skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is missing the point of the no-longer-free-speach-absolutist sentiment (henceforth NLFSA). You note, correctly I think, that

> we've seen a lot of egregious, potent, and dangerous lies from credible, verified institutions including the former POTUS, prominent newspapers, and other important cultural institutions.

The NLFSA notes that we've been seeing a new attack on free speech and free thought emerge, namely Steven Bannon 'flood the zone with shit' approach.
The classical free speech position is to fight bad ideas with better ideas, fight bad speech with good. We're running into largely unprecedented problems (in the anglosphere, at least) where bad speech is drowning out the good. There are many things we can point as possible causes (say the internet changing communication patterns, information siloing, propaganda, etc.) and there aren't clear solutions.

Conventional free speech absolutism prevents you from being muzzled -- but that's it. Acknowledging you can be silenced by a chorus of people shouting over you requires a new position.

> I don't know how someone can look at American politics and politicians (never mind cultural institutions) over the last ~decade and conclude that these people are fit to regulate Americans' speech.

The NLFSA doesn't necessarily want speech regulated, or regulated by the government, or by corporations. They may not have any particular solution in mind (though some might think they have one). The NLFSA sees a problem without necessarily seeing a solution.

I think it's reasonable to see all this, and despite our problems double down on convention free speech absolutism -- that being muzzled is the most dangerous form of intervention, that better speech will ultimately win out over bad ideas. But I don't fault someone for changing their mind to try to combat rampant conspiracy theories.
> We don't measure the worth of a person by their reproductive success.

We don't measure human worth that way, but evolution measures nothing else!
It's also much more performant and user friendly than GeForce Now
Let's not forget that any time a competitor starts taking part of their market or becoming successful they just buy them out with an amount of money that is hard for any sane person to turn down.

The WhatsApp founder seems pretty against Facebook and is encouraging and funding Signal. He took money from a company he doesn't believe in or like because who wouldn't. And this is despite him not liking Facebook. So realistically competition is great on paper, but in this case the competition already has such market dominance that any new company that tries will get squashed with a buy-out or other aggressive tactics. So realistically I don't see how competition will do anything.
I was character limited - thank you
Am I supposed to believe he’s speaking truth to power by having constant rage fits on Twitter and appearing on Tucker Carlson?
Not shocking, there was a big twitter thread yesterday talking about a conversation between Mainland Han Chinese, Uighurs and Taiwanese all on the same call talking about various things.
I was being brief, I completely agree this needs to be a data driven approach.
Yes, that middle zone (that most of us probably live in) is terrifying. And it’s why we get conned into so many different types of insurance.

“One disaster and all that progress is gone.”
As someone who has studied nonlinear nonconvex optimization, I don't think linear regression is the final word here. In the universe of optimization problems for curve-fitting, the linear case is only one case (albeit a very useful one).

In many cases though, it is often insufficient. The next step is piecewise linearity and then convexity. It is said that convexity is a way to weaken a linearity requirement while leaving a problem tractable.

Many real world systems are nonlinear (think physics models), and often nonconvex. You can approximate them using locally linear functions to be sure, but you lose a lot of fidelity in the process. Sometimes this is ok, sometimes this is not, so it depends on the final application.

It happens that linear regression is good enough for a lot of stuff out there, but there are many places where it doesn't work.
Can I hijack this a little to ask a question? People casually equate "free markets" with capitalism, but is that necessarily correct? As I understand it, "capitalism" describes the structure of ownership of capital in a system. Couldn't that be different while still having "free" markets? Conversely, what about the capital ownership structure of a society would require that markets be more or less free? Good sources tailored to a non-expert would be really appreciated.
Hmmmmmmm.

We know what you're thinking...
and yes,
you really can get into the website.
Getting 500, internal (exclusive?) server error...
> I really can't think of any good reason to hand crucial control of a site over to any third party, much less user authentication where one breach will potentially cost you millions and land you in jail.

Because Auth0 and other providers have security experts specializing in prevent hacking attempts and there is no way you can do a better job than them unless you make it your full time job.
Learn Go with Tests
I often hear this, who is rewarding them for high conviction rate.
Why wouldn't they be? I went to university with people from all over Russia. They don't tend to return to their home towns after getting educated. Does this work differently in America?
> I have no idea who this is for.

It's for Google, trying out rent-seeking in a consumer channel with high fixed costs
I wish emacs did markdown in native wysiwyg. I would use it 1000% more than I do now.

I only know of emacs markdown where you run an external process to view it (and that requires and extra install or whatever)
Naked Capitalism.
The NYT headline may be loaded and headlines fitting Betteridge's law may be facile, but there's nothing inherently "Opinion" about it (though the subheading saying "Our tech columnists discuss..." makes it pretty clear what you're about to read).

