skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a massive difference. A proper analog is stating that "web requests you make will be logged". If you don't want to be recorded as having walked in, don't walk in.

To make this a fair comparison, the sign would say:

If you enter this building, you accept that you are being:

- filmed
- probed for all wifi and electrical emissions
- weighed
- measured
- secretively (as much as can be managed) pinned with tracking beacons
- lured into unknowingly entering other buildings w/o realizing it
- fingerprinted by any surfaces you touch
- associated with the means of transportation to arrive/depart
- and on and on and on

Since people can just wear masks, electro-blocking hazmat suits, high heels, a fresh change of cloths for every outing and come equipped with high-resolution GPS and building blueprints... it's a perfectly reasonable assumption.
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Very interesting. I would love to see if @dang has addressed this before.
With street photography, the philosophy is "f8 and be there." Focus doesn't matter with a narrow enough aperture.
I am not debating anyone. I just pointed out an invalid and unreasonably negative criticism for what is a feel-good news story.

Back to your point. Do we ask for consent from working dogs? Have you ever seen news about "heroic" rescue dogs? What is your point really? Is it that we need to stop employing animals? Do we need to stop using anthropomorphic terms? Do we need to establish a ministry of truth and speech to regulate that?

To quote Zoolander, I feel like I am taking crazy pills responding to these comments.
We have those too in the Netherlands. Even small startup companies can apply and receive these tax breaks when they do technical innovation ('WBSO').

There are also tax-discounts for large and profitable companies ('innovatiebox') that innovate (companies like ASML, NXP) that Booking.com would probably benefit from too.
> in which case there's no problem

I have a box with 1000 tubes, exactly 1% of which are beyond my capacity to measure.

I take a random sample of 20, and call that a roughly 80% chance of being able too measure all of them.

Let's say the average is 50V and the ones beyond my measurement average 150V. We can use this info to solve for the average of the tubes we can measure: 25V.

So, in 80% of the cases we'll get an average measurement of 25V.

In 20% of the cases we're going to realize our mistake, buy a better voltmeter, and redo everything. In this case we can measure everything so we get the correct number: 50V.

25V * 0.8 + 50 * 0.2 = 30V

This, of course, won't be statistically significant. But let's get a lot of researchers together to measure a lot of tubes. And let's say 100V limit meters are common so half make the same mistake.

Now we have a statistically significant 40V. Wrong, wrong wrong.
But salary and bank balance should probably be added.

ADP is one of the largest paycheck processors in the United States. But almost no one realizes that if their paycheck comes through ADP, their salary information is being sold. Remember, this is also a company that knows when you've been hired, fired, has your Social Security Number, and a lot of other very personal financial information. According to a New York Times article from a few years ago, ADP is selling you out worse than even the cell phone companies. Yet, there was zero uproar about it that I noticed.

As for bank balances, I was very surprised to learn recently that bank balances are not part of credit scoring. I have a substantial amount of emergency savings. The last time I pulled my credit reports, it wasn't on any of them.
Ah yes, camera artifacts make perfect sense - they totally explain visual sightings (tic tac) combined with multiple, independent radar system sightings of said tic tac.

Just amazing that camera artifacts can mess with human vision that much.

Oh wait, our eyes (and radar systems) aren’t cameras? Darn. There goes that idea.
I mean, "in Europe" is a direct quote from your blog post.
I would be curious to know my inferred IQ.
Since leaving university, I haven't been able to read books unless I'm on vacation. Fiction or non-fiction.

I read all day long. It's literally all I do, aside from typing, at work. So the prospect of cracking open a book at the end of the day is less appealing than it used to be, when my day was more varied. (Classroom discussion, breaks for socialization or exercise, etc)

When I go on vacation, I typically read 2-3 novels. So while I'm reading less, I don't think I've lost anything per se.
I feel your pain. I personally felt like the learning curve was on Elixir was quite steep, partially because I lacked a strong foundation in software engineering when I started. Fortunately I had the luxury of learning on the job & was given enough time to ramp up. Now I really like it.
The "Sponsor a ____" is a marketing tactic, the end result is the same as setting up a regular monthly donation, it all goes into the same pot, unless it's marked for a specific cause or appeal.

However, there is a way to do this right. I donate to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an elephant conservation region in Kenya. You can sponsor an orphan baby elephant, and they send you monthly updates on the elephant's growth, role in the herd (Bull, matriarch, mini-matriarch, etc), and you can follow their progress as they are rehabilitated and released into the wild.

