrasound all the way to (maybe?) high school graduation.

When that child turns 18 and the child does not consent to tracking, what happens to all those photos, behavior, and YouTube videos that kid has watched? Maybe the kid starts as a clean slate since they've reached an age of majority, but how can you technically even keep track of that?
Is curious, but I had heard exactly the same advice before. In case of a minor accident or health issue as tourist in US, try to leave the country ASAP unless you have a solid travel insurance. In any case you will be not allowed to fly with a fracture (if I'm not wrong).
On HN, people hate cold emails. In real life, I've found that most people will respond or ignore. Like a tiny minority will act like you killed their mother, but that's life.

I know you know this, if you're in sales, but I, like many other engineers who read this forum was overly cautious when I first started speaking to people because I anticipated that 99/100 would be upset at having to talk to me.

The truth was that 99/100 were willing to speak to me and listening to HN and Reddit set me back farther than I expected until I unlearned that lesson.

So I'm saying this for the benefit of all those other engineers like me.
Political affiliation being a protected class doesn't help your case. In fact, it already is a protected class in CA. But that doesn't matter, because parler doesn't and didn't claim to be republican, and wasn't removed for hosting republican points of view.

The protected class argument doesn't make sense until Mitch mcconnell and Mike pence are being deplatformed. And they aren't, because this has nothing to do with political affiliation and never did. That's just a mask the bad actors wear.
A qualified absolutely. I love to build side projects, and generally the first iteration is very poorly built. If your goal is to put "ideas on paper" so to speak, then you're 100% right. This could even make it to early production if you're really in a pinch.

I think though that there's a point where you need to move past the bad practice and find, or create the right way to do what you're trying to do.
Which is exactly what you want for a reliable compute box.
A poor execution does not make it less seditious. The goal was to undermine or intimidate a democratic process entwined with the leadership of our nation. I would argue that's pretty clearly insurrection.