Meanwhile Greenwald states his Substack is where he's publishing as an independent journalist, so unless you want to start referring to him as an independent pundit (or entertainer, in the style of Fox News primetime), calls for journalistic integrity should absolutely apply equally there.
FC neural nets are iterated linear regression, in some sense.
Not as bad as 10,000%, but the bank of england estimates an average inflation rate of 4.2%[1], so it's within an order of magnitude. (25M - 300) / 300 is only like 8200%, but bank of england puts the current value of 300 1917 pounds at 21283.44 2020 pounds, which is "only" 6994% ([21283.44 - 300] / 300).

[1]: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...
300 pounds, 1917, and 2020.
tesla doesnt need to hold sizable BTC reserves to accept BTC as payment, so using the word hedge there doesn't seem correct to me.

please elaborate on your stratement, it doesnt make sense that this BTC position is a hedge. it seems like a speculative allocation, betting on BTC price increasing vs USD? and maybe some kind of marketing thing to convince people tesla is cool?
I'm guessing it's due to HN's hug of death
> This may be an artifact of how teams work together at Microsoft.

It may be an artifact of Microsoft actually being regulated for monopolistic practices.
Creator here, actual simulation was not real time but converted to png sequence. Colors created with chroma.js.
Microsoft?? Google?? Don't they already have their own languages?!
Do you have an example link of a site running mkdocs with material theme?

Edit: I'm guessing it's this? https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/getting-started/
To add to the other comments: the work of figuring out how to break things down often requires long periods of quiet thought. In addition, I often refactor as I write, as the process of implementation can uncover poor design decisions made up front.

In short: my work is rarely "beads on a string" that can easily be popped off, and to the degree they are, the unit of time is typically hours, not a half hour.
I agree, unfathomable. But one interesting thought that I usually entertain is that based on our best estimates there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth. Now imagine every time you step foot on a beach and think - there is potentially a star system for every grain!

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/are-there-more-grains-of...
Why is that? Is lithium worse in a relative sense than other battery chemistries, or fossil fuels?
Winter is Great, for exactly 2 to 3 weeks. That would be enough for me to appreciate the other seasons.
That is a great observation. I have realized that I enjoy bike rides and driving because it forces me to be off my phone, unlike even walking, or of course sitting at home.
As you alluded to in the other comment, these would be safety factors not regarding the structure of the car (which should be focused on decelerating the car) but instead on mechanisms that alert the driver / automatically stop the car when it is going to hit a pedestrian.
Exactly what I walked away with after wasting my time reading this. The other line that really irked me:

>One thing is clear — Covid may not be that deadly to people, but I think it’s primary goal is to kill capitalism.

How much more deadly does something need to be to be taken seriously in the land of the free? 440k unnecessary deaths in the span of a year apparently doesn't qualify?
I didn't claim anything about the "inherent peaceful nature" of the USSR. It was an empire; empires are generally not peaceful.

However, there's a very simple and obvious reason as to why this mode of thinking prevailed after Stalin's death. The leaders who subsequently took power were those who saw the devastation of WW2 very close up, and knew full well of the true economic and social cost (to remind, Soviet losses were 20 million officially, but the real numbers were quite a bit higher).

The result was a firm commitment to "never again!" - that is, regardless of ideology and politics of the day, the axiom was that there shouldn't be another devastating war like that in the Russian heartland. And it was obvious that any major war with NATO carried a significant risk of such devastation - Soviets simply didn't have enough resources to guarantee the upper hand in a conventional engagement against the combined forces of US and Europe.

(Stalin didn't care about any of this - to his mode of thinking, sacrificing 20 million to grow his power was perfectly acceptable. That's why, as you correctly noted, the change didn't happen until some time after his death, once his political legacy waned.)

Note also that this explains some other things, such as the occupation of eastern Europe - its primary purpose was to serve as a buffer zone in any conflict with NATO, so that any territorial losses and devastation accompanied by large-scale warfare would be concentrated in those areas, as opposed to Russia proper.
UIOP and Alexandria are very common. The former has a lot of functionality that you would normally expect out of a shell.
Fastmail [1] is very easy to set up and supports the features you use. It is not free, but it's quite affordable. Their HQ is in Australia. [2]

[1] - https://www.fastmail.com/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastmail
github seems to have a nicer flavor markdown. Maybe it's just because github is code oriented.
I think I disagree with the statement that misinformation causes real and demonstrable harm. The vast majority of misinformation does not. Saying that we faked the moon landing, or that the sky is a layer of impenetrable foil, while silly, is ultimately inconsequential and does not cause harm.

