skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the author's most recent posts, I'm betting he triggered a false positive with whatever classifier is being used to identify alt-right agitators.

His posts included the following keywords or phrases: "capitalism", "socialism", "political and economic elites", "Christian Transhumanist Association", "New God Argument", "Gospel", "heirs in the glory of God", "God ensures the right spirit is associated with the right body during human-mediated procreation", "gun", "Bitcoin", "Trump." I'm also thinking that if the word "decentralization" mattered at all, it was because of its proximity to "revolution" on the political dimension.

I don't want to get into the argument about whether Facebook should be doing this or not. I do think the author is severely mistaken for assuming Facebook cares about his personal, fringe ideas on social media, considering the actual societal issues being navigated by the company right now.
Well, yes, superficially a lot of rejections feel like Kafka in that sense.

The difference is, of course, that Kafka's protagonist gets stabbed to death after his conviction.
It seems you're referring to Lauren Southern (as that was apparently who Harris defended), who Patreon removed for using the funds she was raising there to block NGO ships.

Is your position that (contrary to Patreon's judgement) this was not an act that put lives at risk, or that she is entitled to use their platform to put lives at risk as a matter of her free speech?
It's absolutely terrifying to me that they can do this sort of thing, or selectively censor DMs containing certain links, or from certain people or geofenced places, and it would never make the news.

I wrote a few months ago about this sort of danger: https://sneak.berlin/20200421/normalcy-bias/

These sorts of communication systems work, until the moment they don't, and we won't receive advance notice.
i am confused. the explainer video looks like what you describe, how has sococo changed?
Some of the CGI looked like they'd done it on the cheap. I don't see the sense in having ships moving around B5, it's a waste of mass, far better to have them in a parking orbit, especially if B5 is at a Lagrange spot.

Maybe they should redo the CGI if they ever decide to re-release on 4k Blu-ray.
Confirmation bias.

If, hypothetically, 99% of bots were banned and there's enough lingering, you would doubt it to be true.

Although, I tend to agree with you about spam prevalence. I've reported dozens of spam/scams/fake accounts and almost every time, I'm told that the post/account "doesn't violate [their] community standards."
?? I didn't say I would knowingly display them, that would be rude. I'm saying it can happen, for example when someone is passing by and you're showing something to them on your screen, or yes if one is forgetful about notifications during a presentation, but everyone is forgetful at some point...
> That's already a very large group of people to generalize.

On the other hand, it's not that large a number of entities. And the people who work there are constrained by their employers in particular ways, and choose to remain. Here's the article Greenwald quit The Intercept over:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...

To the best of my knowledge nothing in it is untruthful. The Intercept demonstrably wouldn't publish it. Which of the other institutions listed do you expect would have? Is there an instance of any of them publishing anything substantively equivalent before the election?

He quotes the NYT there in several places but the articles the quotes are from are minimizing the story and even then the authors became the targets of attack for even discussing it.
With current improvements to training performance and parallelism (e.g. DeepSpeed: https://www.deepspeed.ai ) it wouldn't surprise me if creating GPT-2 small from scratch becomes possible with a couple 3080s in days, with GPT-2 XL not taking 10x longer.
Are VM and containers different in this context? I’m confused where Firecracker would be better than Docker for this usage.
Java has amazing longevity. People have been writing articles about its demise, and yet, it is still here.

I have programmed in Java for a long, long time. Getters and setters, Maven and its vagaries, abundant use of patterns - all of these make sure people have strong opinions about it.

If any new person wants to learn Java, my two cents: Master generics and lambda. Do not learn, master them. Learn to write bullet-proof code using those two concepts, including proper exception handling. You will learn about a lot of things in Java, just by mastering those two concepts.
These are probably people that don't want to live a healthy lifestyle and no amount of pointing at the negatives will change that. Their point isn't "healthy lifestyle doesn't help" but rather "some people beat themself up and make themself miserable with this health stuff and then don't even reap the benefits of that".
I'm trying something new this year re ubiquitous capture: an international pocket briefcase wallet from Levenger. It's a bulky wallet that incorporates a 3x5 card holder and writing surface. We'll see how it goes.
https://www.levenger.com/stationery-notebooks-322/pocket-bri...
You needn't trash them, they are "disposable" but can be refilled quite easily.
You really need to stop doing this, it’s only making people hate you.
Yeah, I agree. I don't know who made it, but I like how it breaks down the key issues in a digestible way.
Flipping UNO cards using only CSS
You're right that there's not a good reason to expect incentive to block people, a priori, even though it's vaguely plausible.

I do expect that they would certainly be accused that that's their motive whenever someone gets blocked unfairly, which could lead to some bad PR, notwithstanding whether that's what's actually going on.
I consider the SWP a bunch of anachronistic dinosaurs who stubbornly try and fit the world into a century-old ideology, and they are a laughing stock for many on the left as well.