If you just take the money and run, that sours people on giving monthly.
Something smells off. Especially these sentences: “ I never ceased to be awed by the courage of ordinary citizens risking dangerous rescues that immediately followed the massacre. Press reports had claimed hundreds or thousands of people had died during the military crackdown.”

Presuming he was right at the scene of action, why does he pass the buck to the claims of ‘press reports’? And it's also suspicious the word 'massacre' is only used once before said buck passing.

The tactics of the writing style are more akin to CIA psyops.
Can Facebook remove Islamic State recruiting material- yes or no? If so, why isn't that 'censorship'?

Also please answer- threats, revenge porn, the North American Man Boy Love Association- can they be removed from social media? Wouldn't that be censorship as well?

I'm a bit fascinated by this argument that we should be relying on the government to remove bad speech- that that's somehow not censorship
Trump dug his own grave. He is the boy who cried Wolf.
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I believe they are referring to:

let x = 5;
if (x=3) {
foo();
}

The common defensive way of handling this is:

if(3=x) {

so it errors and catches the missing =
Well the United States v Google case is still there. Would have been much better if Facebook was the target at the time but who knows.

The case would probably end up getting thrown out altogether.
Good for Twitter for taking a stand
Yup, for the purposes of a demo like this, a simplified top-to-bottom "vertical slice" is of far more value than total feature coverage.
> and that's how the MDN calls them too

These are the browser's background threads, maybe. They don't make Javascript multithreaded or even Javascript runtimes multithreaded.

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27397555
I get the same shit. I rarely pick up, but when they do leave a message it's for one of:

* Extended car warranties

* "Winning" a free Marriott trip

* Claims that I owe money to the IRS, and if I don't call back they'll "be forced" to send an agent to arrest me

In other words: 100% scams.
It's not your definition of censorship.

There are many definitions of censorship. Government censorship is not the only valid version. To wit, Wikipedia even states "Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions, and other controlling bodies"
That breaks several of the site guidelines and is also one hell of a goalpost move. Please don't.
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The charitable interpretation of this comment is that Microsoft uses Hacker News comments as a barometer for developer sentiment about Azure. It’s just Microsoft trying to do the “developers developer developers!” thing. They want to make Azure into the kind of thing that people on Hacker News would like. I think this is the most reasonable interpretation, because why on earth would Satya confess to astroturfing on an earnings call?

However, if any executive is getting graded against this metric, Goodhart’s law applies, and there’s a good chance astroturfing would happen. Satya probably wouldn’t know about it.

If a Hollywood CEO says that they are trying to raise the audience Cinemascore ratings of their movies, we’d interpret that to mean that they are trying to make audience-friendly movies, not that they are trying to astroturf Cinemascore. And similarly, if someone at the studio were astroturfing Cinemascore, the CEO wouldn’t talk about it on the earnings call.
"Hodling" is certainly part of the culture but it wont be as more services get rolled out. Look at the volume on exchanges, people move coins around, stake them, or even loan them out for APY rates.

Loans would not become unfeasible, but they would be extremely reduced to people who can pay them back. That encourages healthy financial investment. It also encourages business to focus on profitability instead of raising the next round.

Whether its Bitcoin/Ethereum/Gold/Silver or something else, a thriving financial system must be backed by something finite or an extremely controlled and low inflation rate. Thats not an opinion, thats a fact. Cash or StableCoins could still be issued and backed by something like Bitcoin or has its been done in the past with Gold.
If you follow this link and get 'no image found', and hit reload a few times you do get results. Same if you click to web search and back to images.

To me this seems like a bug and not some kind of censorship attempt that only works if you don't hit reload.
It's true. They haven't killed most people who've died. In fact, the CCP has killed less than 1% of all humans currently dead.

Praise China!
I didn't flag, but it seems that if the orange man's name is mentioned or written on this orange site then it is immediately flagged / downvoted without question. [0]

Don't bother asking for a reason or suggestions (They don't have any) I also tried that and they downvoted me to the bottom of the comments section, like this one. Most of them are devoid of reason or having a discussion about Facebook's actions since some of them even work for the tech giant themselves.

So in their case, the only 'sensible' action for them to do is to censor, silence or generate a robotic reply to your response. It's natural for them to reject anyone asking too many good questions.

[0] Unless if the source is from slatestarcodex. HN loves them.

EDIT:

Downvoters and Flaggers: Are you going to answer the parent's question or are you proving us both correct with the above claims?
i would like an option in the settings to disable/enable my ability to flag content. On mobile, I have accidentally flagged things and recall it being challenging to hit the button to unflag.
FYI your blog post says: “OVH, the largest cloud provider in Europe.”
Same way as currently botnet command center IPs are blackholed.