There are of course rare cases when someone acts on misinformation to do something harmful. I can easily think of several examples of bad reporting from supposedly reputable media outlets that caused a ton of damage over the last year.

Conversely, most true information does not cause harm either. But some true information does cause harm.

In that sense, I think the veracity of the information has little to do with the risk of harm, and that we should not allow this trojan horse for free speech regulation to take hold. For whatever problems free speech has, trying to stifle it is just not going to provide the benefit that people think it will.

The Iraq war was based on misinformation. It did cause perhaps the greatest harm in the last several decades. However, that was “officially sanctioned” misinformation directly from the government (whether they believed it in good faith or not). I think before doing anything to limit the flow of information, consider whether the proposed framework for suppression of misinformation have caught this. Worse, if someone knew that the WMDs were not there, and could have corrected that disaster, would they have been considered misinformation?

We have already seen this in action with the tech companies giving very loose directives to their content moderators to remove certain types of misinformation. A popular youtuber was censored for telling people that masks are a good idea back in March. The official information at the time was that they do not help. The truth was that they obviously do, and now you get censored for saying that they don’t help. If someone asks honestly about something suspicious related to the election, or believes a voting rule change was procedurally unfair, without paying any mind to the weird conspiracy theories, they get moderated. Because it sounds like “claims of election fraud” and the 3 seconds that the moderator spends on it don’t allow for nuance. Or the hunter biden “misinformation” that wasn’t. That basically means that the word of the US Government (particularly the Democrats) is the “true information” and anything else in conflict with that is misinformation. And that’s a pretty bad place to be. In practice, this just doesn’t seem to work, and does more harm than good.
Most of the time, going to a management position is not a promotion. It’s a change of career. And yet, our culture (from the University to the press) pushes us to be promoted to manager, because if you are not a manager, you’ve failed somewhere.
Wait, do people still believe anything NYT says?
I think it started with the name given to Rust programmers: Rustaceans.

It is close to crustaceans so I think the puns just got out of hand from there :D
Apple Should Buy Bitcoin, Turn Wallet App into Crypto Exchange, Says RBC
Emailing someone with a lie that they owe you six figures and then not responding within 24 hours seems like more than negligence to me. We're not talking about an out of the blue support request, or even a support request prompted by an actual six-figure debt.
I believe that's true as well, and I never said otherwise.
I think you're asking the wrong question: I might not care if someone says the word, but if their employer, or their employees or college or investors or political party or anyone else cares then that's a problem for that person. And it keeps going: their employer might not care, but the employer needs to wonder if their clients, friends, partners, or dog cares. And whether they will care in 10 or 20 years time.

That's the reason this is so insidious. It forces people not just to comply with current social standards. But to comply with the highest possible standard that might just be applied in their lifetime.

10 years ago, it was OK to say "retard". Today we're not quite sure are we. How would you feel if you got gotcha'd in 10 years time with this comment?

Now, as everyone is racing towards to most banal and inoffensive positions, you find that today's social attitudes are changing purely out of fear of tomorrow's. People hesitate to say retard, others notice and hesitate too, as fewer people say it it becomes offensive not because it is but because no one else is saying it.

I think Greenwald leaves a lot to be desired. But I think with this issue he (and others) are well ahead of the curve: a significant minority are hell bent on dumping freedom of speech and they have the leverage to do it.
Sharing data between CSS and JavaScript using custom properties
Free cooling to those temperatures is available in orbit... well, free once you get there...
Thanks for your insight. I'm at a similar crossroads currently and leaning toward staying in my current role. Basically about 14 years ago, I left a Fortune 500 company where I was a Network Administrator for a decade to go to a University and took a large pay cut to become an IT Analyst. Primary reason was wanting to get another degree, cheaply. After 7 years as an Analyst, I was promoted to manager of the team. After 3 years of that, I realized I wasn't good at managing people and I was a "do-er," and left from managing (with a HUGE paycut, again) to go back to Analyst in county government.

Fast forward 3 years and here I am, being asked to be an Interim-Director as the director here is now retiring and I'm the only one with management experience. They are then in turn 'encouraging' me to apply for the full time director position, saying how I'm the most qualified and despite the "promote from within" policy, they want me to go up against external candidates to "earn" the job they asked me to interim.

I've wracked my brain for a week now--I'm an engineer level do-er, I'm not a manager, but 22K a year is a NICE increase and I want to buy a home. Part of me says "thanks but no thanks, I'm not going to apply for a promotion to a job you obviously think I'm qualified for but won't offer out-right if its going to be a massive paradigm shift AGAIN for me," and another part says, "Dude, you're so dumb if you don't apply for a job that pays 30% more than you're currently making!"