But I just can't put them in the same bucket as the QAnon supporters.

The SWP party may be on the fringes of the political spectrum, but they haven't used social media to spread conspiracy theories and disinformation with the goal of subverting the institutions, nor to organize an armed attack against Westminster.

Had they done anything similar, I wouldn't think twice before supporting the ban. But if they haven't, we can't ban them just for being anachronistic dinosaurs.

There must be a clear line between banning radicalized groups that pose a threat to society and political parties that, in spite of their outdated ideology, haven't posed any threats against society.

Unless Facebook wanted to give an example of how their policies stand above all parties and ban a left-wing page after banning a bunch of right-wing pages. But that's a quite weak argument.
Many people see birth and death as a clearly defined ultimate boundary: the final infinite wall; a big blank room forever; the bookends of existence.

but our origin can be traced backwards forever: present day; yesterday; childhood; exiting the womb; formation in the womb; initial conception; individual cells split between two people; grandparents; formation of the elements of the solar system; beginning of the universe; etc.

Presently and onward we are also experiencing death: cells are dying and creating anew; elements breakdown and reform; etc.

In this way we can see life and death are convenience abstractions for speech, but neither are real. This is an endless process of transfiguration and change.

So what shakes me is the possibility that nonexistence and existence are an illusion, and this is just eternity
>just because Greenwald doesn't toe the line, he's considered fringe and insane

Is there a reason you're painting his critics as so simple-minded? I've seen a lot of seemingly reasonable criticism of him.
Unrelated, I really like artwork / images like the one on the hero section. https://onlysponsors.dev/_nuxt/img/career.67d5c3b.svg

Where can I find similar (free / paid) ?

Thanks
Funny is one word for it.
Doesn't remote fx require special hardware/os on the host side?
For me, Uni-ball Vision Micro (not the Elite in this article) helped kinda surprisingly - they scratch a bit like pencil, which gives me a lot more control and ended up improving my handwriting compared to a smooth-rolling pens.
What is the difference between Firecracker vs LXC/LXD?
Yes, that's fair. I'm going off of a fuzzy recollection, I haven't seen it in nearly a decade (and I was much more techno-utopian myself at the time; I remember feeling conflicted).

Setting aside the broader critiques of capitalism and materialism, I think the crux of the matter is that technology can only ever be a tool, and seldom represents an automatic win for humanist values on its own (and indeed, it can just as easily be co-opted by authoritarian governments, monopolistic corporations, ideologues, etc).
Surely you can ask the question, continue working, and then if the question becomes moot come back and either delete the original or leave a new message that says "never mind, found it!".
Happy to chat anytime, email is in my profile. We’re going to hit £1m ARR this year and I’d love someone to chat with too.

It can be a weirdly lonely place at times.

Im UK based so TZ should work well, plus I’m a frequent visitor to NL (Pre CV) so it would be great to chat over a beer when we can.
SuperCharger access has nothing to do with "owning your car". Less so but still ditto for AutoPilot, as it is not a piece of hardware but rather software that is constantly being updated and honestly dangerous to deploy/use if Tesla cannot guarantee the integrity of sensors/drive-by-wire mechanisms/etc.

Extended mileage does seem weird though – they've revoked software updates that have extended mileage? That would be shitty if true (if not for a good reason), but I honestly haven't heard about that one. And I'd still argue in favor of this being ownership, as updates are not your right as an owner of the vehicle (and with every other car you've ever owned don't come with the vehicle at all). At the very least you always have whatever features you had when you bought the car from Tesla, which is exactly what you expect from any other car you purchase.
If you believe the comments of people advocating nohello are about "lost productivity", I recommend you try re-reading this comment thread with a bit more empathy, looking for the emotions behind the comments.

You mention our social instincts. For a lot of people, nohello is exactly what our social instincts are pushing for. For us, a bare "hello" without any context or information is uncomfortable, and feels rather rude.

A big part of politeness, courtesy, and etiquette is helping people feel comfortable, meeting them where they are.

For me personally, and I think a lot of others who agree with nohello, a bare "Hello" with no content or context gives me nothing to work with, nothing to say, nothing to grab on to to understand what kind of conversation I'm having. You mention a "feeling of connection" while waiting for someone to type the rest of their question, but to me it only feels like disrespect.

When people talk about things you summarize as "lost productivity", it's not about a desire to advocate the interests of the company, but instead it's expressing that for people like us, these kinds of content-free social rituals feel disruptive to the flow of work, and that these disruptions feel irritating, uncomfortable, and disrespectful. It feels like a violation of our culture's etiquette.