Scan the Internet for any BTC/Ethereum open ports and blackhole them.

Also, some ISPs disconnect users upon detection of BitTorrent traffic.
The cost of going to a website other than Facebook is literally zero. People do it all the time. The only impediment is the audience's own will and awareness. And they're still free to publicize non-Facebook websites on Facebook. If someone's off-Facebook site flops, that's their fault. Tons of non-Facebook communities have vibrant conversations between multiple speakers and audiences. This site is one.

Maybe I'm just dense, but I'm not seeing the cost differential, either for the speaker or audience. What Facebook is doing is equivalent to saying "you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here." What's so wrong about that?
> The rat did not consent to this (because it can’t), so this is, factually, forced labor.

On the other hand, anyone who's owned an uncooperative dog will know that it's nigh-impossible to effectively train an animal who just doesn't feel like playing along.
Linus' opinion: https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=200812&curpost...
Is authoritarianism popular? Is genocide popular? I think your confusing to he popularity of China's money and facade with the popularity of their morals.
That’s a pretty bold statement to make, especially when these objects were observed with multiple independent radar systems and multiple humans’ visual sight.

Amazing what camera artifacts can do, isn’t it?
Unfortunately not thick, but instead very thorough is the TCP/IP guide: http://www.tcpipguide.com/

Very good as a spot reference.
JVM is a great choice! You might also want to check out WebAssembly too (full disclosure: I used to work on wasm). There aren't too many opcodes, and a lot of them are relatively simple math operations.

Once you get it working, you could run things like JSLinux!
https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&gr...
They can say whatever they want. But they are not and never will be.

Their community management tools are awful and the philosophy they and the moderators abide to is that questions/answers must be closed as soon as possible.

For example: take one question such as "how to do X in Y". The answer today is "not possible". it is accepted. done. Tomorrow it is "now you use Y.abc" and that old question will never be updated because the person who asked is not interested anymore, or worse, it might even be locked. This is a very common pattern. There's also thousands of the "A: copy and past this, which i do not understand either" which completely kills any knowledgeable discussion.
I love thoughts like this. To play devil’s advocate, how might it have impacted Cold War events down the road?

There’s a great book called “When the World Seemed New,” by Jeffrey Engel about the monumental world events which during George H.W. Bush’s presidency.

Tiananmen Square took place ~5 months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. One of the points made in the book (and other Cold War-related texts I have read, though pointedly in this one) suggested the events in China really gave the (East) Germans and Soviets pause on how to handle a rising protest movement. It’s still regarded as a bit of a miracle the Leipzig church demonstrations and the Wall falling occurred without bloodshed.

Would a peaceful resolution in China have changed the ultimate course of the Cold War? I don’t necessarily think so; Iron Curtain nations were already fraying. But it would have been very, very interesting if two major communist countries, nuclear powers fell in quick order in terms of economies and alliances.
This reminds me of when people want to "reverse financialization" or "get rid of the shareholder value model." How are you going to reverse an idea and what are you going to replace it with?
I lose thousands of euros per second
Add to this that no one cares about whether the data is even correct.

It's interesting how our culture has adopted the mantra that "computers are never wrong." Yet, every day in the media there are dozens or hundreds of articles about computers and systems making mistakes. I wish we could break that cycle of believing anything that comes off a screen.

I fight my own minor battles against this weekly. As part of my job, I maintain an online directory of about 70,000 businesses related to the one I work for. I regularly get e-mails from people saying things like, "The phone number for X is wrong. Google says it's this...!"

Then when I look into it, Google is wrong. But because it's Google, people assume it's right, and my web sites are wrong. We need to teach people that not only do computers make mistakes, but Google is the king of all mistake-generating engines.
Or you can just mask the service (better than disabling):

systemctl mask systemd-resolved.service

Other services to consider masking if you are not using SystemD for network configuration and time sync., etc.:

systemctl mask systemd-hostnamed.service
systemctl mask systemd-timesyncd.service
systemctl mask systemd-networkd.service
systemctl mask systemd-homed.service
> Which is not remotely representative of any human diet.

People don't come to weigh 350lbs eating vegetables daily.
Damn, did you try it 6 months ago while it was still experimental? I started like 4 projects in the past 2 months with it and this does not at all mirror my milage.