I've got a couple weeks to decide--money isn't my driving factor, the ability to "turn off" at the end of the day is.
because now you've turned failed IO operations from an errno into a segfault.
The concepts are orthogonal. Von Neumann machines can be used without file systems and vice versa.

Persistent state has its pros and cons - for me the ability to reset the machine's state is an important feature. For the author this doesn't seem to be the case.

As for abandoning the concept of a file system, that's something that has been worked on for decades. Microsoft even wanted to include this as the main feature for Windows Vista, back in 2003 (dubbed "WinFS"). They basically wanted to replace traditional files with a single relational database backed by schemas for describing objects.

This would've been a truly revolutionary concept, as it would've allowed for features like searching, sorting, grouping, and versioning of objects without any complex application-level code.

Another advantage of such system would be the ability to exchange data between apps by just passing an id. All required meta-information would be available through the schema and the app could choose a view that suits its needs: providing the id of an audio file could result in the title and artist for a word processing program, the audio data for a music player, or the associated cover art in case of an image editing program.

There are many options for replacing the concept of files and directories that are just as robust and provide extra features. The general architecture of the CPU is not affected by or related to this.
I actually like javascript. And yes, I'm serious.
Reporters like Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins were writing about the threats extremists were making before Jan 6th. That's not "junior high hall-monitor tattling"; that's reportage that I wish more people would have taken seriously.

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/violent-threats-ripple...
There are various hybrid schemes that support CL style macros. I'm using S7 myself, because embedding in a C host is what I'm after. I love it, it has support for CL macros with gensym and first class environments, and embeds easily in C.
I just don't get the appeal of Lisps. They look so ugly and the syntax seems crazy

((((((((((((((((( by the way
Frankly, we don't have much of a choice in anything.
This is def the right move!
The viewer is served using a REST protocol and Javascript library used to display maps. Just thought that was cool!
> Big mistake, but she owned it.

Just a tonal note. Saying 'Big mistake' implies to me that it's meant sarcastically in the sense of 'Big deal' or 'Big whoop', which I gather from the rest of your sentence is not what you intended. I would not have read it this way from the phrase 'A big mistake, but she owned it.'
"Bitcoin governance is performed through mining pools signaling their opinion on proposals"

yes this is a regression from representative government - a corporate cartel controlling monetary policy
Or the great filter. :/
Company transports 150-piece orchestras – with instruments – around the world
This headline is... not great. The developer's main complaint was losing access to an account with 15 years' worth of email. And yes, also their own YouTube channel. But "YouTube account ban" is open to misinterpretation, as if it were "just" an account used for viewing/commenting.
I don't care if he's speaking truth to power. You just called him a Nazi. You've turned a word that meant "mass murderer and genocide sympathizer" into a meaningless low effort character attack used only when no attacks of substance exist. You've even internalized it. You've desensitized us to it, if we were to one day elect a true Nazi you'd be partly to blame.
I am not making a general claim, I’m making a specific claim about him.

https://twitter.com/heresysquad/status/1191762909325492225?s...

He was so enthusiastic about defending his clients (who were neo-Nazis, yes real ones, they do exist) that NY judges called him unethical in court and the bar banned his behavior after the fact.

https://twitter.com/charliearchy/status/1110344950674186240?...
That could be English written in ASCII, with the same hyphen serving as a dash:

Example sentence:

"Examples of sado-masochism - such as Java-influenced languages - are rampant in the field of computing."

Quite readable.
Amusingly, before I moved to America and understood it, I thought "sexuality is a choice" was a defence of homosexuality because I believed Americans believed "humans should be free to make choices about themselves". Funny, eh?

But it seemed obvious to me. After all, maybe some people are genetically predisposed to eating babies. Doesn't mean I'm going to be okay with that. Sucks for them but they can either suppress the baby eating or go to prison.
OK, total aside — this post is pretty conspiratorial and has been flagged anyway — but there’s a link buried within a link that’s fascinating:

https://www.weforum.org/events/sustainable-development-impac...

The World Economic Forum created a 3D environment for their 2020 summit. I’m curious how effective it was, but I kind of love it.

Reminds me a lot of the kind of stuff people would make on SGI machines back in the 90s. Or the environment from the film “Disclosure”. Or the 3D IRIX interface from Jurassic Park.

Anyway, it’s interesting thing to consider as a way of presenting information. Both a “palace of the mind” / Second Life type presentation.
That's true but this sort of problem would normally not happen with a standard AD library or subsystem, whatever language you're using. Such systems don't approximate functions then differentiate their approximations.
The paralympian swimmer ad made me tear up a little bit.
If even 0.1% of the twa... I mean tweet that celebrated Tatcher’s death would result in jail time we’ll need a new Australia.