Feel free to say hello, include as many social pleasantries as you like in your messages, but please also include at least some meaningful content about your goals or intentions.
Strengthening the rail network and increasing the cost of oil? Sounds like the right incentives to me.
I am a random crusader here to say that Foam is the greatest of all such software (every other option gets at least one such crusader, its only fair)
Problem is, there is no working layer 2, after all these years and tremendous effort. That project has failed. END OF STORY.
To be fair, anti-trust laws are based on that principle. There's nothing inherently wrong (or illegal) with having a billion users, but a company that takes advantage of that power is a bad thing.
I agree with you about #1; it bothers me, too. I have a suggestion which you may not like: switch away from Moleskines.

I have a stack of used Moleskines. For years I used them exclusively, buying them in bulk. Honestly, I gritted my teeth a little each time I picked one up. I love the ergonomics and the size, but the paper is awful.

I'm not alone in this opinion[0]; an unopinionated Google search turns up plenty of similar criticism. The surface is too slick and hard to absorb ink well, so nearly everything smears. It's also oddly prone to ghosting through to the other side, especially with felt tip pens. It's hard to win.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=moleskine+paper+quality

I tried everything with them: fountain pens, gel ink, liquid rollerballs, fat and fine felt tips, space pens. What worked best were cheap-ass Bics, but only because the ink is basically colored glue, and they're punishing to write with.

I've since switched to artist sketch books, like Pentalic Nature Sketch[1]. I don't care about the brand. I just go to my local art supply store and buy something in the right size with good-feeling paper. There are some ergonomic compromises (e.g., maybe you don't like spirals), but the paper is first-class, and that's become my priority. I get my Hi-Tec-C refills from JetPens, and they have some good notebook advice[2].

[1] https://www.pentalic.com/nature-sketch/
[2] https://www.jetpens.com/blog/the-best-notebooks-for-every-us...
Taking a random large city as an example, New York City has over 300k employees [1], which is a 25:1 ratio with population. The Police department has 55k employees [2], which is a 151:1 ratio with population.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_New_York_City

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Departmen...
I know. I think that for many people an iPad (or a surface) are better drawing tablets than Wacoms (cheaper, lighter, better screens) and can very well be used for other things than content consumption. (of course Wacom tablets have their benefits too)
Well, the good actors misclassified as bad actors should be told, so they can fix it. The bad actors should be told nothing, because that only helps them become more effective bad actors.

How you differentiate, I dunno. That's the problem.
No, it's likely that it won't be quite as disruptive in the future. There were a few backward incompatible changes with modularisation (in order to break module cycles) but the bigger disruptive changes were moves away from sun.misc.* packages which should never have been used by production code (but which often were, because speed).

Fortunately Java took a middle-of-the-road approach; it didn't quite get rid of as many things as it could (Unsafe stayed around in a few ways). Had it all been killed off then the transition would have been more problematic.

With Java 17 being the next LTS I don't think there's appetite to break things before then but it's quite possible that Java 18 will really put the hammer down and remove Unsafe for good. That, I think, will be one of the last disruptive things Java does.
William, while I agree the problem at hand is mainly an organizational one, you ignore that even with a trusted environment you still need safeguards for internal fraud. A distributed ledger can ensure that protection and easily verifiable audits. The distributed ledger solves this real problem, but with the caveat that as you noted that is a fairly small part of the overall picture.
Not bad advice at all; while anecdotal, I learned to write properly using a fountain pen - my grandfather handed me one as I started primary school, claiming that this would learn me how to write properly, doubly so as I am a leftie.

It took a while, but I believe he was right - as the fountain pen forced me to write slower and more deliberately, it did improve my handwriting.

(I still (35 years later) mostly write with a fountain pen, always carrying my grandfather's Souverän 400 in my shirt pocket - it was gifted to me once I had learned to write properly.)
Use Netlify Functions and GitHub REST API to Add Data Visualization to Gatsby
social pressure lol

I’ll write back I’m busy or that I’m not going to do that

and accept the consequences

more people should accept the consequences
>their valuation (which currently prices them on par with something like the sum of the top three automakers...)

They are now worth more than the sum of every automaker in the world.

This Visual is dated but is still relevant.

https://imgur.com/iSHYca5

With that said, I still wish them great success.
I used to use x2go for years, but the slow and buggy clients on macOS and Windows is the biggest drawback. Maybe one day it will get native clients and quickly become the standard.
Can a private water company switch off water for you if they don't like you? No. Same should be for Facebook, since it's a monopoly.
> In their current state, yes. Tough on Crime, War on Drugs, and the prison-industrial complex are unwarranted and destructive.

But this presupposes that those things are unambiguously bad. "Tough on Crime"? The American public broadly agrees that crime is bad and should be punished. I agree with you that the War on Drugs is bad, but that's not representative of policing as a whole. I understand the "ACAB" outlook, but you have to understand that this isn't an objective moral position, it's purely subjective.

> State and local governments that don't change party-wise are much worse, as their actions are even less accountable; there's no reason to improve.