And I like it much better than a library because the code is just plain phoenix/ecto that is can customize easily.
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"No celebrity in my lifetime before the advent of this new wave of cancel culture has been completely cancelled the way they are today"

But they have, this is the very nature of the infamous Hollywood blacklist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist

Have you ever read "Time of the Toad" by Trumbo?

I think people would be blacklisted in exactly the same way in the 50s; this is all fairly well documented in relevant writings from the period.

I think we're in agreement that social media and specifically giving people access to publishing has changed the duration and discoverability of the speech.
Oops you're right, I should have mentioned that. Red works too, I just didn't want to write Blue/Red everwhere :)
I like to pretend that the impetus for the stunt came not from a mentality that values civic minded free speech but rather from the CCC couple-whining (and getting its way) to bing about blocking tank man globally "just this once on the anniversary".
for a standardized product no, but for personalization businesses a company can beat big corps in localized presence,flexibility,time execution (lower bureacracy and simpler org chart), customer service and even price while getting the fatter customers
I did the same for years, with the addition of wireless tools when I switched to using laptops. With Buster and the additional networking features of systemd (and iwd for wifi), I was able to replace the whole stack with just 2-3 things. Much simpler in design and easier to setup and use.

I wrote a small gist on the setup a couple years ago that is still mostly relevant. In case you're interested...
https://gist.github.com/eikenb/1e9faeb8210e639e8caa69e9832db...
Doesn’t really pass the smell test. 80+ years of advancements in US gov’t radar tech, and these systems get fooled this easily? Hard to buy that IMO.
Do you think this merits credulous attention from "serious" news media? Maybe, if they put it in their "Today's Horoscope" section. After all, can't rule out astrology being true, either.
> It's a big Rohrschach test and nothing more.

This is a really insightful way of describing this phenomenon.
How is an entity encouraged to take on entrepreneurial risk in a deflationary environment?

If you have a lot of capital, it literally gains value by just sitting there.

Less incentive to use it.

Only people who benefit are those that have a lot to begin with (obtain more value by doing nothing).
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I don't think anything :) just that the price, if it were reflecting existing revenue sources, would be much lower.

The seller and buyer both agree that the promise of something else is what was traded, as the price proves.
The whole sentiment here is gross, but it is particularly fucked up how you keep going out of your way to pull Chinese-American people into it. Why not call me a Papist while you're at it?
The only thing we did wrong in Bosnia was not stopping the genocide sooner.
You Don’t Need Permission
I've always thought of 'moral competitor's as someone who challenges another to improve their morals. If that isn't what was meant in the parent comment, then I am wrong.
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On the other hand, we have known since the 1970s roughly how to make computer systems significantly more secure and resilient. However, we, as a society, have decided that it's costly and difficult and that we would prefer not to do anything about it. It's "move fast and break things" at the social level.

I really, really hate reasoning by metaphor, but you do lock your doors, right?
Qwant also shows no results.

https://www.qwant.com/?t=images&q=Tank+man
I had a wedding to make sure everyone closest to me knew who I was sleeping with (Emily as is already public record). It took a fair bit of time and money to coordinate and hold that event.

When people ask how I'm doing, I tell them and that includes whether my problems are impacting my daily routines and needs. (Not lately)

I've shared the results of my IQ tests and had plenty of discussions about the validity and lack thereof of those results (145-160+ depending on test). Facebook likes are the least good mechanism to work that out by.

I think one of the helpful things I do is share really good places to eat and find things I want. (Nirmal's is my favorite in Seattle)

I hope driving monitoring helps us shift from a penalize infrequent rule breaking instances to helping manage attention and grow skill. I speed when conditions let that be safe.

I suffer depression and have my whole life as everyone I know is aware and now is more public on the internet.

You'll have to ask her but I'm not looking to leave. I'm very honest and want that in my closest relationships so if we were going that direction she'd be among the first people I spoke with. If she feels she needs to leave I'll try and help us both find happier lives but I hope it never comes to that.

I respect that you have a different level of openness. I think a good criticism of my post is that I have a ton of privilege to feel safe sharing these things. I've chosen to live a life I feel entirely comfortable sharing. Clearly I'm not handing out credentials but... I prefer a world that is more honest and intimate and that simply requires I be open, honest, and self-reflective.
I think many people find lots of value in search, free email, Android, and other services dependent on this model. The argument that you're not getting anything out of it rings false.
It works the same way for comments and stories.
I wish it was more than mild annoyance being expressed. There has been a huge uptick in /r/conspiracy style posts and accusations over the last few months (none of them valid, except one but that was purely by accident).