You're conflating dictatorships where the people have no mechanism by which to enact change with democracies where the people enact policies you don't like. As a software engineer at Palantir, you're essentially selling weapons to democratically elected governments whose constituents broadly agree with and vote for policies you don't like. That's obviously not great, but it's also not as obviously bad as the punchy "selling weapons to dictators".

> It used to be assumed we had domestic privacy; it's Snowden's revelations that let us know we don't have such rights. Now we've found ourselves in violation of Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Sure, and it's been 10+ years since Snowden's revelations. We've had 2 presidential elections and 2 mid-term elections since then to address the problem using the levers of our republican government. A far cry from "dictatorships", and by no means is it obvious that it's unethical to provide software for an elected government that has enacted policy you and I both don't like.
What’s worse, the last couple years have developed a full on meme of enlIGhTeNed CEnTrisM as an easy dismissal. You call out any hypocrisy and the knee jerk response is “how could you even begin to think both sides are the same, that’s so idiotic” without really caring that pointing out hypocrisy is not saying everyone’s the same. Reaching the level of meme, you don’t even have to think about what you’re responding to! What’s sadly hilarious is that you see the same meme... on both sides.

There’s a ton I disagree with Greenwood about. But there’s also a lot I agree with. To dismiss him fully because of what I consider his bad ideas would be to also miss out on a lot of good insights.
I just checked a few of the more abrasive people I know, both of whom also do a lot of non-quote Retweets, and both also scored quite low (0.4 and 0.1).
I have a commuter line next to me with a station 1000 ft. away. The early morning trains mute their horns and it's not very noticeable. With freight, I wouldn't expect them to bother but the FRA does allow for quiet trains.
This sort of aggressive banning over sexual content seems to have really taken off since the passage of FOSTA/SESTA a couple years ago. Social media sites were never libertine, but they were at least more relaxed about sexual content before anything that might turn out to be linked to sex trafficking was carved out of the section 230 safe harbor.

They're dealing with a wildly asymmetric risk profile. It would be almost impossible for them to reliably distinguish legitimate sexual content from illegal content related to trafficking in a way that scales to the size of their platforms. But even one slip-up in doing so could expose them to serious criminal liability. So, while I agree that these policies are wildly non-linear, I don't see them having any realistic choice in the matter. A puritanical value system has effectively been forced upon them by federal legislation.
The most vulnerable Americans aren't getting enough vaccine information
I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't compare it to The Martian.
Start by looking for ‘oath keepers capitol’ there have been stories on CNN and Washington Post since charges were filed on the 19th
One I've used is PixelTrue [1] (no relation, just a happy customer). The envato marketplaces [2] are probably the biggest platform for such content though

[1] https://www.pixeltrue.com/

[2] https://graphicriver.net/
Certainly would be great and such transparency is more useful than not.

Though with 8/24 done already, maybe possible that he gets them all done before 100 days - that would be impressive.
Not a good example. Email is just protocol. I'm talking about a single piece of software, built in a fully-distributed manner without centralization.
Dog Puzzle (Android)
SF is one of California’s most conservative cities – when it comes to housing
You can sue the government, but your chances of success are a lot lower than suing a private citizen. Prosecutors railroad people all the time and the defendants are helpless.
Ah. RMI.

It is funny. When I started with Java, one of the first real-world problems I faced, was solved using RMI.

After many years, I faced a weird situation where requests were not passing through properly and hence, security assertions were failing.I solved it by ditching the frameworks and making pure HTTP calls[1]. I thought, the wheel has come full circle :-)

[1] Disclaimer: Do not try at home, unless you know very well what you are doing. Especially when it involves security.
Archaeological discovery: First common currency in Europe
How on earth do you come to that conclusion? Personally the physics of climate change is kind of a basic back of the envelope calculation that should be obvious to most educated people.

So I genuinely wonder how people can look into it and not look at the absorption spectra of CO2 go ahh I see and then move on. I mean such a calculation isn’t enough for policy changes or anything, but it’s putting a high hurdle on the other side.

Is it some disagreement about the physics involved, or just a bunch of people you believe saying something different, or what?
The use-case for SOUL is about as far from a "glue" language as you can get!

It's a language for writing the absolute lowest-level, close-to-the-metal, bit-twiddling realtime code which you'd then glue together using a higher-level language like C++, javascript, python, lua, etc.
The hospitals have been overwhelmed at frighteningly regular intervals. Intensive care wards have needed to triage and let people die in corridors. Doctors and nurses have been forced to work overtime and unable to take their normal holidays, not to speak of the trauma of seeing so many people die in desperation.

But someone has found some statistical anomaly that makes it all seem ok.
VisualAge for Java was an amazing tool, far ahead of its time.
Sorry to repeat myself, but these are not good examples. HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, IMAP are just protocols. I'm talking about a single piece of software, built in a fully-distributed manner without centralization.